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Administrations time line of when exactly it learned about abuse allegations against former staff secretary rob porter. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed back ground investigation in late july that soon there after we received requests for followup inquiry. we did the followup. and provided that information in november and we administratively closed the file in january. earlier this month we received some additional information ...

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...

>> in november i got an update on some of the investigations and the update was that there was some things that needed to be looked into. literally that was it. >> you clarified to you exactly the different reporting about the time line and when you found out about things. can you verify that? >> tuesday night. >> you found out tuesday night? >> that the accusations were true. 40 minutes later, he was gone. >> nobody has that little curiosity, let alone a marine general. so when the fbi comes ba...

It made you wonder what he saw that day when he was looking at frederica wilson and what he sees -- what did he see when he looked at rob porter. >> right, rob porter harvard gradua graduate, missionary, road scholar. you write this, you say is it that people like wilson, dreamers and porters former wives never come into view for him. and i think this is an important question to ask. >> you have to wonder, does he see people and think that certain types of people, certain backgrounds who look a ...

Can principally as far as im concerned help these 1.8 million maybe even more people secure a future in our country. >> and i hope the house sees it the way you do. im worried it gets clogged up. but i appreciate it. i want to ask you about a couple other things. what do you make of what is going on with rob porter mess? >> we need more transparency. we need to know who knew what and when about rob porter and if they hesitated to act why did they hesitate. and look, i have great respect for gene...

It needs to be reformed. as senator warner has previously said, it is not evolution, it is revolution. >> okay. lets just take a closer look at what the director of national intelligence is talking about. more than one year into trumps first term there is still a significant number of officials working in the white house without permanent security clearances. nbc news has confirmed that number is between 30 and 40 officials. one possible reason could be the white houses very high turnover rate. ...

Taken. and no general that i know would have let it go the way general kelly has let it go. >> its interesting because the people in the white house not being protected are the new people that we are hearing about from the white house security and personnel office. until you run out of people to throw under the bus, hold steady and dont give anything up. >> it is amgs someolways someon fault. sarah sanders said you should ask a better question. i heard the question. there was nothing wrong with ...

As i said, the fbi portion was closed, the white house personnel security office who is the one that makes a recommendation for adjudication had not finished their work, had not made a recommendation to the white house. >> and you said yesterday that you didnt get any paperwork from the fbi. chris wray said that he did submit paperwork. >> again, that would come through the white house personnel security office which had not completed their investigation and not passed that information to the wh...

Domestic abuse assuming this is all true have that level of access in the white house or in a powerful position in the white house. i know this staff secretary sounds obscure, but it is actually a critical position. that person sees everything that the president sees. >> congressman, ive been asking people who they are giving up for lent and he said among my intentions promises this year no tweeting. and id like to respectfully nfrt real donald truinvite realo join me. >> thats right. and a wond...

Rolled out yesterday. >> but is the number the number that has always been or was it just done? >> i know that what was requested has been put into the presidents budget. it was in the budget rolled out yesterday that has been part of the ongoing process. we couldnt put together a budget in like 20 minutes. >> i understand that. but there are some things mr. mulvaney did not tell us about yesterday. >> that means you probably did not ask those questions. im going to keep going. john, go ahead. >...