Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (left)

Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders doesn’t want to talk about much of anything these days, but there’s two points she has assiduously avoided several days in a row now: 1) whether Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House aide Jared Kushner still has a security clearance; 2) whether Trump considers Russia a friend or foe. During Wednesday’s off-camera, audio-only press briefing, she dodged both for yet another day.

x SHS on chatter about Jared Kushner's security clearance, says WH doesn't discuss & "Ds are playing political games &I think it's ridiculous" — Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) July 12, 2017

Oh, those meddlesome Democrats—insisting that it’s somehow important that we know whether someone who might easily be at risk of being blackmailed by the Russian government has access to America’s most sensitive intelligence. Not that we’re counting, but this marks the second day in a row that Sanders has declined to discuss the status of Kushner’s security clearance.

Look, Jared Kushner lied on his SF86 national security form, not once, not twice, but three times and then some. They weren’t minor omissions—he didn’t list a single foreign contact on that form and we now know that he took three highly sensitive and, perhaps, even sinister meetings with Russian operatives.

The American people have a right to know if Jared Kushner still has a security clearance and at what level. Furthermore, any White House that actually believed in public service—that actually considered it a duty to protect the interests of the American people rather than themselves—would hasten to assure the public that Kushner’s security clearance had been suspended until such time as investigators conclude whether he has engaged in any wrongdoing. But nope, not in Trump’s self-serving White House.

In fact, Huckabee Sanders couldn’t even give a definitive answer on whether Donald Trump is in America’s camp or Putin’s camp.

x For the third day in a row asked if she has answer on whether @POTUS views Russia as friend or foe: @SHSanders45: Ã¢ÂÂI donÃ¢ÂÂtÃ¢ÂÂ — Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) July 12, 2017

Any president of the United States of America that doesn’t know how to answer that question clearly isn’t committed to protecting America’s interests. Yet Sanders has dodged what should be an automatic answer for three days running.

What exactly does Putin have on Trump? As Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff observed:

“The most serious risk to the country, I think, is that the Russians possess compromising information—what they call kompromat—that can influence this president's conduct of American policy.

Sign if you agree: Suspend Jared Kushner's security clearance until the FBI has concluded their criminal investigation into Trump's ties to Russia.