back channel with russia? i mean, he tries to y s ties to away, but this is a nation-state many consider an enemy. how do you explain that? he said in his statement kiselak said to him, hey, do you have at the transition offices a way to communicate securely with our generals? and kushner said no. by the way, that s not true. i worked on transitions. there are secure communications attrition offices. jared turned it around and said however we can go to the russian embassy and speak on secure communications channels with your senior officials in russia with those who have responsibility for syria. again, i don t know why he would do that. if he wanted to communicate government to government he would use u.s. embassy facilities or he would use the transition offices. so there are a lot of questions about that secure communications channel that were not answered in his statement today. your take, rick? i think it s not comforting either, but i think kushner s