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Boit bite in question. lindsey graham responding to the change in thenarrative and heres graham's response about what the white house needs to do differently. >> what kind of system do they have at the white house, when did general kelly know about mr. porter's allegation, but having said that, i'm a big supporter of general kelly. but i think for future reasons, we need to fully understand what happened here. i think it would serve the president well to stand up aggressively against domestic violence. >> reporter: and that has been the open question, when will the president position cohimself...

Investigation in late july. and yesterday when i was asking you about when the white house counsel learned about mr. porter, had he learned before the report in the "daily mail" last week, your reply was the process for the background was ongoing and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check. so those two statements, the fbi director's statement mr. wray and your statement yesterday seem to be at odds with one another. do you see anything that you would like to clarify in terms of what i asked you today based upon your answer yesterd...

It made you wonder what he saw that day when he was looking at frederica wilson and what he sees -- what did he see when he looked at rob porter. >> right, rob porter harvard gradua graduate, missionary, road scholar. you write this, you say is it that people like wilson, dreamers and porter's former wives never come into view for him. and i think this is an important question to ask. >> you have to wonder, does he see people and think that certain types of people, certain backgrounds who look a certain way matter more than others or have certain roles and if they are not in those roles he tak...

Will it became public for them to fire rob porter. >> we think it might be july, but let's say it was november. its february thousand. >> right. i agree that it was -- they had enough in july. no question that the information they had was credible and the only thing that changed their action was the publication of the pictures. it was because it became public. that is what always motivates them to act. it isn't because they are doing the right thin. i would never let anyone on an interim security clearance see any of the materials rob porter was seeing when he was subject to potential blackmai...

Set the situation could have been handed better. today the chief of staff said it was all done right. can you explain, does the white house think this rob porter situation could have sbahave be handled differently? >> i think every day we come here we do the very best that we can and every day we can come better than the day before and we'll continue to strive for that. we're humans making us imperfect people and so every day i think we can learn from the day before and we can strive to do better and that is our goal. certainly within our team and we'll continue to try to do everything we can ...