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Investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. according to three people familiar with the discussion, the post also reports, quote, the justice department officials said rosenstein did not provide any details to the white house about the matters that need to be investigated related to kushner. with me to talk about this is ken thomas, white house reporter for the associated press, my former colleague, and frank figliuzzi is back with us. frank, thank you for sticking with us. i'm going to start with you because you have an understanding of be...

Security clearance process but he's going to make an exception, frankly, for the president son-in-law because of their access and relationship? and that's not the way security clearance is supposed to take place. the process is supposed to evaluate someone's loyalty to the united states, their trustworthiness, financial entanglements that would affect their decision making and ability to have trust in receiving classified information. nobody has a right to classified information. nobody's entitled to it. it is an access that one is granted if normally they meet the requirements to get that acc...

General kelly make that decision, and he's going to do what's right for the country, and i have no doubt he'll make the right decision. >> all right, so was that leaving it up to general kelly or was that leaning on general kelly, carrie? >> well, so general kelly husband a real decision to make because in his recent memo what he said is he's going to cleanup this process, but he also left room for him to make exceptions. so the question is he going to have a new process and say the white house is going to follow security clearance process but he's going to make an exception, frankly, for the ...

Scandal, including eliminating interim clearances that have been pending since june 1st of last year. the new guidelines were slated to take effect today. all this as "the washington post" reports tonight that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein alerted the white house two weeks ago that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. according to three people familiar with the discussion, the post also reports, quote, the justice department officials said rosenstein did not provide any detail...

"the washington post" is reporting that in a phone call two weeks ago, deputy attorney 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 investigatio...