relationship with the russian ambassador to the u.s. sources tell cnn that fired fbi director james comey behind closed doors on thursday ma sessions may have had a third undisclosed meeting with sergey kisly kislyak. back with me to discuss this, cnn contributor salena zito and page pate. he may have had another undisclosed meeting, third meeting. remember, he had clarifieds he form that he filled out when he said there were no meetings to speak of and then he clarified that this there with and now apparently there may indeed have been another. what does that mean. is that oversight? perjury many. clarified is one of those great washington words. basically he changed his story
montana in the election to fill that state s open seat in the house. and we are awaiting first results to come in and we ll bring them to you and more on our breaking news tonight, the fbi s looking at jared kushner in its russia broprobe. i want to bring in cnn political director david chalian. gloria borger. political reporters matt lewis and kayleigh mcenany. good evening to both of you. so our two big stories tonight. i want to start with russia first, gloria. you ve been reporting on kushner s meeting with russian officials which are part of this investigation. what do we know about them? well, we know that he s had a couple of meetings with russian officials. first of all, with sergey kisly kislyak, the russian ambassador, and then he had a meeting with the russian banker, sergey gorkov and gorkov is somebody who s an ally of putin s who works with the veb bank, which is a putin bank, which is under
sanction by the united states. when you talk to jared kushner s people, they will say that during the transition, he was the man to see on foreign policy and he met with lots of diplomats from saudi arabia, from russia, everywhere, and in this particular case, his allies say he was trying to establish a back channel to russia and he asked kislyak, who should i meet with? and kislyak recommended gorkof and he met with gorkov. now, if you were to do a little google search on sergey gorkov, you would understand that this is a bank closely tied to putin, sanctioned by the u.s. government and perhaps he ought not have been meeting with him. te th their response is, if you want to establish a back channel, you have to go to people who are close to putin. that is what he will tell the committee when he testifies and presumably what he will tell the fbi. so far, david, we haven t heard from the president, the president hasn t had, as i
investigators. there was a lot of speculation that it was jared kushner because he was not only at the heart of this white house, but he was at the heart of the campaign. we know that he met with russians during and after the campaign. he was late to including that in his security clearance application, but he added that later. and he met with ambassador kislyak who is at the center of the flynn probe. and he also met with this banker who gloria spoke of earlier who runs a state-owned bank that is very close to putin and the kremlin. i think the prime minister sits on its board. and it s been sanctioned. it s been sanctioned because of the invasion of crimea and in the midst of the u.s. putting new sanctions on russia, because of what was done in the election, apparently jared kushner met or shortly before that, jared kushner met with
right. jeb bush came out with a statement where he said when i ran for office, i said he is a chaos candidate and would be a chaos president. unfortunately, so far, chaos organizes the president right now. he s speaking at a hedge fund conference in las vegas. i want to wrap this up, to tell you what has happened. we started an hour ago talking about donald trump s first foreign trip. air force one took off, first destination saudi arabia. within moments of that, two bombshell reports, one from the new york times quoting donald trump as calling james comey a nut job and telling sergey kisly kislyak, the russian ambassador to the united states, and sergey lavrov, the foreign minister of russia, that the firing of james comey has alleviated pressure on the russia administration and then the washington post report stating that a senior white house official is a person of interest in the russia investigation. and may be under investigation, themselves. the white house has not den