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To obtain permanent security clearances. instead theyre handling sensitive information, very often very sensitive information, with interim or temporary approvals. according to politico, the fbi has informed the white house chief of staff john kelly that pla it plans to deny multiple aides permanent clearance for their backgrounds. john kelly was granted permanent clearance. i want to join with a former special agent who resigned from the bureau because of what he sees as attacks going out for t...

Clearance more than a year into this administration? how worried are you about that. >> i would be worried. in the white house in the executive branch and what we see in congress there is a lot of classified material, especially classified material that should only be reviewed by the people and how people are trained and have trusted backgrounds. obviously there are some things that can be handled by people that have some level of interim security background or security clearance but anything ab...

Significant. why doesnt he have a security clearance? and why is he allowed to have classified information. >> its more significant because if youve never held a a security clearance then the understanding of what is in your background might be difficult. i hold a security clearance because i have classified information but i was in government for more than 25 years, a lot of these individuals come from business, they come from other walks of life where theyve never held a security clearance bef...

People involved in the interview in the room would excuse themselves and the nominee, the candidate would sit alone with a couple of the interviewers and then they would ask what we came to ask the sex drugs and rock n roll question. they would say is there anything else in your background that might be embarrassing to the president of the united states? and so the process, its just so hard to contemplate the gap between the severity with which backgrounds were investigated during the obama admi...

As u.s. attorneys as we completed that process, at the end of the interview, there was a moment where the people involved in the interview in the room would excuse themselves and the nominee, the candidate would sit alone with a couple of the interviewers and then they would ask what we call the sex, drugs and rock & roll question. they would say is there anything else in your background that might be embarrassing to the president of the united states? so the process, its so hard to contemplate ...

N roll question. they would say is there anything else in your background that might be embarrassing to the president of the united states? and so the process, its just so hard to contemplate the gap between the severity with which backgrounds were investigated during the obama administration and at an apparent laxness here. these sorts of people dont belong in the white house serving in the name of the american people. >> ruth, i want to read you something from the "new york times" report that ...

And thats part of the problem there. >> yeah. i think one of the challenges with the white house has been from the very beginning, who are the people coming in the door here? they had trouble finding qualified candidates for a lot of the positions and ened up where they are with a lot of people who have issues in their backgrounds. i reported over the course of the last year the challenges of not just bringing people in, but when people like rob porter leave, who replaces them? its a real challe...

Able to walk into our government office. its unbelievable that its 14 months its come to this. you either are preventing people and making sure their backgrounds are clean and doing it in a right and lawful way or youre not. this is just ridiculous. >> dana: one of the things i thought of, this puts the president in a terrible position. according to reports, he didnt know about these allegations until earlier this week. why would you put him in a position like this where he is vulnerable to atta...

We want to look at educational backgrounds, ability to contribute to the work force in a way that helps american workers. so, president wants to see reforms that improve americas economy. noah. >> normally when you hire people, do you wait for the investigation to come back before hiring them? is the burden of proof not on the people seeking the job to prove that they are qualified and dont have any skeletons in their closet or do they get to come aboard and you wait and see what happens in the ...

Talked out of it by kelly and others. according to these people, with kelly saying he believes porter. kelly continued to press him, but porter decided the controversy had become too much. ive actually spoken to people in the white house who said oom completely shocked. while he was a valuable rising star in the white house, that goes out the window. when you learn these allegations, he simply cant stay. >> look, i dealt with rob porter on a number of occasions. incredibly impressive backgrounds...