watching a play, at least that s how jim from axios sees it. and the whole ordeal breaks it down into five acts. first, act one. the knee capping. it all started when kushner lost his top secret security clearance, a critical blow to someone with so many responsibilities. act two, the humiliation. on tuesday the washington post reported foreign governments discussed ways to manipulate kushner. then act three, the godfather turns. kushner s mentor rupert murdoch owns the wall street journal and on wednesday their editorial board suggested the knives were out and that kushner should step down. act four is called the plot. that same day the new york times reported kushner s family businesses received loans after white house meetings. then act five, and this might be the most consequential when it comes to kushner s job security. torture trump. the times reporting trump is frustrated with kushner who he now sees is a liability. the panel is back. you have some theories about the presid
owns the wall street journal and on wednesday their editorial board suggested the knives were out and that kushner should step down. act four is called the plot. that same day the new york times reported kushner s family businesses received loans after white house meetings. then act five, and this might be the most consequential when it comes to kushner s job security. torture trump. the times reporting trump is frustrated with kushner who he now sees is a liability. the panel is back. you have some theories about the president s true, true, true feelings about jared kushner. i watched him in that press conference last week when he came out and said all the things, nice things about jared and then said i m going to leave it up to kelly whether or not he s going to get the security clearance. and many people especially on cable television said trump is trying to put his thumb on the scales. he s trying to help jared. he s trying to tell kelly what he wants him to do and i looked a
information will be coming out from bob mueller and the department of justice soon. something at nbc news broke from the mueller investigation, a threat of questioning, is that bob mueller does want to understand better jared kushner s contacts with, among other countries, the russians. do you, based on the public reporting, think that it is a legitimate line of questioning to want to understand if jared kushner s campaign activities either wittingly or unwittingly aided those russian efforts? oh, absolutely. jared kushner is obviously somebody who is very close to donald trump. someone who had the confidence of mr. trump. and i think the russians are very, very clever in terms of how they exploit relationships. the russian intelligence services are very good, very cunning, and they will look for individuals who they re going to be able to exploit. and as i said, sometimes these individuals don t know that they are being manipulated and exploited by russian intelligence. so, i thin
house, he s got a by line on the story about the angry and unglued president. from the washington post, white house reporter ashley parker, the author of what reads like camelot in the trump era, the piece i read to you at the beginning. at the table, former cia operative evan mcmullen who ran for president in 2016 as an independent candidate. former federal prosecutor paul butler now an msnbc legal analyst. john heilman, nbc and msnbc national affairs analyst and lydia paul green, editor in chief of huff po. let me start with you, peter alexander, about what led to a declaration of a trade war. a lot less to do with trade and a lot more to do with presidential peak. i think that s exactly right. it s striking as i speak to you now, nicolle, there are serious winds blowing here across the north lawn of the white house it feels like this is a great metaphor for what it must be inside the west wing over the course of the last several days. no better example than this one that we re rep
she could not say that she couldn t go as far as george w. bush said when he said the time of trump has emboldened racism and why are people like condi rice who has no interest in politics, why can t people call out what is so plain for everyone to see. whether he is or is not a racist in his heart, he said racist things and the racists in this country are em boldened, so says bush. and i can t speak why can t they say russia is getting away with murder because donald trump wants them to. we ve watched over a course of a decade or more the intellectual and philosophical moral core of the republican party is hollowed out and donald trump is not the cause of that. he s a symptom. there is people ask, how did donald trump stage a hostile takeover of the republican party. because the republican participanty was a broken thing at the national level. we know republicans had the gubernatorial level and legislators are successful but as a national governing party,