president, do you still have confidence in jared? >> the fbi and congress are now examining this campaign event last spring in washington. >> some say the russians won't be reasonable. i intend to find out. >> before the speech, there was a vip reception. and the russian ambassador was there, as well as jeff session. >> i don't recall. it is possibility. >> his explanation was terrible. >> i don't recall. >> it seems like amnesia is contagious. everybody in this organization seems to get it from one another. >> putin for the first time, he has acknowledged russian hackers could have played a role in meddling with the u.s. election. >> private russian hackers not connected to the government could have been involved. >> if they are in patriotic mood. >> putin is enjoying this. >> at what point do they start laughing at us as a country? >> why would the president's son-in-law jared kushner want secret back channel communications with the kremlin that no one in the american government would know about during the transition? from the obam

jared kushner's voice sounds like a young michael sayer. >> mr.reporter: kushner's silence was mocked on "snl." >> i'll send in my little kush ball, jared kushner. i know you don't like talking, but why don't you take it away. god, you're so cute. >> live from new york, it's saturday night. >> reporter: kushner is a guy with a twitter account but no tweets. a cover story in time with no interview. he once tiptoed past his wife as she was being interviewed. >> come on, jared. come on. >> oh, jared, you can't just walk in and not say anything. >> reporter: the silent sidekick has finally found his voice. >> it's working and it's very exciting. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> i wonder how much more we'll hear. thanks for joining us. don't forget, watch "outfront" any time, anywhere. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. "ac 360" with anderson cooper begins right now. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with the culmination of the nightmare that began more than a year and a half ago when otto warmbier was sentenced in north

let's say his name was jerad smith, not jared kushner.nce office say my old organization, cia. if we collected intelligence by the russian igs officials saying hey jerad smith has come to us and said he wants to set up a secret channel, immediately the counter-intel skbrens and security professionals at the agency would ask several questions. first, was this authorized by his boss. second is did he try to conceal it from others? and third is dide he disclose any classified information? if they got any troubling answers to those questions they would bring in the fbi and launch a full counter-intelligence investigation. they may revoke his clearance during the pend dentsy of the investigation or may not. they may not want to tip him off. it depends. here in this case we have a counter-intelligence investigation. it's being led by rob mueller. i suspect this will be a line of inquiry by the mueller team about what that back channel specifically was. and just in case anyone was concerned, this conduct was before january 20th, so it would not

we're talking about jared kushner. kelly o.e beginning of the show in her live shot that the white house spokesman did affirm the president's -- but the man whose byline is on the definitive story today about palace intrigue is phillip from the "washington post." i think he's joining us right now. >> hi. >> there you are. hi. i read your story three times because my first thought when i watched the paris speech was bannon's back and he was, you know, i understood not thrilled about being sort of kicked off that foreign trip after the first stop. but he certainly made the most of his time. he lined up support for bringing the president along to his side of the debate on climate change. some have suggested that that's where the president always was. but i wonder if you could give us the current state of play inside this white house's ongoing and very public power struggle. >> yeah, well, the paris is an interesting development. i think trump was always in favor of the withdraw, and it was just a long deliberative process to get t

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from jared and ivanka trump.g we didn't really have an opinion. that's not true. behind the scenes they lobbied very hard to convince ceos to be vocal and in the president's ear, they did not want him to fully withdraw on this. the one thing sprating jared kushner from ivanka, just a little bit, is that jared kushner at the end of the day, he is not an ideological person. he is a very go with the flow business mindset guy. at the end of the day, he'll be able to say that whatever the president does is a win for him. he'll be able to spin and it sell it either way. >> with the caveat that we could be having this discussion, instead of about steve bannon in a couple weeks, given how much turmoil there seals to be and all the competing leaks. how much influence can we even say that jared or ivanka actually have on the president? what have we seen where he's changed his mind or moderated? have we seen thing at all? >> no. that idea that they would be the moderating influence on this president took a big hit yesterday

