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Next to him, serving as advis advisers. maybe theyre concerned about any appearance of nepotism. looks like that, feels like that. i think the president has been conditioned to think i cant overreach on some of these investigations. right? he has been stung quite a bit on that. maybe hes thinking, i shouldnt be perceived to be intervening on things that have a normal course to them, like security clearances. but who knows? the president had the authority to do this. the problem, of course, as we...

Have mary bennett and the family, whos persistent, who are very well known and very well liked within the community, it did give me a lot of leverage when i went forth and said, "hey look, i need time to concentrate specifically on this case." >> reporter: daron pored through the files and hunted down new leads. and then a tip came in, seemingly out of nowhere. >> so a guy from a repossession company calls the police and says, "hey i repod this car earlier today, and there was a folio in the tru...

Theres a certain element of admiration there. the other element of it, we know that president trump does not trust or even like his intelligence bureaucracies, his diplomats, his defense folks and by saying this, hes defying them yet again and theyre own analyses of these leaders. >> the president tried to walk it back. heres a tweet that he lobbed out there. i never liked being misinterpreted but especially when it comes to otto warmbier and his great family. remember, i got otto out along with...

Not, who has clearances and certainly who speaks on his behalf or is an envoi. puzzling, right? but what is interesting here, and youve already covered some of this earlier in your program, is what were the concerns that the intelligence community and the fbi had with respect to giving jared kushner these clearances, the particular elements of leverage that foreign intelligence services or foreign counter parties would have over him and, in particular, with respect to the portfolios he is coveri...

Devoted friends outwardly happy, inwardly who really knew? thats all for this edition of "dateline". im craig melvin. thanks for watching. ching. good morning. im philip mena, msnbc world headquarters in new york. it is 6:00 in the east, 3:00 out west and heres whats happening. on the defense, the white house under fire over jared kushners security clearance. democrats threatening to take action if they dont get answers. >> he has the absolute authority to do that and he trusts jared as me...

Of the intelligence community. you not only receive information and hopefully get the most information available to help the president, to help with the decision making, but you also do things with that information. you share it with counter parties. you come back and you share information with the intelligence community about your communications. and so if there is a rupture in that trust, that then raises questions of effectiveness, raises further questions of leverage. do foreign counter part...

Information possible. they have to be trusted by elements of the intelligence community that have to produce answers to questions, analytic pieces, even collect new information on your behalf to try to make the best policy decision possible. so, at a minimum, i dont know if people have leverage over him or if information has been conveyed in improper ways. who knows? i dont know yet. but the question of this trust and effectiveness is upon us. and i think thats really going to be the first order...

What walks out of the jail along with javier is any leverage you had to get him to name sam? >> yes, absolutely. >> reporter: and now you really are back to square one? >> yes. >> reporter: is that the end? >> to some people. >> reporter: but not to him. and not to mary. you put a lot of faith in daron. >> i put a lot of faith in god. daron was his tool. >> reporter: but for the time being, it seemed darons hands were tied. after all, the case had been rejected by the d.a.s office twice before. ...

Wrongful death lawsuit against the north korean regime. experts say its not likely they will collect much if any of that. what could happen is that the warmbier case kwo could be used leverage in negotiations over the lifting of sanctions. >> ottos parents claim that he had been tortured during his detention in north korea. what do the doctors who examined him say? >> reporter: warmbiers parents said his legs were deformed when he was returned to the u.s. they said it looked like someone rearran...

Real question over whether kushner had the discretion and the judgment to be trusted with american secrets and that these entanglements can be sources of leverage that perhaps there was a deal or something that kushners business wanted to do overseas that would be leveraged. for security clearances, this is pretty standard. there are a lot of easy ways to get disqualified from having a security clearance. financial problems are number one. >> with all of this in your reporting, john kelly, chief...