INFORMING HIM, THEY’RE EDUCATING HIM AND YET HE STILL DOES IT.
YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHY.
SO KEEP IN MIND THE BACKGROUND
ISSUES SURROUNDING JARED KUSHNER
AND I THINK THIS IS RELATED THAT
WE JUST REPORTED WHEN LISTENING
TO THIS NEXT STORY.
"THE WASHINGTON POST" HAS
CONFIRMED A "NEW YORK TIMES"
REPORT THAT SOME OF THE HIGHEST
RANKING TRUMP WHITE HOUSE
APPOINTEES PUT THEIR CONCERNS IN
WRITING AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP
ORDERED HIS CHIEF OF STAFF TO
GRANT SON-IN-LAW AND SENIOR
ADVISER JARED KUSHNER A TOP
SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE,
OVERRULING INTELLIGENCE
OVERRULING INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS AND WHITE HOUSE
COUNSEL.
COUNSEL. AFTER DOMESTIC ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST THEN STAFF SECRETARY ROB
PORTER REVEALED THAT SCORES OF
OFFICIALS LACKED PERMANENT
SECURITY CLEARANCES, THEN CHIEF
OF STAFF JOHN KELLY ORDERED A
REVIEW IN FEBRUARY OF 2018
DOWNGRADING KUSHNER’S CLEARANCE
AND LIMITING HIS ACCESS TO
INFORMATION.
INFORMATION. AND IT WAS RECOMMENDED TO TRUMP
THAT KUSHNER NOT BE GIVEN A
CLEARANCE AT TOP SECRET LEVEL.
BUT THE NEXT DAY TRUMP ORDERED
KELLY TO GRANT IT TO KUSHNER, TO
GRANT IT TO HIM ANYWAY.
FOUR PEOPLE BRIEFED ON THE
MATTER TOLD THIS TO THE "NEW
YORK TIMES."
YORK TIMES." "TRUMP’S DECISION SO TROUBLED
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS
THAT KELLY WROTE AN INTERNAL
MEMO ABOUT HOW HE HAD BEEN
ORDERED TO GIVE KUSHNER THE
CLEARANCE, McGAHN ALSO WROTE AN
INTERNAL MEMO OUTLINING THE
CONCERNS THAT HAD BEEN RAISED
ABOUT KUSHNER, INCLUDING BY THE
C.I.A. BEEN
C.I.A. BEEN C.I.A."
C.I.A." >> I DON’T THINK I HAVE THE
AUTHORITY TO DO THAT.
I’M NOT SURE I DO.
BUT I WOULDN’T DO IT.
JARED’S 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 PRESIDENT HAD NO
INVOLVEMENT PERTAINING TO MY
CLEARANCE OR MY HUSBAND’S
CLEARANCE.
CLEARANCE. >> SO NO SPECIAL TREATMENT?
>> NO.
>> NO. >> I MEAN, KEN DILANIAN, IT’S SO
FUNNY WATCHING THE REPUBLICANS
ON CAPITOL HILL ACT SO SHOCKED
AND STUNNED AND SO DEEPLY
SADDENED THAT MICHAEL COHEN TOLD
A COUPLE OF LIES.
AGAIN, THE PRESIDENT LIES EVERY
DAY, LIES REPEATEDLY EVERY DAY,
LIES ABOUT NORTH KOREAN
DICTATORS KILLING AN AMERICAN
COLLEGE STUDENT.
COLLEGE STUDENT. HE’S RECKLESS ABROAD AND HE’S
RECKLESS AT HOME.
THIS IS A REALLY SERIOUS PROCESS
AND THE RECKLESSNESS AND THE
LYING BY IVANKA AND DONALD TRUMP
SHOW ONCE GIVEN THEY ARE JUST
EXTRAORDINARILY RECKLESS PEOPLE
IN CHARGE OF SOME OF THE MOST
SENSITIVE SECRETS IN THE UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT.
