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White house. what does that mean? and where does this story go next? >> it means our story was extremely solid or we wouldnt put it in the paper otherwise. where does the story go next? we need to learn more about the concerns that prevented jared from getting a top security clearance. and what did the cia find out? what did they know? and we need to get to the bottom of that. i have a reasonable expectation because i know theres a whole team of new york of reporters who >> we look forward to yo...

Was another person, maybe he would have dealt with it differently. maybe not, because its donald trump. but the point is they raise serious concerns about this, and then you have -- i think like ivanka and jared might say well, john kelly didnt like them and thats why he was doing that. i dont think they can really say that about don mcgahn, who is a pretty straight shooter by all accounts, and you have him saying he doesnt think he should have gotten this clearance. i think phil has hit on it. ...

To do it. >> i wouldnt. i wouldnt do it. >> jareds a good -- i was never involved with his security. i know from reading there was issues back and forth about security for numerous people actually, but i dont want to get involved in that stuff. >> this was one month ago. this wasnt a year ago. that conversation was a month ago after the president had already done this. he says, no, i wouldnt do that. i dont think i have the authority. this is strange. i think the president often loud and proud b...

And then all of a sudden jared gets it and we now find out from this report that john kelly and the white house counsel wrote memos saying that they were overruled by the president. they were concerned about this decision. i have to tell you something as having been a governor, i never had a staff member write a contemporaneous memo about one of my decisions. >> they dont do that on a whim. >> they just dont. >> they do that to cover themselves in a situation theyre worried about exposure on. >>...

Theyre government employees, jared and ivanka. and so if the congress -- and i told the president when the house was taken over by democrats, i said theyre not going to stop at anything. >> do you think they should stop right now given what we heard yesterday, given what we already know and were going to learn? >> i think that michael cohen yesterday laid out a list of witnesses that the house now has to give serious consideration into calling in, allen weisselberg or jared and ivanka and the re...

Compartmentalized information. the ts is granted. the sci was not, is still not granted. i filled this out. i held the clearance before. when you fill out the sf-86, it is not a small document. >> no. >> you have to go back and list. and as you correctly pointed out, anderson, jared is a guy with a vast web of international contacts, and you have to go through your rolodex, and every contact, whether you shook the guys hand or the womans hand, you had tea with somebody to where you had an actual...

Here. >> another argument is look, this is the person the president had picked to deal with middle east peace, working with china, a whole host of issues. and if thats the person he wants, he is the president. he is allowed to do this. >> but ideally, the president would listen to the people who are doing the security clearances if they raise a concern. this is one of the problems also with the president having a family member i think working for him, because i think if it was another person, ma...

There, need this clearance and the white house doesnt feel comfortable telling the public we gave it to them despite red flags, there are a lot of questions the white house has to answer about this. >> for sure. there are only more questions today. great to see you. >> joining me now to discuss this democratic congressman of virginia. you have been asking questions about kushners security clearance the entire time that they have been in office. what do you think of this new reporting? >> it just...

East peace negotiations. >> right. >> that makes all of this an even more important question, right? >> right. its been well reported that the president clearly has the authority to do this. no one is certain of whats in the memos to put it in the file, the personnel file by then chief of staff general kelly or white house counsel don begin. to classify those as alarming memos, they could be simple hr housekeeping. to be clear on clearance here, there are two specific pieces to a security cleara...

The depth of the relationship and his feelings about kushner. im not going to waste time going into that tonight. >> thanks, chris. this matters. >> lets start with just a macro thing. am i wrong to have serious reservations about whether this president can be believed? >> well, this is -- i write this pretty extensively in the book, chris, this is the biggest problem with having family in official positions in the white house because its much harder to be objective. its much harder to handel it...