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When you are in this business, and you have a change in administration and somebody says the president of the united states would like to have this person get security clearcleara they will not want to say, mr. trump, thank you very much, but we kind of decided we don't like for political reasons your son-in-law. they want to give him a security clearance. there's one other thing that goes on. you can't pick up the phone to security people. if you say, by the way, i would like to see what happened in the polygraph and i would like you to interpret what you think about mr. kushner's security ba...

Security background, i want to go to you first. but has a right to give this clearance to whoever he feels like he needs to. so why is -- why are they continuing to make a big deal out of this story? what is in there that is the copter to the president? >> morgan: i think it's because jared's attorney is refuting the story and saying that it's not accurate. the interesting thing is that we reportedly -- no one has seen it may be the house committee will get a hold of it. there's reportedly a memo by the chief of staff at the time that he was ordered to give the clearance, and jared and his tea...

Do a wall, what are we going to do? >> the problem is because washington, d.c. is dominated by politics, it's not dominated by an actual policy discussion. you well know, coming from a security background, we should start from a needs assessment. we should start from a basic study that is nonpartisan, apolitical in nature as we figure out what the threats are and how we can fully fund them. nobody, especially myself here, is saying we should not fund national security and border security. the question is not a wall or no wall. the question is do we do something stupid and waste money, or do we...

Hospital. why? administrati administration's travel ban. there is her son on life-support there. doctors say he may not have much longer to live. >> the issue is his mother is living in egypt. she's not allowed to come to the u.s. because of the white house's travel ban. these things have real effects. now the family is working with the state department to get her an expedited humanitarian visa. we are at the hospital in oakland california with more details. is there any evidence, dan, that she had a security background that required her specifically to be banned from entering the u.s.? >> rep...

Analyst and senior fellow at the heritage foundation. you can talk about what it's like to protect high profile people. they do a little different way that they roll. the mail center that was collecting mail for residents, that's different, but the actual people, what is that like and how does that change for the individuals we know about? >> this is a good illustration of how things have changed since 9/11. the response we have is built on not just the terror attack in new york but the anthrax attack after that. with high profile officials, the screening of mail is much more common and when i...