so of course jamie gorelick was the law partner of bob mueller, who was named special counsel. so gorelick giving that advice to kushner to perhaps seek another opinion. anderson? >> it's not that unusual. these types of connections can be somewhat normal in washington legal circles, right? >> yeah, it's not uncommon. and if this situation does arise, there's sometimes an easy fix. jared kushner could easily acknowledge a possible conflict and then continue to retain jamie gorelick as his attorney. that is an open question right now as to when he'll do,

jamie gorelick who has been representing ivanka. what is the white house saying about the kinds of lawyers that the president was attracted to, being so fundamentally from the kinds of lawyers that pence and jared and everyone else was attracted to? >> well, they don't say a ton about that. i think even if -- i mean, whatever they're saying is less important than what they're doing. when you see the vice president, when you see the president's son-in-law lawyering up in the face of these growing investigations, that tells you everything you need to know. it doesn't matter that jay sekulow has the temerity to go on television to say that there's no investigation when that's the sole reason that jay is working for and representing the president. it doesn't matter. you have to sort of step back, tune out the noise and take a look at what's happening. when you see the vice president and jared kushner lawyering up that speaks -- >> i want to get kristen to react on the other side. this is jason chaffetz, he really made -- some sweeping s

so of course jamie gorelick was the law partner of bob mueller, who was named special counsel. ng that advice to kushner to perhaps seek another opinion. anderson? >> it's not that unusual. these types of connections can be somewhat normal in washington legal circles, right? >> yeah, it's not uncommon. and if this situation does arise, there's sometimes an easy fix. jared kushner could easily acknowledge a possible conflict and then continue to retain jamie gorelick as his attorney. that is an open question right now as to when he'll do, especially since he's right now prepping for a meeting with the senate intelligence committee. that's still at a date to be announced. but of course, anderson, we've seen business go on as usual with kushner. he met with tech leaders today, and of course is headed to israel and ramallah on wednesday. anderson? >> jessica schneider. joichbing me is elizabeth foley constitutional law professor at florida international university. also cnn legal analyst laura coates, a former federal prosecutor. professor foley, the fact that kushner is considering

. >> matt, kushner is keeping jamie gorelick, who works for the same law firm that robert mueller comes from, as well as three people mueller hired to help him investigate the whole russia mess. some in the kushner camp were apparently worried about that. should they be? >> if they are worried in hiring that powerful of a counsel, it's probably smart. as someone that counsels people under criminal investigation or even tangentially related to an investigation, you need to make sure that your rights are protected. you need to make sure you're making smart decisions of what you say, how you say it and that i don't you are prepared if and when they come knocking to interview. >> brian, the supreme court will take up the travel ban in october. in the meantime, the court is letting part of the ban go forward immediately. i want to read what the court wrote about who can come and who can't come into the country. it says the ban may be enforced against foreign nationals who have credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the united states. but then it says foreign na

middle east for peace talks, but he's also looking the hire a new attorney, his current lawyer, jamie gorelick, was a partner at the same law firm, representing a conflict. sean spicer briefed reporters but would not allow any recordings. he said on day the president is in front of cameras, his voice should be heard. >> mason: julianna goldman, thanks, julianna. survivors of the collision of the "u.s.s. carl vinson" and -- u.s.s. fitzgerald and a cargo ship. seven crew members were killed in the saturday morning disaster. the investigation is just beginning. david martin is at the pentagon. >> reporter: how a top-of-the-line u.s. navy war ship could be t-boned by a less maneuverable containership remains inexplicable, but the result is indisputable: seven american sailors dead and the u.s.s. fitzgerald limping into court. the vice admiral, joseph aucoin, commander of the fleet, had to fight to keep the ship afloat. >> the damage is under the water line mostly, and it's a large gash near the keel of the ship. >> reporter: the japanese coast guard said the "acx crystal" plowed into the "fitzgera

