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Communications director. and is an important and valuable member of the staff. and she has done a great job in that role. steve? >> is there some exception regarding rob porter to another job at the time this all blew up? >> not that i'm aware of. i don't know the answer to that. jeff? >> the fbi said it was completed in late july. you said a follow-up required more field work on that. was that because something that rob porter said in response to that? the allegations weren't true or what required more field work follow-up? >> i wouldn't know the specifics. i can only refer you back to the pr...

>> regarding the completion of the background checks had not been received -- >> that's part of that process. that's run by career officials and we haven't received a recommendation from that office. >> had the fbi director today said under oath that the completed background investigation was submitted in late july, so which one is it? >> let me read this to you again. the white house security office received information last year in what they considered to be the final background investigation report in november. they had not made a final recommendation to the white house because the process ...

Investigations in the backlog. i think only about 330,000 of those are actual new investigations that are being requested. but you can see the monumental problem that they have just with the plmassive number of people o have to be cleared. >> so we just heard sarah huckabee sanders now trying to explain away why rob porter had still not been fired. she said there was a lot of field work to be country to follow up on some of the things that the fbi said. we don't know if she is telling the truth or not because you can't put your finger on to what the white house is saying these days. but how ha...

Regarding the completion of the background check had not been received. >> that is part of that process that the personnel security office plays run by career officials and we hadn't received a recommendation from that office. >> yet the fbi director said today under oath that the completed background je investigation was actually submitted in late july. >> let me read this to you again. the white house personnel security office staffed by career officials received information last year and what they considered to be the final background investigation report in november. but they had not made ...

Pentagon saying we need the force in syria to counter iran. the iranians are the real winners of the war in syria. we did a lot of field work. we did a lot of heavy lifting destroying isis. making syria safe for asad. this is the opposite of what happened the opposite what the obama administration wanted. they wanted to get rid of assad and didn't do anything. turkey now is targeting their traditional enemy. the kurds, we are supporting the kurds because the kurds were our heavy lifters. >> jon: the kurds have done so much to help the united states against isis, which obviously declared war on...