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. 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. 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

. >> tricia newbold is an 18-year veteran of the security clearance process, and she testified, "i have never 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

if the protocols that tricia newbold found indicated a vulnerabili vulnerability, the reason someone doesn't get one because there's a vulnerability and someone else may know about it. >> that's right. we already know from jared kushner that at least four foreign governments were looking forward to finding ways to exploit his businesses in order to gain some superior position. >> a guy who always needed to raise money for properties. >> and so donald trump himself obviously this has come up under the emoluments lawsuits but just as a point of comparison, when barack obama was going to be awarded the nobel peace prize in 2009, he went to get an ethics decision about whether that would be taking a benefit from a foreign government. >> wow. >> the nobel peace prize. that is the level of attention we would expect a sitting president to pay to, paying attention to the rules and make sure you're not crossing a boundary. when you're talking about national security, that's the most primary boundary any country has and, remember that we're already in a context where we already knew that russi

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 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

. >> tricia newbold has worked in the white house for the past 18 years. she told 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

long-time white house security specialist tricia newbold accused kline of overturning security clearances for at least 25 people, despite serious disqualifying issues. we'll have more on this story after headlines with congressmember ro khanna. the oversight committee also voted tuesday to subpoena commerce secretary wilbur ross for documents related to the department's decision to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census. voting rights activists say the citizenship question will lead to a vast undercount in states with large immigrant communities, impacting everything from the redrawing of congressional maps to the allocation of federal funding. this is california congressmember k katie hill. >> a recent study commissioned by the senses euro itself that shows neaearly half ofof purchae evevent in the study think the census i is used d to identify people here without legalal documentntation, which in and of itself s shows how unlikely they are to fully dissipate in the study. amy: the supreme court is set to hear a case challenging the census citizenship question this month. "the

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what does it mean that the career officials, including tricia newbold inside the administration denied these 25 people 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 ca

this whistle blower is tricia w tricia new bold. conflicts of interest, financial problems even drug use and criminal conduct were some of the issues. newbold told the committee she was talking as a final resort. quote, she says i would not be doing a service to myself or my country if i sat back knowing the issues we have could impact national security, and i feel that right now this is my last hope to really bring the integrity back into our office. a source says ivanka and jared kushner were among these. has the white house responded to this woman's claims at all? >> nothing so far. brooke, this letter was sent to the white house counsel. we've heard from him before on this. he's argued he believes the power to grant and deny these security clearances rests exclusively with the executive branch. he doesn't think that congress or the democrats here have the authority to get this information. now, this fight is not going anywhere. it could end up in a court battle. we know that couplings said today he's prepared to issue subpoenas

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elijah cummings released a memo on the interview with tricia newbold. in 18 years on the white house staff she has worked in republican and democratic administrations. >> she told investigators the 25 individuals had a wide range of serious disqualifying issues including foreign influence, con fli flikts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use and criminal conduct. a source tells cnn both jared kushner and ivanka trump are on the list of 25. important to note, though, the president is legally entitled to order a security clearance for anyone he wishes. chairman cummings comparing the clearance overrides to hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state. >> if the violations are accurate, and i do think they are, as ms. 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

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

. >> tricia newbold told the house oversight committee that senior trump administration officials overruled her and other career employees who denied the applications because of concerns of foreign influence -- over foreign influence, conflicts of interest, criminal conduct, and drug use. >> "the new york times" had reported that president trump had ordered officials to approve the security clearance of son-in-law jared kushner. kushner was asked about the latest allegations last night. >> over the last two years that i've been here, i've been accused of all different types of things. all of those things have turned out to be false. we've had a lot of crazy accusations, like that we colluded with russia. i complied with all the different investigations. >> republicans have dismissed the whistle-blower's allegations as overblown. democrats plan to subpoena her former supervisor as early as today. >>> president trump is reportedly bringing in an immigration czar to coordinate the administration's policy against several agencies as migrants continue to head to the u.s. in droves. the president

. >> tricia newbold is an 18-year veteran of the security clearance process, and she testified, "i have never 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

. >> 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

. >> reporter: a memo from house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings says tricia newbold felt this is my last hope to bring the integrity back into our office. >> things she has told us a shocking. >> reporter: she told the committee about two senior white house officials who are still on the job. both drew objections by staff but those objections were overruled despite concerns such as foreign influence. none of the 25 people were named in the memo. the committee has already been investigating the security clearances of nine senior officials including the president's son-in-law and white house advisor jared kushner. fox news laura ingram asked if he posed a grave concern. >> i can say i work with some phenomenal people and i think over the last 2 years the president has been doing a phenomenal job to identify where the national security priorities are. >> reporter: he was celebrated at the white house yesterday. >> his life became extremely complex. and he wouldn't trade it. i don't think he would trade it because what he's doing is incredible. >> reporter: jim jordan of ohio