i think if you had to put rex tilg or jared kushner in a room, i think it is jared kushner.e son-in-law. at the end of the day, rex tillerson has to take a back seat to jared. and the interesting thing is that jared has the huge portfolio that is growing by the day. he is also chief economic -- like so many other roles in the white house. i don't think he is just possibly the shadow secretary of state. >> i remember when -- valerie -- the valerie -- she was the president -- jarrett. she came down on billy daly, chief of staff. it was pretty clear she was calling the shots with the last president. jared can criticize the secretary of state's behavior in a meeting, it sounds like he really is, in his own eyes, the boss. >> and i think what you were saying about the broad portfolio that jared has, actually makes it very difficult for him to play all these roles. and who is up and who is down at this particular moment, that may come and go. but you have to remember that rex tillerson has at his disposal the enormous power of the state department. and they are people who have rel

he is at center of the investigation of jared kushner. tell us about the confrontation and what you heard from him. what went on there? >> reporter: yeah, look. we were just trying to get answers into what happened with that meeting with jared kushner. we didn't get many answers. you will hear a bit of that exchange a little later and more of it later in the hour. in terms of what president putin had to say here. he denied and denied again. he denied that russia had been involved in hacking the u.s. elections. he denied that russia intervened in the elections and denied any kind of a deal with the trump administration and the kremlin over lifting russian sanctions. president vladimir putin on the defensive last night telling megyn kelly that hackers elsewhere could have framed russia. >> translator: hackers can be anywhere. they can be in russia, in asia, even in america. latin america. they can be hackers, by the way, in the united states. very skillfully and professionally the shift of the blame on to russia. can you imagine something l

speaking of jared kushner, he is also thinking of adding to his team as well. due to hear at some point on capitol hill about his official meetings with the russian officials late last year after the election. but jake, specifically, sean spicer was asked today if the president has confidence in rod rosenstein. he's the deputy attorney general who appointed the special prosecutor. sean spicer said this: the president has confidence of everyone who serves him in this administration. asked again, he would not specifically say if he agrees the same about rod rosenstein. jake? >> we'll have much more on jared kushner later in the show. jeff zelany, thank you very much. does he believe the white house is letting the investigation run its course? that story next. stay with us. >> to suggest that i participated in any collusion is an apalling and detestable lie. speak now. (coughs) so sorry. oh no... it's just that your friend daryl here is supposed to be live streaming the wedding and he's not getting any service. i missed, like, the whole thing. what? and i just got

we see jared kushner in a number of meetings. nearly every meeting with a foreign leader that passes through this white house. right now jared kushner is in a trip to israel where he is trying to advance the mideast peace process where his father has entrusted him to help navigate. if they were taken out of this equation, that would be a big deal. now, my bet is the white house isn't going to all of a sudden decide that they want to get behind pulling his security clearance. i'm sure they will sort of collectively roll their eyes at this request from democrats right now all we're getting from them is silence. >> out front now a member of the house intelligence committee and good to have you back on the program. i appreciate your time. should jared kushner's security clearance be suspended immediately? >> based on everything i have seen, both from public reporting and otherwise in my work on the intelligence committee, i do think that there is great cause for concern in terms of jared kushner continuing to have a security clearanc

what's the response from jared kushner tonight? >> well, don, the lawyer for jared kushner, is responding in this way. 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

president, thanks to jared and ivanka for driving this so hard. i'm convinced during your administration there will be a huge explosion in new opportunities because of the platforms built in our industry. those will create huge large business opportunities for which we entrepreneurs, technical talent and innovation understand. it can drive america very positively forward and it will happen soon during your leadership. >> i'm peter keel, a venture capitalist in silicon valley. i'm honored to be here with these terrific people. the tech industry is doing well in america, and we need to make it do even better and gift the support, regulatory support, and all sorts of different ways. i think your administration is off to a terrific start doing these things. mr. president, i'm ce to of adobe, the company best known for photo shop. thank you for having us today. two quick things. i think you are championing a culture of innovation i think will be critical to our country's future leadership and shared services for improving government i believe will driv

