employees telling them they cannot communicate or be whistleblowers. when you saw how the cia and the fbi was being attacked, and when you saw witnesses that was necessary for the legislative branch to do its job, but could not get the cooperation and no cooperation from this administration, when you saw it. do you know what they are going to do? they are going to ask the question what did you do? what did you do? did you stand on the sideline of life? did you say it is somebody else's business? did you write the story, or did you write it accurately? did you take a moment to write the editorial? did you write as you saw it? did you become fearful and say i am afraid of what is going to happen to me if i do what the constitution says i can do? they are going to asked the question. so i want you to know that i view an attack on our press as an attack on all of us. i will fight, i will fight with everything that i have got, and i want you to understand that i have your back. i have your back.[ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen i don't believe in fate news. hello. [ laughter ] >> i am t

secretaries of states, defense secretaries, cia directors, ambassadors to the united nations issued a statement declaring there is no factual basis for justifying the president's emergency declaration. furthermore it appears that an set of protecting our national security, the president's declaration actually steals billions of dollars from high priority military construction projects that ensure our troops have the essential training, readiness and quality of life to keep america safe and ultimately that undermines our national security. now i know right now in the state of georgia some projects are at risk due to on obligated funds going to the cyber instruction network which is $99 million. naval reserve training center at fort benning, almost $14 million, which is pretty close to $113 million of projects taken away from what you and your colleagues fought for and you are claiming readiness was a top priority. i just want to understand how you will justify in terms of morale for the troops who have seen these hard-fought projects come up to be funded? how you will justify the readi

detention program of cia or today on the house side with the the investigation of the russian interference election and the potential of collusion with the trump campaign. this is something else that needs to be looked at. so the current system, is it efficient and appropriate and can things be changed and modified? that's what we will talk about tonight. i will ask you to welcome the panel. moderating is michael morell, former acting director and deputy director of the cia and senior fellow at the hayden center. we have ms. jane harmon a former raining member of the house committee on intelligence and she wins the award for having the least distance traveled for tonight's event. be have mike rogers former chairman on the select committee on intelligence and head of his own center that looks at presidency and congress and senator bill nelson who served as a member on the committee of intelligence and i can speak from personal experience he was a rigorous overseer of the operations but in a positive way. last but not least is senator chamblis who may win the award for having done congressio

rise once a day and then sets not a future in the hands of the cia you can make the sunshine or not rendition movies that aired. on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. you're watching it is our life from a headquarters in doha i'm dead you navigate that coming up in the next sixty minutes no evidence donald trump's campaign colluded with russia but the muller investigation doesn't exonerate the president of obstructing justice. it was a complete and total exoneration trump says the investigation was an illegal takedown that failed but democrats are the man. immediate access to the full report . preliminary election results in thailand show the pro-military party in the. grounds one of the million people desperate for food we visit a village in kenya at the center of a severe drought. hello the mother report has found no evidence that the trunk campaign conspired with russia during the twenty six thousand election that's according to a summary issued by the trumpet ministrations attorney general william barr received the report on friday following a twenty two month investigation by the

house counsel don mcgowan also put the concerns that the cia and other intelligence agencies have about krishna into writing the white house says it doesn't comment on security clearances following donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen's testimony this week about how trump interacts with his subordinates there are questions as to whether kelli was actually ordered or just felt he was being pressured to grant question about security clearance but. congressional democrats are vowing to pursue this further and demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give them clearance and why the president trump concealed his role in overruling their recommendation they have been multiple reports from various foreign powers including the u.a.e. israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about their hope to exploit cushion his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had krishna quote in his back pocket cushion himself has been in the

capitol hill pleading for his safe return. he vanished while on an unauthorized cia mission. fbi is offering $5 million for information that leads t his whereabouts. today the fbi releasing this statement saying in part, quote bob is and always will be a member of e fbi family and we share in the heart ache that bob's wife and family have experienced every day for the last 12 years. if you know anything about what happened, you're asked to contact the fbi and you can remain anonymous. >>> venezuela's opposition leader rallied thousands of supporters today. juan guido took to the stage to urge people to unite. the rally came amid wide strepr anger of a nation wide black out. people are suffering not having basic necessaitienecessities. guido declared himself the in r interim president in january. the u.s. and 450 other countrie are sporting guido. >>> a debate heating up in the race for the white house. should marijuana be legal? some of the top democratic contenders are taking sides. >> i hosting saturday night li everyone's gotve to listen to m. when it comes to reducing the sugar