and jake, i've been speaking with that whistle blower, tricia newbold for several months now. she was deeply concerned about the way her boss, carl klein, was running the office and the security clearance decisions, like the one for ivanka trump and jared kushner, which we now know he overruled. republicans have also responded to the democrats' memo, arguing that newbold had limited knowledge, as they said, about specific applications and pointing out on her list of those 25 people, she had very serious concerns for just four or five of them. jake? >> all right. alex marquardt, thanks so much. let's talk about this with my experts, kaitlan collins, white house reporter. does the white house have a strategy to deal with these incoming subpoenas? they've never faced them before? >> so far, they haven't responded to this, but they've known this was coming ever since democrats won back the white house. but what's going to be interesting, we already know what pat sip lowny thinks about this. he has a very strong feeling that the executive branch has full authority to grant whoever

those are the allegations that were raised in that private witness testimony with tricia newbold who the democrats say is a whistleblower from the white house raising serious concerns. nowo casio cortez said what is next for the white house putting unusual codes on instagram direct messages, that is something she said in the hearing and afterwards i asked her about jared kushner and ivanka trump and whether she believes they should have security clearances revoked? >> well, you know, i think it depends on the process. did they go through the full security clearance process and were there any flags raised and were there clearances -- did that process get overridden through the proper channels. >> reporter: republicans say this is not anywhere near as bad as the hillary clinton e-mail situation. what is your response. >> it is like i said in committee, we're getting reports that there is communication happening with saudi officials via what's app. i mean, like i said in there, what is next instagram dms. this is completely insecure and the issue with that, as we saw in the lead-up to s

when it comes to success as you have enjoyed, what do you think about the nigerian novelist adaobi tricia nwaubani who says success for an african writer still depends on the west. we are only telling the stories that foreigners allow us to tell. no, i disagree with that. i've written, for instance, on science fiction written by some africans, so you might as well say, why should an african start writing science fiction? well, that's where his imagination leads him. you wrote a book about seven years ago called of africa and in that you said you were fed up with the kind of comments people have made to you over the years about africa. what type of comments are you talking about? it's not an account of that kind of provocation that i wrote of africa. i merely mentioned this as a lamentable lapse in the historical mentality of people outside africa. so i narrated that incident of this young man who said it is unbelievable, i couldn't believe my ears, he said... who was he, a young man in germany? german. mmm, a german. he said, mrsoyinka, you must remember that you africans, you are inferio

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tricia newbold, who has worked in the white house personnel security office for 18 years, warns the situation, "could impact national security." she says among those 25 people, two "very senior white house officials" with "significant disqualifying factors, including foreign influence and outside activities." a memo released from the house oversight committee doesn't name names. and earlier this year, president trump denied he had overruled security officials to secure a top secret clearance for his son-in-law, jared kushner. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else at the white house to overrule security officials? >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't -- i wouldn't do it. jared's a good -- i was -- i was never involved in his security. >> reporter: ivanka trump doubled down in this interview with "the view's" abby huntsman. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance, zero. >> reporter: but just days after that interview, "the new york times" reported the president had in fact ordered his form

tricia newbold, who has worked in the white house personnel security office for 18 years, warns the situation "could impact national security." she says among those 25 people, two "very senior white house officials" with "significant disqualifying factors, including foreign influence and outside activities." a memo released from the house oversight committee doesn't name names. and earlier this year, president trump denied he had overruled security officials to secure a top secret clearance for his son-in-law, jared kushner. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule security officials? >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't -- i wouldn't do it. jared's a good -- i was -- i was never involved with his security. >> reporter: ivanka trump doubled down in this interview with "the view's" abby huntsman. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. zero. >> reporter: but just days after that interview, "the new york times" reported the president had, in fact, ordered his f

but the cathedral itself still faces an uncertainty future, says architectural historian tricia meehan. >> the biggest risk right now is everything that's on top of the vaults. as long as the vaults hold, the structure should be okay, but you have all the water, and you have all the wood debris that's fallen on top. and they weren't made to carry that weight. >> reporter: although president vcron has vowed to rebuild notre dame in five years, some experts here say depending on the damage, rebuilding could take decades. one challenge, according to one cultural heritage expert, is that france no longer has trees that are big enough to replace the cathedral's beams that were destroyed by the fire. deff. >> glor: interesting, roxana. thank you very much. wa are watching a situation in jefferson county, colorado tonight. police and the f.b.i. are anoking for a young woman who is believed to be armed, traveled there from florida, and is said to be infatuated with the school shootings at columbine which took place 20 years ago this week. y ors were locked today at nearly two dozen schools, a