number two, jared kushner knew what his role was. jared kushner knew his father-in-law was about to be the president of the united states. and he feels like it's appropriate to be doing going ts connected to the kremlin and say, hey, i want some money. that's business operation idea. number two, have you a meeting between jared kushner and bank in terms of dealing with national security issues supposedly, or getting into issues of diplomacy. what is jared kushner doing getting involved in that to begin with? secondly, why are they doing this at a time when donald trump is not the president of the united states. nothing should have been doing on without it being done in coordination with the state department. that is how these things are handled. you don't start with coming administration now starts running secret meetings undermining national security and foreign policy of the united states. it just doesn't work that way. nayyera, you worked for the state department, i'm sure you would concur that's the normal way things take place.

what is the response from jared kushner tonight? >> the lawyer for jared kushner is responding in this way. 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 contacted with connection with any other inquiry. what this is all about is the people who are close to jared kushner who have spoken to him say this is something that is standard and routine. we knew several weeks and months ago that members of congress were interested in this. this is just simply the special counsel saying this is part of their investigation. this drives it even closer to the oval office to the president. jared kushner, of course, the closest of close advisers here. he says he has done nothing wrong here and more than willing to share any information with the congressional committees as well as the

that's why early on it was sort of a joke about going to jared to do everything. it's no coincidence that he's stepping of it a little bit on the two things that he is. i mean, the reform in sgovt, back when this was called the strategic initiatives group it was jared's sort of satellite group bringing people in with the idea that they were going to fix and make government more like a business. a lot of people around the white house would laugh and say, you know, 36-year-old thinks he's going to fix government. also doing middle east peace. it was something they'd roll their eyes about, but this is what he wants to be identified with. that's why they have him speaking today and the longer term prospects for peace in the middle east. whether there's some hubris there, it will take some meetings maybe it is. but he's putting expectations where they should be. saying, you know, these are early meetings but we're trying to put the steppingstones in place one after the other. i think this at a time when there's so much controversy around the white house makes sense for

who are jared and ivanka's constituents? business community and those hawkish internationalists who believe that russia is not our friend. that used to be called the republican party. but there's some disconnect here. >> but my point was that jared and ivanka, you could say that they had a constituent that was a moderate republican your zip code but by associating themselves with the trump white house they've lost a lot of their constituents. the image of the trump presidency has now tarnished their reputations with some of those people. so by floating like this, i'm not sure they've done themselves any favor. >> on this issue, there's no doubt, the republican party is who would usually be their constituency. stay engaged in europe, stay engaged with a strong nato, to fight back against vladimir putin, to fight back against autocrats, against china's growing interest. no, no, no. let me tell you who they are. those are called reagan republicans. a breed that i once knew. a long time ago. >> mcconnell republicans, too. >> i d

>> we reached out to jared kushner's attorney tonight. there was no response. he tells nbc news he was acting in his capacity as a transition official, jose? >> keir simmons in st. petersburg, thank you. >>> now to the growing backlash around the world over president trump's decision to withdraw the u.s. from that landmark paris agreement on combatting climate change. this is trump administration officials repeatedly refused to say whether the president still believes it's a hoax despite consensus it is, in fact, real. we get more from our white house correspondent, kristen welker. >> reporter: tonight mounting fallout after president trump pulled out of the paris climate agreement, at the center, the white house unable to answer a key question. >> does the president today believe the climate change is a hoax? >> does the president believe climate change is real. >> you're the epa administrator, shouldn't you be able to tell the american people whether or not the president believes climate change is a hoax. where does he stand? >> reporter: the president himsel

