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Typically have had a lot of contact with international people and transactions, and like i said, people who are much older and have much longer careers than him and managed to do this. so why is this so difficult. >> but he had to amend it four times. the first one was blank because they said mistakenly submitted. and they continued having to update and update and update. so the interim clearance went on for months. >> lets not forget the person who ran the security office was replaced. i believ...

The person who originally began the clearance process as well. robert klein. >> is it normal for people -- ive never heard of after talking to kirsten, i dont run and memorialize what kirsten said because im concerned she is going to deny it the next day. does it say something to you that, you know, you have don mcgahn and chief of staff memorializing stuff? >> yeah, of course. listen, this is a -- if youre talking about giving somebody as high profile -- listen, i am certain that general kelly ...

The house investigation has been revitalized, the senate investigation is ongoing. that senate investigation report from the time the investigation concludes, we dont know its about to conclude, from the time it concludes, its going to take six months to go through a really onerous clearance process. as the president is facing all of these issues, theres going to be more and more and more shoes to drop. these other big senate reports are looming out there. >> i think mrit beipolitically, common ...

Whos not related to him jared kushner has all of this power. he ran a herd over the shutdown negotiations, which were a dbackal for the president story last friday from nbc news about his clearance process short circuited at best. and now the questions from christie about the firing the mike flynn. >> i think the question has been what evidence do we have that jared kushner is good at this or at least good enough to be given so many portfolios and so much responsibility there are a couple of cas...

And the less people that have it, the better if they dont have a need. the more people that need it that get it because they have a need, thats where we should be. and so as somebody whose committee oversaw the clearance process, recognizes weve been behind and we are still behind in the process of getting people timely clearances, this is a good start and hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of clearances should be revoked by people who no longer have a need before they come up for a five-yea...

Presidents motivation being called into question by his critics? >> its one of the challenges. they talk about motivations rather than the actual conduct. the president has every reason and right in this case to question why these people still have clearances if they have no need. >> eric: some would say they can get advice and rely on their experience, institutional memory. >> this is important and lets understand, one, you can give advice based on history without a clearance and you can review...

And the white nationalists, what ought we conclude about how welcomed he was in this white house? >> well he was clearly welcomed for some time as a key speech writer. so that welcome. i guess one question s-how fully did the white house know about his views, even a cursory clearance process should have turned up views that are offensive to americans, white nationalists. its difficult to go to a conference that draws white nationalists and make uncontroversial remarks. just by the nature of the ...

Counsel for the cia and the general counsel for the department of defense. he as a lawyer would know just how dangerous a precedence this would set. it is beyond weaponizing the clearance process. what youre saying is the president will use this now like the pardon power in reverse, right? use this to stop, hinder, and obstruct justice, and commit crimes, simply because he has the right to do it. that is not why the clearance process works. as shawn put it so well, it is designed to give people ...

This person we picked up in yemen or afghanistan. what do you recall about this case? how should we proceed? what about whats happening in pakistan? its to create a council of advisers, of former cia directors who dont need to go through the clearance process and look at current intelligence. its more for the benefit of the current intelligence. the great irony is this president is denying his own cia and other agency officials access to the wise counsel of brannan now and presumably the others ...

The whole reason mike hayden, the former cia director, the sole reason hes another person on this list, life-long republican, i believe, the reason for this in the first place is so that people like mike hayden could go to their predecessors and say, you know this person we picked up in yemen or afghanistan. what do you recall about this case? how should we proceed? what about is happening in pakistan? its to create a council of advisors, former cia directors that dont need to go through clearan...