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Shan wu is here, former prosecutor. as paula mentioned, trump's lawyers are in touch with the u.s. justice department to at least start the process of getting these security clearances to work and to try the case. walk us through how that works. >> they are going to be seeking a hurry up process known as an interim clearance. there won't be time to finish a full background. they will interview neighbors, people that they had gone to school with. but to get the interim in place, the fbi can work quickly on that. as paula said, i would expect them to be able to complete that process within a few...

Has never added up and this looks like an enormous scandal. >> it really is an incredible scandal. we found out a little bit during the rob porter scandal, the white house staff secretary who had been granted an interim clearance and allowed to handle classified information even though the white house had been informed by the fbi that there were credible allegations of domestic abuse by not just one but two spouses and domestic partners of his. that sort of told you there was something wrong with the security clearance process and since then we've found out it wasn't just rob porter, it wasn't...

Make a living for me and my family. it's chilling to think what this could mean to the future of bringing in people that we need for intelligence gathering in this country to secure the people of the country. ye >> there's a distinction in the federal government between career employees and political appointees. i was a political appointee at department of homeland security. most of the folks in the intelligence community, the analysts like our guests here and our guest who was at the fbi, were career employees. there should be no -- no political screen whatsoever to career employees. none wha...

Of the criminal deep state? >> this term deep state has been thrown around. i would say employees that worked for me at the cia nearly uniformly were aimed at achieving the president's objectives and america's objectives. >> the president of the united states said there a criminal deep state. pompeo told lawmakers he believes no government organization is exempt from malfeasance. jared kushner's lawyer said he was questioned for a second time by robert mueller in the russia collusion and contacts with foreign nationals last month. kushner was interviewed by mueller's team last november. the ...

>> pompeo told lawmakers he believes no organization is exempt from malfeasance. jared kushner's lawyer said he was questioned for a second time by robert mueller in the russia collusion and contacts with foreign nationals. also potential obstruction issues. kushner was interviewed by mueller's team last november. the attorney says kushner team believes he is now finished with all ongoing inquiries. >> in the meantime, jared kushner cleared the security clearance. he lost the interim clearance in february. his initial application failed to list a dozen foreign contacts that he included in th...