that is the guiding principle that jared kushner holds to.s is a piece the cover of the magazine follows his life from childhood in new jersey all the way to the west wing and tells us some stuff about the challenges he faces today. carl joining me now along with catherine and shelby, who have stuck around. thank you, ladies. carl, let's start with you. flush out this family first idea a little bit. we heard this again and again. not just in this administration but back to the campaign trail. >> kushner has his own story of family first. he was thrust to the head of the family and redeem the name after his father went to prison in this interfamily squabble. >> tapes, et cetera. >> what the real alignment is with him and trump and the two families is this sort of convergence of family and ambition. and loyalty. and you see he married ivanka after, you know, after meeting her and becoming a success in new york real estate. but he didn't see much of donald trump until donald trump was running for president. and then he tagged along to a rally an

>> jared and i were both entrepreneurs prior to this. and we got a little bit of a sample of working collectively during the course of the campaign because jared was very, very involved. so, i would come around the corner at trump tower and i would bump into my husband which was unbelievable surprise and always welcome. sos that watt real first experience of working collectively with one another. this is really exciting extension of that and now i get to see him every day which is amazing. ainsley: as someone whose faith is important to him. i know you converted. what made you want to do that? >> it's a it's a very personal decision. i tend to not talk about my faith too openly. one of the things in my life that is truly my own especially these days. but, you know, i think for me, religion serves as a great reminder of what's important, a great reminder of core values. it helps me connect with my children. it helps us connect as a family. and really create a framework for how we want to live our lives. ainsley: i see you post pictures on

is it financial gained by jared kushner, by trump, by others? or no financial gain? is it some kind of secret arrangement to bring about the policy desires of russia, whether witting or unwitting. they have a cover-up they are trying to unravel and they're getting no help from the white house -- >> how can you say it's a cover-up, unless it's known -- >> because a cover-up does not mean an obstruction of justice. it means an attempt to hide the facts from investigators and from the people of the united states. there's no question that's going on, and the fbi investigators will tell you that, people in congress will tell you that, people in the white house will tell you that. it doesn't mean it's illegal. that remains to be seen. but if there was not a cover-up, why wouldn't the president of the united states say to his counsel, in the white house, i want a white paper issued on all of my dealings as a businessman with russian and my son-in-law's dealings with them, with my campaign's dealings with them and let's get this behind us and get on the business of the count

. >>> behind the secret meeting with jared kushner. why he took off from her camera. >>> global backlash against president trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate teal and here at home we're in coal country, are those jobs really coming back? >>> resort attack mystery, dozens dead after a man with an assault rifle lights a casino on fire. isis claims responsibility but authorities insists it was not terrorism. why did he go on a rampage? >>> and words of wisdom from the class of 2017. our favorite traditions, our annual solute to the grads. "nightly news" begins >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. >> and good evening. i'm jose diaz-balart in for lester. we begin with an nbc news exclusive, a first look at the interview conducted just hours ago with president vladimir putin of russia. this is the first american television interview with putin since the u.s. presidential election, and comes as a special counsel is overseeing the investigation into alleged russia

i do want to distinguish between flynn and jared kushner. i just don't think they're in the same league. yes, there may be questions about jared kushner failing to report things. but in flynn's case, the attorney general -- the acting attorney general of the united states reported to the white house that he was a national security risk. no such warning has been issued about jared kushner and i think it's unfortunate and unfair in some ways to pair him up with flynn, at least based on what we know. >> glad you brought that up. phil mudd, you've been on the inside of these things. michael flynn, there may or may not be concerns there based on the fear of blackmail. as far as you see, any legitimate reason from an intelligence standpoint to not make jared kushner, allow him to be privy to this information? >> no, i can't see a reason for this. i see the debate in washington, d.c., from democrats, and i would ask them one question that we lose in washington, d.c. give me a four-letter word. that is a fact. we have an investigation that the fbi h

