palestinians will probably take the hit. and the whole process will be parked through the midterms. failing a tiation, that s the best outcome for this administration. you re not very hopeful at all? that this peace plan is supposedly a 30 page document will generate some progress? i mean, you know, i d be the first to break open the champagne, we didn t have much success over the course of the last 20 years, i hope they succeed, i just don t i think mr. kushner has mission impossible. the next hour, the president will be receiving jordan s king abdullah at the white house. i assume they re going to have a note toe op at the top. jordan is under enormous pressure right now, all the refugees coming in from syria. on june 19th, mr. kushner saw the king. and on june 21st, the white
welcome back. i m stephanie ruhle. you re watching msnbc. revealing new details this morning about president trump s son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner. reportedly proposing back channel communications with russia. the new york times is reporting that federal and congressional investigators are both now coming what kushner s motive was have been in his discussions last december with russian banker sergey gorkov whose financial institution remains under sanction by the united states, quote, it is not clear whether mr. kushner saw the russian banker as someone who could be repeatedly used as a go between or whether the meeting with mr. gorkov was designed to establish a direct secure communications line to mr. putin. joining me msnbc national security analyst and former cia acting director john mclaughlin and former undersecretary of