he has to face. so jane, nbc news learned before this came out about kushner coming under scrutiny for this information leading to sergei kislyak. there you can see the different people. it s like where s waldo. kislyak is waldo and then everybody around is around him. how is this all going to play out into the already existing probe or is this something most likely that robert mueller and other folks have already been sitting on, they knew this? they may have known this. but this is a big billow of smoke as the post called it themselves. here is the biggest headline, that there was a desire to talk? this, without american intelligence knowing it. if you re doing nothing wrong, why dow why do you worry about your allies, your own countrymen knowing what s going on? continually when you say over and over again as the campaign said we didn t have anything to do can russia, we don t care about russia, whatever happens happens, then we see this, it questions what were you saying you be
which are from a report surfacing that say the president s son-in-law and senior adviser allegedly tried to open up a secret communications channel with russia back in december during the presidential transition. despite scrutiny friends say the 36-year-old has no plans to leave the white house role and is instead digging in for what could be a protracted legal and political batter. i want to bring in the writer and talk of the town editor. you profiled ivanka and jared back in august. yeah. so this would have been before that. yes. how does what you learned what you saw from their interactions kind of fit into what would be so naive or considered nefarious on the part of jared? does it come across that way? i think you know, i think he it sounds a lot like what what i learned about him in the course of my reporting. one, i just heard you mention this word that he s digging in for a protracted battle. that is something that his
what did you before we have nothing to do with russia? i don t think we can understate how close kushner is to the president. he s arguably one of his most trusted advisers. this is the closest time we have seen russia come to the president. easy for him to say i don t know carter page, that was the first trump adviser who had been tied to russia. but kushner, he knows kushner. but the other issue with jared kushner, the fact that he omitted meetings and conversations with sergei kislyak on the security clearance form. so his credibility is demeaned, and meanwhile we re supposed to believe kislyak and the fact that we intercepted this russian communique? right, exactly. who s the honest broker? and remember too, he did not disclose his meetings with the russian state bank during the transition too. to put this kind of in context here, this was as we knew that russia was meddling in the 2016 election, so knowing their
him, carries, caddies for waters, right. carriesyies waters water but t trump statement the democrats would rather see the country fail than their father succeed, is he right about that? at ts point, democrats are seething. no, he s not right about that. if you had to pick a side that was putting party over country right now, it s pretty clear who it is, and it s not the democrats. we think about this now the new reports about jared kushner and every week a new bombshell that makes it harder and harder to deny there s nom there there with trump and russia and more and more folks floating the idea of impeachment. we would be better off with trump in the presidency than mike pence. pence is likely to be more effective. he s probably more competent and probably going to push and have
i think the main the name coming out before the british authorities was ready was especially important because at that point they hadn t made the arrest they wanted to. they were closing in on abedi and his network around him. by that name coming out around them, they feared the associates would scatter essentially. go to ground. they feared they may then forward some of that plans and carry out an attack. so it could have had serious consequences and obviously we hope it doesn t. so when we think of the other times we have seen some issues with classified information, whether it s president trump in the oval office divulging classified information to the russians concerning our allies in israel, what s more egregious at this point? the fact that the president has shared intelligence with that many or we learned about this in such a public and damning way