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House legislative director marc short. mr. short, welcome back to "meet the press." >> chuck, thanks for having me back. >> as vice president pence and others have said that the white house could have handled this rob porter situation better, what were some of the missteps now that you can outline here that you hope to correct? >> well, let's put things in perspective. i think that rob is a friend to many of us in the administration. rob is somebody who is a rhodes scholar, is a harvard-educated guy. he did a great job as secretary, but there can be no tolerance for domestic abuse, no toleranc...

Topic. the nunes memo will be a topic. and also the clearance process, as you mentioned. there is no shortage of topics even before you get to russia and china and the worldwide threats. they're supposed to talk about. >> malcolm, the democrats, and this is with the house intel committee. we're listening to the senate today. have not been able to get permission to release their memo that they say provides the necessary context for the republican memo written by nunes and his staff defending the fbi's actions. this of course is a strange world we're in. where democrats on the house intel commit...

Essentially you have covering up domestic abuse and hiring that person and putting them in place despite the allegations. but you also have someone working with highly classified information that doesn't have the proper clearance. it is two wrapped up in a nice little bow. but it is also i think essentially what this trump white house is about. they put a domestic abuser in there because the fish rots on the head, as they say. >> so, rick, what is happening to john kelly's credibility? how are the dominoes falling internally? >> well, look, john kelly has an extremely difficult job. we have kn...

And the norm in this country is that people like you and fill out our background forms and the fbi determines whether or not we are a blackmail risk to the united states of america. it seems that as of today, jared kushner has not passed that test yet. >> well, you're right, nicolle, he's played a seminal role in foreign policy, the face and voice of the white house and that's parent, obvioimportant, . what this means is he can't see top-secret information. he has a secret clearance still. he's not completely hobbled. as you say, what this does is signals that general kehl willy imposing a dis...

Was told earlier in the fall about these problems with rob porter getting his security clearance. apparently porter told mcgahn that the fbi brought these domestic violence allegations up in his fbi interview as a part of his clearance process. now, jennifer willoughby, the second ex-wife on television talking more about this publicly. here is what she said to say about the interactions she's had with rob porter since their marriage ended. >> another thing that he wanted me to say was that i had taken some liberties with this their pewter post, which it was for me,i had taken liberties with th...