categorical denials the transition team made, we re peeling those back one by one. so i think it s really in the interest of the trump administration not to play hide and seek like this, to push it all out there to disprove the theory. it was reported today that kushner who was a senior adviser to the president who oversees china and middle east peace has not been granted security clearance. how unusual is it ten months in to have interim security clearance? it s unusual. let them parse that out a little bit. it s not unusual because there s a massive backlog, although there is a massive backlog. the president s son-in-law is going to jump to the front of the queue. that s a given. we had in delay because many kushner didn t fill out the form at the beginning and this is without prejudice to the final
i had a chance to talk to general michael hayden earlier this evening just before the latest news broke. journal, hayden, it seems that jared kushner forgets a lot, forgot a meeting with the ambassador and a head of a state-run russian bank. he also forgot to disclose financial assets, and now the judiciary committee is asking for documents they requested but kushner didn t provide about wikileaks and a, quote, russian back door overture and dinner invite, what s your read? at the beginning this was an uncareful young man who was simply not used to dealing with the federal government or with the security. i think he quickly learned. he s some good news out of this story. the government, the security clearance process, stood its ground. foreign means foreign, all means
people. right. that kushner didn t include in his batch of requested documents a forwarded e-mail that he got. and i guess we ve got our statement from kushner s lawyer, that s a pretty strong response to critical requests by the senate judiciary committee. so both sides are really digging it. eric: how can you keep track of all of this? no. eric: you miss one e-mail some place. yeah, i mean, it s a serious matter and it s a serious charge to really, like, make sure you got all your ducks in line. but if there are these emails out there, it s important to hand them over. apparently some type of e-mail and went to don, jr., perhaps and then he forwarded on to the others so we will see. meanwhile there s the question of meeting with russian back door as they say, operative
kushner did not originally disclose them. there have been two document productions and didn t include this list released. the missing documents include communications related to michael flynn, the former national security adviser, including documents about his firing and registration as a former agent. documents about kushner s security clearance. he had to update his form three times, including meetings with foreign entities, including russians. he was widely criticized for that. investigators want to know more about that. the committee asking for an e-mail chain that involved donald trump jr. with his messages to wikileaks. kushner didn t hand over the communications with a russian businessman who was believed to
more questions after the staff of the committee spoke to jared kushner this week. without mentioning any specifics, obviously, we don t want to get into anything you can t share with us, is there something striking from the interview, anything that raises more questions? senator warner is right to say there are a lot of key questions ahead. for example, in his public statement, mr. kushner said that he didn t rely on the russians to finance his business. now, i m telling you, jake, that s some awful careful lawyering to put together a phrase like that, because rely is subjective. mr. kushner didn t say he has had no business investments with russia. he didn t say he has no dealings with russia. he said he didn t rely on it. so there was a lot of clever lawyering, and it seems to me the combination of jared kushner s public statement and the fact that the president has said several times that mr. mueller has no franchise in order to look at his finances indicates to me today that th