Shakeup for the west wing and Jared Kushner President Trumps soninlaw in Senior Advisor has been stripped of his high level security clearance cutting off his access to highly classified information like the president ial daily brief. Nbc news has learned that kushner who has been working under the highest level interim clearance for all this while, more than a year learned about the downgrade in a memo on friday. The decision comes as white house chief of staff john kelly moved to overhaul the White House Security clearance process after the resignation of Staff Security rob porter amid allegations of spousal abuse on his part. Tonight a senior official told our Kristen Welker that had the president quote, has faith in this soninlaw and his Senior Advisor to continue to work at the level he has from the beginning to continue to make progress in his major pieces of his portfolio, a sentiment the president also emphasized just days ago. Jareds done an outstanding job. Hes a high quality
Good evening once again oum our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 404 of the Trump Administration brings a major shakeup for the west wing and Jared Kushner President Trumps soninlaw in Senior Advisor has been stripped of his high level security clearance cutting off his access to highly classified information like the president ial daily brief. Nbc news has learned that kushner who has been working under the highest level interim clearance for all this while, more than a year learned about the downgrade in a memo on friday. The decision comes as white house chief of staff john kelly moved to overhaul the White House Security clearance process after the resignation of Staff Security rob porter amid allegations of spousal abuse on his part. Tonight a senior official told our Kristen Welker that had the president quote, has faith in this soninlaw and his Senior Advisor to continue to work at the level he has from the beginning to continue to make progress in his major pieces of
Administration brings a major shakeup for the west wing and a big change in status for one of the president s most senior, most trusted aides. Jared kushner President Trumps soninlaw in Senior Advisor has been stripped of his high level security clearance cutting off his access to highly classified information like the president ial daily brief. Nbc news has learned that kushner who has been working under the highest level interim clearance for all this while, more than a year learned about the downgrade in a memo on friday. The decision comes as white house chief of staff john kelly moved to overhaul the White House Security clearance process after the resignation of staff secretary rob porter amid allegations of spousal abuse on his part. Tonight a senior official told our Kristen Welker that the president quote, has faith in this soninlaw and his Senior Advisor to continue to work at the level he has from the beginning to continue to make progress in his major pieces of his portfoli
house officials were quote, concerned that kushner was naive and being tricked in conversations with foreign officials, some of whom said they wanted to deal only with kushner directly and not more-experienced personnel. let s bring in our lead off panel for a tuesday night broadcast. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post and moderator of washington week on pbs. and kimberley atkinson for the boston herald. mr. costa, i understand you are just off the phone with some folks and can speak to just how bad a day this was for jared kushner. a very rough day for jared kushner. talking to officials inside the white house tonight, brian, they say he has lost not only his security clearance, at least that high-level access to classified information downgraded to a secret status. he is losing his top aide inside the white house.