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b"As Congress struggles to pass a spending bill and avoid another government shutdown, the White House was busy on Thursday fending off much-deserved criticism for allowing an alleged domestic abuser to serve as a top Oval Office official for the past year. White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter finally resigned on Wednesday, but not before Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly fought hard to keep him on board and sang his praises, even after reportedly being told long ago that Porter's two former wives had both accused him of physical and emotional abuse. Despite failing a background check and being unable to obtain a security check, Porter had been handling the nation's most classified information. It wasn't until a graphic photo of one of the women with a black eye -- which she says she told the FBI that Porter had caused when he punched her while on a vacation -- did the White House finally get around to backing off praising him. We cover many of the developing details in the grotesque story, including some of the remarkable reaction to it \\u2013 and lack thereof from so-called \\u2018family values' organizations. Then: 2018 Affordable Care Act enrollment numbers are finally in, and suggest that Americans, even in states won by Trump in 2016, sure do like ObamaCare!\\xa0 Nonetheless, the White House and Republican states are still doing all they can to take health coverage away from Americans, particularly those that need it most, with several GOP states applying for waivers to install lifetime caps on the use of Medicaid for the first time in the history of the crucial social safety net program. Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report', in which Trump's EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt uses your public airwaves to double-down on lies about climate change, Dunkin' Donuts ditches foam cups (well, eventually, anyway) and California blocks the Trump Administration's hopes of expanding offshore drilling off the Golden State coast..."