That Jared Kushner met at one point with the russian ambassador. This was during december, the transition. Thats the extent of what we knew about his meetings with russian officials. Now the white house is confirming there were additional meetings. There was a meeting with a deputy to Jared Kushner and the russian ambassador. There was an additional meeting between Jared Kushner and the head of a stateowned Russian Development bank. Now, the white house is downplaying this. They said in a Statement Today throughout the campaign and the transition Jared Kushner served as the official primary point of contact with Foreign Government is, and officials. Given this role hes volunteered to speak with chairman burrs committee, the Senate Intelligence committee. The New York Times was the first to report this. Its worth pointing out theres no problem that kushner had these meetings. The real question is is this in the context of these investigations in the house and in the senate between ties between Donald Trumps president ial campaign and russian officials. Yet again its another story catching the white house flatfooted. We asked them repeatedly whether there were other contacts with russian officials, whether they tried to go through officials in this administration and determine if anyone else had additional contact. They down played this but you cant overstate how much this white house does not want to be talking about russia, particularly coming after last week which is a very rough week for them. Sara murray with the breaking news. Thank you very much. We have this big news. Consider it the art of no deal. President trump assigning blame, pointing fingers, shifting focus from the obamacare replacement debacle and his first legislative embarrassment. Four days after trying and failing to win over the ultra conservative Freedom Caucus, the president lashing out at them. Just minutes ago we heard from texas congressman ted poe who quit the hard line group over the weekend for abandoning the gop signature promise to repeal and replace. Listen to him. I got the opinion that theres some members of the Freedom Caucus, they would vote no against the Ten Commandments if it came up for a vote. I think its time the Freedom CaucusWork Together with other members of the Republican Party, have input which we did with the speaker, the president of the United States, and then at the end of the day compromise to get something done. Now we have obamacare. So you what can the president bring this Party Together . Does it wanted to be brought together . The big question is what now . Cnn is on capitol hill with that question. There certainly are a lot of pieces to pick up with within the Republican Party after the failure last week. Quite simply a lot of the oxygen being succedanelk sucked up now game. People are pointing fingers at each other. Over the weekend President Trump calling out specifically the house Freedom Caucus. One of the factions within the Republican Party that stood within the way of the healthcare bill going through. He tweeted that democrats are smiling in d. C. , that the Freedom Caucus with the help of club for growth and heritage saved planned parenthood and obamacare. Theres a lot of attention being paid to the relationship between President Trump and speaker of the house, paul ryan. There was an eyebrow raising moment over the weekend when President Trump tweeted out on saturday to watch a specific fox news show at the top of that show the anchor immediately launched into a call for speaker ryan to step down. White house aides say this was coincidental, that he did not know the anchor would do that. Heres that moment and the white house push back. Paul ryan needs to step down as speaker of the house. The reason . He failed to deliver the votes on his healthcare bill. I think it was more coincidental, chris. Come on. I did not talk to the president about the tweet. Im just telling you the truth. There was no preplanning here. Why would he say watch her and thats the first thing out of her mind. He loves judge janine. He wanted to do her a favor. Does he want paul ryan to step down . No, he doesnt. President trump and paul ryan spoke twice over the weekend. One of those conversations, during that an aide said he made clear that his tweet had nothing to do with the speaker. Both sides trying to emphasize everything is okay. Theyre in a good place in terms of their relationship, but such a important one Going Forward as they move to other big ticket items on their agenda. Sunlen serfaty, busy morning up there. Lots to discuss. Lets bring in david swardick, matt lewis, and rebecca burke. Welcome one and all. Lets start with this news that the Senate Intelligence committee wants to question Jared Kushner. I need not state the role Jared Kushner plays in the white house, he may be the closest adviser to the president , and hes his soninlaw. We dont know the spefb spefb s we dont know the spefbpefb s specifics of what they want to discuss, but the fact that the Senate Intelligence committee wants to talk to him is problematic. It is problematics because b once again they have to explain why they were engaged in these series of meetings with the russian ambassador, other highlevel folks in the russian administration, whether or not anything is found later on to have been done that was illegal or wrong or inappropriate by Jared Kushner. I dont think the administration has been able to provide a good answer as to why there was so much focus on russia in the early stages of their transition, leading into the early stages of the administration. Until theyre able to sort of change the narrative on that, with Everything Else swirling around the investigation in the house and senate and the fbi investigation, they are going to be sort of on the backs of their heels trying to respond to these kinds of reports. You know, matt lewis, an interesting