but to go beyond that, i have no with ivanka and jared. he made it known during his he trusted ivanka and jared completely. they said, the him. ecision is even his boys say, we can tell him and advise him but he the decision. they're very successful people, which i'm also thrilled. know business and learning the political perspective. which i feel sorry with all the getting, and i don't take anything politico newspapers of the are reporting because the e-mail said they gave articles to dnc and hillary for them in before they put the paper. timesme with the new york and washington post. wikileaks proved it. for your do you trust news, virginia? caller: pardon me? host: who do you trust for your news? don't trust my local paper either. you. t news for they're bashing all the time on the president. think he's done a lot of good things in bringing the people he's brought in so far. ivanka is going to be very good women. he's surrounded himself with women. respects them. businesses are women. so i think they're going to be him good, both of the

where is jared?e to many of his friends from israel and we put it together with a lot of great people. >> does it give you any pause to hear him constantly i guess calling him out or maybe using him as a crutch? >> one of the underlying things here if i can go back to jfk, he went through the bay of pigs a few months after he was inag rated. it was a disaster. he listened to all these professional career people who got it wrong so thereafter by the time of the cuban missile crisis he was relying on his brother and his speech writer all of whom he trusted, but he felt they had common sense and that the bureaucracy had failed him. i think there are a lot of presidents who have that sensation so therefore they turn to the people that they trust. in this case it's jared kushner. >> jared was in the room for every meeting. quiet, said nothing, but there listening. here he is with the german chancellor and the deputy crown prince of saudi arabia and last week in that meeting on opioids and drug abuse. do y

someone close to jared kushner said, jared really isn't sure what her place is here so let's keep her on those two issues. flash forward to this week when his commission was announced. suddenly his commission is tasked with veterans issues and issues in the country. those were the two issues that kellyanne was going to be dealing with. she is answering to jared kushner, who is 14 years younger than she is and far less experienced in politics. the two are definitely tied and related. >> i think a piece of this is the entire administration takes valued expertise across the board as being inherently valuable, and as a result they're willing to assign a variety of tasks to people. jared is managing an epically broad portfolio and so is kellyanne. there is overrising sentiment that you can do that job and do it well. >> kellyanne conway has been one of the most controversial of the president's advisers from talking about fact, microwaves, turning to candidates and pitching ivanka's products. she has experience in politics but little experience in actually governing. is that an indication o

jared: no. that's true the debt is highly elevated -- look, when the economy -- maya: i'm going to put a scatter plot on my nonexistent blog, too. [laughter] jared: when the economy moves towards full employment as it is now, you want your debt to g.d.p. ratio come down. bob: we have to leave it there. this listless panel we have had here. [laughter] bob: i'll hand it over. >> thank you so much bob and to our panelists. this brings us to the end of the program. on behalf of the hill and american bankers association. if you missed any portion of the program it will be on the hill.com later today. have great rest of your day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> spend washington journal live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you to the coming up thursday morning, andy harris, maryland republican congressman and member of the

i wanted to comment on jared kushner and ivanka trump. ast i don't understand is far as the republican party is concerned, they have lost all credibility. the implicitly and hypocrisy of being the public and party is staggering. for a candidate such as donald trump to now be in the white daughter to have his and his son-in-law -- this is nepotism at its highest. and it is happening in real time. and right in front of us. it is like a slow-moving car crash happening. and it is staggering to think of calledlican party who themselves on the constitution and they tout themselves as being patriotic with america first and all of that nonsense but the man that they have as their spearhead in the white house, this guy is going to ruin the country and he is going to make nixon look like child's play. with what he is doing. i am just watching this and i am stunned. if barack obama had done 1/10 of what this guy has done in 60 days? i mean, it is just hypocrisy. it is mind blowing. host: thank you. the white house gave a statement announcing that iv

view to jared kushner.y the chairman of the joint chief of staff, joe dunford, invited kushner to take this secret trip to iraq, arrived unannounced. it's not just the generals. secretary mattis, nbc news learned has had several meetings with kushner that's here at the pentagon, as well as at the white house. and just to give you a sense of what kushner will be seeing, he's going to see a very aggressive fight. remember the fighting in west mosul is taking place in iraq, also in syria, some u.s. troops were inserted behind enemy lines last week near the dam. one quick note on this, there isn't that much air activity taking place today. there is heavy weather and sometimes that prevents the eyes and ears and there's a little less, as they say here, kinetic activity. but overall, the pentagon sees this as an opportunity to cultivate jared kushner, explain their perspective, and hopefully gain an ally on some policy discussions. guys? >> yeah, it's interesting when you hear words like "cultivate" and "gain an

