after those meetings, the companies that those executives work for or run or help to run are giving very sizeable mortgages to his company. did you get any comment from the white house or kushner s attorney about any of this? any explanation for what that meeting with citigroup was about according to them? yeah. i mean not not really of substance unfortunately. i mean, you know, the white house referred our questions to abbe lowell, who is mr. kushner s attorney, representing him in robert mueller s investigation. and, you know, they didn t deny the substance of what we reported, but, you know, basically said that there was no there there. apollo and citigroup, who made these loans, have they made any comments? say it again, anderson. apollo and citigroup, have they made any comments about your reporting?
he will stay. but he won t be do anything worthy of a salary if from the taxpayers. what do you think alzblies dan knows better than most on the face of the earth, the ability to do that job without in kind of clearance. and look this is. who do you think is going to win? the general or kushner. it will be a, the president and then in turn kushner. look i think it was important for kelly to handout the directive and have the rules in place. you can t have access to classified information with an interim security clearance. and in light of the rob porter situation, he had to impose in directive. and the rules should apply to everyone. it doesn t matter who your father-in-law is. it should apply across the board. abby lowell and sarah sanders says the directive won t impact how he does his job. which means the president will override whatever kelly says. stick around, everybody. when we come back after the president publicly called out
with mueller. and i think that s being underappreciated. gates is extremely close to manafort. any conversation, i don t know him that well but i would assume manafort would tell gates about. gates is not just a window into manafort. he is a window to trump. certainly mueller can learn things from what gates heard from manafort. on the fundamental indictments, as i understand, what mueller did friday is he indicted those russians for conspiracy to defraud the u.s. he said they were unwitting accomplices and persons known or unknown. so that theory leaves it wide open to indict americans and maybe they could be minor participant in the trump campaign and associates. or maybe they could be don junior or kushner. i think trump is the one who
we re waiting on seeing more details of how the russia story worked. the first is the memo debate that will not end. the democrats memo has yet to come out. schiff is working on the redactions. in addition, the senate judiciary committee is sitting on a bunch of transcripts from all of the participants in that trump tower meeting except for kushner and manafort. both the americans and the russians who were participating have spoken to that committee. we ll see a lot of details that went on and that could fill in some of the story as well of what has become a central focus that goes more towards the coordination, collusion questions perhaps than the meddling questions. investigation continues. rachel? the speaker paul ryan popularity contest is heating up and potentially could boil over in the next few weeks. we re seeing house freedom caucus conservatives agitating
it was on russia s hacking of dnc e-mails to his client. he forwarded the e-mail to his client, russian pop star amen agalarov. also ike kaveladze. kaveladze attended the meeting. he described the news of the hacks as eerily weird, given what they had discussed at trump tower just five days earlier. that seems a bit odd. but one of the sources familiar with the e-mail, he really downplayed the interaction saying that news of the dnc hack was surprising to this group because in the run-up to the trump tower meeting the russian participants had promised information on illicit russian funding of the dnc but that dirt was never provided to trump jr. or kushner or manafort. so don, we reached out to scott ballber, attorney for ike kaveladze who was at that meeting. he does confirm his client received the e malbut he says it was odd because he claims hacking was never discussed at the meeting. but of course, don, with the