president trump ordered his senior adviser jared kirshner top level access against the recommendations of intelligence officials she had returned see reports. question as appointment as a senior advisor to president trump was controversial the president had tangled business affairs but no political or diplomatic experience yet he was given some of the world's most complex issues to oversee on behalf of the u.s. failed to report various contacts with foreign officials like the russian ambassador to the u.s. on his initial security clearance application but was granted an interim security clearance nonetheless that allowed him to view top secret information as well as even more confidential resources known as sensitive compartmented information he could see the president's daily intelligence report and attempt classified briefings security of the white house was tightened them in february of twenty eighteen and those with interim clearances were no longer allowed to view top secret and above information pending review and that included at the time the president said it would be up to his

the concerns that the cia and other intelligence agencies have about kirshner into writing the white house says it doesn't comment on security clearances following donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen's testimony this week about how trump interacts with his subordinates there are questions as to whether kelley was actually ordered or just felt he was being pressured to grant caution about security clearance but congressional democrats are vowing to pursue this further under demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give them clearance and why the president trumped concealed his role in overruling their recommendation there have been multiple reports that various foreign powers including the u.a.e. israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about the hope to exploit cushion his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had krishna quote in his back pocket cushion himself has been in the middle east this week as he prepar

cushion and why did donald trump have to lie or felt he had to lie about his role in giving gerard kirshner that security clearance if john kelly is to be believed but we have the response from the white house and that is look we'll give you general information a general briefing about how security clearances are given out but we're not going to get any information on individual cases because that would violate the privacy of those individuals the house committee now saying they will think about what the next step will be it's not clear yet whether subpoenas will be following which might then really lead to court action which might mean that this is all just caught up for months and months and months and bureaucracy but certainly this debate is beginning now in august. still to come in this half hour. algeria's chief sends out a message as protests against the president showed few signs of ending and fighting for their teenage son who they say has been tortured and jailed on false accusations of joining eisold in iraq. hello again to welcome back to international weather forecasts we have b

counsel don mcgowan also put the concerns that the cia and other intelligence agencies had about kirshner into writing the white house says it doesn't comment on security clearances and following donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen's testimony this week about how trump interacts with his subordinates there are questions as to whether kelli was actually ordered or just felt he was being pressured to grant question about security clearance but . congressional democrats are vowing to pursue this further on to demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give them clearance and why the president trumped concealed his role in overruling their recommendation there have been multiple reports that various foreign powers including the u.a.e. israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about the hope to exploit code from his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had christian records in his about pocket cushion himself has been in th

on all of the legalities, i want to begin with two former federal prosecutors, glen kirshner and paul henderson. good evening, jeff. >> good evening. thanks for having us. >> glen, what do you see is important in this big week? >> you know, i'm actually looking forward to the manafort sentencing, because i think judge ellis is really unjust and unjustifiable sentence of manafort so far below the guidelines with really no justification for it. does harm not only to sort of the mueller probe, but really to our criminal justice system. you know, there are a couple of reasons why a judge can depart downward, that is go below what is supposed to be the bottom of the potential sentence for manafort of 19 1/2 years. and the judge actually announced that neither of those things applied. he didn't accept responsibility for his crimes and he didn't substantially assist the government in other investigations. in fact, we know judge jackson found he lied to the mueller prosecutors on, among other things, one of the central issues to the mueller probe. so for them to have judge ellis announce that

essentially doing the same thing as in the case of kirshner and the coaches played a role in this they were sort of. auctioning off these slots that they have that they can choose on the college sports teams what does this does this tell us anything more about the influence the influence of political influence on cap on campus sports teams and sort of their influence in the university industrial complex here you know i mean i i remember when i was in high school a nerdy. reporter my school newspaper writing about the fact of sports. on the on the school campus and absolutely right because they get to say ok we want this person that we want this person and they are and they are admitted and as we know oftentimes they don't have the comparable grades and test scores as their peers. you know sitting in this scandal aside what is the state of higher form of higher education affordability right now well the state of it is it's not affordable. for one point five billion dollars sorry trillion dollars. in student loan in student loan debt and we are seeing people having to choose between payi