nugget at the end of this New York Times reporting, says that even some Senior Administration officials within the white house, when they learned about the additional meetings that kushner and his deputies had with this bigtime russian banker, they were caught off guard. That says a lot, does it not . Yeah, i think it does. I think possibly just speaks to the lack of coordination, the lack of experience, maybe some incompetence in the white house. I dont think it necessarily speaks to anything nefarious. This was part of his job. Jared kushners job was to be the liaison during the transition. You say much to do about nothing, but he did not come forward with this. The New York Times is presenting this to the world even after the hoopla around these other meetings. Couldnt kushner and the whougs co white house come forward and say there were these additional meetings as well . Yeah, maybe that speaks to the fact that theyre trying to hide something or theyre not terribly organized or put together and probably thought if we volunteer we had another meeting, we looked at our record, theres a meeting with more russians that will look bad. Heres my personal take. If there is some there there, if there was coordination going on thats nefarious, i would suspect it came from people that the paul man that for t manaforts of the world. Thats my gut, but let jared go, testify, lets have a full hearing on this. I think it would be in the best interest of everybody, including the Trump Administration to have a full airing of this. Just to be clear, the white house says Jared Kushners only meeting with the ambassador took place during the transition. That does not mention the russian banker. The senate wants to ask about whether that meeting discussed Jared Kushners business interests, which he had not separated himself from yet. He was looking for funding to buy or sell some of his Real Estate Holdings in new york city. Jared kushner very close to the president. The only Current White House official being called in for questioning from either committee. Its significant. Theres no question about it. Whatever we learn from this testimony or whatever the Intelligence Committee learns from this testimony, it may not be made public for us to know or hear about, but its going to be a big deal in this case. Jared kushner is the closest individual to the president to be questioned in this investigation so far. He had multiple meetings that he did not dis close. The question about his business interests, the possibility that he could have been discussing his own company and their future investments and developments with these russian officials, thats a really big deal. It will raise further questions, if not about ties between russia and the trump team, it will raise questions about conflicts of interests in sbrenl with this administration because Jared Kushner is not the only individual within this administration who has business ties. Last week, mnuchin was at an event, he plugged a film his company produced and said everyone should go see this. This will raise a lot of potential questions for the administration. Not the kind of turf they want to be on now. One of the big differences between meeting with this major russian banker and meeting with, say, a u. S. Bank ceo is that members of the president s team and inner circle dont sit on those bank boards. The New York Times is reporting that the people on the board one other point is this is a bank that was sanctioned. That was under the sanctions from president obama for the russian role in crimea. Exactly. You have putins guys on the board including medvedev, david. Yeah. I think this is the stepback issue here. Well know in time what the investigations in the house and senate turn up. You cant get too far ahead of yourself and say because Jared Kushner is going to be questioned, that some smoking gun is going to be appear out of this meeting. But it does raise that question. The posture of the United States leading out of the Obama Administration and into the Trump Administration was that we had a sanctioned regime that we placed on them with our allies, the eu, australia, canada, going back to 2014 when canada invaded crimea. When the Trump Administration came in, there were overtures and rhetoric about mending fences with russia, even though the big issue, crimea, had not been resolved. Why is there so much smoke if not fire about sanctions and about mending fences with russians . I dont think the administration answered that satisfactorily. The report also says the fbi has not reached out to talk to kushner. And the white house is saying this with just what was asked during the transition. But the senate does want to question Jared Kushner. We have a lot to still to come. The next hurdle for the had the is healthcare. What comes next after the big loss to them and could they be dealing with a Government Shutdown in 34 days . What does the stock market think about this . We will open in a few minutes. You get the sense that investors are a little jittery now that healthcare reform went down. 