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We should move forward expeditiously on this. i think the president had a right the say hey, he is my guy in middle east over and overrule this. i dont recollect ever hearing somebody say the president says give somebody who has questions, where we have questions about his background, overrule that. i might be wrong. >> a lot to unpack here, right? as phil knows, there are two different things being debated here as well. there is a ts, a top secret, and there is an sci. sci is specialized compar...

Actually wrote an internal memo about it at the time. but in recent weeks, both the president and his daughter ivanka, who keep in mind is jareds wife, have denied there was any influence from the top. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule security officials? the career veterans? >> no, i dont think i have the authority to do that. im not sure i do. >> you do have the authority to do it. i know that there was issues back and forth just in reading about secur...

To grant a security clearance to his son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner. it looks like the president overruled the recommendations of his own intelligence agency. >> we have known for a while that kushner had problems. this is a guy when he filed his initial report january 2017 he didnt put any foreign contacts on it. we learned that the last few years the fbi, the cia and others had raised concerns over kushners contacts with a number of foreign businessman tied into foreign government...

Security background, i want to go to you first. but has a right to give this clearance to whoever he feels like he needs to. so why is -- why are they continuing to make a big deal out of this story? what is in there that is the copter to the president? >> morgan: i think its because jareds attorney is refuting the story and saying that its not accurate. the interesting thing is that we reportedly -- no one has seen it may be the house committee will get a hold of it. theres reportedly a memo by...

Negotiations has been very successful in making the world a more peaceful place. >> sandra: even some interesting praise from former vice president joe biden. listen. >> the president did the right thing. he did the right thing by walking away. diplomacy matters. preparation matters. the president treats everything like it is a real estate deal. >> chuck schumer said the same thing on the floor of the senate. the president did the right thing. when it comes to foreign policy democrats have come ...

The son-in-law receiving clearance. kushners legal team responded saying in 2018 the white house and the security clearance officials affirmed mr. kushnerr security clearance was handled in the regular process with no pressure from anyone. that was conveyed to the media at the time. et cetera.ia your reaction to this? >> listen, if true, its bad. its bad in this respect. this is what i write about in the book, laura. having family in the administration is a very tough thing to deal with. because...

Jared kushner, a top secret security clearance. at the time, kushners application had been stalled since the inauguration. according to "the times", both the cia and former white house council don mcgahn recommended that he be denied top secret clearance. but tonight, the paper reports that last year, kelly wrote a memo saying the president had, quote, ordered him to clear kushners path. in an interview with "the times" just last month, the president told a very different story. >> did you tell ...

Discussed ways to manipulate kushner by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience. and punking red lights. kushner upgraded to top secret security clearance over the objections of career officials that rejected his application. who had the power to give jared kushner security clearance? >> im not sure i had the authority but i wouldnt do it. jareds a good -- i was never involved with his security. i know that he, you know...

Intelligence community and understanding the role that jared kushner or ivanka trump will play, number and that raises the question of what was potentially compromised, what the concerns were in terms of leverage that foreign actors could have over both ivanka and jared, individually, as a couple. i think theyre fair game for all us to ask that is a question for all of us to be asking. >> beyond jareds own dealing with foreign countries, i wonder how the act of lying about this whole process cou...

Designation, which is the richest and best intelligence that top officials review. he doesnt have that, unless the president is handing it to him despite his lack of a clearance. >> which of course, steve rattner, as reckless as these people have been in the white house the past two, two and a half years, who knows if hes doing that again. im stub again by hearing republicans acting so shocked that somebody in front of them had told some lies that while they worship at the feet of a man who lies...