over the years. that will be the only thing that could get in the way of a truly long-term great relationship. because we have all the ingredients for friendship. from the washington examiner, gabby? thank you, mr. president. your chief of staff, swren ange kelly, has granted interim security clearances to the administration. if that proceeds, would you be willing to grant a waiver to jared kushner, one of your senior advisers? he has done an outstanding job. i think he has been treated unfairly. he is a high quality person. he works for nothing. nobody ever reports that. he gets zero. he doesn t get a salary, nor does ivanka, who is now in south korea. long trip. representing her country. and we cannot get a better representative. in fact, the first lady,
mueller investigation. it s implicit dig at the mueller investigation, saying that s what s holding up peace in the middle east, essentially and, therefore, kelly will recognize that and move forward and call the mueller investigation what it is. it is something of a win for swren ankkelly not to have the president totally publicly undermine him in a forum where he totally could have done it. leaving this up to kelly as a chief of staff is important. he s trying to put in a process here and nominally has the ability to say no more for jared kushner on this particular issue. less his foreign policy portfolio and the fact that he s regularly seeing the presidential daily briefing. probably no more significantly classified together that the president sees than that thing and jared kushner apparently sees it all the time. no one in the white house has an
security clearance if he s going to continue to do so not just this interim arrangement. he made a point that swrard is working unfairly, is working for no money and has a big job to do. he talked about inheriting a system that is broken. didn t seem to be broken for other administrations. sometimes security clearances do take a while but not this long. and then he kind of punted it, which surprised me, quite honestly. he said, you know, he s going to let swren kelly make that call. in speaking today he made it very clear that he believes swrard is really important and doing important work. he kind of hinted to swren kelly about where he would like him to come down on that. he said general kelly will do what s right for the country. and what he thinks is right for the country is jared kushner continues to do the work he s doing. the reason jared kushner doesn t have a final security clearance is because of the
very much. there s the president and prime minister of australia, wrapping up their joint news conference. the president making news on several fronts, including on guns and safety in american schools as well as on his son-in-law, senior vizer jared kushner, saying a decision on whether he will be allowed to access sensitive classified information will be left up to general kelly, the white house chief of staff. gloria, let s start off with that. we ve got a great panel to assess what we just heard. he s doing an amazing job, the president said of jared kushner on the middle east peace effort. that s the hardest negotiation ever but jared kushner is working to try to bring peace between the israeli and palestinians. clearly he will need full