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Provide regarding e-mails on wikileaks and a, quote, russian back door overture and dinner invite. so what's your read on kushner's behavior? >> well, john, at the beginning my read was, this was a very uncareful young man who was simply not used to dealing with the federal government or with the security structure in the federal government like folks with my background have to deal with every day. and i think he quickly learned -- and here's some good news out of this story. the government, the security clearance process, stood its ground. foreign means foreign, all means all, and they held t...

In saudi arabia, nato, of course, 28 member nations, including the united states, g7, six other nations apart from the united states. but what will be the focus when he goes to saudi arabia? very likely tackling the threat of isis. we heard from general mattis, now defense secretary james mattis, when he went to saudi arabia in april, barely a month ago, saying that saudi arabia is a key pillar in the u.s. security structure within the region. the united states looking to saudi arabia as a key gulf ally there for security, and indeed, on building up strength and support to tackle the problem o...

That there are multiple points of failure here in the security structure at the white house. by the fact that he came in through the northwest courtyard of the treasury building, he had to go over multiple fences to go into the south grounds, and also he circumvented a lot of intrusion alarms on the treasury side and the white house complex side. this is actually very, very disturbing. i think it's important to note, and i think it has been reported that the white house elevated to condition orange, which is one of the highest levels of security, and they did not elevate until after the indivi...

Portico. however, what's really important to understand is that there is a security structure on the outside, but on the inside there's also a very comprehensive security posture when the residence -- when the white house is at a condition orange. so this internal layers of security that are very comprehensive, especially when the president is there. ryan reported it was only a few hundred yards away from where the president would be. i would say the president was very safe. they have a comprehensive plan outside the white house but also on the inside. in the event that all the defensive measu...

Standoff distance. you're going to see a lot of physical changes to the location to mitigate a lot of different threats. >> reporter: if there were a threat, agents would have less than a minute to bring the president and his family to safety. >> remember, we have to extract him from the top of this building. how do we do that? how do we do that safely? how do we notify our law enforcement partners there is this action? >> reporter: all questions that not only need to be addressed but put into practice by january 20th. >> right now, it's sort a hurry-up offense. we're trying to rush to get thi...