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Else's clearance, and then you have to deal with the problematic ones. questions about kushner and his clearance and definitely porter. and what is happening with the other clearances. >> can they just allow people to continue to work on temporary security clearances that they give out? >> yes they can. this is ultimately the president's decision. if the president says i want this guy to see classified information, he can do it. he can declassify, he doesn't even have to. he can give them classified information and it is not a crime. >> mcgahn knew about this information with rob porter in at ...

Was any allegations of any sort that was ever leveled against porter? >> again, i am not going into the specific details of how the process works but we learned of the extent of the situation -- >> who is we? >> the white house generally. again, i can tell you that the process for the background was ongoing. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check. >> okay. so she switches when asked about the white house counsel to speak generally about people in the white house saying we. and then she claims that the background check was stil...

That is not actually true. jim acosta was at the briefing today and he joins us now. it seems like we still don't have a time line from the white house. >> reporter: they are not giving straight answers at these briefings and we saw that again today. you heard sarah sanders that we warrant aware of the extent of what porter was accused of until s tuesday night. anderson, we have known for months, or we know they knew for months that this was lurking in rob porter's background that he was having background check problems in the security check problems and until the white house acknowledges that...

Somehow entered the transition, as someone who continued crimes. and someone brought him into the white house. what i would want to know is who brought rob porter into the white house at the beginning. who brought him into the transition. and senator hatch should be figuring out who brought him in. this is problematic. and i don't think it was good that porter resigned. when you have such overwhelming evidence, someone like that should have been fired. >> the president has no problem speaking directly to the american people via twitter. why does he need to be issuing that statement that he did...

The president has not said those words himself. instead he has tweeted suspicion over the "me too" movement and defended rob porter, the former aide accused of assaulting his two ex-wives. porter has denied the allegations against him. the question tonight, will the women who supported the president at the polls now walk away? here's what our randi kaye found out. >> if the president walked on water, the press would say he doesn't know how to swim. he's become a little bit, i guess, overcriticized. >> reporter: these republican women from miami all support president trump. and to say strongly ...