newbold explained by she decided to speak out in an interview on nbc. >> the protection of nationalal security is not a democratic issue or a republican issue. it is an american issue. and we a asked security professionals a what to make our recommendations and the best interest of national security. i am always concerned, but it is important we stand up to do the right thing the matter what. juan: newbold said she was subject to retaliation for refusing to issue the security clearances, including a 14 day suspension without pay. well, on tuesday, the house oversight committee voted along party lines to subpoena newbold's supervisor carl kline, the former director of personnel security at the white house who overruled her denials. the move is part of its investigation into the white house security clearance process. this is oversight committee chair elijah cummings. yesterday -- until keep in mind, we started in january. it was not until yesterday after the whistleblower's claims were made public i in less thahan 24 hours before today subpoena vote that we finally receieived a last-mi

that whistleblower is tricia newbold. for the last 18 years, she worked under republicans and democrats in the personnel security office at the white house. it is unclear if she will stay on the job following the allegations. the white house has yet to comment on her future. a career white house official says 25 people in the trump administration were granted security clearances despite disqualifying issues. >> things like drug uses, criminal activity. >> reporter: a memo from elijah cummings says tricia newbolt felt this is my last hope to bring integrity into the office. >> the things she has told us -- >> reporter: newbold told the committee about two senior white house officials still on the job, both drew objections on staff.

that whistleblower is tricia newbold.or the last 18 years, she worked under republicans and democrats in the personnel security office at the white house. it is unclear if she will stay on the job following the allegations. the white house has yet to comment on her future. a career white house official says 25 people in the trump administration were granted security clearances despite disqualifying issues. >> things like drug uses, criminal activity. >> reporter: a memo from elijah cummings says tricia newbolt felt this is my last hope to bring integrity into the office. >> the things she has told us -- >> reporter: newbold told the committee about two senior white house officials still on the job, both drew objections on staff. the objections were overruled, despite concerns such as foreign influence. none of the 25 people were named in the memo. the committee has been investigating security clearances of nine senior officials, including the president's son-in-law and white house adviser, jared kushner. fox news' laura i

. >> tricia newbold is an 18-year veteran of the security clearance process, and she testified, "i haveer seen anything like this." >> a second woman has come forward with accusations against joe biden. >> a connecticut woman is saying the former vice president inappropriately toucd he rubbing noses. >> president trump cut aid to central american countries amid caravan chaos at the border. >> el paso saw such a spike in migrants that officials were forced to house some of them under this border bridge. >> university of south carolina student killed after getting into the wrong car, believing it was her uber. >> she had a personality and a presence that lit up a room. >> glor: and, some hospitals turned them away. six months later, an inspiring update on baby ivy. >> there really aren't any words to describe how thankful we are that we have her. >> glor: good evening. i'm jeff glor. and this is our western edition. we'll begin tonight with a whistle-blower at the white house. a long-time employee of the white house personnel security office claims 25 people denied clearances because of d

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. >> reporter: the stunning charge comes from tricia newbold, an 18-year career white house security specialist, who told congress 25 officials in the trump administration had their top secret security clearances granted by the white house, even though she and her colleagues recommended they be denied. why is this issue so important that you felt the need to speak out? >> the protection of national security is not a democratic issue or a republican issue. it's an american issue. >> reporter: newbold, who has filed a discrimination complaint against her white house superior told lawmakers about those officials serious disqualifying issues including foreign influence and conflict of interest. today her explosive allegations sparking a showdown on capitol hill. >> issue a press release, handpicked, cherry picked parts of her testimony. >> i will protect whistle-blowers, period. >> reporter: nbc first reported that jared kushner was among those whose security denial was overruled. and according to "the new york legally, he has the powe grant clearances to anyone he chooses. overnight kus

