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Decisions based on the facts before them. >> there are two theories. the first theory is that this is about paperwork. they didn't fill the paperwork out the proper way. especially in jared kushner's case, contacts with people that would make hairs on the back of the neck go up. so they slow walked the paperwork. the president got frustrated with it and he went ahead. the second theory is they had good reasons not to want to give it and the president overrode it. >> this is within the president's powers to grant security cleerpss. you've established this. >> right. >> at the same time, the pre...

The autonomy to make these decisions not for any sort of political favor, but based on the facts before them. >> there are two theories. the first is this is about paperwork. they didn't fill out the paperwork the right way. they kept adding to it, especially in jared kushner's case. adding contacts with people that would make hairs go up on the back of the neck of an intel type. they didn't like it. so they responded by being slow walking on the paperwork and on the clearance. the president got frustrated with it and he went ahead. the second theory is they had good reason to not want to give...

Ivanka trump. >> exactly. for those of us who have gone through the tedious for process of filling out these clearance forms, there's a reason they're adjudicated the way they are, and we need a clear answer why jared is so needed to have this clearance that they overrode the cia's concerns about jared and his foreign contacts. chris: what about the argument, hey, i'm the president, i got elected, i trust him? >> he has the authority to do it, chris, you're right. he got elected, he can do it. it doesn't mean he should do it, and it certainly doesn't mean that congress should not can tough que...

In terms of the conversation about the legal situation surrounding the president which is that we're shifting away from this collusion narrative that we've been given for the last two years and instead talking about campaign finance issues and things that are much more under the purview of the southern district of new york. and that's going to be, i think, the legal challenge for the president moving forward. in terms of what democrats on capitol hill are going to do with this information, this all is taking place in the context of the push backed by the democratic base for impeachment of the ...

Under those circumstances, did it make sense to even hold this summit? >> well, you never know what the north koreans are actually going to come with or if they're going to adhere to it, and a big part of the problem here in all these discussions where the experts are saying, well, the north koreans will give up part of their program, and the u.s. will release some of the economic sanctions that has bedeviled prior administrations is the problem of incommence rabbit. and what north korea has done consistently in the past is promised to denuclearize and then, by the way, not do it to get econom...