“They wouldn’t touch it,' Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings said of questions around Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
When a former White House official was asked questions about the security clearances of senior advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner during a closed-door meeting Wednesday with members of Congress, a White House attorney reportedly"shut down" this line questioning.
The committee subpoenaed Kline to testify after whistleblower Tricia Newbold claimed Kline and the administration overruled her and other career employees to grant clearances for 25 officials, including Ivanka Trump and her huband Kushner."We wanted to know how these 25 people who were presented security clearances after Ms. Newbold said that they shouldn’t have," Cummings said.
President Trump denied reports in March that he pressured then-Chief of Staff John Kelly to give top-secret security clearance to Ivanka Trump and Kushner.
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