newbold said three unnamed senior white house officials, two of whom still work there, drew objectionsue to concerns about potential foreign influence, conflict of interest business entanglements. the house oversight committee has asked the white house for security-related clearance documents for ivanka trump, son-in-law and white house adviser jared kushner, and national security adviser john bolton. newbold lives near baltimore and did not respond to our request for comment. >> i am convinced that she simply wants government to run the way government is supposed to run. >> reporter: president trump does have the authority to grant security clearances regardless of staff objections or warnings. kushner faced delays in his security clearance approval before the president pushed it through, according to "the new york times." but the president denied involvement. >> i was never involved with the security. back ath aboutecurity for numerous people, actually. but i don't want to get involved in that stuff. >> reporter: jim jordan, the ranking republican on the house oversight committee acc

i do want to just go back to newbold. one other thing, this matters. we have laws in this country that protect people with disabilities from discrimination. to have the white house mistreat someone who is a career nonpartisan public servant who cannot reach a shelf that falls directly in the americans with disability act, it is abhorrent we would have a white house that would have behaved like this. >> this isn't a ramp that wasn't there and took too long to get there. they moved the shelf. >> that level of vindictiveness is also a violation of our anti-discrimination laws so we're violating national security, we're violating human dignity and our anti-discrimination laws. there's so many problems with these stories and all comes down to a basic lack of respect for government, its processes, its rules, its norms and its service. >> thank you to both of you. maya wiley and frank figluizzi. >>> catastrophic, that's how mitch mcconnell describes his latest threat to close the border. will it spell catastrophe for republicans in 2020? "the 11th hour" back

newbold has told us, i think this is a million times worse. what you have here are people who literally have the top secrets of the world, and they have not been properly cleared. that should alarm each and every american. >> jared kushner responded last night on fox news. >> over the last two years that i have been here, i have been accused of all different types of things, and all of those things have turned out to be false. >> that is apparently a reference to conclusions in the mueller report which has not been seen by congress or the public. chairman cummings plans to issue a subpoena this morning demanding an interview with carl klein. he served as the personnel security director at the white house of the first two years of the trump administration. klein's attorney says his client is willing to be interviewed voluntarily. >>> jerry nadler plans to authorize a subpoena this week for the full unredacted version. nadler is not saying whether the subpoena will be issued before attorney general william barr publicly releases the redacted mue

newbold's lawyer however says it's republicans that are doing the cherry-picking. kenneth, janai. >> serena marshall, we will see what is coming next. >>> president trump is considering the appointment of a so-called immigration czar who would coordinate policy across several agencies and the president is still threateninging to shut down the entire southern border as early as this week. a move that could jeopardize billions in trade and millions of american jobs. the mayor of el paso told abc's matt gutman closing the border would take a heavy toll on his city. >> it's critical to the city of el paso, and it's critical to texas, and it's critical to the nation. it would be harmful all the way around. >> reporter: how harmful? >> we have $103 billion of annualized trade and 6 of the 28 bridges pass through el paso. >> reporter: is that $103 billion just in el paso? >> just in el paso that go through our ports on an annualized basis. >> president trump threatened to keep it close for a long time unless mexico does more to stop central american migrants. more than 10

. >> tricia newbold has worked in the white house for the past 18 years.lawmakers she and other security staffers denied security clearances for approximately 25 trump administration officials only to have those recommendations overturned. but newbold who has dwarfism alleges her superiors retaliated against her when she raised concerns including taking essential files panting them high up out of her reach. >> trevor: yeah, that's a real thing someone has said about this administration. at some point you're, like, what is wrong with these people? it's like a bunch of middle school bullies put in charge of america's government. you put a thing on a high shelf because a person is a dwarf? at some point we're going to hear they try to give bernie sanders a wedgie, you know? he's probably going to be, joke's on you, i haven't worn underwear since the '60s! ( laughter ) and you know what massive props to tricia newbold over here because even after facing this childish revenge -- ( applause ) -- listen to this, believe it or not, she still showed up to work toda

