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And senior adviser jared kushner, because we have all reported he is still operating under an interim clearance. today is the day that goes into effect. many people were wondering how this is going to affect jared kushners ability to do his job in the west wing because his portfolio largely deals with foreign policy. we have new reporting from my colleague kevin lip tack that aides have been currently trying to develop a plan that would allow jared kushner to still work in the west wing without ...

That list. people with not a problem in the world so that will be up to general kelly. general kelly respects jared a lot. and general kelly will make that call. i wont make that call. >> bret: lightning round. the security clearance issue right now, jared kushner has an interim clearance and general kelly, chief of staff had said thats eventually going to come to an end. but will it? were back with the panel. byron? >> forgive me for thinking the presidents son-in-law is going to keep his secur...

Hes not micromanaging the clearance process, hes interviewing people who knew kushner before he came to the white house. >> youre saying what were getting at, go ahead. >> i think its quite possible that what the significance of the rosenstein call and he placed the call to the chief of staff, it got bumped over to mcgahn, i guess kelly was in a meeting or something. is that material was developed by mueller in his investigation that made kushners clearance even more problematic than it might ha...

Done with their piece. and based on the information that we know publicly about his foreign financial entanglements and his failure to disclose them, it seemed like this would be a very difficult clearance process for them. you know, the president can always put on his security clearance fairy godmother outfit and wave the magic wand and give kushner security clearance. that would be poor judgment given the derogatory information in his background which also makes him a subject of the criminal i...

This administration. >> thats right. i spent much of the week talking to people who are familiar with the clearance process and as its worked under previous presidents. everybody that i talked to expressed amazement that such things as the rob porter case could slip through because there have been processes set up very detailed processes for that kind of information getting from the fbi to the security office at the white house and on to the more senior aides and the counsels office and senior s...

Handling of the rob porter scandal. he announced yesterday he is overhalling the security clearance process after revelations that dozens of white house staff are operating without permanent clearance. author of "the gate keepers:how the chiefs of staff affect every presidency." his piece in vanity fair, and reince bring business and his time as chief of staff for president trump. chris whipple, thank you. let me ask you about john kelly. he made this announcement hes changing the clearance proc...

>> cnn learned the white house had more than 100 staffers working without full security clearance until november. that, of course, nearly a year into mr. trumps presidency. rob porter was among them. >> reporter: thats right. one year after the president was elected, several of his top staffers did not have full clearances, a sign of some deep troubles with that process here at the white house. among the people who lacked clearances are the presidents daughter, ivanka trump, his son-in-law, jare...

Requests. and january of 2018, the fbi closed the file on the background investigation there. . so the fbi is saying -- if you listen to christopher wray, they didnt say anything about outsourcing information. >> i -- im not saying they did in this case. i was describing in general the way the clearance process is sometimes slow. and i think thats having to get contractors in is sometimes indicative of how the process can get slowed down. >> um-hum. i take your point. but some 60 to 70 people in...

>> i -- im not saying they did in this case. i was describing in general the way the clearance process is sometimes slow. and i think thats having to get contractors in is sometimes indicative of how the process can get slowed down. >> i take your point, but some 60 to 70 people in this white house still dont have permanent security cleans, which is higher -- 30 to 40 i should say. it is 30 to 40. >> i dont know. >> higher than previous administrations. its 30 to 40. >> i dont know where they st...

Were going to hear more from him. >> well, i think we will. and i think what youve set up really indicates something thats been missing in this whole affair which is serious congressional oversight. this is a situation when congress should really step up. and of course under republican leadership, that is not happening. so, yeah, the fbi director will appear before congress. but there need to be serious oversight hears regarding the clearance process and certainly looking into what exactly happe...