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Correspondents pamela brown and evan perez. Tell us what youre learning. Jared kushner now turned over documents in recent weeks to special counsel robert mueller. Investigators now have begun asking questions about kushners role in the firing of fbi director james comey. Sources tell us that muellers 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 comeys firing is the believed to be part of that. Its 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. Its not clear how kushners 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 had from the campaign ....
Good afternoon, welcome to the lead, im 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 russias 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 dow ....