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This morning, a standoff between the white house and congress as the administration brushes off a bipartisan request from the house oversight committee for more details about now ousted white house staff secretary rob porter. now in an cnn exclusive, a top democrat is urging the chairman to push back. sunlen serfaty joins us live with the latest on that. >> reporter: congressman cummings is calling for the house oversight committee to issue a subpoena for information relating to the rob porter scandal. you'll recall that rob porter was the former white house staff secretary who resigned last m...

This diplomatic breakthrough? >> well, as i said, these kinds of sanctions have been imposed since 2015 or thereabouts. so it has been a process that bringing us to this pass. so here we are, and what i'm concerned about is are we going to be prepared to deal with north korea, kim jong-un, and the way that is going to lead to denuclearized north korea. this requires preparation. right now, one would think that it is the state department that should lead these efforts and we have kind of a hollowed out state department and that so many people have left the special envoy from the state departmen...

Downgraded? >> anderson, if suddenly ivanka trump got a top secret security clearance, there is no one in her orbit coming out with this information. obviously, we saw the case with jared kushner was, it was not only his financial dealings, but also the mueller investigation that prevented him from obtaining this full security clearance. but the reality is, because these two people are married, their background checks, their security clearance process has an impact on one another. ivanka trump could be impacted by her own business deals or by her husband. we do have a comment from a representa...

Officials are investigating wunl of her international business deals having to do with the trump international hotel and tower in vancouver, canada. what is this about? why is this deal attracting such scrutiny? >> well, it's an interesting one because it's not entirely clear what it is about this deal that attracted investigators's interest. ivanka trump was the point person on this and it works in very similar ways, a lot of these trump organization deals do. the trump organization doesn't actually buy the building, but they strike up this licensing and branding deal. in this case, the devel...

Trump had an interim security clearance. do we know if hers has been downgraded like her husband's? >> if suddenly ivanka trump got a top secret clearance, we don't know. and obviously, we saw the case of jared kushner, it was not only his financial dealings but also the mueller investigation that prevented him from obtaining the full security clearance. because they're married, their security clearance process has an impact on one another. ivanka trump could be impacted by her own business deals or her husbands. we do have a representative for ivanka trump down playing this, saying cnn is wro...