accord this week. sunday he held staff meetings allege mid the latest revelations involving his son in about law and adviser jared kushner. more on that now from ryan nobles. reporter: the white house has yet to confirm or deny the report that jared kushner the son-in-law and senior adviser of the president trump attempted to set up a back channel of communication between the russian government and the transition shortly after the president was elected but before he was inaugurated. no one has rushed to kushner s defense, but there was a republican who took on that responsibility, south carolina senator lindsey graham. listen to what he had to say. i don t know who linked this supposed conversation, but think about this way. you have the ambassador to russia reporting back to moscow on an open xhan he wichannel,in jared kushner is going move in to the embassy. i don t trust this story as far as i can three it. it makes no sense that the rush are shan ambassad russian ambassador w
washington post that jared kushner and the russian ambassador discussed the possibility of setting up secret communications, a channel, with moscow. and evan mcmullan, the former republican staffer who had a brief run for president, he tweeted that the report is quote treasonous activity, whether born of malice, naivete, or both. do you see it that way? we re chasing our tails as a nation when it comes to the russians. i don t know who leaked this supposed conversation. you ve got the ambassador to russia reporting back to moscow on an open channel, hey, jared kushner is going to move into the embassy. i don t trust this story as far as i can throw it. in what way? why don t you trust it? it makes no sense that the russian ambassador would report back to moscow on a channel that he most likely knows we re monitoring. the whole story line is suspicious. i ve never been more concerned and suspicious about all things
russians. i don t know who leaked this supposed conversation. you got the ambassador of russia reporting back to moscow on an open channel. jared kushner s going to move into the embassy. i don t trust this story as far as i can throw it. in what way? why don t you trust it? i think it makes no sense that the russian ambassador would report back to moscow in a channel that he most likely knows we re monitoring. the whole story line is suspicious. i ve never been more concerned and suspicious about all things russia than i am right now. bob, how confident are you that our intelligence agencies are able to accurately decipher what s real and what s not? oh, they can. graham is wrong. first of all, we don t know that he was calling back to moscow on a cell phone or land line. of course he knows the russian ambassador knows that his phones are tap. they tap our phones in moscow. we just don t know the source of this information, we do not know whether general flynn who was at these
jared kushner. some of the tweets from president trump this morning, his favorite themes. fake news. it is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up by the fake news media. whenever you see sources say and they don t mention names it is very possible that those sources don t exist. but are made up by fake news writers. fake news is the enemy. this not with standing the fact that president trump has promised an investigation into many of the leaks that have been the sources for the news stories in the washington post, the new york times and of course nbc news. lindsey graham of course the outspoken republican senator from south carolina was on the sunday shows today. he expressed a great deal of skepticism about this latest controversy involving jared kushner. we re chasing our tails as a nation when it comes to the russians. i don t know who leaked this supposed conversation. but just think about it this way. you have got the amba
what we re watching for you, more reaction from the trump administration pushing back on reports of jared kushner s alleged contacts with russia during the transition time. here s the department of homeland security secretary john kelly just moments ago. any channel of communication back otherwise with a country like russia is a good thing. i mean, multiple ways to communicate back and forth is a good thing with any critic and particularly a country that s like russia. so it doesn t bother me. as they begin to build relationships, there s nothing wrong with that. as they begin to build their own situational aware witness russia in this case i don t see an issue here. also new reaction just moments ago from republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina. he got the ambassador of russia reporting back to moscow on an open channel. hey, jared kushner s going to move into the embassy.