Fib official, philip mudd. Does this surprise you . It does. We need to take a step back for a moment. Everything about this campaign, anderson, has been usual. Take the name, trump, kids names out, the president elect relied on people during the campaign for advice. He goes to intelligence officials and says, when i begin to get intelligence briefings, more seriously, as im president elect, i want the same people i relied on during the campaign to be in those intelligence briefings. Will you give them a security clearance . Put yourself in the position of intelligence professionals. Youre going to say, if you think those are appropriate advisers, we will go through the formal process to try to clear them at a serious level so they can sit in on your briefings. I understand it. It is highly unusual, anderson. Especially if, i mean, his grown children are going to be running his business, the idea was theyre running his business and theyre not going to be kind of blending over into advi
It means kushner, daughter ivanka and sons donald jr. And eric may be privy to the countrys deepest secrets. It might not be utterly unprecedented. However, like everything weve seen since election night, its not business as usual. Tonight on top of that, theres uproar over trumps choice of his outspoken, Controversial Campaign strategist for Top White House job as well as late new reporting on the larger transition which one source describes as a knife fight. That and some words of advice from president obama today. Plus, were following antitrump protesters taking to the streets again. This evening. Those are live pictures from downtown seattle. People protesting in tucson, arizona, as well. Well bring you late developments there. We begin on the breaking news on the security clearances. Joining us, cnn counterterrorism analyst, former cia and fbi official philip mudd. Trump requesting the clearance for his kids, does that surprise you . It does. We need to take a step back for a mome