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House. heres how this works. the president has an event. they notified the white house pool. the event gets set to start and then they say, okay, white house pool come in. that means the cameras come in, the president starts to speak. information begins to flow. that has just happened. so theyre in there now, speaking now. the cameras are there. in a moment, not sure how long, its up to the president how long he wants to talk and allow those around him to talk. once that is finished, well get th...

The security clearance process. >> it does. and its a very shrewd move by cummings. it was something the republicans were interested in as well, they launched an investigation when they were involved and really got nowhere. and john kelly, when he was chief of staff, acknowledged there were problems with the security clearance process. there were real questions about jared kushner. recall that it was reported that his security clearance was downgraded because he didnt fill out his financial disc...

Investigation into the white house security clearance process, over what he calls grave breaches of national security involving people that he says had access to classified information who shouldnt have. this is an interesting case, craig, because even the republicans on the committee, when they controlled it, acknowledged that there were some problems with the security clearance process, and started their own inquiry last year. they appeared to get nowhere. the white house rebuffed their reques...

Full, top secret sci clearance to review the sensitive documents in the government. there were also issues around rob porter, the former staff secretary accused by former partners of domestic violence. besides that, he got clearance to see the most sensitive documents in the white house. even john kelly, when chief of staff, acknowledged there were problems with the security clearance process. now, house democrats want to air all the dirty laundry. they want the documents, and theyre prepared to...

Counterintelligence worries about russia, running operations in our country to compromise senior members of the government, including the u.s. president and the national security adviser. now, weve got news that michael flynn has been cooperating with the special counsels office, offeri ining significant, substantial contribution, and he should serve no prison time. what hes been cooperating about, were not allowed to know because its ongoing investigations. in that context, politico.com was fir...

Happening on foreign intelligence services and others who look at the united states, what kinds of questions are they asking themselves as they watch this spectacle? >> i suspect they look at this as they looked at other recent episodes here where you have the president taking a position that is contrary to the intelligence community and his national security establishment and, again, they see a president going off in one direction, sort of attacking the intelligence community. because thats wha...

Keep their heads down and do not enter the spray. and they said in that letter that they are not entirely comfortable with everything that has been said, with everything that john brennan said, but they felt that the plitization of the security clearance process and the threat that that could potentially pose for current officials, which would be career ending for any of them including bruce orr, the mid-level justice official who is now under threat rhetorically from the president. that is what...

Cannot reveal. the way they see it he is exploiting the use of his security clearance and his supposed access to these documents or his supposed access to these past documents as a way to push a political narrative against the president, which he never once testified to under oath before congress. so they are saying that his use of that authority is an abuse of the security clearance process that it gives a veneer of authenticity to what hes saying. and so they would like to remove that veneer o...

Is of course secret and he cannot reveal. the way they see it he is exploiting the use of his security clearance and his supposed access to these documents or his supposed access to these past documents as a way to push a political narrative against the president, which he never once testified to under oath before congress. so they are saying that his use of that authority is an abuse of the security clearance process that it gives a veneer of authenticity to what hes saying. and so they would l...

There is a reporter who would ask a question about the situation with john brennan who will bring that information as quickly as possible. >> lisa: all i was going to say is that i find it a little bit rich for the guy, john brennan while he was at the home of the cia had to apologize to senate intel committee members and then lying to them, so i find it a little bit rich that he is bemoaning abuse of power when clearly he is at the helm of the cia, abusing his power. or looking back, i do not t...