according to nbc news tonight, he is carl kline, k-l-i-n-e. he was reportedly installed in the executive office of the president in may 2017. so that's like four months ish into the new administration. they put someone new in the office of personnel security in the white house. nbc says carl kline was approached multiple times for comment in conjunction with this story and he didn't respond. but what nbc news is reporting tonight is that once -- four months ish into this administration they put this new guy into the office of personnel security in the white house. remember, a lot of the reporting about the initial security clearance problems was that people were just working at the white house without being able to get a clearance. well, four months in, they put somebody in who apparently tried to solve that problem for them. once they had that guy in there, he started overruling it when career security clearance folks said, no, no, this should be a rejection. i mean, this reporting is that 30 times, at least, this one supervisor who trump put

. >> this is all really the work of one man, carl kline who is appointed in may 2007 and he's been thecial for a few decades really since the reagan era, but he's now let through not just kushner's clearance but 30 clearances that were otherwise rejected by these white house officials. this has been a pervasive problem in this particular white house. to give you an indication of how unusual this is, it's only happening onced in the last three years compared to 30 times under carl kline. it's really unusual and it definitely speaks to a very different style of governance under the trump white house than other previous white houses. >> is it really that alarming that it's happened 30 times and in the case of jared kushner twice? >> there have been stories since the -- almost the beginning of the trump administration about kushner and his quest for security clearances, his trouble getting them and he has them, then he hasn't. so the alarm is that the ability of kushner to pursue these security clearances only comes because his father-in-law is the president of the united states he's not j

nbc says he carl kline was asked in connection with the story and didn't reply. four months into this administration, they put this new guy into the office of personnel security into the white house. a lot of the reporting about the initial security clearance problems were people were working at the white house without being able to get a clearance. four months in, they put somebody in to get a problem solved. once he was in there, he was over ruling when career security clearance folks said no, no, this should be a rejection. this reporting is that 30 times, at least this one supervisor who trump put in there, 30 times at least this guy handed out a clearance to an incoming trump white house person who was otherwise flagged as two risky to get a clearance approved. 30 of them. at minimum. christ. for very basic context here, as far as i understand it, there are basically four levels of security cler raarance. there is confidential level and secret next level up and top secret and above that someone that's actually quite different, it's called sensitive compartme