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Involved with his security. >> and heres what jared kushners wife said about her husbands security clearance just three weeks ago. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues, but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husbands clearance. >> joining us now, an expert in security clearance is ben rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser to president obama. he is now an msnbc political analyst. and ben, were seeing -- this "new york times" reporting i...

>> and heres what jared kushners wife said about her husbands security clearance just three weeks ago. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues, but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husbands clearance. >> joining us now, an expert in security clearance is ben rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser to president obama. he is now an msnbc political analyst. and ben, were seeing -- this "new york times" reporting is very clear tonight. ver...

Lowell is telling, perhaps he didnt have all of the information. >> i didnt deal with ab bbe. 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. new statements certainly change what was affirme...

Staff john kelly to grant his son-in-law jared kushner a top security clearance over the objections of intelligence officials, a move that john kelly found so troubling at the time that he wrote a memo about it specifying that jared kushner got his security clearance only at the order of president trump. then white house counsel don mcgahn wrote a similar memo according to the "new york times." heres what president trump said last month when asked by the "new york times" about whether he interfe...

Look, this is really premature. they only just took over the committee. they only asked for these documents in early february. like, lets give it some more time before we rush ahead. but democrats are really itching to get to the bottom of this. and theyre also weighing whether to issue subpoenas to get their hands on some documents related to the white house security clearance process. so, democrats are going to huddle monday night. theyre going to do a tragedy session. how do we tackle not onl...

>> what do you think about the security clearance process and russian investigation? >> to be honest as a canadian reporter here, i dont have the deep sourcing like someone like peter does -- >> dont assume. >> theres widespread skpas peration against jared kushner. >> they made the point this was the middle east peace negotiation. he thought he could work the shutdown and he obviously wasnt able to. it is worth mentioning as betsy correctly said, if christies account is correct, a correct cavea...

Has never added up and this looks like an enormous scandal. >> it really is an incredible scandal. we found out a little bit during the rob porter scandal, the white house staff secretary who had been granted an interim clearance and allowed to handle classified information even though the white house had been informed by the fbi that there were credible allegations of domestic abuse by not just one but two spouses and domestic partners of his. that sort of told you there was something wrong wit...

He needs. lets work through this security clearance process. the administration has done that. understand they are so focused on stopping the president and not on helping the country. i think well continue to see this. i hope that changes but it certainly doesnt look like it is going to. >> sandra: i have to leave it there. a couple seconds left. how does the shutdown story end? >> if nancy pelosi would get focused on helping the country we would get a solution. lets sit down and negotiate and n...

Co-sponsored and worked on legislation that protect people in the press. when the f.b.i. comes kicking on your door wanting you to divulge constitutional sources. its called freedom of the press. on those issues we can come together and work on it. there is a big difference between where the progressives are and where the freedom caucus is. >> sandra: meanwhile the committee has already launched a new probe. happened actually during this program yesterday that we learned about this into alleged ...

Is not standing with me. i suggest iowa. theres two districts in iowa who both are democrat freshmen who represent districts trump won. maybe thats a place that he goes. >> talk about a pressure campaign. >> no kidding. we have some breaking news. cnn has learned that the house oversight committee, now obviously in control of the democrats, is about to launch an investigation into white house security clearances. lets get over to cnns lauren fox. what are you hearing about this? >> reporter: w...