on to note considerable progress and very large important portfolio that jared oversees here at the white house. at the end of this month he will be hosting another major meeting with the heads of tech companies, for example, to really try to figure out how we can improve issue in is i and cost savings in the government. obviously, the relationships that jared was able to establish during transition helped develop this phenomenal international trip that they just came back from. i think one of the great americans that we have is how successful this trip for the president really was is how little talk is getting still by the mainstream media. that s usually a measurement that i put forth it s true. jared. he says he will be fully cooperative with any information that he has. brian: do you back up the fox news report that says it s the russians that reached tout to jared kushner and not the other way around so the
and advisor jared kushner is now at the center of a crisis. jared kushner in crisis. the president now weighing in on the allegations against his son-in-law. total confidence president trump publicly defends son-in-law jared curb kushner. privately new word kushner is being told to lay low. brian: could this be the biggest crisis since watergat watergate? [laughter] brian: judge napolitano here. this is based on a reuters report that said jared had a private source had a back channel with the russians and recommended they go into the russian embassy and go directly with this line of communication. this as reuters said they had three undisclosed sources that told them this story. i was laughing at your question and not at the seriousness of this. however, it is ridiculous that the mainstream media keeps calling this a crisis. all we know is, all we know is jared kushner has hired a lawyer. and he has probably.
that is right, we have a series of reports we ve been working on for a number of weeks about the first 100 days. they are going to air at the 5:00 hour appeared this week, special report goes two hours, 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. eastern time so we have a lot more time to expand upon all the things happening and there are a lot of moving parts, so we need two hours. jon: i hope you get time and have further extra hour. eric bolling will start, so i will be back next week. jon: bret baier, great to have you on. jenna: fox news report, james mattis making it an mackinac unannounced visit to afghanistan today meeting to discuss strategy entry level in the face of an emerging telegra, this is the stage for the first commander for afghanistan back in 2001 pair national security correspondent jennifer griffin is back at the pentagon with more. the visit comes on the heels of the worst attack by the tele-
the trump stuff. they simply say you give us your russian stuff, we give you our russian stuff. it s bird-sharing. once it gets out the intelligence industry will look at if there is value in it. and now the fbi is saying yes, there is, if there are people showing up in the intercepts we want to know. that is what happened here, anderson. and when the fox news report was discussed that fox news then backed away from, saying that president obama used the british intelligence agency to spy on trump, does any of this new information in any way support that claim? let me echo exactly what phil was saying, here is what did not happen and here is what i could not imagine happening. any agency in the united states reaching out to our foreign allies, the brits nevertheless are a foreign government and
the brits made the americans aware of this apparently back in 2015. what would have american intelligence agencies have done with the information? this is pretty straight forward. i can t wait to watch the fairy tale that is spun by politicians over the next day about some huge conspiracy. let me tell you about what happens here. this is about burden sharing that goes on for decades. huge vouchls tata out there, anderson. the united states collects some streams of data on russians. the brits can collect others. it s not as if the british would have looked at this and let me cherry pick the trump stuff. they simply say you give us your russian stuff, we give you our russian stuff. it s burden sharing. it s been going on for years. once it gets to the american side, the national security agency will look at it and determine if there is intelligence of value in this. and now the fbi has got to be saying yes, there is. if we have an investigation on people who are showing up in these i