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It didnt sound like a police report. the fbi may or may not have interviewed that person where apparently she called into the white house. >> around thanksgiving. >> so there are lots of clues that hey, there is a problem that you need to deal with it. someone in the white house, was it john kelly? honestly im not sure i can say that. but someone in the white house made a decision that was clearly wrong. >> i want to play dan coates comments. >> the process is broken. it needs to be reformed. as...

Believe. i was deputy chief of staff. i can assure you, any political appointee going through the security process, the deputy chiefs of staff as well as the chief of staff would be well aware if there was something that came back that the fbi found that was problematic. so, im pretty certain that general kelly did know about this. remember, a lot of people argue that general kelly was going to be the person to bring discipline, to bring order, civility to the white house. if you have seen throu...

Here is the interim security process is being used as a long-term solution to a problem that it was not meant to be. >> there are a lot of white house officials, including the presidents son jared kushner, who have yet to get permanent clearances, even though theyre working with very sensitive, we know there are varying degrees, confidential, secret, top secret, sensitive, compartmented information, even higher eyes only. when the president gets, for example, presidential daily brief written -- ...

>> reporter: the problem is the president did just that. threaten a shutdown over border security just one day ago. >> i would shut it down over this issue. >> reporter: visiting the white house, defense secretary james mattis said a shutdown would harm security. >> it paralyzes everything we do if we go into that. >> reporter: the white house is grappling with the turmoil in the west wing as a key aide close to the presidents staff secretary rob porter suddenly resigned over charges of domestic...

And some shelter and just went in there and i know at one point i was hiding in a hallway behind a kitchen in some restaurant in the hooters hotel. >> at some point i was hiding in a hallway behind a kitchen. if i can, because people have asked, im not sure it matters, because the hotel did not have the same security as the concert, but people want to know, what was the security process of getting into this concert as a ticket holder? >> as a ticket holder, i guess we -- it was pretty much the s...

Theyre doing going on tv and doing that. i know what the investigators are doing. theyre trying to figure out what happened next. >> one thing that has been pointed out is jared kushners lawyers stumbled upon this e-mail as they were going back over his e-mails and other documents pertaining to testimony thats upcoming for him in these different intelligence committees and the other congress committees investigating russia ties in the election meddling. one of the things that really stands out h...

Dear ms. kelly, dear acting director mccabe, quote, we are writing to request information regarding jared kushners security clearance. and they lay it all out about kushner not disclosing his meetings with foreign officials, including russian officials. not including his security clearance. question. what is the status of mr. kushners clearance? what level has he been cleared to receive? >> did president trump or any other official in the white house intervene in or overrule any decision concern...

Has done? >> i think that -- look, i dont know enough about the intricacies of either the laws he violated, as some democrats claim, or the way the security process is supposed to work to speak with clarity about what he should have done. the basics what i know this story keeps getting more complicated for the white house. you have seen the white house distance itself from flynn after standing by him pretty firmly through the presidents twitter feed. its hard to understand why he would not have ...

The speakers bureau. in that statement, anderson, does not say he sought permission for this trip and got permission for those payments as well. thats the central question in this investigation going forward. >> thanks very much. as you just heard white house secretary sean spicer is pushing off the blame for flynn not being properly vetted by the obama administration defending president trumps diligence, you pressed sean spicer today, what answers did you get? >> white house officials are offer...

Period of time where they made sure the remaining part of the white house property was put under control, the threat level was put down. this official that i talked to described the situation as a slam-dunk. he said this is how the security process is supposed to work. the second the person was found to be past that expanded bike rack, they immediately jumped into that security posture and he was apprehended. the person is currently being questioned. the official that i talked to described hip a...