resolution regarding israel. let me bring in ari melber. what s the significance here? a significant report here. nbc news confirming that this unidentified reference to material that mike flynn admits he now lied about is a direct invocation of jared kushner. it puts jared kushner inof coorg with russians an diplomacy goals at the u.n. and raises how high these orders came pap senior advisers to be president, a family member of the president, known as a closest confidant from the campaign jared kushner says, a., he s involvemented in something mueller s investigating and, b., was jared kushner speaking on behalf of the president of the united states. what are the implications for jared kushner. say it carefully. raises questions of criminal exposure regarding the
to be, so it s not enough that what they said at the time to the press conflicts with what mike flynn is admitting to. but it does suggest that they might be building a case about misleadi leed leading statement obstruction of justice in other folks comments and responses to muell mueller. eli, the quiet out of the west wing, the fact that we have not heard from the president, it does make you wonder who is he with right now, who is he listening to, will he stay away frankly from twitter. yeah, he never stays away from twitter for too long. but there have been a lot of reports about the tension and the president sort of nervousness in trusting ty cobb saying that it will all be okay, it will be over by the end of the kreerd. t year. the president gets riled up when certain people tell him that he shouldn t listen to cobb, that other on folks are skeptical to the point of firing mueller or thinking about pardons? well, we ve been asking a lot
jill, frank, thanks to both of you. i want to bring in ken vogel and eli stokeles. eli, what does this all likely mean for the white house? well, that remains to be seen, but i can tell you today they are not in a good place. will there are a lot of folks who privately will let on that they are a little rattled by this. a little or a lot? probability a loly a lot. we don t know where this is going, but with flynn cooperating as a lot of people have pointed out already, there are only so many people above mike flynn who could be of value to roberts mueller and they know that in this white house. you saw as we talked about earlier, they canceled the pool spray. we ve seen this president in trouble before still come out, talk to the cameras, believe that he can kind of talk mts out of this. get through it. deflect blame. blame the media, blame the democrats. call the whole thing a witch hupts.
rumors. the market reacts to uncertainty and action. and that is what we saw today with mike flynn. mike flynn taking a plea is actual action. think about all the months president trump has lots of rhetoric. there is lots of smoke around russia. but even when terrorirump saysc things, his team walks it back the next day. but today mike flynn taking a plea is scary in terms of geopolitics, it is scary when abc is making you think that this could affect the presidency. that is a big deal. but until we know that, it is unlikely that the market will blow up. because even at 350 points, as a percentage basis, this is not devastating. without a doubt. listen, the market is up 30 on% this year. and investors know that. it is december. they will take their profits and not go through this wild ride of decemb december. if they think things are looking shaky, they will sell today and sit in cash because they have a great year. stay with us because we want
these people, without naming them, in here. put these people here for a reason. starting to tell a story and the story is that mike flynn didn t act alone. that s part of the story that we see today. ari melber, watch him on the beat here on msnbc, 6:00 eastern. looking forward to that. i bring in senator sheldon whitehouse. that subcommittee held several hearings on russia and i just want to get so much is going on. let me get your reaction to the latest thing which is ari just pointed out there does seem to be this narrative that is being laid out by robert mueller. it is clear now, if you read these court documents, this was not a lone wolf kind of thing. on behalf of michael flynn. 2 looks as though it is jared kushner according to nbc, he is the very senior member of the presidential transition team mentioned in that statement as speaking to flynn on december 22nd about the u.n. resolution