in my humble opinion. there needs continue on with regard to the trump administration through the end of his term. don t you need to know did the president know what was going on with manafort? what was going on with stone? what buzz going on with that meeting with his son and manafort and his son-in-law? the meetings kushner was taking. where his money is? does anybody owe him anything? these are issues this president has created. nobody manufactured them. we all understand where politics can be played. what i tried to suggest all
clearance following questions about the administration s vetting process. now even the chief white house calligrapher has greater access to sensitive information. i think he s been treated very unfairly. he s a high-quality person. reporter: as the russia probe ramped up, kushner s clout seemed to go down. he s testified before congressional committees probing russia s involvement in the election. let me be very clear, i did not collude with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. reporter: kushner has also faded from view since taking heat for the appearance of mixing business with government work. special prosecutor robert mueller is probing his foreign business contacts including .meetings kushner had with a russian banker and a russian lawyer looking to share dirt on hillary clinton. then there s the 666 fifth avenue headache. that s the manhattan supertower jared kushner s company bought years ago that s been saddled with debt. it s come under scru
congressional committees probing russia s involvement in the election. let me be very clear, i did not collude with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. reporter: kushner has also faded from view since taking heat for the appearance of mixing business with government work. special prosecutor robert mueller is probing his foreign business contacts including meetings kushner had with a russian banker and a russian lawyer looking to share dirt on hillary clinton. then there s the 666 fifth avenue headache. that s the manhattan supertower jared kushner s company bought years ago that s been saddled with debt. it s come under scrutiny since kushner s father reportedly sought a $500 million investment from the former prime minister of qatar while his son works on middle east issues for the white house. but with the unveiling of the new embassy in jerusalem, kushner s back in the spotlight. after working quietly behind the scenes for the last year and a half or
leaving, as jared and ivanka may have to eventually leave the administration, he s more and more isolated as this goes forward. i just don t know what happens when mueller gets closer to the president and he doesn t have the people that he really trusts around him. ken dilanian, how much jeopardy is jared kushner in right now? it looks like significant jeopardy, kasie. that was one of a torrent of news actually last week on the mueller investigation that i think contributed to the ratcheting up of this pressure. one was the story nbc news did that said mueller is looking at meetings kushner may have had with foreign officials and whether those meetings during the transition affected policy. as we were sitting there in the grid iron and those foreign officials were actually sitting there thinking, how do we manipulate jared kushner in order to there was a story in the washington post that said there was intelligence, intercepts. this guy needs money for his business, we can
hope hicks resigning she s out. even more breaking news. walmart announced it, too, would raise the age limit. couldn t shut off brand-new nuclear weapons. new tariffs on steel and aluminum. the trade war that is now being launched. the dow has lost 500 points. the president dubbed his attorney general mr. mcgoo. this is crazy. sessions defended himself in a rare statement. general mcmaster may be departing his role. trade wars are good and easy to win. the president s economic advisor reportedly threatened to quit. breaking news to report. mueller s special prosecutor asking of kushner s ties influenced white house policy. it would be a chaos president. that ended up being right.