investigation. weather it is jeff sessions, michael flynn e, and now jared kushner who both failed to disclose his conversations with kislyak and this gentlemen gork a l who is russian bank chief sanctioned by the u.s., and so we have a pattern of senior trump officials concealing conversations with essentially russian spies and of course you throw into that the president of the united states when he gets in office taking several steps culminating in the firing of the fbi director to shut down the investigation of all this. there s a lot of smoke right now sk . a lot of us remember in the washington post story in that early december meeting that jared kushner had with ambassador kislyak at trump
not sure i can explain it without more details how it all went down it s very unusual. the fact michael flynn was therep and emerged as top national security advisor certainly during the transition. i assume in a meeting like that he d be playing a significant role, right? sure, absolutely. he would. and again i think a lot has been made, perhaps too much, but a lot has been made about early contacts with kislyak. again i think it s protocol, there s issues there. optics wise it didn t look good. especially what we knew and know about the russian intention to mess with the u.s. elections. but again at the end of the day these people were going to we in power the trump team to include guys like kushner and like michael flynn were going to be in office and it might have been inopportune and inappropriate to do it before the inaugust rakes.
tower in new york michael flynn who would eventually become the president s national security advisor was in that meeting as well does that make any difference to you? absolutely because michael flynn is tied into these meetings undisclosed contacts that are not notified in the security forms. this story today is big. but it s big because of all the other store jis. other stories. in the last 24 hours nbc news and cnn had stories focused on jared kushner related to his data mining capacity and data mining program during the campaign. now you have those stories. you have nthen during the transition his outreach, i think we re using the term back channel incorrectly that s like when you want to the talk to the cubans and go to the pope to do
don t forget michael flynn was former director of the defense intelligence agency three star general with enormous experience in national security and was at that meeting in early december in trump tower as well. you re assuming this was seds in the presence of michael flynn i don t know know if i would make that assumption and i wouldn t put michael flynn and jared kushner in same category. michael flynn is subject of a federal investigation. jared kushner theyp want to question in connection with a counter intelligence he with the focus not on him but what the russians were doing during the time of the election. ne these are two separate matters. quickly. jared kushner has come under criticism as you know because in his security clearance forms he didn t initially report his contacts with kislyak the russian ambassador and contact