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
the epa investigating scott pruitt for their frequency, cost and extent of his first class travel. steve mnuchin spent $1 million on military flights. the ig found no violation but treasury cited little justification for these military flights. the documentation for interior secretary ryan zinke s trips deficient. he s been accused of mixing business and politics on his troops. and over 400,000 in charter flights. and candy carson s apparent expensive taste when it comes to furniture. how many of these secretaries will survive? it s on david schulken of the v.a. they ve drawn the president s ire in recent days and weeks. chief of staff kelly, a handful of days ago, call a number of them into the office and gave them an admonishing saying this is the stuff that can t happen.
kuwa qatar to the trump administration. the issue we have to be watching for is how will the trump administration repay qatar for this? i think we re going to see a quid pro quo in the coming days. it s just not clear yet what it is. president trump has said all along no collusion, no collusion. and the trump administration kind of laughs and smiles when you mention conflict of interest. but if we now know that julia ainsley has this reporting and we remember, in june 2017, trump clearly backed the decision to blockade qatar. doesn t that clearly show, man, this guy is mixing business with politics? i don t see country first, i see business first. it absolutely does. stephanie, this is nothing new. especially when it comes to jared kushner. one week after the election, he met with officials from china s bank to discuss a loan that
months after he started this process that took accusations of domestic abuse, some crown the white house was clued in on this a year earlier, it took four months before he implemented any changes. part of the security clearance was the demotion of the level of intelligence that jared kushner now has access to, all apart of the chaos this past week. ivanka trump and jared kushner are responsible but through allies for some of the questioning through john kelly. john kelly said i m staying on the job. i want to read. once the prince of trump s washington, kushner is now tripped of his access. isolated and badly weakened inside the administration, under scrutiny for mixing business and government work and facing the possibility of grave legal perle in the russia probe. but he s staying? as far as we can tell. he s a very significant of the mueller investigation going forward. we don t know where this is going to end up. we do know that i don t think