tester, bipartisan, to extend tax credits given to businesses if they hire veterans, to also have it be accessed if they hire military houses. >> something both sides should be get around. so many people talk the talk about supporting the troops but they don't walk the walk. they don't get the help and benefits they deserve. senator, thank you for being here. i hope you prove me wrong. i hope you take the mantle and do something to top these shootings. >> it's on us. thank you, chris. >> we're following a lot of news. let's get after it. >> i have nothing to do with russia. i have no deals there. >> investigators for robert mueller have been asking about business activities of donald trump in russia pry to the 2016 campaign. >> this is a president who can be incredibly compromised. >> just because they're asking doesn't mean they have evidence of it. >> the fact he's been downgraded suggests that he really is not in a position to continue to

significant role in this white house. >> he's a valued member of the team and he will continue. >> a blurring of behavior in his public and private roles. >> we're going the take it as it comes along every day. >> i don't ear going to feel the presence of emptiness. >> we're more connected than ever. i don't think anything is going to change that. good morning. welcome to your "new day." alisyn is in parkland, florida. school is back in session. we're split up this morning because we're following several major russia developments rocking the white house. cnn learned that special counsel robert mueller's team is investigating president trump's business dealings with russia prior to the 2016 campaign. this isn't what happened during the campaign. they're looking at business before. also, chief of staff john kelly koun graded jared kushner's top secret security clearance. a bombshell report in "the

washington post" says at least four countries discussed ways to manipulate kushner because of his lack of experience and financial troubles. also, a source says white house communications director hope hicks admitted telling white lies for the president. alisyn. >> okay. chris, at this moment officially students are in school. we see lots of students streaming in on the sidewalks in front of me here and behind me. this is the first time they're back in two weeks since the massacre that took 17 of their friends and teachers. so classes are resuming at marjory stoneman douglas. let's face it, these kids educational experience, their high school and their lives are forever changed. so many students now feel they're part of a movement. they have ignited a national conversation about gun violence. about school safety and what to do now.

legislators here in florida are proposing several steps including training and arming teachers as efforts in congress on the national level do not seem to be moving as quickly. we also have breaking news this morning. dick's sporting goods are making a major announcement in response to the massacre here. they say they will end sales of assault style rifles in all of their stores. chris, i know you will be speaking with the ceo of dick's shortly about the decision, and i can tell you, lots of these families here in parkland will be watching that. >> a lot of people will like this. a lot of people won't. we really want to hear from the man running the company why they're doing this and why it matters. alisyn, we'll be back with you in a second. let's begin our coverage with cnn political analyst david gregory. this is a lot of news on the russia investigation. it's been so drip, drip. now you have hope hicks saying i tell white lies but on nothing substantive. i'm not going to answer

questions here. the committee does nothing. what pops to the top for you? >> i think kushner. it gets to what a lot of people feel is the heart of the mueller probe. is there any reason why the president or those closest to him were compromised because of his or others close to him, their business dealings with russia that would prevent him from either speaking out against russia, being mindful of the threat russia posed to the election or taking action afterward. i'm mindful of what ken starr said to you, let's think about what the real thrust of the investigation is to prove collusion. i don't know that we get any closer to that. but i think that scrutiny is so important about whether there's anybody who is compromised. the other piece of this is the drama in the west wing. kushner has had his security clearance dialed back. you have to question how effective he's been. is this rank nepotism which i think it does reek of and has from the very beginning and undermines his effectiveness. what's he going to do if he has

this portfolio of the middle east and mexico and the other countries, and there are other countries thinking he can be exploited and undermined. i think this is the president's son-in-law, a lot of drama, a soap opera piece but it becomes bigger in the context of the mueller probe. >> on that legal point that ken starr and i were going back and forth about this morning, let's bring in jeffrey toobin, cnn legal analyst. rebut the presumption from ken starr and others which is, mueller, you can't look at financial dealings before 2016, you're supposed to be reviewing things that have to do with the campaign and any extension of issues that arise thereto, this is just too far? >> that's just not true. if you look at what mueller's jurisdiction is, it's very broad. he has the right to investigate anything arising out of his investigation, and certainly anything related to trump's

