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Last year overwhelmingly. donald trump's own pick to lead the fbi. he's been seldom heard from in public since. and today i think he will face a lot of questions on everything from the nunes memo from a few weeks ago to the background check process at the white house and yes to the russia investigation and to his relationship with rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who has been so much in the spotlight over the last couple of weeks. again, a wide-range iing -- [ inaudible ] >> i'm going to have to interrent you and let ou viewers know not to adjust your television set, it's not you, it's...

Handling the most sensitive classified information produced by the u.s. government. they insist they were following the normal background check process. but according to sean patrick maloney who held the same job in the clinton white house, this was anything but. >> on that desk there are a stack of red folders marked top secret. every day our nation's highest secrets are seen by the staff secretary there is a burn bag under the desk because when you're done, you incinerate those materials. the idea that someone without a security clearance was allowed to be there in the first place despite th...

Fbi process, the background check process to proceed as he should. that answers the question of this, that the domestic violence was a disqualifying factor here. rob porter is out of a job and so is the other man under question of domestic allegations. >> i want to get amy back in. my question is, did general kelly need the fbi to interpret that photo of rob porter's ex-wife's blackened eye for him to do the right thing? that seems like a bit of a cop-out to me? >> absolutely not. once again, from what i understand, the fbi had sent the information over to the attorneys, the attorneys then tol...

>> reporter: well, he's doing that indirectly. of course not naming the staffers that you just identified. and it does draw a line to the events of this week though because we know the president so often tweets about things that are current in his experience. so it's easy to sort of put these two sets of issues together. of course there is a need for due process. that is a widely upheld view in american jurisprudence. this is not a case where there's any criminal activity alleged. this is a case where because of these two individuals who worked in the white house they needed background checks....

Joining me now is zerlina maxwell of progressive media for the clinton campaign, rick tyler msnbc political analyst and republican strategist, and joe watkins former white house aide to george h.w. bush. good to see you. joe, i want to ask you about the whole background check process. i will get to that in a moment. bull i want your reaction to the president's comments. because he said something about the ex-wives of rob porter. >> well, he should have said something about the ex-wives. at the end of the day, he should have said domestic violence is not going to be tolerated under any circumst...