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Guarding of government secrets from your lifetime? >> well, theres a reason why we have a security clearance process. and if someone doesnt get it, its not enough to say he wasnt denied it, he wasnt granted it. he should have never had access to the top secret things. when i was in the peptgon had a code word that was a protected pass, so i cant tell you the name of my clearance or the information i learned during time, even now many years later. and we want to protection the information that is...

Good evening to both of you. thank you for coming on. bill, starting with you. you say rob porter is not just a political scandal but a national security scandal, too. how so? >> well, the staff secretary at the white house is, in many cases, the final valve through which any information flows to the president. and that includes top secret code word security at times. that is code word intelligence and other analysis in the federal government. so you have to have a top secret clearance in order ...

H white house trying to get past the rob porter scandal, but its exposed some deep flaws in our national security. lets discuss now. cnn law enforcement analyst josh campbell, a former fbi supervisory special agent. and the director and ceo of the miller center for public affairs at the university of virginia. good evening to both of you. thank you for coming on. bill, starting with you. you say rob porter is not just a political scandal but a national security scandal too. how so? >> well, th...

And god help us, if we have a real crisis in this country with this cast of characters around the most seat of power in this country and one of the most powerful offices in the world. >> jill, it strikes me that the lies theyre telling about this timeline are in some ways of tacitly acknowledgment of the fact they screwed up. its sort of evidence of consciousness of guilt. thats someone who was once general counsel for the army. what do you think about don mcgahn and john kellys actions here, ab...

Interim clearance that allows you to see code word. and if youre porter or kushner and handling the daily materials for the president of the united states, i guarantee youre seeing code word that you shouldnt be seeing without the proper vetting. so weve got what we call a spill here in the security clearance business. weve got people accessing work that they should not have accessed. >> but frank, break that down into laymans terms. something that everybody can understand. talk to me and everyd...

Election to get those clearances into place. some 13 months after the inauguration, some 15 months after the election that they dont have permanent security clearances would suggest to me that theyre unable to clear the fbi full field background investigation in the white house security office will not grant a permanent top secret sci code word level clearance that is necessary to operate in these positions. anybody who cannot pass that background check has no business handling, seeing, being pr...

Election to get those clearances into place. some 13 months after the inauguration, some 15 months after the election that they dont have permanent security clearances would suggest to me that theyre unable to clear the fbi full field background investigation in the white house security office will not grant a permanent top secret sci code word level clearance that is necessary to operate in these positions. anybody who cannot pass that background check has no business handling, seeing, being pr...

Are made. and god help us, if we have a real crisis in this country with this cast of characters around the most seat of power in this country and one of the most powerful offices in the world. >> jill, it strikes me that the lies theyre telling about this timeline are in some ways of tacitly acknowledgment of the fact they screwed up. its sort of evidence of consciousness of guilt. thats someone who was once general counsel for the army. what do you think about don mcgahn and john kellys action...

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Asking us to tell lies. many of those staffers are going to be women who are saying, youre asking us to go and lie for you when you were covering up. i think the timeline is wrong. i think kelly knew about it when he walked in the door he realized his staff secretary could not look at code word clearance documents. he figured out pretty quick what was going on. now hes asking women staffers in the white house to lie for him. i just dont know thats a sustainable situation if your staff has turned...