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shop for people who wanted access to things that they shouldnt have. no one should be in those conditions, wnba star brittney griner speaking out about those ten months she spent in a russian prison. its her first press conference since returning to professional basketball. hear what she says about the other americans still wrongfully detained. plus, after four hours on the stand, the woman accusing donald trump of rape now in cross examination. what we expect to hear from the form...

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Washington. you have an accuser in professor ford who said come on in to the fbi, investigate these claims, i remember what i remember. i have records of my own trauma from my notes from therapy. come in and try to verify my account. judge kavanaugh seems to be saying the same thing. he believes in his own innocence. why not try to bolster judge kavanaughs innocence if you believe thats. wh what it is with a full non-rushed, deep investigation by the fbi? >> and, you know, even the idea of a non...

I spoke to former senior intelligence officials who served both republican and democratic administrations. they said it is very unusual for someone at this level of a position to be acting on an interim security clearance for so long, and precisely because of the nature of the position he had, staff secretary. in effect, someone controlling the information flow to the president. and that information flow includes an enormous amount of highly sensitive, highly classified information. we heard raj...

Files. a lot of the sf-86 files that you use for background clearances. they have mine, i was informed by the government. very sensitive information, as you know, that they can use against intelligence operatives and military members. and senator inhofe asked the question, did we retaliate, what did we do. the answer that i heard from all of you was, well, we tried to protect people like me and im sure others whose sensitive intel information and background information was compromised. but i did...

Government-ladd, 22 million files. a lot of the sf 86 files that you use for background clearances, they have mine, i was informed by the government, very sensitive information, as you know, that they could use against intelligence operatives and military members. and the senator asked the question, did we retaliate? what did we do? the answer that i heard from all of you was, well we try to protect people like me, and im sure others, whose sensitive intel information and background information ...

Either john kelly rules the day and his edict, his new policies for background clearances apply to the presidents son-in-law jared kushner, and he loses his interim status, or jared kushner wins and i dont know how john kelly stays in that job with any authority. >> well, look, youre absolutely right about the tension here. the white house put out a statement yesterday night and said kelly has the utmost confidence in jared kushner and that none of these changes should have any effect on his abi...