better than some that are worse what worries me is when you have the former head of the cia expressing views the viewer thinks he must know more than they do exactly has access exactly had access to the deepest of our intelligence the same thing was true with comi when he wrote his book he just left the f.b.i. you don't write a book when you just left the f.b.i. or the cia and use material that you learned in a confidential way it also misleads the viewer in the listener into thinking that their expertise should give them more credibility well we now learn from brennan well he was given bad information and he gave the american public very bad conclusions i like brown and i think he's a nice guy i met him when he was director of the cia but i do think he would have been better off the cia and i think the same thing is true with comi silence can be golden when you've had access to major major secrets and then you use that access to present an expertise that either isn't there or if it's there you shouldn't be sharing it with the american public is it based on classified material exactly

step aside, and he will be replaced with the current cia director, mike pompeo. - that's right. president trump has fired secretary of state and human grumpy cat, rex tillerson. and this just continues an unprecedented run of people quitting or getting fired from the trump administration. i mean, think about it. we're not even 14 months in, and look at all the people we've lost, right? this is like "saving private ryan" numbers over here. look at this, right? that's a shit ton of people. and i'm not exaggerating. rex was only one of three people who were fired today. yeah. his aide was fired for explaining how tillerson was fired, and trump's personal assistant was fired for possible financial crimes. yeah. working for the white house is basically like being in a "saw" movie, you know? you show up, you get tortured for a while, and then you get killed off. that's how it works. but of course, there's always the president, whose catchphrase is literally "you're fired," didn't have the balls or the decency to tell tillerson the news to his face. - the secretary of state was inform

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

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

like the cia had about gerard question of security clearance about giving him security clearance were there all these memos going on behind the scenes and now we have this new york times report that says he was ordered i mean they had concerns despite what donald trump was saying even a few months ago he doesn't or you're recording them telling new york times journalists had nothing to do with it according to john kelly he was leaned on to give caution about security clearance right and just to be clear about this in terms of how protocol what state she had the president himself has the legal authority to grant this type of plant study. yeah i mean it is whether there's authority it is very rare that it's used but we're told i mean packed out how often do we get an insight into how the security clearances work anyway so we're not entirely sure whether this is happened before how often it's happened but we know in this case certainly there were concerns raised about coercion or this isn't going to terribly good then for question whose authority i mean he's in the middle east right

conclusion that the u.s. senate certainly has come to after it was briefed by the cia director gina housefull there was another briefing that took place on monday where senators had hoped they would finally get the information that they were looking for as a result of the trigger of the magnets kay act but they were in a word disgusted with what they were told according to not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine essentially the senators knew more about this case than those that were put forward by the administration and european countries are expected to. cooperate with the u.n. prover into a murder the joint statement is scheduled to be released on thursday it will also demand that riad freeze detained activists while an intelligence officer from saudi arabia has tried to hold an anti qatar like church in switzerland. claimed four of the speakers. at the event in geneva workouts ariz deprived of their citizenship when journalists how they were allowed to travel without passports it emerged they were actually in saudi arabia the united arab emirates behind and egypt have im

going to change the charges in the state of new york that now face him the end says cia director john byrne fan of mr trump says he has no doubt the president will pardon him do you feel the way. i think i think that. mr brennan may be mistaken in this regard donald trump doesn't really have a lot of will to the people who aren't useful to him and at this point now that paul man of fort faces. thirteen charges in new york against him of the for the manhattan district attorney you know there is no reason for donald trump to get paul in a four out of jail he is going to benefit is is should have flipped when he had the chance or should have told the truth to the special counsel when he had the chance these charges might have been levied against him had he been seen to be somebody who had remorse and was cooperating with authorities so i don't think that triple pardon him at the new york matter has to go to trial it does but right now from the from the initial reading that i've done on it it looks like a very open and shut case in terms of the way he misrepresented to value of his assets

outlining the concerns that had been raised about kushner, including by the cia, and how mcgahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance. this reporting also revealed a network of coordinated lies. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule security officials -- >> 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 even lied about delivering his own child,