jared kushner -- one can only stands for jared kushner, although the company would not confirm that.ed kushner had a pivotal role in buying these complexes. anwas in the process of hearing this company from his fath and this was one of his big moves to make these purchases. lucrativem as a wise, and prudent financial investment to buy all of these complexes. one of the people that i came across, especially just very upsetting story, a young woman, a single mother of three who moved out of one of the complexes because the elderly woman next door was becoming incredibly hard to deal with, banging on the door at night, waking up her baby, just acting very strange. she got permission, this young woman, to move out. she got written permission to move out and gave the proper notice and all of that. she moves out. a couple of years later, she starts getting court notices in the mail saying this company was suing her in court for several thousand dollars for having left her lease early. she did not have a copy anymore of that written permission she had received. the court ruled against her.

is this just jared has never had to behave like a grown-up in the real world? is absolutely correct and that it is a shame that we are relying on someone whogs so young and so inexperienced who doesn't have any real corporate experience or political experience and who is relying on the fact he is related to the president and being trusted by the president. this is not a good thing for america, and i think the russian bank meeting is really a telling thing. why is he meeting with them? it's a bank under sanctions so it's illegal for him to do business with them. why is he meeting with them if it was during the transition for anything else? it just doesn't make sense. it's something we need to look at. rachel maddow had a wonderful full explanation of the bev bank, which isn't really a bank in russia. a pass-through -- >> a show for oligarchs. >> exactly. >> my take-away is jared being young and inexperienced and hasn't had to learn to do it yet, i say no way to do that. young and inexperienced? i have three little kids at home. being honest and doing the right t

there's no doubt that ivanka and jared are still in that camp.mp. that gives them their power. so i think losing this, reading too much into it kind of gets away from that essential fact that trump really wants a group around him who he trusts and she's still going to be there. >> that's an excellent point. thanks everybody, thanks for joining us. we'll see you on sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. don't go anywhere. minutes from the white house press briefing. wolf blitzer will bring you that after a quick break. but we don't want annual contracts and hardware. you scoundrel! ugh! we just want to stream live tv. and we want it for 10 dollars a month. (raspy) wow. i'd like that in my house. it's a very big house. yeah, mine too. look at us. just two bros with sick houses. high five. directv now. a big streaming deal. 10 dollars a month when you have the at&t unlimited plus plan. >>> hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's one o clo1:00 p.m. here in. up first, gearing up for an epic show down, joem -- how much is comey prepared to say about his meetings with the p

have i an exclusive with a woman who was editor-in-chief of jared kushner's newspaper. she says he has never had a, quote, realistic view of his own capabilities. and also we have a report on russia with the director of the fbi special agents association. now it is time for "the last word." joy reid is in for lawrence tonight. as we say around the building, rachel says hi. >> it was good to hear from her. i know a lot of people in my twitter timeline and text messages that were very relieved to hear from rachel. we'll be there for your peter principle of the point on sunday night. >> as we say we hear you in the tl. well hear you on the twitter. >> yes you do. >> have a good weekend. >> see you on sunday, ari. thank you very much. >>> surprise, surprise, everyone. vladimir putin and donald trump agree. neither one of them want to blame russia for interfering in the u.s. election. and there is breaking news about the russia investigation that is more bad news for the white house. the probe is expanding. and new tonight, democrats are warning the president do not try to o

investigating jared kushner's dealers. what have you learned?n is widening again. we learned last night there are obstruction of justice charges being considered by prosecutor mueller. they're looking into the finances and business dealings of jared curb her. in the end there may be no charges coming out of this investigation but we know they're looking at financial records. >> jared kushner in particular had meetings with sergey kislyak, the russian with ambassad ambassador. someone who is trained at putin's school. is this a relationship or a meeting of particular significance as far as you know? >> we don't know. this is what special council mueller and his team is looking at. jared kushner and his lawyer have said he's willing to speak to hill verse and also anyone else investigating his finances and dealings with the russians. >> this is obviously hugely significant. it's jared curb her, the president's son-in-law. it's business dealings. but it's also showed an investigation which the president hoped would be narrow in scope, is now get it

