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A form federal prosecutor, a professor at georgetown law. to malcolm's point about security clearance revocation. there's a very strong case that jared kushner may have committed a felony on his clearance form. what do you see as the sort of legal exposure here, paul? >> i think you're right, chris. this afternoon, jared kushner was a long way away from being prosecuted. now, this evening, i think he's about two accesteps away. he's probably a subject of the fbi special counsel investigation. why? because what was he trying to keep secret? that's the kind of thing that raises prosecutor suspic...

Counsel. but it needs to be successed out. because all of them hit it from their special security clearance forms which means they did not want the united states government to know their activities. that is the point, michael isikoff. meeting with an ambassador, if you're setting up a new government, you're the incoming administration, would seem rudimentary and mundane. you're going to meet with foreign officials, even if it's the russian have. you ever heard of a situation where so many people would neglect to mention or seemingly definitely not meeting with an ambassador on their security c...

Officials, whether they appropriately disclosed enough information on security clearance forms, it would be entirely within the realm of possibility that that person's clearance would be temporarily suspended while that investigation is ongoing. seems impossible or off the table in this case. frankly because he is donald trump's son-in-law. i do think we are seeing a vivid illustration of the pearrils of having family members in the west wing. >> we see confusing statements coming in from gary cohn among others about russian sanctions. will they be changed? will they be strengthened? you have ...

After this. we want to sit down and get his side of the story and be able to get the facts. >> is there any irony to you that michael flynn and donald trump, then candidate trump really condemned people who took the fifth? during the campaign they said that basically spelled guilt when they were referring to anybody who wanted to exercise that right as connected to hillary clinton's e-mails. >> right. it is ironic obviously. we had about -- i don't remember the number now, nine or ten individuals during the obama administration that took the fifth amendment. obviously, none of those were compe...

Rushds y russian officials and the trump administration. the justice department says attorney general jeff sessions did not disclose meetings with the russian ambassador last year on his security clearance forms. cnn's joe johns live in washington. this comes down to, joe, who do you want to believe? sessions said they were told by legal experts they did not need to disclose the meetings. that is one interpretation. >> reporter: that is absolutely right. his critics say he should have known better under the circumstances. the attorney general's office said he was advised listing senate contact...