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Whole affair which is serious congressional oversight. this is a situation when congress should really step up. and of course under republican leadership, that is not happening. so, yeah, the fbi director will appear before congress. but there need to be serious oversight hears regarding the clearance process and certainly looking into what exactly happened in this white house. >> matt miller, what are the answers to the president's questions of what do we do and what's going to happen next? >> the best thing for him to do would be to come clean, to come out and say exactly when officials in t...

Do expect to release a report on election security before next month. along with a review of just how extensive russia's meddling has been in the elections that went by in 2016. >> pretty amazing reporting. thank you very much. senator, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> i'll get to russia in a moment but first i want your reaction to the white house handling of the entire rob porter allegations. you know the chief of staff john kelly told the "wall street journal" that it was all done right. his words. it was all double right. do you think it was all done right the way the w...

Dan coats, the director of national intelligence, you admire him. you like him. he specifically said if you only have interim clearance, not full clearance, should you only have access to limited information. the presidential daily brief is not limited information. so do you think jared kushner should have access to the presidential daily brief? >> i'm not totally clear with what level of even interim clearance he has. i agree, if you don't have clearance to see information, if you have limited clearance, you can only see either information of a limited sort or for a limited time. the clearanc...

There's only one reason why i assume there was a problem with the file. >> so i take it that's not a legit excuse. porter was among this group of 30 to 40 staffers who still don't have clearance, including jared kushner who handles highly classified information. dan coates, director of national intelligence said that the clearance process is broken. >> i think sometimes it is necessary to have some type of preliminary clearance in order to fill a slot. if that's the case the access has to be limited in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive or

Have been nominated for various jobs, who put their lives basically on hold for six or eight months and still haven't had the full clearance they have to have. we have to do something to make process work better. but we have to also really respect and appreciate the clearance process before people have access to the type of documents that you should only have access to when you're cleared. the white house. in first year, clearly a lot of on-the-job training was going on. i hope the second year takes this better. i also hope they get more help from the bureaucracy and the agencies of government...