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
Thats that looks like rachel maddow. That looks like how am i doing on the anchorman thing tonight, rachel . Pretty good. Youve got the gravitas thing. Youve got the chiseled jaw. Ive got to say, the whole gravitas thing with anchorman has been seriously undermined by the simple fact that the occupation anchorman is played in the movies by will ferrell. And im sorry, but gravitas is not the farrell brand. Well its not. Its an off well, no. Okay. Thats fair enough. But i think, you know, when it comes to like middleaged, potbellied, overworked lesbian cable news host i thought i was at the end of that sentence that began with middleaged potbelly. I thought how can she be so hurtful on halloween . So, hey, rachel, wheres the party . Where are you off to . Where am i meeting you after 11 00 . Ill send you an email. Text me. Thanks, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Ah, halloween, its unlike any other night around here. And this one is like any other halloween for donald trump before in his lif
They were not surprised the gunman went on a shooting spree, almost as if theyre accepting that could happen to them. Why the response to this shooting may be even more complicated than what were used to seeing. And criminal investigation. Police in new york now confirm theyre investigating celebrity chef mario batali. The Metoo Movement, seeking critical charges against someone both rich and famous. We begin with the president turning against his own Justice Department with the words, i hereby demand, issuing an ultimatum to the fbi whether they infiltrated or surveilled his campaign for political purposes. The Justice Department quickly responding asking its solicitor, Inspector General, to expand the all existing review of the agency. So lets look at the chain of events. Trump bashes the former cia director and intelligence agencies in a series of tweets. Those tweets coming after his weekend tweet storm. Eight tweets over 24 hours demanding that the Justice Department investigate.
Today. This is mtp daily starting now. Good evening and welcome to mtp daily. It feels now more than every that were in a state of political paralysis. Were waiting to see not if there will be more indictments when and where. And right now there is one man at the center of all of the questions of what comes next. Folks, we talk about the potentially problematic business relationships in the president s life, cohen is at the center. When we talk about the personal relationships, cohen is at the center, and cohen could be at the center. We dont know what the feds were looking for when they raided the properties, but we know it rattled the white house in a way we have not seen yet. We also know he has been under surveillance by the feds, electronically, that they admitted to in a courtroom. And we know he facilitated a 130,000 payment to stormy dames. We know that sean hannity was one of his three clients, and that there is evidence of him being in prague in 2016. Cohen is addimently deni