just yesterday priebus held a meeting wisteve bannon and jare kushner.he goal of that meeting is to get everyone on the same page. cnn's sara murray has more. >> reporter: as ideology cal battle reaches in the white house. trump's strategist bannon is facing an uncertain future and have become isolated in the west wing. >> we hope that as long as america stands for justice, then peace and harmony will in the end prevail. >> the move highlighting the fault line emerging between the national wing of the trump's white house led by bannon and the moderate crowd encolluinclu jared kushner. the president's decision to appear in syria. >> i now have responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly. >> it is an abrupt change of tone from trump on day one where he will rely on bannon to craft a speech and hammering home this message. >> from this day forward it is going to be only america's first. america's first. trump has grown frustrated with fighting with top aids. the relationship between bannon and juared kushner has grown strang

and jared kushner is family. so he trusts no one more than jared and his daughter ivanka. but he's clearly there to help determine how to ramp up this fight against isis and to bring back that critical information. as you say he's also engaged in other foreign policy efforts including in talks with mexico's president and laying the groundwork for that big visit at the end of the week for president xi, steph. >> i also want to ask you about that interview president trump did with the "financial times" ahead of xi jinping's visit. he said, if china is not going to solveorth kore we will. that is all i am telling you. what exactly is the president saying here? >> well, he's saying we're prepared to act unilaterally, steph. striking comments. is he talking about sanctions? is he talking about some type of military action? that remains to be seen. and those are some of the questions that we'll press him on in the coming days. but he's also foreshadowing that he's really going to be turning up the heat on china, on china's president to apply more pressure on north korea to stop

flank, you wrote a klcolumn on jared kushner. jared and ivanka have these centrist views.xactly did they come from and that's clearly not what the president ran on. does he not risk losing his base if he caters to a liberal new york crowd he crushed the entire campaign. >> he totally risks losing his ba. where jared and ivanka are coming from he risks losing his presidency if he operates in the first weeks when it seemed as if he was enthralled to bannon. jared kushner and ivanka trump have revert to who they were before the campaign. they were willing to keep mum and bite their tongue in whatever way they had to get elected and i find where we are is frustrating. in one way you're rooting for jared and ivanka because they seem to be the centrist voices of reason but they want credit for saving us from this president whom they helped to put in place. like they smashed a crystal glass on the ground and they sweep it up and aren't we great. they saw up close how inconstant donald trump could be, how immature he could be, yet they worked as hard as they could to put him in th

president trump says jared is such a good kid, and he'll make a deal with israel. tonight, kushner is in iraq, invited by the joint chief of staff to see the situation firsthand. to get an update on the fight against isis, prompting this bewildered tweet from president obama's deputy national security advisor ben rhodes, kushner in iraq before the national security advisor or secretary of state, totally normal. but it's not just iraq, but the president appointed kushner on a list of other issues, including trade deals, communicating with china, heading up the office of american innovation which includes updating the entire government's technology structure and tackling the opiod epidemic crisis. >> he's very good at politics. >> reporter: he's held meetings with foreign leaders when rex tillerson was noticeably absent. today the president was asked how he can do all of this. >> there's a lot of relationships that jared has made over time with different leaders, mexico being one of them you mentioned, that are going to continue to have conversations with him and hel

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why was jared kushner in iraq, what's the point of that trip? >> well, i think that's the million dollars question, it was an unannounced visit came at general joseph dunford. we know he's been charged with defeating isis in iraq. we know the two were traveling together in iraq, what we don't know are some of the key details, any time a senior official visits iraq some of the key details are kept secret. the bigger question is that when there are visits like this and some details kept secret usually we know why the visits took place in the first place, in this case we don't know why jared kushner was in iraq, what it does show is the continuing descending -- of trump family members, we see on the ground is a convergence of all of those three things, primarily military operations, there are decisions being made by american generals every day in terms of how the fighting is going, so how does jared kushner fit into that? that's the question a lot of the people are wanting the answers for. >>> fighting harder than ever before, it might be jared kus

not saying that to jared kushner.f your reporting that the president is putting any pressure on jared kushner to find the solution to this relationship? >> my understanding is that he's told them to cut it out. he's sick of seeing this. the last week has become -- the tension was sort of building, but this week has been ridiculous and there are stories from both sides. >> give us the most ridiculous example of how ridiculous it has become. >> you have stories now of like steve bannon saying to the president i want to talk my skills elsewhere if you don't like me. anyone who knows steve bannon he doesn't talk like that. he doesn't say sentences like that. so whoever put that out there, it's not steve bannon would say. he doesn't talk like that. he's a much more blunt instrument. the president is frustrated. my understanding is there is going to be a come by yeah but who knows if this is going to work. >> i don't want to hear steve bannon singing. >> we're done with it for tonight. thank you both for joining us. >>> com

