We’re going to bring you some more details about this shortly. But the White House’s position on the Porter background check was that it was an on-going process, so in key ways out of their hands. FBI Director Christopher Wray just confirmed that that is not true – that the check was mainly completed last year and that the file was officially closed in January, before any of the scandal broke. Here’s Dana Bash explaining.
Trump's handpicked FBI Director flatly contradicts White House story on Porter background check. Dana Bash explains. pic.twitter.com/N2g3lnSD2T
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 13, 2018
As Bash notes, it was on the calendar that Wray would be testifying in a public setting. So all but certain he’d be asked about this and presumably wouldn’t lie, in an easily impeachable fashion, on their behalf.