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Clearance. do you think that some people may have access to sensitive information they should not? >> im sure they do. interim clearances are given when youre still waiting for a background check to be completed, but it sounds like in this case, the fbi has completed its checks and has provided the relevant derogatory information, which means anything thats a red flag, to the white house a long time ago. brianna, we had a saying in the fbi that character is what you do when you think no one is l...

Believe your eyes, believe us. we asked the white house for anyone to come on the program to talk about any of this tonight, they said no. jim acosta is going to join us right now from the white house. jim, i understand you have new reporting on don mcgahn and john kelly and when they knew specific information. >> thats right. you dont have a white house official, anderson, but you do have me. i was told by white house official earlier this evening who said that don mcgahn simply has not shared ...

Through due process. >> and the other area in all of this they werent giving us a straight story on, was the white house security clearances. the white house has dozens of staffers that are working on interim security clearances, like the presidents son-in-law, jared kushner. when they were pressed on that today, she said, thats up to the fbi. weve been pointing this out. the background check process is undertaken by the fbi. they bring that information to the white house. its incumbent upon the...

Process. >> reporter: and the other area in all of this would be the security clearances as we were reporting late last night, the white house has dozens of staffers who dont have full security clearances like jared kushner. when she was pressed on that, she said that is up to the fbi. we have been pointing out, the background check process it is under taken by the fbi and they bring that information to the white house, and incumbent on the white house to act on that. and sanders left that out. ...

Handling the most sensitive classified information produced by the u.s. government. they insist they were following the normal background check process. but according to sean patrick maloney who held the same job in the clinton white house, this was anything but. >> on that desk there are a stack of red folders marked top secret. every day our nations highest secrets are seen by the staff secretary there is a burn bag under the desk because when youre done, you incinerate those materials. the id...

Last year overwhelmingly. donald trumps own pick to lead the fbi. hes been seldom heard from in public since. and today i think he will face a lot of questions on everything from the nunes memo from a few weeks ago to the background check process at the white house and yes to the russia investigation and to his relationship with rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who has been so much in the spotlight over the last couple of weeks. again, a wide-range iing -- [ inaudible ] >> im going to ha...

Handling the most sensitive classified information produced by the u.s. government. they insist they were following the normal background check process. but according to sean patrick maloney who held the same job in the clinton white house, this was anything but. >> on that desk there are a stack of red folders marked top secret. every day our nations highest secrets are seen by the staff secretary there is a burn bag under the desk because when youre done, you incinerate those materials. the id...

Fbi process, the background check process to proceed as he should. that answers the question of this, that the domestic violence was a disqualifying factor here. rob porter is out of a job and so is the other man under question of domestic allegations. >> i want to get amy back in. my question is, did general kelly need the fbi to interpret that photo of rob porters ex-wifes blackened eye for him to do the right thing? that seems like a bit of a cop-out to me? >> absolutely not. once again, from...

>> reporter: well, hes doing that indirectly. of course not naming the staffers that you just identified. and it does draw a line to the events of this week though because we know the president so often tweets about things that are current in his experience. so its easy to sort of put these two sets of issues together. of course there is a need for due process. that is a widely upheld view in american jurisprudence. this is not a case where theres any criminal activity alleged. this is a case wh...

Joining me now is zerlina maxwell of progressive media for the clinton campaign, rick tyler msnbc political analyst and republican strategist, and joe watkins former white house aide to george h.w. bush. good to see you. joe, i want to ask you about the whole background check process. i will get to that in a moment. bull i want your reaction to the presidents comments. because he said something about the ex-wives of rob porter. >> well, he should have said something about the ex-wives. at the en...