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P procedures. theres precedent for it. its offensive by the president and his team to say that we can do whatever we want with respect to security clearances and we dont have to tell anybody about it, in fact we can lie about it. if they were happy and proud of the decision why did they mislead the american people. >> jeremy, can you speak to how serious the level of clearance were talking about here is and how important the process is especially when you had the cia, for example, raising red fl...

Its a distinction. the president can do lots of things that, in fact, would not be in the national interest. >> and as far as security -- >> ron klain, i want to bring you back in. you know how triggered i am by this story. whats also clear from a former staffers point of view is that john kelly and don mcgahn operated as a block, as a conscience, and they were not happy about the, way that the president oversaw or lack thereof, his children. >> yeah, i mean, look, i think that for john kelly an...

Now, it doesnt mean that ivanka trump and jared have done anything wrong. it means the nature of their relationships overseas raise questions, serious questions, and questions that cannot be surmounted in the minds of the investigators? >> thats an important point he makes. it doesnt mean they did anything wrong. it just means that perhaps there had been red flags raised about relationships theyve had. >> shes right on point. security clearances matter. so i handled an espionage cases. the depar...

You cant indict a sitting president, this is a scenario that cuts much closer to home than trump, who clearly views all of his associates as sort of expendable as weve seen. all these men who sort of went to bat for him and are now in jail or facing jail. this does seem different to me in a very, very pointed way that i suspect as were seeing tonight his reaction will be hostile. >> right. and you know whats interesting, shimon, to juliettes point. the boys on, this as they call them. right? don...

Jail or facing jail. this does seem different to me in a very, very pointed way that i suspect as were seeing tonight his reaction will be hostile. >> right. and you know whats interesting, shimon, to juliettes point. the boys on, this as they call them. right? donald jr. and eric and of course jared as well. but ivanka trump isnt. but i think it was very clear from the conversation i had with chairman nadler that she is going to be. maybe they see her as part of another investigation, emolument...

Staff recommending against jared getting a clearance. wouldnt you like to see those memos. the oversight committee likes to see them. they are making efforts to get the documents. they are implicitly threatening they will send out subpoenas that to get information that they have requested about security clearances and this white house. information they have requested thus far and had no response from the white house about. and today the chairs of a whole bunch of committees, foreign affairs and ...

Security clearance. accompanying that reporting was there are memos from the former white house counsel don mcgahn and they expressed their objections to the president ordering that jared kushner be given a security clearance. at least the mcgann memo is said to express what the concerns were about jared that led to senior staff, excuse me, led to career staff recommending against jared getting a clearance. wouldnt you like to see those memos? the oversight committee likes to see them. they are ...

Ivanka trump. >> exactly. for those of us who have gone through the tedious for process of filling out these clearance forms, theres a reason theyre adjudicated the way they are, and we need a clear answer why jared is so needed to have this clearance that they overrode the cias concerns about jared and his foreign contacts. chris: what about the argument, hey, im the president, i got elected, i trust him? >> he has the authority to do it, chris, youre right. he got elected, he can do it. it doe...

For those of us who have gone through the tedious for process of filling out these clearance forms, theres a reason theyre adjudicated the way they are, and we need a clear answer why jared is so needed to have this clearance that they overrode the cias concerns about jared and his foreign contacts. chris: what about the argument, hey, im the president, i got elected, i trust him? >> he has the authority to do it, chris, youre right. he got elected, he can do it. it doesnt mean he should do it, ...

That up? >> well, because again, as somebody who had a security clearance, i know that thats a major component of the process. >> not all the time. >> i said about 90% -- >> because i have one. i served on the defense policy board and the cia board, and that was not a requirement. >> right. as i said, about 90% of people also undergo a polygraph test as part of that. cru chris what do you think, the question i asked marine, i mean, all of this is because the president thinks this guy i really tr...