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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...

Really does need to step up and look into this. >> and, ashley parker, it makes a mockery of all of the ordinary staffers who have to reveal everything they've ever done and be held to the standard of not presenting a blackmail list. i want to read something your paper reported. top justice department official alerted white house two weeks ago to ongoing issues in kushner's security clearance. two people said the deputy attorney general told don mcgahn, white house counsel, the justice department had obtained important new information suggesting it could be an obstacle to kushner's clearance p...

Harm to his own appointees at the nation's top law enforcement agency. >> and to himself, right? for the first 240 years of this republic there's been a real cardinal rule. do not get in a fight with law enforcement agencies that have subpoena power. and instead, trump seems to think it's his weekend hobby. every sunday he tweets out some mean thing about the fbi. he's going down a road he is not going to be able to walk back. >> will it end in a conviction? >> we'll see here. let me make one other point about the pdb. the president's daily brief is the most important thing in the white house....

Have been charged with in the mueller probe include lying to federal investigators and money laundering, right? >> absolutely, absolutely. those are obviously big things. they don't get to that level to trip up security clearance. it's a pretty low bar. you know this. i mean, a lot of -- >> i barely made it. >> well, a lot of relatively minor things. and we've got a situation here where jared kushner is an international businessman, contacts with people around the world, lots of business dealings over the last 10, 12, 15 years. a lot of entanglements. these are complicated things. you're the c...

Word. should kushner receive a pdb? >> no one who doesn't have high level security clearance should have access to that information gs investment. what we don't know is whether his failure to get this clearance triggered this downstream of people who also couldn't get clearances. that is an unknown, but it's dangerous in any government office, particularly in the white house. >> peter baker, ashley parker and joyce vance, thank you so much for starting us off. we're grateful. whether we come back, the memo donald trump and devin nunes never wanted you to see. we'll explain it to you and how it...