jared kushner's father did that. jared kushner's father went to prison for it. jared kushner's father pled guilty in federal court to making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasions, and witness tampering. the witness he tampered with was his brother in law. here is what jared kushner's father did to his brother-in-law because his brother was cooperating with federal investigators. jared kushner's father hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law. he arranged to record the encounter between the two. then he had that video sent to his brother-in-law's wife, sent to his sister. jared kushner's father sent that video to his sister. who would do that? jared kushner's father would do it and did do it. jared kushner knows what federal prison is like because he was a constant visitor to his father in federal prison after his father did that and was convicted of doing that in federal court. what do the kushner men do when they're in legal trouble? who won't they betray when desperately trying to save themselves from legal trouble? that is the question tonight i

for jared kushner. five years bigger. >> in retrospect, i probably would have done things differently. >> this is the digital equivalent of the smoking gun left at a crime scene. >> there's an e-mail from a russian suggesting that the russian government wants to help, that would be very problematic. >> if isn't evidence of collusion, i don't know what is. we are beyond obstruction of justice in terms of what is being investigated. >> right now at this moment there is probable cause to charge donald trump jr. with the federal offense. >> i'm going to let bob mueller sort out all the criminality. that's not the job of members of congress. >> this meeting will become a mini investigation in and of itself. mueller's people will want to talk to everyone there. >> it is high time for president trump to come out with the full story. enough with the drip drip. come out with the full story. clearly they are lying and explaining their lies. >> sometimes people do or don't do what should be obvious. ♪ ♪ >> in retr

jared kushner wanted to pushback. what do you make of the timing of anthony scaramucci previous to the weekend and him behind closed doors? now you have the president who has a team that is going to fight. scaramucci is not going to be a wallflower in the back of the room. >> steve: it will be interesting to watch her play out, because on the one hand to hurt him in the press conference and over the weekend that he wants to de-escalate and doing things like opening -- >> harris: you mean with the media? i mean the investigation and everything else. >> steve: yes, i mean, if they want to fight, you will have to -- if you are advising the white house coming you hope that they have grounds to fight on. one of the problems with her posture over the past six months, every inclination is there to fight, and to be new revelation. >> kennedy: here's what i will say about anthony scaramucci, he is very analytical. he has a good grasp on how things really work and how things need to work differently. he is probably if not the b

this passage plays better for donald trump than jared kushner, so this was no doubt not jared kushner's team of leaking, doing this kind of leaking for that particular paragraph. and it is stunning how blatantly team kushner is leaking to "the new york times" and leaving their fingerprints in the articles, including this passage. colleagues of mr. kushner said he had remained focused and upbeat despite the drum beat of negative headlines, a trait they ascribe to his experience dealing with the legal troubles of his father, charles kushner, who was convicted of tax evasion and witness tampering. now, there are a couple of things that are absolutely stunning about that sentence. one is it begins with colleagues of mr. kushner. team kushner just blatantly saying, yeah, we're anonymous sources for the times, and here's something we're going to say that we think helps jared. so colleagues of mr. kushner. that also means that those colleagues are sources of other things than the things they have their actual label on in the article. that's how it works, and they are no doubt sources for many

i don't think that jared kushner -- there's a conspiracy with jared kushner to collude with the russiansi don't actually believe it occurred. i don't think it's comforting what did occur. because look at the meeting itself. you had -- the meeting was interesting because no presidential campaign would take a policy meeting. >> right. >> let's agree with that. there was something else there and don junior seemed to think it was about getting dirt on the clinton, which i have to raise a red flag because we know that secretary clipton, there's nothing left to know about her. ran for president twice, secretary of state, u.s. senator, come on. to have the russians sit there and take a presidential campaign's time on a policy issue is ridiculous. this lawyer i would think would know better. why would you meet on a serious issue? the whole thing was set up by the russians for sure. >> say that's true. >> not comforting. >> if that's true, then either the trump campaign fell for it, which is bad enough, or they were happy to be a part of it, which a lot of the communication from don junior indica

