Washington (CNN) Ivanka Trump denied that her father was involved in securing top security clearances for herself or her husband, Jared Kushner, both senior advisers in the White House.

"The President had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. Zero," President Donald Trump's elder daughter told ABC's Abby Huntsman in an interview that was released Friday.

She insisted that had been no issues she and her husband faced in getting their top security clearances in May 2018, more than a year after they had joined the White House.

"What were the problems early on?" Huntsman asked.

"There weren't any, other than a backlog that exists of close to a million clearances across government," Trump said. "This isn't new. This was happening under the Obama administration, the Clinton administration. There are literally close to a million people in the federal government who are in the pipeline to get their permanent clearance and are on temporary status."