trump is treating his own a.g.? isn t that extraordinary? i have to talk about the jared statement. jeremy, let s dig into this. i want to share a part that stood out to me. the record and documents i am providing will show that i had perhaps four contacts with russian representatives out of thousands during the campaign and transition, none of which were impactful in any way to the election or particularly memorable. okay, jeremy. fine. four meetings out of thousands. i ve taken thousands of exams in my life, but if i really cheated on one of them i ll still get kicked out of school. i ve been going through his statement. there are so many things that are interesting. first of all, i was astounded he did not at all address the firing of james comey. he was a senior white house official advising the president and he didn t answer a single question that has been raised about what his role was, what did the president talk to him about. second is i thought it was very interesting he
are they only digging themselves deeper? i m not sure what was more surprising, the fact that scaramucci gave up the president or a source or that the president was fundamentally wrong in his assessment. are you calling the president an anonymous source? we know they don t like those. one key fact that again in the context of the kushner statement needs to be examined on october 27th, 2016, the national director of national intelligence and the director of homeland security put out a statement saying it was the russian government that engaged in hacking. so after october 7th, all the meetings that happened in november, in december, through the transition, they were on notice that russian government officials were working to undermine the election. i think that really raises many questions why were they working with russia after they knew that. and at the end of the day, after the inauguration, the president could have said there was a lot of funny by that went on there, let s
obamacare. he has not gone before the press and answered questions about the specifics of why he believes what he believes because we don t even know what that senate bill he s asking people to support looks like. in the last half hour, the white house put out a statement about what he s going to do today. he s going to push for that motion to proceed. that s the first step to getting a full bill before the senate. he wants repeal and replace. remember, last week he had gone back and forth about where he really stood on this. but all of this really is about putting pressure on a handful of senators so he wants to change their minds, people who are in states that still support him. his most loyal supporters. he tweeted this a warning to congress, essentially if republicans don t repeal and replace the disastrous obamacare, the repercussions will be far greater than any of them understand. stephanie? extraordinary. i need my panel to weigh in on this one. christine and rick still w
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
down starting with garrett haake on the hill. jared kushner put out an official statement before going into this closed door meeting. what are the key bullet points? reporter: the key point here is that kushner ends with the statement that he did not chud with russia in any way. he lays town a marker in bold print. we can read to you from end of the statement. it s kind of important. he says, i did not collude nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded with any foreign government. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds to finance my business activities in the private sector. i have tried to be fully transparent with rard to the filing of my sf-86 form, above and beyond what is required. hopefully, this puts these matters to rest. stephanie, he goes line by line through several different scenarios and alleged contacts that he has said to have had with russians during the campaign and the transition, trying to lay out in as much detail as he can why