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From white house staff or sitting in a meeting with officials around the world, i think there are very real questions about whether he solely is focused on promoting u.s. national security interest. >> you know the ins and outs of this. the president said he had nothing to do with getting that clearance. whats the protocol? >> if concerns had been raised by investigators and there had been a recommendation to not move forward with jared kushners security clearance process. as we found out with t...

Involved. listen. >> who made the decision to restore his security clearance? how did that happen? >> the intelligence community and the fbi. it happened in the normal course. it happened the way the happens for thousands of people. there was nobody in the political process that had anything to do with it. nobody who pressured it. it was just done the normal regular way. >> the normal regular way. nobody pressured for it. that was last may. abbe lowell, jared kushners attorney, stating with grea...

He is a con man. and he is a cheat. >> cohen will return to washington to offer more testimony next week. and theres also the issue with trumps son-in-law and adviser jared kushner. now the new york times reports the president ignored intelligence chiefs and ordered his chief of staff john kelly to get kushner top secret security clearan clearance. kelly disagreed and so did the white house council. heres one of the problems. in the past, president trump and his daughter ivanka have both denied ...

Theyre not super-progressive districts. theyre moderate districts. fighting resumed friday as the and this is what makes up the two sides exchanged fire. it follows the return of an house democratic caucus right now. eric: well, you know, al of indian pilot by pakistani course to tez has been getting officials after the fighter jet all the attention. was shot down earlier this week. the darling of the media, so to tensions between the two nuclear speak. but youve got other democrats nations have...

Didnt have all the information. >> i didnt deal with abbe. i do know abbe. hes a smart lawyer. >> let me just read you his statement. his statement is -- in 2018 white house and security clearance officials confirmed mr. kushners security clearance was handled in a regular process with no pressure from anyone. that was conveyed to the media at the time and news stories do not change what was affirmed at the time. even the statement is inaccurate. news stories certainly changed what was affirmed ...

Important committee in the investigative process. it is now clear that democrats in congress intend to use michael cohens testimony this week as the road map for their investigations of the president of the united states. that means michael cohen testimony is the beginning of the beginning of the first serious congressional investigations of donald trump. and one of the first steps in these real congressional investigations of the president will be to obtain his tax returns. the associated press...

Lloyd doggett will join us in a moment. top democrats have told axios that the house committees want to call trump family members to testify with subpoenas if necessary before some committees. besides russia, topics include conflicts of interest, money laundering and jared kushners security clearance and other white house clearances. democratic congressman jamie raskin tells axios that the committees are zeroing on the moscow project, the russia connection and the influence of other foreign acto...

President trump intervened and ordered a security clearance for his son-in-law, jared kushner, something the president has repeatedly publicly denied that he did. >> theres been a story in the news in the last two weeks about your son-in-laws security clearance. >> yeah. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule security officials, the career veterans? >> no. i dont think i have the authority to do that. im not sure i do. >> you do. >> but i wouldnt. i wouldnt d...

Individual tax returns, is, quote, readying a request for years of president donald trumps personal tax returns that is expected to land at the internal revenue service as early as the next few weeks. nbc news has learned. and democrats are prepared to take all necessary steps, including litigation, in order to obtain them. ways and means committee chairman richard neil has asked the committees attorneys to prepare the request according to two aides involved in the process. neal has conducted th...

In russia. this week he wrote a piece for "the new york times" titled "putins one weapon, the intelligence state." he is also a writer for the cipher brief. and malcolm nance is with us, an msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. malcolm, i want to get your reaction to that last thing i read, which is lawrence tribe writing an article of impeachment. if it is proven that donald trump did override the process and order the security clearance for his son-in-law, is professor tribes draft ...