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Stuff the world comes to learn about them during the nomination process that you should have figured out first before you put their name forward. thats how you end up pulling the nomination of your labor secretary because hey, there are domestic violation allegations against him and him evading taxes on his house and lets pull the army secretary nominee, too. didnt he punch somebody else at a racetrack? a racetrack? and hey, lets put forward a guy to be a federal judge that considers himself to ...

Donald trump is contemplating or more than contemplating getting rid of rod rosenstein, one of the things we all said was if he gets rid of rod rosenstein, rachel brand will step into the job and she is the person you expressed her being and well be fine. she wont capitulate to trump and then move on mueller. now you have a vacancy in which donald trump can start to think about who hes going to put in place. and then if he gets rid for rosenstein. this is a good set up for trump. >> and we just ...

Our normal policy consistent with the policies of past administration administrations is to not comment on background checks. due to the nature and reports floating around we wanted to explain as best we can through our security limitations how the background process works and talk about rob porter and how his situation fits within that process. background investigation process is the process for evaluating allegations about a white house staffers conduct prior to joining the white house. its ru...

Images. >> just answer one more thing. you talked about the fact that there werent any concerns, you said, that could compromise national security or interfere with operations here at the white house. but weve spoken to one of porters ex-wives who told us she warned the fbi that he could be susceptible to blackmail because of the allegations against him. >> im not going to get into the specifics of the investigation itself. i think thats a question for the fbi and others. this is not our process...

Pretty remarkable admission from the white house that mistakes were made and they could have done better in all, this there are still some lingering outstanding big questions about john kelly and what he knew about all this, wolf. >> lots of unanswered questions. right now jim acosta, thank you very much. lets bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto and our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. the security clearances that he had, they were temporary security clear...

Compromise national security or interfere with operations at the white house. we spoke with one of porters ex-wives that she warned the fbi that she could be susceptible to blackmail -- >> im not going to get into the specifics 0 the investigation. thats a question for the fbi and others, this is not our process. this is the process the u.s. government use as cross agencies and has existed over numerous administrations. >> shepard: i want to clarify what the youre saying. are you saying the chie...

And then well take your questions. our normal policy consistent with the policies of past administrations is to not comment on background checks and security clearances. given the unusual nature of these circumstances, when a number of false reports floating around, we wanted to try to explain as best we can within our security limitations how the background investigation process works and talk a little bit about rob porter and how his situation fits within that process. background investigation...

Compromise national security or interfere with operations here at the white house. weve spoken to one of porters ex-wives who said she warned the fbi that he could be susceptible to blackmail because of the allegations -- >> im not going to get into the specifics of the investigation itself. i think thats a question for the fbi and others. this is not our process. this is the process the u.s. government uses across agencies and has existed over numerous administrations. >> i want to clarify what...

Were running the west wing. that they have been the power center and so when one of their own, rob porter, this clean cut rhodes scholar who gets embroiled in this kind of situation, a tragic situation for these women and what they have gone through according to their allegations, they were in protect mode. and thats what happened inside the west wing according to my sources there. >> jake sherman, yet another example of the president who says he hires all the best people actually hiring one per...

They really express the gravity of whats going on. they have been doing this for 90 years between the two of them, for many administrations, republican and democrat, and they have never, ever seen anything like what the russians have been able to do. theyre quite frightened by the fact that we have not responded at all. >> a couple days ago, whenever it was, the president mused that he might like a parade. the defense apparatus of this country is now working toward organizing a parade. to deal w...