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White house grounds with mr. obama's chief of staff. tonight, the same man appears on track to become one of the most influential people in the trump white house, maybe without a title. the incoming chief of staff spoke about him on nbc's "today" show. >> i think jared cushner, obviously his son-in-law, is going to be very involved in decision making. >> reporter: trump's 35-year-old son-in-law, married for seven years to ivanka, is considered shy and avoids the spotlight. >> he's very good at politics. >> reporter: but in the trump white house, his power will likely be considerable. >> i thin...

>> people are incredulous. usually, top secret clearance is determined by virtue of the job you are in. and so as far as i can tell, no member of the family, his children or son-in-law, can have jobs inside the white house because of very strong nepotism rules. they don't have to be paid, so jared cushner could be an informal outside adviser. but i don't know how an informal outside adviser gets top secret clearance. we were just talking before, a spouse may get that by virtue of being the spouse, because documents are in the white house and you cohabit with the president of the united states....

Investors, the jewish community in new york city, and also the media community. >> reporter: he bought the new york observer newspaper when he was 25, and once tried to buy the los angeles dodgers. he didn't have a formal title in the trump campaign, but sources say he was among the candidate's most trusted advisers. one source telling cnn that cushner was intimately involved in the decision to fire corey lewandowski last summer. said to be intensely loyal, he once pushed back against his own newspaper, which accused trump of being anti-semitic. cushner, an orthodox jew, wrote that trump embra...

Contenders for secretary of state. wolf? >> jim, thanks. good reporting for us. jim acosta reporting from outside trump tower in new york city. let's get more on all of this. republican congressman adam kinsinger of illinois is joining us. thanks for joining us. >> you bet, wolf. >> cnn just learned that trump is seeking top secret security clearances for his adult children, including his son-in-law jared cushner. what is your reaction to that? do you think they should have this clearance? >> it's hard to tell. it depends on what level of top secret. there's a lot of people, by the way, in the...

Think sort of what role if any would they have in the white house. interestingly, by law, they cannot serve in any cabinet positions, but they could be advisors. >> that law that you're referencing, that's a federal that dates back to 1967 that says that no federal official from the president on down cannot hire someone in a federal capacity may hire or promote a relative. so the big question is to hear what kind of a role they will have. they may still have an informal capacity role like they had in the donald trump campaign. and pointing to jared cushner, donald trump's son-in-law, this coul...