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your colleague who asked this question, and i m quoting him. why would we open an impeachment inquiry if we re winning in the court system? how do you answer that question? well, but we re winning in the court system, our victories against the white house saying basically they don t have to cooperate with congress s demands for information. the reason that we want that information is we want to determine whether there were high crimes and misdemeanors and also what we can do to try to clear out the corruption in the executive branch. on the oversight committee where i serve, we have an investigation into the white house personnel office where 25 people were rejected by the professional staff in terms of getting their security clearance. they were overruled by the white house, by the president who said let s grant security clearance to people who are found totally not qualified to have it. so we re doing an investigation into that. they ve shut us down on that and we re trying to figh
matter told new york times that quote trump ordered his chief of staff to grant security clearance. over ruling concerns flagged by officials and the top lawyer. it was so alarming to chief of, john kelly that he wrote a memo about how he had been oordered to give his clearance. and mcgahn outlined concerns the krr cia had as well as his own recommendation it be rejected. kushner was granted permanent clearance after the completion of the fbi background check with no involvement from the president. earlier that year john kelly had limited kushner s access to the most snsative secrets because according to the washington post he was uncomfortable with
closed and ongoing. i think that s going to be the first question for sarah sanders, that she s going to have to clarify. in addition to that, this white house has indicated that it was somehow up to the fbi to grant security clearance. that s not the case. the fbi does a background check and then they submit information. it is then up to the white house to make a determination about whether a permanent security clearance can be granted. so that is yet another contradiction that we are hearing, katy. and then more broadly, you re right, the story has been shifting ever since this first broke in the news. first, john kelly saying that rob porter is a man of true of integrity. and then pointing out, saying that he was shocked by the new allegations, once that picture was made public. so this is a white house that has been really struggling and twisting to try to explain to people how this all went down and the timeline and who knew what and when. and of course, it all raises even more qu