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That. as it comes to the presidents daughter a source familiar with her thinking tells me this morning ivanka trump has no knowledge of the president getting involved in her or jareds clearance. thats what we are hearing from a source familiar with her thinking. cnn has multiple sources saying look, the president got involved here on both fronts. >> right. our reporting is that cnn that president trump pressured then white house chief of staff john kelly then white house counsel apparently oth...

Sources the they appreciated the staff against their best recommendation. why is the white house now refusing to answer for these decisions? three major questions i want you to think about tonight. mark has some answers. pleasure to see you. >> thanks, chris. >> what do we know? question number one about why jared or ivanka did not get their clearance the ordinary way? >> it starts out with a very unusual process where jared and ivanka were filling out the application to get the clearance and di...

>> thats what abuse of power is. >> my mom tells me ive got seven scoops of ice cream and five days later and say i had five scoops. its a bad analogy. >> terrible. you no what youre mother would tell you? if you do it, own it. >> thats a bad -- jared and ivanka had the right to the clearances if they wanted. >> they -- >> yes, they did. >> no they didnt. >> the president has the right to give it to him. >> he has the rights to give it to them. they dont have the right to it. they had to go thro...

Attorney for ivanka and jared were involved in the preparations and in the editing of that statement that was delivered to congress. for the first time, we are learning the house intelligence committee received documents showing edits that were made to that false statement back in 2017. the question is, what exactly were in those edits? we dont know that yet. after the testimony today, michael cohen emerged and said he is willing to cooperate even further with this committee. >> i believe theyre...

Actually what he is able to do and its not -- >> how do you it matters. if i want to come after you for abuse of power -- >> but if its within his power to do that, its not abuse of power. >> that means if you have a power to do something, you can do it any way you want under any circumstances and its okay? we both know the answer to that is no, dont we? >> its up to him. he can grant a security clearance to ivanka and jared whenever he wants to or to anyone else. so should he have -- let me als...

The domestic agenda and jared has had success on that and foreign policy issues. the president relies on them and trusts their judgment. hes probably thinking look, i know these folks better than anyone and its within my power to make this decision. now, there was some reporting and who knows whats true and whats not as to what staff said no, were not going to sign off on this. >> memos. >> there may be memos, but at the end of the day the president has the power to do that. >> if theyre recordi...

Around jared kushner to white house officials and asking if there was anything they could do but others opini. nobody wanted to get involved. the president didnt want his hand in it directly but ultimately had to. >> do you get a sense that he understands the presidency isnt supposed to be family business or is it just that the way the trump organization was and he sees no reason to not just continue it? >> i think theres some combination of it. i think hes a 72-year-old man and hes not going to...

Decisions based on the facts before them. >> there are two theories. the first theory is that this is about paperwork. they didnt fill the paperwork out the proper way. especially in jared kushners case, contacts with people that would make hairs on the back of the neck go up. so they slow walked the paperwork. the president got frustrated with it and he went ahead. the second theory is they had good reasons not to want to give it and the president overrode it. >> this is within the presidents p...

Maybe not this particular thing 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 o...

The president himself denied to the "new york times" several weeks ago that he ever got involved with the security clearance for jared or his family and that he even claimed that he didnt know whether he had the authority to grant clearances. anderson? >> pam brown. great reporting. thank you. pam just mentioned this comes on the heels of that "new york times" reporting that the president intervened in jared kushners clearance. one of the reporters on that story is maggie haberman, also a cnn po...