investigation runs it s course. maybe you can join the administration in a different capacity at a different time, but it is very high risk to have brought him in. and the president keeps repeating that he was cleared by president obama for the highest possible security clearance referring to the fact that the previous year he renewed as retired general renewed his military security clearance. those are apples and oranges. when we would vet someone for a senior position, assistant secretary or a white house official, whatith we would first do is start our extensive vetting investigation where we would ask every question imaginable of the potential candidate. at the very end of that process, after we had independently decided that the individual was suitable and, you know, had the right judgment, temperament, and didn t have any issues, we would