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Statement to the "new york times," this is the first one, quote, in 2018 white house and security clearance officials affirmed that mr. kushners security clearance was handled in the regular process with no pressure from anyone. regular process, no pressure, no story here. thats statement number one. then tonight we got statement number two from abbe lowell, quote, whatever the accuracy or not of recent news stories we were not aware of nor told of any request for or action by the president to b...

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...

Didnt tell his lawyer about that. in fact, his lawyer might have been lied to about this, which is the only reason his esteemed lawyer might have ever lied to the public about it unwittingly. jared might have known, but abbe lowell super lawyer, he was in the dark. dont blame him. thats 24 hours, one guy, all statements on the same thing, and as reporting has continued on exactly this point, this is looking bad in terms of how the white house is handling the story. its also raising questions abo...

Mueller investigation before they started talking about wanting to obtain the presidents tax returns. it now sounds like they have tasked staff attorneys on that committee with pursuing them. >> thats right. >> im struck by the presidents reported sensitivity, specifically on the issue of deutsche bank. his relationship with this bank, his personal finances, his business finances. for maxine waters to that deutsche bank is handing over materials when we know what theyve asked for -- that seems l...

You will recognize this top white house staffer as jared kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to the president. here we have jared kushner and his super lawyer abbe lowell who has been representing mr. kushner in his dealings with congress and the russia investigation and so on. these are the leading news reports over the past 24 hours that say jared kushner got a top secret security clearance last year only after the president ordered that jared be given one. over the objections of intelligen...

A clearance in this -- in this way is one thing. thats a -- thats a whole kettle of fish. i actually -- im very -- my interest is piqued though by the existence of these memos. as a historian, what can you tell us about whether we might ever see those memos? >> well, number one, mcgahn and kelly would not have written those memos saying they objected to the security clearance unless it was pretty bad and they wanted to get on the record that they were opposing a decision that was being made that...