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>> so i think he's probably been given a lot, and jared is a capable guy.on't know who is cape able enough to handle all in that portfolio. two, trump ran this way. he talked about tearing up trade deals and tearing up other deals with countries and renegotiating them on the fliechlt he never laid out a strategy or philosophy, just said he would do it better. in his mind you have to come to him because he is going to get it done better. the question in the white house, and i think you said it very well, you have to do what is in the president's interest. this president is about getting the best deal transactionally with whomever he is dealing with. >> what deal has he gotten so far that's been the best deal? >> i'm not making -- i'm trying to understand him. he is looking at figuring occupant whether it is syria, china, mexico, the congress, remember, after healthcare fail he said we're going to move to taxes and work with democrats. he had schumer over and praised schumer. what could change is if they loose the kansas and georgia house seats which would in

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but jared's there. that said, it's not totally clear what the secretary of state does in this new administration. i mean, take the president's special envoy for middle east piece. that is a person that still been appointed to be the trump administration's eyes and ears, the point person on middle east peace. that person doesn't report to tither president or secretary of state. that person reports to jared. "the new york times" and the financial times report in detail today that the preparations for the critical meeting this week with president xi of china, those prepositions are being led by jared also. jared has been been put in charge with relations with china more broadly including preparing for the presidential meeting. he has been put in charge of u.s. relations with canada and u.s. relations with mexico, including building the wall. he has been put in charge of all trade deals. "the washington post" reported last week he's in charge of re-imagining the veterans administration. he's also been put i

i bet when they were getting married jared never knew it would lead to this job. >> jared kushner ise center of another high profile diplomatic mission meeting with the prime minister in baghdad. >> the president son-in-law and senior advisor met with the iraqi prime minister to discuss the fight against i.s.i.s. and get a firsthand look at the situation on the ground. >> trevor: he has to fight i.s.i.s.? i mean, it's crazy, but to be fair, maybe this is opportunity worst idea. if anyone could drive i.s.i.s. crazy it's a new york landlord. that's who. ( laughter ) you're saying if we want to move into iraq we have to pay a broker's fee? forget it! you just open the door! 5%?! 3%?! ahhh! overseeing the fight against i.s.i.s. would be big job for anyone but kushner wouldn't reach that spot in the presidential standing if that were his only responsibility. >> he's also tasked with brokering peace from the middle east and president of mar-a-lago. ( laughter ) >> trevor: i like how they slid peace in the middle east in there as an after thought. like trump said hey, plan me a party for me

the shot just as jared off to the side at the left.ng me now is chief correspondent john harwood and molly harper. we have seen the reporting in the last 72 hours. is steve bannon on the chopping block? >> he is obviously has been demoted. aides have been pushing back there was a shake up with reince priebus and steve bannon leaving. let's be honest. things have not gone well in the white house for the last several weeks. really throughout the administration so far. i talked to a senior official last night who said we just don't know what's going -- i can't tell you what's going to happen in the next week or two. i think right at the moment when you have a military strike and you are engaged in a hostile action with syria and potential confrontation with russia, you don't want to portray the idea of instability in the white house. that may have pushed off changes. it is clear some changes are coming. some have taken place. >> we are just under the benchmark of the 100 days, molly. 79 days. the president has shown confidence in jared ku

but a meeting with jared kushner has not been scheduled.im matt, a correspondent for the daily beast who has been investigating the trump-russia question. and julian edelstein. tim mak, the significance of the intelligence committee wanting to speak to jared kushner about this, how do you read that? >> well, it's obvious that the senate intelligence committee wants to talk to jared kushner about his contacts with the russian ambassador and of course this russian banker, sergei gorkov, who as you noted was a graduate of the russian spy school as part of the broader investigation into the russian role in the u.s. election and whether or not anyone in the trump orbit was involved in that russian interference or had ties with the russian government. you know, jared kushner is the person closest to donald trump who it has been publicly reported has had meetings like this. >> julian epstein, how common are omissions like this in disclosure forms? >> well, they're relatively common. so long as people voluntarily come forward and clarify in a timel