it's an american issue.ep >>ter: newbold, who has filed a discrimination complaint against her e house superior told lawmakers about those officials serious disqualifying sues including foreign influence and conflict of interest. today her explosive allegations sparking a showdown on capitol hill. >> issue a press release, handpicked, cherry picked parts of her testimony. >> i will protect whistle-blowers, peod. >> reporter: nbc first reported that jared kushner was amonth e whose security denial was overruled. and according to "the new york times," the president personally ordered , but the president has denied it. legally, he has the power to grant nces to anyone he chooses. overnight kushner on fox news dismissed wbold's concerns. >> i've been accused of all different types of things, and all those things have turned out to be false. >> reporter: newbold now fears losing her job. >> i'm always concerned, but it's important we stand up to do the right ing, matter what. >> peter alexander, nbc news, the white house. >>> now to the ripple effect of thopioid epidemic in america, and one

newbold.e told them that the administration overruled dozens of security clearance denials, pressured her to change recommendations and tried to bypass the review process all together. then she said it retaliated against her for raising occurrence. her testimony as summarized by democrats paints a chilling portrait of a range of administration officials being granted access to classified information despite serious red flags changing from foreign influence to criminal conflict. a member of the house oversight committee, jerry conley of virginia. thank you very much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> what are was your take away from her testimony? >> well, it's both chilling and more of the same. we already knew that games were being played with interim security clearances and with overrides such as jared kushner's security clearance and that led to memos of concern by the then chief of staff, general kelly, and mr. mcgahn, the white house counsel. now we know from miss newbold who allowed hers

according to a memo released monday, tricia newbold, who works in the white house personnel security office, told the house oversight and reform committee that the individuals had been flagged by her office for concerns including blackmail, conflicts of interests, criminal conduct, and foreign influence. the chair of the oversight committee, elijah cummings, indicated he would seek to subpoena carl kline, who served as newbold's supervisor and overruled her denials. newbold said she was subject to retaliation for refusing to issue the clearances, including a 14-day suspension without pay. the white house has previously come under fire for its handling of security clearances. reports emerged earlier this year that president trump pressured his former chief of staff john kelly to grant clearances for his daughter ivanka and his son-in-law jared kushner, despite the objections of intelligence officials. ivanka trump and jared kushner are reportedly included in the group of 25 individuals newbold raised. two competing disaster relief bills have stalled in the senate as democrats and pres

he was newbold's boss. it could be they want to see what people have to say about how the process was handled. people are responding by saying the democrats here are cherry picking the facts including jim jordan, a close ally of the president's who said it's disappointing the chairman is using the sensitive topic as a pretense for a partisan attack on the white house. then he goes onto say he believes they are mischaracterizing the information she shared saying on the part of the people those rengss were overruled about getting them security clearances, one of those was a nonpolitical official including a custodian. he's saying it's not as big of a problem as they're making it out to be. included in the list and according to this woman that couplings says is a whistle blower are other officials. but brooke, we've seen this fight play out at the white house having this scrutiny on security clearances is nothing new ever since the rob porter scandal. it has affects around the west wing. it's something they've

>> this wheistleblower we're talking about from the white house, her name is tricia newbold. she's someone i've been speaking with for several months now as she's been sounding the alarm about security clearances that have been forced through. now in a new report, she details how she compiled a list of 35 individuals whose security clearances were denied but then overturned. among them, another source tells me, ivanka trump and jared kushner. a white house whistleblower is alleging the trump administration's handling of security clearances is threatening u.s. national security. the 18-year career official claiming the trump administration gave security clearances to dozens of people who shouldn't have had them, including, according to a source, the president's daughter, ivanka trump, and son-in-law, jared kushner, overruling the office that determines whether a person should get access to the country's bigs secrets. in a letter to the white house counsel, house oversight committee chairman, elijah cummings, said the whistleblower, named tricia newbold, a career supervisor in

