grand jury or challenge the justice department s authority about whether they can indict a sitting president? it can be a non-sitting president. every president becomes a former president at some point. if the president did that and you could prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, you could wait until a president is no longer president and bring that charge criminally. let me go to the jared kushner situation. it seems as if, and the back and forths on executive privilege are going to be tremendous. obviously some of it is a political strategy by the white house to delay, delay, delay and i understand that. what do you think will be the difficult case to get the information they need on jared kushner? it may be a difficult case. there is a legitimate thing called executive privilege. in 1974 when the supreme court ruled that nixon had to turn over his tapes which led to his downfall, of course. in that same opinion, there is a
consciousness that the president let loose. and again, as you correctly point out, after a difficult week politically, and perhaps even legally, with the testimony from michael cohen, with coming home empty-handed from his summit with the north korean leader in hanoi, the jared kushner situation where the president is reported to have interfered and overruled top officials in granting his son-in-law a top security clearance. so, all that added up to a very frustrated president trump. you saw him take the stage there at cpac, and you could tell right away, when he hugged the american flag that was at the side of the stage, that this, indeed, was going to be something unrestrained, even by president trump s standards. let s point out a couple of things. i think it s important to point these out. he talked about the comey firing and how he had had a conversation with his wife because he said comey was a bad man. of course, he had told nbc s lester holt shortly after that that he did it, h
my clients would never be considered for interim access in that situation. certainly a lot more detail we need to find out whether or not this was kline coming in trying to fix a logjam or if there were truly some serious improprieties here beyond the jared kushner situation. i m worried the darker implication of what you re suggesting there is already spelled out in ken s reporting. he is saying this is at least 30 cases in which kline overruled security clearance experts for incoming officials despite unfavorable information. so it s not just he said short circuit this, i m sure it s fine, approve these guys. this is there is unfavorable information for grant no clearance and they re granting it anyway. those kind of red flags, we don t know exactly what the red flags are, as you point out in case to case, but, boy, this is a big story. mr. moss, bradley moss, national security attorney. thank you very much for being with us tonight. absolutely. any time, rachel. lots to get to
us, the taxpayers, gave us a briefing for the first time in a week. did you gain any clarity from it? no, we heard the talking points that we are familiar with. denying that the president has called the russia investigation a hoax, when he has repeatedly, sort of trying to find nuance there. saying it s only the trump involvement that he s called a hoax. we didn t get much clarity on the jared kushner situation. it seemed to be just more of the same information. we only the only thing we got is that little bit of information that the u.s. did something to russia and we have to wait a couple of days to find out exactly what it was. that was a curtain raison. kimberly atkins, phillip rucker, michael crowley, thanks for starting us off. appreciate it. coming up for us, what message was robert mueller trying to send, in any, with a guilty plea today of a dutch lawyer? we ll ask a former u.s. attorney. and later, what exactly is the top item that you d say is on the trump agenda t
i will say that the trump administration, the officials below trump have taken some steps standing up to putin s russia, and the white house could be taking more realistic credit for some of those steps. never mind the fact that trump himself seems to be completely out of step with some of these lower level officials implementing the policies. but sarah sanders statement today, many people may describe that as a bewillering, gaslighting claim. kim, the folks who work for us, the taxpayers, gave us a briefing for the first time in a week. did you gain any clarity from it? no, we heard the talking points that we are familiar with. denying that the president has called the russia investigation a hoax, when he has repeatedly, sort of trying to find nuance there. saying it s only the trump involvement that he s called a hoax. we didn t get much clarity on the jared kushner situation. it seemed to be just more of the same information. we only the only thing we got is that little bit o