ajudication giving him a clearance is the final the investigation to adjudicate and determine if that person is eligible to hold the clearance starts from the day they were born to present day. there is someone who already has a clearance and perhaps has left government office and then came back. the investigation will then focus in the interim, the time that lapses between him having a clearance and him coming back. jared kushner, to get a clearance, the fbi would have to say that everything he has done, meeting with kislyak, trying to set up back channels, the veb and trump tower meetings and the fact that he owes $1.5 billion on fifth avenue, to give him a clearance, the fbi would say, no big deal. they would have to say it is not a risk. i do not see how the fbi is going to do that. it would preclude and impact bob
and a lot of this really caming to came to light in the last couple of weeks, especially with michael wolff s book fire and fury, multiple occasions in the book he called trump tower meetings with donald trump jr. treasonous and a number of other accusations against members of the campaign and close confidantes to president trump that are now obviously the subject of great interest for the house intel committee and for special counsel robert mueller. so those are definitely some of the issues that they re going to want to grill bannon on to see to what extent, you know, he knew about these issues and whether or not they are treasonous as he alleges them to be. so those are the answers they re trying to get, but from what adam schiff said earlier, it doesn t sound like they got a lot of answers so far. matthew as i said earlier, gates is one of thelesser known names in this, just by lack of exposure. remind us, if you can, why he s an important player in all this.
fur furry where bannon is quoted on multiple occasions in the book he called trump tower meetings with donald trump jr. treasonous and a number of other accusations against members of the campaign and close confidantes to president trump that are now obviously the subject of great interest for the house intel committee and also for special counsel robert mueller. so those are definitely some of the issues that they re going to want to grill bannon on to see to what extent, you know, he knew about these issues and whether or not they are treasonous as he alleges them to be. so those are the answers they re trying to get, but from what adam schiff said earlier, it doesn t sound like they got a lot of answers so far. matthew, as i said earlier, gates is one of the lesser known names in all of this, just by sheer lack of exposure. remind us, if you can, why he s an important player in all this. right. he was something of a deputy to
did he see, who what meetings does he know about? and a lot of this really caming to came to light in the last couple of weeks, especially with michael wolff s book fire and fury, multiple occasions in the book he called trump tower meetings with donald trump jr. treasonous and a number of other accusations against members of the campaign and close confidantes to president trump that are now obviously the subject of great interest for the house intel committee and for special counsel robert mueller. so those are definitely some of the issues that they re going to want to grill bannon on to see to what extent, you know, he knew about these issues and whether or not they are treasonous as he alleges them to be. so those are the answers they re trying to get, but from what adam schiff said earlier, it doesn t sound like they got a
issues here. right, so it s been difficult to sort of opine on mueller s strategy. his team has played it really close to the chest. one thing that you might sort of speculate is that he s bringing these charges early in an attempt to mount some pressure on actors like manafort and gates in order to incentivize them to flip. to give them additional information that s going to allow him to bring further charges. that s sort of one possibility. the other possibility is that, you know, they were up against a clock and they needed to file these charges. they thought that they had a case that they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt in court. and so they thought this was the appropriate moment to indict. the other thing is that those aren t necessarily mutually exclusive, right? it could be that while they were up against a time clock here, they wanted to do the indictment, and oh, by the way, that might pay off sort of significant dividends, regarding the broader sort of russia investi