finances in russia is very much relat related. it goes to the crucial issue of motive that remains unresolved. why has donald trump been so favorable to vladimir putin? what is in it for him? >> a very clear possibility is business, is money, is that he has business dealings in russia that he has wanted to cultivate. i just wrote a story in "the new yorker" about when he brought the miss universe pageant to moscow in 2013. that led directly to the meeting in trump tower in june of 2016 with the russian lawyers. it's immediately within his jurisdiction. >> obviously i agree with jeffrey. i say obviously because i agree with everything he says. >> i don't. he was wrong about what's going to happen with some of the election stuff a couple days

ago, but go ahead. >> that's your fight. i think obviously it's an important point because when you think about the business dealings, we have to go back. you go back to the don junior meeting, this campaign was open for business. they were open for dirt on hillary clinton. it doesn't matter if it came from foreign powers which would be totally inappropriate the first time you heard about it, they were open for business. you can debate good thing, bad thing. certainly you can debate there there was a crime or not. we also know -- jeffrey writes about this in terms of their business dealings. here is paul manafort who is under indictment, the campaign manager who had extensive political and financial ties to russia. i want to connect this to what the nsa chief said and this cyber attack on america. what the russians did they pushed on an open door of cynicism within america about our news in the country, about whether you can believe politicians. it want to underscore why this

is such a big deal. it was hannah errand who writes, whenever you have a society that views the distinction between truth and fiction as being basically indistinguishable, that's a huge threat to democracy. that's what any president has to be thinking about to prevent the next time. we may have just seen the beginning. >> you can argue that trump, whether wittingly or unwittingly or with bad malice or selfish intentions is driving that wedge all the time. let me get your head on something else. hope hicks says i'll come in and talk to you political committee. i don't want to be subpoenaed. i told white lies but never on something substantial. the yes, sir you want me to answer about the drafting of the statement of that meeting i won't talk about it. nothing else. what are the legalities involved? >> it's really, as usual in washington, it's more of a political story than a legal story. there is such a thing as executive privilege, but it is

relatively narrow in scope. you can't simply say i'm not answering any questions about my service in the white house. however, the only way to press that issue, to determine what the scope of the questions are that you can and can't answer, the only way to resolve that is in the intelligence committee first subpoenas hope hicks and then finds her in contempt if he refuses to answer questions. this committee is under republican control. they have no desire to subpoena her, no desire to hold her in contempt. so she has abc light lu free reign to refuse to answer what she wants. >> that committee plays it both ways. they say this is a mess, a physical barrier put up between the left and the right because they don't trust each other, but we can still construct their investigation. how?

how is this not a waste of time and money with respect to this one committee? >> i'm pretty cynical about it. the action in town is the mueller investigation. >> the senate intel a little bit. they've been working bipartisan and trying to figure things out. >> i think that's right. because this is a political proce process. that's the important point jeffrey just did. we have that with the independent counsel, but this is purely a political process. i don't see how it gets to the bottom -- >> jeffrey toobin, what popped your eyebrows this morning. >> jared kushner's egregious conflicts of interest. he is the definition of a security risk. it doesn't have to do anything with blackmail. he is negotiating with qatar. he's negotiating with china. at the same time his company is

begging for money from those countries. how can we know when kushner is negotiating with these countries whether he's representing the national interest or his commercial interest. that's why he doesn't have a security clearance. that's why he shouldn't have a security clearance. i just think this is one of the things about the trump era, we've degraded all our superlatives. it's a shocking situation that close to the seat of power. >> it's at least the potential for corruption that's eye popping. it's this black hole where we don't know where all these entanglements are. this is the kind of stuff when you dig deep into putin's government and the kleptocracy that is the modern day kremlin, you have to be deeply, deeply suspicious. the fact that this president who

