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Whole affair which is serious congressional oversight. this is a situation when congress should really step up. and of course under republican leadership, that is not happening. so, yeah, the fbi director will appear before congress. but there need to be serious oversight hears regarding the clearance process and certainly looking into what exactly happened in this white house. >> matt miller, what are the answers to the presidents questions of what do we do and whats going to happen next? >> th...

Do expect to release a report on election security before next month. along with a review of just how extensive russias meddling has been in the elections that went by in 2016. >> pretty amazing reporting. thank you very much. senator, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> ill get to russia in a moment but first i want your reaction to the white house handling of the entire rob porter allegations. you know the chief of staff john kelly told the "wall street journal" that it was al...

Dan coats, the director of national intelligence, you admire him. you like him. he specifically said if you only have interim clearance, not full clearance, should you only have access to limited information. the presidential daily brief is not limited information. so do you think jared kushner should have access to the presidential daily brief? >> im not totally clear with what level of even interim clearance he has. i agree, if you dont have clearance to see information, if you have limited cl...

Theres only one reason why i assume there was a problem with the file. >> so i take it thats not a legit excuse. porter was among this group of 30 to 40 staffers who still dont have clearance, including jared kushner who handles highly classified information. dan coates, director of national intelligence said that the clearance process is broken. >> i think sometimes it is necessary to have some type of preliminary clearance in order to fill a slot. if thats the case the access has to be limited...

Have been nominated for various jobs, who put their lives basically on hold for six or eight months and still havent had the full clearance they have to have. we have to do something to make process work better. but we have to also really respect and appreciate the clearance process before people have access to the type of documents that you should only have access to when youre cleared. the white house. in first year, clearly a lot of on-the-job training was going on. i hope the second year tak...

That people of his sophistication it can go on as long as two years. suggestions otherwise are pernicious, spears you and are just more fake news. >> yeah, thats crazy. and in fact, youre talking about somebody who is the son-in-law to the president, in an assistant to the president position. they move heaven and earth to get things done for the white house. i watched it for years. the business that somehow, oh, this is just a backlog. hes in the front of the line. and again, mcgahn didnt have t...

Is -- >> youre talking about jared or porter? >> well, both. >> both. >> and so -- and then the process really slows down. and then they go, what the heck are we going to do? and do we tell the fbi director, do we tell mcgahn? so when it takes that long a time, theres a problem. theres a larger problem which coats identified which is this clearance process is broken. so this take takes, in my exper, six months was the fastest. nine months was bad. then it would take a year. >> lets be clear -- >...

Of preliminary clearance in order to fill a slot, but i have publicly stated if that is the case, the access has to be limited in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive or not receive. so i think thats something that we have to do as part of our security clearance review. >> jared kushners reading the pdb. >> yes. i mean, director coats also said that the classified system is broken, that the clearance process is broken. so just to go into the weeds, ill be a state...

You know how you get security clearances and the like and all the wringing you go through to get that. im sure you dealt with the same. but obviously something fell through the cracks here, that will prompt a lot of americans whether republican or democrat orphans of this president, that the process itself might have problems. what do you think? >> i dont think the process itself has problems. no. neil, what typically happens, most applicants get cleared. the only thing that really slows it down...

The presidents tweet yesterday saying that peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation put people on a rant. >> i was horrified but i was also very shocked. as many people have noted, jake, this is not the rob porter we worked with in the white house. people should look at the result of how this was handled. what is the result? the result is one week ago rob porter was a top aide to the president of the united states and today hes out of the white house. >> i think there...