comey friend in charge of the clinton investigation. why didn t donald trump replace andy mccabe when jim comey resigned? so, it s interesting, nicolle, because i do think the world is watching what happens at that podium inside the briefing room, but probably for a different reason than it used to be. in your days in the white house. i think that what you ve seen and what you saw from sarah sanders is an insistence, an insistence. we went down the front row every reporter asking a variation of the question what did donald trump know about andy mccabe s departure. the white house is insisting publicly the president did not even know that mccabe was leaving the fbi until the reports first started coming out about it. i will tell you that when this news start today break when internally at nbc we heard this first, i spoke with sources inside the white house who had not yet heard that this was happening. and so i think that that is reflected at what you saw publicly. that said, the pres
tonight, we have breaking news about more undisclosed kushner contacts with russians. two major developments tonight. with the reporters who got the story. we begin with nbc news investigative reporter ken dilanian, who has just published a piece with carol lee reporting that kushner failed to disclose what lawmakers call a russian backdoor overture and dinner invite with a banker who has been accused of having links to russian organized crime. what can you tell us? you know the letter went out yesterday from the senate judiciary committee accusing jared kushner withholding what they know about this russian backdoor overture and we immediately started to find out what that was. carol lee and i have learned it involved an e-mail chain about a proposed meeting by a russian official named aleksander torshin who is head of the russian central bank and been accused by spanish prosecutors of having mafia ties. which he denies. but he s reportedly very close to vladimir putin.
jared kushner. they were hard contacts to forget, frankly. under penalty of perjury, he neglected to disclose a meeting with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. also under penalty of perjury, kushner reportedly declined to disclose a secret meeting with the head of a sanctioned russian bank. one of more than 100 foreign contacts that kushner again under penalty of perjury did not initially disclose. tonight, we have breaking news about more unzdisclosed contact with the russians. we begin with nbc news investigative reporter ken delanian just published a piece with carol lee reporting. kushner failed to disclose what lawmakers called a back door overture and dinner invite involving a banker who has been accused of russian organized crime. what can you tell us? chris, the letter went out yesterday accusing jared kushner
ambassador sergey kislyak where he proposed a back channel between trump s transition team and the kremlin. also under penalty of perjury, kushner reportedly declined to disclose a secret meeting with the head of a russian bank, more than 100 foreign contacts that kushner, again, under penalty of perjury, did not initially disclose. tonight, we have breaking news about more undisclosed kushner contacts with russians. two major developments tonight. with the reporters who got the story. we begin with nbc news investigative reporter ken dilanian, who has just published a piece with carol lee reporting that kushner failed to disclose what lawmakers call a russian backdoor overture with a bank who are has been accused of having links to russian organized crime. what can you tell us? you know the letter went out yesterday from the senate judiciary committee accusing jared kushner withholding what they know about this russian backdoor overture and we immediately started to find out
and they were hard contacts to forget, frankly. under penalty of perjury, kushner reportedly failed to disclose a meeting with russian ambassador sergey kislyak where he proposed a back channel between trump s transition team and the kremlin. also under penalty of perjury, kushner reportedly declined to disclose a secret meeting with the head of a russian bank, more than 100 foreign contacts that kushner, again, under penalty of perjury did not initially disclose. tonight, we have breaking news about more undisclosed kushner contacts with russians. two major developments tonight. with the reporters who got the story. we begin with nbc news investigative reporter ken dilanian, who has just published a piece with carol lee reporting that kushner failed to disclose what lawmakers call a russian backdoor overture with a banker who has been accused of having links to russian organized crime. what can you tell us? you know the letter went out yesterday from the senate judiciary committee a