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Immediately repealing and replacing obama care. We will be able to immediately repeal and replace obamacare. I didnt say 64 days, i said immediately. The words speak for themselves, but how specifically do you think this changes the road ahead for this administration and the white house . Well, look, i think the good news is, we talk about the blame game, the fundamental problem is it was a bad bill. It was a bad bill that the only people who supported were people who were loyalists, apologists for donald trump or paul ryan. It had no natural constituency. So the fact that this bill was defected, i think that actually could be good for donald trump and republicans. Because, number one, it could have dragged on. There could have been a senate fight it would have gotten uglier and then been defeated. Had it been passed, would have had premiums rise, 24 Million People kicked off insurance eventually. Republicans might have suffered the same electoral fate that democrats suffered after passing obamacare and losing those house and senate seats. So on one hand i think its not necessarily that bad that it died. The problem is that this is a harbinger of things to come this is a story about larger problems, which is to say if they cant pass healthcare, how are they going to pass tax reform or infrastructure or anything . I dont think theres a reason that democrats now would work with them. They have no incentive. In fact, i think their incentives are perverse. They should be obstructionisobs. They will do to republicans what republicans did to them. This could be ugly. We are looking at a possible Government Shutdown coming up. Man who would have thunk it it would end up this way. You raise a bunch of issues. We want to get to the democrats and the Government Shutdown possibility. Rebecca, the president said he would repeal and replace obamacare, that didnt happen this travel ban thing he proposed, thats not happening. Hes not building the wall right now with mexico. When he does, mexico wont pay for it. Does he have a delivery problem here politically especially with republicans . Here we see the difference between campaigning and actually governing. It is very easy to promise something on the campaign trail, just look at all of the house and Senate Republicans who ran on repealing and replacing obamacare. And now you actually meet the realities of governing. It becomes much more difficult. Things take time in washington. You have to form coalitions with, as we see now, people who dont necessarily want to move forward or compromise. You can look at the house Freedom Caucus on the one hand or democrats on the other. They all have their incentives or disincentives to compromise. So theres that reality of how difficult governing he can be. He ran as an outsider, but when you come to washington with no experience whatsoever, working with congress, pushing legislation through, working on minor pieces of legislation, much less major ones, you see this happen. You see yourself run up against these blockades, really, and its very hard to get these things done with no sort of experience whatsoever. His major blockade, the house Freedom Caucus lost a man who was a loyalist up to the end of last week, thats congressman ted poe. Heres what he said this morning on cnn. I got the opinion that some members of the Freedom Caucus would vote no against the Ten Commandments if it came up for a vote. I think its time that the Freedom CaucusWork Together with other members of the Republican Party, have input which we did with the speaker, the president of the United States, and then at the end of the day compromise to get something done. Now we have obamacare. He also said, look, im the most conservative guy out there. We should have done more. We should have compromised. Do you think, david, the house Freedom Caucus in the end here is emboldened or are they weakened . I think it depends on the issue. I think theyll be emboldened on some fiscal issues. Im not sure where theyll stand on infrastructure or foreign affairs. Theyll feeling their own power, but what you see can congressman poe leaving the caucus is this rechoosing of sides among the Republican Party. Normally when we use the phrase, elections have consequences, we use it to chide the party that lost the election. In this case t appt it applies e party that won. They couldnt get anything through with the republicans controlling the house, senate and whoite house. Congressman poe seems to be saying i sympathize with the conservativism of the caucus but not their methods. This is the challenge for republicans right now. Democrats are on the sidelines. On tax reform, i dont know if they are emboldened. Meadows is saying he will give on tax reform. He would give a little in the form he would not require the spending cuts, but politically hes willing to get something through there. Rebecca, democrats, any int s t incentive . If they learned anything over the last eight years, maybe theyre better to being on sd k obstructionists. Chuck schumer said last week he would be willing to work with republicans on healthcare reform if full repeal is off the table that soind sounds, a welcoming but they dont have much of an incentive to help republicans sick seed on healthcare or any other issue. When it comes to running for reelection, running in 20189, democrats want republicans to look as bad as possible, so its a conflict between governing and politics once again so thats going to be very difficult for republicans as they try to work with democrats on things like Infrastructure Spending which would be a natural democratic issue for them to team up on. They really dont have a political incentive to help republicans succeed. Rebecca, matt, david, thanks for being with us. The news this morning, the Senate Intelligence committee wants to question the president s soninlaw, Jared Kushner, Senior Adviser about meetings he had with russian officials during the transition. Well have a member of the house Intelligence Committee also investigating possible contacts between Trump Associates and russia coming up next. So youre having a party . How nice. Ill be right there. And the butchery begins. What am i gonna wear . This party is super fancy. Lets go. Im ready. Are you my uber . [ horn honks ] hold on. The biggest week in tv is back. [ doorbell rings ] partay Xfinity Watchathon week starts april 3. Get unlimited access to all of netflix and more, free with xfinity on demand. Could be a rough interesting day on wall street as the stock market reacts to the failure of the healthcare bill. And theyre looking ahead to what that might mean for the prospects of tax reform. Were 