Clearance was a meeting that he took at trump tower during the transition where he hosted the head of another russian bank. Jared kushner met with the head of a russian bank called veb bank. Its a bank but really just an entity of the russian government. The leadership of veb bank is hand picked by lad peer putin and veb banks connections with russian intelligence are not subtle. Sergei gorkov is a graduate of the fsb academy which means he went to kgb grad school. Veb bank was coordination of a spy ring, that was the russian Spying Investigation where carter page was found by the fbi to have been essentially a willing target for those russian spies. At least he was a source of information for those russian spies who were looking for
americans to give them investigation to help them with their Spying Efforts against america from their home base in new york where they were ostensibly working for veb bank but really they were spies. So there was the alfa bank servers communicating with t
seen the last six days, the hiring of joe i did generdigeno. and the call that the president had with vladimir putin. he was very important information and strict instructions from his team in all capital letters, do not congratulation. not congratulate vlad peer putin on his win in the election. ignoring that sreufplts not talking about meddling. not talking about the poisoning of the spy in the uk. the broader implication is not surprise anything a number of ways this is how the phone call went. and yet there is concern. i don t think he ignored the advice. let me couple this with the he
clearance was a meeting that he took at trump tower during the transition where he hosted the head of another russian bank. jared kushner met with the head of a russian bank called veb bank. it s a bank but really just an entity of the russian government. the leadership of veb bank is hand picked by lad peer putin and veb bank s connections with russian intelligence are not subtle. sergei gorkov is a graduate of the fsb academy which means he went to kgb grad school. veb bank was coordination of a spy ring, that was the russian spying investigation where carter page was found by the fbi to have been essentially a willing target for those russian spies. at least he was a source of information for those russian spies who were looking for
won the election and then during the transition when he was president-elect, there emerged the next weird inexplicable maybe coincidental thing involving trump world and a russian bank. one of the numerous contacts with russian officials that trump s son-in-law jared kushner did not disclose on his request for security clearance was a meeting that he took at trump tower during the transition where he hosted the head of another russian bank. jared kushner met with the head of a russian bank called veb bank. veb bank is a bank but it s really just an entity of the russian government. the leadership of veb bank is hand picked by lad peer putin and veb bank s connections with russian intelligence are not subtle. sergei gorkov is the person that kushner met with.
that, that s a real problem. i don t trust this story as far as i can throw it. all right. joining me now were kristen welker, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, nbc security analyst matt miller and washington editor at larcge for the atlantic steve clemmons. great to have everyone with us this morning. wristen, let me begin with you. i want to start off by playing what senator mccain said during an interview in australia about the jared kushner controversy and russian president lad peer put vladimir putin. take a listen. my view of it is i don t like it. i know that some administration officials are saying, that s standard procedure. i don t think it s standard procedure prior to the inauguration of a president of the united states by someone who is not in an appointed position. i think he is the premier and