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House. since then, as you know, the whole issue of security clearances has blown up into a full scale disaster for the trump white house. following revelations about rob porter, the white house staff secretary who lost that job following news reports about serious domestic violence allegations against him from both of his ex-wives. those news reports about those domestic violation allegations, those were revelations to all of us and the public but it turned out the white house had known for a long time. the ex-wives had been interviewed by the fbi as part of rob porter's background process for...

Coming up next. we're going back to park land florida. i'll walk you through the background process of buying a gun and two of the men who slipped through the cracks. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain.

Kelly said that everything was done right. this is clearly an admission that it indeed was not. i want to read you one portion of the five-page memo from kelly that all background investigations of potential commissioned officers should be flagged for the fbi at the outset and hand delivered to the white house counsel personally upon completion. this is the most important part of the passage -- "the fbi official who delivers these files should verbally brief the white house counsel on any information in those files they deem to be significantly derogatory." if memory serves me, that's exactly ...

Grant security clearance or does the fbi? >> the fbi doesn't grant the security clearance. at the end of the day, the decision is with the white house. and the reality is that from january 2017 when rob porter first reportedly told don mcgahn about these issues, there's no way this white house should have had this person in that position. there just isn't. as the fbi background process confirmed the very serious nature of what he had done, there's no way he should have been in this position. >> and so anita, what does it say that they did have him in this position? what does that tell you abou...

Calling. he is survived by his wife and his two daughters. here's a picture. the white house defending its handling of abuse allegations against former aid to the president rob porter. the spokesman saying that the administration was not fully aware of the extend of those allegations and giving a glimpse into the president's response in this case in the rob porter we relied on the background process that process hadn't been complete weed relied on the information we h we do take violence against women very seriously. he told me was very saddened by these reports and by the reports that he saw ...