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Revoked during a review of procedures and later restored in may. times reports that then chief of staff john kelly wrote an internal memo saying he was ordered to grant kushner top secret clearance. just a month ago, the president insisted that wasn't the case. >> did you tell anyone else in the white house to -- security officials? the career veterans? >> no. i don't think i have the authority to do that. but i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: "the washington post" reports his daughter pressured her feerth restore the clearance. she denied that a few weeks ago. >> the president had no involvement...

Terms of leading us down this particular path, but just two weeks ago we launched a huge investigation with chairman cummings' leadership to basically unravel this nuclear secret scandal with saudi arabia. there, as you might recall, jared kushner tried to rush secret -- nuclear secrets of america to saudi arabia in return for billions of dollars in contracts that would have gone to companies that are connected to jared kushner. so that's kind of why it's so important for us to get to the bottom of this security clearance process, especially with regard to jared kushner. >> we saw a lot of -- ...

Different things. and i was actually impressed. >> so, jon, the president now goes home to deal with this summit collapse and with michael cohen. >> reporter: in fact, david, michael cohen spent another eight hours on capitol hill behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee today. he will be back again next week and, of course, cohen has revealed that there are further criminal investigations from the southern district of new york, the u.s. attorney there. the bottom line, david, the president's michael cohen problems are far from over. >> all right, jon karl with us here in hano...

Security rules. and these are ethics rules are there to protect the national security, and this is a startling example of it, that you waive the normal ethics rules. you waive the normal disclosure rules, form filling out paperwork rules and the result is that the president of the united states has to personally intervene to give his son-in-law a security clearance that he's not entitled to and then, of course, lie about it. >> so mika, i want to go back to what ben said about the undisclosed foreign contacts. here you have jared kushner who just wrapped up a tour in the middle east. explain t...

Son-in-law jared kushner a top security clearance over the objections of intelligence officials, a move that john kelly found so troubling at the time that he wrote a memo about it specifying that jared kushner got his security clearance only at the order of president trump. then white house counsel don mcgahn wrote a similar memo according to the "new york times." here's what president trump said last month when asked by the "new york times" about whether he interfered in the security clearance process for jared kushner. >> there's been a story in the news in the last two weeks about your son...