the incoming white house said no, no, no, this was jared kushner acting as a diplomat. which seems to ring more true? do these banks meet with people in their diplomatic capacity? >> first of all, mr. gorkov is not a banker. he was educated at the security service academy of the ussr, the successor of the kgb. he then worked for ucos, a company that mr. putin crushed. and he was the only one in that network of executives that moved to london and then came back and got elevated into key government positions. and people in that bank that fled the country or the oligarch that putin crushed believe according to a story in russian "forbes" that he cooperated all the way through with the security services. he may have been a plant. so mr. gorkov is very likely not a banker. and anyone who is in a responsible position in the transition of an elected -- of the elted president-elect of the united states should be open to getting proper intelligence about who he is meeting with and to know that he is probably meeting with a russian agent of the russian state and in fact a russian

why was jared meeting with him?hese are not satisfactory answers. >> conflicting explanations from the white house early on. >> early on in march when this emerged the white house says a courtesy call on behalf of russian ambassador. the banker was in the u.s. drumming up business, kind of on a road show. and sort of pretty different responses. i think we still don't have real answers. >> what do you make of the special counsel's interest in jared kushner? >> a lot of things we learned today, the idea that they are doing the obstruction of justice part of this and it seemed like a matter of course in an investigation. comey hinted that they were moving that direction. pence certainly needs to learn. it is interesting to see how he reacts differently from trump. the worry they are feeling is healthy and something that a polotics is worried about. we can find that these allegations are not real and there is not there. but if you are having these legally portentous discussions while this investigation is going on and y

he was with jared kushner in that meeting.ie: he is known to have had a relationship with the russians. pre-trump relationship. >> while i can maybe believe jared kushner was naÏve in asking to use russian security medications as the conduit, michael flynn should have known better, right? is on jared kushner because he is still in the administration, he is still in the white house and michael flynn is not. but michael flynn was there, i think he should be part of the story. the second thing that struck me desire to setthe up a channel. reported tois was be a channel for michael flynn to talk to the russians, supposedly to the russian military, supposedly about syria and other issues. that was the channel. that does not bother me. charlie: what if it was to talk about sanctions? >> that does not even bother me. charlie: what would bother you? >> what bothers me is two things. i want to know why the request for secrecy. what were they trying to hide? in order to make sure you were not seen? >> by the current administration. it c

abby lowell, obviously, was a good choice for jared kushner. marc kasowitz actually has a good reputation in some areas, in some areas of law. it's an interesting, interesting group. and of course the last thing you want is to have your client contradicting what you're saying and to do so publicly is just not good for the investigation, not good for your credibility. >> david jolly, we've seen the client, as it were, the president contradicting all of his representatives. >> of course. >> whether it be sean spicer, anybody. what was interesting about this weekend's contradiction with his lawyer is that the president had e-contradicted him. the president had said, i'm under investigation a couple of times and then apparently sent him out to the sunday show with the order of, say i'm not under investigation. >> right. and that lawyer took an oath to the bar that he apparently violated this weekend. listen, why does jared kushner have better attorneys than donald trump? because jared kushner is smarter than his father-in-law. that's the bottom lin

. >> what is that commercial. >> it has to be jared. >> it can only be jared. >> it has to be jared.>> or what. >> jared should know this what is that commercial. >> that is it, i got it at jared, yeah. >> no, there is a song, it had to be jared. >> oh, yeah, the end it has to be jared. >> thank you, jared. >> yes. >> we will check back with you >> i love it when jared sings. >> sue, there was this one time jared did karaoke for my birthday and it was amazing. >> yes, frankie valley there. >>> you can see rain to the north of us, after this rain moves through our area we will get some of this wrap around moisture so don't think we are finished for rest of the day, once this line of very heavy downpours moves through and it is now crossed over the river into new jersey and into central delaware. we will zoom in on a couple of neighborhood here where it is raining pretty heavily and it is moving through quickly as well. look at mount laurel with the yellow there raining heavily there and worse around allaway creek and pine island in southern new jersey and then we head in the dover are

