House Oversight
Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said today on CNN’s “New Day” he launched an
investigation last night into how and why Rob Porter was allowed to work at the
White House.
Alisyn Camerota, as you
have come to expect from any CNN host, was combative with Gowdy. He managed to shut down her flame-throwing in
short order as you will see in the embedded video below.
"You can call it
official. You can call it unofficial," Gowdy told CNN. "I'm going to
direct questions to the FBI that I expect them to answer. And if they don't
answer them, then they're going to need to give me a really good reason."
"The chronology is
not favorable for the White House," Gowdy said, adding that he can't
understand how Porter, the former staff secretary who resigned last week amid
domestic abuse allegations from both of his ex-wives, remained employed.
"If you knew it in
2017, and the Bureau briefed them three times, then how in the hell was he
still employed? The security clearance issue is a separate issue. How do you
have any job if you have credible allegations of domestic abuse?
"I think the
really fair questions are, what were you told, by whom were you told it, did
you have some reason to question what the Bureau told you and if none of
that is true, why did you keep him on?" Gowdy said.
"How do you have any job if you have credible allegations of domestic abuse?" asks GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy. "I am biased towards the victim...but you don't have to be biased towards the victim to ask, 'How in the hell did this happen?'" https://t.co/xWapdF1zDi https://t.co/4UVUjW371Y— New Day (@NewDay) February 14, 2018
In another segment on
the same morning show, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was confronted by Chris Cuomo
about Porter’s security clearance.
"The White House
has been clear about that," said Jordan. "I don't know what kind of
access Mr. Porter had to certain information, but I think that's something that
needs to be corrected moving forward, and I believe it will be with this White
House."
Jordan then shifted the
topic to the ongoing questions over the FBI's techniques in securing a FISA
warrant against former Trump aide Carter Page, which enraged Cuomo.
"To compare it to
the FBI doing what they did, taking a campaign document, dressing it all up as
legitimate intelligence and presenting it to a FISA court, a secret
court…"
Cuomo told him it is
not fair to call the FISA court a "secret" operation, but Jordan
asked if he'd ever seen a transcript from the court.
"That's why I
called on Director Christopher Wray months ago. Show us the application. Show
us the transcript. I'm for making everything transparent, including the
Democratic memo when done with our sources and methods."
When asked about the Trump White House's handling of the abuse allegations against a top aide, Rep. Jim Jordan says, "Rob Porter no longer works at the White House." pic.twitter.com/BEPrunIYr7— New Day (@NewDay) February 14, 2018
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