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Statements coming out of the justice department officials and the white house and the like. but it would be really helpful if he, himself, clarifies exactly whose statement this is, whether it's from him and the counsel's team, period, or whether it had to be cleared. i can just tell you from a white house perspective, you would be really anxious to get your hands on that and have a clearance process before he goes public. you would be really anxious. it's just in the nature of the beast of the white house. you know, they try to be protective of the president. >> yeah, i'm sure they would beg,...

Notification that it has arrived but there t won't be any kind o immediate report delivered to either congress or the public. >> we're hoping that that will happen, andrea. >> we may not even know. >> we may not even know, it may be there now for all we know and they're deciding to roll it out. some people think it would make sense for them to take the report and make sure barr has something to say about it before they acknowledge receipt. if they say, hey, we've got the report, there's going to be a firestorm and all kinds of pressure on barr to tell us what's in it. >> before they release an...

This. and now jared and ivanka and the president does it. why? >> he thought he would look bad if people knew that he did it. he was sensitive to that when he told mcgahn and kelly to grant the clearances and he was sensitive to it when he told the new york times that he didn't do what he actually ended up doing and he understands the contours of what's happening here and a bit of context -- >> lying about it is a better choice? >> yeah. >> leading up to this, the reason we kind of got to this point was because of the rob porter scandal which forced the white house into this come to jesus mome...

Annie. >> that was about concerns raised by don mcgahn and john kelly. there were concerns about his family business ties with foreign governments and leaders and going back to the beginning of the clearance process also, he had failed to disclose some meetings with russian officials on his first original form. those were not mentioned at the cia red flags. we don't know what they raised. we know various intelligence agency and within the white house, concerns whether he should be granted the top clearance were raised and over ruled by the president. >> let's talk about motivation, i know it i...

Contemrainuoconte contemporaneous notes. what else did john kelly see or what else does he have notes on? democrats have been on this for a while. they've thought there was something fishy in jared kushner's clearance process. now the fact they believe they can link that directly to donald trump himself is going to make this probably a top priority, maybe top five among their investigations this year. >> it's a remarkable moment. we'll come back to the president's speech and some of the political calculations later. no hanoi summit deal but praise for kim jong-un that stuns the parents of an...