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When they bring us before, well talk to you. >> dont hold your breath then you probably wont be here. >> were optimists over here. well see what happens. dr. ronnie jackson now former va nominee. the president is blaming democrats wu is this partisan issue or a vetting problem inside the white house.

That was allowed to hang out for enough days to attract more allegations as it did tonight? >> clearly, brian, theres a vetting problem in the white house if the allegations are coming to late and were not known to the white house before president trump tweeted that he would be the nominee to head the department of affairs. sarah sanders said there were four separate background checks. and at one point used the phrase vetting. did not detail what it was entailed. one conducted by the fbi, unclea...

>> well, clearly, brian, there is a vetting problem in the white house if these allegations about dr. jackson are just now coming to light and were not known to the white house before president trump tweeted that he would be the nominee to head the department of veteran affairs. sarah sanders said at the briefing this afternoon that there had been four separate background checks, investigations. at one point she used the phrase vegt on jackson. but she did not detail what those entailed. she sai...

Serious vetting problem? >> well, they do. they are not carefully vetting. in fact conversations ive had with my republican colleagues are that we have to double down on the investigate that we do on the committee level here because people are coming over with such poor investigation beforehand about the issues that might appear here in the senate. so it certainly slows everything down. they need to get the white house team into shape, really do the job up front before they send people over. >> ...

Cannot say im surprised, i expected a woman to do better. siting conways statement that she is not concerned about white house communications director hope hicks who was in a relationship with porter. >> im sorry for any suffering this woman has endured, but in the case of hope, i rarely met somebody so strong with such excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts. >> her statement implies those who have been in abusive relationships are not strong. this, as the white house continues to insist tha...

Excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts. >> reporter: holderness writing her statement implies those who have been in abusive relationships are not strong. this, as the white house continues to insist that senior officials only learned about the, quote, extent of the allegations last tuesday. cnn has reported that white house counsel don mcgahn knew a year ago that porters ex-wives could present damaging information on him to the fbi. and chief of staff john kelly learned about the allegation...

>> reporter: president trump facing mounting questions about whether his top aides are handling classified information without the proper security clearance. >> mr. president, do you have a vetting problem? >> reporter: the issue front and center after staff secretary rob porter signed amid allegations of spousal abuse which prevented him from gaining permanent security clearance. dozens of white house officials are still operating without permanent security clearances. >> its handled by our law...

Former senior aide. axios is saying in private conversations he called porter, sick, and the president believes the ex-wives and their accusations. but then over the weekend he tweeted this. peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by mere allegations. some are true and some are false. some are old and some are new. there is no recovery for someone falsely accused. life and career are gone. is there no such thing any longer as due process? porter could not get full security clearance beca...

Yet another controversy dogging the west wing. >> thats right. the white house is still answering questions about how one of the top aides, rob porter, can be allowed to work in the white house without a security clearance. president trump tried to look past that but why wont president trump publicly empathize with the victims? >> mr. president, do you have a vetting problem? >> president trump avoided the question. atop aide whose history of alleged domestic abuse appears to have been covered u...

I appreciate it. >> mr. president, why are high levels staffer with sensitive information without security clearance? >> mr. president, do you have a vetting problem? >> that was nbcs kristen welker shouting the questions on many peoples minds this afternoon. after revelations rob porter never received a full security clearance and white house senior staffers had known never would, in a post handling more classified information than any other position in the west wing. the washington post report...