. >> so why was jared kushner meeting with the russian banker? >> jared said he'll be willing to share any information he has and made that clear and looks forward to doing that. >> there seems to be a discrepancy. the white house saying he was talking about russian relations, yes, russian relation, did they discuss sanction, the russians are saying, no, this is private business. >> we're going to trust that. i mean, i would refer you to the comments of former acting deputy cia director mike morell. he served under president obama media reports about what intelligence officials say and that it's been his experience that the media often get those wrong. that they're relying upon a chain of reporting that is -- >> i'm just asking you what he talked about. >> well, jared, he's been willing to cooperate and he's willing to go and say what he knows, but i think there's so much speculation out there and usually gone through a negative lens. let's give him a chance to say what he know. >> that's what i was trying to ask you. you're not prepared to say w

also breaking, a top democrat is demanding information from the white house about why senior advisor jared kushner still has access to classified information even as his russia connections are under investigation. the ranking member of the house oversight committee, congressman elijah cummings says he has serious concerns about the administration's ability to protect america's secrets. cummings also seeking documents on the failure to suspend michael flynn security clearance before he was fired as national security advisor despite repeated warnings he was vulnerable to blackmail. >>> also tonight, the senate judiciary chairman is suggesting his panel is ready to look into possible obstruction of justice by the president saying, quote, everything is on the table. committee leaders meeting with special counsel robert mueller as they pursue separate but overlapping investigations. >>> and the former homeland security secretary jay johnson tells lawmakers that russia's election medaling is a fact and it was directed by president vladimir putin. the top democrat in the senate intelligence commi

tough questions for jared kushner as well as attorney general jeff sessions.imately, i anticipate a number of top officials are going to have to answer questions about all of this. in the meantime, at the back drop is a president who wants to be focused on his agenda today. he is going to be talking about infrastructure. i anticipate that that's going to continue in the coming weeks and months. remember, the other big thing they want to get done, health care reform. republicans say they want to get a vote on that by july. all of these russia-related headlines really complicating the equation. >> they've told us -- >> infrastructure week. >> we're waiting for more details around it. to stay on the russia thing for a moment and jared kushner, just yesterday, we saw angus king ask about veb bank. during the transition, jared kushner met with the head of a russian sanctioned bank. when the head of the bank happened to be in new york for his road show. i want to share james comey's response when asked about this bank. >> what do you know about the russian bank veb?

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but this is the first confirmation 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 entirely on anonymous sources. it was followed by a "new york times" report also based on anonymous source that was a bit more tentative about whether the president was the subject of an investigation. then this morning at 6:55:00 a.m., came forward to confirm that the president is under investigation. president trump tweeted, they made up a phony collusion with the russian story, found zero proof. so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. nice. with that nice tweet, the president himself confirmed that he is indeed under in

who is the real jared kushner?o knows him very well to find out about the real kushner. all that straight ahead on "the point" after a quick break. their leadership is instinctive. they're experts in things you haven't heard of. researchers of technologies that one day you will. some call them the best of the best. some call them veterans. we call them our team. beneful grain free is so healthy... oh! farm-raised chicken! that's good chicken. hm!? here come the accents. blueberries and pumpkin. wow. and spinach! that was my favorite bite so far. (avo) new beneful grain free. out with the grain, in with the farm-raised chicken. healthful. flavorful. beneful. >>> welcome back to "the point" here on msnbc. coming up this hour, james comey ready to break his silence, testifying to the senate about his firing. we'll also look at the president's embattled right hand man, jared kushner. a lot on the show. we start the hour with an update from london. we are getting a look at some of the first pictures of the suspects, thr