During his CNN program on Wednesday Van Jones defended Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice for her role in unmasking Trump officials swept up in surveillance. In fact, Jones went so far as to say that President Donald Trump should give Rice the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

After all, she was just "doing her job" and, according to Jones, she did it well. 

"To give good advice, you've got to ask good questions!" Jones began. 

"Especially when fishy-looking stuff lands on your desk, OK? Now, finding out for yourself the names of sketchy people, doing possibly sketchy things is called unmasking, OK? Now that doesn't mean revealing it to the whole world – that would be illegal. It does mean revealing those names to yourself, at your desk, so you can do a better job advising the president. As best we can tell, that's all she did. Her job.

"She got very disturbing information, and she looked into it. And as best we can tell, she did her job inside the proper channels. For doing this, Donald Trump should give Susan Rice the Presidential Medal of Freedom, OK?"

This is perhaps the most unique spin on the unmasking scandal we've seen thus far. Watch the clip above. 

(h/t: FreeBeacon)