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jessie, this has been a one-two bunch the. last week there was a bombshell report from the times that accused the president of outright frayed, and the trish administration was in a position to clean up the tax code and promiseding to ritz of m miscomplexity that certain taxpayers use to their advantage. so is the trump family benefiting. the kushner family is clearly in a better position from a tax perspective now than it was before the legislation. but as the documents we reported on today show, they were in a pretty good position before the legislation as well. does ivanka fit into this picture as well. ....
Pretty amazing. i m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes. and spell candidly. so you were sending a message with your jacket? it was kind after message, yes. we re going to get to all of that, but first, this just in. we have new york times reporting that confidential financial documents show the president as son-in-law jared kushner likely did not pay federal income taxes for several years. joining me, a co-author of the articles jessie drucker. we do want to tell our views nbc news have not seen the documents, but how were you able to view them? i m not going to get into how we viewed them, but we did ....
For nothing in perspective. joining us is kate kelly, wall street reporter for the new york times. the headline of her story tonight kushner s business got loans from companies after white house meetings. kate i can t tell you how stunning that headline is. that is just precisely what no one in government is supposed to do. how easy was it to track this down? not easy. and i have to give a great deal of credit to my colleagues, especially jessie drucker, who was the driving force behind it and brought ben and i along. it was just piecing together what the nature of the meetings were, finding about the job was a surprise, so it took some leg work and, of course, you want to be bullet proof on a story like this, so you want to have multiple sources. we got to that point but it took some leg work. this is exactly what donald ....
Loans from companies after white house meetings. kate i can t tell you how stunning that headline is. that is just precisely what no one in government is supposed to do. how easy was it to track this down? not easy. and i have to give a great deal of credit to my colleagues, especially jessie drucker, who was the driving force behind it and brought ben and i along. it was just piecing together what the nature of the meetings were, finding about the job was a surprise, so it took some leg work and, of course, you want to be bullet proof on a story like this, so you want to have multiple sources. we got to that point but it took some leg work. this is exactly what donald trump promised that when he goes into the presidency he will have nothing to do with his businesses. jared kushner made the same promise. clearly jared kushner is violating that promise. right. ....
For being used for russian operation informations. electoral ads paid for in rue balls. russian-backed trolls used fake accounts on facebook. this ad is nothing short of the russian government directly interfering in our elections. trump campaign s helped legitimize and spread russian disinformation. do you believe any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian active measures on your platform. i would say no. collin stretch at the hearing there. it turns out the russian government may have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in those same social media companies, facebook and twitter when they were getting started. i d like to bring in jessie drucker from the new york times who has been working this story for months. ....