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Interim clearance over this period of time. now, clearly there is also heat on john kelly, chief of staff. and part of what he has responded with is an internal memo to staff, but internal knowing it would become public. so the message is not only for those who work in the white house but in effect a press statement to us as well n. part it says, i want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously. we understand the shock, pain and confusion that these allegations have caused in our wo workplace. it's important for me to tell you, you are not alone. the shock in the...

Thank you. i'm joined by chairman of the american conservative union, full disclosure, his wife is senior communications adviser to the president. your group obviously works a lot with this white house on policy and you work with the personnel. >> and i know the people involved. >> yeah, you do. when these allegations came to light apparently long ago at the white house, should rob porter have been immediately dismissed? >> i think there's two questions here. when you go to work for the president as i have done, they do a full fbi background check on you. they're what's called raw reports. rem...

Critical deadline coming up that affects hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants in this country. the capitol hill scramble by the way adding to jitters on wall street. dow is up check it out 270 this morning after another freefall yesterday. the two largest point drops ever in just one week. we're going to get into why with some of our cnbc colleagues in a minute. but first i want to start with the drama at the white house and what has become a reality show there at the moment. nbc's kelly o'donnell is there. kelly, there are new questions this morning about what the president's inne...

Of clearance. that made them encounter the ex-wives of rob porter, the now departed from the white house staff secretary. why this matters is that the white house is saying that they only fully knew the issue once the story became public through a publication with a photo showing black eyes on porter's first wife who said that he caused that injury and that that made them fully aware. but new reporting says that they had big signals along the way. let me read you just a clip from "the washington post" here that expounds on this. white house counsel donald mcgahn knew one year ago that staff se...