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Both of you. ken, tell us what the story is, nbc news reported white house security officials initially rejected jared kushner's application after a background check which raised concerns about a potential for foreign influence. so, i guess if donald trump can legally arrange to get him clearance, why would he deny having done that? >> the only reason that makes sense to me, ali, is that they were trying to avoid embarrassment. you know, the notion that there was nepotism at play here, that donald trump was going to cast aside the rules and the bureaucracy for granting security clearances and ...

Obstruction evidence. >> that same committee also turning its attention to an associate of trump and cohen. late today it announced that felix sater who worked with cohen on the trump tower moscow deal will testify at a public hearing march 14th. our panel standing by to join us, but first we want to go to one of the four reporters on this multiple sourced, multiple by line breaking story. washington correspondent mike monaco joins us tonight by telephone. this was troubling enough. this development with jared kushner's security clearance application that senior aides were hiding contemporaneo...

Late today it announced that felix sater who worked with cohen on the trump tower moscow deal will testify at a public hearing march 14th. our panel standing by to join us, but first we want to go to one of the four reporters on this multiple sourced, multiple by line breaking story. washington correspondent mike schmitt joins us tonight by telephone. this was troubling enough. this development with jared kushner's security clearance application that senior aides were hiding contemporaneous evidence in realtime about the case that can't be a good sign. >> no. there was deep concern about this ...

Monaco joins us tonight by telephone. this was troubling enough. this development with jared kushner's security clearance application that senior aides were hiding contemporaneous evidence in realtime about the case that can't be a good sign. >> no. there was deep concern about this and how the process was playing out. and these folks wanted to document how the president had overridden what the intelligence community was saying, what his own white house lawyer, the white house counsel, don mcgahn who recommended that kushner not get this. but the president controls security clearances. it's so...

Kushn kushner's security clearance application. she has a rare form of dwarfism. she filed a discrimination complaint against her supervisor three months ago, accusing him of discriminating against her because of her height, allegedly moving things out of her reach. according to the suspension notice that's been obtained by nbc news, her two weeks suspension was for failure to follow instructions, defiance of authority. the suspension was first proposed in december by the security office's chief a man by the name of creed bailey. it mentioned in her 18 year career she has not faced any prior f...