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Have one tool in his arsenal that is sharp and ready. ready to go for that kind of prosecution. the highest profile felony prosecution in recent years of a person who made misrepresentations on his or her applications force security clearance is a prosecution handled last year in the u.s. attorneys office in the southern district of new york in conjunction with the fbi. the person they prosecuted was a dea agent who made misrepresentations on his security clearance application. that dea agent wa...

Ready to go for that kind of prosecution. the highest profile felony prosecution in recent years of a person who made misrepresentations on his or her applications force security clearance is a prosecution handled last year in the u.s. attorneys office in the southern district of new york in conjunction with the fbi. the person they prosecuted was a dea agent who made misrepresentations on his security clearance application. that dea agent was tried and convicted last year and tried and sentence...

Names and afterwards, to go days before the fbi was going to interview him, they amended it with this meeting we have been discussing. this is not a political decision, it is a legal one. as a prosecutor, you cannot prosecute somebody for falsifying a document because they were negligent or failed to disclose. i am impressed with the idea that his team said from the very beginning, the day after it was submitted, we are going to amend this document. i know there are lots of other data points out...

Participants in that meeting. because he was asked to list all contacts with foreign governments as part of his security clearance application. and the information he provided was radically incomplete. and he -- my understanding is he revised it at least twice. >> three times actually. >> okay. and so if he intentionally failed to to disclose the information that he was required to disclose, he could face liability under a federal criminal statute that prohibits providing false statements to the...

[ snoring ] progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto. [ chuckles ] all right. lawmakers on both sides-the-aisle are alarmed by recent revelations on a meeting between the trump team and a russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential campaign. jared kushner was the only person in that meeting who now holds a government title and he didnt disclose that contact on his original security clearance application. now democrats are calling for the pr...

Meeting between the trump team and a russian lawyer between that 2016 presidential campaign. jared kushner was the only person in that meeting who now holds a government title. he didnt disclose that contact on his original security clearance application. now, democrats are calling for the presidents son-in-law and top adviser to have his security clearance revoked. here now is cnns tom foreman. >> reporter: inauguration and the presidents son-in-law files his first papers for a security clearan...

Individual did, in fact, have ties to russian intelligence. >> i dont know the answer to that. certainly thats something our committees going to want to find out. >> reporter: and also mr. schiff making news on some other front as well, saying that jared kushners security clearance should at least be suspended, this being in light of mr. kushners failure to include some key information with meetings as part of a security clearance application. kushner also was at that trump tower meeting, of cou...

Campaign. that means his security clearance application appears to have been incorrect. we smoke tonight to a lawyer to handled this for over a decade. that lawyer told us that omitting that kind of key information on a security clearance application would get any normal attorney fired from the department of justice. fired. that said, the phrase any normal attorney is not one that applies easily to any matter of this administration. got a lot more ahead tonight. stay with us. steve was born to m...

The first people to read these e-mails after they were sent last year -- the first people to read them this year were jared kushners lawyers. consider this package in "the new york times." mr. kushner supplemented the list of foreign contacts three times, adding more than 100 names, people close to him said. so people close to jared kushner are telling "the new york times" about jared kushner updating his security clearance application. team kushner is obviously an invaluable set of sources for ...

Or anyone in his family had had any foreign contacts with any foreign persons in the last seven years. he checked no to that. we now know since he filed this form that that was an incorrect answer. he has sense admitted to contacts for example with the russian ambassador during the campaign. that means his security clearance application appears to have been incorrect. we spoke tonight with a lawyer that handled criminal issues at the justice department for over a decade. that lawyer told us that...