STATES GOVERNMENT. >> ABOUT A MONTH ABE NBC NEWS
REPORTED THAT TWO SECURITY
OFFICIALS INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE
TOOK A LOOK AT HIS CLEARANCE AND
RECOMMENDED DENYING IT.
"THE WASHINGTON POST" REPORTED
THAT U.S. INTELLIGENCE PICKED UP
INFORMATION THAT FOUR COUNTRIES
THOUGHT THAT THEY COULD
INFLUENCE JARED KUSHNER THROUGH
FINANCIAL OR OTHER
CONSIDERATIONS.
CONSIDERATIONS. THOSE WERE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS.
SO ALL THIS INFORMATION WAS IN
THE HANDS OF THESE PEOPLE AND
THEY SAID, NO, HE CAN’T HAVE A
TOP SECRET CLEARANCE.
THEY WERE OVERRULED BY THEIR
SUPERVISOR.
SUPERVISOR. WHAT THE POST AND "TIMES" ARE
REPORTING TODAY IS THAT THE
REASON HE OVERRULED THESE PEOPLE
AND BUT THEY MEMORIALIZED IT
BECAUSE THEY WERE DEEPLY
CONCERNED ABOUT IT.
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD THE SLUL
ABSOLUTE LEGAL RIGHT TO DO THIS.
BUT INSTEAD OF JUST ONNING IT
AND ANNOUNCING HE WAS GOING TO
OVERDUE THE TESTIMONY, HE LIED
ABOUT IT AND HIS DAUGHTER LIED
ABOUT IT.
ABOUT IT. AND THERE IS A REAL PUBLIC
POLICY CONCERN HERE.
EVEN THOUGH HE HAD A RIGHT TO DO
IT, CAREER PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED
THAT JARED KUSHNER DID NOT MERIT
THE TRUST TO SEE THE NATION’S
SECRETS AND DONALD TRUMP DECIDED
OTHERWISE AND NOW HE’S GOT THEM.
HERE’S AN IMPORTANT QUALIFIER,
THOUGH.
THOUGH. THE CIA NEVER GRANTED JARED
KUSHNER, OUR REPORTING SHOWS AND
THE "POST" SAYS THIS AS WELL,
NEVER GRANDED HIM THAT S.C.I.
DESIGNATION, WHICH IS THE
RICHEST AND BEST INTELLIGENCE
THAT TOP OFFICIALS REVIEW.
HE DOESN’T HAVE THAT, UNLESS THE
PRESIDENT IS HANDING IT TO HIM
DESPITE HIS LACK OF A CLEARANCE.
>> WHICH OF COURSE, STEVE
RATTNER, AS RECKLESS AS THESE
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN THE WHITE
HOUSE THE PAST TWO, TWO AND A
HALF YEARS, WHO KNOWS IF HE’S
DOING THAT AGAIN.
I’M STUB AGAIN BY HEARING
REPUBLICANS ACTING SO SHOCKED
THAT SOMEBODY IN FRONT OF THEM
HAD TOLD SOME LIES THAT WHILE
THEY WORSHIP AT THE FEET OF A
MAN WHO LIES REPEATEDLY AND GETS
CAUGHT IN THESE LIES EVERY DAY.
"I WAS NEVER INVOLVED IN JARED’S
SECURITY."
SECURITY." "I DON’T LIKE TO GET INVOLVED IN
THINGS LIKE THAT."
AND IVANKA LYING SAYING HE WAS
NEVER INVOLVED IN JARED’S
SECURITY CLEARANCE OR MINE.
AGAIN, JUST FLAT OUT LIES.
>> USUALLY IF YOU WANT TO TELL A
LIE, YOU FIND A WAY TO SLIGHTLY
NUANCE IT.
NUANCE IT. WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW
WITH MAGGIE HABERMAN, IT WAS
FLAT OUT -- I’D LIKE TO COME
BACK TO SOMETHING YOU MENTIONED.
