trump ultimately relied on to fire jim comey, and then the firestorm that ensued over the course of six, seven, eight days of rod rosenstein who had been lauded as sort of a non-partisan u.s. attorney who had served multiple presidencies through different party affiliations, he decided to right the wrong and did one of the most powerful things you can do, which is to appoint bob mueller. i think it is consistent of him to stand up for what he thinks he did that was correct, and i think it was correct. you know, it is interesting because this is a lengthy interview that he s granted to the wall street journal . he says the robert mueller investigation in his words is appropriate and independent. that s clearly in sharp contrast to what the president of the united states keeps saying, including today he calls it a witch hunt, says it is rigged. he also says this is very significant that the american public will have faith in its findings, the find ins of tings mueller investigatio
meeting with a kremlin lawyer and then you look at the decision to make mike flynn to make him national security advisor was pushed by jared kushner and ivanka trump and then jared kushner pushed donald trump to fire jim comey and said it would be politically palletable to democrats. these are the most destructive political decisions and they were pushed by the family. okay, zerlena. he only trusts people he shouldn t trust. he puts jared as his vice roy for the middle east. what is his knowledge? nothing. he puts his daughter, everybody who people sort of like, in charge of the sun. it s insane. she s going to protect us in the beginning against climate change, against global warming. these are insane decisions. essentially what it demonstrates is that he doesn t really care about the underlying policy. he doesn t know anything about the policy and he doesn t care about the outcomes and how that impacts people because if you put ivanka trump in charge of
business have drawn the attention of investigators for other matters including from new york, investigators of the s.e.c. questions related to the way that his family business was potentially offering to help chinese investors get visas in exchange for spending money on their companies. so the financial question may be front of mind for the senate judiciary committee. it certainly is something that kushner has to deal with as he s preparing to take their questions. so frank, to that point, does kushner really need to worry about this? i mean, is the white house worried about kushner being called in to questioning in front of the senate committee here or could there ever be repercussions for kushner himself? yeah, i actually said before here on msnbc that i think he s criminally exposed. i think there s concerned about the family money. we have already heard reports that one of the factors in deciding whether to fire jim comey or not may have been that he was getting close to the fi
there s even a stronger case now against jared kushner and ivanka trump also for obstruction of justice in the roles they played in helping author letters firing comey and/or the letter explaining, falsely explaining the don jr. trump tower meeting. on that case, and we ve been talking about this book, the book one more time, i know the white house is not happy that we have a copy of this book and we re talking about it. in the book some of the claims that are made, jill, about jared kushner and ivanka trump, that they were themselves concerned and worried that their finances would come to the attention of bob mueller and also as frank just mentioned their roles in pushing donald trump to fire jim comey, if you are working in the special counsel s office, does this book become fodder for your investigation? are you asking to see the tapes of the interviews that are in this book? i certainly would be asking for that. i think it is really only corroboration of things we have
to, at least in trump s mind, get a more friendly attorney general in that job who would make it who would pave the way toward mueller s firing. i think that somewhere in the trump mind, complicated haunted house that it is, that there s some part of that, what he is thinking about, this is not just indiscriminate flailing. he s tried to pick the lock on how to get sessions out and how to get mueller out. let me get you quickly in on this jared kushner question. there s i don t even know, open secret is probably a bad way to describe it. but an aggressive effort to malign kushner and throw him under the bus, his role in the firing of jim comey. other sort of criticisms now, very much in the water for any reporters that are biting at that story about how he s got terrible political instincts. i wonder if you can speak to his legal liabilities at this hour. i still think the biggest areas of interest around jared