himself with trump. >> he said every big decision was going to come through him. asserting his primacy as main adviser to the president. >> the idea that a 36-year-old real estate executive who had never worked in government would hold such a role was sharply criticized. >> then president trump handed kushner a full plate of high-level assignments, stunning official washington. >> he was assigned to find peace in the middle east. to handle relations with china. with mexico. he put on a flack vest over his blue blazer and went to iraq. >> he set up the office of american innovation, he was going to solve the veterans affairs crisis. he was going to do an infrastructure plan. it became a joke that there was no problem in america that jared kushner was in the going to fix. >> many in the white house weren't laughing. in the early months of the administration, some senior aides struggled with kushner,