charge of this portfolio. and a lot of experts in middle east politics and the peace process found it laughable, preposterous that kushner was given this portfolio. some other people will say, kushner has the trust of the president, that s the most important thing for a diplomat, he has a fresh perspective, and you even hear some people who have a lot of experience in this world, dennis ross, for instance, has advised many presidents, saying that jared kushner s security clearance is not essential to him continue to play this role. but there s definitely a school of thought that says, no, this really cripples him. michael crawly, it will be interesting to see what comes out of this meeting today. thank you so much. thanks for having me. and we ll be right back. hasd of a pre-pubescent squire! thy armor was forged by a feeble-fingered peasant woman. your mom! as long as hecklers love to heckle,
ahead but tell me jim comey said on february 15th that he knew that jeff sessions was going to recuse himself from the investigation. jeff sessions didn t recuse himself from the investigation until march 2nd. how could jim comey know two weeks in advance that the attorney general was going to recuse himself? it s because he s the one who was leaking the information. that s the only panel scenario. give me 20 seconds. what s his motivation for this? his motive is jim comey basically wants to do what is best for jim comey. he has lost the faith of the president. he s lost the faith of the individuals working at the fbi, and, you know, his reputation has clearly taken a hit on this because not just today but in his previous testimony in front of the house and the senate he had to go back and correct because he made misstatements then too. just because he s under oath today doesn t mean jim comey is tellinetrut thank you. hope you come ba. we ll back with bill chrisow and michae
of, is he doing something to interfere with the investigation? michael crawly, what s your thought today about the testimony on capitol hill, the timeline i ve laid out and even the whole controversy over the flynn subpoena? well, greta, the tide keeps rising. i think that, you know, the water overtakes each position that the white house stakes out and they have to retreat a little fartr. i think i agree. what we re seeing is cumulative. the story, the charges become more and more credible. collusion is far from proven in this case, but hearing that out of john brennan s house that he was concerned about the possibility of collusion adds to the credibility of this charge, adds to our concern and then i think the revelation that donald trump is calling these intelligence officials, you know, it may not be illegal. it s certainly seems very improper and on some level
did either of you request the unmasking of mr. trump or associates or members of congress? yes. in one case, i did, that i can specifically recall but i can t discuss it any further than that. did you ever request unmasking mr. trump or his associates or any member of congress? no. two key moments from today s hearing centered on this question of unmasking. joining me is steve clemmons editor at large for the atlantic and michael crawly from politico. this unmasking sensational one senator grassley was interested in and senator lindsey graham today. explain to the viewers why that s become so important. when the national security agency picks up intercepts of foreign officials they re watching or foreign targets and
syria s bashar al assad to go. i think it is clear to all of us that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. i hope that what the russian government concludes is that they have aligned themselves with an unreliable partner. vladimir putin meanwhile, does not seem open to losing his key ally in that region. today, he raised the fake news flag, suggesting not only is syria being framed for the april 4th chemical weapons attack, but that future chemical weapons attacks could happen and also be wrongly blamed on assad. here to talk about all of that nbc s chief white house correspondent hallie jackson, chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, again in moscow for these talks, and we have michael crawly, senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico and