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About wanting to strengthen the loopholes in the background check process. i think some of the democrats on the senate side who aren't running for president work with the white house to try to work on that piece of legislation. i was one of eight republicans that supported that in the -- when it passed the house of representatives. i also hope as we look in appropriating funds for -- the next fiscal year, 2020, that we make sure the department of homeland security has enough money to focus on countering violent extremism. and violent extremism is more than just islamic terrorism. it should be ...

This country and that people in both parties find it imminently reasonable that folks would undergo a background check. yeah, i think we're headed towards a process here. are the extremes of both parties trying to derail with things that can't pass or ideas that would derail the whole thing, i hope not because i think most people are aware, the polling says they are, yeah, a background check is imminently reasonable. >> and i want to bring the others into the discussion right now but the house has passed two measures, one of them is a more universal background check, and one of those types of ...

Security clearance as a special gift from dad. according to cnn, president trump pressured his then chief of staff john kelly and white house counsel don mcgahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser, ivanka, a security clearance against their recommendations after red flags were raised during her background check process. it's the same thing he reportedly did for his son-in-law, ivanka's husband, jared kushner, who trump says is a good boy, and so he has top-secret security clearance. that is just one of the ways that it's weird, really weird, to have trump's family working in the white hou...

Been a lot of talk about ivanka trump and clearance lately. and it's not just about the slashed prices on her made in china fashion stuff. no, it's the new report that says that ivanka got her security clearance as a special gift from dad. according to cnn, president trump pressured his then chief of staff john kelly and white house counsel don mcgahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser, ivanka, a security clearance against their recommendations after red flags were raised during her background check process. it's the same thing he reportedly did for his son-in-law, ivanka's husband, jare...

>> let's remind viewers of what ivanka said just last month about security clearance. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> that's exact opposite of what you've learned, right? >> it is exact opposite. several sources tell us it's feasible that she was unaware of the red flags that were raised during her background check process as well as the president's involvement in it. a person familiar with her process, she didn't seek nor have outside counsel involved in her process as no issues were ever raised. a separate person added she was noti...