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The white house. sarah, i want to turn to your reporting on ivanka trump. u.s. counter intelligence 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 act...

Chief of staff john kelly revisiting one of the biggest scandals to plague the white house, in order to defend himself. anklecy clarifying exactly what he knew about rob porter, the former white house aide who was fired when domestic violence allegations surfaced. michael bender is with us now, white house reporter for "the wall street journal." michael, you were in this meeting with john kelly. tell us what he revealed. >> it was a lengthy meeting with john kelly. he spent quite a bit of time talking about the security clearance process and the handling of rob porter's security clearance in p...

Information that ended up on personal servers, etc., all of the compromising situations that she was in with regard to the clinton foundation, etc. this is such small potatoes. the way the media is playing it up, on the front page everywhere, when certain people, by the way, in the obama administration, either lost their security clearance or didn't get security clearance they should have had, that wasn't big news back then. >> the list of people. it wasn't one or two people inside the white house in limbo, i guess is the best way to put it, because there was such a backlog for security cleara...

Clearance at the white house earlier today. the questions are coming in response to a change made here at the white house by chief of staff john kelly that will affect white house staffers who are operating on interim top secret security clearances. as a result, those employees, including kushner, will have their access to sensitive materials limited. earlier this month we first reported that more than 100 white house staffers were working with interim security clearances. last friday the president said he would leave it up to the chief of staff john kelly to clean up that security clearance p...

General rod rosenstein warned white house counsel don mcgahn that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. the story continues to say two people said the deputy attorney general told don mcgahn the justice department had obtained important new information suggesting it could be an obstacle to his clearance process. raising the question as to whether information being raised by the robert mueller investigation is the source. today was john kelly's cut off to deny top secret information to those...