clearance. that's just the half of it. "washington post" reported last night that dozens of white house employees are awaiting permanent security clearances while cnn says that 30 to 40 white house officials in the administration political appointees are still operating without full security clearances. one of those aides according to both reports is the president's son-in-law jared kushner. politico reports john kelly was told several weeks ago that the fbi would recommend denying full security clearances to multiple white house aides who had been working in the west wing on interim security clearances. including rob porter. how is it possible that so many people without full security clearance are working at the white house? "washington post" post provided a potential answer in a story that broke the last hour. those in don mcgahn's office feel they cannot take action on other people whose background collection dragged on because they did not take similar steps with kushner. hi, i'm bob harper,