clearance was downgraded in february of 2018 after a review of the clearance process they felt like john kelly and don mcgahn were targeting them for petty reasons, not for anything legitimate. the fbi and the cia during the course of jared kushner's background check had flagged concerns. among those concerns was that he had not disclosed initially open his application for security clearance some contacts with foreign officials, including a meeting with a russian banker during the transition. jared kushner's folks said that was a clerical error, that it was fixed overtime. but there was concerns flagged by intelligence officials about questions of whether he would be susceptible to foreign influence. they noted how many interactions with foreign governments and officials that he personally had as well as due to his family's real estate. and this went on for a very long time. it was a source of enormous frustration for the white house that jared kushner's security clearance is getting such attention, as i said, a source of frustration to them. and the personnel security office was divided as to whether he should get one.