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Be leverage in future elections. and the past president had issued or authorized security clearance and held again for past administrations. so perhaps they thought they wouldnt repeat this pseudo mistake. >> youve done some investigation into jared kushner. he left it blank. and there have been other problems, meetings that hes had. for example, as he senior adviser. he deals with sensitive issues and blim, he reads the daily brief which is top secret. >> i dont know if he reads it. i will tell...

Again, shep, im told people in past administrations that something like this never would have passed muster for a security clearance and that that would have been made clear to the white house in a normal operating situation a long, long time ago, probably -- >> shepard: youre saying this is on the fbi, that the fbi didnt make it clear? >> im not saying that. im saying the white house is telling us they didnt hear anything from the fbi. whether they did and theyre not telling us, thats a questio...

Last week we went further than we ever have due to extenuating circumstances. theres nothing further to add. this is a process that doesnt operate within the white house. its handled by our law enforcement and intelligence community. we support that process. its the same process thats been used for decades in previous administrations and were relying on that process. its up to the same intelligence agencies to determine if changes need to be made to their process. >> if i may -- >> follow on tha...

The president instead accused the democrats of treason and so all the screaming headlines werent about the tax cuts they were about treason and the president accuses the democrats of treason. it seems he steps on his positive headlines everyday. >> if they were disciplined as past administrations would have a chief of staff in there to try to enforce that discipline and create that structure he would be zeroed in, laser focused on tax cuts right now talking about companies that are giving bonuse...

These things, hes a former white house chief of staff for george w. bush, served in the reagan and george h.w. bush administrations, as well. >> we talk about the job, this man has done it, and its not an easy one. andy, thank you again. president trump unveiling his $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan. emphasis on the plan. unclear where the dough is coming from. were going to hear from the president any moment and tell you which problegrams will be c to make this happen. and details from the r...

Administrations you would give a different degree of deference. we heard this president speak to the fact that, number one u he doesnt have faith in the judgment of a lot of these law enforcement officials, and shes shown a greater willingness to use classified information in more of a strategic sense, from a strategic declassifications or judgments that may not track the recommendations of his intelligence professionals but what he has deemed to be in the best interest of the nation. >> do you ...

Sources close to rachel brand who have said for months shes been unhappy in the job for two reasons. one is that they lack a lot of division heads. theres a lot of vacancies at the justice department that makes it hard for someone in her position and, most importantly, she was worried the president would fire rod rosenstein, number two, that would have put her in charge of mueller probe. theres a lot of political pressure there. shes well equipped to handle a lot of pressure. shes harvard educat...

Extenuating circumstances, and theres nothing further to add on that front. look, this is a process that isnt -- doesnt operate within the white house. its handled by our law enforcement and intelligence community. and we support that process. its the same process that has been used for decades for other and previous administrations. and were relying on that process at this point. i do think that its up to those same law enforcement and intelligence agencies to determine if changes need to be ma...

Few reasons. one, she feels unsupported. a lot of these divisions she oversees remain vacant. the senate has no the confirmed leaders there. a big reason is she was worried that the president would fire rod rosenstein, the number two, which would have put her in charge of overseeing the mueller investigation. shes been a lifelong lawyer. shes worked under many administrations, but she doesnt want to be in that political spotlight. she never has been before. >> let me ask you about the failure to...

Procedure other administrations have followed? >> absolutely not. every administration until this immediately was informed by the fbi. they couldnt get security clearances. and they got rid of those staff. andrea, heres the problem. lets be very honest. the white house counsel is a career party hack whose only experience was being the counsel to the federal elections commission. hed never run a process like this. he never dealt with the fbi. hed never done any of this stuff. so its not surprisin...