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Talk about the two separate issues in order to benefit himself politically. arthel: can we expect an aggressive investigation into how this mistake happened? will there be equal fire behind finding out how the shooter was able to legally purchase these weapons given his back ground or will politics cripple all of the above? >> gun control politics is very difficult in congress and its -- republicans have been opposed to a lot of gun control measures, but you also have some red state democrats wh...

Finished their process and had not therefore made a recommendation to the white house. >> reporter: but on monday sanders said the white house was not involved with security clearances. >> this is a process that doesnt operate within the white house. it is handled by our law enforcement and intelligence community. >> reporter: the administrations in ability to get their story straight again raising questions about chief of staff john kelly who learned about the allegations months ago. multiple s...

Flags for some folks. i was an organized crime agent in chicago. they would pull us off our work to do it for an expedited purpose, the senior jobs, a lead would go to anywhere in the office, to do work. so the interrogatory one back in, i think he said march, like had some derogatory information in it. thats why they submitted, like i submitted that. so what they would do is if theres any derogatory information in a back ground, they put it on the the front cover and say here the things we foun...

Americas top law enforcement officer, a man nominated for the job, contradicted the white house over rob porters security clearance. christopher wray testified the fbi completed the back ground check in july 2017. the fbi did complete a follow-up inquiry and then closed porters file in january. this seemed to contradict what the white house press secretary said yesterday. joining me now, mike rogers who is an fbi agent, did back ground checks for the george h.w. bush administration. help us unde...

Black eye photo, porter was essentially shown the door. and even more stark contradiction came today from the hand picked fbi director, testifying on capitol hill. the white house has been insisting the back ground check into porter and the fbi had still been ongoing which is why the white house had allowed him to remain on staff with access to classified information. this was something that the deputy secretary ranch shaw said last week. >> his back ground investigation was ongoing. that proces...

>> all right. you worked at the cia and the fbi. is it true, what she said? >> well, can we actually ask the right question? if youre 13 sbhoos the administration, why havent they issued the clearances? i can give you a couple of reasons why theyre delayed. number one, youre lazy. you dont do your back ground, financial records, friends and family overseas, places like iran, lebanon, noug. or the second. >> is you find something when youre doing the background investigation that gives cause for ...

Not senators. am i reading that wrong? >> we are forced, we create jobs. we build the roads. we fund the schools. theres a back ground for a governor in an executive position. >> youve been reaching out to democratic state parties. when are you going to announce your intentions for 2020? it seems very clear to people who know you, including fans of yours. im not just talking about potential come pet toward. fans of yours. it seems clear that you are on that road. >> democrats should not be talki...

Kelly was there to limit what went to donald trump. thats what rob porter did. so this is a person handling, i assume, top secret documents, as well as lots of other information. john kelly knew that the security clearance was held up. he is either the least curious person this history not to look into that, given had a rob porters job was, order didnt want to know the answer. >> the great concern was that an individual with that back ground can be stoub blackmail. >> absolutely. thats why the f...

Cnn -- >> they were asking me to describe his character, asking me to describe anything i thought might be problem at knick his position. they did ask what was the nature of our relationship and they did ask if i felt he would be different professionally versus privately. and i was very candid and frank and detailed with them about my marriage. >> reporter: the fbi sent its preliminary report last spring including the details provided by the wives to the white house. in the fall, porter was inte...

Are question marks. i think if youre dealing with somebody who has a questionable back ground that is interfering with the ability to get a security clearance, in the very least, that person ought to take a leave of absence until you resolve that issue. i dont think it makes a hell of a lot of sense to keep people working in their jobs while there is a question if theyll have a security clearance. >> were getting breaking news. >> reporter: bits whether the white house will release the democrati...