this follows the testimony of whistle-blower tricia newbold mishandled that. you have the testimony that they cherry-picked and gave a partisan game. check out what elijah cummings and the top republican on that commish said. >> i have been on this commity ten years and i have never seen anything like this. >> oh, please. >> i haven't. i think it's my time, mr. chairman. >> you're out of time. you didn't run. >> we didn't run the time. >> you will get -- listen to me. >> so to set aside the partisan bickering, cummings told me and other reporters that he views the security clearance process as a national security threat, an imminent threat. he said he would not be doing his job, he would not be fulfilling his oath of office if he didn't fully look into it, steph. >> peter, i have to turn to you. i know last night you spoke to that very brave woman who pushed this investigation forward, the whistle-blower herself, tricia newbold. what did she tell you? i can only hope big-time lawyers are helping her through this process pro bono. i think jeff sessions has some

this whistleblower who elijah cummings called a whistleblower, tricia newbold does not identify anyone by name, but says there were 25 individuals that she listed since 2018 who were allowed to get their security clearances despite initial denials by career officials who had raised significant concerns about their back grounds. now, according to this memo it says this, according to ms. newbold these individuals had a wide ranging disqualifying issues cloug conflicts of interest, concerning personnel conflict, financial problems, drug use and criminal conduct. she goes ton to tell house democratic and republican staff on this committee about a range of concerns about the way the security clearance process works at the trump white house. she said there is not adequate staff to review this, said there is not enough security to look over the personal security files. she also says there is, quote, an unusually high number of individuals who get interim security clearances who she said should not. she said she is people who got interim security clearances were later deemed unsuitable for acc

so miss newbold is giving us some more reasons why jared kushner was denied. what veelse have you learned? >> miss newbold testified last weekend for hours before the house oversight committee, and she described in some detail the pressure that she felt under and the extent of the denials that she and a colleague in the security clearance processing office had issued, for individuals she described in the documents that were first released as white house official 1, white house official 2, and white house official 3, as you just mentioned. we now know that white house official 1 was jared kushner and that she had expressed multiple reasons for concern about kushner, but her recommended denial of his security clearance was overruled by her superior in that office. >> and kelly, what does the white house say? >> reporter: well, they refuse to really talk about the security clearance process. jared kushner himself was interviewed and he said that he's been accused of a number of things that turned out to be false, but he did not directly answer this. i happened to

. ♪ >>> trisha newbold reportedly told the house oversite committee that the trump administration overruledsecurity clearance denials. in a letter released monday, elijah cummings sudden newbold and other career officials adjudicated security clearances that were later overturned. as a result, she is waurnd that security clean applications for white house officials were not always adjudicated in the interest interesting the national security. ken delaney joins us. first jareds kushner and now 25 others that ended up getting ones anyway? or at least operating with a temporary security clearance? anybody reported this before, we want there was 30, they may have looked at it and adjusted to 25 now. in any event, this is unprecedented. we looked into this. this just hasn't happened in prep administrations. we with learn of only one instant in the obama administration where an a i adjudication was overturneded president has the absolute right to grand clearance to whoever he wants and "new york times" has reported that he ordered that his son-in-law be granted a clearance trisha newbold has been

republicans saying tonight that newbold had trouble recalling specific details during her testimony, and democrats are preparing to subpoena her former supervisor as early as tomorrow. david? >> kyra phillips at the white house tonight. always good to have you, kyra. >>> there is news tonight on the showdown over the border. president trump threatening to completely shut down the border as soon as this week, but no plan has been revealed as of yet. and abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman is on the texas border tonight. >> reporter: gridlock tonight at one of the busiest american border crossings in el paso, with millions along the 2,000-mile-long border waiting to see if president trump follows through on his threat to shut down the border if mexico doesn't stop the flood of asylum seekers heading to the u.s. >> and if they don't stop them, we're closing the border. we'll close it. and we'll keep it closed for a long time. i'm not playing games. >> reporter: customs and border patrol estimates more than 100,000 migrants were stopped at the border in march alone. an even hi