. unfortunately, we don't know the nature of the reservations that came up that the fbi and/or cia actually had about particularly jared kushner's clearance. but just at the point you make is that it is the president's prerogative as the head of the executive branch to grant and take away clearances as he sees fit. now he is in doing so he's assume iing the responsibility this. is is it what done unlawful, no. is is is t a practice dangerous security, absolutely. not knowing exact ly the nature of what the problems or anomalies were in jared kushner's background. just the word on ivanka trump. anderson cooper had a segment describe whag she duoes. as far as i can tell, whatever she's doing does not require any level of security clearance. but she has an office in the west wing and is as an administrative consideration it's more convenient for her to be cleared just because of what she's potentially exposed to given the sensitivity of what goes on in the west wing. >> the last we heard there's been no update on this in a long time. she was under fbi scrutiny in trump hotel project. we have n

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

. >> 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

fighters in the principles is advance on the territory. of the cia will no longer need to say how many strikes killed following a new order from president trouble. good evening thanks for joining us this is all to international first this hour a suspected cyber attack on a british institute that seeks to counter russia this information is now being investigated by the u.k.'s national crime agency suspect intelligence agency the g.r.u. . and has the story. here in the u.k. the now infamous highly likely formula pops back into the spotlight as reports circulate citing white hole sources claiming that russia's military intelligence service the g.r.u. had been according to them the one to hack and up until recently not very well known british beast institute for state craft now we understand that now that's been announced that the national crime agency here in the case carrying out an investigation into the cyber attack of this think tank and at the same time we're hearing that a former senior ministry of defense civil servant who is also a co-founder of this institute for statecraft

in doubt and that's one of the difficulties when you go to the cia and in the middle east and the sick and the secretary of justice and the central banks and. who would who is left that is not that's not held the is accelerate the that is integration of the american society that's my problem how do you thing it all i don't want to say and what do you think it will all lead to what kind of flattish style will be americans looking towards after trying to leave the scene whether it's in two thousand and twenty or two thousand and twenty four this is very difficult to predict but there's going to be reelected he'll be reelected it to twenty i believe and if he doesn't get reelected we're going to have riots going to be a difficult time in american to twenty twenty twenty because i'm not going to accept it he's not the type to walk in lose he's not the loser he says i will accept the. as long as they win the world i will accept the vote. which means if we don't win the vote while mr does this we had a little boris yeltsin i mean who opened fire at the parliament with almost two hundred

office urged him not to grant kushner the clearance. so too did the cia. here is the president just a few months before that. >> so that will be up to general kelly. general kelly respects jared a lot and general kelly will make that call. i won't make that call. i will let the general who is right here make that call. >> the "times" says that the directive prompted two internal memos, one from kelly on being ordered to grant the clearance. here is the president about a month ago. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule -- >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't do it. jared is a good -- i was never involved with his security. i know that he -- just from reading i know that there was issues back and forth about security for numerous people actually. but i don't want to get involved in that stuff. >> the "washington post" reports the president's daughter kushner's wife pressured the president personally about kushner's clearance. she was asked about that clearance controversy on abc just last month. >

justice department the fbi, cia and national intelligence, the other half of the country now thinks these vital institutions are corrupted and cannot be trusted. what a disaster of the establishments own making. for all their high-minded lectures about democratic norms and the rule of law and democracy dine in darkness, they are the ones who took a wrecking ball to the foundations of the public. who undermine faith in democratic norms, who undermine faith in american institutions. not the evil trump, it was you adam schiff to come as you eric's well well, it was you rod rosenstein, it was you john brennan, he was you james comey, and it yes, it was you lauren o'donnell and nicole wallace and chuck todd, who did this to america. you are the real agents of putin. it was you and all your establishment cronies who helped hooton achieve his goal of dividing and destabilizing this country. and for what? for politics. all because you couldn't accept that the disruptive outsider to challenge the establishment would actually elect the president. so now what? how do we move on? president trum