we see jared kushner's role expanding. he's been given new duties and he was in iraq just last week, kind of assessing the situation on the ground. so it -- what it seems to be if you read it, the president is taking a hard look at his entire team and assessing if they're in the right places. and if it makes since to have these two squaring o on whole host of policy issues allf the time. i can tell you, steve bannon isn't backing down from this. and if you talk to folks who are close to him, he thinks he's winning this fight. and as you point out, chris, he welcomes a good fight, a good one. he's the one using all of these war terms and throwing the bomb. he's not backing down. he's not intimidated by the possibility of being ousted, that's for sure. >> let's end by talking about the stakes here. you know all of this stuff, big picture, whether we go to war or not, wait until we get more aggressive. how we handle the situation in north korea. how we handle the future of obama care, the things people care about. they have q

with regard to jared kushner, saying he doesn't know anything, i'm not speaking on jared kushner's we-but clearly he has accumulated some level of trust an confidence an knowledge inside the white house to obtain positions that he has with the president. if we then appreciate that jared kushner's is in the spot he's in, and because the president tieks-- takes family so seriously he's not going anywhere, in your estimation f you are prescribing something for this white house beyond what is in this article, are you telling the president then to limit his portfolio? >> i would say that if jared kushner were truly public spirited person, what he would do, if he wants to stay in the white house, obviously he has to separate himself much more fully from his own business interests than he has. then he would say to the president, you need an a-team here. what i would like to do for you is run a staff prog ses whereby instead of giving your china portfolio to me and the middle east portfolio to me, and the reinventing government portfolio to me, we bring in people who actually knew about these iss

jared kushner is a new yorker, and steve bannon has a different view. and when it comes up to issues on how to handle health care they have different visions, and so while yes, there are disagreements and a clash here, so much of it will be on the substance of what trump does. while trump was elected on broad ticket discussions, he didn't have a replacement. he said replace it with something terrific, it is up to bannon and kushner to replace it. and they differ on the specifics. >> well, i think people close to steve bannon told me what he thought were policy disagreements he has come to realize may be more personal than that. he does feel a bit kneecaped or felt that way maybe before the friday peace-making session that reince priebus organized. but i spoke to someone today who is not really on team bannon and they said you have to realize that steve, unlike other people like paul manafort, who was thrown overboard when he became too much of a problem, steve bannon, this person said, is close to this president. they do enjoy a close working relationsh

i don't know and nobody knows if jared kushner can do that. sooner or later professionals have to come in to take on the work that needs professional attention. >> eleanor roosevelt with her husband in wheelchair running world war ii used to go out and say in effectually be my husband's legs and his eyes and ears. a relationship not quite what you're describing there. bobby intends to share with us his list of the adults that are going to come forward. for all of us panel, we'll stay. coming up, we'll take a first break. after that, this week must be different for the president by design because he has meetings with three world leaders. >>> plus, the son-in-law turned white house aide goes to baghdad. when "the 11th hour" continues. >>> we agree on so many things. i just want to let everybody know icasehere was any doubt that we are very much behind president el sisi. he has done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. and i just want to say to you, mr. president, that you have a great friend and ally in the united states and in me. >>

we know jared kushner's father was prosecuted a few years ago. was a big democratic donor and he blackmailed his own sister's husband to avoid an investigation. and the prosecutor in that case was chris christie. multiple reports said that the reason chris christie was sort of moved out of considering in the administration was jared kushner seeking revenge. obviously i can't speak to that. >> how would that affect the administration? what would that have to do with anything? >> all i'm saying is if you're going to worry about revenge, there's already those stories coming out about kushner. in the case of steve bannon, steve is a -- >> wait, hang on. i'm just trying to get to understand what you're saying. you speak of bannon, you're talking about breitbart, which is a huge platform. which is also the alt-right. you said what about snit >> it's the anti-establishment. i've never used the term alt-right. >> steve sure used it. >> i'm just wondering how would jared kushner exact revenge from his father-in-law -- >> no, no. what i'm saying is there w

