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At a senior level its easier to have one than not to have one. >> the administrative argument that the director was saying had could see an argument for. although obviously, he felt that it shouldnt have happened given the recommendation was not to do it. tell us about the relationship between ivanka, jah read ared a president now. why would the president do this? defying intelligence, chief of staff, white house counsel and give his daughter and son-in-law clearance and then lie about it? >> we...

Goes on in the west wing. >> the last we heard theres been no update on this in a long time. she was under fbi scrutiny in trump hotel project. we have no idea if that was related to this. but we do know theres a lot of foreign dealings and business and foreign money still coming in to both jared and ivanka. >> thats exactly among other things. there are about 13 different behavioral characteristics that are looked at in the course of doing a background investigation. and one of thoem is forgott...

Instd shes seen more of an appendage of jared. and hes under scrutiny for dealings internationally. business ties to china and saudi arabia. to think of her in the west wipg. the fact she really has access to whatever jared knows. which means she by nature she knows where all the skeletons are buried. >> the president today was gushing over ivanka. as he does. this was a board member of the work force policy. advisory board. let many e play it. >> shes so formal. special person. shes worked so h...

Evan perez is "outfront" on capitol hill. and this is obviously going to be significant. if ivanka trumps lawyer signed off on the testimony knowing it was false, really briefed ten times about such an important project. >> thats right, erin. look, if you knowingly help someone lie to congress, then you also could be in trouble. and what michael cohen is doing here is not only implicating jay sekulow, who is one of the presidents attorneys, but abbe lowell who represents jared and ivanka, as wel...

Obviously rudy giuliani admitted they continued. all the way through. thats the lie. part of the reason hes going to prison. he said he did that at the direction of -- he felt very clearly he was told to do that. by the presidents team. and now, cohens team is saying jared and ivanka their attorney signed off on it. is it really possible that their attorney signed off on it without them having any knowledge? this date is crucial. they would have known the date was untrue. >> well its a great que...

Jared and especially mbs and theres one major reason why theyre concerned, this ongoing conversation thats happening between the u.s. and saudi arabia about a potential nuclear deal and so the concern is that there might be some private business interests that have been entangled into these conversations that have to do with potential government deal. >> so what is the typical procedure for meetings like this? >> so typically, when a member of the u.s. government goes abroad, they often interact...

That means both of his sons and son-in-law and eldest daughter. i think it even can appear from the outside just watching things. so i think there could be some danger there. >> well, the appearance is the sons work on the business, and the dad works, and ivanka and jared work for politics. >> right, thats the appearance but thats not actually the case. both eric and donald trump jr. are key advisers to the president and he does consult them. i think for the president, if i were going to worry t...

Information. and, look, this kind of information is put together by cia officers and sources that are putting their lives on the line in order to bring this information to the attention of the president and those around him. to allow somebody who is a risk, a security risk, to access to that kind of information is to not only compromise that information, it is really putting our national security at risk itself. that no president ought to be allowed to do. >> whats your suspicion here, is that t...

President trump. for instance, he said his advise to his successor was to run for it. >> wow. according to cnn -- thank you, carol lee -- down at duke. according to cnn, president trumps chief of staff john kelly and white house lawyer done mcghan to make the decision on daughter and son-in-law for security clearances did not appear he was tainting the process to favor his family. after both men refused, president trump pushed jared in regardless of what the fbi people said. just last week "the ...

But the three areas of the judiciary committee is going to look into are obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and making sure that we really take on this culture of corruption. so this to me just another one of those and chris, if it were just one, that would be one thing but as we keep seeing in the news media, its over and over again where there are these abuses of power where the president is directing people to do things they wouldnt otherwise do. in both of those cases with ivanka and ja...