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That. they would like to be able to make a kooucouple big changes. one would be to use social media and other online tools to speed up looking through peoples backgrounds regarding their neighbors or whether they filed bankruptcies. it is a lot easier now, they dont have to actually do gum shoe look at all these people. so they want to streamline that. also they are trying to make it so that a person who is working in the intel field say at a contractor and they are going to go into the governme...

He was an unregistered foreign agent and others. this is a real threat to national security. >> you dont think its just bureaucracy, the white house pushback is, its backlog and bureaucracy, unusual diverse backgrounds and financial portfolios. >> i cannot believe that the presidents son-in-law would not have gotten a permanent security clearance long since it was just bureaucracy. we know he hid a lot of things and that may have been one of the problems. he didnt admit a lot of contacts with ru...

Officials are still working without full security clearances, among those on the list, porter and trump adviser and son-in-law jared kushner. lets discuss with congressman jerry nadler of new york. congressman, good to see you. i have two what are you going to do about dot dot dot questions. the first one is this, you have oversight over this. what can congress do to make sure that the people working around the highest seat of power in our democracy have the right backgrounds to have clearance? ...

The persons background. >> not to make light of this, but youre making me feel like im at the dmv, youre talking so much paperwork. what about the big picture, though. youre talking about the paperwork you voluntarily fill out and they fact check it. why are so many people, including the presidents son-in-law, working on temporary checks? what is the problem? >> well, the problem is that the agents that are going through those background investigations are finding more leads to have to track dow...

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Just needed these jobs filled by relatively competent people so it seems times again they are willing to look past the sorts of things in peoples backgrounds that would typically disqualify them from white house jobs because they just needed people to work in the white house. >> julian, in this democratic letter, remember, there are also -- they are also contending this is a national security issue because rob porter did have temporary security clearance at the time. is that an issue for nationa...

View of how youre going to be perceived on handling this cultural movement at this time of your presidency is being damaged. >> tara, theres now a second white house staffer, david sorensen resigning over domestic abuse allegations. he denies. that that is a sign that the white house might be looking to staffers backgrounds more thoroughly? >> i think it means the wool is being pulled back now because they have no choice. now everything is under more scrutiny. and he should have resigned. theres...

>> why does the president of the united states defend him today? >> i dont know. i dont know. but for his presidency and for the way women and really all americans are going to view the way he looks into these things, i worry that no one is saying, mr. president, the long-term view of how youre going to be perceived on handling this cultural movement at this time of your presidency is being damaged. >> tara, theres now a second white house staffer, david sorensen resigning over domestic abuse al...

Found items that theyre trying to mitigate, trying to look through. it could mean, especially with this administration, they have people with particularly complex backgrounds with maybe financial ties, maybe necessarily negative longer it goes on its potentially troubling. >> what lessons should we learn from what has been going on right now? >> its a good question if you look at the entire porter situation and step back from this particular case for a moment. we have an opportunity to make gove...

The evidence. there were two different wives that there were allegations against. i mean, if you have the evidence laid out in front of you, then how can you be misled by rob porter? there is the evidence. the facts. and then how spins them. scott? >> yeah, i think there is some dispute if you talk to white house people about exactly what they knew from the fbi. now what i think is frankly a more troubling. >> is it because they dont trust the fbi even if -- >> porter had been involved with inno...