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Why didn't the chief of staff ask why his key man could not get a security clearance? what we now know is in a porter was given more responsibility, more power, a man who handled the country's most sensitive secrets with only an interim security clearance was also imagining his own. from the outside looking in, all signs point to a white house that has turned a blind eye to credible allegations of domestic abuse. did they hope it would never come out? that is not clear. but we know how these things work. they always come out. especially in this white house, especially with this president. >> y...

Understandable reasons, maybe people with extensive foreign contacts or business contacts that just have to be sorted through. maybe they are a little lower level. but with kushner, there is hardly anyone more senior. you would think by now he would have a full security clearance. he is also getting access to some of the most sensitive information. so it is a real mystery. theories, but real mystery as to why he of all these people doesn't have security. >> so what is the status at the white house? what are they saying about there controversy that is rapidly ballooning, where do they stand? >>...

Be alarm bell sooner. and when it was known that he was wasn't given full security clearance.bell sooner. and when it was known that he was wasn't given full security clearance. if we see another staff shakeup is the big question. multiple people here say the president doesn't really have an appetite for more drama within his white house. and so that may be the one thing that holds him back. even as he contemplates potential replacements for john kelly and potentially some other people involved in this matter. the one thing holding him back is that he wants to row jekprojs steady hship. >> and...

Sounded out with friends lately about the possibility on of mick mulvaney as a replacement, director of both of budget office and consumer financial affairs bureau. and it is a sign that the president once again is sort of thinking about what he wants to do. he even called reince priebus the last chief of staff he pushed out to talk about john kelly. priebus says that is not the case, but several people tell us that that was what happened. so on this is a tough time for john kelly. and a tough week for him. >> and obviously we don't know what donald trump will do until he does it with that gia...

But the security clearance is something that i think everybody across the political spectrum should be able to agree that you want people handling the highest classified top secret information to be able to pass an fbi background check and not be blackmailable, which this person clearly could not. >> what do you make of donald trump not mentioning the woman? >> i think he genuinely sees i think rob porter as the victim and doesn't think that what he did kind of matters one way or the other. and so, you know, i think that he sees a man accused of domestic violence and sees himself in that situa...