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To a job in the white house. this is a privilege. the issue is, what people do you want around the president of the united states who might be in a position to be moving classified information, even though they're exposed to potential, you know, compromised and blackmail outside of the office. >> so this is a good point. to peter's point about one of the standards for this, and to ali v.'s point, what is the -- what's acceptable in the white house and what's not, the fbi put a hold on porter's clearances. at that point, i mean, there are few things that should definitely raise red flags to the...

Spousal abuse. that is an enormous for obvious reasons red flag during a background check. today as you heard raj shah, he he repeatedly laid off responsibility for this in effect on the security clearance process. in fact, we went through the transcript and we counted 25 times that he said or referenced the security clearance process here. the way the process works, though, in fact, is while the fbi does therecommendation. applies that information to the white house and it's up to tt white house to grant that clearance. white house gave the interim clearance. it would have been up to the whit...

Nicolle, rob porter no longer works for this white house, that he resigned yesterday, terminated, not that he was fired, but that was the end of his time working for the white house. he came back to the white house as we understand to clear out his desk. as i understand it from aides behind the scenes he was told quickly to do that before geneva convention home. the bottom line, the question that remains unanswered is how it got to this place, how a year into this administration, a man who worked effectively right beside the president had this background that nobody seemed to be sufficiently a...

They do about it? >> i think this could be a problem for the chief of staff, general kelly. obviously this was an issue in his clearance applications, his wives were apparently interviewed. general kelly knew. he's got some kind of interim clearance. but if general kelly knew and it wasn't widely known and he protected him, i'm wondering what the reaction will be of people like, >> yeah, dana, you've been following this closely. go ahead. >> i was going to follow on gloria, or the president himself. if the president did not know about this, but john kelly apparently did because of the fbi back...

Asking trying to find out, what are the other meetings? the question ipt want to know. 100 other meetings. what are they? what else haven't they told us? >> does he have a problem, a security clearance, jared kushner? >> he does in the sense democrats demanding his interim clearance be revoked. in the end, this moves up the food chain and is really up to the president to decide who he wants around him and who should get security clearance or not. so -- i doubt that donald trump would actually say, well, i don't think jared kushner should have security clearance. i mean, everybody, the fbi does...