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Break all of it down, but first, i want to explain exactly what's going on. there will be some people out there that are outraged about this story, just because we're talking about the president and his son-in-law, who's in the white house. but here's the thing. this story is not about nepotism. it is about national security. that is why we all should care. this morning, "the new york times" reporting that president trump personally ordered that jared kushner be given top security clearance in may of 2018, overriding the concerns of then chief of staff john kelly, then white house counsel, don...

One of the things he's probes is important when you have a secretive debt leverage businessman as donald trump in office. he may have committed zero financial crimes and yet he might be the most leveraged president in american history that foreign interests, foreign bankers have all sorts of power over him that we don't know. >> i think it's highly unlikely he committed zero financial crimes. >> it's part of my job to acknowledge that. >> as important as the mueller investigation is, it's not sufficient because we're trying to find out not just crimes but threats to our democracy. for example,...

To revoke his security clearance. you did this after a nbc report that said he had been rejected for clearance by two white house security specialists and they said don't do it. their supervisor over ruled them president trump was asked about this by the new york times. let me play that exchange. >> tell general kelly or anyone else to overrule security if i believe officials? >> no. i don't think i have the authority to do that. i wuouldn't do it. i was never involved with his security. i know that there was issues back and forth about security for numerous people, actually. i don't want to g...

The big. warm-up is upon us. >> frozen pants challenge. thank you. white house security specialist has been suspended without pay a week after nbc news reported that jah ved kushner's security clearance has been approved. she's been suspended for two weeks for defying her supervisor. clines of the sunt of an article that said he approved kushner's. top secret clearance after it was rejected by two career white house security specialists. two sources familiar with the matter say the specialist made the decision to deny after a background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence...

Government. there are other ways to find these things out. and i don't know whether that's the case in this instance, but it's not impossible. >> ken, there were also questions about your own reporting and our colleague laura stickley's reporting on the intelligence and security cleen clearances, and how the intelligence community's advice and recommendations were ignored. how did that come out today? >> that's right, andrea, this is another one of those questions that poor dan coats clearly did not want to have to answer. this is our reporting, that jared kushner essentially got special treat...