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Chris: why would you even bring 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 presi...

Even though it is well within the presidentese constitutional authority. ken, youve been working on this. i want to play for everybody why this is such a sort of stunning -- it would be stunning regardless but its also important to note the president essentially has said that he did not do what "the new york times" is reporting he did. here is "the new york times" interview, audio only interview with "the new york timess" maggie hagerman. take a look. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else...

Problem. >> and elijah cummings has written to the white house counsel and giving the white house until tomorrow to respond to his request about some of the things they have raised about concerns about concerns of jared jared kushners clearance. it will be interest what the what the white house responds but i dont think they will get somebody to explain it. >> and that was part of the story. >> one thing to add if jared kushner were feeling at all humbled or embarrassed, he didnt show it last ni...

Chris: why would you even bring 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 presi...

Felon, so its unclear as to why this wasnt known before. maybe michael cohen hasnt disclosed it before and now it will be investigated. >> meanwhile the democrats say they want to start to now subpoena basically 60 people, among them trump associates, people who work at the trump organization and perhaps even ivanka and jared and others. heres what the chairman of the house judiciary committee democrat jerry nadler of the west side of manhattan said about this. >> crimes and impeachable offenses...

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...

Similarly there is the developing story from the "new york times" that the white house chief of staff and white house counsel wrote memos it file, which are apparently somewhere inside the white house right now expressing their concern and their objections to the president overruling national security officials to give his son-in-law jared a security clearance, despite whatever turned up in jareds background that led national security officials to not clear him before the president intervened. h...

Of any request for or action by the president to be involved in the security clearance process. again, officials affirmed at the time that regular process occurred without any pressure. they told me it was regular process. i mean, abbe lowell seems to be saying there, dont ask me. ask them. ask the white house. mr. lowell was not aware of nor told of anything the president might have done about ordering up a top secret clearance for jared kushner over objections. can we actually -- i dont know i...

In the wrong direction, because the president wanted a particular outcome. he wanted his son-in-law to have whatever clearances he wanted him to have for the purposes that donald trump had in mind at that time. >> annie, why was jared kushners security clearance held up for so long, and why did the white house counsel object to him getting the full clearance? >> we dont know the details as to why the cia and other agencies raised questions. but there have been problems with jareds security clear...

Administration facing zero accountability for their corruption and their deception are over. and making sure that we can get to the bottom of the allowance of a foreign adversary to interfere in the could you teou elections is absolutely essential so we can prevent it from ever happening again. >> there were the attacks from your republican colleagues on the credibility of michael cohen. you believe michael cohen why? >> well, i believe michael cohen because a number of the things that he told u...