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Mismanagement. porter scandal in a vacuum, its by a lot of other things. >> lets bring in ted lieu of california, member of the house intelligence committee joining us now. thanks for being with us. >> thank you, brianna. >> you just -- you just heard your republican colleague trey gowdy and speaker ryan saying congress is now going to get involved. in oversight of the rob porter matter and oversight of security clearances here. how significant is that to you? >> thats significant, i welcome the...

Helping him. >> but its interesting though that if he doesnt sort of start talking about russian interference it could affect him negatively come midterm election time. so another big issue that came up yesterday was sort of the security clearance process. the director of national intelligence warning that people with interim clearances should have limited access to secret information. so beyond jared kushner who we already know do we have a sense of how many staffers within the white house ha...

They told me that what sanders is saying is, quote, incredibly misleading. the white house security office, as it was explained to me, is literally a part of the white house. its across the street, its in the eisenhower executive office building, i think on the ground floor. the source says the security office doesnt make decisions. their reason for being is to coordinate the security clearance process for white house staff on behalf of the president. so as its described to me, either there was ...

The department of the army for a reason. you have history with government secrets. rob porter saw and heard it all, really, in the oval office. what should we know about the guarding of government secrets from your lifetime? >> well, theres a reason why we have a security clearance process. and if someone doesnt get it, its not enough to say he wasnt denied it, he wasnt granted it. he should have never had access to the top secret things. when i was in the pentagon had a code word that was a pro...

We are following a process that has been used by previous administrations. >> no, they are not. the processes of the trump administration are unique to the trump administration, including the process of obtaining security clearances for white house personnel like jared kushner, who still does not have a security clearance. some estimates indicate as many as 40 people in the trump white house do not have the security clearance that is required for their jobs. and now the security clearance proces...

Senior level that these reviews are expedited. theyre treated very seriously. they have to occur a lot more rapidly than for other more junior positions in the government. theres going to be immediate attention to this kind of information. that apparently didnt happen here, and theres no real explanation for it. ive heard speculation about it, but its very difficult to understand. >> and bob, when the white house -- when the fbi director in his very measured tone ran methodically through these f...

White house personnel security office alerted top officials including chief of staff john kelly about porters past. >> im not aware of any communication. i cant say definitively but im not aware of any communication. >> reporter: the white house has been struggling to explain its story and time line. >> its obvious that the nations top secrets were being handled by someone who they knew would never receive a security clearance. >> all right. thanks for that report. >> now, on the subject of the ...

Secrets. rob porter saw and heard it all, really, in the oval office. what should we know about the guarding of government secrets from your lifetime? >> well, theres a reason why we have a security clearance process. and if someone doesnt get it, its not enough to say he wasnt denied it. he was never granted it. he should have never had access to the top secret things. when i was in the pentagon had a security clearance that is a code word-protected pass, so i cant tell you the name of my clear...

They would not want out there. and so theyre still looking into, you know, peoples security clearances because jared kushner does not seem to ever -- is ever going to get a permanent security clearance. >> i have a feeling the white house is scrambling to go through all those files. all right. well check in with you in about 30 minutes or so. >> the trump administration calls for major changes to the nations food stamp program. why its being met with a lot of skepticism. >> and the story preside...

Information. that apparently didnt happen here, and theres no real explanation for it. ive heard speculation about it, but its very difficult to understand. >> and bob, when the white house -- when the fbi director in his very measured tone ran methodically through these four different steps in the security clearance process for mr. porter, ending, of course, in the fact he was not cleared to work in this job at this title, did that indicate anything to you like it could be fatal for someone at ...