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Weekend talking about due process, et cetera. have a listen to what sarah sanders said today. >> supporting due process sfr any allegation is not tone deaf. i think its allowing things to be investigated and a mere allegation not being the determining factor. >> sarah sanders there implying these allegations were not investigated when we know they were because the fbi investigated them as part of the background clearance process and found them credible enough to delay giving them or refuse to gi...

References to the background clearance process. just have a listen to him as he was making his argument. >> the background investigation process, the tried and true process, the security cliereara process. the process was still ongoing. >> the decider in that process is the white house. the fbi does the background check but the white house has to make the decision. the process is the administrations process here. that amendment to throe it off on someone else really just doesnt stand up to the f...

Likely had to review the information from the fbi and actively decide to approve the temporary clearance anyway, correct? >> absolutely 100%. the fbi made that very clear today. they released a statement saying, listen, we do the background checks, then pass on that information to the white house, it is up to the white house or whatever agency, its up to that agency, the white house in this case, to make the judgment about the security clearance. interesting again hearing raj shaw today, he made...

These background checks are very thorough and they look for questions, they look for weaknesses and they look for things that could be exploited and we know this is not all a bureaucratic process as the white house claims. that for some people who dont have those full security clearances its because there are still questions that need to be resolved in the background clearance process. >> jim sciutto reporting for us. thank you very much. lets get more on all of this, congressman ruben gallego w...