Ted Lieu: I’m Calling for Ivanka and Jared’s Clearance To Be Revoked and Investigations into Both

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MELBER: "I want to get your view on another big issue which is the conduct of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump who played dual roles, family members of the president, as well as government advisers in the White House. That wouldn’t normally be even legal if they were promoted as potential cabinet members but they found a loophole in that they are adviser in the white House. You have been speaking out. You have a new proposal about this. What is your view given reports of their view of private e-mail and other questions about them, their access to classified information at this point in time."
LIEU: "I wrote a letter to the white House counsel asking for Ivanka Trump’s security to be revoked as well as Jared Kushner’s and they should be investigated. There are a number of actions they took that anybody as well as security clearance would have been their clearance revoked. They not only used private e-mail for official business but they also tried to reroute it through the Trump Administration to hide those e-mails. And Jared Kushner misled people there his two security clearance forms by failing to disclose all his Russian contacts. And the New Yorker wrote that Ivanka Trump engaged in fraud. I have a high level security clearance. If any of my colleagues had done half the things Jared and Ivanka did, their security clearance would have been immediately revoked and pending investigation."
MELBER: "You’re saying they’re getting special treatment?"
LIEU: "Absolutely. I don’t know why they still have a security clearance. It makes a mock rift security clearance process. I’m sure general Kelly is aware that they don’t neat standard. Not only does it protect their integrity, but they are compromised. So foreign powers can threaten to leak information. Whether it is true or false to attempt to get them to do things so this is a very big problem for national security. They should have it revoked immediately."
MELBER: "Congressman Ted Lu on a busy news day, thank you for joining me. I appreciate it. I hope to see you again on “The beat.”