keep in mind this is the third time that jared kushner has had to update his sf-86 form. the third time. this is somebody with a security clearance. he s seeking a permanent security clearance to represent the country. that is an extraordinary thing. final thought. the overall strategy here that i can gleam from the white house is when you can t argue the facts you have to discredit the messenger. because there s probably a presumption there are other shoes to drop, as john mccain is fond of saying. if there are other shoes to drop, then if you discredit the messengers enough, then when they drop, you don t have to believe them. don jr. was the messenger. [ overlapping dialog ] that s why they had to change the story until he released the emails. one story and not just the media. they re going after mueller s credibility and so on. there s a lot of messengers they re willing to aim fire at. stay there. we have a lot to discuss ahead. just ahead, four contradictory
russian ambassador sergey kislyak at trump tower during the transition. that s when kushner allegedly tried to set up back channel communication to the kremlin. the white house declined to comment. i don t like it. i just don t. also the meeting with sergey gorkov, who not only has ties to president putin, but runs a bank under u.s. sanctions for the last three years. the optics are troubling. my dashboard warning light was clearly on and that was the case with all in the intelligence community. and now this meeting with natalia veselnitskaya. has some wondering how many other meetings kushner might not have disclosed and if security clearance should be revoked. the application form jared kushner filled out is known as the sf-86 form. and you might say kushner seas a
work in progress. the left time he filled it out he left the foreign contacts blank. the next day he amended that to say he had multiple contacts and would be disclosing them. the same form was modified a third time in recent weeks to include the meeting with donald jr. and the russian lawyer, a source told cnn. in a statement over the weekend, kushner s attorney explained that his sf-86 clearance form was prematurely submitted, referring to his original four months ago. and reiterated that her client is eager to cooperate and share what he knows with congress. while that sounds good, keep in mind that kushner s application for security clearance is submitted under penalty of perjury. that s because unlike his brother-in-law, donald jr. who is not a government employee, jared kushner is and was required by law to disclose his meetings with foreign governments. randi kaye, cnn, new york. i want to bring in our legal panel with me now.
had some. and his second explanation, he does explain that this person said that they had some information on hillary clinton, and that the explanation seemed so vague and ridiculous, made no sense to him, then after that, it turned to the russian adoption and the human rights issues, at which point he cut it off. and the question i think we all have is that, people close to trump have been asked, were there other meetings? this came as a result of jared kushner re-filing his sf-86 form in which he included this meeting. so the question is, we didn t know about this meeting and were there other meetings what happens we should have known about? at this point all we know is what donald trump jr. said occurred. you said this was a significant new development we re reporting on over the past couple days. tell us why?
that they failed to even check out at the basic level. another story first reported by cnn last night and now by other organizations as the attorney general of the needs when getting his security clearance did not list on the form where it asks if you ve ever met with foreign entities, did not list he had a campaign year meeting he says in his capacity as a senator with the russian ambassador. remember he didn t disclose that to congress either and congress was mad about that. now the department of justice says this is their explanation, in filling out the sf 86 form, that s the security clearance form, the attorney general staff consulted with those familiar with the process. as well as the fbi investigator handling the background check and was instructed not to list meetings with foreign digny tire res and their staff connected with his senate activities. they re throwing the fbi under the bus here and blaming somebody else. forgive me, but he s the nation s top law enforce ment of