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Involved with his security. >> and here's what jared kushner's wife said about her husband's security clearance just three weeks ago. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues, but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> joining us now, an expert in security clearance is ben rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser to president obama. he is now an msnbc political analyst. and ben, we're seeing -- this "new york times" reporting is very clear tonight. very i think authoritative that the president obviously interfered in thi...

>> and here's what jared kushner's wife said about her husband's security clearance just three weeks ago. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues, but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> joining us now, an expert in security clearance is ben rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser to president obama. he is now an msnbc political analyst. and ben, we're seeing -- this "new york times" reporting is very clear tonight. very i think authoritative that the president obviously interfered in this process. we just saw th...

Lowell is telling, perhaps he didn't have all of the information. >> i didn't deal with ab bbe. i do know abbe. he's a smart lawyer. >> let me just read you his statement. his statement is -- in 2018 white house and security clearance officials confirmed mr. kushner's security clearance was handled in a regular process with no pressure from anyone. that was conveyed to the media at the time and news stories do not change what was affirmed at the time. new statements certainly change what was affirmed at the time. >> i don't know what abbe knew at the time and what these individuals were tellin...

Staff john kelly to grant his 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...

Look, this is really premature. they only just took over the committee. they only asked for these documents in early february. like, let's give it some more time before we rush ahead. but democrats are really itching to get to the bottom of this. and they're also weighing whether to issue subpoenas to get their hands on some documents related to the white house security clearance process. so, democrats are going to huddle monday night. they're going to do a tragedy session. how do we tackle not only just this hearing on wednesday with cohen, but how do we tackle these subpoenas? they're also b...