wave from jared kushner. pointed out, which we hadn't known before, which is fascinating, is that the kushner team has no problem with the transcript being made public to this entire process. >> and it's up to senate committee's preferences whether or not he will go under oath for the interview but is willing to go under oath and give sworn testimony. >> again, we wanted to see, just in case, in the rare instance we would hear some of the first words ever from the senior adviser to the president, jared kushner, who almost never speaks in public or in a way that the press can hear him. now he is going to speak behind closed doors to the senate investigators, staffers from the senate intelligence committee. >> right. we should be learning more about that in a while. much more ahead. stay with us. (vo) dogs have evolved, but their nutritional needs remain instinctual. that's why there's purina one true instinct. nutrient-dense, protein-rich, real meat number one. this is a different breed of nutrition. purina on

jared kushner walked by.o the legal team and looking into allegations to collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> before walking into this private, behind closed doors meeting, he released a statement, a long, 11-page statement. part of it read, i am not a person who likes the spotlight. it is true. let's talk to people who covered him extensively. david, works as a political reporter when jared kushner rand the reporter. and writer for vanity fair that covers all things ivanka and jared. in a piece you wrote about them, they have perfect timing when it comes to avoiding the heat when the spotlight gets too bright. he can't escape it. he came out all smiles and can't answer reporter questions. what do you make of what to expect from him and the statement? >> what i found most striking in a statement was his continued assertion that he was so busy throughout the campaign, so overwhelmed, such a political novice, he didn't know any of these things were wrong, he didn't have the time to read through e

we know jared kushner is taking it more seriously than the president because jared kushner has better lawyers than the president. jared kushner has washington lawyer abbe lowell defending him. no one in the trump/russia investigation has a better lawyer than jared kushner does. abbe lowell has defended senators and presidential candidates like john edwards, powerful congressional committee chairmen like dan rostenkowski and at least one speaker of the house. and abbe lowell served as counsel to the democrats on the house judiciary committee when the committee considered and voted on articles of impeachment against president bill clinton. alone among the defense lawyers in the trump/russia investigation, abbe lowell has experience defending a president in an impeachment proceeding. but he's not defending donald trump now. he's defending donald trump's son-in-law, who met with the staff of the senate intelligence committee today to discuss his meetings with russian government officials and associates of the russian government during the presidential campaign and during the transition. a

here comes jared kushner to the podium. let's take a listen. >> my name is jared kushner. i am senior adviser to president donald j. trump. when my father-in-law decided to run for president, i served his campaign the best i could, because i believe in him and his ability to improve the lives of all americans. and now, serving the president and the people of the united states has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. i am so grateful for the opportunity to work on important matters, such as middle east peace and reinvigorating america's innovative spirit. every day i come to work with enthusiasm and excitement for what can be. i have not sought the spotlight. first in business, and now in public service, i have always focused on setting and achieving goals, and have left it to others to work on media and public perception. since the first questions were raised in march, i have been consistent in saying that i was eager to share any information i have with the investigating bodies, and i have done so today. the record and documents i have voluntarily provided will sho

to hear from jared kushner is so unusual. for the president's son-in-law and top and closest advisor to the president, all the things under his wing, the middle east negotiations, not to say getting into the persian gulf issues. for him to be interviewed by the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors and now when he comes out we expect to hear him speak. >> reporter: especially when you look at what happens tomorrow, when jared kushner goes back to the hill to talk to members of the house intelligence committee. there is a gaggle, a group of reporters and photographers that have gathered. this is traditionally where you might see mitch mcconnell and senate leadership make statements, they can come out, make a few remarks and head back inside the west wing. that is where we expect to hear from jared kushner when he returns to the hill and wraps up the meeting with the intelligence committee staffers. we are told that he will not take questions, but he will make a statement. remember that from a messaging perspective,

in which jared kushner also attended. now, in his statement, john, he does discuss this meeting and says there was really nothing to it. he really didn't know anything about this meeting with russians who offered dirt to donald trump jr. and said he got an e-mail he didn't really read. this is a part of what he said. when at this meeting, which he arrived at late, was looking for a polite way to leave and get back to my work. said i actually e-mailed an assistant from the meeting after i'd been there ten minutes or so and wrote, please call me on my cell. he needed an excuse to get out of the meeting. i have not met the attorney before the meeting or spoken with her since and thought nothing more of this short meeting until it came to my attention recently. john, vo, this tame to people's attention recently, forced to amend his security clearance form because he did not include this meeting initially, when submitting his form, security clearance application. so -- so clearly this is one issue, john, in which investigators

