history, where people need to pay attention with what s going on in the trump administration. that s what his job was at the oversight committee, to shine a spotlight on what s going on in the white house. you know, he actually had some success early on when trump was stonewalling all of the congressional investigations for ten months and a lot of investigators were struggling to sort of break news, cummings and his longtime staffers, who has been working with him on the oversight committee, they were able to turn up a bunch of things. problem with a security clearance issue where trump went around officials in the white house that said jared kushner shouldn t have a security clearance, for example, and made him get one. you know, there was a whistleblower that came to cummings and said, there s a problem here. he had success in terms of shining a spotlight on some things that people said need fixing. so, this is going to be, of course, a huge loss for democrats. you know, but again, b
kelly, the former chief of staff and the white house counsel don mcgahn wrote about these two obtaining these clearances? do you all have these notes? i don t think we have those yet, but as you pointed out, both john kelly and the white house counsel at the time were opposed to the decision to give jared kushner top secret clearance. they were so opposed to it that they felt the need to write a memo documenting how concerned they were and why jared kushner shouldn t be get this information. this has implications about our policy in the middle east. i mean, the president has made jared kushner the point person on middle east peace or middle east policy, and we need to know what information he has and who is he sharing it with. and in the documents that were leaked to the committee, is there anything in those documents that indicates to you that jared kushner might have shared classified information with the saudi prince? i can t say it s in that, but there has been public reporti
it s not a burro ceaucratic iss john kelly, the former chief of staff and don mcgahn wrote about these two obtaining the clearances, do you-all have the notes? i don t think we have those. both john kelly and the white house counsel at the time were opposed to the decision to give jared kushner top secret clearance. they were so opposed they felt the need to write a memo documenting how concerned they were and why jared kushner shouldn t get this information. this has implications. the president made jared kushner the point person on middle east peace and middle east policy and we need to know what information he has and who is he sharing it with. in the documents leaked to the committee, is there anything in the documents that indicates to you that jared kushner might have shared classified information with the saudi prince? i can t say it s in that but there is public reporting on a number of key points. one that jared kushner had
committee have the contemporaneous notes that john kelly and former chief of staff and the white house counsel don mcgahn wrote about the obtained about these two obtaining these clearances, do you all have those notes? i don t think we have those yet, but as you pointed out, both john kelly and the white house counsel at the time were opposed to the decision to give jared kushner top secret clearance. they were so opposed to it, that they felt the need to write a mick mulvaney documenting how concerned they were and why jared kushner shouldn t be getting this information. and this has implications about our policy in the middle east. i mean, the president has made jared kushner the point person on middle east peace or middle east policy and we need to know what information he has and who is he sharing it with. and in the documents that were leaked to the committee, is there anything in those documents that indicates to you that jared kushner might have shared classified informat
with these cases. an x factor. the other new factor we had to map onto the cases as we watch them go through the court system is congress. the newly energized congressional investigations that exist in parallel alongside all of these criminal matters in the courts. for example, today the white house rejected the request for documents that had come in from the democratic controlled oversight committee about security clearances and processes in the trump white house and particularly these recent reports that the president personally intervened to order the issuing of a clearance, security clearance to his son-in-law despite some adverse material that turned up in kushner s background investigation at both the fbi and cia. which lead career national security officials to recommend that jared kushner shouldn t be given a clearance. i should tell you that cnn tonight is reporting that the president also interveneed to get his daughter ivanka trump a security clearance.