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Campaign. >> for good reason, the media has used this story to undermine the legitimacy of donald trump and he pushes back against that. there's two schools of thought how you handle this, this disinformation campaign, one is to hype it, play into it let russia create chaos and confusion and the other is to dun play -- down play it. donald trump takes the down play approach. the media takes the fall right into russia's hands and hype it approach. >> let me turn to one more subject. that is the rob porter case. after days of shifting explanations about the firing of him, fbi chief says his bure...

This administration. >> that's right. i spent much of the week talking to people who are familiar with the clearance process and as its worked under previous presidents. everybody that i talked to expressed amazement that such things as the rob porter case could slip through because there have been processes set up very detailed processes for that kind of information getting from the fbi to the security office at the white house and on to the more senior aides and the counsel's office and senior staff office. the memo that general kelly put out acknowledges that they need to do better and says...

Allegations about him and his campaign. >> for good reason, the media has used this story to undermine the legitimacy of donald trump and he pushes back against that. there's two schools of thought how you handle this, this disinformation campaign, one is to hype it, play into it let russia create chaos and confusion and the other is to dun play -- down play it. donald trump takes the down play approach. the media takes the fall right into russia's hands and hype it approach. >> let me turn to one more subject. that is the rob porter case. after days of shifting explanations about the firing o...

>> one of the things i felt all along in this, let's not jump to conclusions and let's wait. your previous guest said, mueller is moving fast. i've always felt we ought to just wait for mueller like -- instead of what we hear from various politicians in congress. we should wait for the inspector general from the justice department to find out what the fbi and the fisa warrant, what they did wrong, what they didn't do wrong, what these two fbi officials, page and strzok did or didn't do. let's not jump to conclusions. >> shepard: no one is jumping. we're trying to figure out what we know and wh...

Changing stories about who knew what when, what acted when. you openly had members of the white house staff saying that john kelly, the chief of staff, was putting out a false story line that seemed to indicate that he acted much more proactively than in fact according to these people he did act and getting rid of rob porter to a certain degree and it's a horrible way in which it's happened, because of the school shooting in florida, that has taken some of the attention away and the heat away from that story. so we'll see where that picks up next week. you know, clearly this is a white house t...