joining us now is "the new york times" investigative reporter eric lipton.s for your time tonight. i appreciate you being here. >> thanks for having me. >> help me understand the -- i guess how surprising it is, how unexpected it might be in the abstract for somebody who is the head of a company like spacex, for example, to not have the kind of security clearances that mr. musk has either not been able to obtain or has actively been denied. >> there's something called the special access program that is a higher level of classification that spacex wanted for elon musk that would allow him to participate in some of the most sensitive discussions around -- you know, for example, right now spacex is helping the national reconnaissance office build a spy satellite network around the globe in orbit. he's also in charge of national security launches, putting some of the most sensitive spy satellites and missile tracking equipment into orbit. and so the special access program would have given him ability to participate in some of the most classified discussions arou

leading off our coverage is eric lipton, "new york times" investigative reporter. one of the reporters on this elon musk breaking news tonight. this is such a troubling report. and it seems that most of your sourcing comes from within the company? >> there are people who are close to the company who had knowledge of his reporting and lack of reporting relative to foreign contacts that did share information with us, including, you know, one individual who you named who has since left the company. and we have an email exchange that this individual -- you know that he wrote. and that is -- that's among the information that we have. we have multiple reports that parties that are close to the, did that they were concerned about whether or not mr. musk and others of the company were complying with something that's called continuous vetting. it's the requirement that once you have security clearance, you have to -- you subject yourself to continuous vetting to ensure that you are entitled to continue to have this top-secret clearance. >> yeah, this is -- this is unusual.

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leading coverages eric lipton of the new york times investigative reporter. he is one of the reporters on the breaking news tonight. this is such a troubling report. it seems that most of your sourcing comes from within the company. >> there are people that had knowledge of his reporting and lack of learning. they did share information with us including an individual that has since left the company. we have an email exchange and that is among the information we have with multiple reports from parties close to the company. concerning whether or not they were complying to continuous vetting. once you have security clearance you subject yourself to continuous vetting to ensure you are entitled to continue the clearance. >> this is unusual. there are certain clearances you can obtain that once you are vetted and through it you have obtained it. the process of continual vetting assumes that the risk is so high with the security issues that there must be an ongoing continuous vetting which includes reporting drugs that you take, even if they are prescription drugs.

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