now christopher wray is contradicting several statements that background checks on porter were part of an on going investigation. >> fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july that soon there after we received requests for follow-up inquiries and we did the follow-up and provided that information in november. then we administratively closed the foul in january. >> dana: let's bring in carl rove, also a fox news contributor. i anticipate the white house today is going to try to push back on the process point and say that career officials who are part of the personnel process are to blame for this mishap. >> well, it's all confusing because we do know this.