were for wanting to bring him on the team, we know it came at a very high cost. it caused his lead lawyer on the russia scandal to quit and walk out. maybe that kind of a risk, maybe that kind of a trade-off felt worth it at the time to the president but that was a bad calculation. because we now know that at the time the president took that risk and thereby watched his lead russia lawyer, watched john dowd walk out the door because of it, at the time the president hadn t even met joe digenova yet, this new guy he was bringing in. it cost the president so much to bring on this new guy and then when he finally met this new guy, turns out he didn t like him. thursday night joe digenova and his wife were finally invited to the white house to meet the president for the first time and the president didn t like them. according to politico.com, the couple looked disheveled
coordinating that whole response and so now at this late date in the russia scandal, the president really doesn t have a lawyer. he has jay sekulow who goes on tv who is now reassuring reporters even though it looks like it s only him, there are lawyer that is work at his activist group who have been helping him out too but that s it. even in a best case scenario that we believe jay and friends are representing the president, that s it. that s who is handling legal representation for the president of the united states in the most serious national security scandal to loom over any american president. the talk show host guy. that s striking in its own right. it s astonishing when you add in the fact that other people in the trump administration have been able to get themselves real lawyers. the vice president, mike pence, has a russia lawyer. he has a real russia lawyer, a
new administration, jared kushner had already revised his financial disclosure forms 39 times and counting. like did he have any other job or was he just full time revising his forms? as the russia scandal is reverted out we learned mr. kushner was in a lot of secret meetings including the trump tower meeting during the campaign and his meeting during the transition with the head of a sanctioned russian bank. last may is when we learned that after one of his undisclosed conversations with the russian ambassador, the ambassador communicated back home to his superiors in moscow slightly befuddled by the request that jared kushner sought to create a secret secure method of communication between himself and the kremlin even going so far as to ask the ambassador if he could start communicating with the russian government using secure channels from inside russian diplomatic facilities.
the 2014 midterms so that s before cambridge analytica became the data operations of the donald trump for president campaign. there s been a lot of reporting and a lot of scandal around cambridge analytica in recent days but the pace these stories are coming out and the reaction in different jurisdictions, it s a lot. we ll have a little more ahead tonight and we ll have quite a lot more on that story in coming days. tonight we re about to be joined by a democratic member of congress who appears to have stumbled upon some i guess surprising news about white house senior advisor and presidential son-in-law jared kushner. one thing to know about jared kushner is that jared kushner has a very, very good lawyer. he s not himself a lawyer but, boy, did he pick a good one. he s one of those washington legends who turns up in high-profile cases involving very high-profile politicians on both sides of the isle with a common thread
financial firms took white house meetings with jared kushner. on receiving that letter from the office of government ethics two democrats tonight wrote to the don mcgahn to try to get more information about what we ve just learned is an ongoing ethics investigation into kushner s business dealings. they are asking for reams of documents and they re asking for them by april 10th. moving fast. joining us now is a congressman who is on the house oversight committee who appears to have uncovered this scandal. thank you for being here. i m glad to be here. thank you so much. this is something i didn t know was going on until we saw this letter from the office of government ethics back to you. did you know what you were going to get when you kerr remembered the ethics office? no, we wrote it on march 1st and three weeks later on friday, late afternoon we receive the the response and it was a