hour gets underway on a thursday evening. >> good evening once again from our nbc headquarter in new york. day 770 of the trump administration. and the president has arrived back from a summit in vietnam. jared kushner is right now in the middle east trying to bring about peace in the middle east. four "new york times" journalists share the by line, one of them is joining us in a moment. they ordered his commander in chief to grant his son-in-law jared kushner a top secret security clearance last year. trump's decision in may so troubled southeastern administration officials that at least one, the white house chief of staff at the time, john kelly, wrote an internal memo