what does it mean that the career officials, including tricia newbold inside the administration deniedpeople clearances? >> what it means is, in their judgment, because of -- every case is different. that's why being an adjudicator is a challenging job and why experience is knows -- in those jobs is so important. those are factors that over time the intelligence and security communities, if you want to call it that, have learned that are yellow or red flags for people who are then a judged to be vulnerable to coercion, influence or other kind of negative behavior from a securities standpoint. >> i want to tap into your expertise to get a judgment call by you on something ee liej you cummings said. he compared this to hillary clinton's emails and email servers. he thinks this, the overruling of 25 security clearances is a million times worse than the emails. what you have are people with the top secrets of the world. he says a million times worse than the emails. maybe not that hyperbolic, but compare the two. >> it's hard, john, because you have to know what the individual cases are of

up to do the r thing, no matter what. >> reporter: newbold tells congress the white house overruled her recommendations 25 times approving security clearances for son-in-law ivanka and his daughter ivankrump and others with serious disqualifying issues like foreign influence and conflict of interest and financial problems. >> it is very concerning. could be substantial manipulati by other countries, drug abuse, all kinds ofin . >> reporter: newbold approached the house oversight committee. >> she was scared >> reporter: the committee elsued a subpoena for the former white house perso director to explain how security clearances are proved. >> they are asking for personal and prite and confidential information from individuals that they know that they have no ri tt to see andy're putting the 3 million people that do have a security clearance at risk. >> reporter: and we're now learning about a security scare at president' florida estate. a chinese citizen arrested at the a mar-a-lago cluber talking her way in. authorities say her story didn't addom up. the was arrested with not only t

tricia newbold has worked in the white house the past 18 years. said she and other career staffers denied security clearances for approximately 25 trump administration official, only to have those recommendations overturned. the 25 people were not named in the memo of newbold's testimony released monday by oversight chairman elijah cummings. >> now, the things that she has told us are shocking to the conscience. >> reporter: the testimony did reveal that staff denied the security clearance requests of two current senior white house officials who had disqualifying factors, including foreign influence and outside activities. but those concerns were overruled by senior officials. in a statement, republican jaim jordan accused democrats of releasing cherry-picked excerpts from newbold's interview, noting her 25 examples include nonpolitical officials, such as a gont custodian. the white house has not responded to these allegations, but newbold, who has dwarfism, says her superiors retaliated against her when she raised these concerns, including placin

they announced to us that miss newbold was coming in on saturday. on a saturday of a week we're going against what he told us he would do in the committee, which is if he have these tribed depositions -- transcribed depositions, he was going to make it -- he tells us the day before he's doing it. do aafter they do it, they big press release, big memo. hercherry pick parts of testimony. and then just go to the press. that is not how you run an investigation. process.he wrong so i think it's sort of ironic that he's doing an investigation on the process for giving and granting security clearances at the white house. that he is using on this investigation is anything but the kind of process you're supposed to use. that to me is a big concern. then this week, we subpoenaed miss newbold's former boss, mr. klein. was willing to come in voluntarily. but we, you know, they're going a subpoena. that concerns me a great deal. americannk, again, the people understand the president of the united states is entitled to have the people around him himhe believes wi

the witness trisha newbold was afraid of retaliation. >> she's crying out. she's begging us to do something. >> you issue a big memo and a big press release after interviewing one witness. i've been on this committee ten years and never seen anything like this. >> oh, please. >> i mean, every day that we go on without getting to the bottom of this matter is a day that we are putting hundreds if not potentially thousand of americans at risk. i mean, really. what is next, putting nuclear codes in instagram dms? >> we remember going to talk with the attorney for whistleblower trisha newbold later this hour. first though, house judiciary chairman jerry nadler is planning to authorize a subpoena tomorrow to get access to the full unredacted mueller report. of course at the heart of the case over obstruction is the former fbi director fired by president trump, james comey. he led the investigation into alleged links between the trump campaign and russia, and he says that he's confused by the barr left and mueller's decision to punt on obstruction. let's go live no

