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May line a malign and despicable secrets. >> it may extend beyond rob porter? >> thats exactly it. asking for the ig, inspector general investigation, both reported to have embarrassing and potentially very dangerous and damaging conflicts of interest. thats the reason that we ask for this investigation about the sdurt clearan security clearance process. the white house can expedite a background clearance that was not competed on rob porter. it can expedite a security clearance. also not complet...

Ti tive, highly classified information. this would not be an issue unless there was an issue for national security but to margarets point, this is clearly an issue of national security because the background clearance are not just about whether youre a citizen with good character. they are whether you have risks in your background could open you up to risk of blackmail. this could be one of those things. very relevant to his security clearance and now we know why that security clearance was held...

Were jared kushner in the white house right now? >> its a difficult time for anyone in the white house or in this administration who has had problems with filling out forms with information and background clearance forms or in testimony. muellers team has demonstrated with this first wave of indictments that they are serious about enforcing laws against lying to the fbi. so kushner has had this problem where he had to resubmit his security clearance forms over and over because of failure to disc...

>> would you be nervous, joyce, as jared kushner in the white house right now? >> i think its a difficult time for anyone in the white house or really in this administration who has had problems with filling out forms, with information and background clearance forms or in testimony. muellers team has demonstrated with this first wave they of indictments theyre serious about lying to the fbi. kushner has a problem where he had to resubmit his security clearance forms over and over because of fail...

Oversight? >> well, you know, one of the things about security clearances is the more powerful you are in the government, the less likely the officials are to give you a problem on security clearance. it is not an equitable system. but what is so troubling about this whole issue of omitting these visits is that the whole purpose of disclosing the names of the foreign nationals youve met with is so that the background clearance folks can investigate these meetings. and look at what the circumstan...

Jeffrey toobin, jonathan painter and jeffrey turley. he amended his security clearance forms not once, but twice. it seems like the second time only after paul manafort according to "the new york times" told capitol hill about this meeting with donald trump jr. at what point should he stop getting the benefit of the doubt that it was just an oversight? >> well, one of the things about security clearances is the more powerful you are in the government, the less likely the officials are to give yo...

And he also knows james comey. when he was the assistant attorney general, he reported to the deputy attorney general who at the time was james comey. so hes getting generally positive responses from republicans on -- in the senate. theyll have a confirmation hearing in another couple of weeks. they have not scheduled it yet. hes been through this background clearance process several times before from his other positions in the government. >> the announcement itself seemed a bit odd. typically w...

Naveed, as you listened to what we just listened to, as you witness what we just witnessed, your thoughts? >> as a u.s. person who was, in fact, recruited by russians to spy, it appears this russian front really had two silos. the first was to retrieve data and use sort of information warfare attack against us. the second one seems to have been this simple thing that i dealt with, which is to make contact with people within trumps inner circle. and if that is, in fact, the case, you know, that s...

Time was that the cyber dimension and the fact that the release of so much information that they had extracted via signer is a primary tool to try to drive an outcome. >> in this setting can you talk to us about what tools they used? >> im not going to go into the specifics of how they executed the hacks. poll ji i apologize, no, sir. >> well try to get into that in classified. ill hold off for now, thank you. >> mr. schiff is recognized for 15 minutes. >> thank you, i just had a couple thought ...

This time. theres a release of information that they had extracted to try to drive an outcome. >> in this setting can you talk to us about what tools they used? >> im not going to go under the specifics of how they executed the hacks. i apologize. >> well try to bet into that and classify. hold off for now. >> general yields back. mr. schiff is recognized for 15 minutes. >> just had a couple of questions. can you tell me what an sf 86 is? >> sf 86? >> yes. >> its the standard background clearanc...