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Got his top secret security clearance. yesterday to the "new york times", this is the first one. quote, in 2018, white house and security clearance officials affirm that mr. kushners security clearance was landhand handled in the regular process with no pressure. tonight we got statement number two from abbe lowell. we were not aware of nor told of any requests for or action by the president to be involved in the security clearance process. thats statement number two. we were wondering who is in...

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 ...

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...

Trump looks like when shes lying. "the new york times" reports that white house counsel don mcdpm 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, ekwquivocated and failed to pro...

But i will tell you that the president has the absolute right to do what was described. >> late today jared kushners lawyer, abbe lowell, issued this statement, quote, whatever the accuracy or not of recent news stories, mr. lowell was not aware of, nor told of any request for or action by the president to be involved in the security clearance process. again, officials affirmed at the time that the regular process occurred without any pressure. meanwhile, house oversight chairman, elijah cumming...

"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 of an article of impeachment appropriate o...

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...

Wife, ivanka trump. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues. b but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husbands clearance. >> the house oversight committee launched an investigations into the white house security clearance process. and today the chairman of that committee threatened to supoon a athe white house for documents related to its subpoena protocol. im joined by democrat from virginia and a member of the house committee. former deputy chief o...

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 actors like saudi arabia. today cong...

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...