you have jared kushner speaking in about 15 minutes. two hours later, president trump himself will come out and speak. he is expected to talk about health care and then on air force one as he travels to west virginia, where he was set to speak before the annual boy scout jamboree tonight. the new press secretary, answer huckabee sanders is expected to take questions off-camera on board air force one. one more thing i would note, melissa, anthony scaramucci said today on twitter that the cameras, the tv cameras, will be back on. we believe that means that the on camera briefing should be back. although when, we do not know. >> melissa: we will keep watching. thank you. >> jon: for more, laspina david, senior politics writer for world report. where it goes from here depends a lot on how well the senate until committee members receive jared kushner's testimony. he put out a vigorous defense of his actions and that 11 page statement. >> he had three main excuses or explanations for his contacts with russia. he said, either forgot about them

jared kushner and a notetaker. also present about a half dozen senate staffers and a transcript that was taken of that interview. a transcript the legal team says they certainly do not object to being made public. something that we don't know when it will be made public but certainly it will be available. also we're told before this meeting that according to a source, that jared kushner would take all questions. our ted barrett, producer, asked him on his way out whether or not he, in fact, did do that. he said, yes, he had. all the questions they had, he said it went very well. he is on his way to the white house and we know this was not sworn testimony but tomorrow will go before the house intelligence committee that will be sworn testimony and expected to be interviewed before members of that committee. not just staffers and then a transcript made available. as you know, wolf, part of a very concertsed effort and orchestrated effort, if you will, to show some transparency from jared kushner and his team going to

you've got jared.e got gather cohn, dean apowell and then you've got some washington regs like a sean spicer in the mix. so take us into this d.c. >> look, the cocktail of humanity in the white house right now is the subject of pretty much every other weekend you get some advance chronology of how it's working or how it's not working or who is in imminent departure. the fact is a lot of is just kind of shuffling because it's all about the capriciousness of donald trump, and nares no process behind it. there's no predict ability behind it and i think the whole town at this moment kind of turns on the axis of whatever the wild card is that he'll do. you know, in the day to day, this is the same extremely deck dent, extremely wealthy community, washington, d.c. that has been growing up here for decades. the difference is now it's just on a trump news cycle. >> but has washington changed? has president trump been able to change waushshington in any way? this is a guy who said i'm going to show up here and

jared is less interested in them.my: denmark approached their miss universe hoping she had a link to someone who could rereah out to the white house because they just could not figure out how to do it. but let's talk more about jared kushner because, actually, his experience in being a developer in the baltimore area, in new jersey, and jersey city, actually, you p point out, does give him experience in dealing with other countries. explain how and how this actually creates a conflict of interest today. ofwell, one of the sort amusing stories about the kushner companies, when you think of them in light of gerrit's role in the theyistration, is that have been a mom-and-pop operation themselves in jersey and baltimore. they own something like 20,000 units of housing in the baltimore area. they are very aggressive landlords. they have instigated something like 550 suits against tenants. i often think this sort of makes gerrit a good envoy for the israeli palestinian situation since his company behaves, in a sense, like t

the mounting troubles for jared kushner. new scrutiny of the president's all gark friend and why the defense of e-mails points to bigger problems. >> i love e-mails. you can't erase e-mails. >> then the new health care bill is out and it is already in deep trouble. and a reminder from france. this is man we elected president. "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. now that there's evidence that there was at the least attempted collusion between the trump campaign and russia, they are shifting to another argument. collusion is fine. everybody does it. the white house fuming over the news that his son and son-in-law met last summer to try to collaborate on defeating hillary clinton. today during a trip to paris, the president made his first public comments on the controversy. >> i think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. it is called opposition research or even research into your point. i've had many people, i've only been in politics two years. i've had man