30 seconds away from the opening bell on wall street. Christina alessee has more what you are looking at . Patience is wearing thin on drums agenda, and theyre questioning whether he can pull it off. The healthcare repeal and replace should have been relatively easy, right . The reasons control the white house and congress. It should have gone smoother than it did. Now the skepticism is showing up in certain pockets in the market. Thats really indicative of how markets feel. Bank stocks sensitive to trumps agenda, tax reform, theyre down this morning. The dollar is also down, perhaps investors see Economic Growth not being as strong here as they would have expected. And more importantly, a certain corner of the market is up. Volatility. That could indicate that investors have some fear, have some anxiety of whats ahead. Tax reform is so hard to get done. And its also what they want and what investors expect. You can see at the opening bell, down 173 points. Investors thinking maybe tax reform may not happen so easily so quickly . We had treasury secretary nuchl nuc mnuchin say last week, its ban goal to get it done since august. Now everybody is scratching their heads, okay what do you mean . You are talking about tax cuts . Thats a nice sweetener, before where are the vegetables and where is true tax reform. Theres a reason this hasnt happened in three decades, because its not easy. Thank you very much. Great to have you with us. A stunning new development in the investigation of these possible ties between the Trump Administration and russian officials. Senate investigators now say they want to speak with Jared Kushner, Senior Adviser to the president and his soninlaw. Jared kushner has agreed to be questioned. We are joined by congressman mike turner of ohio, hes on the house Intelligence Committee. Different than the Senate Committee. Thanks for being with us. The senators wntd to spe s want Jared Kushner. Is he on your radar . Is he somebody would like to have come in and speak to your committee . If so, what questions do you have for him . Not at this time. This certainly shows the investigation is moving forward. Certainly even the New York Times says during a transition its not unusual for members of an Incoming Administration to meet with foreign officials. This does have to be looked at in the light of the director of national intelligence, former director clapper having said during his time period of his investigation from june to january that he saw no evidence of collusion. We certainly have the chairman nunes of the house Intelligence Committee who has had exposure to all of the intelligence provided to Congress Said he has seen no evidence of collusion. Its showing that these investigations are moving forward, but at this time there is no evidence of collusion presented to congress. Just to be clear. You guys are running separate track investigations. The Senate Intel Committee and the house intel commiter. The senate wants to talk to kushner. They will talk to him. This is the only person in the white house currently to be questioned, and the closest person to the president and someone we now know sat down during the transition with one of the biggest banks of russia, a bank who is sanctioned, and a bank who are cronies of putin including medvedev, and you have no questions for him . I didnt say that. You have to understand, you cant sit down you did say, congressman, that you dont the structure he put in place i said that at this time there is certainly no expectation that he will be called in front of the house. It does not mean he wont be at some other time. The house and senate are sharing information in their investigation. Chairman nun yes aes and rankin members of both the house and Senate Committee share information on intelligence and have access to the same intelligence information what is concerning is that the chairman came forward and saying there is evidence of the interception of the communications of the Trump Administration during the transition. You brought up the fact that former dni clapper said there were no evidence of collusion prior to jewel uly 20th, but no is reported that the fbi is looking into possible contacts, possible coordination, and then an exchange between you and mr. Comey. Dont you need some action besides attending a meeting, a picture was taken, before you are open to investigation for Counter Intelligence by the fbi . The standard is theres a couple different at play. A credible allegation of wrong doing or reasonable bay sisis t believe that america may be acting as an agent of a foreign power. The fbi director told you hes doing an investigation because an american may be acting as an agent of a foreign power. What do you think about that . What is important about his answer and why i was asking the question, going to the heart of what youre struggling with, why is the fbi looking at and why are they looking at it . He was careful to say someone may be an agent of a foreign power, he did not say issues of collusion within the campaign or the Trump Administration. He said agents of a foreign power, which is a different and unrelated issue perhaps to what were looking at overall with what russia has done and what our concerns are with those in the Trump Administration and during the transition. We will get to the bottom of this. The fbi is pursuing their criminal investigation. Were certainly going to look to them to undertake that thoroughly and diligently. But it certainly does illustrate that the fbi and e. In looking is looking at all aspects. Our investigation in the house and senate are turning to the fbi. Lets go to healthcare after the bill was pulled on friday. You were planning to vote no, you said that essentially the Freedom Caucus pushing to get essential benefits taken out was a bridge too far for you. If republicans cannot get through the signature mrom miss