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A position and everyone who is involved in their background would be a qualifying proceeding. so for kelly to discount the stories that come from the wives and the ex-girlfriend, ed have to believe that they spoke to fbi agents during the background process or to fbi employees conducting that background process and that they were willing to expose themself to the risk of lying to those agents. essentially that's what he has to have believed to have discounted their stories. >> ned price, you and i were speaking about this earlier today, the mystery of how long it was taking on this security cl...

The white house was informed as far as back as august that mr. porter's security clearance was being held up because of domestic allegations. joyce, what does that tell you that as far as back as august, the white house has found out there's a serious problem? >> it's really incredible that they kept porter on for this period of time knowing that as the staff secretary, he handled every piece of paper that entered the oval office. and they knew that that security clearance wouldn't be forthcoming. this would have been unfathomable in the obama white house. and even for the u.s. attorneys as we...

Expertise to the question of the fbi is involved in this. could there be a crime? could one of rob porter's wives or both have lied to the fbi? would that be a crime? rob porter might he have lied to the fbi? would the fbi having picked up this information from his wives go back to rob porter as the subject of the investigation, ask him about that? but as a fact finder when john kelly is sitting there getting this information for the first time in the white house, this is not just information that the wives picked up through some unofficial channels. john kelly to not believe them has to belie...

But i'd like to go to your legal expertise to the question of the fbi is involved in this. could there be a crime? could one of rob porter's wives or both have lied to the fbi? would that be a crime? rob porter might he have lied to the fbi? would the fbi having picked up this information from his wives go back to rob porter as the subject of the investigation, ask him about that? but as a fact finder when john kelly is sitting there getting this information for the first time in the white house, this is not just information that the wives picked up through some unofficial channels. john kelly...

Security clearance and within a right to disregard the fact. the president can't change the fbi background process but he can choose to disregard the fbi's conclusions about whether somebody deserves security clearance and he has apparently chosen to do so with jared kushner. he's cleared him to see all manner of classified information up to and including the daily brief which is kind of amazing if you don't have a security clearance you're allowed to see the president presidents' daily. put yourself in his mind set. sure, he can't get a clear ranls. su sure, there are problems with the applic...