I’VE BEEN WATCHING IN AND I HAVE
MY DOUBTS AS A BUSINESSMAN AS TO
EXACTLY WHAT JARED’S AGENDA HERE
IS.
IS. JARED SEEMS TO BE SPENDING A LOT
OF TIME IN COUNTRIES AND PEOPLE
THAT IS A LOT OF MONEY.
IN SAUDI ARABIA, IN QATAR AND
AND I SOMETIMES WONDER IF JARED
IS THINKING AS MUCH AS JARED AND
THE KUSHNER FAMILIAR THINK AND
THEIR NEXT LIFE AND HOW THEY’RE
GOING TO FINANCE THEIR NEXT LIFE
AND USING THIS IN A WAY AS A
FORM OF CRONY CAPITALISM, A
FLORM WITH WHICH HE’LL BUILD A
BUNCH OF RELAUGSSHIPS WITH
WEALTHY SOVEREIGNS ALL OVER THE
WORLD THAT HE’S GOING TO TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF IN HIS NEXT LIFE.
>> THAT’S A GREAT POINT BECAUSE
MIKA AND I HAD GRAVE CONCERNS
DURING THE TRANSITION AND WE
EXPRESSED THOSE CONCERNS.
ACTUALLY, I EXPRESSED THEM TO
SKRARD
SKRARD JARED AND TO OTHERS THAT HE
NEEDED TO DECIDE WHETHER HE WAS
GOING TO WORK INSIDE THE WHITE
HOUSE OR HE WAS GOING TO RAISE
MONEY FOR 666.
YOU COULDN’T DO BOTH, I TOLD
HIM, STUPID ME, LITTLE DIKNOW HE
WAS GOING TO DO BOTH.
HIS FATHER’S DOING BOTH.
AND WE’VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A
LOT OVER THE PAST TWO AND A HALF
YEARS.
YEARS. IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND DONALD
TRUMP’S FOREIGN POLICY, THEN
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
>> YUP.
>> YUP. >> AND, NO, NOT THE POLITICAL
MONEY.
MONEY. FOLLOW THE PERSONAL MONEY.
RUSSIA, THAT’S ALL ABOUT DONALD
TRUMP AND THE BOTTOM LINE.
HIS SONS, ERIC AND FREDO SAID --
I THINK IT WAS FREDO SAID --
>> YOU MEAN DON JR.
>> OKAY, DON JR., SAME THING,
GOT THE MAJORITY OF THEIR MONEY
FROM THE RUSSIANS.
AND DONALD TRUMP BRAGGED HIMSELF
ABOUT HOW THE SAUDIS LOVE TO
THROW MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS.
DOLLARS. HE THOUGHT THIS MIGHT HAVE SPENT
$150 MILLION ON TRUMP TOYS.
MIKA, AMERICANS, PEOPLE WHO
SUPPORT TRUMP, PEOPLE WHO DO NOT
SUPPORT TRUMP NEED TO UNDERSTAND
AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY USED TO
BE BASED ON THE IDEAS THAT JUST
I FOUND AFTER THREE SECONDS OF
SEARCHING ON THE GOOGLE MACHINE
TODAY, IT’S REALLY EXTRAORDINARY
AND THAT WAS AGAIN PROMOTING
FREEDOM ACROSS THE GLOBE AND
STANDING UP TO TYRANNIES.
>> RIGHT.
>> RIGHT. >> NOW IT IS ALL ABOUT DONALD
TRUMP’S BOTTOM LINE.
AND MARK THE DATE, CIRCLE THE
DATE, SAVE THIS TAPE, YOU WILL
SEE TRUM
SEE TRUM SEE, TRUMP SUPPORTERS, THAT HE
WAS PLAYING YOU FOR A FOOL ALL
ALONG.
ALONG. IT’S ALL ABOUT HIS MONEY.
IT’S NOT ABOUT YOUR FREEDOM.
>> THIS IS AN IMPORTANT
CONVERSATION WE NEED TO NOTE,