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Clearance? well to adrienne s point it s lauren s question. sorry. it s okay. to the point about mr. kushner in particular, i don t think there s much that can be done that can change his proximity to power within the white house. this is an unorthodoxed white house. we know that. we know how close the president is to his daughter, ivanka, and swrard by extension. i think the only thing, ultimately, that can change the status of mr. kushner in the white house would be a development in the mueller investigation. about that, adrienne, headline from the washington post, has been reporting about all of this, senior justice official calling don mcgahn the white house counsel, expressing a bit of a delay here. weigh in on this, if you would, what the lauren just said, how much do you think that s weighing on this process? i m sure it s weighing quite a bit. i do think that john kelly is probably trying to conduct some sort of order here in terms of, you know, knowing fo ....
That the investigation is going on, knowing for a fact that swrard jared kushner very well could be the next person who could be indicted. you re allowing your staff to operate without a permanent security clearance and they have the potential of being indicted at some point, that creates even more red flags and john kelly has his own reputation to worry about as well. i can certainly understand where his concerns are. lauren, you re a republican, republican strategist. i want to get your sense of what jared kushner s job is. it s such a big portfolio. how would you answer that simple question? what is jared kushner s job in the white house? he s tasked with, as adrienne said, security issues, working on peace in the middle east. exing porolio overseas. to adrienne s point, discord between john kelly and jared kushner. john kelly, i believe, is trying to do his best job to keep order ....
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 ....
Lots of different high-profile aspects of the administration. so, it sounds like they probably are related but the kushner people would come back and say it s the direction that swrard wanted to go from the first place after being successful, really, in getting people like reince priebus out and getting the white house focused. and steve bannon he wanted to get out and was successful in that as well. exactly. julia, do you think there could be a message from kushner, who wants this out there? then he gets to signal he s distancing himself from the white house? people like john kelly are definitely trying to push him out of the limelight because he appears in the russia investigation to come up from time to time and it seems to be a pattern. we saw that he wanted to set up a back channel with the kremlin ....