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Of a profile. >> that's true. former officials previous administrations make the point that even if the white house personnel security office was alerted that there might be some sort of flag in a staffer's background, that the white house counsel would have been made aware of that. don mcgahn has a lot of questions to answer because he certainly played a critical role, we assume, in zblauftsds joe haguen is the white house deputy chief of staff for operations under president trump. if you not heard his name before. i also wonder, jeff, if it has anything to do with the russia investigation an...

He's only 37 years old. is anybody in the white house or the security community saying that this shouldn't take this long or raising real flags that maybe he is not able to get a permanent security clearance? they're going to let this hang in limbo? >> there certainly s. a lot of times what happens is a periodic renewal. but after a while there are certain clearances they keep raising red flags. jared kushner given what jeff said and what you just said, because of his background, his professional background, he's one of those people who ostensibly would raise red flags by the nature of his wor...

A new detail added to it. and folks who study crisis management will tell you that's not the way for a white house to deal with this issue. frankly, there are many people who say this is an issue of the white house's own making for not having dealt with the rob porter issue before it went public. but it sort of snow balled. >> jeff, when i talk to folks about what's going on in the white house, the fingers keep pointing at john kelly. most of the fingers are pointing at john kelly. some are pointing at joe haguen. very few are pointing at don mcgahn, the white house lawyer who ostensibly -- wh...

>> but once again, donald trump, the president of the united states, did not. >> mr. president did your staff handle the report of the allegations properly? >> thank you, everyone. >> is general kelly's job safe. >> thank you all very much. >> no answer. it's worth noting it has been seven days, seven days since the public became aware of the allegations of domestic abuse against former white house aide rob porter. seven days after we saw this picture of porter's ex-wife and the one time he spoke about porter was to give him an on-camera job reference. in this moment when women all over the wo...

Where where we we'll see a briefing in an hour. ashley parker is a report for "the washington post" and nbc political analyst. and maria, a former department chief of staff. jeff, the white house briefing was supposed to be at 1:00 p.m. today, then 2:30, now it's at 3:30. but on the issue of security clearances which with this porter story has exposed. i'm told one person with direct knowledge of the process there are a lot of next to in the white house that have interim clearances but are still handling sensitive information. what are you hearing? >> that's right. we're told 30 to 40 white ho...