confirmed to be among the 13 people killed. jared tucker was with his wife as part of a trip celebrating their first wedding anniversary. she spoke with nbc news about what kind of person jared was. jared was kind and tolerant and would never hurt anybody. and so for this type of action to take his life, it s horrible. it s just senseless. i can t make any sense of it. all right. joining us now live from barcelona, spain, nbc news matt bradley. bring us up to speed on what we ve learned so far about the ongoing investigation. reporter: thanks. in just the last hour or two, police said it was ab you cue who drove his street down this crowded walkway here in
debate would be jared. we know that jared had been close with other russian billionaires as well and oligarchs, one of his best friends. his wife in fact was jared and ivanka s guest at the inauguration. i m not pinning all the blame and suspicion on every single rich russian. however you to understand that unlike the u.s. and businessmen in the u.s. every single oligarch in russia has the connection to one person, and that is to vladimir putin. so his orbit includes a lot of russians, all of those russians having a connection of course to the president of the country. jeremy bash, before i come to you, i want to share with all of you a moment that transpired on air at this network tonight during the 8:00 p.m. hour with chris hayes. for all those who would like to know how the people in our intelligence and counter-intelligence community viewed this story tonight,
were also reporting that they are trying to set up this war room, maybe bring in some people from the campaign officials and bring in others who might be able to help them to be more proactive and go more on the offense because all these stories are coming out. the issue, of course is that i guess jared was also supposed to be helping out with the war room. so how he is ago going to help out when he s also the subject of some of these damaging stories is the question. huh-uhity, thank you for again agreeing to step into the breach. your reaction to tonight s washington post story, if true, jared trying to set up a communications channel. three things, brian. a little history, a little irony a little perspective. it was february 21st, 1969 that a relatively obscure 31-year-old set up the first back channel with soviet ambassador debreenan. that fellow s name was-ry kissinger. and it was not known to the state department.
quiet, innocent conversation with a russian ambassador, and with any russian in government. again that s just disturbing that was not known or realized. that also speaks to the second part of the story, that is that they monitors kislyak expressing surprise along the lines of can you believe our good fortune. i ve befriended this young man who is married to the president s daughter and is a future senior advisor. yeah in all his years in washington he never thought getting information could be so easy apparently but it does fit the pattern what we heard earlier in the year about how jared had met with the bank ceo, a sanctioned bank ceo, obviously he forgot to disclose that, as well, conveniently. throughout this campaign we know that jared had been the top advisor to in president, following each of the debates, the first person jared would approach would be the president
russian ambassador. that s just disturbing that that was not known or realized. beiana, that also speaks to the second part of the story, and that is that they monitored kislyak, pressing surprise along the lines of expressing surprise along the lines of can you believe our good fortune, i befriended the young man who is married to the president s daughter and is a future senior adviser. yeah n all his years in washington he never thought getting information could be so easy apparently. you about it does fit the pattern of what we heard earlier in the year about how jared had met with a bank ceo a sanctioned bank ceo. obviously, he forgot to disclose that as well, conveniently. throughout this campaign we know that jared had been the top adviser to this president, following each of the debates. the first person jared would approach would be the president, the first person that the president would approach after a