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

the shocking subversion of senior apparatchiks in the justice department the fbi, cia and national intelligence, the other half of the country now thinks these vital institutions are corrupted and cannot be trusted. what a disaster of the establishments own making. for all their high-minded lectures about democratic norms and the rule of law and democracy dine in darkness, they are the ones who took a wrecking ball to the foundations of the public. who undermine faith in democratic norms, who undermine faith in american institutions. not the evil trump, it was you adam schiff to come as you eric's well well, it was you rod rosenstein, it was you john brennan, he was you james comey, and it yes, it was you lauren o'donnell and nicole wallace and chuck todd, who did this to america. you are the real agents of putin. it was you and all your establishment cronies who helped hooton achieve his goal of dividing and destabilizing this country. and for what? for politics. all because you couldn't accept that the disruptive outsider to challenge the establishment would actually elect the pr

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

out in the public. who didn't want to do it? >> yeah. >> he does not run the cia. he does not run the defense department, the state department, any of the executive branch. he runs one-half of one-third of the government. what was asked back in september was if by the obamaadministration. it is to say be vigilant in making sure elections systems were secure. >> and we have to leave this part of our conversation there. in our 2020 lead money is talking. democratic candidates facing one in the presidential race. this is the first fundraising deadline of the 2020 cycle. >> we will put together the strongest grass roots movement in the history of american politics. >> raising money on the first day of the campaign they are scrambling to meelt the first fundraising detd line on suddnd. >> raising money so this is a topic that we don't like to discuss, but you can't win an election without knowing how to raise money. >> suddenly harris is trying to lower expectations telling donors we know some of them will have outraised us. i can guarantee we won't be at work. as fundraising appeals p

, 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.

interrogation program of cia, for example, or even today on the house side with the investigation of the russian interference in the election and the potential of collusion with the trump campaign. so, so something else that needs to be looked at. so at the end of the day, is the current system efficient? is it appropriate? could things be changed? could things be modified? that's what we're going to talk about tonight. so i would like to ask you to welcome our panel. moderating tonight is going to be michael morell. michael morell, forminger act bing director and deputy director of the intelligence agent spip also a senior fellow at the hayden center. helping us out, we have miss jane harman who is a former ranking member of the house permanent select committee on intelligence and currently the president and ceo of the wilson center. she wins the award for having the least distance to travel to tonight's event. we also have mike rogers, former chairman of the house permanent select committee on intelligence and currently head of his own center that looks at the presidency and congress.

moderated by the former acting cia director, michael morel. we will hear first from senate intelligence committee vice chair mark warner, posted by george mason university, this is about 90 minutes. >> this is one of 10 schools and colleges at george mason university, and we have a variety of programs and public policy, public administration, political science, and international security, among others, and we are proud to host a number of these public facing events such as this one this evening that are put on by a number of our different centers at the university, including the hayden center. i'd like get started, to acknowledge special guests before we begin our programs at the shore school. i would like to make one specially knowledge meant. here this evening, general michael hayden and his wife, janine. thank you. [applause] >> general, thank you. we are thrilled you are here. thank you for everything you do for george mason university and our country. we are proud to have you here and to host the hidden center at george mason university. i have done these programs in t

bertrand and a former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense. here's where i want to go people are saying, what just happened? did we get the mueller report, do we get the end of this? what we got is this four page letter right here, got this four page letter, natasha, and it has i count basically four quotes from the mueller report. none go longer than a full sentence, but it attempts and we'll find out if it works it resolves everything here. this seems to be the weaker side for barr and the president. i will turn to the stronger side with you, because there are no collusion indictments. you were someone who is saying things that some of the viewers thought might mean there were going to be collusion indictments. but your analysis of what you heard, since this is your first time tonight? >> the collusion aspect is really interesting to me base odden what barbara said at the end there. while the president -- the evidence does not establish that the president was involved in the underlying crime related to russian election interference, therefore, the absence of such evi

