people first and foremost. reporter: two topics. the kushner family was in china making a pitch for this visa program a day after the president signed and on to support extent of that program, so two questions, one is is it a violation of the conflict of interest agreement that jared kushner came to? and also, does the president believe that investment in the program needs to be modified? press secretary spicer: i think i would refer you to the company on that. jared kushner has done everything to comply with the ethics rules to make sure it had nothing to do with him per se. he was not involved. secondly, we ve talked about this before that the president and congress are looking entire looking over the entire visa program, all the various visa programs and whether or not they are serving the purpose that they were intended to, whether or not we are making sure that we do what is in the best interest of the american worker. so we re going to continue to work with congress on that
we should point out that nobody is being accused of any legal wrongdoing. this is merely an example of what a tangled web has been woven for the extended trump family. jared kushner has repeatedly said he has stepped away from the running his family s real estate company since he became senior advisor to his father-in-law. his sister is a apparently highlighting her ties to mr. kushner as she seeks investment for housing development in new jersey. nicole meyer spent the weekend in beijing looking to raise $150 million for the development. meyer has reportedly been telling potential investors the project means a lot to her and her entire family. she pointed out her brothers work for kushner real estate and now the white house. critics are also concerned that ms. meyer is quoting investors with a eb five visa programs. it provides investors with a
nobody is being accused of any legal wrongdoing. this is merely an example of what a tangled web has been woven for the extended trump family. jared kushner has repeatedly said he has stepped away from the running his family s real estate company since he became senior advisor to his father-in-law. his sister is a apparently highlighting her ties to mr. kushner as she seeks investment for housing development in new jersey. nicole meyer spent the weekend in beijing looking to raise $150 million for the development. meyer has reportedly been telling potential investors the project means a lot to her and her entire family. she pointed out her brothers work for kushner real estate and now the white house. critics are also concerned that ms. meyer is quoting investors with a eb five visa programs. it provides investors with a
nobody is being accused of any legal wrongdoing. this is merely an example of what a tangled web has been woven for the extended trump family. jared kushner has repeatedly said he has stepped away from the running his family s real estate company since he became senior advisor to his father-in-law. his sister is a apparently highlighting her ties to mr. kushner as she seeks investment for housing development in new jersey. nicole meyer spent the weekend in beijing looking to raise $150 million for the development. meyer has reportedly been telling potential investors the project means a lot to her and her entire family. she pointed out her brothers work for kushner real estate and now the white house. critics are also concerned that ms. meyer is quoting investors with a eb five visa programs. it provides investors with a
perhaps time has not been given, due consideration has not been given and we re just going to end up in this legal mine field over a variety of issues? i completely agree. this was done too hastily, it was done without consultation. it was done to satisfy a campaign promise rather than to protect the nation in a reasonable way. it could have been done more carefully, and it still can be done more carefully, and one hopes that perhaps the president will be advised and maybe will have second thoughts and decide to go back to the drawing board. we do need protection against terrorism. there is the possibility of terrorists coming through our visa programs, but we can deal with that problem without confronting problems under the protection clause, the first amendment relating to religion, and statutes. there s a statute on the books that says visa shall not be denied based on religion. so this can be done much, much more carefully in a calibrated