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Personalities shake out. but in terms of where the fbi comes down on this, look, if the fbi had concerns -- weve seen this in the porter case -- they can certainly raise concerns and say, look, were not finished with our investigation, but you need to be aware there are some red flags here. we dont have any indication thats happened with jared kushner. if there are concerns with the national security side that this is somebody you shouldnt be looking at national security information, they can an...

Paul: chief of staff john kelly ordered overhaul friday of white house security clearance procedures in the wake of domestic violence allegations against former staff secretary rob porter, kelly came under increasing scrutiny for his handling of the porter case after christopher wray offered a timeline that differed from the one provided by the west wing. wray told congress tuesday that the agency had briefed the white house on several occasions about the status of porters investigation. submitt...

Had contacts with foreign officials that has gotten the attention of bob mueller, so there is that. that might be what is the delay. whats now this new information that there is so many other aides in the white house, including very senior staff. ivanka trump, don mcgahn, sarah huckabee sanders. these are other people who have suddenly been given these interim clearances. its a question of, why is that? is it simply because of a backlog? maybe for some it is. but perhaps for others there are red...

All his business dealings, complex past, a lot of travel. its going to take a long time. the more sinister or least cynical reading would be hes had contacts with foreign officials that has gotten the attention of bob mueller, so there is that. that might be what is the delay. whats now this new information that there is so many other aides in the white house, including very senior staff. ivanka trump, don mcgahn, sarah huckabee sanders. these are other people who have suddenly been given these ...

Abuse. and now we have the white house again trying to sort of explain whats going on. we saw the porter case, the scapegoat versus the fbi. now it is a rather obscure white house personnel security office. when at the end of the day they might need to look inward and realize it is their own processes or their own personnel that are part of the problem. >> jeremy, i want to read you a tweet from the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who was dismissed by donald trump. the...

Peter, what have you been led to believe about his shelf life and immediate future. >> in the trump white house you can never tell. people who are supposed to be out tomorrow last six months or a year. people who are supposed to last a year are gone by the end of business. making a prediction is a hazardous affair. it is certainly the case that the president has been unhappy with kelly, not just because of the porter case, for any number of reasons. he feels constrained. he doesnt like general k...

Allegations first were made public. and i think were seeing theres an effort in there to try to, you know, as much as theres a camp that wants john kelly out, theres certainly others who are trying to protect him and chief of staff, himself, is, of course, seems like hes leading that charge. where he has given a few interviews, on the record interviews in recent days including one today where he was asked if they had any regrets, if they needed to make any changes to how they handled the porter ...

Administration forced to deal with a crisis they seem unprepared for and simply did not expect. to have two prominent members of the administration forced to resign in the wake of a sexual -- or i should say domestic violence accusations is something that the white house just did not seem to have the tools to prepare for. and whats being criticized right now is the white house respon response. first of all, in the situation with rob porter, the staff secretary, that perhaps high levels of the ad...

Know, they were leaning against not giving him the full clearance because of what he has done in the past. so john kelly needs to step down and -- look, its good for the white house, if i worked for white house i would advise the president to let john kelly go and move forward. kelly: let me see as we have seen ellison barbers report, she wanted to report that president trump weighed in on the issue with tweet stated, im getting beyond the john kelly aspects of it and looking at rob porter and d...