classified information the big question is why? because we don t know yet, at least. is it because he had multiple errors and omissions in his previous security application? is it because some of those omissions included meetings with russians? is it because of the complexity of his own business ties? is it because it s not cheer who he was working for during the transition. he had business he was trying to divert from or the government? is it because he s been interviewed in mueller s investigation, is eight combination of all of those reasons or none of them? this comes as white house chief of kelly moved to overhaul the security process. as mnbc learned, 130 people working for the president did not have permanent security clearances. those were figures as of november 2017. politico notes, kushner is not aloneful all white house aides working on the highest-level interim clearances at the top
and jared kushner does not have a security clearance. and the reason he cannot get one is because apparently, he cannot get one. there was controversy from the outset about his security clearance two days before the inauguration, jared kushner made his initial application for a security clearance. he reportedly listed zero contacts on that application with foreign governments. this is after his meeting with the chinese and secretly meeting with the emiratis, and the trump tower russians. all of those foreign meetings, he disclosed zero foreign meetings initially on his security clearance application. mr. kushner then repeatedly sent new updates, supplements, each time, listing more and more foreign contacts, he had previously neglected to disclose. there has been controversy around his security application already. but jared kushner s process of trying to get a security clearance started a year ago, started in january.
get one. there was controversy from the outset about his security clearance two days before the inauguration, jared kushner made the initial application and reportedly listed zero contacts on that application with foreign govr governments. this is after his meeting with the chinese and secretly meeting with the trump tower of russia. all of those foreign meetings he disclosed zero foreign meetings initially on his security clearance operation and mr. kushner sent updates, supplements to the application each time listing more and more foreign contacts. there has been controversy around his security application already. but jared kushner s process of trying to get a security clearance started a year ago, started in january. quote, as months passed, some members of the white house received their permanent security clearances but kushner continued to wait for high level
the lawyer for white house senior adviser to the president s son-in-law, jared kushner, accusing senate investigators of playing what he calls gotcha games with his client. this is after the senate judiciary committee sent a letter to the first son-in-law, saying he failed to hand over key documents covering information on the campaign s contacts with russia. justice correspondent evan perez spoke to kushner s attorney and has the latest from washington. reporter: christine and dave, for months, there s been a growing perception that jared kushner hasn t been up front about russian contacts, from his failure to list on his security application to this past week when the senate judiciary committee sent a bipartisan and public letter to kushner, saying he hadn t turned over documents that the committee knew existed. the committee says that the documents cover everything from campaign contacts with wikileaks to a russian back-door proposal
bannon, jer add kushner, and the king of jordan. now, there s nothing inherently scandalous about the king of jordan or members of a presidential transition team meeting any foreign leaders. it happens all the time. it is unusual that they didn t disclose it. jared kushner initially left the meeting off his security application, mike flynn left it off his security clearance application, we re working on bannon s application. beyond the seekry see the fact it has not been disclosed until now, here s another really acute problem about what buzz feed as reported, democrats on the house oversight and foreign afires committee reported on wednesday morning that another thing mike flynn failed to initially disclose was that he was a paid agent working to advance a business proposition to partner with russian nuclear and