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Go ongoing process. >> i think the answer to your question, though, is that it's been -- there has been the moving of the goal line on this one. and the facts keep evolving and what they needed to do early on was just put this one to bed and explain themselves more clearly at the outset. >> yeah, gloria, to your point, it is important to remember, cnn's reporting is that kelly and mcgahn knew about some of these issues with porter long before last week. >> in the fall. >> so, the white house to blame this on the white house personnel security office, again, it just -- >> i don't know that they...

It's pretty clooer that the stories still aren't straight at the white house. today, as we mentioned, press secretary sarah sanders pointed in a new direction, a white house so obscure, few people have heard of it before. >> the fbi portion was closed, the white house personnel security office, who is the one that makes a recommendation for adjudication, had not finished their process and therefore not made a recommendation to the white house. >> joining me now to plow threw the timelines, james schultz, former white house counsel, fill mudd, and cnn's gloria borger. phil, you used to work for...

Honest mistake when you're purposely putting out information that you know to be false. >> offensive comments like that have stirred tensions with the press corps. some days you can see the frustration on their faces. >> that doesn't answer the question. you think that's an accurate statement? >> it wasn't confusing to me, i'm sorry if it was for you. >> sanders might not know what the president will say or tweet next, so, deflection is an all too frequent solution. last week. >> has he seen the photos? >> i don't know. >> later, aides said trump was disgusted by the photos. sanders can be com...

Information last year and what they considered to be the final background investigation report in november. but they had not made a final recommendation for adjudication to the white house because the process was still ongoing when porter resigned. in the view of personnel security office, the fbi's july report required significant additional investigatory field work before personnel security office could begin to evaluate the information for adjudication. we find those statements to be consistent with one another. >> all right. just keeping them honest, those statements are not consistent wit...

We care because people who have possible business conflicts of interest, people in rob porter's case who could be blackmailed to use their influence. these are people without clearances who are working on some of the biggest issues including the first summit. >> the security clearance process is far from perfect but the security process gives the u.s. government an opportunity to look at people's backgrounds, understand their suitability, their trustworthiness and the opportunity that an adversary might have to blackmail those people to know whether or not they are likely to keep these sensiti...