a new perspective tonight on a question that's been out there since we learned about jared kushner's meeting with the russian ambassador since december. how typical was the meeting or not was the meeting kushner wanted to setup? was this simply business as usual? last night, jeffrey lord said there was nothing novel about it, equating kushner as robert kennedy. >> i would say that jared kushner is the robert kennedy of the trump administration. and i would disagree with maggie about back channels and secret channels, because they can be the same things. in the kennedy era, quite specifically, the knowledge of this was limited to the two brothers. one was the president and one was the attorney general. they kept it out of the state department. they kept everything away from everybody. >> former presidential briefer, david priess, suggested otherwise. he's the author of "the president's book of secrets," and he tweeted that it was,