has promised to bring us the best and drain the swamp is bringing that in without accountability is at least, at least making us vulnerable to give all fairness to what we don't know. i agree. by the why. this is why you don't hire your children, when you have these kind of conflicts that you can't resolve because this is my son-in-law after all. nobody would put up with this -- again, for all the republicans and the defenders of trump, if this were hillary clinton, what would they be saying? >> and how rich is it, how much time did we spend talking about hillary clinton's concern for national security because of her e-mails. and to have jared kushner with no security clearance with access to the crown jewels of american intelligence for more than a year talk about security risk, it's just -- it just boggles the mind. >> jeffrey toobin, david gregory, thank you to you both. alisyn, to you.

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first time in two weeks. there is a huge police presence on the ground here. we have seen dozens and dozens, hundreds of police officers from neighboring communities coming here to show a sense of solidarity and strength with the officers here as well as of course all the students. one day, andrew pollack, lost his daughter meadow in this massacre at the school behind me. since then he's made it his mission to improve school safety in the hopes of, of course, preventing any other mass shooting from happening in any other community. mr. pollack was also at the white house listening session with president trump and he delivered this powerful statement to him. >> i'm very angry that this happened because it keeps happening. 9/11 happened once and they fixed everything. how many schools, how many children have to get shot? it stops here with this administration and me.

i'm not going to sleep until it's fixed. >> and that dad, andrew pollack, joins us now. thanks so much for being here. i know you said that's the first time you actually reheard your words to president trump. >> i really don't -- i haven't been focusing on the news at all. >> i don't blame you. >> i get more emotional any time i see myself or see or hear other kids that were affected, or parents. i'm just staying focused on one direction. >> what is it like being back here today? >> it's kind of emotional. i'm happy for the kids, they've got to get back on track, get back to school. it's a big police presence, and they're going to feel safe. they've got to feel safe. and we've got to continue. it can't just be today. that's my whole agenda, is just to make every school safe so when the kids are inside, they're not worried about

getting shot. >> that's a good goal. >> that's my goal. >> so did you feel heard at that listening session? you stood up and you were telling president trump how angry you are, that this didn't happen sooner to protect meadow. what did you think came out of that listening session? >> before we went in the listening session, he had my family into the oval office. we had -- we sat down in the oval office for a good 15, 20 minutes, just one-on-one with the president and vice president pence, general kelly, his whole staff were there, and we just spoke about the incident and how the country is going to move forward. >> what did the president say to you? oh, my god. your dog is chewing on my microphone. she's very cute. >> what did you tell him? >> i told him we need to get together and fix it. it can't happen again.

it's been 200 shootings in america and in schools. he says we're going to fix it. mr. pollack, i promise you, i'm working on it. i left him with a collage of pictures of my daughter. i said, mr. president, i'm going the leave this with you. every day you're going to wake up, you'll see my beautiful daughter. it's going to be in the oval office, the pictures, and i want you to concentrate and stay focused. he's got a lot on his plate. i said let's stay focused and concentrate on school safety. >> did he say he's going to do that? >> he's going to do it. i'm invited back to the white house on thursday so he wants to meet with me again. i guess he's going to tell me some things that he's working on. >> let's talk about that. what do you want him to work on? what do you think is the answer here to stop this from ever happening again? >> i don't even know -- he's not the one guy. it's everybody in the country, if we all get together -- i think it starts -- it's going to

start with the governor in each state. because rick scott just implemented this bill that's a $500 million bill. >> do you like the details of this bill? >> it's great. i went through it. i had the speaker of the house, came to my house, flew in from tallahassee. >> and wanted to know what you wanted in the bill? >> he went over it with me so i understand it. i was in tallahassee, i think yesterday. i've been all over the place. i'm going back to tallahassee friday. saturday i'm going to be on the floor in the capitol meeting with all the representatives, discussing this bill to make sure this never happens again in florida. >> one of the suggestions in this bill is to train and arm teachers, ten teachers in each school. the governor is against that. where are you? >> so what you're telling me, it's fake, or whatever you're hearing isn't correct. >> you tell me. >> in the bill it's a marshal

