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Communications director. and is an important and valuable member of the staff. and she has done a great job in that role. steve? >> is there some exception regarding rob porter to another job at the time this all blew up? >> not that im aware of. i dont know the answer to that. jeff? >> the fbi said it was completed in late july. you said a follow-up required more field work on that. was that because something that rob porter said in response to that? the allegations werent true or what required...

>> regarding the completion of the background checks had not been received -- >> thats part of that process. thats run by career officials and we havent received a recommendation from that office. >> had the fbi director today said under oath that the completed background investigation was submitted in late july, so which one is it? >> let me read this to you again. the white house security office received information last year in what they considered to be the final background investigation rep...

Investigations in the backlog. i think only about 330,000 of those are actual new investigations that are being requested. but you can see the monumental problem that they have just with the plmassive number of people o have to be cleared. >> so we just heard sarah huckabee sanders now trying to explain away why rob porter had still not been fired. she said there was a lot of field work to be country to follow up on some of the things that the fbi said. we dont know if she is telling the truth o...

Regarding the completion of the background check had not been received. >> that is part of that process that the personnel security office plays run by career officials and we hadnt received a recommendation from that office. >> yet the fbi director said today under oath that the completed background je investigation was actually submitted in late july. >> let me read this to you again. the white house personnel security office staffed by career officials received information last year and what ...

Pentagon saying we need the force in syria to counter iran. the iranians are the real winners of the war in syria. we did a lot of field work. we did a lot of heavy lifting destroying isis. making syria safe for asad. this is the opposite of what happened the opposite what the obama administration wanted. they wanted to get rid of assad and didnt do anything. turkey now is targeting their traditional enemy. the kurds, we are supporting the kurds because the kurds were our heavy lifters. >> jon: ...

Of americans at risk and youre putting american leadership in the world at risk. >> now, donald trump does say hes going to reverse a lot of these executive actions that obama has taken, whether its on coal-fired plants or vehicle emissions. what could you do? hes president and he will have that power. >> i think that the strongest power in the united states of america is the will of the american people. and i think if the american people understand whats going on and what the consequences are o...

Ci ty of americans at risk and prosperity and you are putting american leadership in the world at risk. >> now, donald trump does say hes going to reverse a lot of these executive actions that obama has taken whether it is on plans or emissions. what can you do? hes president and he will have that power. >> the strongest power of the american people is the will of the american people. if the american people understand whats going on and the consequences of whats going on, theyll realize that the...

Voter-to-voter contact as we could. so we believed then that we need americans to speak to each other on the issues of the day. and thats what we did then. we were on over 370 college campuses. we knocked with our partners on more than 10 million doors. we registered over a million people. so well continue the kind of grassroots, field work, the kind of grassroots citizen-to-citizen conversations that we did in 2016. >> but are you disheartened? you spent some say 69, $70 million, certainly the ...

Distrust of the media, of our leaders, of even military leaders. like, theres -- what -- does that trust ever me bacack or is it lost? thatts in some ways the project, right? the project has to be building back up some of that very necessary trust. now, healthy distrust is good, right? learn that with the war in iraq or the financial crisis, right, i mean, the e was a lot of really smart authoritative people saying we got these models about housing derivatives and believe us, this is going to wo...

>> uh-huh. >> you know, like, you havent conducted the experiments, right? >> no. no field work. >> you have not done the field work. you know it because of trust. and when that gets severed, you end up in a situation in which the entire public discourse goes completely, completely haywire. coming up, how the severing was public trust was amplified as the largest social media platform in the world became a hub for false news, right after this break. clicking around... the lowest prices on our ...