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As chief of staff. he was kelly's right-hand man, he helped control flow of information to the president. he was a frequent presence at trump's side. he was on his asia trip. he's someone who helped craft the state of the union and a lot of people in the white house who feel like the policy roll-out has improved in recent months give portary lot of credit. this is yet another moment where someone who has been given a vital role in this white house, someone who the american people of course are entrusting to do the country's business, comes in with all of these questions and seemed to have been...

You have two potential ethical violation questions here. the first is what did they know, when did they know it? why didn't they do anything about it? and the second is the situation with hope hicks and the fact that she was involved in crafting this statement and inn defense of a man who she was in a relationship with. and this is just the latest example on the pile of ethics questions swirling around this white house. >> so jonathan lamere, it doesn't seem like their screening process, their standards in terms of quality of people that they hire, is even halfway up to par. >> yeah and instea...

The question is, why was nothing done or addressed about this situation prior to this week? >> heidi, what are you hearing? what was the story behind this? how did this man sit outside the oval office, as long as he did, without somebody flags these past domestic abuse charges and flagging the fact that he couldn't get the top security clearance? >> well the strong piece of information is that somebody did know, for all of the reasons you outlined, that this is exactly the type of information that was given to the fbi in the course of the screening process and that would be very hard to believ...

Up, you know, big time, and be prepared. and i think people that are out here are prepared. and the reason people come here is because it's this amazing ritual that we all need, especially after a 2017. we need a reboot to say, hey, let's put behind us what we don't like about last year and let's start with a new beginning. >> reporter: so, they're expecting somewhere between a million and 2 million people to come down here tonight. i asked him, does he think the weather's going to hold that number down? he said he's not really sure. this is something people want to be at. they like to celebra...

Numbers. and you have some company, according to aaa, 107 million people the last week of 2017 making it the busiest holiday season for travel on record. if you bought a plane ticket it was a little less expensive because holiday airfare is 20% cheaper this year than last week if you plan to bring presents for your loved ones plan ahead. packages that are flagged during the screening process, tsa agents will unwrap your gifts if they don't think something is right. if you're hitting the road traffic is expected to be busy today. looking at security line things are moving along fine but lots of...