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White house counsel and to the chief of staff filtered through the fbi background process. it's a federal felony, a federal crime to make a material false statement in a matter that's within the jurisdiction of the executive branch. and a backgrounding exercise, where fbi agents go out and interview both someone who seeks a position and everyone involved in their background would be a qualifying proceeding. so for kelly to discount the stories that come from the wives and exgirlfriend, he would have to believe that they spoke to fbi agents during the background process or to fbi employees cond...

Crime to make a material false statement in a matter that's within the jurisdiction of the executive branch. and a backgrounding exercise where fbi agents go out and interview both someone who seeks 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. esse...

President's desk, that's, it's unfathomable. joyce vance, i want to go to reporting in "new york times" tonight. they are say mr. porter's case raised questions about what mr. kelly knew and when. 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 pape...

Our normal policy consistent with the policies of past administration administrations is to not comment on background checks. due to the nature and reports floating around we wanted to explain as best we can through our security limitations how the background process works and talk about rob porter and how his situation fits within that process. background investigation process is the process for evaluating allegations about a white house staffer's conduct prior to joining the white house. it's run by the federal law enforcement and intelligence communities. it's used throughout the u.s. gover...

Images. >> just answer one more thing. you talked about the fact that there weren't any concerns, you said, that could compromise national security or interfere with operations here at the white house. but we've spoken to one of porter's ex-wives who told us she warned the fbi that he could be susceptible to blackmail because of the allegations against him. >> i'm not going to get into the specifics of the investigation itself. i think that's a question for the fbi and others. this is not our process. this is the process the u.s. government uses across agencies and has existed over numerous ad...