outlining the concerned raised by kushner by the cia and how mcgann recommended he not be given a top-secret clearance. this reporting also revealed a effort of coordinated lies. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone in the white house to -- >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i don't think i do. but i would never do it. jared is a good -- i was never involved with his security. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> what were the problems early on? >> there weren't any. >> so no special treatment? >> no. >> there was nobody in the political process that had anything to do with it. there was nobody who pressured it. it was just done the normal, regular way. >> in case you forgot how harshly the republicans treat liars, here they are. >> you're a pathological liar. >> he's going to prison for lying to congress and he's the star witness to congress. >> convicted liar, lying to congress. apparently he died about delivering his own child which his wife had to correct the record. >> liar, liar, pants on fire. it's an

. >> so odni, fbi, cia, office of personnel management. let's talk about the issue of executive privilege. if these memos are indeed problematic and things that the president doesn't want in there, because frankly he is abiding by the law. you may not like the law, but he has this power. we can have a debate about whether he is an butszing that power, but heed had the power to do this. if he screams executive privilege, how strong is the case? >> there are two bases from withholding the documents, executive privilege and it contain classified information. the second one is really not a basis to withhold it from congress because of course congress reviews classified privilege. but executive privilege is trickier. there are few instances in which congress has gotten hands on things where the white house digs in on that. >> help me out with the various security levels. jared kushner was getting a mid level security clearance, not the top secret. explain the difference. >> basically the levels are confidential, secret, top secret and the top level is sci. jared kushner had interim t

states my files will contain my notes and memoranda from meeting started tended with cia director casey or cia deputy director gates which included discuss cia authorized approved and. assisted cardew and in the manufacture and sale of cluster bombs and other munitions to iraq cargo one started out as a man who manufactured mining explosives however with the help of the us installed military dictatorship and she lay he started selling weapons around the world now one of those u.s. allies that cargo and happily did business with was the baathist government of iraq back in the one nine hundred eighty s. iraq was at war against the islamic republic of iran iran ayatollah khomeini was certainly no friend of washington or the pentagon so the united states gave saddam hussein a large amount of support in his war against the iranians in one thousand nine hundred eighty four the u.s. ambassador to chile called cardio and business quote a lucrative market for cluster bombs but a lot has changed in thirty years so adam and started this cruel war against kuwait tonight the battle has been jo

know exactly what the fbi and the cia, what their hesitations were about granting this clearance to them, but we know that they raised them and that there was some concern about granting him this top-secret tssci clearance. >> annie, thank you so much. this is some piece. if you haven't read it yet, please check out "the new york times." it's a must read. i want to bring in nbc's jeff bennett, who, of course, is at the white house. jeff, what exactly is the white house saying about this, specifically ivanka trump's office? >> hey, steph. well, the white house isn't saying much, beyond this single-sentence statement. white house press secretary sarah sanders tells nbc news, we don't comment on security clearances. >> except, of course, ivanka did when she was asked three weeks ago by abc! and i believe the answer was, of course not. >> reporter: you're right about that. look, and absent any sort of substantiative comment from the white house about this, we can put this kushner revelation into the broader context of how president trump handles, or some might say, mishandles national s

entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. the cia, u.s. senators and others have found that the crown prince was directly responsiblbe for ordering the mururder but saudi offificials have denieieds involvement. in more news about saudi arabia, ththe new york times i is reporg that a dual u.s.-saudi citizen was tortured by saudi authorities. walid fitaihi, a harvard-trained doctor, was reportedly electro-shocked and whipped while detained at the ritz carlton in riyadh. fitaihi was arrested alongside hundreds of other prominent saudis in 2017 during a government crackdown ordered by crown prince mohammed bin salman. he is still in detention and it's unknown whether he has been charged with any crime. south korean president moon jae-in called on the u.s. and north korea to resume denuclearization talks after the much anticipated second summit between the two leaders fell apart last week with no deal or substantial progress made. moon called for three-way talks between ththtwo koreasas and t u.s. this is moon speaking in s seoul monday. toi ask you to find ways improve the dialogue betwee

fish applications but across town at the cia john brennan was cia director for years and rand paul says breaking a high-level source tells me it was brennan, the fake steel dossier be included in the intelligence report, to testify under oath in congress. a lot of folks say if that is the case he gave credibility to the dossier as cia director by including it in the intel assessment. >> i don't doubt that but brennan's problem now is he has exposed himself as such an ardent trump hater, his projections about this, read on how the mueller investigation will turn out, both of those things are all wrong. he thought it would be more than it turned out to be, no kidding. this man brennan behaved like no other former intelligence chief i have ever seen. i can't imagine william webster ever making the partisan accusations he has made. he called him a traitor. treasonous behavior. that is an extreme assertion no responsible intelligence chief should make unless he has evidence which he manifestly has not. shannon: the issues with collusion were not proven, special counsel says we didn't se