lets you were jared kushner has to say. -- let's hear what jared kushner has to say. mr.hner: my name is to kushner. -- jared kushner. i'm senior adviser to doesn't donald j. trump. when my father-in-law decided to campaign, i served the best i could because i believed in him and his ability to improve the lives of all americans. and now serving the president and the people of the united states has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. i'm so grateful for the opportunity to work on important matters such as middle east reinvigorating america's in a bit of spirit could -- innovative spirit. every day i come to work with enthusiasm and excitement for what can be. i've not sought the spotlight. first in business and out in public service, i have always focused on setting and achieving goals and i've left it to others to work on media and public perception. since the first questions were raised in march, i have been consistent and say that i was eager to share any information i have with the investigating bodies and i've done so today. the record and documents i have vo

and this is jared. jared: hey, i'm jared. lemonis: jared, i'm marcus. nice to meet you.ve: he's our head roastmaster. lemonis: so, can you walk me through the whole process, how it works? jared: absolutely. lemonis: okay. jared: so, this is green coffee. we start with the green, raw coffee. each batch is weighed precisely for consistency, and then you throw it into the hopper of the roaster. it roasts for about 13 minutes. lemonis: so, do you do all the roasting for the entire company here, or is it just for this shop? jared: everything for the entire company is on this roaster. lemonis: so, if you grew your wholesale accounts, how would you fulfill that demand? ronnie: we're almost maxing this thing out. so, we're like -- we're like right at the breaking point. lemonis: oftentimes, i go into businesses, and they have capacity, but they don't have the product. that is not their problem here. they have a great product, and i want to figure out how to deliver more of it. ♪ how much of the company do you own? steve: 51%. lemonis: who owns the other 49%? steve: i had two inv

she has read through jared's statement. the headlines. >> this is the first time, chris and alisyn, that president's senior adviser and son-in-law, jared kushner, is sharing his side of the story about russian contacts and says, point blank, i did not collude nor know of anyone else in the campaign who

so you have jared kushner really pushing for that. and then we learned today, according to a senior administration official that president trump is going to hire tie cobb who is a veteran lawyer in washington, d.c., no stranger to tough legal battle is, but to effectively come into the white house to help with their legal and pr messaging. there's a sense that it hasn't been dispinned enough. and we go back to the briefings that i sat in on in which we ask deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders questions about the russia controversy over and over again and the responses to refer our questions to outside counsel. so i think there is going to be a more robust attempt to not only anesthesia questions that they are getting on a daily basis but to do so in a disciplined manner. >> you've done a lot of reporting on this. let's talk about this fifth character we now know was in the room, reign that the ak men shon. who is he? what did he bring to that meeting, and is he tied to russian intelligence? >> well, he denies and has denied i

we are waiting a statement for jared kushner.s on capitol hill talking to the senate select committee on intelligence in a closed session. we will bring you his comments from the white house live. democrats and the party members starting a chart to power and what they call a better deal. senate republicans plan a procedural vote to consider health care legislation again. ♪ david: as we await comments from jared kushner, who is expected to address reporters outside the white house, let's get the latest on his appearance before a summit select committee. us who is on joins capitol hill today and kevin whitelock covers congressional coverage from our beer in washington.

he's not where jared kushner is. >> correct. consequences for jared kushner in many ways are starker. he's the one that has filed the forms, which he has had to update now several times. because some of these meetings with russians were inadvertently omitted the first time around. we know for instance the democrats have been consistently saying his security clearance should be strict. others saying he should have to forfeit his white house job altogether. >> shepard: the tick tok on the day, so far, early morning, before 6:00 a.m. eastern time, this 11-page statement came out from jared kushner. it was embargoed until 6:00 a.m. so nobody could mention it in your local 5:00 a.m. show or whatever it was to start the 6:00 a.m. hour. and then for today's show and the good morning america and all of those shows at 7:00. we go through up until the time of the meeting. he hasn't done it. his story is the story out there. this gives them the top of the fold, the top of the website, alerts as people are waking up. he hasn't spoken, so th

