is it okay to keep somebody around when the fbi has enough concerns about your background, maybe financial irregularities, i don t know torsion say we can t certify you? i think the question will be dorgs we downgrade him entirely and say he can t have a clearance. and let me read a statement from his attorney, jared kushner s attorney. as to his security clearance, mr. kushner has done more than what is expected of him in this process. the new clearance policy lnl affect mr. kushner s ability to continue to do the very important work he s been assigned by the president. that s impossible to believe. he reads the presidential daily brief and he can t have access to the information he needs? pretty much only the people in the white house who see hit the way. obviously jared kushner doesn t see hit the way. that s why he s been so frustrated with john kelly and fees like this is a direct attack on him specifically. which it kind of is. we did note that people were
back to the obama administration and we weren t in office. but this is today. and the white house has yet to even hint that they re working something that would stop this from happening again. the white house did say today that they would be offering some steps later on that we would find out in the near future but that s something we ve heard for weeks now. we have yet to see anything the white house is doing to make sure this doesn t happen again. so from russia cyber attacks to the russian investigation, let s go back to the issue of kushner s security clearance being downgraded. that tells me the kushner is in trouble of i m going to assume in 30 days the fbi won t come back and do a u-turn and say we ve finished this and he s clean. i think kelly will be put in a difficult situation to say we ll never close it out to the point where jared kushner could get a top secret clearance. is it work kushner or anyone else?
people he relies on for information all of a sudden is very different. kushner coming in was sort of the secretary of everything. right? he had this huge unwieldy portfolio. the president at one point said if anybody can solve the crisis in the middle east and move toward middle east peace, it would be kushner. and now i think in so many ways, his portfolio is diminished. you ve been reporting on the white house chief of staff john kelly. he s been telling people according the your reporting that he is frustrated with jared and his wife ivanka. he s been very frustrated with them. and this goes from them pushing for them to come into the white house, becoming the chief of staff. they thought he would stop people from leaking. they didn t necessarily realize how far that restraint would go. he s since grown very frustrated with the two of them.
jared kushner has had his security clearance significantly downgraded. the downgrade will prevent kushner from viewing the nation s most sensitive secrets and it comes of a new rules were implemented by john kelly in the wake of the botched handling of the rob port he spousal abuses scandal. jeff, what is the news and what is the white house saying about it? we are learning this afternoon, our team is reporting that the threat, the new packs white house chief of staff john kelly said he would take indeed has been taking effect now. and that of course applies to a variety of officials here at the white house who have had temporary security access. that s now being changed. leading among them, first among them is jared kushner. of course, a senior adviser to