newbold told the committee the decision to ignore those red flags created he risks. smote had a list of 25 individuals who were initially denied. we do know cummings is calling on the white house to hand over security clearance documents that are related to people like john bolden, michael flynn, ivanka trump and jared kushner. kushner was on fox news last night talking about there, saying it's a lot of nothing. >> what i can say is over the last two years that i've been here, i've been accused of all different types of things, and all of them have turned on the to be false. when i came to washington i had a successful business career, i had extensive holdings, i disclosed all my holdings to the office of government ethics, they told me what to divest, what to keep, what rules to follow. >> i want to bring if peter alexander at the white house. it seems the administration is simply refusing to comply with the investigation. >> reporter: to be clear the white house says it simply doesn't discuss security clearances, but chairman cummings makes it clear, that the white

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. >>> 18-year security veteran trisha newbold says she's speaking out to prelkt e protect the country. >> it's important that we stand up to do the right thing no matter what. >> newbold tells congress the white house overruled her team's recommendations. 25 times approving security clearances for the president's son-in-law and advisor jared kushner. his daughter, ivanka tring e trump, and others with what she described as serious disqualifying issues, like foreign influence, conflict of interest, financial problems >> it's very, very concerning. they could be subject to manipulation by other countries, drug abuse, all kinds of things. zhoo newbold approached the house oversight committee. >> she was scared to death >> the committee issued a subpoena for the former white house personnel director to explain how security clearances are approved >> they're asking for personal, private, and confidential information from individuals that they know that they have no right to see, and they're putting the three million people that do have a security clearance at risk. >> and we're now learnin

then this week, we subpoenaed miss newbold's former boss, mr. klein. and he said he was willing to come in voluntarily. but we, you know, they're going to issue a subpoena. that concerns me a great deal. and i think, again, the american people understand the president of the united states is entitled to have the people around him who he believes will give him the best advice as commander in chief of this country to implement the policies that are in our best interests. that is a fact. we'll see how this goes. kyle: do you believe that the people around the president are, you know -- do you have any concern that the people around the president are people who are worthy of holding these security clearances and this access of information? rep. jordan: i think the president is entitled to have those individuals giving him counsel, providing him advice and insight who he believes are best equipped for him to accomplish the policies he told the american people he was going to accomplish when they gave him the privilege and the opportunity to be the president

no comment from the white house, but house republicans are pushing back saying that newbold had trouble testimony. democrats are preparing to subpoena her former supervisor. kyra phillips, abc news, the white house. >> our thanks to kyra. >>> today is the deadline house democrats have set for attorney general william barr to turn over robert mueller's full report to congress. >> barr said the report will not be available to lawmakers until mid-april. he said he's still in the process of removing grand jury testimony and classified information. but house judiciary chairman jerry nadler wants to see the unredacted findings from the russia investigation. democrats plan to vote on wednesday to subpoena barr and several former white house officials. >>> president trump celebrated his sweeping criminal justice overhaul at the white house joined by several former inmates. he said the bipartisan first step act will give countless current and former prisoners a second chance at life. alice marie johnson, whose sentence the president commuted following a personal appeal by kim kardashian, thanked

. >> 18-year security veteran, trisha newbold says she's speaking out to protect the country. >> it's important we stand out to do the right thing no matter what. >> reporter: she said the white house overruled her team's recommendations 25 times, approving security clearances for the president's son-in-law and adviser, jared kushner. his daughter ivanka trump. and others with what she described as serious disqualifying issues like foreign influence, conflict of interest, financial problems. >> it's very, very concerning. they could be subject to phpgs by the cups, drug abuse, all kinds of things. >> reporter: newbold approached the house oversight committee. >> she was scared death. >> reporter: the white house director explaining how security clearances are approved. >> they are asking for personal, private and confidential information from individuals that they know that they have no right to see. and they're putting the 3 million people that do have a security clearance at risk. >> reporter: we're now learning about a security scare at the president's florida estate. a chinese cit

