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Up at their desks and marched out? six of them at once? were advised that that is unusual. we have found no press reporting to indicate anything like this has happened before. why are all these people failing their fbi background checks already working in the white house? why did this white house hire such an unusually large number of people who cant pass fbi back ground checks. is that nefarious? is that stupid? is this an indication of something really, really, wrong and worrying or is it an i...

Officer, we have reporting that indicates they were marched out of the white house two weeks ago on february 9 after their fbi background checks turned up unfavorable or disqualifying or troubling information. we are advised by former white house officials tonight that while its not unheard of for an individual staffer here and there to have a problem with an fbi background check six people inside the white house failing all at once? after already being on the job at the white house? and all of ...

Unusual. we have found no press reporting to indicate anything like this has happened before. why are all these people failing their fbi background checks already working in the white house? why did this white house hire such an unusually large number of people who cant pass fbi back ground checks. ? is that nefarious? is that stupid? is this an indication of something really, really, wrong and worrying or is it an indication of incompetence and stupidity? you tell me. which do you prefer? this ...

And 2017, which is larger the 2009 crowd or 2017. >> senator, it does appear that the crowd on the left hand side is bigger than the crowd on the right hand side. >> the president disagreed, said its a lie, we caught them, we caught them in a beauty, referring to the press reporting, says looks like a million, million and a half people, the reason im raising this is because budget often contained buried deceptions. you and i talked about in my office about the magic asterisks, this is an example...

2017. which crowd is larger, the 2009 crowd or the 2017 crowd? >> senator, if you allow me to give the disclaimer that im not really sure how this -- i would be happy to answer your question which was from that picture, it does appear that the crowd on the left-hand side is bigger than the crowd on the right-hand side. >> thank you. the president disagreed about this in his news report. he said its a lie. we caught them. we caught them in a beauty. referring to the press reporting. says it looke...

>> i wanted to talk where senator cotton was, referred to you as a bold truth teller. i have behind me two pictures that were taken at about the same time of day in 2009, and 2017. which crowd is larger, the 2009 crowd or the 2017 crowd? >> senator if youll allow me to give the disclaimer im not sure how this ties from omb, from that picture it appears the crowd on the left-hand side is bigger than the right-hand side. >> thank you, the president disagreed about this in his news report. he said ...

Reporter that he worked with? >> of course not. let me make a distinction, between moving the press room to a larger facility across the street. id have no problem with that as a short-term, temporary issue. there only 49 seats, as it currently stands. opening day, opening weekend trump land, it will be jampacked, you cant get in there. logistics reason to move it. never move the press corps out of the building. i would object if they tried to get rid of the white house press corps from the west...

>> of course not. let me make a distinction, between moving the press room to a larger facility across the street. id have no problem with that as a short-term, temporary issue. there only 49 seats, as it currently stands. opening day, opening weekend trump land, it will be jampacked, you cant get in there. logistics reason to move it. never move the press corps out of the building. i would object if they tried to get rid of the white house press corps from the west wing. martha, the bigger issu...

Congress in possession of both the classified and unclassified reports that the president-elect and his administration in possession of the classified and unclassified reports will take it seriously and now get to work reinforcing those mechanisms that we can use to protect our democracy. >> and we will see more of lesters exclusive interview with president obama throughout the week on msnbc and nbc news. joining us, david corn and malcolm. i want to start with you malcolm. we got a little bit o...

Press reporting on relationships between the russians and the individuals associated with both the trump campaign and the incoming administration. my question for you, director comey is has the fbi investigated these reported relationships and, if so, what are the agencys findings? >> thank you, senator. i wouldle never comment on investigations whether we have one or not in an open forum like this. so i cant answer one way or another. >> will you provide an unclassified response to the question...