it is, however, hard for me to fathom still why the president not only said to me that he didn t have any involvement in this but that he didn t think he could legally. part of cnn s report is ivanka trump wanted high-level clearance so she could study briefing books on foreign trips. why is she in the white house? like what does she actually do? in terms of foreign trips it s a great question. the way it was described to me by a couple of people who were familiar with the evolution of jared kushner s clearance problem be remember, we were told early on, i went back and looked at this recently, there were reports early on right after the president was elected that he wanted his son-in-law and daughter to have high-level clearances and the president did a tweet november 16th, 2016, that he wasn t doing that. another typically false news story. what ended up happening a couple of months later, they joined the white house, they both put in for security clearances. the way it was descr