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To divest themselves completely and separate themselves from their previous businesses. this is a little different in this administration. we re not used to having so many really rich people serve in government who have run private who have run private companies. and this is why you don t hire your son-in-law or your daughter, you know. this is why there are nepotism laws, and so even if there is no conflict let s just say there isn t any conflict. there is an appearance of conflict when you re jared kushner and you are meeting with these bankers or you are meeting with the chinese, or you are meeting with the russians, which is all under investigation. so, you know, no matter which way he turns, he has issues even if it s only of appearance. they ve gone out of their way not to do anything about it. but it is beyond appearance. this actually seems like he s doing his company s business while sitting in his white house office. even if you give him the ....
i mean, you know, again, neither of these companies denied the sequence of events, and neither of them deny that the loans took place or that the meetings took place. jesse drucker, appreciate it. thanks very much. back now with the panel. for all the concerns about, you know, business dealings, i mean this is exactly why those concerns were in place. well, this is why you have an office of government ethics. this is why people are supposed to divest themselves completely and separate themselves from their previous businesses. this is a little different in this administration. we re not used to having so many really rich people serve in government who have run private who have run private companies. and this is why you don t hire your son-in-law or your daughter, you know. this is why there are nepotism laws, and so even if there is no conflict let s just say there isn t any conflict. there is an appearance of conflict when you re jared ....
Conflicts anyway, but you can make the same money being a relative of the president than being in the white house. it is an stephanie said, it is unforced errors. added layer of scrutiny and possible violation that didn t need to be there. the country wasn t hankering for ivanka and jared to be in the white house. there is a reason why we have nepotism laws which, on a very sort of technical basis, don t seem to apply here because they don t apply to the white house necessarily, the way they apply elsewhere, but you have it so you know the people in these key jobs are there because they re the best people for the job. they re going to be judged under the same standards as everybody else. you have relatives of the president that came into the positions. they didn t divest themselves from their businesses. you don t know if they re now getting a pass for things that anybody else would have been kicked out for. jared kushner trying to do a very sensitive job now without maximum securi ....
President likes to put this all on twitter, which creates continues the chaos that on the front facing outward that this white house continues to put out. they like to beat that back and say everything is fine. when you have the top of the government doing this, over and over and over again, it doesn t really create a lot of calm frankly. and particularly, as we re getting to as mueller apparently or reportedly is looking into jared kushner, this is why nepotism laws exist. you you have someone who could be closed in on and so close to the president that he might not remove him. i m not familiar with the security clearance being downgrade and someone still sticking around. perhaps it s happened. but this certainly seems like a very a continually unusual situation in the west wing. scott jennings, you worked inside a white house, jackie used the phrase in a normal ....
Oversight specifically and hearings about jared kushner and how this process worked? absolutely. i have already introduced a bill called a clearances act that would require the white house to provide to congress everyone on interim security clearance and if it s over a year to explain why it s been over a year. this is one of the examples of why we have nepotism laws and don t want nepotism. you can t have the president sticking people into the white house because of blood and not because of qualifications. are you concerned that there are national security vulnerabilities that may have already been exploited? absolutely. and you know, i ve been asking for a long time, why does jared kushner still have a security clearance. now i get to ask why does he have a downgraded clearance. why should ivanka have a security clearance. she has no qualifications, no foreign policy experience. why was she communicating with the president of south korea ob some important north korean issues? ....