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Setting off alarm bells there? >> obviously he's got a sprawling real state empire with foreign countries. only recently his major investment on fifth avenue got huge infusion of cash associate would a wealth fund. these are potential avenues of foreign influence on him. a concern that anyone would norm vale to mitigate. and let's go back to the beginning. he didn't fill out his initial security clearance form correctly. for a normal applicant, that would essentially you'd be done. so he got lot of special treatment here. >> take us through, for folks just hearing about the security clearance ...

And so in that way every time you interview a witness or look at documents, you uncover additional bricks that you can use to build that wall. >> congressman lloyd doggett, i know that you thought that the most controversial pressurized thing you'd ever handle is tax legislation because that's what usually is the most pressurized thing in a congress. here you are now on the ways and means committee at the very center of this investigation and we really appreciate you joining us tonight. we hope you can come back. we'll have to hear more about how it's proceeding in your committee. we appreciat...

Of people with security clearances who have to open up their lives, who have to show their financial records, who have to follow the rules to keep a security clearance, when the people at the top can abuse that privilege, you know, at will. and so i think there's a lot of people working for this president, working for this administration who really feel that they're part of an unfair process. >> malcolm, the fact that the president is out there saying i didn't do what sources inside the trump administration are saying he did do, this is not going to come as a surprise to anyone. this is someth...

Whatever the accuracy or not of recent news stories, we were not aware of or told of any request for or action by the president to be involved in the security clearance process. that's statement number two. we were wondering who is included in the we there? yet another statement came in from jared kushner's lawyer abbe lowell, the third one of the last 24 hours and this third one is notably locafocused on abbe lowell himself. mr. lowell was not aware of or told by action by the president to be involved in the security process. they affirmed at the time the regular process occurred without pres...

And he really markets that, so that when it does come out, and it will come out because there are two contemporaneous memos from eyewitnesses to this process, he will lean back and will say, well, i had the authority to do that anyway. like michael cohen said the other day, it's the way that he gets people to lie and say things in an open sort of scheme in which he will give them an inference and they will run with it. so by next week when this comes out, the entire republican party will be saying he has the authority to do this. >> john, obviously the trump white house is leaking about this. ...