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The chair, elijah cummings, it already was looking into the security clearance issue, which has opinion an issue above and beyond just jared kushner. the chair wrote another letter today in the wake of the kushner revelations in "the new york times." explain why this is an important issue for oversight and isnt just something that the president can grant or not grant as he pleases. >> well, heres why it matters. the president has had a systemic assault on expertise and civil servants in our demo...

Career professionals. >> indeed. >> one quick point. there is one way to resolve this whole issue, jared kushner right now could request a full spectrum polygraph done by a joint agency, you know, by the cia, fbi and then they can ask him all the questions related to his past just like people bhor suspected of being -- spies and people who want to get special access information. you have to get that clearance. >> hell never do that, right? >> of course hes never going to do that. he has multiple...

Dictator -- >> we get that he wants to not criticize kim, but he didnt need to praise kim in this way. >> you can imagine why it became so hurtful for the warmbier family. >> absolutely. >> as they heard that in the early morning hours in ohio. steve, why the constant friendship and why this president always seem to take the word of foreign dictators? of course, he said he took putin at his word and took mbs at his word after the killing of an american resident and now, yet again, there with kim...

Post" reported that the four separate countries had been caught chattering about how he was susceptible to manipulation because of the things sam laid out, his inexperience, business ties, bad debt. and right now opposite the michael cohen hearings just of this week where was he? he was visiting mbs, the ruler of saudi arabia, the modernizer who the administration has bent over backwards to defend despite his implication in the murder of jamal khashoggi. so everythings bad about this and the pre...

>> i think there are innumerable number of reasons, continuing by the way through the present day. jared kushner was whats happening with jamal khashoggi in the middle of an investigation, excuse me, whats happening with mbs in the middle of an investigation into jamal khashoggis death. he has made every counterintelligence misstep in the book and yet for some reason, and this is the million dollar question here, president trump still wanted him in the white house. president trump is probably th...

Lower level capped by a ceremonial meeting between the two leaders. >> lets talk about your special about saudi arabia. as this past week, jared kushner, one of the presidents top advisers and son-in-law who we learned has a security clearance because the president granted it over the fbi, cia, white house counsel and the chief of staffs objections. he was in saudi arabia. there is all sorts of controversy about mbs. we want your take. lets play a clip and we want to know whats going on inside s...

Kushner in charge of it all. >> this policy was being run on jared kushners whats app directly with mohamed bin salman. and kushner had no clue about the internal dynamics of saudi arabia let alone how to manage such a young man. it was flat out crazy stupid. >> framing it that way, it was being run on jared kushners whats app device, thats how we are doing diplomacy? >> its overreliance on personalities and on the idea that the force of your relationship with this one person will be able to cha...

Warmbier, it is simply outrageous. if you look at that video, otto was terrified. he was being shown on north korean tv, kim jung-un is responsible for his death, period. >> so why then does the president take his word for it, why did he take putins word for it, why did he take mbs word? >> does he want a deal that bad? >> he wants a deal that badly. he is used to falsehoods frankly. and what is interesting here the american intelligence community continues to push back against the president. th...

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 murder of jamal khashoggi who worked for the "washington post" and had residency status in the united states and the president took mbss word and they told me they didnt have anything to do with it when saudi chopped him up with a bone saw. the president could have had a successful week and now he is back where he started in a worse position. >> i wouldnt go that far. he isnt in a worse position. we made progress, he got a message across not only to north koreans but there was a message for ...