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Book now and enjoy free unlimited open bar and more. norwegian cruise line. feel free. >> 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 clea...

Classified information to people that shouldnt have this kind of information that could hold it against the trump administration when it comes to making important foreign policy decisions. >> what problems could have been holding up ivanka trumps security clearance? >> if jared was having problems, ivanka was part of the trump tower moscow proposal. that could potentially be part of it. maybe there was a sense she didnt deserve to have a top secret security clearance given her portfolio. we dont...

>> the message, of course, being the length of time that the trump tower/moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> jay sekulow called cohens allegation thats trumps lawyers edited or changed his statement to congress completely false. cohens repeat appearance today on the hill is just one of a number of oversight efforts by house democrats, the house judiciary committee, of course, kicking off the week with an explosive list of 81 people and entities in president trumps orbit that they want a...

This is actually what he is able to do and its not -- >> how you do it matters, because if i want to come after you for abuse of power, the underlying premise -- >> its within his power to do. >> you can do it any way you want under any circumstances and its ok? we 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. >> unless -- >> so -- should he have -- and let me also back up a little bit mpl. ...

The autonomy to make these decisions not for any sort of political favor, but based on the facts before them. >> there are two theories. the first is this is about paperwork. they didnt fill out the paperwork the right way. they kept adding to it, especially in jared kushners case. adding contacts with people that would make hairs go up on the back of the neck of an intel type. they didnt like it. so they responded by being slow walking on the paperwork and on the clearance. the president got fr...

Same security clearance as her husband based on some of the meetings hes having? >> she wants to be privy to as much as possible thats going on in the white house. i mean, this comes at a moment, these investigations, into jared and ivankas security clearance at a moment with jared kushners powers considered to be fairly high at the white house, that hes almost acting as a de facto chief-of-staff. so this is very problematic to the functioning of the white house and crippling to the presidents d...

The government, but the american people are actually the bosses, right? they work for us. and if we have questions about why they are not able to get security clearances, why they are lying about their ability to get security clearances, they have to answer to us. and we -- these are people who arent just pushing papers in the white inhouse. jared is just overseas in six middle eastern countries last week including saudi arabia, where he met with mbs. if this guy cant get a security clearance an...

Clearance. do we have any reasons why the president and his daughter would not be truth fuful about that, annann annie. >> the president is not truth full about a lot of things, just remember that as a background thing. i dont know if this is motivation but jared and ivanka for a long time felt that john kelly was out to get them somehow and like the president he used tools available to him to elevate allies and punish. he was holding up the security clearance process to hurt them. thats how the...

Tug of war between house of democrats and the west wing over jared and ivankas security clearances. ey have to. we do difficult things. because we like to. we think its... fun. introducing the all-new 2019 ford ranger built for the strangest of all creatures. so we improved everything.g. we used 50% fewer ingredients. added one-handed pumps. and beat the top safety standards. johnsons® choose gentle. lets see, aleve is than tylenol extra strength. and last longer with fewer pills. so why am i s...

And when theyhe refused, he didt anyway. the white house gavee their usl response when asked about the reporting. we dont comment on security clearances. ron klain and the table are back. emily? >> this is a maddening story for me. particularly because it speaks to everything thats wrong with havingg family members in the white house and why it was illegal for 50 years, until trumps lawyers determined that it was perfectly okay to have two of his closest family members in the white ishouse. i wa...