it's not what jared kushner will say today. and we saw again this morning donald trump is clearly pushing in this direction of wanting jeff sessions to either resign out of humiliation or who knows, maybe he will actually fire him and appoint someone that he believes would actually fire mueller. >> let's stay on that. i want to bring in peter alexander, live at the white house. to jonathan's point, the president is clearly intensifying attacks on his own attorney general, jeff sessions, who basically was with him from the beginning of the campaign, the first senator to back him. i mean, the president waking up this morning while health care is on the table, talking about jeff sessions taking a very weak position on hillary clinton crimes. are you kidding me? >> yeah. this is clearly the first thing on his mind as he went to bed and appears when he woke up again this morning, the topic of his attorney general jeff sessions and really the frustration, he's been fuming privately and now increasingly publicly about his a.g., who wa

he's defended jared kushner. so i'm not really sure.ng that will absolutely resonate with the democratic base. they will be able to raise money off this sort of thing, their base will be activated because they firmly believe that 70% of democrats came out saying donald trump should be impeached. there is a no-lose situation if you're a democratic leader like nancy pelosi. i think this is very much unlikely it moves donald trump's hand in any way. >> he just has interim clearance right now. he hasn't gotten full clearance for many reasons, one of which he didn't properly fill out his form which was left blank on questions initially on questions about which foreign officials he had met with which sort of led to the snowball of where we are now, the delay in saying that he had this meeting and so forth. so there is that. but the other thing to keep in mind, and correct me if i'm wrong here on this, bill, for someone like jared kushner who is a senior adviser to the president of the united states, to have no security clearance effectively m

we should be focusing on jared kushner and the president. jared was on those e-mails. the russian government was purportedly trying to help the campaign. this was a meeting set up at the behest of the russian government. all of the analysis about donald trump jr. applies equally to jared kushner and potentially the president if he was told about this. >> that begs a question i wondered about when i read this statement, particularly the part that says, "to a committee of a political party." in other words if that's who gets the information. now, donald trump jr. had, adam, know fis no official role in the campaign unlike paul manafort, for example. are the stakes different if they were an official part of the campaign or not? >> i think they are. even with donald trump jr. he clearly had a role with the campaign, even if informal. having the chairman of the campaign and having jared kushner who had an active role in the campaign would satisfy that aspect of the legal requirement. i think now it turns to really the focus of the investigation probably would be focusing mo

>> hi, everybody, call it jared in the middle. president's son-in-law setting the record straight about the ties to trump campaign from russia. >> and as you can see on the rundown this is a hot story we're talking about tonight at 630 as usual you're invited to skoyn the conversation use the # 5@630. let get to. it. >> donald trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign and that is why he won. >> president's son-in-law claimed neither here nor anyone else in the trump campaign he's aware of coluded with russia. russia but none were improper. tom fitzgerald brought this up irrelevantier today. it was interesting. this was the first time i think i heard jared kushner's voice. we always see him in video walking behind the scenes. this is the first time we see him out front like that. >> there was an event he was at and not speaking to anything that's has to do with campaign. it was strike at first to hear him. let's talk about the substance of what he said. tomsome is talking about this. this was not under oath but the whit

it's almost entirely up to jared kushner.f he decides to stop and talk about what he said, we will find out. there's not expected to be any public transcript. there's not expected to be any public readout of it. a few minutes ago joe manchin democrat on this committee whether he thought anything should be made public. take a look at his answer. >> if he doesn't end up testifying public in front of the committee would you want a transcript from the session released publicly so people can see it. >> if it's not classified it should be. anything classified is when assets are in jeopardy, make sure to protect them. if there's nothing of that sort, we should make everything as transparent as possible. >> we'll get a little bit more transparency when kushner talks to the house intelligence committee tomorrow. that's because members are going to be there. the committee members expected to hear from some of them afterwards what he says. the guidance from around the intel committee, look, this the first meeting but not necessarily the

we've been hearing that word from the jared ivanka of the white house. what they're saying you can file this under the statements that have come out a along time about rerpz needsing to. the reince priebus is the problem problem. the communication shop under sean expires is priebus's area and the jared ivanka wing of the white house has wanted a different chief of staff and they've been frustrated at the communications shop. you can see that is a feeling that a lot of times is shared by the president, whether convinced by his daughter and son-in-law about this or whether it's just convenient for him to blame the spokes people for not being able to clean up the messes that he creates. you go back early on and donald trump said, well he gives the communications shop a c or c plus. that continues. this is just a narrative, a something we hear over and over again from the white house. the problem there is bigger than communications. >> even with the southern roots, chris, most of the year you are an american in paris, having said that this meeting was kind o