the individual in which this woman tricia newbold worked who administration for past 18 years worked in the white house. right now she's alleging that this individual mr. klein overrode her concerns about a number of individuals, 25 individuals. we've learned ivanka trump and jared kushner are among them who got the security clearances despite the initial concerns. jim jordan, the top republican, just came out and said that this is all a political show. and asked him if he had any concerns about the whistleblower -- what the whistleblower crazed to the committee? >> so obviously we'll show her the respect that any whistleblower deserves. but the bottom line is she said this in her interview, the president of the united states can -- is entitled to have the people around him who he thinks will give him as commander and chief the best possible advice. >> but she said there is lackluster safeguards and people got interim security clearances who were later deemed not to -- do you take any of those concerns seriously? >> i think we take seriously the process that should be played out in d

no, i don't think so. ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) career white house employee tricia newbold testifiedn congress that the original denials were for a range of disqualifying issues, including "foreign influencoof interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct." ( audience reacts ) which is also the motto on the trump family crest. ( laughter ) sounds classier in latin. sounds better in latin. ( applause ) ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) the reasons for overturning these security denials were pretty flimsy. in one case, a senior official was denied clearance after a background check turned up concerns about possible foreign influence. but newbold's boss stepped in to reverse the decision, writing that "the activities occurred prior to federal service." (as boss) "come on, why are these background checks so obsessed on the past? ( laughter ) for pete's sake, there is no proof he has done anything bad in the future!" ( laughter ) look forward. come on! ( laughter ) there could be some big names on the list, including two current senior white house off

trisha newbold is an 18 year career white house security specialist.he told congress that 25 trump administration officialsad their top secret security clearances granted even though they were recommended to be denied. they were concerned about issues including foreign influence, conflicts ore in, drug use and criminal conduct. newbold who now fears losing her job spoke excluvelyith nbc news. >> this is an american issue. >> nbc new cing multiple sources familiar with the matter first reported that the t' presiden son-in-law, jared kushner, was among those whose security denial was overruled. nbc'seter alexander will have more on this coming up on "today." >>> artists and parents in arlington county are trying to prevent devastating cuts to chirp's arts programs in the next couybudget. the board of supervisors is working oen a 2020 budget. they were among the most vocal to be protected. firefighters and activists were also thereaking their cases for more taxpayer money. final budget decisions wil abe mail 18th. >>> 6:49. the virginia general assembly r

newbold has sfrd erved for both democratic and republican presidents, say that president trump overruled at least 25 denials despite concerns about black mail, influence and said it could jeopardize national security and that coming forward marked her last hope to bring the integrity back into the office. chairman cummings said his committee will subpoena the person personnel head at the white house today and that more subpoenas may follow. >> so, david ignatius, first of all what are your concerns about the fact that 25 recommendations were overruled by donald trump and his administration regarding security clearances that this oversight panel felt should not be handed out? >> joe, i think this is a classic example, if it's proven to be true, of executive overreach and manipulation of decisions. the process of granting security clearances is one of the most serious and sensitive things that the government does. anybody who has to go through the process knows just how detailed it can be. for there to be these cases that so troubled this career security official that she has decided to be

so trisha newbold is likely just the tip of the iceberg. also this week, congress delivered not just a foreign policy rebuke to donald trump, but an historic one. yesterday the house joined with the senate with bipartisan majorities in both chambers in passing a resolution to endi u.. support for the saudi war in yemen, which is the first time congress has ever successfully invoked the 1973 war powers resolution. who says trump can't bring congress together? also this week, the president folded on his renewed push for a republican plan to replace obamacare. right over the middle of his victory lap over the invisible mueller report, trump announced that republicans would come up with a new, amazing health care plan for the country. this week he said that meant they would do that after the 2020 election. he never meant they would do it right now. and then yesterday after days and days of insisting he would close the border with mexico, economic consequences be damned unless mexico did something or unless congress did something, it was never q

