Because it was obvious to anyone paying attention that this was a real discrepancy. Democrat ron wyden asking about what the white house knew regarding porters security clearance. Director wray spelled out when they knew it. Heres exactly what he said. The fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. And then a completed Background Investigation in late july. That soon there after we received requests for follow up inquiry. And we did the followup. And provided that information in november. And we administratively closed the file in january. And then earlier this month, we received some Additional Information and we passed that on as well. So kristen there is a lot to digest in there. Most notably, the white house, according to director wray, knew about this months before they had publicly acknowledged. Walk us through why this is so important. It is significant, peter, its a direct contradiction. The white house has been saying that they first learned of a
Some are using the episode to settle scores against chief of staff john kelly, and recirculating his various missteps to build a public case for his incompetence. Others are point ing fingers at don mcgahn, white house counsel, natural recipient of information about a completed background keck check in normal white house. The president s do podium to ded it. Christopher wray said it was closed in january, whos telling the truth here . Both. As i said, the fbi portion was closed. The White House Personnel Security Office, who is the one that makes a recommendation for adjudicati adjudication, had not finished their not made a recommendation to the white house. Let me just clarify one more point, you said yesterday that you didnt get any paperwork from the fbi. Chris wray said you did see the paperwork, the various again, that would come through the White House Personnel Security Office which had not completed their investigation and not passed that information to the white house. Do you
Party threw absolutely everything at last nights special election in an effort to keep a deep red district from turning blue. And they failed. Pennsylvanias 18th district is in the heart of what we like to call trump country. The kind of place reporters would go to write their profiles of the working class donors, assembling at diners rallying behind the president a rust Belt Community where nearly 94 of the population is white. Donald trump won the district by nearly 20 points, a huge margin. When he campaigned there saturday on behalf of republican candidate rick saccone, trump came with a message, these are my people. They love me. Because of me, you will win. Theyre all watching. Because i won this district like by 22 points. Thats a lot. Thats why im here. Look at all those red hats, rick. Look at all those hats. Thats a lot of hats. And we just had a poll were more popular now than we were on election day. There should win easily. And hes going to win easily. Hes going to win eas
Afternoon that the president s personal Attorney Michael Cohen used his Trump Company email as he made arrangements to pay daniels the 130,000 for her silence. Nbc news reporting, quote, an email uncovered in the last 24 hours and provided to nbc news by cliffords current attorney shows first public bank and cohen communicated with the money using his Trump Company email address, not his personal gmail account. The significance he says, quote, i think this document seriously calls into question the prior representation of mr. Cohen and the white house relating to the source of the moneys paid to ms. Clifford in an effort to silence her. While our reporting doesnt tell us where the money came from, nbc can report, quote, according to a 2017 Financial Disclosure form, trump has a Checking Account at First Republic with between 15 and 50,000 in it at the time of disclosure. Though there is no indication that account is connected to the clifford payment. He appeared on our air earlier this
Nbc news reporting, quote, an email uncovered in the last 24 hours and provided to nbc news by cliffords current attorney shows first public bank and cohen communicated with the money using his Trump Company email address, not his personal gmail account. The significance he says, quote, i think this document seriously calls into question the prior representation of mr. Cohen and the white house relating to the source of the moneys paid to ms. Clifford in an effort to silence her. While our reporting doesnt tell us where the money came from, nbc can report, quote, according to a 2017 Financial Disclosure form, trump has a Checking Account at First Republic with between 15 and 50,000 in it at the time of disclosure. Though there is no indication that account is connected to the clifford payment. He appeared on our air earlier this afternoon with andrea mitchell. Where do you think the money came from . Do you think it came ultimately from Michael Cohens personal money or did it come from