the agenda was an apparent trip to the cia for bolton are who some has been active about the spy agency on twitter a bug back home the brazilian media's primary focus isn't on the u.s. visit instead it's on reports of the presidential family's alleged ties to violent gangs let's get more on that now live to our correspondent in new york and i'm open high that this is come as quite a surprise when it indeed now as balsa naro meets with u.s. president donald trump back home he's facing a pretty serious scandal the essence of the scandal is that balsa narrows family seems to have ties to right wing militias and gangs that have engaged in murder and extortion essentially we've got earlier this month two former police officers were arrested for killing killing a councilwoman name marie l. franco they were arrested and when their home was raided they discovered the police discovered one hundred seventeen automatic rifles now this home that was raided that had this huge cache of weapons was on the same street as balsa narrows home in rio furthermore when the police raided the home they

their news analysts. so if you turn on cnn on msnbc, it was state tv, it was cia tv. three weeks ago, tucker, john brennan was on msnbc and he said that he believes robert mueller will indict members of the trump family either before or after march 15 because he's too noble to use the ides of march for having conspired with russia. they kept all of this off the air and turned in to the people that are supposed to be scrutinizing. you have government officials that spent their whole careers in the pentagon and the cia. they're disinformation agents that work at cnn and msnbc shaping what the new is. that's why these channels turned into disinformation campaigns. those are the people that they hired. the people that are supposed to be serving as watch dogs over the neocons, the people that lied the country to war. they got rewarded by becoming the stewards of these networks and lied to millions of people for three years around huge amount of accountability is needed. >> tucker: so last minute that we have, make me feel better. i'm thinks there's no repercussions and this cycle will con

briefing the cia because they intercepted something that troubled them a lot and that turned into the f.b.i. investigation but we still don't we have no idea what the actual timeline is there and what what they were actually intercepting and what prompted the actual beginning of this investigation but i think the real beginning of the problem was the beginning of the campaign when every single pundit in the universe dismissed as laughable the idea that they could win the nomination you remember dana milbank from the washington post promising to literally eat his column if. trump won the national nomination which he ended up actually doing humorously. in what was what's interesting about that is that the journalists total left audiences totally unprepared for the possibility that trump could when they constantly told us that it would never happen and so when it did happen we scrambled for an alternative explanation. and the conspiratorial one fit better than what they've been told i think journalists were just not tuned in to the level of anger in the population that trump was the

not over rule the cia. he was willing to over rule the white house official, but when it came to that high level of nci, the cia never granted that. our reporting till this day that kushner does not have it. you can only speculate why that is. one possibility that donald trump does not want to be in another fight with the cia. it is one thing to over rule white house speciecurity specias working for the white house is another thing of the high review of the cia. >> is there anything we are missing from this? >> i think there is this real question of what was the damage that was done? we have seen reports of foreign government trying to influence kushner and reporting that's sketchy whether or not he'll share that. you have to get to the bottom of what was lost. we have not seen any assessment of the damage that could have been done as a result of granting this clearance. >> annie, finally to you, we know this because of contemporaneous memos. memos from everyone that deals with donald trump. this one came from his former chief of staff. >> that's right, everyone around him seems to be

listen to what the cia or the fbi where these sources are telling them. they are supposed to fact check but all the anonymous sources got out there and it turned out to be all wrong. >> that's right. what i find most interesting about this, and i should tell you this, i have a book coming out called swamp wars. i interviewed then private citizen donald trump in 2014 on this very subject of the press. i would like to read two sentences. a direct quote - from him. about the press per the public has to know about the dishonesty of the press. because these are really bad people. they don't tell the truth and they have no intention of telling the truth. and i know they are and if he ran, it would expose him 100 percent. that is exactly what we have seen him do as both candidate and president. and this is one of the reasons why at cnn, and elsewhere, they cannot stand him. i mean is a visceral problem. >> and he didn't necessarily expose them all by himself. they exposed themselves. >> exactly. quickly have to take responsibility lower, for it happened. >> no, is not just about this president

