Analysis: Trump associates entangled in widening Hill probes of president
Sen. Chuck Grassley watches as Jared Kushner speaks with President Trump during a signing ceremony for the criminal justice reform bill.“President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer, four people briefed on the matter said,” according to a“Mr.
they report. “The White House counsel at the time, Donald F. McGahn II, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about Mr. Kushner — including by the C.I.A. — and how Mr. McGahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance.”“The disclosure of the memos contradicts statements made by the president, who told the New York Times in January in an Oval Office interview that he had no role in his son-in-law receiving his clearance,” report the Times.
“Hours later, North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, offered a slightly different take at a rare news conference, arguing that Kim’s regime sought only 'partial' sanctions relief in return for dismantling the North’s main enrichment capabilities for fissile material,” they report. John Hudson, Anne Gearan and Simon
“I think the failure was an admission of a need for more time and working-level talks to achieve an agreement,” said Scott Snyder, a Korea expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, told my colleagues. “It lets the North Koreans know that summitry has to be accompanied by process and that an end run around working-level talks and exclusive focus on the leader level won’t necessarily yield results.
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