• Kellyanne Conway said President Donald Trump has "full confidence" in White House Chief of Staff John Kelly amid the scandal around staff secretary Rob Porter's alleged domestic abuse.
• The counselor to the president told CNN's Jake Tapper that Trump had told her to let viewers know Kelly won't be losing his job anytime soon.
• Kelly has come under fire recently over whether he knew about the allegations against Porter in the months before Porter's resignation last week.
• White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short also said Kelly is doing an "outstanding job" in his role.

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President Donald Trump has full confidence in White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and is not looking for a replacement, senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said on ABC's "This Week."

"He has full confidence in his current chief of staff, General John Kelly," she said. "He also has full confidence in Hope Hicks, his communications director."

Kelly and Hicks have come under criticism for their handling of domestic abuse accusations against White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned Wednesday after two former wives said he physically abused them.

Conway made similar statements on CNN's State of the Union with Jake Tapper, saying the president had instructed her to make it clear that Kelly's job is safe.

"Please tell Jake that I have full faith in chief of staff John Kelly and that I'm not actively searching for replacements," she told Tapper on Sunday. "He says that General Kelly's doing a great job and he has full faith in him."

Questions about Kelly's handling of the Porter case

In 2010, Porter was handed a protection order against him as a result of his wives' allegations. Kelly was aware of this order, one senior member of the administration told Politico . Although Kelly had considered pressuring Porter to leave his role, according to that official, he never did.

In the wake of the scandal, reports had surfaced over the weekend that Kelly had offered to resign , but the White House decided to keep him on.

White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short echoed Conway's comments on "Meet the Press" , and disputed reports that Kelly had offered to resign.

"General Kelly, in my mind, is an American hero," Short told NBC's Chuck Todd. "John Kelly knows that he serves at the pleasure of the president, and he will step aside anytime the president doesn't want him to be there. But John Kelly has not offered his resignation. John Kelly is doing an outstanding job."

Short also suggested that Trump's reticence to condemn Porter initially was due to his own alleged experience with "false accusations."

Kelly, who had worked closely with Porter for several months, at first issued a statement supporting Porter as a man of "true integrity." Then he issued a second statement speaking out against domestic abuse in general without specifically condemning Porter himself.

Other White House officials are reportedly doubting Kelly's judgment in the case, and questioning why Kelly initially defended Porter.

"It's beyond disbelief," one former White House official told Vanity Fair . "Everyone is trying to figure out why Kelly is leading the charge to save him."

Watch clips of the interviews below: