Listen: Jared Kushner, Jarrett, President Trump discussed on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
"Your chief of staff general kelly has recommended ending the practice of granting interim security clearances to members of the trump administration if that proceeds would you be willing to grant a waiver to jared kushner and one of your senior advisers were judged on an outstanding job has been treated very unfairly is a highquality person he works for nothing just so nobody ever reports that but he gets zero the doesn't get a salary so that'll be up to general kelly a general kelly respects jarrett a lot and general kelly will make that call i will make that call i will let the general who's right here make that call that was president trump this afternoon saying he would let john kelly decide if jared kushner should be allowed to keep his interim security clearance kelly ordered an overhaul of the white house security clearance process after the rob porter scandal including eliminating interim clearances that have been pending since june 1st of last year the new guidelines were slated to take effect today all this as the washington post reports tonight that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein quote alert at the white house two weeks ago that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner according to three people familiar with the discussion the post also reports quote justice department officials said rosenstein did not provide any details to the white house about the matters that need to be investigated relating to kushner with me to talk about all of this can thomas white house reporter for the associated press my."