. >> reporter: the stunning charge comes from tricia newbold, an 18-year carr white house security specialist, who told congress 25 officials in the tru administration had their top secret security clearances tegranted by the w house, even though she and her colleagues recommended they be denied. why is this issue so important thatou lt the need to speak out? >> the protection of national security is not a demoatic issue or a republican issue. 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 nc

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tricia newbold, an 18-year veteran of the personnel security office, told congress the denials were for reasons including foreign influence, conflicts of interesting concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use and criminal conduct. democrats claim this situation a million times worse than security concerns over the clinton email server. >> you've got all the secrets going to people who shouldn't even have a security clearance possibly. >> reporter: at least two of those individuals, newbold claims, were very senior white house officials and while she mentions no one by name, one of those appears to be the president's son-in-law jared kushner who "the new york times" reported the president ordered his chief of staff to grant a top secret clearance to against the recommendation of intelligence officials, something the president denies. >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do, but i wouldn't -- i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: overnight kushner fighting back telling fox news. >> i've been accused of all different types of things and all those thi

. >> reporter: tricia meehan, an american who gave tours of notre dame before the fire, hopes others agreed. >> our hope is to change our narrative, to walk around the outside and talk about the boents of the fire. it will be a new reason to visit. it will be absolutely a new reason to visit. >> reporter: and to watch as the cathedral heals from its wounds. roxana saberi, cbs news, paris. >> begnaud: you will find his name in the credits of some of the biggest films of the past half century. producer and hollywood executive david v. picker died last night. his films include "midnight cowboy," "last tango in paris," and two beatles movies, "help," and "a hard day's night." he was 87. coming up, a preview of tonight's "60 minutes," this is a powerful story about how artibiotics are becoming ineffective. you are going to want to see this. and, pushed to the brink of financial ruin, this dairy farmer's cry for help caught our attention. le about teaching him to put others first. about helping her raise her first child. and when i was first diagnosed, my choice was everyday verzenio. it's

preparations are in full swing at the white house for tomorrow's wedding of the president's daughter, tricia, to edward finch cox. ♪ >> hello. ♪ >> the preparations are underway for the wedding. ♪ >> hello. >> hi, mr. president. >> hey, that wedding was just great. i thought the press coverage was excellent. >> all three networks did it. just really couldn't have done better incidentally, i don't know whether you -- i didn't read the piece, but that piece in the "times" is, of course, a massive security leak from the pentagon, you know. ♪ ♪ >> in 1967, secretary of defense mcnamara assigned his officials to write a top-secret history of how we got into vietnam. >> composed over two years, it was 7,000 pages in length full of secret documents. well, one copy has been leaked to "the new york times" which yesterday began publishing a digest of it. >> unconscionable damn thing for them to do. unconscionable on the part of the people who leaked it. my point is, are any of the people there who participated in leaking it? this is treasonable action on the part of the bastards who put it o

talk to him about the concerns that were raised by this person that they're calling a whistleblower, tricia newbold who works at the white house who has raised concerns that roughly two dozen people had their security clearances approved despite initial denials. expect that subpoena to be authorized at this committee vote this morning, but expect a lot of fireworks, too, because republicans call this another arbitrary and reckless move in the words of republicans. this is going to be pretty contentious in just a matter of minutes here, guys. >> all right. manu, thank you for the reporting on both fronts. we are lucky to have our chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin by our side. thank you for being here. let's back up and start where manu started, on the deadline that bill barr is not going to hit. the deadline that the republicans call arbitrary. he tics through four areas that he thinks needs to be redacted. his argument is by law that's grand jury info. we know that courts can overrule that and can rule that that can be turned over. we saw it in watergate. >> not only that, you know, the wa

>> reporter: the memo from house yoyfr sight committee elijah cummings said a whistle-blower named tricia newbold claimed that 25 officials were granted security clearances despite disqualifying issues raised by herself and other career officials. in an interview with committee staff nine days ago, newbold said she came forward because she could not sit back knowing that the issues that we have could impact national security. newbold said three unnamed senior white house officials, two of whom still work there, drew objections due 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 o

tricia newbold has worked in the white house the past 18 years. she 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 pl

preparations are in full swing at the white house for tomorrow's wedding of the president's daughter, tricia, to edward finch cox. >> no, i'm not nervous. ♪ >> hello. >> hi, mr. president. >> hey, that wedding was just great. i thought the press coverage was excellent. >> all three networks did it. just really couldn't have done better. incidentally, i don't know whether you -- i didn't read the piece, but that piece in the "times" is, of course, a massive security leak from the pentagon, you know. ♪ >> in 1967, secretary of defense mcnamara assigned his officials to write a top-secret history of how we got into vietnam. >> composed over two years, it was 7,000 pages in length full of secret documents. well, one copy has been leaked to "the new york times" which yesterday began publishing a digest of it. >> unconscionable damn thing for them to do. unconscionable on the part of the people that leaked it. my point is, are any of the people there who participated in leaking it? this is treasonable action on the part of the bastards who put it out. >> it's a conspiracy. >> what do you think

