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>> i mean in washington at doj, are there any special procedures that lobbying contacts or maybe who will lobbyists work for before they are given prosecutorial authorities? >> im not sure what kind of person you are speaking with. if you are talking about front-line prosecutors there is a background check. everybody unsure here is familiar with the sf 86, and thats true with the main justice. >> there is no special review for lobbyists that have to be engineers. >> i dont believe theres a diffe...

>> you mentioned that you have made a similar referral of jared kushner to the justice department for reportedly intentionally omitting information multiple times on his security clearance application. do you think that having jared kushner have that clearance is a threat to national security? >> absolutely. i had to throw out these sf-86 security clearance forms, i had a security clearance before entering congress, and right on the form it says, if you make false statements or omit material act...

Yesterday. what is your hope? what do you hope to get out of this by sending this letter and requesting more information on kushners security clearance? >> i already had a security clearance. i had to fill out an sf 86 form. on the form it says if you make false statements or omit material facts, you can go to prison for up to five years. jared kushner not only sent in one false and misleading form. he sent in two. congressman don buyer and i have made a criminal referral to the department of ju...

Compartmentalized information. the ts is granted. the sci was not, is still not granted. i filled this out. i held the clearance before. when you fill out the sf-86, it is not a small document. >> no. >> you have to go back and list. and as you correctly pointed out, anderson, jared is a guy with a vast web of international contacts, and you have to go through your rolodex, and every contact, whether you shook the guys hand or the womans hand, you had tea with somebody to where you had an actual...

Financial transaction must be listed. and if its not, you cant just simply update it. you have to file an amended sf-86. so there is an incredible sequence and dance that goes through here. and if youre like phil thats been doing this for 35 years, its pretty easy because you started and then you updated every year. i met one person in a conference. i did this. when you have to go back for 15, 20 years and list it, its a pretty dogging task. >> but his first form was blank. >> settling it is no ...

We should move forward expeditiously on this. i think the president had a right the say hey, he is my guy in middle east over and overrule this. i dont recollect ever hearing somebody say the president says give somebody who has questions, where we have questions about his background, overrule that. i might be wrong. >> a lot to unpack here, right? as phil knows, there are two different things being debated here as well. there is a ts, a top secret, and there is an sci. sci is specialized compar...

Theres all kinds of software for doing this. it was simply to keep their bar affiliation. we have people who do reality tv or they are news readers and do "fox & friends" carney kind of stuff and of course they arent able to pass any of this. thats how we end up with jared kushner, who cant pass his sf-86 to save his life. >> ivanka trump i dont think can be on a board of a charity in new york. >> exactly. >> but she can represent the united states in munich. >> the last point, to michelles poin...

Whatever the number was, that part of it they got backlog, caught up because so many of the people that president trump brought in, his friends, his business colleagues have extensive business holdings, have extensive foreign ties, because of the nature of their business careers and security was struggling with it. thats not normally what you have with people holding security clearances. most people dont have that. so its very possible that for at least some of it, this was just an issue of a ba...

Background investigations. the lead comes from the white house to fbi headquarters. headquarters put whats is called the sf 86, a 136-page application together with identifying who, when and what should be interviewed. its very specific. sometimes it includes the specific questions that we should ask. we go out, we conduct those interviews. in the course of me interviewing someone, i develop information that may be unknown to the white house. it may be derogatory. may be otherwise. im not author...

So, mark, this report that kavanaugh was involved in a bar fight in 1985, does this factor into the investigation, do you think? >> it wouldnt normally. on the sf-86 the standard national security form even as a federal judiciary nominee, he does not require security clearance by virtue of his position he is deemed to be trustworthy but they still fill out that form because its a great first set and then has a senate application paperwork he fills out too. but being questioned by the police woul...