chat about this with my experts. let's start with the most outspoken former member, former cia director. he wrote it rises to and exceeds the high crimes and mis misdemeanors. here he is earlier today. he was asked whether he received information about the mueller investigation. zbli don >> i don't know if i received more information. i suspected it was more than there was. >> i thido you think he has a point? >> donald trump has called people treasonist as he did just yesterday in the oval office. i don't know whether anybody is owed an apology yet. one thing is clear, russia did interfere in our election in 2016. the report seems to indicate that's the fact. donald trump denied that and continued to deny the impact of that. that is according to some people treasonist activity. >> what do you think? >> at the very least he needs to apologize for giving them the idea that treason, big capital letters treason was committed. he was a former cia director. i don't know about you guys but when a former cia director speaks i believe they have credibility. he needs to flush that out a

and covert operations during -- by the cia during the cold war. that is how i arrived. jay sexton: there is this long thisry -- there is historical consciousness recently. you are creating a history of something that has not really had itself identified yet. what has that been like? you have been the first person to try to put the pieces of the puzzles together. prof. mistry: how do you write on something on which there is no literature or established coherent literature? there is no historiography. also, the terms have no fixed meaning. there are competing definitions. archive, youo an are unlikely to find whistleblowing in index cards. he talked to archivists, -- you talk to archivists, it is hard to locate whistleblowing. that poses a challenge. however, i think the way we have tried to approach this is to think of a phenomenon and identify key characteristics of the phenomenon. it is not about looking for the term, but what is it that it represents? by doing that, we have found that national security and whistleblowing have a long genealogy. there are familiar patterns emergin

cia sources were telling them and they have humiliated themselves in the process jeff zucker the head of c.n.n. just said two days ago not only is he not ashamed of the coverage but he used these words he said we are not investigators so how are you kidding me are you saying they said no but that's a journalist is to investigate does not have the courage it they are going to judge not going to know his understanding of journalism is the op ed page that because that's the whole station there let me go to you know me to go to anthony bennett and then just said that the you know the the the dossier i should have never been published by buzz feed but jim comi allotted to be used in front of a five out of court i mean this is this is the second shoe that has to drop here if we're going to get past all of this because i'm very angry about all of this it should have never played out this way and it's the media's fault that it did because they could have said well if it was good enough for advice of course but it's not good enough to be published by that ridiculous website buzz feed there's s

intelligence officials including the cia. donald trump did it any way. which as president he has the perfect right to do and yet, he and his administration and even his daughter, jared kushner's wife, ivanka, repeatedly lied to the public about it. why would they do that? joining me now david k. johnston, founder of dc report.org. malcolm vance and frank figulisi and sarah kenslyier. thank you all for being here. i rarely have these two gentlemen at the desk with me. i'll turn to my illut trius panel. malcolm and david. it is unusual, although the president has the right to offer this security clearance and override his national security officials, doing so for this particular person was unusual for a lot of reasons. can you remind people of why? he wasn't exactly honest in the ways he described his qualifications. >> no. for the first time in my career where i held the top secret clearance for a quarter of a century, i have never heard the phrase unclearable before and that was one of the phrases that was used about jared kushner and 30 other individuals in the white house. with reg

it was at that time . >> let me stop over here. >> my dear friend ralph who spent the 1980s in cia clandestine services, perhaps yet another reason why the islamic republic is still here today, there is a lot of discussion about intelligence failure. i want to read a couple of expert randomly and get your opinion on it. and i will try to be brief. national intelligence estimate of iran in 1969, "demands for greater political participation by educated groups are likely to grow if such participation is not limited and progress falter, this could pose a serious problem for this narrowly based regime, particularly the descendent of military. 1975 caa report. dissent among civil servants in iran has not reached alarming degree even though super sisterly superficially on the surface. there has always been discontent but now the malaise has reached the civil service. 1975, prominent our religious leaders and those of religious and through the religious establishment, religion has become a major influence on urban lower cassis classes and even intelligentsia and other circumstances with a

, fb community, doj, fbi, cia director john brennan. everything in my book was validated by the mueller report. for them to scoff and laugh but they watch it all up close and personal. from clueless clapper on down the first time in american history people with unbridled power made the determination to overthrow presidential candidate then plant the seeds for indictment and impeachment to destroy the will of those who voted for change in america. this could only happen at this level of government the head of the cia and the justice department only with a wink and a nod from the commander-in-chief where do they get the confidence this was okay? who could have given the green light? the on verify a dossier was the justification for this rogue intelligence operation. anytime there is a clue there is the effeminate one - - affirmative defense of action to destroy trump and endorse hillary. so where do we go from here? who was the judge that signed the first fisa warrant and the second of the reopening? and the evidence of fact with the extension? who signed the second extension what

