official. that pressure reportedly leading the fbi director to threaten to quit in protest. nbc is not confirming that reporting. it is just axios.com that has that story but we re continuing to follow that. lots going on. but for my money, it is adam entis and evan osnose at the new yorker magazine who have just broken what may be the biggest story of the year so far. according to their new reporting in the new yorker, u.s. intelligence agencies felt compelled to give an unusual briefing/warning to the trump administration. we don t know how many people they briefed or who exactly, but given the contents of the warning, the contents of the briefing, one might imagine this was a very senior level thing. quoting from the new yorker, in december, u.s. intelligence agencies briefed trump administration officials, saying that a member of the president s family was being targeted by a chinese influence operation. now, what influence operation means in this context, i think, is that the
which member of the trump family are we talking about? according to adam entis and adam, they say it s not clear which trump family member the warning was about but honestly, this is starting to seem like a game of clue where all but three characters are dead and three rooms left and you know it was the candle stick. not a lot of suspension. this is about jared kushner, the president s son-in-law. you might remember last week we got an unusual report from the wall street journal that said u.s. counter intelligence officials had come to jar rish kushner with a warning that a prominent chinese american businesswoman could be using her close friendship with mr. kushner and his wife ivanka trump to further the interest of the chinese government. what was crazy about the report, is a guy who owns the wall street journal quite recently
intelligence operation to try to compromise a member of the president s family. or to induce a member of the president s family to do the bidding of the chinese government, whether or not they were aware that was happening. which member of the trump family are we talking about? according to adam entis and evan osnose, in this very careful reporting, they say it s not clear which trump family member the warning was about, but honestly this is starting to seem like a game of clue, where all but three characters are dead and three rooms left and you know for sure it was at candle stick. not a lot of suspension. not a lot of suspense here. this is about jared kushner, the president s son-in-law. you might remember last week we got an unusual report from the wall street journal which said that u.s. counterintelligence officials had come to jared kushner with a warning that a prominent chinese american businesswoman could be using her close friendship with mr.
some intelligence officials became concerned that the chinese government was seeking to use business inducements to influence kushner s views. i never saw any indication it was successful a former official said of chinese efforts to compromise kushner, but the intelligence reports triggered alarms that chinese officials were attempting to exploit kushner s close relationship with the president which could yield benefits over time. they re in it for the long haul, the former official said. so evan, how much of a concern could jared kushner be as a weak link here for intelligence to get in the wrong hands? what we discovered in this piece, i was working with adam entis is that jared kushner came into the white house with a plan to change the u.s./china relationship by taking a prominent role in the cove and that meant he would have a strong personal relationship with the ambassador so they meet
lost shane harris. the journal this week also lost paul sonne, who s the one who broke that remarkable story about kaspersky software. that s how we learned that before trump national security adviser mike flynn took money from kaspersky, his own agency, the defense intelligence agency, had published multiple reports and even a pentagon-wide warning saying that kaspersky was a front for russian intelligence. that s how we found out that mike flynn knowingly took money from a company that he himself knew was a front for russian intelligence. now both paul sonne and shane harris are leaving the wall street journal as of this week. the journal has also shed devlin barrett, who has been a scoop machine on a lot of stories over the years but in particular on this trump russia scandal. the wall street journal also lost adam entis, who s the reporter who wound up breaking that big story that during the