of ma promise of this campaign when they control the white house and the senate and the house, this does beg the question, can republicans govern . Do you have faith that your party can get these promises done for the American People . Absolutely. You have to remember also that in the senate it takes 60 votes, not 50 to get something through. Even though republicans are the majority, they do not control. One thing that is important is that the bill Going Forward in the house, which i would have vote against because it would have cut benefits for my community and essential care benefits had been eliminated, this is a bill where we could look to the senate and say lets conference a bill and find a bill that 51 senators could vote for, then come back to the house with a bill we know congress can support. This bill, even though it was troubled getting out of the house, would not have gotten through the senate. We need 60 votes going through the senate. Thats i would were doing this reconciliation process, just a portion of the Obamacare Repeal this gives us an opportunity to do negotiations. Simply put, does the Freedom Caucus make your job harder . Does it make harder to get things done in congress, congressman . Absolutely. I think the speaker is beginning to see theres some grave difficulty in having one group that organizes themselves in a fashion where they view themselves as separate from the rest of the congress or separate from congress themselves. They are not acting individually. They are having a group or mob mentality is something that the speaker has to address, whether its this bill or Something Else moving forward, the speak ler have to addre speaker will have to deal with this issue. Mob mentality . When you get a group together that says we will pledge sloet voting together, it is a group that has characteristics that the speaker needs to be concerned about. Republican congressman mike turner of ohio, thank you. Still to come, you think healthcare was hard . Wait for tax reform. The president promised it on the campaign trail. And now the treasury secretary says we will get it done by august. Can they follow through . Thats next. R and i finally found our big idaho potato truck. 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Joining us is a professor from the university of chicago and chairman of economic advisers under president obama, and steven moore is with us, a distinguished visiting fellow from the heritage foundation. He has a unique perspective, he was a former senior economic adviser to the trump campaign. Steven moore this morning above the fold you say they have to have a fikt victory here. The administration has to have a victory on tax reform. It hasnt happened in three decades for a reason. Can they do the broad, big, huge tax reform they wanted now that they have this failure on healthcare . Well, look, trump does need a victory. Theres no question about it. This defeat that happened this week is week, as a conservative it stings. We need to reform our Healthcare System and our tax system. Maybe we wont get a huge grandiose fix of the howhole ta system, but i think theyll get over the goal line on tax reform and tax reduction, especially on the business side where i think even austin and i who clash a lot on this show, we could sit down in a room in ten minutes and come up with something that makes more sense than what we have now, that loers rates, gets rid of reductions, loopholes, and stops this bleeding of jobs and victories out of the United States. We have the highest Corporate Tax rate in the world, thats leading to a lot of jobs being lost. I want to bring them back to the United States. Theres room for maybe even a bipartisan compromise here. I would rent the hotel room to put you guys in to work out a tax reform package that offer is out there. You have that time. Steven moore talked about the goal line, austin. The goal line has been moved, because theres not this healthcare reform package, republicans have less money to work with when it comes to their tax reform. They have to be leaner, not cut. What do you think the prospects are for a deal . Coming out of the healthcare, as i say, we set a low bar for the president and he rammed his head on it. You knew that somebody who campaigns without specifics, without any tradeoffs, just telling people theyll satisfy, theyll have their wildest dreams fulfilled, and hes going to replace obamacare with something fabulous, you knew he was going to have problems when it actually came to trying to pass a policy. The same thing is about to happen on tax reform. He has not set the stage for a sober discussion like the one steve and i will have either in this hotel room or in a bar, wherever well have that discussion. Im right down the street from you, austin im in chicago. We did can do this today any tax reform will involve tradeoffs, where you say we have to get rid of deductions, broaden the base or get the rate down. Thats a mature discussion, not one that trump will have. Theyll go out, suddenly find out that every bit of reform they want to do has an enemy. Theyll say, you know what . Lets pretend this will pay for itself, lets cut the rate. Look, you got to can i add one point . I was going to say you have to get to a place where it doesnt blow up the deficit, but i wonder where they get on the same page or bipartisan idea is dropping the idea of the border adjustment tax. Paul ryan loves that, mnuchin and the president dont love that. I dont think the border adjustment tax i think were you asking me . I didnt hear much of that. Steven and then austin. Sorry. I was going to say the border adjustment tax as it is formulated in the paul ryan plan is dead. It wont happen. You will get retailers like walmart that will spend already spending money to defeat that plan. I want to go back to the issue of the stock market, which you mentioned at the