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Statement to the "new york times," this is the first one, quote, in 2018 white house and security clearance officials affirmed that mr. kushners security clearance was handled in the regular process with no pressure from anyone. regular process, no pressure, no story here. thats statement number one. then tonight we got statement number two from abbe lowell, quote, whatever the accuracy or not of recent news stories we were not aware of nor told of any request for or action by the president to b...

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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 the 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 horse trading for some personal benefit, then you have an a...

Of any request for or action by the president to be involved in the security clearance process. again, officials affirmed at the time that regular process occurred without any pressure. they told me it was regular process. i mean, abbe lowell seems to be saying there, dont ask me. ask them. ask the white house. mr. lowell was not aware of nor told of anything the president might have done about ordering up a top secret clearance for jared kushner over objections. can we actually -- i dont know i...

His son-in-law jared kushner, something the president has repeatedly publicly denied that he did. >> theres been a story in the news in the last two weeks about your son-in-laws security clearance. >> yeah. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule security officials, the career veterans? >> no. i dont think i have the authority to do that. im not sure i do. >> you do. >> but i wouldnt. i wouldnt do it. jared is a good -- i was never involved with his security. ...

You would be done at that point. he got a lot of special treatments here. >> take us through a little bit of folks hearing of the security clearance process and the executive branch for the first time. all of this different area of government that dont get a lot of attention from day-to-day and a lot of procedural stuff gotten new attention of the trump era, take us through how this process would work in jared kushners position? >> well, thanks, steve. suddenly clearance is hot in washington and...

Means committee will join us in a 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, a member of the house oversight committee, tells axios that the committees are zeroing in on the moscow project, the russia...

Additional bricks that you can use to build that wall. >> congressman lloyd doggett, i know when you became a member of the house ways and means committee, you thought as all committee members thought, that the most controversial pressurized thing that youll ever handle is tax legislation, because thats what usually is the most pressurized think in a congress. here you are now on the ways and means committee at the very center of this investigation and we really appreciate you joining us tonight...

This week he wrote a piece for "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 that i read, which is lawrence tribe in effect 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 dr...

Today kellyanne conway was asked about that. >> was the president involved in the clearance products? >> we dont discuss security clearances, but i will tell you the president has the right to do what was described. >> 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...