program. >> of teachers, yes? >> not a specific number. there can be only one teacher in the whole school. say that hero coach that went in -- i'm sorry -- that hero coach, he could have saved ten kids. >> understood. it but it's not play-offs, it's teachers. >> they go through a police program. >> i get it. they will be trained. but they are right now and they're teachers. >> trained as marshals. i have the answer for everybody up in arms about that. this is america, it's freedom of choice. you have the choice to go to any school you want. my answer to them, if you don't want a teacher or a marshal or someone with a gun at your school, you go to a gun-free school zone. that's where you go. you take your kid and go to a school that has a gun-free zone and you take them there. the parent that wants to go to the school where there's a

marshal or a police presence, grou there. that fixes everything. >> the governor publicly said he doesn't want to train and arm teachers. do you know something different? >> it's in the bill, so i don't know -- >> it was drafted by the state legislature. >> but it's not teachers. they're actually going to go through a program with the police department only as volunteers. it's not mandated. >> but they'll still be teachers afterwards. >> they're going to teach. they'll get compensated. bonuses. >> you're comfortable with it? >> i'm cop fortable with it. i want to tell people that, that's the last line of defense, what i'm working on. my thing is, it's like when you go on a plane, when you get on a plane do they do an active shooter drill when you're on the plane? >> no. >> you're not worried that someone is going the shoot you on the plane. >> because they have marshals? >> because you go through a

metal detector. we need to stop it before anyone goes in the school, that's where it starts right there, not in the school -- the kids shouldn't even be doing active shooter drills. it shouldn't even be in their head that someone is going to get in the school and get shot. it's like at the courthouse. you're in the courthouse, do they do drills with the judge? judge, under your desk, someone is coming to shoot you, they don't do it. it shouldn't happen here. >> you made that point so clearly at the white house. basically what you were saying is why did it have to take this, why didn't this happen a year ago, ten years ago. >> 20 years ago it could have happened. every courthouse is safe, federal buildings, airports. now the new norm, i'm dedicated my life to this. the new norm that's going to be any kid that's normal, they're not going to know what it's like to just walk in the school like we did when we were kids. they'll have to go through metal detectors, security. it's society now, it change.

>> what do you think of one of the proposals of increasing the age limit of purchasing weapons to 21? >> i think it's common sense. >> to increase it. >> it doesn't really matter. it's not a big deal. it shouldn't be that important to people. >> it seems like the president agreed with you. but then we understand he met with the nra and he started to feel a little differently. >> i don't think that's going to persuade him. he's a common sense guy, just like i am. it's just common sense to raise it to 21. that's not my thing. i'm not an expert on guns and nra and all that. but it's common sense to me, if they ask me what i thought, i would say 21 is fine. >> i see your t-shirt. so many of the kids here are wearing msd strong. but you say meadow strong.

i know you're thinking -- >> i got all the kids names on the back. >> these are all the kids who were lost here. i see your daughter's name here in the middle. so i've heard you say you think your daughter is the person sitting on your shoulder through all this, how are you getting the strength to be here today? >> it's very easy. everyone keeps asking me, i could never do it, how do you do it? when someone murders your kid, you just get a certain power that empowers you. my kid is murdered, and i can do anything. i could get up in front of trump. i can tell trump how i feel, president trump. i could stop traffic on the sawgrass if i want. i could do anything. i'm focusing -- all that for my daughter, i'll focus it toward school safety. it's simple. do that to your kid and you'll see what happens. i hope no one ever has to do what i have to do.