, jared kushner, his son-in-law, and senior advisor. playing with his iphone. he's referring to paul manafort there. don listened out of politeness and realized it wasn't, honestly in a world of politics most people are going to take that meeting. if somebody called and said, hey, you're a democratic, by the way, they have taken them. so there's a little conversation style here. hey, i have some really -- some information on donald trump, you're running against donald trump, can i see you. so you kind of can almost hear the president's cadence. how many people are not going to take that meeting? what's notable about this is the president said this on camera in large part today when asked at the news conference. so when we have an off the record conversation with the president, it isn't necessarily that there is some secret or some kind of thing that wouldn't be said publicly. my experience is they usually say it publicly right after they talk to us, but it's an opportunity for presidents to sort of work it there out, think about what th

jared kushner has been completely transparent.has provided information, which he was not required to provide. he has filled out his sf-86 form and all his contacts over 100 different contacts with foreign leaders were informed on that document. and, moreover, right, he has volunteered to cooperate in any investigation to prove beyond any doubt whatsoever no coordination, collaboration or cooperation between the trump campaign and anyone involved with russia. >> he's talking about that in this statement that we know he is going to be giving to members of congress and basically using this as an excuse. he was essentially overwhelmed and didn't know better in some of these instances. does that excuse hold water? is that good enough? >> when he was asked to attend a meeting and particularly a meeting that was call under to question here from his brother-in-law. meeting between jared kushner and donald trump jr. no indication of what that meeting was about. he didn't read the full e-mail chain. he was added to it later in the chain. he

jared knew it. the kremlin also knew it.re alluding to before, jared was just as compromised as michael flynn was. >> what more does the kremlin know and was talked about earlier in this hour, the culpability of russians in this entire meeting. >> it's been a pretty interesting week because what that meeting was was a really great sort of microcosm of what those of us with experience watching russian intelligence operations play out in other places have seen but on a macro sale around the trump organization and campaign. >> is this a typical soft sell? >> it's something hard for people to understand. this is the kremlin's preferred means of action against the united states which it has defined as its primary opponent are these shadow warfare tools. every one of these russians kind of floating around the scenes that just happened to have a russian intelligence background or happened to have a direct line to the russian prosecutor or happened to have financing from russian-state companies, these are not disconnected from the k

a statement from jared's lawyer saying jared knew nothing of the promotion, was no longer financiallyrnalist square and would recuse himself from particular matters involving ev-5. from kushner companies came this. kushner companies apologizes if that mention of her brother was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure investors. that was not ms myers' intention. cnn discovered that companies continued to promote the kushner's square property, alluding to or connecting it with jared kushner. >> on the "forbes" magazine in 2016. >> right here? >> reporter: ads in chinese writing that describe the kushners as real estate big shot, jared kushner as the celebrity of the family. and 30-something, mr. perfect, jared kushner who once served as ceo of kushner companies. another refers to the president himself saying even some members of trump's family have participated in the growth of the eb-5 program, and attributed so that "forbes" magazine reference refers to this edition, with jared on the cover. this guy got trump elected. the posts come from two companies who work with the kushners

>> i think it became apparent to jared and paul. jared last after a few minutes, paul got on the phone -- >> you remember that? >> we were all there. i was sitting there listening as a courtesy to my acquaintance who set up the meeting. you can hear what he said, and you played it earlier, about it. he apologized to me walking out of the meeting for wasting my time. >> the magnitsky act passed in 2012 overwhelmingly, enables the u.s. to sanction human rights abusers in russia. people who have committed corruption and horrible crimes against people there. and it actually, according to a lot of russia experts, is the -- they are the sanctions that vladimir putin hates the most because they are the ones that affect people around him, the oligarchs and people he does business with. if this issue of adoption and the magnitsky act was brought up, theoretically, this could be one of the things, if this was a meeting set up by the russians, one of the things they were probing for. congress is relatively hawkish. democrats and republicans. b

