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Campaign last year when he was first hired in march 2016, despite having no experience in that arena. theres been reason to dismiss jeff sessions for a long time. we know that he lied on his sf-86 security clearance forms. we know that now that he likely committed perjury and we know about this meeting with kislyak, so when trump is possibly trying to set up some sort of pretext, as if he actually cares about the legal process, and views sessions as anything more than his personal attorney, whic...

It is important for world peace and any normal white house would have disclosed it. the problem with this administration is that the administration, multiple people in the administration and now the trump family have for months been persistly dishonest about their contacts with russians. some of their meetings were illegal like the meeting in the trump tower before the election. other meetings are suspicious, for example, jared kushner meeting with russian bankers. others are perfectly legal and...

Going to foreign governments for opposition research for the dirt on the political and no examples and top three in the trump campaign doing this and furthermore, jared kushner did not disclose these meetings on his security clearance forms. his security clearance should be revoked and congress needs to investigate this. find out what happened. because this was clearly collusion with the russian government and it was a quid pro quo. the government wants release of the sanctions. they may get two...

Have happened. donald trump jr., paul manafort and jared kushner should not have met with them, especially when they were told the reason for it was to get opposition research to help their candidate, trump, and hurt candidate hillary. so that was a bad thing. and i dont think anybody can argue that that wasnt against the criminal sanctions, or the civil sanctions of the election code of the united states. >> then weve got the issue with jared kushner who has filled his forms out now two or thre...

To the fbi, you do not take that meeting under any circumstances. so the presidents defense of his son certainly is wearing a little bit thin with republicans on the hill. >> yeah, pressure on don jr. and pressure on jared kushner. democrats have intensified their calls to remove his security clearance. realistically, what is the like li hood of that happening? >> i think the likelihood is pretty small. i think president trump and people close to him would see that as tantamount to an ad mission...

Democrats, weve actually heard from athe least one republican from the state of texas who said we need a closer look at this. >> you know, when you fill out a security clearance form youre asked a number of questions, including one that asks you to list within the past seven years, any contacts with representatives of foreign government and youre supposed to disclose those below. based on the reports in the initial filing he didnt list any then later updated it to include some and not this one a...

>> the initial rationale, its very difficult and this is true for everyone who fills out these forms, its reelgly difficult to recall and list all of your close and continuing foreign contacts, but guess what, everyone who gets a security clearance has to do it to the best of their ability. it always been said theres a doublendard for senior officials in the white house when it comes to these security clearance forms. in this case its gone beyond what weve seen before, where hes not disclosed mo...

But of course, erin, the backdrop of this is a trip he was hoping to focus on stronger ties with the french president, hoping to celebrate bastille day and congressmen rate americas role in world war i but it is clear he cannot escape questions about russia. >> thank you very much, sara, in paris tonight. lets go to the democrat senator. senator, thanks for being on the show. you just heard reporting from capitol hill. your colleague, senator mark warner raising concerns about jared kushners mis...

Knowing subversion by the son and son in law of the president of the united states when they took this meeting enthusiastically as it says in that email. i love it. donald trump jr. said. im paraphrasing a little bit. that is not about mistakes being made. that is about pursuing a kind of subversion we should never, ever forget about and it needs to be thoroughly investigated. >> it was jared kushners legal team that initially found these emails which caused him to update his security clearance ...

Portfolio which includes the globe. it isnt like the kid -- he isnt a kid. it isnt like he went off on his own. >> kushner is the only personnel who works in the white house. the security clearance is a big question. democrats calling for that to be revoked. the security clearance forms are what have brought out all these supposedly memorable things. >> anyone here who is a republican expert? i know people from the rocky mountains, the south dakota guy. hes okay. orrin hatch. theyre all smart pe...