his current lawyer, jamie gorelick was a lawyer at the same law firm as robert mueller. presenting potential conflict. sean spicer briefed reporters but would not allow recordings. he said on the day when the president is in front of the cameras, mr. trump's voi but anthony, that didn't include answering question as but the russia investigation. >> julianna goldman at the white house. thank you. >> survivors of the collision of the "uss fitzgerald" and cargo ship off the coast of japan are telling stories of heroism. including sailors forming a bucket brigade to save the destr destroyer. seven crew members were killed. in the saturday morning disaster. the investigation is just beginning. david martin is at the pentagon. >> reporter: how a top of the line u.s. navy warship could be t-boned by a slower less maneuverable containership remains inexplicable. but the result is indisputable. seven american sailors dead. and "uss fitzgerald" limping into port. joseph aucoin commander of the seventh fleet said the crew had to struggle to keep the ship afloat. >> damage underneat

private criminal defense lawyer was the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, who actually hired jamie gorelick last year during the transition. jamie gore lib was the deputy attorney general in bill clinton's justice department and a hillary clinton presidential campaign supporter. the latest breaking news report tonight is from "the washington post" revealing that the special prosecutor is investigating jared kushner's business dealings. previous "washington post" reports had indicated that the special prosecutor was looking at the business dealings of trump associates. but this is the first confirmatio that jared kushner is under investigation. sari horwitz, one of the reporters who broke that "washington post" story will join news a moment. the news that vice president pence has hired a criminal defense lawyer, and that jared kushner is under investigation comes 24 hours after "the washington post" reported last night that the president himself is now the subject of an obstruction of justice investigation by the special prosecutor. "the washington post" reporting last night was based entire

same story it was reported that jared kushner may be under investigation for financial dealings jamie gorelick his lawyer said we welcome the inquiry and we'll cooperate fully. jamie reflects wisdom and mark reflects perhaps something less than wisdom and i think that's what's at the heart of this problem for the president which is he just can't figures out what's in his best legal interest which is to be quiet and say i'm all for cooperation because in the end of the day, i'll be exonerated. >> and you're wishing the president would take that approach of saying okay, i'm an open book, go ahead, you know, do this and then perhaps he can concentrate on other things, but again it's back to that language of self-inflicted wounds so many people haves used that, you know, he seems to continue to undermine himself or get deeper into something. all right. rebecca, eugene, michael, thanks to all of you. appreciate it. check back with you. >>> after today's mistrial, that was this morning of the bill cosby case, prosecutors say they will try again. so what might happen differently? we'll have a live re

but we've asked this question directly to jamie gorelick, his attorney, and the white house.t gotten back to us. i wouldn't read into that. but right now on paper we can find nothing with jared kushner and his investments in russia. >> all right. thank you very much, drew. >>> and i want to turn now to our senior political analyst mark preston. mark, you've got the special counsel doing a deep dive into jared kushner's business, although as drew was reporting, on the 54 pages of disclosures that we have, they don't see anything directly related to russia. there is that meeting that they're investigating and this comes in the context of what we're learning tonight yet another connection between michael flynn and russia. multiple meetings not disclosed. seven years of contacts with foreign officials not disclosed. how much trouble could this cause for president trump? >> it's already causing him a lot of trouble because he's now being taken off message in large part because of himself. he's decided to try to take on this special counsel himself. he's decided to take on the depu

. >> i just want to say jared kushner attorney jamie gorelick says he's eager to tell his story. however, there's a republican controlled congress. i would assume a senior adviser to the republican president f. he wanted to tell his story could get this hear scheduled pretty quickly. >> i was going to add you've also seen other members of the kushner family use their connections to the white house as a way to learn business and learn investment. was this a part of that? we don't know that. that's what the russian bank sa says. it's not without precedent for this current administration. >> jared kushner is on the cover of "time" magazine and when steve bannon was on the cover t did not sit well. but when you see this, you hear from time to time of course he's the president's son-in-law, of course he's the ambassador of everything or secretary of everything. he has a pretty broad portfolio, but this president like any politician also has sort of a line that if you become a liability to me then things get different. >> that's true. we're all still at this table getting to know jared

