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The white house. sarah, i want to turn to your reporting on ivanka trump. u.s. counter intelligence officials are investigating wunl of her international business deals having to do with the trump international hotel and tower in vancouver, canada. what is this about? why is this deal attracting such scrutiny? >> well, its an interesting one because its not entirely clear what it is about this deal that attracted investigatorss interest. ivanka trump was the point person on this and it works in ...

Chief of staff john kelly revisiting one of the biggest scandals to plague the white house, in order to defend himself. anklecy clarifying exactly what he knew about rob porter, the former white house aide who was fired when domestic violence allegations surfaced. michael bender is with us now, white house reporter for "the wall street journal." michael, you were in this meeting with john kelly. tell us what he revealed. >> it was a lengthy meeting with john kelly. he spent quite a bit of time t...

Information that ended up on personal servers, etc., all of the compromising situations that she was in with regard to the clinton foundation, etc. this is such small potatoes. the way the media is playing it up, on the front page everywhere, when certain people, by the way, in the obama administration, either lost their security clearance or didnt get security clearance they should have had, that wasnt big news back then. >> the list of people. it wasnt one or two people inside the white house ...

Clearance at the white house earlier today. the questions are coming in response to a change made here at the white house by chief of staff john kelly that will affect white house staffers who are operating on interim top secret security clearances. as a result, those employees, including kushner, will have their access to sensitive materials limited. earlier this month we first reported that more than 100 white house staffers were working with interim security clearances. last friday the presid...

General rod rosenstein warned white house counsel don mcgahn that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. the story continues to say two people said the deputy attorney general told don mcgahn the justice department had obtained important new information suggesting it could be an obstacle to his clearance process. raising the question as to whether information being raised by the robert mueller...

Investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. according to three people familiar with the discussion, the post also reports, quote, the justice department officials said rosenstein did not provide any details to the white house about the matters that need to be investigated related to kushner. with me to talk about this is ken thomas, white house reporter for the associated press, my former colleague, and frank figliuzzi is back with us. frank,...

Security clearance process but hes going to make an exception, frankly, for the president son-in-law because of their access and relationship? and thats not the way security clearance is supposed to take place. the process is supposed to evaluate someones loyalty to the united states, their trustworthiness, financial entanglements that would affect their decision making and ability to have trust in receiving classified information. nobody has a right to classified information. nobodys entitled t...

General kelly make that decision, and hes going to do whats right for the country, and i have no doubt hell make the right decision. >> all right, so was that leaving it up to general kelly or was that leaning on general kelly, carrie? >> well, so general kelly husband a real decision to make because in his recent memo what he said is hes going to cleanup this process, but he also left room for him to make exceptions. so the question is he going to have a new process and say the white house is g...

Scandal, including eliminating interim clearances that have been pending since june 1st of last year. the new guidelines were slated to take effect today. all this as "the washington post" reports tonight that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein alerted the white house two weeks ago that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. according to three people familiar with the discussion, the p...

"the washington post" is reporting that in a phone call two weeks ago, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein warned white house counsel don mcgahn that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. the story continues to say two people said the deputy attorney general told don mcgahn the justice department had obtained important new information suggesting it could be an obstacle to his clearance pro...