>> sure. >> breaking news that it is jared kushner.dent's son-in-law who was the one who directed michael flynn on all of this that has gotten michael flynn into big big trouble here. gloria borger what more do we know? >> look, we know jared kushner was the person who was the point man on all things related to the middle east and israel. and we have multiple sources here, myself and dana bash and jim sciutto saying in fact he is the very senior member of the trump transition team who was directing flynn on his contacts with the russian ambassador regarding this issue. you know, it's no coincidence that the special counsel interviewed jared kushner earlier this month on flynn. and, you know, the question we have to ask now is what was the nature of those questions that they were asking jared kushner. and did it relate to these questions of your communication, jared kushner's communications with michael flynn regarding a number of substantive issues. i presume now including contacts with the russian ambassador. so, you know, this is not

what do you see this meaning for jared kushner? >> it is increasingly apparent that jared kushner knows more than he's telling. the committees of congress. that he has to be subpoenaed to testify in public under oath. that he has already failed to provide the documents that he has been requested and a subpoena is more necessary than ever now for him by the judiciary committee as well as donald trump jr. and anyone else with knowledge that can be relevant to both the obstruction of justice by the president and his team and also the collusion with the russians to interfere in the campaign. so short answer is he has a lot of answers to give about what he knew and when he knew it about this illegality. >> president obama, when he had an audience with president-elect trump shortly after the election, actually wanted president-elect trump against bringing michael flynn into the white house. then you had sally yates from the justice department warning the trump white house that flynn lied about his communications with the russian ambassad

is it jared kushner?nce, who sort of has an interesting role right now, or is it donald trump? and that's the way that this has unfolded. but flynn has always been the center of it, because he got fired, because he had so many liabilities against him, and because he really had no other pathway forward as a father, as a person in debt, and as a person who knows a lot. and mueller basically is saving him at this stage. >> given what julia just said, flynn is cooperating. where does this investigation go now? who is vulnerable? >> where does it go? it goes ugly, don. let's put some time frames in place here. you look at the document that was released today as part of the plea bargain, the prosecution, the phone calls with the russian ambassador going to december 29th, a year ago. the conversations with the fbi that involved mike flynn lying. that goes to january. we're now ten months ahead. what do you think happened in those ten months in terms of the fbi's acquisition of data to support robert mueller and

did he hear jared kushner say that? did he tell jared kushner to say that? >> and we've got these two different points that are raised in the statement of the offense and in the plea deal. we got that discussion that you're talking about there, which is reportedly jared kushner advising flynn to have those conversations about that u.n. resolution. then we've also got flynn talking to mar-a-lago, talking to somebody from the presidential transition team about his conversations with the russian ambassador over sanctions and nbc news is reporting the person he was talking to on that matter was mcfarland and the reason that ends up being important is because whale it is conceivable that mike flynn might have thought he had to answer to jared kushner on the u.n. resolution thing, there is no chance on earth that he ever thought he had to answer to fox news personality mcelderry forlafo -- mcfarla mcfarla mcfarland, it wasn't to get instruction but the person that nbc news reports she was staffing at mar-a-lago when the conversations were happening is the presiden

but there are some moments in the transition that we thought jared might be out for jared and in a biggeray the kushner. so one of the things the plea told us he appreciate shurd flynn to do is vote against the russians condemning settlements in israel. we know he has a connection to netanyahu. another one he has a huge debt on his building at 666th 5th avenue. so that's another thing on his mind. another thing on his mind at the time was chris christie who had prosecuted his own father, landed jared kushner father charley in jail and ally to trump. so there is evidence that jared is going to be looking out for himself. and when everything comes down on this, ably lowell his lawyer and ty cobb could not be working in lock step. >> let me ask you about this issue over israel settlements. this was something that had been reported and keen interest to them. given that, what was reported and what we knew about all this. what more did we learn yesterday? >> we learned there was a secret effort by the trump group to reach out to the russians before office to undermine obama foreign policy. ther

>> and gloria, what about jared kushner?ent's loyalty to him go because now, he is in the cross hairs. he told flynn to do this stuff and he's the one who could be facing perjury charges if he hasn't been honest about everything. >> the president is loyal above all else to his family. i wouldn't say the president's a particularly loyal guy. ask rudy giuliani, chris christie, a bunch of people. maybe even jeff sessions, right? but the question is i think that you know, the president has to protect himself and the presidency. but i believe that jared kushner has to tell the truth. as does everyone else. and look, jared's people, with whom i've spoken, will say that there's no their there. and he didn't direct for him to do anything. that was a small group of people who were talking about -- sfwl sounds like they're trying to throw everyone else many under the bus including the president, actually. >> i think this has a long way. i think this has a long way to play out. >> wrennald o. >> sure. i think what's important is not wh

what does this mean for jared kushner? >> what it means if cnn's reporting is accurate, that jared kushner should no longer have a security clearance. we need to have a full investigation of this issue as well. we know, obviously, that jared kushner now had information, was talking to the russians and we need now to further probe this. we've now pierced into the inner circle of donald trump's circle including his son-in-law. doesn't get any closer than that to the ftpresident. it's time now for bob mueller and congressional committees to ask the questions that the american people want the answer to. >> your republican colleague lindsey graham has sort of warned president trump about pardoning michael flynn. i wonder if you think that's a real possibility, clearly that's something on lindsey graham's mind. do you think the president would pardon flynn? >> i never thought the president would fire bob comey, but he did. jim comey. the issue really is not whether or not we think he may, or may not, we have to on a bipartisan b

