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Have one tool in his arsenal that is sharp and ready. ready to go for that kind of prosecution. the highest profile felony prosecution in recent years of a person who made misrepresentations on his or her applications force security clearance is a prosecution handled last year in the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york in conjunction with the fbi. the person they prosecuted was a dea agent who made misrepresentations on his security clearance application. that dea agent was tried and convicted last year and tried and sentenced in february and one of the lead prosecutors...

Ready to go for that kind of prosecution. the highest profile felony prosecution in recent years of a person who made misrepresentations on his or her applications force security clearance is a prosecution handled last year in the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york in conjunction with the fbi. the person they prosecuted was a dea agent who made misrepresentations on his security clearance application. that dea agent was tried and convicted last year and tried and sentenced in february and one of the lead prosecutors on that case is named andrew goldstein. and andrew go...

Names and afterwards, to go days before the fbi was going to interview him, they amended it with this meeting we have been discussing. this is not a political decision, it is a legal one. as a prosecutor, you cannot prosecute somebody for falsifying a document because they were negligent or failed to disclose. i am impressed with the idea that his team said from the very beginning, the day after it was submitted, we are going to amend this document. i know there are lots of other data points out there that are troubling, the backdoor communications but it has nothing to do with whether he fals...

Participants in that meeting. because he was asked to list all contacts with foreign governments as part of his security clearance application. and the information he provided was radically incomplete. and he -- my understanding is he revised it at least twice. >> three times actually. >> okay. and so if he intentionally failed to to disclose the information that he was required to disclose, he could face liability under a federal criminal statute that prohibits providing false statements to the u.s. government. >> okay. so mr. trump's lawyer, let's make certain everyone knows, it's just his p...

[ snoring ] progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto. [ chuckles ] all right. lawmakers on both sides-the-aisle are alarmed by recent revelations on a meeting between the trump team and a russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential campaign. jared kushner was the only person in that meeting who now holds a government title and he didn't disclose that contact on his original security clearance application. now democrats are calling for the president's son-in-law and top adviser to have his security clearance revoked. cnn's tom gorman has ...