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Usually a bit more transparent on the counterterrorism side. they generally don't when it comes to other activity. >> paris, should jared kushner be running the peace process? should he be requesting as ware told he is, more than anyone else in the white house, classified information and research if he can't get a permanent clearance? >> i think like the president said that's up to the chief of staff general kelly. but i don't think there's anything improper about what jared is doing given the portfolio that he has. if you're going to be leading the white house efforts on peace deals and a lot...

Background investigation because the applicant of security clearance may be the subject of another investigation. mueller's looking into kushner's financial ties, and it may be a situation where the fbi can't put a stamp on the investigation because there may be ongoing issues. i know the relationship between the fbi and the white house is usually a bit more transparent on the counterterrorism side. they generally don't when it comes to other activity. >> paris, should jared kushner be running the peace process? should he be requesting as ware told he is, more than anyone else in the white hou...

Mortality were lost long before, good riddance." how do you protect the people who are leaked to represent the american citizens? >> christine, i read that, there's no doubt in my mind that is an overt threat. there's nothing implied there, that is a direct and overt threat. it's difficult. i go back again to the resources. i think that we're going to have to take a look at this and we're going to have to -- again, it goes back to money. we're going to have to staff up law enforcement agencies to investigate these type things. we have a robust cyber division in the fbi. the secret service has ...

And identity and ethnicity of the background, i don't think there's any doubt from an outsiders perspective that the fbi is taking, what they said very seriously, that it is a potential terrorist attack. >> reporter: absolutely. and you know, an individual in the law enforcement community in d.c. that has a lot of stuff on the counterterrorism side of things messaged me that the last name that's being reported by the l.a. times and by the father's being true, and i was told by law enforcement, it has an either egyptian or eastern, libyan normally denomination. it's triable, they're very easy t...

Counterterrorism side, security side, you are trying to find out who were these two individuals who were traveling? >> absolutely. i think you're really looking at four things if you're the counterterrorism guys today. one, you really want to know who those two are. and you -- those are the hardest people to identify because they had false papers. >> right. >> two, you're still going to look at the other passengers, what connections they had. three, you're going to look at all the intelligence, before, during, after, to see if there is anything credible about people being involved. and last bu...