indictments. >> martha: that was the former head of the cia john brennan making his opinion on russian collusion very clear. writing an op-ed that mr. trump's claims no pollution is hogwash. he is singing a very different tune at this point. this is him today. >> i suspected that there was more than there actually was. i am relieved that it has been determined that there was not a criminal conspiracy with the russian government over our election. >> martha: joining me now fox news senior political analyst brit hume. it is stunning to watch how far out john brennan, the former cia director was willing to go before mueller's report was finished. >> every word he spoke, the implicit sounds that he is a former cia chief was someone who is in the know. let special knowledge and should be taken seriously and boy was he, he was utterly and completely wrong. from the get-go he was wrong. he must read the whole situation and he led -- not our investigations, a path towards a dead end and that is why this has ended. i'm glad to hear him say that he got it wrong. it is too little, too late. >> ma

times the fbi and the cia also had questions about jared kushner's foreign contacts. >>> pg&e admitted its equipment probably cause last november's campfire, the deadly wildfire. 86 people died in that fire. it wiped out the town of paradise and other communities in butte county. the investigation into the official cause of the fire goes on. pg&e, and a filing with the securities and exchange commission recorded a 10 1/2 billion dollar loss. anticipating damage claims from the campfire. state senator jerry hill says the fire could have been prevented with better maintenance and oversight. by pg&e. >> they allowed this condition to evolving into the bad state of repair that it is. if it's worn out, if it's not secure, if the insulation is bad. all these things are maintenance problems they should have caught. >> in the filing pg&e said quote, the pg&e corporation believes it is probable. the utilities equipment will be determined to be in ignition point of the 2018 campfire. >>> that is a brief look at some of the top stories we are working on. >>> as we reported earlier this morning yo

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

unnamed sources were telling them what millet military sources were telling them what 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 if i didn't say anything they said no but that's a journalist is to investigate does not have the courage of going to tell a judge is not going to know his understanding of journalism is the op ed page ad 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's 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 co

cia, what was done at the beginning of the investigation of the trump campaign and it has to be looked into. i've said over a year and a half i believe something like the church commission will have to be established to look at the fbi behavior and the cia and i would hope -- in the old days in the '70s, "the new york times" and "washington post" would lead the investigations, that is not happening. maybe cnn will do it but i think there is a lot there and this is not to get partisan. this is for the good of the country. i'm a huge supporter and i'm never been a conspiracy guy and my daughter is at west point and i'm not a deep state guy and i think we have to in a bipartisan way look at the start of the trump investigation into the trump thing and seriously question some of the fbi counterintelligence and the cia and maybe even foreign intelligence services and i think this is for the good of the country and for the good of the fbi and the cia, too. but i would hope that that would be the next phase of investigations here. >> as to the question the vitriolic tone, the president

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

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white house counsel and cia he shouldn't and "the times" reports say trump overruled them all, ordered them to give kushner top secret status and causing a fervor on the hill. elijah cummings said he's interested in getting kushner under oath, the committee that of course got so many answers out of trump's former attorney general -- attorney, rather, michael cohen. now, the white house would not comment on "the new york times" report but last january president trump denied any role in granting his son-in-law security clearance. in an interview with maggie haberman of "the new york times" she asked, did you tell general kelly, the chief of staff at the time, to overrule security officials? no, said the president. i wouldn't do it. i was never involved in jared's security. we heard denials last month from ivanka trump on abc. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. zero. >> what were the probleming early on? >> there weren't. >> the trump family very firm, this didn't happen. "the ti

clearances even when the cia said they should be denied. here's zachary quiche. >> these clearances immediate access to the most sensitive inormation in the country. jared kushner appearing on fox news saying he received clearance through the regular process and without pressure from anybody. a stunning report in "the new york times" outlining how the president ordered his former chief of staff, john kelley, to give his son-in-law, jared kushner, a top secret security clearance. according to the times, both the cia and former white house counsel, don mcgahn recommended that kushner be denied top secret clearance. last year, trump's former chief of staff, john kelley wrote a memo saying the president had ordered quote -- that contradicts comments made at the time by the president last month. >>. >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't do it. >> elijah cummings is threatening to subpoena the white house if they don't cooperate. saying in a statement, the security clearance process is supposed to function in an even handed and neutral man