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Of the committee last month. quote, i have asked you repeatedly to join me in investigating critical failings in our nations security clearance processes and trouble og irirregularities with the clearances of senior aide to donald trump. today in light of the news going on right now, congressman cummings sent the chairman another letter this time asking again for an investigation into the white houses practices around security clearances and now particularly asking for information about former s...

President and to manage the processes and input that comes to the president. but as the chief of staff, your mandate is much broader an that. you are setting a tone for the staff and making public statements and certainly going to capitol hill as john kelly did this week to talk to lawmakers of what the white house position is and what you are willing to accept and not accept. and hes used this rhetoric this week about doca recipients and undocumented people who could potentially qualify for dac...

Them by the federal government. they learned in news accounts. now they have been pulling them out learning more from the i.g. investigation. the inspector general. so i think were going to see more of those -- more of that information but it does fill out the picture and it naturally leads to where this really hasnt gone to this point. there hasnt been a whole lot of discussion about whether the president signed off on whether it was the russia collusion stuff or the clinton email thing. but yo...

On the hill more, he stopped and talked to reporters, mentioned the daca recipients, dreamers too lazy to get off their haases, doubled down late into the evening. keep in mind, this is -- im racking my brain here. phil or nicolle, jump in. this is a crises of management for john kelly. much was made when he came in, both privately to us to reporters and publicly. according to my sources as well, he was going to put some processes in place for personnel. that was the thing. he wasnt going to sto...

Right now, erica. we do know that the white house has received that memo, the president now has five days to decide whether hes going to block the release of that memo and the press secretary sarah sander s issued a statement saying they had a memo and said as stated many times, the administration will follow the same process with the minority. there will be serious backlash if the white house tries to block the release of this memo, especially even though the white house maintained their using ...

Urging president trump not to sit down with special counsel robert mueller over concerns he could get caught lying. cnns abby phillip is at the white house with more on that. a lot to unpack this morning. >> reporter: thats right, erica, good morning. president trump is now in possession of that democratic memo. as he is deliberating on what to do with it, there are accusations swirling from democrats that thement preside the white house might decide to redact things for political purposes. the ...

Now the democrats want their memo to be released, will the president do this? >> i think he will have to. there is not a good reason for him not to release the democratic memo when he did release the republican memo. but were seeing an entirely different process here. remember that the vote to release the democratic memo was unanimous. all the republicans on the committee voted for it. while all the democrats voted against releasing the republican memo. you just saw adam schiff the top democrat ...

Democrats will give him the $25 billion for a wall. the question is how much will they give him and how much is he willing to take. to me thats where this debate begins and ends. this proposal, while bipartisan, you know, john mccain isnt exactly republicans favorite. hes not donald trumps favorite republican. im not sure thats going to get anywhere other than it being introduced or proposed and going away rapidly. >> democrats are pointing to the march 5 deadline for dreamers. a federal judge d...

Between the trump white house and the intelligence committee. and that impact could be felt far beyond these borders. joining me to discuss, samantha vinograd. you said this is a crisis of intelligence. how, why? >> we relied so heavily on foreign intelligence relationships when it comes to russia. our partners are able to go places where we cant go, israel, the united kingdom, japan. were in a scenario now where the whole framework for whether a foreign intelligence partner should share intelli...

Here? this would be because, invariably the democratic ploim undermine his argument that he is vindicated by what has been revealed. >> ive learned not to predict what the president will do. >> you made the point earlier. already, there process which is secret by intention, this is some of the most sensitive he intelligence issues. is it a good thing necessarily to kind of expose this to the public eye? >> theres a reason theyre meeting in secret and i dont think it would be appropriate to testi...