house counsel's job to coordinate the clearance and vetting with the fbi. the fbi provides the information, but they don't make recommendations. it's the white house counsel's job to do that. and don mcgahn clearly did not do that. >> that's exactly right. the fbi doesn't make those decisions. they simply provide the information. they do the investigating. it is true that these security clearance investigations can take a long time, can take months, but usually there's a priority set for people closest to the president, people like rob porter or jared kushner. those are people who see the president every day, who are key to his decision making, and therefore usually put at the top of the priority list. the fact this has gone on for so long is interesting, is telling. and it does tell you -- it does raise questions about don mcgahn. he was old as early as january 2017 that there was a potential issue here. the information came back to him several times during the last year. at no point, obviously, did this white house make a decision that this was important enough to