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good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, january 14th. i'm boris sanchez or as amara called me earlier, sorbi. >> i think i said sorez. close enough. >> i like that better. sounds like a dinosaur. >> a mixture of sorry and boris. are you my boris saurus, sound like a dinosaur. welcome, everyone. thanks for being with us. appreciate your starting your morning with us. >> great to be with you as always. we begin in the southeastern united states where recovery efforts are under way after severe storms killed at least nine people thursday night in alabama and...

Meeting, and it was in the second meeting that he just raised the question of essentially why is this an issue for the department of justice if one white house official lies to another? >> okay. i don't understand why he didn't understand that. >> i'm not sure i can help of you with that, senator. >> this is -- general flynn after that for 18 days stayed there and one classified thing after another. there are moll sis that deal with who gets clearance, security clearance and not. executive order 12986 outlines the rules for security clearances, and it says that when there's a credible allegati...

Clearance holders should always demonstrate trust worthiness, honesty, reliability, discretion, and sound judgment as well as freedom from allegiances and potential for coercion. is that right? and yet the white house counsel did not understand why the department of justice was concerned? >> well, to be fair to mr. mcgann, i think the issue that he raised, that he wasn't clear on why we cared that michael flynn had lied to the vice president and others. >> i think that's so clear. i can't, and the president had told, president obama had told the incoming president-elect two days after the elec...