Lies for donald trump. In nine hours of questioning at the house intelligence committee. It was clear that the white house did not want initially hope hicks to testify about anything after the campaign. Adopted the same position as with steve bannon. She wont invoking privilege. She wasnt answering questions with regard to her time in the white house or in the transition. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york. An emotional and kocourageous d for thousands of students returning to campus today just two weeks after the shooting that forever changed their lives. There are no classes this week, just time each morning for students and teachers to talk and try to deal with their grief. Those gatherings ended a short time ago. We want to take to you parkland and talk to a history teacher. Its good to see you. I know this has been good to see you. How did today go . Today was a roller coaster. I thought it would be a roller coaster. Depending on each class, each one has its own personality,
something had to be removed leaving you with the internet plus whatever else could be delivered to you at a secret level. frankly, secret level is going to leave out the most critical things that are necessary. it s occurred to me as someone who used to brief people a lot that i wouldn t want to be the person trying to brief jared kushner on something like the middle east if he did not have a full clearance, particularly if there were other people in the room who had that clearance. these meetings are crucial to preparing someone for that kind of job. just one impediment if you don t have a full clearance. alen, i wanted to ask you about hope hicks. she testified yesterday for nine hours. she was at the house intelligence committee, not answering questions about current white house post-inaugural events and apparently there was conflict over transition as well. let me ask you when she said she told white lies for donald
the white house says jared kushner remains on the job today. former white house official saz without top security clearance, there s no way he can effectively continue his missions in china, mexico and negotiating middle east peace. the washington post is reporting there s growing concern that kushner had not reported his contacts with foreign governments who discussed privately amongst themselves they could manipulate the president s son-in-law. joining me is peter alexander. john mclaughlin, acting director and msnbc national security analyst. alen rosenstein and national security attorney at the justice department. first of all, to you, peter alexander, we assume that jared kushner is on the job today as they say. yeah. he is on the job. the question is whether he is able to do his job the way he