Incoming national security adviser John Bolton defended himself Sunday after a Democratic senator questioned whether he would be able to obtain the necessary security clearance over a video speech Bolton gave to a Russian pro-gun rights group in 2013. "Can John Bolton even get a security clearance?" According to the NPR report, Bolton was named to the NRA's international affairs subcommittee in 2011. "Russia is the chief nation-state adversary of the United States, these kinds of contacts raise real questions in my mind about whether he could get a full security clearance or not," Kaine said. "We've already lost one national security adviser, Michael Flynn, because he was lying about contacts with foreign governments and had to be let go.

Source: Fox News March 25, 2018 23:01 UTC