information and we passed that on, as well. that testimony given under oath is at odds with the white house spin. here s what raj shah and sarah huckabee sanders told reporters in recent days. his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on and interim security clearance. his clearance was never denied and he resigned. the process for the background was ongoing. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding did the completion of that background check. so fbi director christopher wray says the fbi investigation was completed last july. they followed up on it and briefed the white house again in november but the white house contends the investigation was, i love this phrase, ongoing. in other words, not done. today sarah sanders tried to explain that contradiction and said the fbi delivered is the report to the white house personnel security office which she said was a separate entity to the rest of the white house. let s watch.
investigations. and most of them do a lot to keep americans safe. well, director wray also said he s encouraged employees to ignore what they hear about the fbi on tv and specifically denied allegations of bias. senator, there s no shortage of opinions about our agency just like every other agency up here. i encourage our folks not to get too hung up what i consider to be the noise on tv and social media. so you haven t seen any evidence of some sort of inherent political bias in the agency? no. you know, let me go back to natasha. it seems trump has a strategy to trash anybody that will get the goods on him, trash the media, anybody that might bring facts forward. you want to do this? go for it. right, the fbi right now is investigating him for potential obstruction of justice. so they re the bad guys. he s framing them in a way that could undermine their
creditability. framing is the right word. this is probably going to play pretty well within the bureau largely just kind of director wray s ability to come out and say, there is no bias, there s nothing going on here because of course, when he did let mccabe go, that did not play well in the fbi. a lot of folks within the bureau were kind of annoyed how that went down and thought that mccabe did not deserve to be let go that way. the fact that now wray seems to be stepping up to the plate and defending the bureau is probably going to play very well within the ranks. mieke, the president of the united states is besides a political leader and the head of the executive branch, he s chief executive and commander in chief. he s chiefly he is in charge of our national defense. the top person. if he s not leading the effort to keep the russians out of our stuff, who will? well, this is exactly the question that the intelligence agency heads got asked today. who is leading the effort
you said yesterday that you didn t get any paperwork from the fbi. chris wray said that he did submit paperwork. 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. can you speak to did anyone at the white house personnel security office vfs conversations with the west wing about rob porter clearance between when the fbi started submitting interim reports. i m not aware of any communication. i can t say definitively. that splaks is in conflict with what sanders said yesterday when she told reporters the process doesn t operate within the white house but rather done by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. in terms of who knew what and when, the white house spent this week sowing is confusion. on friday, john kelly told nbc he found out the allegations against porter were true last
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