however, charles kushner says he turned down possible funding. he told the post, even if they were there ready to wire the money, we wouldn't have taken it. it seems a little -- is awkward the right word? kushner companies would spend a couple years trying to get millions of dollars out of qatar, being crushed when they'd been turned down, and then a couple months later, qatar's ready to offer them more money and kushner takes the meeting to say no, we don't want the money? we dond -- don't need it? it seems strange. it is bizarre to consider the family real estate interests of an adviser when you're trying to figure out weird policy decisions. there is incredible, practical overlap between the kushner family business and their efforts to secure foreign financing for their new york city real estate holdings. there's incredible overlap between that and ongoing international effort and the countries that jared kushner has been dealing with in a foreign capacity since he became adviser. because of that overlap, however crazy it feels to talk about it

and charles kushner being jared kushner's father.oth meetings took place, i understand, at the kushner company. >> that's right. and jared kushner maintains a personal interest. not just an interest like, oh, i hope it does well. he owns a significant portion still of kushner companies. and kushner the two kushners speak on an almost daily basis. it's been reported they speak on a daily basis. so these meetings happened one day after the other. the question what did he know about them? >> talk about what happened afterward in terms of u.s. policy and kushner was involved. after the deal fell apart, kushner basically supporting a change in policy what ended up being a blockade by other countries like saudi arabia. >> right. a blockade that is ongoing to this day because when secretary of state rex tillerson tried to mediate it, if you remember, and you reported on it at the time, about an hour and a half later, president trump went out and offered a statement that completely undercut tillerson. accus accused qatar of financing terror.

in a statement to "the washington post" charles kushner said quote, before the meeting kushner companiesad decided that it was not going to accept sovereign wealth fund investments. we ininformed the qatari representatives of our decision and they agreed. >> now, for the most part kushner company saying maybe there were clerical errors in some documents, but kushner company says they have other documents it says they filed correctly. cnn has obtained one of those documents which was filed in 2015, but at this point there's an investigation. this misleading paperwork sparked an investigation and kushner companies are going to have to deal with it. >> christina, thank you so much. and next trolling mike pence with his own rabbit. it sounds inappropriate but jeanne moos will explain. ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. and i can do it with what's already within me. because my body can still make its own insulin. and once-weekly trulicity activates my body to release it. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. it works 24/7, and you don't have to see or han

we know from previous reporting that charles kushner in april of 2017 directly pitched the qatar government this project. qatar said no, and just weeks later kushner took the saudi's side in a diplomatic dispute when saudi and the uae blockaded qatar. several months later you have this continuing pro saudi effort on behalf of kushner. so it absolutely does raise questions of whether this was part of u.s. foreign policy or whether it was part of the global expedition to acquire refinancing funds for this under water property. >> now, his lawyers say they're not even going to dignify these questions, so they didn't answer them. you have more digging to do on this. so do the rest of us. appreciate you giving us a couple pieces to the puzzle ryan. if nothing else, once again dealing with a manifestation of the problems created by apparent conflicts of interest. that's new in our government, people so prominent on the business side and affairs intentionally or unintentionally leak into their public work as well. ryan grim, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thanks. >> be well. >>> we're foll

year now, people say that is going to be the thing that brings down jared kushner, brings down charles kushnerthat the stuff that they're doing in this -- the story about qatar today, about the notion that the father was meeting with the qatari finance minister while trump was in office, trying to get the qatar i finance minister to come and save that building, a few weeks later when qatar said no, you have sanctions, not sanctions, of a block wade. >> the blockade. >> blockade against qataris. you are in some trouble and there is now reporting that the qataris want to come over and start talking about how kushner was part of conspiring against them. you are in the realm of some of the dirtiest, darkest aspects of international malfeasance. the man is in significantly legal peril from a bunch of different legal angles. donald trump for all his flaws, he knows what legal peril is and he's looking at his son-in-law and saying, my daughter could find somebody else maybe if it came to it. >> but it was also predictable. we could have had this conversation at the start of the trump administration.

today, the intercept broke the news that kushner companies went on to seek funds directly from the qatari government last april. jared's father, charles, meeting with the country's finance minister here in new york to convince him to invest in fifth avenue building. the deal fell through, get this, and then just a few weeks later after the deal was rejected and declines to invest in the qatari business, this happens. >> we turn out of the diplomatic crisis erupting in the middle east. five nations with qatar and qatar is a key u.s. ally in the fight against isis and president trump appeared to side with its accusers. >> catch that? last june, saudi arabia and the uae organized a blockade of qatar. the secretaies of state and defense set to work trying to fuse this situation but then the president of the united states appeared to not get the memo publicly siding against qatar. >> has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level. for qatar, we want you back among the unity of responsible nations. we ask qatar and other nations in the region to do more and do it faster. >> the time suggested jared kushner may have been behind the very