that personal lawyer jamie gorelick said in a statement, "after at poimt of our former partner robert mueller as special counsel we advised mr. kushner to obtain the independent advice of a lawyer with appropriate experience as to whether he should continue with us as his counsel." >> jim acosta joins us now. why does the white house continue to hold these briefings off camera? >> reporter: it's puzzling, anderson. we get a different answer every day. during the foreign trip they held these off-camera briefings and insisted the officials who were being recorded be referred to as senior administration officials. that was baffling. today the reason was because the president was speaking in front of the panamanian president earlier today. of course when he was with the panamanian president he was asked point blank, are you under investigation, and he didn't answer the question. so none of this makes any sense. my sense, anderson, is if they try to pull this on us tomorrow they'll give another nonsensical answer. but i think what it all boils down to, anderson-s that this is the people's

jared has a lawyer and may getting a new lawyer more aggressive criminal defense lawyer than jamie gorelick the one he has and nervous and girding their loins and getting ready for battle and makes sense for jay sulow t mix it up on the shows and perhaps they haven't been formally notified but that doesn't mean the investigation isn't under way. >> donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen has gotten a lawyer. let's talk about jay sekulow and his twisting himself into a press toll try to explain away donald trump's tweets. who do we trust here? if he is saying you can't trust the president and what the prix says it feels like both their credibility is getting in the way. >> yeah, i mean sekulow on sunday did what we call the full ginsburg. this is an old washington expression that relates to monica lewinsky's lawyer back in the day when bill clinton was under impeachment and means you go on all of the sunday shows and spin on every one of them and just because you do it over and over again doesn't make the more effective. the fact that he hasn't been notified that he's being under invest

first of all, jamie gorelick who represents his daughter and son-in-law is a former official of democratic administrations. highly respected. partner to bob mueller. but what do you think he misunderstands about the professionalism with which career law enforcement folks go about any investigation? >> i think he sees this in very tribal terms. you're either on one team or another team. obviously that's not how washington works necessarily. and that's not how the legal profession works. look, i do think -- i was surprised to see among first four hires of bob mueller announced that three of them had given more than $40,000 to the democratic campaigns. including the obama campaign and the clinton campaign. i think that was a misstep in the order of the hiring but he's hired many lawyers since who don't have that record and bob mueller is a registered republican, who's worked for republicans. he's got an impeccable reputation for honesty and integrity in this town. if idea that this is not -- the idea that this not on the level because a few attorneys gave money to democrats seems absurd to me

let's take a look at this statement from jamie gorelick, his lawyer. she says this. we do not know what this report refers to. it would be standard practice for the special counsel to examine financial records to look for anything related to russia. mr. kushner previously volunteered to share with congress what he knows about the russia-related matters. he will do the same if he is contact in connection with any other inquiry. so, don, what this is all about here, the people who are close to jared kushner, who have spoken to him say that, look, this is something that is standard and routine. we knew several weeks and months ago that members of congress, these committees were interested in this. this is just simply the special counsel saying that this is going to be part of their investigation, as well. but don, again, this draws it even closer to the oval office, to the president, jared kushner, of course, you know, the closest of close advisers here. he says, you know, he has done nothing wrong here. he's more than willing to share any information with the kop congr

>> jared kushner is considering -- >> i thought he had jamie grilligril gorelick? >> he's considering adding him to the team or firining gorelic. >> i think they should have stuck to the nepotism law in the beginning. the reason for nepotism laws, you avoid problems like this. >> the other thing is, and phil can back me up on this, i don't think there's a significant enough appreciation especially at the mid- and lower levels in the white house what the investigation really means. i don't think the president is necessarily taking it all that serious, in terms of his legal team. >> and the president's treating it like a political campaign. the approach from the lawyers is not a legal response, it's a political response. it's to discredit the special counsel and the integrity of the investigation, but it'ses s als discredit the news media that are reporting details and news and scoops about the investigation by talking about anonymous sources. >> what about newt gingrich? who always seems to come back like the joker, back saying the president can't be indicted for ab