clearance and that denial was overridden by a political appointee, do i have that right? not a political appointee but a political career in the trump administration administration move twoxt in the white house thought jared kushner was unfit for military secrets. and it was because of the things we all know, foreign entanglements, meetings he had with russia during the campaign, things that would get normal person disqualified for security clearance foreign contacts, they take it seriously, even to a faumt you re supposed to disclose every foreigner you met over the years that is sometimes very difficult and unfair, but those are the rules and the rules were not applied to mr. kushner there s another beat to this too actually, this hand 30 other times to other white house officials who remain unnamed, and that is unprecedented. and then when kushner was trying to get another type of clearance for sensitive compartment information, the really juicy
stuff the nsa intercepts, cia, source reporting, that went to the cia and cia communicators went back to the white house and said how did you give him a top secret clearance from what i understand, the secret service did not give him that top security clearance and many don t understand how he s overseaing middle east peace if he doesn t have access to the most sensitive intelligence. that s a very good question thank you all very much for your insight tonight. when we come back, i m joined by senator ben cardin talking about the end of one shutdown and whether there s another one on the horizon
with the cia director who of course has heard it herself personally in the turks and other intelligence that the cia maintains a relationship with. does it make a difference, does it offer more gravity that the cia has assessed this when turkey already said it believed that the saudis were behind it and implications were that the crown prince would have weirded it to have that many more resources devoted to carrying out a killing like this? yes, it does. when you get not high level of confidence that the cia has apparently indicated that this reporting has, it s all source reporting. so it s not just one human source, it s not just one foreign intelligence service, it s not just a conversation with the turks, it s a wide variety of collection mechanisms, all of which would have come together to indicate, you know, what happened. and, of course, my concern here, there s two of them. the first is the president has shown this inclination to really like autocrats and dictators. that s
people close said the problems related to online gambling and mishandling of his taxes, those problems prevented him from gaining clearance necessary for his job. according to one law enforcement official, the secret service is investigating mr. mcentee for these issues. so today we added secretary of state, the nasa administrator, head of the forest service and the president s person l assistant. anybody else going tonight? msnbc multiple source reporting that trump s of mike flynn is due out any day now, is due out by the end of the month. they got wind at the same time we did the embattled secretary
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