confirm that moscow was aware that kushner had made that reque request since this was an intercept of communication between kislyak and his superiors. she said she already answered my question, but said if we wanted to know more about kushner's political or business connections it would be worth looking to the middle east. we assume she's referring to a recent deal for saudi arabia to invest $20 billion in u.s. infrastructure, funneling that through the blackstone group an investment firm that has had ties to kushner's companies, which kushner ran before moving to the white house. this is very much in keeping over what we've heard from the kremlin painting this as, you know, internal chaos in washington, having nothing to do with them. pointing out using that word mccarthyism that russia is being used by trump's opponents to hurt his administration and deflect attention away from