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There. it may simply be that he was trying to encourage them that -- to tell what he remembers is the truth. remember this is how it happened. we've got pictures. we were friends. you need to help support that story and refute these false allegations. that's a different matter. there's two problems with that though. one is that candidates are often told don't work on your own investigation, you know, a person who represents himself has a fool for a client. let us, the professionals at the white house and the justice department, take care of your background and dealing with all those. involving...

Accusation from decades ago could completely unravel someone's life. and that essentially isn't fair. and i think what both sides have to do is try and get to the truth in expedient manner. you can't necessarily delay this for political gain because that will ultimately hurt democrats. >> melissa: maria, is it fair to come forward with this type of accusation and not follow through? >> >> maria: i think she is trying to find a way to follow through the death athletics the fact that she has it h. to leave her home and hire private security. that's not okay. that's not acceptable. no one should ...

The president. we know from reporting he doesn't read. but we also know jared does. what sort of oversight function is available to congress to try to understand the handling of sensitive classified information inside donald trump's west wing? >> you know, congress absolutely has an oversight function here. there's been a little bit of a pulse lately, but we've not seen any full-on effort to take this into consideration. but you, like i know, i had a security clearance for 25-plus years, and it's not a check the box kind of thing. it's important. it has real significance for the work that peop...

Between what we know to be true, that jared kushner is potentially a witness who is of interest in the mueller probe. he's also been up in front of at least one of the intel committees. i believe it was on the house side. what he knows and what he did and when he knew it and when he did it is of interest to those investigating russian collusion. >> there can't be any doubt that the subject of the investigation the fbi is doing also poses difficulties for fbi agents trying to give kushner a background clearance. and, nicolle, you know like i do, when the fbi has the priority on background clear...

Follow-up information in july. they can't answer it until november. if you want to close these files and get people through the process, everybody needs to cooperate. this surely wasn't such a difficult question that it took july, august, september, and october to get an answer back. then they close the file in january. by the way, this is february. this is one month after january. you can make this time line sound -- >> are you blaming the fbi? >> i'm saying the process is broken just like dan coats said it was broken. whoever is supposed to be doing these clearances, they're either asking th...