>> you're prepared that this is your life now, this is your mission. >> this is my life, and i just want to be the last one. it stops with me. i don't want anyone ever to go through what i have to go through. every day i wake up and i hear her in my head. i hear voices -- not in a bad way. i hear her voice if my head, not everyone else's. i hear her voice in my head and i don't want anyone to go through it. i just want it to stop. if we all come together as one party, americans, we can make it happen. just stay focused. >> what's meadow telling you in those moments? >> i just hear her calling me daddy and it's just -- it empowers me to do what i have to do. i'm working -- i'm going to work non-stop. the thing is we can't just stop in florida. the other states need to be proactive in this. whatever we can do to get these other staets to be proactive,

it's going to happen. there's going to be some other nut out there that's going to do something like this. >> god forbid. andrew, thank you very much. thank you for sharing all this with us. florida is leading the way and you are, too. thank you so much. >> thank you. give me a hug. >> thanks so much. >> we're moving in the right direction. >> your adorable dog down there. in the wake of this parkland massacre, there's big news. dick sporting goods just announcing they will no longer sell assault-style rifles. their ceo is going to join us next.

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the question has been as fundamental as it has been ignored. what can we do to stop the shootings? there was an intense focus on government early on. maybe that was misplaced. because we've seen more and stronger action from the private sector than from government. the latest is a big headline. dick's sporting goods making a big announcement this morning in the wake of the florida high school massacre. the retailer will stop selling assault-style rifles and will no longer sell high capacity

magazines. the company also says it will not sell any gun to anyone under the age of 21 regardless of what the local law is. joining us now is the chairman and ceo of dick's sporting goods, ed stacks. good to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> i'm aware of this corporate policy after what we saw in sandy hook. tell us why you think it's the right thing to do. >> after parkland, we were so disturbed and saddened by what happened in parkland that we said we need to do something. we talked ability what we needed to do, and we felt we needed to make a statement that we will no longer sell assault-type rifles, high capacity magazines and a few other things. our hearts went out to those kids and to their parents. everybody talks about thoughts and prayers going out to them, and that's great, but that doesn't really do anything.

we felt we needed to take a stand and do this. >> great message if it were senator stack or governor stack, but you are responsible to shareholders stack. how do i don't do this and not take a hit financially. what percentage of your sales? >> the hunt business is an important part of our business. we know there's going to be backlash. as we sat and talked with our management team and started talking about this with our management team it was to a person that this is what we need to do, we need to take a stand on this. those kids talk about enough is enough, and we had meaningful conversations about this with our team and we concluded that, if these kids are brave enough to organize and do what they're doing, we should be brave enough to take the stand and that's what we've done. >> what did you see after sandy hook in terms of effect on bottom line? what are you expecting as an effect on the bottom line here? >> there was backlash after sandy hook. we expected there will be backlash here.

when you look at those kids and their parents and the grief everyone is going through, we don't want to be a part of this story any longer. we actually sold the shooter a shotgun in november of last year. we looked at that and found out we did this, we had a pit in our stomach. we said we don't want to be a part of this story. we need a responsibility to these kids, and we decided we're not going to sell these anymore. >> so it's true, the parkland murderer bought a weapon at dick's, not one of the ones used in this shooting. did that matter to you when you found that out? >> it did. it wasn't -- it dowasn't the gu he used or the type of gun he used. we went back and we did everything by the book that we were supposed to do from a legal standpoint. we followed everything we were supposed to do, and how this still was able to buy a gun from us. we said we don't want to be a part of this story any longer.

>> a buddy of mine contacted me when this story came out. he lost his mother to cancer. he said i remember when cvs remembered to stop selling cigarettes, cost them billions of dollars. he remembers that. he says cvs now is an important brand for him. how do you balance your corporate responsibility as a citizen versus your corporate responsible to your shareholders? at what price does this become the wrong move? >> we think it's the right move, and whatever happens, we think this is the right move. it's the right thing to do for these kids. we hope it spurs a conversation and brings people along to have a serious conversation about what's happening in our schools with gun violence and put a stop to it. i'm a gun owner my second, a supporter of the second amendment. we have to do something about this. this is tragic what's going on and we're taking a stand. >> so you know what you're going

