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That truly have a need to know the information would have access within the security white house system. but putting these records of phone calls that the president has with other foreign leaders into this stand-alone system for especially classified compartmented code word information is troubling because it indicates an apparent attempt to hide that information either because there is misconduct on the part of the president or even potential criminal wrongdoing. thats obviously deeply concerni...

Tess, let me start with you. you are an expert on the internal white house process for these records and/or transcripts of these presidential conversations. let me get your reaction to what the "washington post" is reporting tonight. >> sure. its obviously another instance of something thats highly unusual and deeply troubling. if these records are being restricted beyond even those with the need to know. so normally these would be handled in a classified manner, and even beyond that, only those...

Cant figure out. and why is it that its rod rosenstein calling the white house and not the attorney general? the attorney general is recused from the russian matter. so its a decent theory to think maybe some of the issues with jared kushner are because of the russian inquiry and what they developed there. so look, you typically have an interim top secret clearance for about 90 days. were way beyond that. and the other thing is, were hearing that kushner has access to compartmented code word cla...

About 90 days. were way beyond that. and the other thing is, were hearing that kushner has access to compartmented code word classified information within the top secret category. this is something that should not be happening at this level for this long. >> ken, to this point, "the washington post" also reported that in the call rosenstein didnt say whether the information that had come to the attention of the justice department was learned by the fbi as part of the standard background clearanc...

So its a decent theory to think maybe some of the issues with jared kushner are because of the russian inquiry and what they developed there. so look, you typically have an interim top secret clearance for about 90 days. were way beyond that. and the other thing is, were hearing that kushner has access to compartmented code word classified information within the top secret category. this is something that should not be happening at this level for this long. >> ken, to this point, "the washington...