2017, to february 12th, 2018, where he was pushed out, or resigned. the security clearance adjudication dates for porter, including both interim and final clearance. those questions go to the heart of the questions we ve been asking in the briefing room over the last week or so. this is a textbook example of how a white house should not handle a matter like this. they ve given us four or five different answers over a series of briefings in terms of what happened, who did what to who, who punched john, and so on. and just yesterday, the white house was talking about this office of personnel security, that s where the fbi background check went to. we still don t have the answers as to what was done with that information once it got to the office of personnel security. i suspect that ll be one of the key questions at the briefing this afternoon, which not surprisingly has been pushed to 2:30 this afternoon. and sara sanders is scheduled to do that briefing. they re not going to send out
that they only base aware of what happened last week. the white house offered a new explanation saying that the fbi background check went into the white house office of personnel security. asked about the shifting explanations, press secretary sarah sanders set that she s doing said that she s doing the best she can. obviously the press team s not going to be as read-in as some other elements at a given moment on a variety of topics. we relay the best and most accurate information that we have and get those from those individuals. reporter: aides to the president are becoming frustrated with the information they re receiving from top officials ned the west wing. officials inside the west wing. one white house official complained attorney don mcghan received information last summer and did not share enough of it with top staffers. jim acosta there at the white house. president trump s longtime personal lawyer, michael cohn, says he paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to porn
these questions are going back to don mcgahn and asking the question, why has he never said much about what he knew at that time. this is yet another example of the white house not being able to get their stories straight on something. what is going on here, do you think? well, you know, last week, anderson, you know, they were saying that rob porter was a good guy. that he was a man of honor and integrity and the next day they changed that story, and said, well, we do care about the issue of dhesic violence, and then this week, you had the white house press secretary pointing to the fbi and today the white house press secretary was pointing to the white house office of personnel security. the american people can listen to all of those four different versions in terms of how the white house is explaining this, or they can just listen to the one version that came from the fbi director earlier today, who said, we completed our investigation last july and anderson, our reporting on th
have made anyone say, rob porter should not be working here. yeah, and jim they didn t do that. jim, do you really believe that the white house has been handling this in an honest way? i mean, again, sarah sanders, every time she s asked point blank about what kelly knew and when, she dodges the question. she says, well, i m not going to go into levels of detail, same thing for don mcgahn and just yesterday, he s pointing the finger at the fbi and law enforcement communities and intelligence communities and now she s bringing up this white house office that doesn t have any investigative powers that i can find, of their own. no, but they do have a review and they do make recommendations, the office of personnel security. and i don t think she s pointing a finger at that office and i don t think she was pointing she did. she said the process wasn t closed from the fbi and the intelligence communities and it was closed. she was saying it was still an
here? last week they were saying rob porter is a good guy. a man of honor and integrity. and the next day changed that story and this week you have had white house press secretary pointing to the fbi. and today the white house press secretary was pointing to the white house office of personnel security. the american people can listen to all of those different versions in terms of how the white house is explaining this or they can listen to the one version that came from the fbi director earlier today who said we completed our investigation last july. our reporting on this has not changed. multiple officials have known for months. anderson, instead of the me too movement, it seems to be the anybody but me movement at the white house. joining us more is kaylin.