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Go ongoing process. >> i think the answer to your question, though, is that its been -- there has been the moving of the goal line on this one. and the facts keep evolving and what they needed to do early on was just put this one to bed and explain themselves more clearly at the outset. >> yeah, gloria, to your point, it is important to remember, cnns reporting is that kelly and mcgahn knew about some of these issues with porter long before last week. >> in the fall. >> so, the white house to bl...

Its pretty clooer that the stories still arent straight at the white house. today, as we mentioned, press secretary sarah sanders pointed in a new direction, a white house so obscure, few people have heard of it before. >> 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 process and therefore not made a recommendation to the white house. >> joining me now to plow threw the timelines, james s...

Honest mistake when youre purposely putting out information that you know to be false. >> offensive comments like that have stirred tensions with the press corps. some days you can see the frustration on their faces. >> that doesnt answer the question. you think thats an accurate statement? >> it wasnt confusing to me, im sorry if it was for you. >> sanders might not know what the president will say or tweet next, so, deflection is an all too frequent solution. last week. >> has he seen the phot...

Information last year and what they considered to be the final background investigation report in november. but they had not made a final recommendation for adjudication to the white house because the process was still ongoing when porter resigned. in the view of personnel security office, the fbis july report required significant additional investigatory field work before personnel security office could begin to evaluate the information for adjudication. we find those statements to be consisten...

We care because people who have possible business conflicts of interest, people in rob porters case who could be blackmailed to use their influence. these are people without clearances who are working on some of the biggest issues including the first summit. >> the security clearance process is far from perfect but the security process gives the u.s. government an opportunity to look at peoples backgrounds, understand their suitability, their trustworthiness and the opportunity that an adversary...

Scandal has unfolded and how in the world this was allowed to go on for as long as it did with rob porter and what it tells us about the security process and the handling of classified information. vivian, what do we know? >> well, at this point theres a lot of questions swirling around what chief of staff john kelly knew. theres been a lot of back and forth over the past week about how early he knew and to what extent he knew about these allegations against porter and the white house is still t...

Having to answer for it. i dont know if the process was broken based on the fbi directors report, it seems like timely information was provided at least by july, and then it was repeated again in november. and notwithstanding that, nothing was done. so it seems to me there was a break down here, but i dont know its a break down you could attribute to the security process generally. it seems to be a break down in the west wing of the white house. >> this office of personnel security, which is kin...

At least by july, and then it was repeated again in november. and notwithstanding that, nothing was done. so it seems to me there was a breakdown here, but i dont know its a breakdown you could attribute to the security process generally. it seems to be a breakdown in the west wing of the white house. >> regarding process in the west wing, this office of personnel security, which is kind of taking the latest round of white house blame for this, they have no investigatory power. as far as i know ...

Break down here, but i dont know its a break down you could attribute to the security process generally. it seems to be a break down in the west wing of the white house. >> this office of worse nel security, which is kind of taking the latest round of white house blame for this, they have no invest guatory power. as far as i remember their the folks that issue and turn in your pass when the time has come, but they have no field investgaatory power, correct? >> i dont know what it means when they...

Fbi. intelligence officials have told me lot of these things are being held up because of lingering questions in the security process and as the fbi has said its really up to the white house to issue these clearances once they have a recommends dags from the fbi. you can be involved on this at times. what is your explanation for how thisworks? >> ive asked the inspector general to investigate the security clearance process in the white house. this report by cnn is chilling. it indicates that a v...