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>> this, after a white house whistleblower tricia newbold told of 25 instances to deny security clearances were then reversed by the trump administration. let's bring in cnn politics director, zach wolf, live for us this wednesday morning in washington bright and early. good morning, zach, how are you? >> good, how are you? >> i'm wondering, the trump story line is, it will never be enough for democrats. could he be right? >> it's certainly not enough if they don't get to see everything. he might be taking the republicans with the clinton investigations that sort of never felt like enough, his own conspiracy theories about president obama, his place of birth. it was never enough. there's political opposition, never being satisfied with what they are given. in this case, you can't say they are never going to be satisfied before they give the report. the summary with the most beneficial things to him in it. you have to let people see the evidence before you say they are not going to be satisfied. >> they seem to be opening themselves up to the criticism, can they walk and chew gum at the sam

she was scared to death. >> the woman chairman cummings is referring to there is tricia newbold, the whistle blower who alerted congress about the at least 25 trump administration officials who received security clearances despite opposition from her and her colleagues in the personnel office. she spoke exclusively to nbc news white house correspondent peter alexander about the humiliation she faced from carl kline in retaliation for her speaking out. >> what happened to you inside the eob. >> the most recent suspension, 14 days unpaid, probably the worst ones is the retaliation against my disability. so moving the security files out of my reach, not once, not twice, three times, and moving other office equipment out of my reach. >> literally putting on shelves that you couldn't reach. >> yeah. yep. so it's definitely humiliating. >> how did that make you feel to have that experience? >> humiliated. absolutely. but it didn't stop me from doing what was right. >> why is this issue so important that you felt the need to speak out? >> the protection of national security is not a democra

. >> reporter: tricia newbold is speaking out to protect the country. >> it is important that we stant 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 cl

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 testified in 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 o

her name is tricia newbold. >> why is this so important you felt the need to speak out. >> the protection of national security is not a democratic or republican issue, it'age american issue. we oh, it to make the recommendations in the best interest of national security. i'm always concerned, but it's important we do the right thing no matter what. >> am i correct you issued subpoenas on exactly this question of security clearances in the white house? what are they seeking? >> basically this subpoena with clearances seeks the testimony of an individual named karl kline. 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

overruling 25 security clearance denials, including clearances for two current senior white house officials, tricia new bold is a security specialist who's worked for democratic and republican presidents and she raised her concerns last month in a private interview with the house oversight committee. she told them, coming forward was her last hope to bring integrity back to her office. a committee memo says newbold told lawmakers these 25 individuals had a wide range of disqualifying factors, including "foreign influence, conflicts of interest concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct," chairman elijah cummings is asking the white house for security clearance adjudication summaries from nine employees, including jared kushner, ivanka trump, john bolton and former national security adviser michael flynn. today in an interview with fox news jared kushner was asked about newbold coming forward. >> i can't comment for the white house's process. what i can say is over the last two years i've been here i've been accused of all different types of things and all those

the whistleblowers name is tricia newbold, she is a manager in the white house personnel security office. she told a house committee that those 25 people include at least two senior administration officials whose backgrounds were deemed disqualifying by intelligence officials. newbold said there were concerns about foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct. >>> up next, another bite from the taxman. the hike in the sales tax taking effect today. which bay area cities are affected and the impact for online retailers? >> anger in the east bay. hundreds of dollars of silent auction items for a little league fundraiser gone. the investigation now underway. >>> late showers falling now in time for the afternoon commute. more showers in the 5 day forecast. pretty much all week. i will have the specifics when we see you next. >>> also ahead, three people sent to the hospital after a hot air balloon crashed into powerlines today in napa. >>> it is no april fools joke. sales tax increases are taking effect up-and-down the state of california. henry lee tells us which bay area cities are on

this all started from a -- when a white house staffer tricia newbold came forward and has told top investigators top white house officials overruled clearance concerns on not one or two people but about 25 people

her name is tricia newbold. >> why is this so important you felt the need to speak out. >> the protection of national security is not a democratic or republican issue, it's age american issue. we oh, it to make the recommendations in the best interest of national security. i'm always concerned, but it's important we do the right thing no matter what. >> am i correct you issued subpoenas on exactly this question of security clearances in the white house? what are they seeking? >> basically this subpoena with clearances seeks the testimony of an individual named karl kline. 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 in

as "the washington post" reports, a whistleblower named tricia newbold told the panel that kushner's clearance was specifically denied last year because of foreign influence, private business interests, and personal conduct. >>> joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent, kelly o'donnell and "washington post" political investigative reporter tom hamburg. 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 over