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Setting off alarm bells there? >> obviously hes got a sprawling real state empire with foreign countries. only recently his major investment on fifth avenue got huge infusion of cash associate would a wealth fund. these are potential avenues of foreign influence on him. a concern that anyone would norm vale to mitigate. and lets go back to the beginning. he didnt fill out his initial security clearance form correctly. for a normal applicant, that would essentially youd be done. so he got lot of ...

And so in that way every time you interview a witness or look at documents, you uncover additional bricks that you can use to build that wall. >> congressman lloyd doggett, i know that you thought that the most controversial pressurized thing youd ever handle is tax legislation because thats what usually is the most pressurized thing in a congress. here you are now on the ways and means committee at the very center of this investigation and we really appreciate you joining us tonight. we hope yo...

Of people with security clearances who have to open up their lives, who have to show their financial records, who have to follow the rules to keep a security clearance, when the people at the top can abuse that privilege, you know, at will. and so i think theres a lot of people working for this president, working for this administration who really feel that theyre part of an unfair process. >> malcolm, the fact that the president is out there saying i didnt do what sources inside the trump admin...

Whatever the accuracy or not of recent news stories, we were not aware of or told of any request for or action by the president to be involved in the security clearance process. thats statement number two. we were wondering who is included in the we there? yet another statement came in from jared kushners lawyer abbe lowell, the third one of the last 24 hours and this third one is notably locafocused on abbe lowell himself. mr. lowell was not aware of or told by action by the president to be inv...

And he really markets that, so that when it does come out, and it will come out because there are two contemporaneous memos from eyewitnesses to this process, he will lean back and will say, well, i had the authority to do that anyway. like michael cohen said the other day, its the way that he gets people to lie and say things in an open sort of scheme in which he will give them an inference and they will run with it. so by next week when this comes out, the entire republican party will be sayin...

In one case may even have caused the death of an individual in order to extort money out of people who were the royalty of saudi arabia. he claims jared kushner gave him that enemies list. that is not a normal use of intelligence processes that we have. could donald trump say i did this, i gave him as essential adjudicating authority i gave him this clearance? yes. but if at any point that information is found to be in the hands of our enemies or is found to have been traded off in some form of ...

To be methodical and building a case here, if a case is to be had. we cant ignore criminal activity. but remember, this is the first public hearing, the first. it has to be a process. when we look back at watergate, that was almost a two-year process and it worked. it persuaded the american people that the person they put faith in didnt deserve it. >> leading off our discussion now, democratic congressman lloyd doggett of texas, also with us former federal prosecutor, barbara mcquade and jill wi...

And so in that way every time you interview a witness or look at documents, you uncover additional bricks that you can use to build that wall. >> congressman lloyd doggett, i know that you thought that the most controversial pressurized thing youd ever handle is tax legislation because thats what usually is the most pressurized thing in a congress. here you are now on the ways and means committee at the very center of this investigation and we really appreciate you joining us tonight. we hope ...

I think this impacts on millions of people with security clearances who have to open up their lives, who have to show their financial records, who have to follow the rules to keep a security clearance, when the people at the top can abuse that privilege, you know, at will. and so i think theres a lot of people working for this president, working for this administration who really feel that theyre part of an unfair process. >> malcolm, the fact that the president is out there saying i didnt do wh...

Lying. "the new york times" reports that white house counsel don mcgahn and white house chief of staff john kelly were so concerned about the president ordering a security clearance for his son-in-law that they each wrote memos in which they clarified their objections to the security clearance for jared kushner. tonight overnight committee chair elijah cummings sent a letter to the white house saying that they have, quote, stalled, equivocated and failed to produce a single document or witness t...