past. it is the most difficult job as a reporter to ask parents why. but now they have credible reasons to question the fbi and you will remember, we will talk some more about this, but some instances of the fbi missing things in the job they have. pete: your government is going to make mistakes. you can t always count on the authorities to get it right. rachel: turn now to some of your headlines. chief of staff john kelly ordering an overhaul of the white house security clearance process. kelly outlining the changes in a memo to staff saying we must do better among the changes asking for the fbi to notify the white house about any issues and background checks within 48 hours. limiting access to classified information with people for people with temporary clearances and frequent status reports on pending background checks. this comes after criticism over former staff rob porter who had a top clearance despite domestic abuse allegations.
and when they write books that are fairly recently released and they say wonderful things about him and all of a sudden now they re saying these horrible things about him, it s very sad. because he s a very good person. i ve always found him to be just a very, very good person. penny, do you think the reason why he doesn t mention the women is because if he were to, it opens a big old can of worms? i think that s part of it. also this is a person, to tara s point, that he doesn t have it in his own chromosome. this is a man when confronted with his own words on a tape talking about abusing women said that s not me. his first instinct is always to defend the male and give no credence whatsoever. it was not only a failing of him. i do believe it starts from the top down but john kelly. john kelly knew what was in those fbi reports, knew he was not going to be able to get top
they need to do to button up potential leaks that could come out about things that have already taken place. so, yeah, that is under way and i think we may see that, the changes materialize when the president gets back from this foreign trip. but, you know, it is interesting, i mean, we don t know exactly what they re looking at as it pertains to jared kushner but we do know throughout the transition period, he was pretty much the guy in charge. sure, mike pence was ostensibly leading the transition, but jared kushner was the guy you called at trump tower if you wanted a job, if you wanted a meeting. he was the point person on this transition. and we also know that he did not disclose some of the meetings he had with the russian ambassador kislyak during the transition at trump tower on his social secret service clearance form when he submitted that. so he has a top clearance, didn t submit all these things and it just sort of fits this pattern of folks in and around this administrat
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is it necessary to issue a subpoena? well, we ll see. reporter: and a rejection of his offer to testify in exchange for immunity. is there any way you give him immunity? no. reporter: no way? no. reporter: alleged privately that mr. flynn could have been subject to blackmail by the russians. lindsay graham saying earlier today he does plan to ask sally yates about that allegation and we ll see did she says anything publicly about that issue. erin? thank you very much, manu. jim sciutto is out front in washington. here s the thing. when people wonder how significant this is, right? he had to fill out these forms in order to get top clearance,