start of the segment. The stock market fell today, its been falling. Theres a lot of unease in people in the Financial Markets and businesses, that maybe trump cant get this done. The reduction in taxes that he promised. I believe strongly it is going to get done. My only point is if we dont get it done, its bad for america, its bad for the stock market, its bad for investors. We got to get it done. I would love to see a bipartisan agreement done on tax reform. If it cant be done that way, republicans have to get their act together and do this on their own. They have a majority in the house and senate, they couldnt do it on health reform, they have to do it on tax reform. Steven, austin, thank you very much for this discussion. We have some breaking news. It has to do now with the house Intelligence Committee and its investigation into possible connections between Trump Associates and the russians. We now know a little bit more about maybe where devin nunes was before he got the idea that there was incidental contact picked up between Trump Associates and the russians. Fill us in, bring us up to speed here. We have learned where devin nunes was the day before that bombshell announcement where he announced last week that President Trump, perhaps some communications with the transition officials were picked um incide up incidentally. Mr. Nunes spoke to jake tapper and confirmed that nune sushgs nunes was on white house grounds the day before the announcement. There are a lot of buildings on white house grounds, including the Eisenhower Executive Office building. Its unclear who he met with. He claimed that no one in the white house was aware he was there but he was there at white house at the time. He said he told jake that he was there for additional meetings to confirm what i already knew. But he would not comment further, he did not cant to compromise his sources and methods. We we do know its a mystery where devon nunez was. He was with his staff that evening, left his staff, continued on to wherever he got that information. Why this is significant is a lot of critics believe that mr. Nunez may have gotten some of the information from people sympathetic to the white house, maybe the white house itself, in order to provide political cover for the president at the time where he was contending that he had been wiretapped under the orders of president obama. And the suggestion that perhaps that he may have been, at least in some way, to muddy the waters a little bit, could protect President Trump. So, thats why mr. Nunes has come under a lot of scrutiny for this. One other thing, john and poppy, i asked mr. Nunes repeatedly, did you get this information from the white house. He would not rule that out, but he was on the white house grounds the day before the announcement. Thank you for the reporting. Again, the background of this is, remember, the president said just about a week before nunes came forward with that information that, indeed, we would be presented soon with information in the coming days that would back up his wiretapping claim against president obama. Of course, what nunes presented did not do that, but again, what manu says about providing some political cover. The question now is where did he get that information. Manu raju with the breaking news. Well take a quick break. Ok lets call his agent. Im coming over right now. The newly advanced gle can see in your blind spot. [ dinosaur roar ] onboard cameras and radar detect danger all around you. Driver assist systems pull you back into your lane if drifting. Bye chief. Bye bobby. And will even help you brake, if necessary. It makes driving less of a production. 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Reporter well, good morning. I can tell you that the u. S. Military does feel a great sense of urgency to get this investigation done as quickly as possible, according to officials weve spoken with. They know the sensitivity of this, perhaps 100 or more bodies, about 100 pulled from the wreckage so far. The investigation focusing on what exactly happened. The u. S. Knows already that it did conduct an air strike on this street in west mosul on march 17th when all of this apparently happened, but the question at hand is what exactly did the bomb hit . How did these houses collapse . Was there a truck bomb that was hit, possibly causing secondary explosions . Was isis, in fact, holding these people as human shields as they very often do . The u. S. View very much is that they try to avoid civilian casualties, but it is isis responsibility that it is Holding People essentially hostage in their city. The aatrocity, the u. S. View is that it is isis atrocity at this point. They are still trying to determine exactly what happened here. Barbara starr from the pentagon, thank you very much for that reporting. Of course, well bring you more as we learn it. We have a lot of breaking news. Senators want to talk to the president s soninlaw, Jared Kushner, about a meeting he had with russian officials. And now just in, new questions about the republican chair of the house Intelligence Committee and where he was the day before he made a key announcement. Dont go anywhere. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. I talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. 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Just moments ago, we learned the answer to somewhat of an intriguing mystery, the whereabouts of the house intel chair on the day before he went to the white house and told President Trump that his Communications May have been swept up in surveillance of foreign nationals. Turns out, where he was the day before that major announcement, he was on white house grounds. All right. Then, just last hour, cnn confirmed the senators will question President Trumps soninlaw, perhaps his most trusted adviser, Jared Kushner, about meetings kushner had with