mohamed bin so money has been trying to work out and a peace deal with gerry kirshner the son in law of the president and has increasingly become closer to israel so it's very unlikely there will be any real arab or pressure placed on israel or american pressure that means that the your. if it wants to see any change will have to go it alone and europe is very confused right now in its own international relations there's been no reaction as of yet obviously from syria nor from syria's allies iran as well as hezbollah about hezbollah who has always a vow to free the golan from is row what do you expect their reaction to be but i think they'll be a lot of protest people will say this will not stand. and something of a chance but the fact of the matter is that syria is the arab world are an extremely weak position today which is why israel is making this move we've seen because of the weakness of syria turkey take a big chunk of northern syria the united states has grabbed about thirty percent with its proxy the kurdish militia in the north and now israel wants to get its share and it's

pursue this further and are demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give him clearance and why president trump concealed his role in overruling their recommendation there have been multiple reports that various foreign powers including the u.a.e. china israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about their hope to exploit cushion his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had cushion a quote in his back pocket cushion himself has been in the middle east this week as he prepares his long touted deal of the century for the region friday's news will be another blow to his authority shihab rattansi al-jazeera washington. at least seventeen palestinians have been shot and wounded by israeli security forces during protests along gaza's body of fence gaza's health ministry says three paramedics and a journalist were among those hurt by tear gas came a day after the un human rights council accused israel of committing crimes against

pursue this further and are demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give him parents and why president trump concealed his role in overruling their recommendation they have been multiple reports that various foreign powers including the u.a.e. china israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about their hope to exploit cushion his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had cushion a quote in his back pocket cushion himself has been in the middle east this week as he prepares his long talented deal of the century for the region friday's news will be another blow to his authority if you ever can see al-jazeera washington. the parents of an american student who died after being detained in north korea are blaming the leader kim jong un for his death they've spoken after lavished praise on him during the summit orto one died shortly after returning to the u.s. in two thousand and seventeen his parents accuse north korea of inflic

representatives for documents related to the security clearance of the president some in the dark kirshner told jobs council has called the house democrats request unprecedented and intrusive and the questions raised about how krishna whose trump senior adviser was granted the high level clearance she had her times he has more from washington d.c. . following the reports in the new york times and washington post that john kelly the then chief of staff of the white house felt ordered to give jarrad cushion to that security clearance despite the reservations of security officials the house oversight committee aust for more information from the white house notably what reservations did security officials have a question a and why did donald trump have to lie or felt he had to lie about his role in giving drug question about security clearance if john kelly is to be believed when we have the response from the white house and that is look we'll give you general information and general briefing about how security clearances are given out but we're not going to get any information on individual c

joining me now is former federal prosecutor and nbc news legal analyst glenn kirshner.'ve seen cohen, what should the president fear more? >> you know, i don't know that we can really parcel out the danger to the president. i do think that the southern district of new york is probably evaluating whether they may be dealing with a potential rye compa rico case, contact tear corrupt organizations. in the early 2000 ths, i ws, i g rico cases and we were going after big gang activity in the city, gun rubbinning, murder, d running. and one of the challenges is privacying a hi proving a hierarchy, an actual organization. and if ever we had a hiker arrestky in the trump organization, we have it because you have one person who by all 9:s is at the top and nothing happens without his say so. >> and let me ask you. so michael cohen pled guilty to this campaign finance violation. allen weisselberg didn't have to because he had immunity and david pecker did not have to because i guess he had limited protection here. so that leaves the only other participant being the president. is

my panel, kim whaley and a professor at the baltimore school of law and glenn kirshner a former federal prosecutor and boxing enthusiast and paul charton. glenn, to you first. what is the significance of these documents related to skoeen's previous testimony? to me it is so hairy and it doesn't show he is a good guy and decided to tell the truth. >> i've seen cooperating witnesses fall into the trap where they begin to believe their own righteousness. let's face it. michael cohen is a liar. he's been a liar for a very long time. he's been a fixer and a thug and enforcer and did he all that for who? for donald trump. for a decade. prosecutors don't get to pick their cooperating witnesses because if we did, i could tell you, steph, i would walk out of the door and go up to the shiloh baptist church at noon on sunday and would you wait for the congregation to poor out and pick three church-going grandmothers as my witnesses. i never gott to do that. i had to develop as cooperating witnesses and thugs and killers and liars and business cheats just like michael cohen is. the problem is we do

