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To prove our innocence. president trump was not asked about the russia investigation. during his news conference with australia's prime minister. but did respond to the white house security clearance controversy. saying he would not overrule the chief of staff. on whether son-in-law jared kushner should keep access to secrets with only interim clearance. >> that will be up to general kelly. general kelly respects jared a lot and general kelly will make that call. >> in a raucous and free-wheeling speech before conservatives, earlier friday -- >> second amendment. >> the president talked gun po...

Explained why to don mcgahn. the white house counsel doesn't have a final security clearance. sara huckabee sanders is on an interim. ivanka trump is on an interim. he doesn't have a clearance. what kind of an insane show are we running here? that's a rhetorical question. >> this is absolutely unprecedented. we have never had this many people in the white house who lack a security clearance. kushner has the worst record of anybody to enter this kind of position and gain this kind of access to classified information. the number of things he left off his forms in terms of foreign investments and...

White house official with an interim clearance whose application for a full clearance has been pending since at least june 1st, that their interim would be revoked, meaning they could no longer handle some of this classified information. jared kushner has been seeking that application since before june 1st. but the white house has been pretty cagey about whether it will apply to jared kushner and how many are affected by this move. so many, including john kelly, thinking the president could intervene to give jared kushner clearance. so they are trying to find a way that jared kushner could obt...

All right, welcome back. today is the day white house chief of staff john kelly said would be the last day some employees with interim security clearances will be allowed to access top secret information. kelly's overhaul comes after white house staff secretary rob porter resigned after accusations of domestic abuse. all of that was made public. well, will the kelly deadline and the new rules apply to the president's son-in-law and top aide, jared kushner? he has an interim clearance as well. cnn has learned some new information about all of that. cnn's jeremy diamond is in washington with the...

Journal" and the flonew yorker. it seems that jared might have a russia problem and a china problem the reason so many people have raised questions about him having the interim clearance and access to the classified information, he not only reads the daily briefs, that the president doesn't always read it. jared kushner reads and it he's been one of the top white house officials who has requested more information than anyone else. he'll go are from having thought access to having zero access. >> this is why company have rules against nepotism. you don't have your son-in-law work in the white h...