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Statements coming out of the justice department officials and the white house and the like. but it would be really helpful if he, himself, clarifies exactly whose statement this is, whether its from him and the counsels team, period, or whether it had to be cleared. i can just tell you from a white house perspective, you would be really anxious to get your hands on that and have a clearance process before he goes public. you would be really anxious. its just in the nature of the beast of the whi...

Notification that it has arrived but there t wont be any kind o immediate report delivered to either congress or the public. >> were hoping that that will happen, andrea. >> we may not even know. >> we may not even know, it may be there now for all we know and theyre deciding to roll it out. some people think it would make sense for them to take the report and make sure barr has something to say about it before they acknowledge receipt. if they say, hey, weve got the report, theres going to be a...

This. and now jared and ivanka and the president does it. why? >> he thought he would look bad if people knew that he did it. he was sensitive to that when he told mcgahn and kelly to grant the clearances and he was sensitive to it when he told the new york times that he didnt do what he actually ended up doing and he understands the contours of whats happening here and a bit of context -- >> lying about it is a better choice? >> yeah. >> leading up to this, the reason we kind of got to this poi...

Annie. >> that was about concerns raised by don mcgahn and john kelly. there were concerns about his family business ties with foreign governments and leaders and going back to the beginning of the clearance process also, he had failed to disclose some meetings with russian officials on his first original form. those were not mentioned at the cia red flags. we dont know what they raised. we know various intelligence agency and within the white house, concerns whether he should be granted the top...

Contemrainuoconte contemporaneous notes. what else did john kelly see or what else does he have notes on? democrats have been on this for a while. theyve thought there was something fishy in jared kushners clearance process. now the fact they believe they can link that directly to donald trump himself is going to make this probably a top priority, maybe top five among their investigations this year. >> its a remarkable moment. well come back to the presidents speech and some of the political cal...

Involved. listen. >> who made the decision to restore his security clearance? how did that happen? >> the intelligence community and the fbi. it happened in the normal course. it happened the way it happens for thousands of people. there was nobody in the political process that had anything to do with it. there was nobody who pressured it. it was just done the normal, regular way. >> the normal, regular way, nobody pressured for it. that was last may, abby lowell, jared kushners attorney stating...

Involved. listen. >> who made the decision to restore his security clearance? how did that happen? >> the intelligence community and the fbi. it happened in the normal course. it happened the way the happens for thousands of people. there was nobody in the political process that had anything to do with it. nobody who pressured it. it was just done the normal regular way. >> the normal regular way. nobody pressured for it. that was last may. abbe lowell, jared kushners attorney, stating with grea...

And his report if we ever learn whats in his report. there are a number of investigations ongoing and with the white house is essentially doing is either stonewalling or delaying for time. we had elijah cummins who has another investigation into the clearance process, security clearance process. jared kushner in the "new york times" report over the last 24 hours or so is revealed that president trump interfered with that and gave him that highest clearance over the objections of his chief-of-sta...

Financial issues and foreign influence, but the very fact that all of these people are lying, the deception itself indicates a lack of candor and a lack of trustworthiness on its face and i think that right there is, you know, validates what the underlying concerns were about giving them these clearances. >> i want to ask you about why there would have been concerns but bradley to you. 30,000 foot view, the security clearance process in and of itself, how is it conducted? who would get involved ...

Clearance was downgraded in february of 2018 after a review of the clearance process they felt like john kelly and don mcgahn were targeting them for petty reasons, not for anything legitimate. the fbi and the cia during the course of jared kushners background check had flagged concerns. among those concerns was that he had not disclosed initially open his application for security clearance some contacts with foreign officials, including a meeting with a russian banker during the transition. jar...