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When they bring us before, we'll talk to you. >> don't hold your breath then you probably won't be here. >> we're optimists over here. we'll see what happens. dr. ronnie jackson now former va nominee. the president is blaming democrats wu is this partisan issue or a vetting problem inside the white house.
That was allowed to hang out for enough days to attract more allegations as it did tonight? >> clearly, brian, there's a vetting problem in the white house if the allegations are coming to late and were not known to the white house before president trump tweeted that he would be the nominee to head the department of affairs. sarah sanders said there were four separate background checks. and at one point used the phrase vetting. did not detail what it was entailed. one conducted by the fbi, unclear if most or all of them took place before jackson was nominated for the v. a. it is likely he woul...
>> well, clearly, brian, there is a vetting problem in the white house if these allegations about dr. jackson are just now coming to light and were not known to the white house before president trump tweeted that he would be the nominee to head the department of veteran affairs. sarah sanders said at the briefing this afternoon that there had been four separate background checks, investigations. at one point she used the phrase vegt on jackson. but she did not detail what those entailed. she said one of them was conducted by the fbi. it's unclear whether all of them or most of them took place ...
Serious vetting problem? >> well, they do. they are not carefully vetting. in fact conversations i've had with my republican colleagues are that we have to double down on the investigate that we do on the committee level here because people are coming over with such poor investigation beforehand about the issues that might appear here in the senate. so it certainly slows everything down. they need to get the white house team into shape, really do the job up front before they send people over. >> does it give you pause, though? look, we know many top members of the obama administration praised ...
Cannot say i'm surprised, i expected a woman to do better. siting conway's statement that she is not concerned about white house communications director hope hicks who was in a relationship with porter. >> i'm sorry for any suffering this woman has endured, but in the case of hope, i rarely met somebody so strong with such excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts. >> her statement implies those who have been in abusive relationships are not strong. this, as the white house continues to insist that senior officials only learned about the, quote, extent of the allegations last tuesday. cnn has...