correspondent s pamela brown and evan perez. tell us what you re learning. jared kushner now turned over documents in recent weeks to special counsel robert mueller. investigators now have begun asking questions about kushner s role in the firing of fbi director james comey. sources tell us that mueller s investigators have expressed interest in kushner as part of the probe into russian meddling. that probe includes potential obstruction of justice, and the motivation for comey s firing is the believed to be part of that. it s a sign that the investigators are reaching into the inner circle and extended beyond the 2016 campaign to actions taken at the white house by high level officials. it s not clear how kushner s advice to the president might play a part in all of this. sources close to the white house tell us, jake, that based on their knowledge, kushner is not a target of this investigation. sources tell us that kushner voluntarily turned over those documents that he h
sources familiar say that the president s anger over the raids has reaped has reached a boiling point and the anger has surpassed previous anger over the investigation and some say this is a turning point for president trump. in the days since the raid on michael cohen s office and hotel room, we ve learned the fbi wasn t just looking for records about payments to porn star stormy daniels, but also documents on a deal between former playboy play mate karen mcdougal and the owners of the national enquirer to buy and bury her store with trump, an affair the white house denies. the president is clear he s addressed this several times. i doan have anything else to add. and we ve learned the raid included a request for documents related to cohen s ownership of new york city taxi medallions. rod rosenstein who was nominated by trump had to sign off on the raid. trump won t answer questions but taking to twitter declaring attorney-client privilege is dead and to call the inv
good afternoon, welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. and we begin with the toll the politics news and new stunning information about the trump tower meeting involve members of trump campaign. natalia veselnitskaya has close tied to the kremlin. she disclosed to nbc news she was the source of information for russia s chief prosecutor saying, quote, i am a lawyer and i am an informant, since 2013 i have been actively communitied with the office of the russian prosecutor general, unquote. in june of 2016 she met with officials of the trump campaign, jared kushner, paul manafort and donald trump jr. after they were promised dirt on hilling. they mailed a european move: the house intelligence committee down played it as an act of poor judgment in the newly released report that the president is celebrating this afternoons evidence of no collusion between his campaign and the russian government. we have all angles of this story covered with the reporters from the capitol and le
today released the depositions of two key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry and provided much more detail about the shadow ukraine policy that is leading to the president s likely impeachment. for his part, president trump continues to attempt to defend himself, mainly by attacking his accusers and lying about them. for instance, claiming that the whistle-blower complaint has been proven false even though it has not. multiple former and current trump administration officials who have testified have backed up the whistle-blower s allegations that american foreign policy and taxpayer dollars were being used to force ukrainian government officials to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son. in addition to his attempt to change how foreign policy is conducted in the united states, the president has not just challenging the testimony of those who are bringing the facts to the public, he s personally going after them. pushing false information about them. calling