it's a harder argument to make in jared kushner's kals. the bigger issue isn't what was on the form, what wasn't on the form, what was in the phone call or not. it's going to be the fundmental fact that the e-mail that invited everybody to this meeting said this was material on hillary clinton being supplied by a -- the russian court, essentially, the russian government. that's what should have set off all of the alarm bells. >> because you look so many months later, the intelligence community said it believes the russian government was trying to support the trump campaign. rebecca, to you now. in light of this, there's a peculiar moment from the campaign trail, it happened june of last year, four days after the e-mail promising dirt on clinton and two days before the meeting took place. let's listen. >> i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week and we are going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you are going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >>

jared has suggested they try to change chirons on cable news. getting a lawyer could cause me close to $100,000. so there is really a conflict between the staff and those closely tied to this russia investigation. a lot of these people are saying less is baltimore, i don't want to know, and yet kushner seems to really want them because he sees the entire russia investigation affecting the president, therefore it should be the priority of the communications and press shop to defend him. >> it's interesting, too. our evan perez reported last night that some of the white house aides and the president crafted the initial statement which could make them witnesses in this ongoing russia probe. it sort of drags them into it. steve, trump was asked on air force one, would you invite putin to the white house? he replied, i would say yes, yeah, at the right time. i don't think this is the right time but the answer is yes, i would. your thoughts. >> you know, this is what the russians look for. this is what putin is all about. whenever you get -- want to t

jared kushner is talking. he is the quietest member of the president's inner circle, at least publicly, but today he just became the most -- member to step before congress and explain his interactions with russia and during the transition time. really the bottom like is the president's son-in-law, top adviser is denying any collusion involving him or anyone else from within the campaign as far as he knows. he also stepped in front of the cameras, which we never see, in front of the white house shortly after meeting with senate investigators. >> my name is jared kushner. i am senior adviser to president donald trump. when my father-in-law decided to run for president, i served his campaign the best i could, because i believe in him and his ability to improve the lives of all americans. and now serving the president and the people of the united states has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. i am so grateful for the opportunity to work on important matters such an middle east peace and reinvigorating amer

i asked jared and paul to attend. jared kushner and paul manafort and told them nothing of the substance. we had a meeting in june 2016 and after pleasantries were exchanged the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting miss clinton. her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. no details or supporting information was provided or even offered. it quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information, she then changed subjects and began discussing the adoption of russian children and mentioned the mag nifky act. they were a pretext to the meeting. i interrupted her and advised her my father was not an elected official, but rather a private citizen and her comments were better addressed if and when he held public office and the meeting lasted approximately 20 to 30 minutes. my acquaintance apologized for taking up our time. that was the end of it and there was no follow-up of any kind. my father knew nothing o

jared bernstein. >> no. an all-jared a-block we're going to jared >> you're right, they can't do anything until they get some wins and that's a nontrivial part of what this is all about there's nobody walking around thinking this congress, who by the way isn't able to pass republican prioritiepriorities,n to take up the democrats' prioriti priorities but they have to signal voters for 2018 that while donald trump has certainly captured the interest of people who have been left behind, his agenda doesn't really reach them. they're putting out an agenda they believe will, a three-part agenda -- economic security, jobs, wages, protect social security and medicare, lower the cost of the kinds of things that cost a lot for middle class fam lis, prescription drugs, college, child care and an employer tax credit to help boost training and retaining workers. >> larry, i don't think i'll have to say much to get you started. but i'm going to ask the question how did the democrats lose the working class >> they didn't

piece of it, the jared kushner piece of it as well. he was obviously in that meeting.has made things, i think, i hear from people close to this white house very difficult for people inside the white house, because there are people who work inside this white house who can't be fired, right? we know there are different factions in all sorts of white house, whether it's the obama white house, the bush white house, the reagan white house. the fact there are top level folks there who are related to donald trump and in his family and are essentially a protected status skpand untouchable. that makes things different for this white house. >> you followed this story closer than the rest of us. did you think this would all come out in a tweet by the president's son? >> it had to be a russian billionaire known as the donald trump of russia and also has a son, aside from being a pop star, works with his father at the krocrocus group. you want to talk about connections. agalarav is very close to the kremlin, the government, with president putin. he has developed some of the biggest