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It doesn't -- there is no difference between administrations when you come in from one they rerun it. the reason they grant them for five years it's a very extensive background where they check your contacts, your places of residence, your employment, they go out into the field and do a lot of that work and you are required to maintain updates to that clearance. they readjudicate every five years. that occurred in this case and now the department of defense inspector general is looking into it. >> congressman cummings accuses this white house of a coverup. you say what? >> i say that's -- i wa...

>> yeah, so we've heard about this form, this sf-86, and mr. spicer is absolutely right, that is something you fill out once, and then every five years there's a periodic investigation. however, that does not mean that between those dates you are required to disclose foreign travel, foreign contact, so on and so forth. in fact, security audits, as it were, is a continuous process. they're constantly looking for what's known as derogatory information. so my concern is while sean spicer is right in terms of the timeline and the clearance bei granted under the obama administration, what i would l...

Clearance, that sf-86 form in january of 2016. and publicly he became associated with trump in february of 2016. but i think he probably just was up on that five-year deadline. if he had renewed it in january of 2016, then it's very -- it is likely that the nsc, the white house, the defense department would not have made him do a full sf-86. it's a real pain in the ass, excuse my french. you have to mention every country you've been to and all your foreign contacts and american contacts too. people have to give references and make sure, again, that you can be trusted. okay. so once you do that...

Major? >> follow up on a couple things brought up. john's question, not the process, but your own vettings, meaning the transition, are you satisfied that that met the standard that should have been with michael flynn and any regrets that this white house has about bringing him in, knowing what you know about him now, seeing the behavior that would be plainly inconsistent with the standard that candidate trump set during the campaign. >> you're saying our process. the process is every government employee is eligible for a clearance goes through the same process. so it's not -- we don't have a ...

On all of those. that's a big lift? >> the one interest that president will fight for are the american people and american worker. he made his campaign about putting america first and he will fight hard. his special interest is the american people and making sure whether it's putting more money in their pocket orring may sure economic growth leads to more jobs and greater manufacturing that's the one interest he's fighting for every day. so we'll do battle with whoever we have to achieve a greater outcome for americans and american workers. >> general flynn -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> to general f...