essentially also on the agenda was an apartment trip to the cia for both whose son has been knocked about the spy agency on twitter. but back home the brazilian media's primary focus isn't on the u.s. visit but reports of the presidential families alleging toys to violent gangs instead and interesting developments to bring you up to speed on the ups let's say good new york and our correspondent is standing by kill them up and kill a pretty shocking reports that last part i was talking about. indeed as both in our own meets with u.s. president donald trump he's facing a pretty serious scandal back at home essentially ties of his family to right wing paramilitary groups that have been involved in murder and extortion now earlier this month we saw two former brazilian police officers arrested for the murder of councilwoman marielle franco she was killed and apparently the individual who pulled the trigger actually lived on the same street as balls and arrows family in rio and when his house was raided the police discovered one hundred seventeen automatic rifles inside the house they al

launch is also on the agenda was an apparent trip to the cia for who some has been active about the spy agency on twitter. back home the brazilian media's primary focus isn't on the u.s. visit instead it's on reports of the presidential family's alleged ties to violent gangs let's get up to speed on that now live to new york our correspondent caleb maupin hi there quite a surprise all this isn't it. indeed at this point bolsa naro who is meeting with u.s. president donald trump holding a press conference apparently he's facing a pretty big scandal back in brazil a scandal related to his family and their ties to right wing militia groups that have engaged in both murder and extortion now we saw that earlier this month the arrest of two former police officers who have been sharjah with the killing of councilwoman marielle franco she was assassinated they're charged with the killing now these individuals actually live on the same street that both in our lives in in rio where his rio home is located and when the house was raided they discovered one hundred seventeen automatic rifles in

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inauguration. according to "the times" cia and dan mcgahn recommended he be denied the top secret clearance. the paper reports that last year, kelly wrote a memo saying the president, quote, ordered him to clear kushner's path. at the time, the president told a different story. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the -- >> no. i'm not sure i have the authority to do that. i wouldn't do it. jared is a good -- i was never involved with the security. >> reporter: ivanka trump recently told "the view's" abbey huntsman -- >> overriding other officials. can you speak to that? >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues, but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. zero. >> reporter: as for a response from the white house, they were blunt, we don't comment on security clearance. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >> our thanks to pierre there. michael cohen will be back after wrapping up three days of testimony, prompting lawmakers to summon more witnesses. >> the intelligence committee is looking into coordination be

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we serve a know. quite well. i worked with him for about four years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole the point to me is number two person in the f.b.i. as the deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director ball or politics or just don't play any role in his calculations so he is all about finding the truth and doing it under the rule of wall so yeah he's a man who told you that. robert muller was placed under the authority of the department of justice and its deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. his new orders give him far reaching powers. moller can investigate moscow's relations with the trump campaign and any other matters. most are wastes no time immediately orders the preservation of millions of official documents forbidding the destruction of records that could be useful in the russia probe e-mails phone records audio record

, john kelly, over the white house counsel, don mcgahn, and over the cia. as national security adviser, do you have any concerns about jared kushner having access to the nation's top secrets? >> i don't have any concerns. i deal with jared all the time on the middle east peace process and a number of other issues. i trust him. i have no idea what the story is on the security clearance. it's not something that falls within my area of responsibility. but if asked do i trust jared kushner, the answer is, yes. chris: you do not think he is a security risk. >> i do not. chris: will the white house meet a deadline tomorrow to turn over to the house all documents about -- that they're seeking on white house security clearances? >> well, you know, i'm involved in that since they have some nonsensical ideas about me which i'll one day be free to discuss as a private citizen, but all i can say is the whys counsel and the department of justice the are handling that. and whether i like it or not, i will leave it to them. chris: meaning what, when you say -- >> what they're going to respond

he had evidence of collusion. where is it? mueller couldn't find it. and the former head of the cia, john brennan, stands in absolute disgrace. he called the president treasonous. and the media, my only word is shameful. for two years, they have abandoned all forms of professional integrity. okay, what's next? i hope we now investigate how this whole charade got started. i think the deep state tried for a coup. thank heaven they failed. throughout the program today, you will hear more about america's win, trumps win. i'm celebrating. now, i thought we might see a bounce for the market on the no collusion news. well, apparently not. the trump win perhaps strengthens the president in china trade negotiations but that's not translating into much of a bounce. down 460 points friday, the dow will open down maybe 30 points this monday morning. >>> all right. this is apple's big streaming day. this is israel's day at the white house. and who knows what the president will say in the next three hours. we will cover it, though. "varney & company" is about to begin. >>> there was no obstructio