to hear. they're going to say you're making it worse. you're stopping my ability to get the weapon i need, i have the right to have. it's my decision, not yours. i can't defend myself against the bat guys. you're limiting the bullets so they'll have the high capacity weapons, they will and i won't and you're hurting me. >> we've had so many gun owners also say, you know what, this is the right thing to do. we don't feel that we really need to have these types of guns on the market. we don't feel these high capacity magazines should be on the market. we think when this happens and there's a shooting like this, it hurts what's going on for responsible gun owners using them for target practice, shooting sporting clays and hunting. we've had a lot of people in that camp who say we're good with what you're doing. >> what did legal tell you about your ability to not sell to anyone under 21 even if local

law says 18? >> they say we've got the right to do this. it's a bit confusing -- not consistent, i should say. because an 18-year-old can buy some guns. they have to be 21 to buy other guns. we think that's an inconsistency that should change. we're making it you're 21 to buy a gun at dick's sporting goods. >> what do you say to the other big stores out there that sell sporting goods, do you think they should fol lau suit? >> they should follow their conscience and do whatever they think they should do. we're not trying to impart our decision on anyone else. but this feels really good for us and we're comfortable with our decision. >> ed stack, thank you very much. appreciate you coming on to talk about this. an important conversation. >> thanks for having us. let's get back to alisyn in florida. the kids are saying do something, do something. they're looking at government. you have to look at business, also. in recent years, we see

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they're just everywhere. can you walk us through what we're seeing on your face and your body. >> sure. the indentation in my forehead is from falling and diving to the floor, the bruising around my eyes also from falling to the floor. this right here and the marks right above my eye is actually from shrapnel. i have shrapnel lodged in my cheek and behind my eyeball. >> pieces of shrapnel are still in your head behind your eye. will those ever leave? >> no. they don't actually call it -- they don't really cause any harm to me. to remove them would be more invasive than to leave them. >> you will carry the evidence of this massacre with you in your body for the rest of your life. >> absolutely. >> and here on your legs, we can see you're aquaticing with a cane. what happened here? >> i was shot directly above the knee here and then here, here,

here, here and then on the side of my legs is got where i got lodged with shrapnel. >> these were pieces of shrapnel that came off of fellow students after they were hit with bullets? >> yes. >> so, sam, nobody can ever question why you don't want to go back in this school. you're just living proof of all the trauma that everybody endured. how are you feeling today as you watch your classmates go back in there? >> i mean i feel mixed opinions or mixed emotions. i want to be part of stoneman douglas and i want to live out the rest of my high school career normally. but there's no such thing as normal nipple. so instead of just sitting around and not really doing anything in school, because curriculum is never going to resume as normal for the rest of the year. >> you don't think classes will be able to go back where teachers are standing in front of a class and teaching and kids are doing their homework. you think that's over. >> just for the rest of this year. i think everyone is going to take the time to regroup and

console one another and just appreciate each other's existence because we lost precious lives. it's hard to want to return to norm normal see. i would rather take this time sit around and open and make a difference and kaetd for my cause. >> what are you going to do? you decided you're not going back to school. >> i'm withdrawing from school to finish it online. as a senior i only have two classes to finish. as i'm recovering and taking my online courses, i'd like to take the time to travel and speak to audiences, speak to lawmakers, attend rallies, be everywhere i need to be so people can hear me clearly. >> this event has given you a mission and a message. what is that message you want to bring to the country? >> that these mass shootings are completely avoidable instances and we need to do everything in our power so that we don't have to worry about a mass shootings

at school or anywhere many america. >> what are you calling for? what do you want to see changed? >> a few things, i want infrastructure an security to be improved, using things we've had for ages, bulletproof windows, live footage security cameras to bso. on top of that, more security presence in schools, whether that be more security officers, as well as i would like the age limit on buying weapons to be raised to 21. i'd like gun control to be tightened up in the sense that we reenforce the background check more effectively and make sure protocol is being sought out. >> followed. >> followed, absolutely. >> you want assault weapons ban? >> absolutely. >> so after you go on this speaking tour and you march,

