named sur day gore cove. veb put out a statement saying they met with jared kushner during the presidential transition because he is the head of the kushner companies. it is a very important real estate firm. of course that's why they wanted to meet with him. the white house explained, no no no, that was not. the white house statement was that the rn jared kushner met with sergey gorkov. today we had a third reason. jared kushner himself said he took the meeting to be nice to the russian ambassador and because he really did want to set up a direct line of communication with vladimir putin. and this guy said he was friendly with vladimir putin. i don't know if that's supposed to make us feel better or worse