pursue this further and are demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give him clearance and why president trump concealed his role in overruling their recommendation they have been multiple reports that various foreign powers including the u.a.e. china israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about their hope to exploit cushion his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had cushion a quote in his back pocket cushion himself has been in the middle east this week as he prepares his long talented deal of the century for the region friday's news will be another blow to his authority if you have or can see al-jazeera washington. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across algeria demanding their eighty one year old president pulls out of next month's elections abdulaziz beautifully guy has been in power for twenty years is planning to run for a fifth term but protesters say he's unfit for the job they've barker reports. t

democratic leaders for documents related to security clearance of the president's son in law gerard kirshner door trumps counsel has called house democrats request on presidents and intrusive and there were questions raised about how question or whose trump syria senior advisor got a high level security clearance it was in new york times reports suggested that trump went against recommendations by security officials and ordered his former chief of staff to clear a questionnaire. let's not go live to she had britain see in washington d.c. she had what more can you tell us. well actually in fact in the last hour or so c.n.n. of that the only organization reporting this that are reporting that this is also the case with vika trump donald trump's daughter that donald trump tried to put pressure on both his chief of staff john kelly on the white house council at the time. to give her security council security clearance but they refused and in fact in the end all tried and gave her personally the security clearance not slightly different to the reporting we had last week from the new york times an

glenn you and i were speaking to glen kirshner. he said this is amy berman jackson's clean-up day. says i am not here to clean up anybody else's mess. >> reporter: well, look, stephanie, i think glen was talking about as a matter of human nature and ari melber played the point that as a matter of law, it's really not appropriate for her to consider the sentence that judge ellis imposed. except for the narrow purpose of whether she will tack a sentence on and make manafort serve consecutively or whether her sentence will go at the same time. and she made that point right off the bat. it's not her job to cure a bad thing people think happened in virginia last week. at the same time, she can consider the conduct that manafort displayed. she can consider his lack of apparent remorse, unless he rectifies that today by apologizing, something he hasn't done and she can consider the fact that he allegedly committed crimes even after he pleaded guilty and began cooperating with prosecutors. so we'll just have to see how it goes. i'll tell you also that manafort was wheeled into court today.

president ordered his son in the jar kirshner be given top clearance trampas previously denied he had any role in question as security posture pretends he has the story. question as appointment as a senior advisor to president trump was controversial the president had tangled business affairs but no political or diplomatic experience yet he was given some of the world's most complex issues to oversee on behalf of the u.s. failed to report various contacts with foreign officials like the russian ambassador to the u.s. on his initial security clearance application but was granted an interim security clearance nonetheless that allowed him to view top secret information as well as even more confidential resources known as sensitive compartmented information he could see the president's daily intelligence report on the thames classified briefings security of the white house was tighten them in february of twenty eighteen and those with interim clearances were no longer allowed to view top secret and above information pending review and that included at the time the president said it would

president overruled intelligence officials over security clearance for senior adviser jared kirshner. european leaders say no to a so-called blacklist naming countries sending money to armed groups. and this former magistri united star makes a positive start to life in asia more details. solar still ahead head but first the gunfire between police and fighters in somalia's capital is now over somali special forces spent the past several hours battling the armed group in mogadishu and earlier bombed a hotel and was shooting and soldiers who were trying to enter the building at least twenty nine people were killed in a hotel attack catherine sawyer has more from kenya's capital nairobi. it's been an intense battle between somalia's special forces and the government since the attack started on thursday night we have been told that gunfire rang the air most of the night and throughout friday and this happened at a very easy street one of the main streets in mogadishu at the hotel that was targeted is very popular with government officials and and politicians as while we have offices there