what is next for you? are you going to go to college? >> absolutely. >> do you know where you're going to go to college? >> not yet. >> are you waiting for acceptance or did you always plan to have a gap year? >> i think -- i've been accepted to colleges, it's just a matter of picking which one i want to go to. >> okay. so you have -- are you looking forward to that next chapter? >> absolutely. college has always been in the picture. i've always wanted to go to college. >> do you feel like you'll have to ex-layne to your colleges why you're not going back to high school? >> i think they're aware. >> sam, listen, from your lips to god's ears, we'll be following you and watching you. we pray all of your physical injuries resolve soon and that you can turn everything that's happened emotionally into action as you want to. thank you so much for being here with us and explaining what this experience is like for you. >> thank you. >> chris, that's it from parkland here. obviously most of the kids are

back in school now. we'll be checking back when they come out at about 11:40 to see what happened inside today and how they're feeling, and if they think they can cope the rest of the week and beyond. >> tough emotionally, but it matters. that won't be the last shooting. we know there was a near miss out west. where alisyn lives in connecticut, they had a near misat a local high school where a student was alert enough to call authorities and they stopped a kid who had plans to shoot a teacher. this is going to happen again if things aren't changed. alisyn, thank you very much for being there. an important day for those students and families. back here, we've had a stunning development. president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, jared kushner, big developments within the white house. "the washington post" reporting at least four countries discussed how to manipulate him. we're going to speak with one of the reporters who broke that story next. stay with cnn. er.

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the governor credited a sixth grader with changing his mind. he says insurance issues will be dealt with later. for more on the five things you need to know, go to cnn.com/newday and you will get the latest. big story this morning from "the washington post," reporting that officials in at least four countries discussed how to influence and manipulate president trump's son-in-law an senior adviser jared kushner. let's talk with cnn political analyst and "washington post" white house reporter, one of the men who broke the story, josh dawsey. >> what we reported this morning is officials in four different countries were intercepted talking about how to manipulate jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, one of his top advisers and why they are interested are his deep financial ties, need for money for his real estate companies in new york. what they saw was his naivete on foreign policy experience. to these countries, he struck

them as a prime target as someone they wanted to manipulate, someone they wanted to deal with. in our reporting, we indicated, chris, he was having conversations with some of these foreign countries without telling h.r. mcmaster, the national security adviser and others and not going through the proper channels which raised a lot of red flags in the white house. >> now, when you say four different countries were picked up from surveillance monitoring the conversation, they weren't talking to each other, obviously. these are four separate instances that created four different points of concern. correct. four different countries, china, israel, united ab rab i'm rats and mexico. he's been involved with mexico and israel, one of his missions in the white house is to try to solve middle east peace. e's been the key liaison between president trump and the mexican government. >> and the reporting suggests that a big part of the concern was that the company that his family is connected to needs

money. yes, there were concerns about, well, he's inexperienced, we'll be able to get over him. it's about the money and the financial ties that create opportunities. >> during the transition jared kushner was meeting with chinese officials, investors, looking for money for kushner companies while also running the transition. he has a building in new york, 666, that has been right in the middle of manhattan that's been financially beleaguered for some time and his company has been looking to capitalize and looking to make that -- make the voting work financially. what is important from the white house is the intersection between business conversations, what he's doing with foreign officials through a government lens and were there any conversations about private business investments or private business ties with these countries who he was interacting with as part of his official

capacity as a senior adviser to the president of the united states. >> all good questions. another one we may never know the answer to is if kushner stays in his role, will the president allow him to see classified information anyway which he could, and we wouldn't have to disclose. it will take reporting from people like you. josh dawsey, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. cnn "newsroom" with john berman picks up right after this break. please stay with cnn. rst, we he. and go to our coffee shop. and meet dave. hey. why is dark magic so spell-bindingly good, he asks? let me show you. let's go. so we climb. hike. see a bear. woah. reach the top. dave says dark magic is a bold blend of coffee with rich flavors of uganda, sumatra, colombia and other parts of south america. like these mountains, each amazing on their own. but together? magical. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters packed with goodness.

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