often trying to make the point that france had succumbed to terrorism that the new yorker started hunting for jim in vain. he inspired memes and tweets like just hanging out with #jim. but when the white house refused to say whether jim actually exists, thus was born jim the president s imaginary friend. with his own twitter account insisting i exist, the view dedicated a photo album to jim. a french reporter brought him up at the joint press conference. you have mentioned a friend jim. we told you that paris is no longer paris. that s a beauty, you know what, it will be just fine because you have a great president. if jim were imaginary, it wouldn t be the first time that an invisible character has entered the political fray. would it?
about the e-mails very recently by his counsel. reporter: kushner s late as mission of that meeting has spurred sharp interest in all his foreign contacts not initially disclosed. because as an adviser, all meetings with foreigners must be listed. it seems strange to me those meetings were at least conveniently forgotten at least by mr. kushner. how long was the meeting? 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. jared left after five or ten? yes. reporter: neither kushner or then trump campaign manager paul manafort played much of a role. i don t know, he was the only one i was speaking to. reporter: but admit all the late revelation, democrats are fuming that kushner was given security clearance at all. anybody else applying for a clearance under these facts would be denied that clearance. reporter: of the three representatives of donald trump who we know were in the room with that russian lawyer, the only one who is now an official adviser to the president is
particular, in an omission can also be an affirmative action when you continuously fail to provide information that you re required to do so. remember the security forms are not a courtesy to the government. they are used to figure out whether this person should be entitled to the highest level of information. the highest levels. although the unfortunate irony of this is the president is the one who decides about classification, and can ultimately decide to still maintain that national security clearance, but ultimately speaking, jared kushner by failing to provide this information it looks like he has criminal intent than he does amnesia that s convenient. you say the president would have to really make the final call on whether or not kushner s security clearance is revoked. democrats are calling for that to happen. and some have been using a loaded word when it comes to the e-mails. let s listen. we re now beyond obstruction of justice in terms of what s being investigated. this
what do you mean, shut up? clint eastwood riffed with an imaginary barack obama. what do you want me to tell romney? i can t tell him to do that. he can t do that to himself. judging from the body language, donald trump s imaginary friend didn t get between the two presidents. i m coming back. you are always welcome. what about jim? they re making him jealous. jeanne moos, cnn. france is no longer france. new york. they won t like me for saying that. you see what happened in nice. you see what happened yesterday. where are we?
kushner a swift kick amid the revelations they met with a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin last summer. jared kushner actually works in the white house and now some democrats want his security clearance revoked immediately. cnn s tom forman reports. reporter: ana, the white house is clearly frustrated that the russia investigation just won t go away. not only that, it s now circling even closer around someone who s described as very close to the president. inauguration week and the president s son-in-law files his first papers for a security clearance on january 18th. jared kushner reveals no contact with any foreigners during the campaign or transition. but the next day he says he hit that send button too soon and will amend that. in may according to his lawyer, the papers are updated to show kushner had over 100 calls or meetings with representatives of more than 20 countries, most during the transition.