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And house speaker nancy pelosi said theyre not off limits. this is not their children at home. and makes requests for documents on the security clearance process, including for trumps son in law, jared kushner. and democratic congressman of rhode island who serves on the house judiciary committee. im so glad you come on, by inway. i have seen a lot of skull dugry unmy life but ive never heard of white house staff people who are theoretically loyal to the president leaking stuff to a committee th...

>> having access and he has numerous unreported foreign contacts and tremendous financial vulnerabilities which make him susceptible to financial manipulation. third and most important almost every law enforcement official who looked at his case and in fact ivankas case said they should not have access to top secret clearance. the president overroad that judgment and then concealed that he overroad that judgment saying he had nothing to do with security clearance process. i think they should vol...

All of it and funded what we need to protect the country, protect the border legislatively but politics is involved in now. >> reporter: democrats will seize on kellys word, places a wall would be effective. this was kellys first public appearance talking about his time as white house chief of staff and pass unanswerable more explosive questions including whether the president interfered in the security clearance process for his son-in-law. rob: thank you so much. jillian: hundreds of people arr...

Information. and, look, this kind of information is put together by cia officers and sources that are putting their lives on the line in order to bring this information to the attention of the president and those around him. to allow somebody who is a risk, a security risk, to access to that kind of information is to not only compromise that information, it is really putting our national security at risk itself. that no president ought to be allowed to do. >> whats your suspicion here, is that t...

False? >> thats certainly possible. we have seen in this scenario with the president and his lawyers and other people around the president and their lawyers that there seems to be some disconnect between what the truth is and what the lawyers have known. one of the lawyers thats being talked about in connection with your question here, the review of michael cohens testimony is abby lowell. in a separate matter a few days ago looked like he was throwing his own client under the bus with respect t...

Necessarily his wife. but now the focus is on ivanka trump as well. >> reporter: thats right. because of the new reporting from me and my colleague kaitlan collins. tonight, the white house is facing these renewed questions about its security clearance process and whether the president gave his family members working here at the white house special treatment after we learned he pressured officials to give his daughter ivanka as well as his son-in-law clearances against top white house officials ...

One to take out the president? what do you say? lets get after it. >> if you got nothing to hide, why dont you comply? the white house rejecting the demand for documents pertaining to the security clearance process. cnn learned from three sources that the president didnt just overrule his aids to get top secret clearance for his son-in-law, he also pressured them to grant his daughter ivanka a security clearance against their recommendations. now this is not illegal, the president has the right....

The white house rejecting the demand for documents pertaining to the security clearance process. cnn learned from three sources that the president didnt just overrule his aids to get top secret clearance for his son-in-law, he also pressured them to grant his daughter ivanka a security clearance against their recommendations. now this is not illegal, the president has the right. but is what he did and how he handled it right? the lying alone is the question. heres what ivanka told us last month....

That story. thats going to wrap up our broadcast on this tuesday evening. thank you so much for being with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. ws headquarters here in new york. this morning, new worries and signs coming from north korea days after president trump and president kim jong-uns summit. plus the investigations into president trump and his inner circle wrap up. investigators are looking into the trump organization insurance policy while house democrats w...

Trump would be held up? would be the kind of objections that would be raised? >> it could be any number of things. there could be unresolved issues about foreign eng tanglementang episodes where an individual is not deemed trustworthy and the security clearance process. its not surprising given the nature of their financial and business relationships that are on going in fact that they were denied. quite frankly, i dont believe donald trump would have except for getting more electoral votes than...