he was the supervisor for miss newbold. she alleged that 25 individuals hadcases in which they were denied and overturned by the white house. they basically granted access to potentially top secret materials. one of the irregularities is that she said credit checks have been stopped with regard to applicants. why somebody should get access to top secret materials when they can't passe credit check is beyond me. >> there is a security headline that i wanted to get your thoughts on, given the area of investigation going into. a chinese woman who entered mar a lago with mal wear talked her way past secret service. she had usbs and stuff. she was federally charged. what do you make of that? >> i think this is all the more reason why we have to make sure that we vet people very carefully for access to top secret materials. we don't know what this person's intentions were going into mar a lago. what we do know is that we have to have a vetting process that is much more secure than what they use at mar a lago to allow people into

>> reporter: what we know is trisha newbold appeared before the house oversight committee and she toldhem she was deeply concerned about how the security clearance process was working at the white house, basically she would express she didn't think someone would have a security clearance and then that decision would be overturned by senior white house officials. now, you know, her concerns with coming forward at great risk to her job she said were just because she was concerned about national security. she told the committee, quote, i would not be doing a service to myself, my country or my children if i sat back knowing that the issues that we have could impact national security. now cummings also said that he will subpoena carl klein who served as the personnel security officer at the white house for the two -- first two years of the trump administration, that he has questions he wants answered from carl klein. now, jim jordan who is the leading republican on this committee, he said simply that this is a fishing expedition, that he does not think that elijah cummings has the best int

her new is trisha newbold, an adjudications manager in the security office. she talked to the committee and detailed dozens of times where there were concerns raised offer overruled by officials in the white house, and she says since 2018 there have been 25 instances, including those two senior white house officials. now the question is -- that cummings has had is this shows the white house has complete disregard for the protocols, for disregarding concerns over national security. one of the things that she points out, according to this memo, the whistleblower says that there was an unusually high number of intrim security clearances that were given to individuals who were later deemed that they should not have had access to classified information, so this is just going to be one of a number of investigations that this committee and other committees in the house plan to do. he plans to subpoena one individual to come forward to ask for more information. the white house has yet to respond to this though. >> what's the bigger goal here for the democrats? they a

i mean, all of them. >> reporter: newbold says there are currently two very senior officials workingn the white house whose clearances were initially denied and ultimately overturned. a memo by the house oversight committee summarizing her claims doesn't name names, but earlier this year, president trump denied he had overruled recommendations against a top secret clearance for kushner. >> jared is a good -- i was never involved with his security. >> reporter: but justayft that interview, "the new york times" reported the president had, in fact, ordered his chief of staff to grant kushner that also denied her father's involvement. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance, zero. >> reporter: so strong denials here. now, republicans say newbold testified that of those 25 security clearance denials only 4 or 5 were for very serious reasons. they are calling her a disgruntled employee and say this is a partisan attack on the white house. but, george, it's worth pointing out that newbold has worked for both republican and democrat administra

we know from our own sources that jared kushner and ivanka were identified by jarred newbold.y have skwaubld with the white house behind the scenes for several days and the white house said don't comply. don't show up and as a result he could be held in contempt by congress by the democrats here >> trisha newbold said it would be unusual for that many to be interfered with and thought that her boss carl klein hadn't gone through the proper channels to mitigate the risk or explain why he had changed the decisions. manu raju, thanks. speaking of defiance, today is deadline day for president trump's taxes but don't expect to see the irs or the treasury department give into the democrats' dead bands and turn over the president's personal returns or anything else for that matter. we talked about the defiance in the security clearance investigation and then there's yesterday lawsuit brought by president trump and the trump organization against the house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings who had subpoenaed a financial services company that worked for the trumps. joseph mor