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Not need another major, high-profile departure from the white house right now. and i think based on all of the trouble that john kelly had over the past couple of weeks, if the president had simply said to john kelly that, you know, despite your policy, pulling back security clearances for people with interim clearances, that jared kushner would still have access to classified information, i think that would have put john kelly in a really tough spot. i think he would have had to have made a decision as to whether or not he was going to stay or go. and i think if he would have left, that would...

Back security clearances for people with interim clearances, that jared kushner would still have access to classified information, i think that would have put john kelly in a really tough spot. i think he would have had to have made a decision as to whether or not he was going to stay or go. and i think if he would have left, that would have been really problematic for the white house. >> lots more to discuss. when we come right back, why hasn't president trump ordered the man in charge of u.s. cyber command, admiral mike rogers, to stop russia's hacking attacks on our democracy? mvo: you're n...

That faces the united states and the significant consequences you recognize already? >> no, i have not. >> you need direct authority of the president through the secretary of defense? >> to do some specific things. there are some things i have the authority and i am acting within that authority now. >> the director of the u.s. cyber command and the national security agency mike rogers telling jack reed that did he d not have specific authority from trump to disrupt russian hacking in the elections. sarah huckabee sanders dismissed the claims at her daily briefing. >> why not give him the autho...

Concerned that 2016 was laying the groundwork for a possible future attack," in other words the russians were casing the joint. the director of national security admiral mike rogers testified today neither president trump nor the secretary of defense has directed him to take any retaliatory measure toward russia. that led to this very tense exchange between rogers and senator claire mccaskill of missouri at a u.s. cyber command hearing with the senate armed services committee. i'm going to try to channel a woman who came up to me at the grocery store not along ago. she asked me, are we strong ...

And by deed. and it is clear he has to show the intent, but having watched him work with our folks on the intel committee, they have teamed up at this point in time to obstruct the investigation at every step. i think those are elements. >> trump has and i think some of the republicans on intel have. >> meanwhile, when asked why the white house hasn't given admiral mike rogers authority to count ker russian aggression, sarah huckabee sanders took issue with the question. watch. >> in charge of cyber command. why not give him the authority. >> nobody is denying him. we're looking at a number of...