there, need this clearance and the white house doesn t feel comfortable telling the public we gave it to them despite red flags, there are a lot of questions the white house has to answer about this. for sure. there are only more questions today. great to see you. joining me now to discuss this democratic congressman of virginia. you have been asking questions about kushner s security clearance the entire time that they have been in office. what do you think of this new reporting? it just confirms what we have suspected. i didn t think it went all the way to the president. we were here on cnn last week pointing out that this guy cline who had been in charge of security clearance had granted 30 overrulings of security clearance professionals among them ivanka and jared. i like what adam schiff said that there should be no nepotism exception for national security clearances.
officials pray the president had previously denied involvement i. kushner s legal team is pushing back against the report, sing his security clearance was handled without outside pressure. house intelligence committee chairman adam shifts, a democrat, says, this is the latest indicator of the president s utter disregard for national security and for the men and women who sacrificed so much every day to keep us safe. there is no nepotism exception for background investigations. we will keep our eye on this one for you. cpac 2019 is now well underway. top white house officials have taken the stage and continued to in calling out what they described as the rising threat of socialism. vice president mike pence also has made an appearance today, slamming some of the most talked about democratic proposals. watch. under the guise of medicare for all, and a green new deal, democrats are embracing the same tired economic theories that have impoverished nations and stifled the liberties of
or there will be nepotism suggestion for jared kushner or we re all going to pretend they didn t say any of the things they said in the past week. i don t know. i m betting on the nepotism exception issued specifically by the president. he has the power to simply grant jared kushner whatever security clearance he decides to grant him. and then we ll see that little white house line that we see at the briefing every time where they say oh, we can never comment on security clearances. and that s the end of it. the thing interesting about this is by john kelly s own design is this is a fuse that ends in a firecracker. he says this will all be done by friday. he s going to be humiliated or jared kushner is going to be humiliated or the white house will have something to explain. but it will happen on a timeline by the end of this week. my i told you so moment last night. we talked about the 2:00 briefing schedule for today and i told you do not even look at the tv at 2:00. do not w
really a struggle over the jared kushner security clearance business with john kelly or is john kelly just going along with this whole thing? you know, friday is going to arrive which is going to be the date by which john kelly said the new security clearance thing was going to be in effect and either the new security clearance thing isn t going to be in effect and jared kushner is going to still have his gig or there will be nepotism suggestion for jared kushner or we re all going to pretend they didn t say any of the things they said in the past week. i don t know. i m betting on the nepotism exception issued specifically by the president. he has the power to simply grant jared kushner whatever security clearance he decides to grant him. and then we ll see that little white house line that we see at the briefing every time where they say oh, we can never comment on security clearances. and that s the end of it. the thing interesting about this is by john kelly s own