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In, youre going to have a backlog and that might lead to some delays. and we did talk with officials in other white houses in previous administrations and they said thats true. even at the end of the first year you might have a few dozen officials operating on an interim clearance. what is significant to them and what is significant to us is we really go through these numbers was you take the title of assistant to the president, thats really the highest level of classification for a white house ...

Institution study. >> there is not a pick that i dont love. >> reporter: chaotic -- greater than the previous six administrations. a large number of them leaving is the presidents top senior staff. >> it is my judgment that i was fired because of the russian investigation. >> reporter: some were fired like fbi james comey, and director anthony scaramucci. some resigned like sean spicer. >> he intoed that the president wanted to bring in and add new people to the team. >> reporter: chief of staff...

Keeping classified information secret. and so i do worry about this. and i worry about some vulnerabilities that builds in to some pretty sensitive areas of the white house. and i think theyll have to start making sure that the people who are there can get clearances. i think its really important. >> i want to get to the issue of vulnerabilities there. but first carry that group i wonder if you agree with mike rogers, but should note the presidents includes jared kushner. he would then have to h...

Requests. and january of 2018, the fbi closed the file on the background investigation there. . so the fbi is saying -- if you listen to christopher wray, they didnt say anything about outsourcing information. >> i -- im not saying they did in this case. i was describing in general the way the clearance process is sometimes slow. and i think thats having to get contractors in is sometimes indicative of how the process can get slowed down. >> um-hum. i take your point. but some 60 to 70 people in...

>> for what, don? the -- well, obviously, the white house -- >> the changing message and the screw up and -- >> the white house is responsible for it. and good on director wray for setting the record straight, as to what the fbi did. and so, you know, its really disturbing to me, once again, to see this performance. it would have been so much better if they had just fessed up and said, you know, we didnt handle this very well. we critiqued ourselves, heres what happened, and heres what were goin...

>> i -- im not saying they did in this case. i was describing in general the way the clearance process is sometimes slow. and i think thats having to get contractors in is sometimes indicative of how the process can get slowed down. >> i take your point, but some 60 to 70 people in this white house still dont have permanent security cleans, which is higher -- 30 to 40 i should say. it is 30 to 40. >> i dont know. >> higher than previous administrations. its 30 to 40. >> i dont know where they st...

Himself. the cameras were in front of him today, and he didnt say it. >> again, the president dictated to me specifically that comment yesterday, which i read out to you guys. >> so, lets get to cecilia vega, live at the white house again tonight. and cecilia, as weve been reporting since late last week here, rob porter was working with a temporary security clearance. youve been asking why there are so many in the white house, more than a year into this administration, working with temporary cle...

We are following a process that has been used by previous administrations. >> no, they are not. the processes of the trump administration are unique to the trump administration, including the process of obtaining security clearances for white house personnel like jared kushner, who still does not have a security clearance. some estimates indicate as many as 40 people in the trump white house do not have the security clearance that is required for their jobs. and now the security clearance proces...

They say how is is this tax cut doing. >> are you suggesting the drama we have seen in this trump white house is no different than drama in all past administrations? >> there are some very major dramas. i did not have sex with that woman. thats the all-time high for dra many. >> you always have periods of drama and periods of calm. the chief of staff only needs to satisfy one person. thats the president. >> you work for president clinton. he said it was way worse then than now. >> i cant agree w...

Of a profile. >> thats true. former officials previous administrations make the point that even if the white house personnel security office was alerted that there might be some sort of flag in a staffers background, that the white house counsel would have been made aware of that. don mcgahn has a lot of questions to answer because he certainly played a critical role, we assume, in zblauftsds joe haguen is the white house deputy chief of staff for operations under president trump. if you not hea...