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Adviser and joe trippe. steve, you're looking at more than a week of this scandal. it seems at this point that john kelly being fired -- resigning is a real possibility. is that something that will help republicans politically or is it really too late to fully clean this up at this point? >> no, i don't think it's too late to clean up this mess. i think we need to hear from the president himself. he needs to come out and show real empathy for all victims of domestic abuse but specifically for the victims of rob porter to say they were taking them seriously and mistakes made in the process and ...

Conversation of rob port are last tuesday evening. then trey gowdy is asking for any policies and practices and procedures relating to the investigation and issuance of interim security clearances and whether it was consistent with the policies and also the dates when porter was given these various security clearances. so, there is now an official investigation. we have it on paper. sabrina, the significance? >> what this underscores is a lack of oversight within the white house when it comes to the security clearance process. and certainly that was what the house will focus on, less so on the...

Information. >> i think sometimes it is necessary to have some type of preliminary clearance in order to fill a slot, but i have publicly stated if that is the case, the access has to be limited in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive or not receive. so i think that's something that we have to do as a part of our security clearance review. the process is broken. it needs to be reformed. >> joining me now to talk about this, cnn legal and national security analyst, a former special agent at the fbi. and also with us, cnn national security analyst. one of the mai...

Think the really fair questions are what were you told, by whom were you told, did you have some reason to question what the bureau told you, and if none of that is true, why did you keep him on? so don is one person to ask, general kelly is one person to ask. there may be others to ask. those are the questions going through my mind. what did you know, when did you know it, to what extent were you told and did you have any reason in the world to doubt the information that was provided to you, because i can't think of what that reason would be. >> listen, those are great questions. you're the c...

The fact that the fbi had the information. i'm hearing that personnel security office works with the national security council along with white house personnel. so three groups that have information about those who are working in the white house or potential people who, president or senior staff may want to bring in. now, what i'm understanding is is that the fbi does its due diligence once the white house says this is who we want. and then it goes into issue where they present their findings and then the white house personnel office, this is what my sources are telling me, white house personn...