jared kushner is not the answer to all of this.government the way it's supposed to be run is the answer. >> what qualifications does jared kushner have? >> that's a great question. i know many people who have had dealings with him over time. they say he is a very intelligent guy, considerable charm. he is a 36-year-old man who has not a stitch of government experience, who has not a stitch of diplomatic experience. and while that doesn't mean he doesn't have a fresh perspective that might, you know, have value to it, it does suggest saying he is the first person able to solve the israeli-palestinian conflict is the epitome of magical thinking. >> for someone with no political experience and no governing experience. you wrote in the piece said earlier of how important loyalty and family are to him. perhaps having, you know, key family members or key people around him, maybe that gives him some sort of comfort. do you think americans are at risk when the key people that interest r there, like jared kushner and ivanka have no experien

but jared's there.that said, it's not totally clear what the secretary of state does in this new administration. i mean, take the president's special envoy for middle east piece. that is a person that still been appointed to be the trump administration's eyes and ears, the point person on middle east peace. that person doesn't report to tither president or secretary of state. that person reports to jared. "the new york times" and the financial times report in detail today that the preparations for the critical meeting this week with president xi of china, those prepositions are being led by jared also. jared has been been put in charge with relawi

close to jared, that is jared talking.my: you accuser wearing clothing, but i think what you're talking about, for example, on the sunday night on -- on "60 went minutes" wearing a bracelet and the next day showing that in her interview and saying "you can buy this for $10,000." but also, she owns her company, even if it is in a trust. she will profit -- >> trademarks. there she is charming the chinese premier, and suddenly, oh, great, great for business for ivanka trump in china. i think was also reported the philippines. she has got trademarks there. i have met the real estate that.per who facilitated the first time i met antonio, all he could talk to me about -- amy: who is he? >> they call him the trump of the philippines. all he could talk to me about -- this was before trump ran for president -- he had just come off the golf course with donald trump. of thee all in awe family. and lo and behold -- >> been you have the schedule this week, going to donald trump, where he calls the president of on winning this referendu

just how much are ivanka trump and her husband jared kushner worth? i want to go to nbc's kelly o'donnell at the white house. kelly, let's talk about the figure. this is what they say they're worth. what have we learned? >> reporter: this is the kind of paperwork at's a requirement for anyone working in thehite house to submit, a very detailed finaial disclosure, everything from investments to n baing accounts to business interests to a spouse's earnings, all of that. it's pretty standard and is expected of anyone who works in the white house. often in past administrations you've had people who work in government for a long time so there aren't in surprises. in the trump world, there are many more people with considerable wealth as he has pulled people in from the business world and then with his daughter and son-in-law from obviously the trump family and the kushner family which has great wealth as well. so this is a requirement and they released these detailed financial disclosures for well over 100 staffers here at the white house, and a number of

one, jared kushner as you point out is tasked with doing peace in the middle east. then the other issue is that the bank is the subject of a very serious investigation by the department of justice as to whether or not they helped americans avoid paying taxes with regard to banks offshore. so the notion he continues to be the beneficiary of this business that he ran for many years, that is in business with the biggest bank in a country with whom he is going to be doing extensive work from a diplomatic perspective is quite surprising. >> richard, from an ethic's standpoint is that an issue for you? and now that both ivanka trump and jared kushner are both now white house employees do you see other conflicts there? >> well, the law does not require them to sell the assets, but if they don't sell the assets and they have not sold the assets in real estate the law does require they recuse from any government matter that could have any economic effect on those assets, and that includes anything that has an affect on the real estate industry, on the financial services sect

they go to policy, jared kushner has grown frustrated with steve bannon.u know, in terms of immigration too extreme a and jared kushner want to moderate the president in his view. of course, bannon believes that the new yorkers and the white house which also includes trump's top economic adviser who bannon personally despices and kind of wall street democrat. >> new york times argued in an argument of bannon and jared kushner. bannon says to jush scribnared . >> here is a reason of no ground. you are a democrat, there is he is accusing him of the worse thing that he can be otherwise than jewish or a democrat. >> so are you racist? they can go back and forth here. the real problem is not jared kushner or reince priebus. it is not them, it is donald trump. there is no core. donald trump over the years and recently had gone back and forth in many key policies. healthcare and abortion and middle east and military action and so he does not give strong reactions of ideas. it is never about ideas. it is just about him. it leads to this battleground where anybody

for jared kushner for anyone advising the. the to go to iraq to make the relationships and for them to be able to put a face to the name from their end but most importantly is to get that update. >> there is no substitute, you're right, for being on the ground and seeing it with your own eyes. how do you think what he's doing differs from that of rex tillerson? >> he's not the secretary of state, but he is a senior adviser to the president, so when you're at a table and discussing what the right policies should be to battle iraq, battle isis in iraq, or battling isis in syria, or you're talking about isis' moves in the command and control noelds popping up in libya or the other terrorist groups looking around the map and you have groups like the hakani network or al qaeda, al shabab, talking about latah bombs earlier in the show. it's more and more interconnected and the more informed you can be. there's a benefits, it says a lot for the leadership of the other government and our foreign troops to see those surrounding the pre

