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Anything past him as if its out of bounds. that jumps out to me as a national security threat. especially if it is regarding nuclear programs, which by the way, cannot be declassified by anybody, including the president. theres a law that says the ultra sensitive programs such as our nuclear programs, cannot be declassified. >> it doesnt get more classified than top secret sci, sensitive compartmented information. it doesnt get more classified than that. >> thats right, but even within, there ar...

What to do, told him to shut the government down, this is their peak of power. if they cannot punish him or make him pay for not getting them a wall where does their power go maria, tara, barbara, david, thank you all very much. coming up, that security clearance that jared kushner waited over a year to get, it may not shock you to hear this, but it turns out top-level security officials neverwanted him to have it at all. hi there, this is a commercial about insurance.

Plot to destroy america. maya, ever heard of anything like this, four levels of security clearance, the cia has to grant you the top one and they refused to give that to jared kushner but this person who was situated in a person to essentially bring in people, carl klein, just overruled and overruled, and got him a clearance. ever heard of anything like this >> i never heard of anything like this. you know, as counsel to the mooar of new york city the mooar has to request a security clearance to...

Coming up, donald trump dabbles in witness intimidation. we found out how jared kushner really got his security clearance. and weve got to talk about how trump shut down the government for 35 days only to wind up exactlwhy ere he started stay with us well be right back. janice, mom told me you bought a house. okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ camera shutter clicks ] so, now that you have a house, you can use homequote explorer. quiet. im blasting my quads. janice, look. im in a meeting. -janice, look...

Is we always feared. this is what we were worried was going to happen when the president broke with the custom of not bringing his kids in and family they brought jared kushner in, ivanka trump in, there were obvious, clearly identifiable foreign influence concerns, foreign personal financial too is, extensive foreign contracts and travel, that the two adjudicators said no, makes complete sense to me. >> malcolm, as we put up a couple headlines that happened while donald trump was president abou...

My name is jared kushner, i am senior adviser to president donald j. trump. let me be very clear, i did not collude with russia nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. >> donald trumps son-in-law had so many foreign entanglements that two career security specialists at the white house recommended that he not receive a top security clearance citing concerns about potential foreign influence on kushner thats according to two sources familiar with the ma...

Agency on that was the director of the national intelligence. okay. i held a top secret s.c.i. security clearance when i was a warrior most of my adult life. there are members of congress that know how to keep secrets. we have your house intelligence and the senate intelligence committees. they are sworn to things that most of us never see. get to the bottom of that. if there is something sensitive it doesnt mean you keep it from congress. we, the people, govern ourselves by concept. the governm...

Was there before, she also knows he doesnt have any good answers to this, and she wants him to step up there. it sounds like sarah sanders is trying to cause problems for john kelly. >> look, what sarah sanders is saying is i lie blatantly and professionally for donald trump i dont lie blatantly and professionally for you, john kelly. so why dont you go up and lie to the american people for yourself directly because the whole story is unraveling. what were going to find out, lawrence, is this in...

In white houses, held stop secret sci clearances and when the investigation was done, our clearances were made permanent. so in this case when that investigation was done, his temporary status was not shifted to permanent, why not? who decided to maintain him knowing that he could not get a permanent clearance in a position on a temporary status with access to the nations most closely guarded secrets? and how many more people in and around the president and in and around the nations most closely...

Is -- >> youre talking about jared or porter? >> well, both. >> both. >> and so -- and then the process really slows down. and then they go, what the heck are we going to do? and do we tell the fbi director, do we tell mcgahn? so when it takes that long a time, theres a problem. theres a larger problem which coats identified which is this clearance process is broken. so this take takes, in my exper, six months was the fastest. nine months was bad. then it would take a year. >> lets be clear -- >...