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Got his top secret security clearance. yesterday to the "new york times", this is the first one. quote, in 2018, white house and security clearance officials affirm that mr. kushner's security clearance was landhand handled in the regular process with no pressure. tonight we got statement number two from abbe lowell. we were not aware of nor told of any requests 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 lowe lowell...

In one case may even have caused the death of an individual in order to extort money out of people who were the royalty of saudi arabia. he claims jared kushner gave him that enemies list. that is not a normal use of intelligence processes that we have. could donald trump say i did this, i gave him as essential adjudicating authority i gave him this clearance? yes. but if at any point that information is found to be in the hands of our enemies or is found to have been traded off in some form of horse trading for some personal benefit, then you have an article of impeachment. >> john, what do y...

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. ...

Trump looks like when she's lying. "the new york times" reports that white house counsel don mcdpm mcgahn and white house chief of staff john kelly were so concerned about the president ordering a security clearance for his son-in-law that they each wrote memos in which they clarified their objections to the security clearance for jared kushner. tonight overnight committee chair elijah cummings sent a letter to the white house saying that they have, quote, stalled, ekwquivocated and failed to produce a single document or witness to the committee about security clearances. today harvard law pro...

But i will tell you that the president has the absolute right to do what was described. >> late today jared kushner's lawyer, abbe lowell, issued this statement, quote, whatever the accuracy or not of recent news stories, mr. lowell was not aware of, nor told of any request for or action by the president to be involved in the security clearance process. again, officials affirmed at the time that the regular process occurred without any pressure. meanwhile, house oversight chairman, elijah cummings, has given the white house until monday to turn over documents as part of its investigation into ...