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there are questions concerning russia that tie direct loo to jared. come before the senate and house committees to answer questions about his relations with the russian ambassador. there's a dark cloud over everything that's going on because the election may be over but the investigation into what happened in the election is not over. it's just beginning. >> i guess what we're seeing if this is correct here, ed, that president trump is turning to the folks he trusts most. jared kushner, his son-in-law and to his daughter ivanka at the moment. if he's doing that, how much are they floundering. as we saw, he was there to sign an executive order when he was questioned about russia. potentially because he was challenged. he forgot the focus of what he needed to do which is sign the executive order. >> i wouldn't say the dark clouds. yes, he does trust his son-in-law and certainly his daughter, but he also trusts steve bannon. certainly trusts reince priebus who has a lot of experience in washington and he trusts the other members of his administration. so

ivanka and jared are highly quality.d and valerie jarrett came from real estate management development companies. nobody questioned her credentials and the fact that these people are being questioned just because their last name happens to be trump or because he is married to a trump is uncalled for. >> okay. all right. so that's paris. angela, i saw you smile and raising your and. your term. >> so, first, i just want to be very clear we should never again compare valerie jarrett's credentials to jared kushner. let's talk about, you know, a black woman all-star lawyer who not only came from real estate but also a big law firm and also has -- had worked for the mayor of the city of chicago for some time. so let's not at all mix credentials there. while i appreciate paris' loose definition of what a senior adviser means and having worked on capitol hill on a committee as a senior adviser and council, what i will say is nonetheless there was a job description, nonetheless there was something by which i had to be accountable

now jared has also been doing a little bit of that.ever, with all of that being said, i still think for the moment based on what happened this week there is this little bit of stability now, a cease-fire, if you will, and it seems to me that reince priebus and steve bannon at least for the immediate short term are probably secure in their jobs. donald trump on thursday afternoon at mar-a-lago said to jared and to steve bannon, knock it off. you guys are close. you need to work it out. and on friday late afternoon steve bannon, reince priebus, jared and ivanka stepped out together and had a meeting about the agenda. that was really the president saying, listen, you guys, you need to work together. it seems at least from my sources at the senior level of the white house this was a signal that he's not going to at least in this sort of next week or two make some dramatic change to his top staff. >> jonathan, do you think there is a resentment because blood is thicker than water and jared kushner and ivanka are always going to come out on

kushner, jared kushner said to -- sorry.on said to jared kushner, here's the reason there is no middle ground. you're a democrat. there he is accusing jared kushner of the worst thing he could possibly be other than jewish in steve bannon's mind, a democrat. >> well, i want to know if jared kushner returned the favor and said you know you said you were running a platform for the all the right which is part of a conservative movement made up of white nationalists. are you a racist? are you a white nationalist? they can go back and forth. i think the real problem is not kushner, bannon, reince priebus, kellyanne conway. it's not anyone. it's donald trump. they are trolling about because at the core of the white house there is no core. donald trump has gone back and forth on many key policies. health care, tax reform, abortion, middle east, you know military action. because he doesn't give strong directions about ideas because he doesn't have is a lot of ideas and because it's never about his ideas, it's just about him, he lead

i don't know and nobody knows if jared kushner can do that. sooner or later professionals have to come in to take on the work that needs attention. >> eleanor roosevelt with her husband in wheelchair running world war ii used to go out and say i will be my husband's legs, his eyes, and his ears. not exactly a parallel to what you are saying there. >> for all of us, the panel will stay. coming up, we'll take a first break. after that, this week must be different for the president by design because he has meetings with three world leaders. >>> plus, the son-in-law turned white house aide goes to baghdad. when "the 11th hour" continues. allergy symptoms distracting you? doctors recommend taking claritin every day of your allergy season for continuous relief. claritin provides powerful, non-drowsy, 24-hour relief. for fewer interruptions from the amazing things you do every day. live claritin clear. every day. why pause a spontaneous moment? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. tell your doctor about your medicines, and