lot of criticism from the left, president trump s senior adviser and son-in-law is in iraq today. before the secretary of state has gone to iraq. kushner is the joints chief, general joseph dounford, meetin with iraqi, american, coalition officials. spokesperson for general dunford said kushner was traveling on behalf of the president to express his support to iraq and u.s. personnel involved in the campaign against isis. for more, i want to bring in nbc s hans nichols from the pentagon. back with me, jeremy peters with the new york times and msnbc contributor. break this down for us. what do we know exactly, what will kushner be doing when he s in iraq? good afternoon. he s met with abadi, prime minister, along with general dunford. people at the pentagon are very clear on this, simply want jared curb ther to kushner to be informed. jared kushner is going to have a lot of policy influence inside the white house and want to present their view to jared