the decision that triggered the mueller report as the result of the firing of fbi director james comey and the decision to fire was prompted by the president s son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner. joining me is vicky ward author of the new book kushner, inc., the extraordinary story of jared kushner and ivanka trump. it is such a page turner. it is so good. it s filled with extraordinary information. tell me first of all the relationship of kushner to james comey. why he wanted him to go. right. so interesting. one of the most surprising things i think i found in my reporting. so jared kushner didn t tell, didn t put on his security clearance forms any of the meetings he had had during the transition or anywhere else but as we now know, during the transition, he met with the
i want to hold that thought. but i just want to get to this. the book is called kushner, inc. do you think they have broken any laws? the fact that it was really jared and not the president behind the closure of the white house logs in the first spring of the transition. and it was said at the time that that was don s for security reasons. but actually what my book shows is that it was really don because jared kushner was networking, doing all sorts of things that cause an outcry. he was meeting with the then ceo of goldman sachs, an investor in
well, i think that that story is the moral center of the book. you know, that is the heart of the book. you just have to think about that and think about what that says about who she really is. white house officials have dismissed the book. a spokesperson said you have written a book of fiction. how do you respond to that? well, that was the fairest answer, right? sarah sanders. i ll take my credibility against hers any time. thank you. it was fascinating. the book is called kushner inc. e greed, ambition, corruption. next weekend i will be hosting a town hall with corey booker wednesday, march 27th right here on cnn at 10:00 p.m. our coverage continues. choosing my car insurance was the easiest decision ever.
picture of just how much influence jared and ivanka have in this trump white house and just how entangled they are in the russia investigation writ large. in fact, it was jared kushner who pushed the president to make the decision that ultimately led to mueller s naming. the author, vicky ward, joins us in a moment. she writes, kushner was exposed by the media as someone who would almost certainly have an increasingly prominent role in the russian collusion investigation. not only had he met with russian government officials, or connected officials, but he had left those meetings off his security clearance forms. steve bannon and others noticed that kushner became gung ho about firing james comey. interesting point. we ll stop there. with us tonight, the aforementioned vicky ward, veteran journalist and author, editor at large at the huffington post, author of this new book, kushner inc.: greed, ambition, corruption, the extraordinary story of jared kushner and ivanka trump. thank
simple. easy. awesome. xfinity, the future of awesome. but his e-mails! democrats today demanding the white house turn over evidence on jared kushner using technology to avoid documentation of his messages. instead of a private server, it s a private messaging app. kushner deploying it to secretly talk with autocrats like the saudi prince. a controversial relationship explored in a new book by vicky ward, my guest tonight, the author of kushner inc., exploring how someone as essential as ivanka trump planni managed to avoid mueller s investigator so far as and kushner did it for nine hours and said he didn t rely on russian funds in business, which stoked questions about what else he got from russia. let me be very clear. i did not collude with russia,