recruited from the same place you get cia analysts. we were looking to find individuals in new york who were radicalizing. low and behold [ inaudible ] low and behold in late 2007 we find out about a new yorker or someone from long island who had done that. he has escaped our nets and we have not detected him in new york city and low and behold he is gone and we believed connected to al qaeda and even more dangerous he is connected to groups of young men in new york city who we have investigations on who are very much similar to the groups we saw in the uk about committing violent acts. that is where we were in late 2007. when you hear about brian's existence not even by name at first. >> how did you get there from queens? >> it is not an easy place to get to from queens right? >> i guess the first part i was interested in joining the battlefield on the side of the sunni extremists, listen to listening to audio sermons. >> omar al-awlaki is a yemeni american who studied to become a scholar and overtime he was preaching pro g hottie sermons that were available -- jihadist sermons that we

intelligence officials who were hired by cable outlets like the former cia director brennan. the former negligence director, clapper who will were saying extraordinary things on the air. >> brennan apparently said something to the effect of well maybe he was misinformed and this didn't turn out quite the way he expected it to. well, i guess. and, you know, those guys have a lot to answer for too it seems to me. so do the news organizations that credulously put on the air what they had to say over and over and over again without any evidentiary support. it was really quite remarkable, bret. >> bret: last thing, quickly, speaking of over and over and over again, how about this news about michael avenatti, after he appeared over and over and over again on some of those channels? >> he certainly did, bret. he was by one count, he was on cnn and msnbc 108 times between march and may of last year and he was being taken seriously on the air as a presidential candidate. and you would have thought that a guy like this with the dodgy accusations that he made and so on that somebody in thos

. chased by cia assassins. we. truly local. paper. child ah you are always young this is was it really. is was. this some actors even felt worried they were being exploited. when the director approached me and i began by asking quite frankly if it's a real character or if he's only cast me based on commercial considerations for the market. setting up some lucrative business ties with chinese companies is also a great option so that beijing movie industry fire wall isn't all that impenetrable you just need to do the right thing and hollywood's more than happy to get on board what it smells big bucks. outside news this i'll be back around thirty minutes time but do stay with us for a document in cost writing us which is up next here on off the international. by the way bank of pres but we bother to back up what all that is there is about them so you can see them as institutions completely divorced from your mom so. the justice department said today the inmate population of federal and state prisons in this country is at an all time high. the public sees a need for more prisons because cr

throwing it in a big pile and setting up by. the cia it will no longer be obliged to reveal how many civilians it's. drone strikes kill thanks to an order by president trump. the pentagon announces plans to change its arctic strategy to counter a perceived russian and chinese threat. i mean. i mean and fans of pop legend michael jackson the vent their fury over a new documentary alleging the star committed to child abuse. should not be talking about michael jackson's music michael jackson's music was created through decades of also a lot of suffering every.

cia which from basically world war ii one, the united states has never won a war, we are in perpetual war and, your organization that you belong to is the one creating this chaos, fear, intimidation, and secrecy, that is what makes people not want to be involved in their national, political civic duty, because the control and the lovers are not being produced by we, the people. host: go ahead and respond. guest: the council on foreign relations is basically a debate club. it brings together people of the new york business community with people from the un who are here during the general assembly, it connects this new york community on foreign policy, interested community with washington, d.c. i would not give too much power to it. the decisions are made in washington, d.c. the white house, pentagon, national security staff and not by the council on foreign relations. but, is everything, there is a polarized opinion landscape in the u.s., some individuals, obviously not you, very strongly identify with the role that the u.s. has played since the second world war. and they say

, the fbi, the cia function in such a manner that they were impartial that even if you say gosh, i think they didn't like this president, look at what came about tonight. i think the point to drive home would be, especially to president trump, you are still going after the institution of the united states and the united states constitution that in fact has come to your defense in this matter, they were allowed to do their business and look at this result, mr. president. >> i would point out that the former head of the cia days ago said the indictments were coming for the children of the president. the former national intelligence director said he was convinced there was collusion so the previous heads of the intelligence department had a different take, even just days ago. >> what you're talking about is their opinion. they weren't the ones who were conducting this investigation, obviously not, and i think tonight, you just saw citations of how many fbi agents, how much of the investigative power of this country, going all the way to national security was used in the mueller probe.

that b americas institution the justice department, the fbi, cia functioned in such a matter they were impartial even to say they didn't like the president look at what came about tonight so i think homeoint to drive especially to president trump is you are still going after the institutions of the united states constitution that in fact, has come to your defense in this matter so look at the result mister president. brett: i would point out the former head of the cia days ago said the indictments arent coming for the children of the president the former national intelligence director said there was collusion so obviously these heads have a different take just days ago. >> what you were talking about is their opinions. they were not conducting this investigation obviously. i think tonight you just saw the citation of how many fbi agents how much of the investigative power of this country goes all the wayoi to national security intercepts were used in the mueller probe. he said he could not make a case to make people point to these indictments as if that supports the idea it was le