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Sham bol lick explanations coming from the white house, theyre only raising more questions who knew what when and that includes haggen there john kelly, hope hicks, everybody beak. >> hope hicks reportedly dating rob porter. i imagine she had conversations about the fact he wasnt getting the security clearance. its not a thing people in the white house are like where did we end up on my security clearance? where did we end up with the fbi be people talking to everybody in my life. its a thing yo...

Information last year in 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 adjudicationing. > sarah sanders left out of that expla...

George w. bush. i dont know the degree to which you personally handled clearances because you worked on ethics. my question as a white house lawyer, if something liking this comes to you as a white house lawyer, the fbi says these women say this about him and heres the evidence and youre managing the process, is it a hard call, an easy call? what do you do? >> no, its an easy call. you dont hire him. you dont bring him into the white house. you dont have to have proof that he actually beat his w...

Their background information. white house requested a follow-up provided by the fbi in november. in january of this year, porters file was administratively closed. yet he remained in his staff secretary position with just an interim security clearance. what about all the other people still working right now in the white house without permanent security clearance people like jared kushner who according to "the washington post" has been allowed to see materials including the presidents daily brief...

Communities, they make that determination. the process for the background was ongoing. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the cop pleasing of that background check. >> they hadnt received specific papers regarding the completion. sarah huckabee sanders said the fbi makes that determination. thats what she said. you saw what christopher wray said anticipating they would have explaining to do today. the white house first sent out elaine chao to eat up some time with...

Now senior white house official joe hagan. so in these ongoing clashing and sham bol lick explanations coming from the white house, theyre only raising more questions who knew what when and that includes haggen there john kelly, hope hicks, everybody beak. >> hope hicks reportedly dating rob porter. i imagine she had conversations about the fact he wasnt getting the security clearance. its not a thing people in the white house are like where did we end up on my security clearance? where did we e...

You can have interim access to these things. >> to asawins point, there is no way, there is no way and i know about this because ive talked to people in previous white houses who dealt with this, that the fbi is talking to the white house, office of personnel security and no one from the white house staff is involved. not happening. it is not happening with senior staffer. it is not a plausible story. i think, asawin, this was an amazing quote from gidley in trying to explain this mess we is we ...

Investigations nor to make final decisions. >> richard, you were in the white house counsels office in george w. bush. i dont know the degree to which you personally handled clearances because you worked on ethics. my question as a white house lawyer, if something liking this comes to you as a white house lawyer, the fbi says these women say this about him and heres the evidence and youre managing the process, is it a hard call, an easy call? what do you do? >> no, its an easy call. you dont hir...

>> we let the process play out. it was ongoing. hadnt been completed. the fbi and other intelligence communities, they make that determination. the process for the background was ongoing. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the cop pleasing of that background check. >> they hadnt received specific papers regarding the completion. sarah huckabee sanders said the fbi makes that determination. thats what she said. you saw what christopher wray said anticipating they w...

The process is broken. it needs to be reformed. >> richard painter former chief white house ethics lawyer, chris will you an assissistant to pre barack obama. chris, given what we know knew, does it appear to you they were using temporary clearance as essentially an end run around the fact that the background check had come back and there had been probably a recommendation if never committed to paper that he not get a permanent clearance? >> youre absolutely right. somebody in the white house or...