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Grant my son-in-law a clearance. he was actually involved. congress wants to know more details and theyll get their hand ons t hands-on the memo that mcgahn and kelly wrote. this is another scandal at the trumps white house. >> what sort of concerns would they have? if there are concerns that he may have too many contacts with foreign officials, potentially nbs over saudi arabia, what would the nature of the concern be? >> a foreign government may have leverage over someone that would incline th...

The form takes you back and pretty much asks you to empty out what we used to call a roll la index, you have to take >> it requires you to disclose your foreign connections where theres an ongoing relationship or some sort of bond of affection or loyalty. it requires you to disclose your foreign government relationships of course if you look at the trump tower meeting, that was obviously a russian government delegation and it would have been important for jared kushner to disclose every aspect o...

Hp it just that they understand that it might vietnam sirking be that could give foreign powers leverage over somebody in a very sensitive position. rather, jared kushner is apparently negotiating supposedly this grand middle eastern peace plan. if theres somebody out there thats got leverage over him and that could be a now, going back to co i dont knows testimony a o twm and all the investigations moving forward in the southern district of work, be twrks. >> and how do you think, out of office...

Obviously a russian government delegation and it would have been important for jared kushner to disclose every aspect of that meeting, the people he met with and the time and sequence of that meeting. all of these things are required. the form is about 100 pages long. it is pretty in-depth. it requires you to go back seven, in some places ten years, and disclose everything about your family members, your associates, your business and financial relationships, anything that could be a basis for fo...

States and the chairman of the north korean communist party do not want to go ahead with. so thats the first takeaway. the second is that after saying that he would solve this problem, president trump has just discovered why three previous presidents have failed to solve this problem. that to president trump its inconceivable that somebody would want to bomb more than they would want to build hotels along the beautiful beaches of north korea. if youre kim jong-un, youre thinking, if i give up th...

>> he was willing to do that facility, but you wanted more? >> yes, there are other things we found, and that was done a long time ago. but the people didnt know about it. >> including the second uranium enrichment plant? >> yes, we had to do more than just the one level. if we gave up all of that leverage that has taken a long time to build, and i want to -- david, i want to take off the sanctions so badly, i want that country to grow. its got such potential. but they have to give up more. mike...

Doesnt specify we want the whole program given up, did the president just move the goal post on these negotiations? >> i think thats been kim jong-uns strategy here all along because the freeze in nuclear testing happened in november of 2017 before this detente even began and certainly before president trump was engaged, was brought into it by kim and president moon jae-in. i think kims long-term strategy is that the world eventually gets comfortable with him and comfortable with the fact that h...

The limits of reality tv diplomacy. i said well before the second summit that, in fact, the work of discipline, strategic preparation and diplomacy was critical if we were going to achieve any success here. unfortunately that proved to be true. there was a lack of the strategic building towards understanding what the absolute north korea position would be and whether or not it was possible to find ways to move that. what i worry about is that the president, by giving kim jong-un the internationa...

Coordinated than the one were seeing right now. >> i have one more question for you. this just came in. the north korean vice foreign minister just referred to kim jong-un negotiating with trump, heres the quote. i have felt that he may have lost the will to negotiate. he being president trump. i felt that he may have lost the will -- kim jong-un lost the will to negotiate. >> right. theyre playing to trumps investment in this process. for president trump theres a political benefit to this. he w...

Expressed by the officials. lets talk about this with the former director of the national intelligence, general james clapper. he is a cnn national security analyst. thanks for coming in. you have had a chance to look at this "new york times" story. whees yo whats your reaction? >> as they say in the security business, its a practice dangerous to security to do that when theres the potential for leverage to be exerted by a foreign power or foreign adversary. thats a dangerous practice. it sets a...