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holding republicans accountable. the audacious effort that one group is taking to make sure that some election deniers never work again. then the trumps must testify. new details on the order -- of the civil investigation and president bidens efforts to reform police system, two years on after george floyds death. i am ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. >> one of the most important features of a healthy democracy is holding officials who do wrong accountable. this week, there have been...

>> good to be with you. >> coming up this hour of ayman, holding republicans accountable. the audacious effort that one group is taking to make sure that some election deniers never work again. then the trumps must testify. new details on the order -- of the civil investigation and president bidens efforts to reform police system, two years on after george floyds death. i am ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. >> one of the most important features of a healthy democracy is holding offic...

Personal meanings on the sidelines of state business? >> so, like any other conduct, it would depend upon that there was some sort of fraud, as some sort of unjust enrichment here that they were engaged. it would be a conduct specific inquiry. but, something that i think weve all forgotten at this point is what it felt like in the early days of the trump administration when the hits kept coming, when we learned that there is both criminality and misconduct. im reminded that kushner could not pas...

A larger vocabulary. >> you painted a picture of this sort of discrepancy between how they pitched themselves to anyone that will still take the lines and the bs, and what they actually do inside the west wing. does any of this ring true to you? >> i think the distinction i will make is i dont think they went in there trying to be the moderating voices that everyone expected them to be. they know their father and father-in-law better than anybody and they know their ability to actually do anythi...

Tradition. i dont know if its illegal but its not the traditional way phone calls and texts and what exchanges are recorded in terms of collecting all of that information for the purposes of protecting american interests in terms of communicating with foreign adversaries. >> sure. jared kushner always existed outside of the normal white house process, the great frustration of the former white house chief of staff john kelly, who tried to rein it in. its the porter incident that triggered major q...

There. it may simply be that he was trying to encourage them that -- to tell what he remembers is the truth. remember this is how it happened. weve got pictures. we were friends. you need to help support that story and refute these false allegations. thats a different matter. theres two problems with that though. one is that candidates are often told dont work on your own investigation, you know, a person who represents himself has a fool for a client. let us, the professionals at the white hous...

Accusation from decades ago could completely unravel someones life. and that essentially isnt fair. and i think what both sides have to do is try and get to the truth in expedient manner. you cant necessarily delay this for political gain because that will ultimately hurt democrats. >> melissa: maria, is it fair to come forward with this type of accusation and not follow through? >> >> maria: i think she is trying to find a way to follow through the death athletics the fact that she has it h. to...

The president. we know from reporting he doesnt read. but we also know jared does. what sort of oversight function is available to congress to try to understand the handling of sensitive classified information inside donald trumps west wing? >> you know, congress absolutely has an oversight function here. theres been a little bit of a pulse lately, but weve not seen any full-on effort to take this into consideration. but you, like i know, i had a security clearance for 25-plus years, and its not...

Between what we know to be true, that jared kushner is potentially a witness who is of interest in the mueller probe. hes also been up in front of at least one of the intel committees. i believe it was on the house side. what he knows and what he did and when he knew it and when he did it is of interest to those investigating russian collusion. >> there cant be any doubt that the subject of the investigation the fbi is doing also poses difficulties for fbi agents trying to give kushner a backgro...

Follow-up information in july. they cant answer it until november. if you want to close these files and get people through the process, everybody needs to cooperate. this surely wasnt such a difficult question that it took july, august, september, and october to get an answer back. then they close the file in january. by the way, this is february. this is one month after january. you can make this time line sound -- >> are you blaming the fbi? >> im saying the process is broken just like dan coa...