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Authority or what authority. >> back now with our panel, joining us at the table, carrie cordero, jen sauk ki, and mike shields. mike, for this white house, i mean hope hicks as we've been saying was about as close to the president as anybody. >> yeah, she goes back -- pre-dates everyone on the campaign and worked for the trump family before she got involved in this. sort of a unique person in that regard because she wasn't political. my guess is she will continue to be close to the president. i think this is like a family member and so whatever she's going to do after this, she'll still be a ...

>> back now with our panel, joining us at the table, carrie cordero, jen psaki, and mike shields. mike, for this white house, i mean hope hicks as we've been saying was about as close to the president as anybody. >> yeah, she goes back -- pre-dates everyone on the campaign and worked for the trump family before she got involved in this. sort of a unique person in that regard because she wasn't political. my guess is she will continue to be close to the president. i think this is like a family member and so whatever she's going to do after this, she'll still be a close confidant. she'll probabl...

Forbids local authorities from asking about immigration status. this was back in december so it would seem that the president is putting it to jerry brown. i'm going to take away your ice agents or you undo that law. >> dana: right. if the president is spit ballinblowing ideas told by chif counsel actually sir you are not allowed to do that it doesn't necessarily matter from a communications standpoint he is trying to make his case. can constantly go back and said i would have taken them out of there. they deserves it i had to keep them. in becomes rhetorical device. it does send a strong mess...

Security issues. they kept on michael flynn for two weeks after sally yates came and told them he was a national security risk. they've been cavalier about filling out their sf-86. they don't seem to think it's a big problem to omit things. so i think that they believe that this process is an annoyance and not something that's actually there to protect the country. >> jason, just from a communications standpoint, we are now in week two of this story. had they handled this directly and forthrightly early on, i don't know that we would still be here talking about this. and chris wray coming forw...

And the whole point of conducting these background checks is to determine whether the people who have access to the most sensitive information are trustworthy, have good judgment, have good moral character. you go through training as an fbi agent on how to ask the right questions to suss these things out. this is clearly something that would have come to the surface in a background check. but anderson, remember that this is an administration that hasn't been hypervigilant about security issues. they kept on michael flynn for two weeks after sally yates came and told them he was a national secu...