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So why am i still thinking about this? i'll take aleve. aleve. proven better on pain. congress has, i think, a right and a duty to challenge if there are questions about the integrity of that process. >> that was john brennan on the standoff the house is currently engaged in, refusing to hand over documents related to the security clearance process, including for the president's son-in-law, jared kushner. last week we learned kushner's clearance was obtained via a presidential order and now we find out he may not be alone according to cnn, trump also pressured his then chief of staff and white...

Ruling. this is unprecedented and the fact that he did that, donald trump, i think the congress has legitimate concerns about how he is in fact exercising a legal authority but doing it in a manner that really undermines again the integrity and the purpose of security clearances. >> what are the reasons that security clearances for someone like jared kushner or ivanka 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 entanglements or episodes where an individual is not deemed trustwo...

Open a criminal investigation into whether trump's son-in-law and top white house adviser broke the law by omitting foreign contacts. >> kushner had to submit two forms. the first two were false and misleading. he should absolutely be investigated. >> trump telling reporters the investigations are all about politics. >> basically they have started the campaign. the campaign begins. the campaign is actually going on for the last two fland a hal years. the a shame. when they look at it they say presidential harassment. >> and onto security clearances front the deadline was yesterday for the whit...

How partisan it is? and he seems to be alluding to fox news, saying that part of the reason why the president is protected is because he has essentially a mouthpiece. >> well, i think mr. connolly is acknowledging reality, which is that impeachment is a political process. it's subject to, you know, political reality, which is that it's going to be perceived as being a partisan process unless you convince a significant number of republicans that this is an honest attempt to get to the truth and determine what are high crimes and misdemeanors and proceed from there. i think we've just seen mr. n...

Document requests, as you mentioned. but then the white house, if they choose, can try and slow walk that. any of these document requests and subpoenas for testimony can be held up for at least a year, if not multiple years if the white house wants to litigate those or the parties involved want to litigate those. so one idea of this strategy that nadler is taking where it looks like a fishing expedition, part of that might be to get the ball rolling on what is going to start out being negotiations back and forth between the committee and the white house and the different parties involved. then...