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Had to lie about it. if they didnt think theyd done something wrong, then why did they feel like they had to lie about it? the second thing is the career professionals go through this and they look for, lawrence, whether theres any vulnerability in giving someone a security clearance. and they make a recommendation based on that investigation. and clearly they felt there was a vulnerability in giving jared kushner a security clearance and trump as the president can overrule them. i think what sh...

Steph? >> my goodness. all right. i want to bring my team in here. ken dilanian, who covers intelligence and national security for nbc news. rick tyler, a republican strategist and cofounder of foundry strategies. jason johnson, politics editor at theroot.com. josh gottheimer, a democratic congressman from my home state of new jersey. which means, sorry, guys, josh is getting all of the time this morning. and malcolm nance, executive editor of the terror asymmetrics project. ken, ive got to go t...

Lie, you find a way to slightly nuance it. when you listen to the interview with maggie haberman, it was flat out -- id like to come back to something you mentioned. ive been watching in and i have my doubts as a businessman as to exactly what jareds agenda here is. jared seems to be spending a lot of time in countries and people that is a lot of money. in saudi arabia, in qatar and and i sometimes wonder if jared is thinking as much as jared and the kushner familiar think and their next life an...

You at every turn and try to diminish your credibility and try and attack you. and because these are just anecdotes theyre going to try and discredit these anecdotes. and as hes hearing this, actually representative adam schiff, whose committee he was in front of today, was on television talking about the presidents financial documents. and it jogged something in cohens memory. and he said, wait a minute, i have some financial documents. i think theyre in the boxes that were returned to me from ...

Your suffering, it wasnt at the hands of north koreas leader. we put faith -- i trust him. i just cant imagine how they must feel this morning and yesterday hearing those comments because this is a president with no humanity, with no empathy and no decency. thats how he crafts his policies, thats how he can go and send jared on his mission to saudi arabia, thats how he can continue to look people in the eye and say hes out there trying to help make america great again. he is not trying to do any...

From at least four countries 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 securi...

>> no, i dont think i have the authority to do that. im not sure i do. >> you do. >> but i wouldnt do it. >> you never -- >> jared is a good -- i was never involved with his security. >> i want to bring in "new york times" white house correspondent, annie karni, who co-wrote todays article. annie, this is some extraordinary reporting. help us understand this. the president, he has the authority to give this kind of order, so why wouldnt he just admit it? >> thats the biggest takeaway here. thats...

The de facto chief of staff. mick mulvaney is the first chief of staff in there who has not challenged the seniority of jared and ivanka, has realized that thats the way this place works and nothings going to change that. jared kushner just met with hamd bin salman earlier this week abroad. he is in the middle of working on his long-awaited middle east peace plan. so this is a high-stakes moment for jared kushner to have to be answering these questions about why they all tried to pretend it was ...

In may after jared and ivanka complained to their father, father-in-law about this, trump ordered john kelly to grant the top secret security clearance to his son-in-law, and kelly was so alarmed by this that he wrote a contempt rain yus memo to the file to record the fact that he was ordered to do this. he was skuconsultanting with do mcgahn what was also not in favor of the clearance to kushner. mcgahn also recorded a record that contradicts what trump has been saying happened. >> yeah. ben, a...

To know precisely because other countries might be able to leverage jared to get that information. >> isnt one of the vulnerabilities that youre referring to the fact that jared kushner was seeking financing from saudi arabia, seeking financing from the very people that he was meeting with in saudi arabia? >> exactly. and so the scenario youd be worried about, right? is that they can blackmail him, that they know they have leverage over him. they know that perhaps hes seeking deals with them or ...