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Son-in-law and senior adviser. this is a serious situation. you have general kelly under pressure from fallout from the rob porter scandal trying to adjust the security process inside the white house, working with the white house counsel, don mcgahn they're working on this five-page memo. which "the washington post" obtained. they're trying to get a grasp of who has access to classified documents inside this white house to try to specify. if you have an interim clearance, they're trying to clarify how long are you able to keep that, what's the process for doing so? it was spelled out today. th...

>> if you're operating under an interim clearance, it would be illegal. >> but he never, but he's permanently compelled to keep that secret. >> he should be but this is why we have clearances to test people's honesty, reliability and trust worriedness. clearly porter doesn't meet those standards never will be cleared. thank you, carol lee, chris lu. up next, breaking news on the russian probe. we're learning tonight steve bannon spent 20 hours being grilled by robert mueller. today he was back on capitol hill, dodging questions on the house intel committee. that committee's not worth meeting w...

In those agencies. and we began running the numbers. our initial headline was more than 130. it's actually 135 officials have been operating at an least as of last november with some form of interim clearance. there might will be a number of reasons why is an official would be operating on an interim clearance while investigation continues. even our own reporting up till yesterday was that number was much lower. perhaps only 30 and 40. and the white house in explaining even that number said this is possibly an issue of a backlog. it's true. we spoke with officials from other administrations wh...

As of last november, but walk us through what you found. >> well, thanks for having me on, brian. we've spent, my colleagues, carol lee, kristin welker, rich and myself, the better part of today really sifting through what is a lot of raw information in these documents that we have obtained and, brian, as somebody who is, of course, covered the white house yourself, you're well aware of the different distinctions in terms of the different divisions of the white house and also the different tiers of classification. the big headline was that number, 130 out of more than 500 officials within the ...

Information in this documents. as somebody who's covered the white house yourself, you're well aware of the different distinctions both in terms of the different divisions of the white house and also the different tiers of classification. the big headline was that number, 130 out of more than 500 officials within the constellation of offices and agencies within the office, the executive office of the president, are operating as of last november with some sort of interim clearance. and that's significant on its own because even our own reporting up until today indicated the number was much lowe...