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Multiple officials, and its a potential problem. >> just in terms of a timeline here. i know the white house wasnt clear when they expect this to be resolved. has that changed and. >> its not clear. and, really, its not entirely in the white houses control. i mean, the way this works is the fbi does not issue the clearances, they do the background checks but they supply this information to the white house and then the white house has to move forward and make the decision, but if the fbi presents...

Its not entirely in the white houses control. i mean the way this works is the fbi does not issue the clearances. they do the background checks. but they supply this information to the white house, and then the white house has to move forward and make the decision. but if the fbi presents information to the white house that is disqualifying for those, then the white house cant move forward and grant that long-term security clearance, which is a very difficult and valuable thing. there are reason...