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Necessarily his wife. but now the focus is on ivanka trump as well. >> reporter: that's right. because of the new reporting from me and my colleague kaitlan collins. tonight, the white house is facing these renewed questions about its security clearance process and whether the president gave his family members working here at the white house special treatment after we learned he pressured officials to give his daughter ivanka as well as his son-in-law clearances against top white house officials' recommendations. >> a special person. she's worked so hard, as you all know. >> reporter: tonight,...

One to take out the president? what do you say? let's get after it. >> if you got nothing to hide, why don't you comply? the white house rejecting the demand for documents pertaining to the security clearance process. cnn learned from three sources that the president didn't just overrule his aids to get top secret clearance for his son-in-law, he also pressured them to grant his daughter ivanka a security clearance against their recommendations. now this is not illegal, the president has the right. but is what he did and how he handled it right? the lying alone is the question. here's what iva...

The white house rejecting the demand for documents pertaining to the security clearance process. cnn learned from three sources that the president didn't just overrule his aids to get top secret clearance for his son-in-law, he also pressured them to grant his daughter ivanka a security clearance against their recommendations. now this is not illegal, the president has the right. but is what he did and how he handled it right? the lying alone is the question. here's what ivanka told us last month. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. zero. >...

That story. that's going to wrap up our broadcast on this tuesday evening. thank you so much for being with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. ws headquarters here in new york. this morning, new worries and signs coming from north korea days after president trump and president kim jong-un's summit. plus the investigations into president trump and his inner circle wrap up. investigators are looking into the trump organization insurance policy while house democrats want to see tax returns. and new reporting that the president pressured aidi ivanka security clea...

Trump would be held up? would be the kind of objections that would be raised? >> it could be any number of things. there could be unresolved issues about foreign eng tanglementang episodes where an individual is not deemed trustworthy and the security clearance process. it's not surprising given the nature of their financial and business relationships that are on going in fact that they were denied. quite frankly, i don't believe donald trump would have except for getting more electoral votes than hillary clinton would have been approved for a security clearance given the foreign entanglements...