Page 2 - We Dont Comment News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Connections with his family's business and foreign governments, but we don't know exactly what the fbi and the cia, what their hesitations were about granting this clearance to them, but we know that they raised them and that there was some concern about granting him this top-secret tssci clearance. >> annie, thank you so much. this is some piece. if you haven't read it yet, please check out "the new york times." it's a must read. i want to bring in nbc's jeff bennett, who, of course, is at the white house. jeff, what exactly is the white house saying about this, specifically ivanka trump's of...

>> reporter: there are two contemporaneous memos about this, one from general kelly when he was chief of staff and one from white house counsel. i asked straight away whether or not these memos exist, take a listen. is there a memo from john kelly opposing this security clearance for jared kushner? >> i've never seen that memo. i generally don't comment on security clearances. >> reporter: why would he tell these organizations he's not meddled in that process? >> you'll have to go back and see what the president said. he has the absolute authority to do that and he trusted jared kushner. >> re...

Kushner. "the new york times" say that president trump ordered his white house counsel to give his son-in-law a top secret security clearance, despite concerns of intelligence officials. and despite the promise of both the president and his family that they would not put their fi finger on the scale for jared. >> that will be up to general kelly. general kelly respects jared a lot. general kelly will make that call, i don't make that call. i'll let the general who is right here make that call. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> no speci...

Prior to the transition, back when he was still a candidate. john dowd the president's outside attorney is telling us we don't comment on things involving the special counsel. when pressed for more, he respectfully declined. the president is holding an extended meeting with lawmakers to talk about specifically about school safety. i can tell you our colleague julia ainsley has reached out to the special counsel, who is not commenting. not surprising given it's rare for their office to make comments on any of the reporting related to the special counsel investigation, katy. >> roger stone hasn'...

The campaign for a much longer period of time than donald trump would like you to believe, but remember, he was brought in to -- >> roger stone. >> to bring the entire campaign into alignment to try to keep that ted cruz at the convention away. manafort was seen as sort of the washington establishment. he was brought in at a crucial, crucial time of the campaign too. so he's minimizing manafort's role, clearly on purpose there. >> i think here, don, what trump is doing, though, is something that -- it's very unusual and unorthodox, right. the traditional response of a president or any senior a...