and jared kushner is one of them. they could all come under scrutiny for potential obstruction of justice and that's exactly what bob mueller is looking at. >> joyce, let me bring you in to this part of the conversation and ask about this timeline. the day after flynn departed the white house, quit or was fired because of these revelations, donald trump explained it, the cause as being because he lied to the vice president. i assume that's all under review at this point. but the day after that, according to comey's testimony, donald trump asked comey to see to it to let mike go. said he's a really good guy. i've always thought it was very curious that the loyalty that donald trump displayed to mike flynn, someone who after paul manafort left said, i hardly knew him. after steve bannon left, he said, i have my own best strategist, you know, the sons were left behind in new york to run -- he's loyal to no one, but mike flynn, he had multiple meetings with jim comey. wanted to have comey's help in letting flynn go. and w

>> not jared but ivanka.doesn't want her husband in trouble. >> exactly. >> no, i don't think he cares about him. >> as much as we like sons-in-law in general. >> it's all about ivanka. >> thank you so much. it's great to have you. >>> join me tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. we're going to have more coverage of the flynn guilty plea and what this might mean for the trump administration. i'm going to lead this discussion on "state of the union" on sunday morning. mike warner also republican senator tim scott of south carolina we'll talk about the tax bill with him as well. sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. i'm jake tapper. turning you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." in "the situation room." have a great weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> happening now, breaking news, guilty and cooperation. fired national security adviser michael flynn enters a plea bargain in the russia investigation. he admits he lied to the fbi on conversations with the russian ambassador and now he's cooperating with

kushner, by jared kushner. so how is it just flynn if we're also being told that kushner is the one who told him to have these conversations during the transition? >> right. but what flynn pled guilty to was lying to the fbi about meetings or discussions he had with the russian ambassador, which were camille in line with the duties of his job description in the transition. what we didn't find out here was anything at all about russian collusion. in fact, they're not talking about anything that happened before haeelection day. help me tell you something. if you put% kt mcfarland out there, she's as hoyle as anyone else. >> what might this mean for kushner or is michael right the crime here is just lying to the fbi? others speculate and they're trying to get flynn to flip for a bigger fish? >> this is the a lot of republicans saying -- donald trump called on russia to hack into hillary's e-mail. made a big deal about wikileaks. jared kushner tried to set up a back channel. this is the a huge time hein. we have to

jared kushner makes his first appearance since the michael flynn guilty plea. talking about middle east peace but do the revelations from the flynn plea deal doom kushner's effort to broker a deal in the middle east. i'll talk to former israeli prime minister live on the program and disbelief in alabama. a new poll of republicans in the controversial senate race show they're standing by their man but polls show a down to the wire finish in that state. all of that coming up. but we begin with the president's busy fingers this sunday. it started in the predawn hours once again accusing fire fbi director james comey of lying and continue from there. a level of activity that has senators on both sides of the aisle concerned. >> the president should have not have a comment whatsoever on either of these investigations and the only thing he should be doing is directing all of his staff and associates to fully cooperate. >> there's an ongoing criminal investigation. comey may be part of it. you tweeting comment regarding ongoing criminal investigations at your own per

jared kushner, why jared kushner is involved telling anyone what to do is kind of a mystery, given his complete ignorance and absence of experience and knowledge of any of the things he was dealing with, and continues to deal with in the white house. so i don't believe that jared kushner just woke up one morning and decided to tell michael flynn what to do with the russian ambassador. but i do think that the issue of why the trump administration, the trump transition team, over and over again, was trying to cultivate russia. was trying to ease the sanctions. was trying to make nice with vladamir putin. very smart, according to the december 30th tweet by the president. that question is still at the heart of this case. why was the trump administration and the trump campaign so solicitous of vladamir putin? >> michael, legally speaking, what could this mean for the in the >> well, it depends on what the president knew and when he knew it and what he did with that knowledge. the thing that's interesting to me about the information that was the core of flynn's guilty plea today is that the

us media here are touting jared kushnehs us media here are touting jared kushner‘s name is one of those contact the russian ambassador. now, we have not got that independently confirmed but he is just got that independently confirmed but he isjust one name got that independently confirmed but he is just one name that the us media are putting out there. that would be significant. it takes this trail closer to the oval office. but remember, when it comes to this investigation, it is worth looking exactly what robert mueller is trying to figure out. he is trying to look at whether or not russia couuded to look at whether or not russia colluded with the trump campaign to help donald trump win the election. and part of that is to see what contact they had with the russians and when. and michael flynn lied about his contact with the russian ambassador. as well as to the fbi. that is why he has pleaded guilty today. the other question is, in return for the guilty plea, what else is he told the special counsel, robert mueller? indeed. the next question is if jared robert mueller? indeed. the ne

kushner, by jared kushner. so how is it just flynn if we're also being told that kushner is the one who told him to have these conversations during the transition? >> right. but what flynn pled guilty to was lying to the fbi about meetings that he had or discussion that is he had with the russian ambassador, which were completely in line with the duties of his job description in a transition. what we didn't find out here was anything at all about russian collusion. in fact, they're not talking about anything that happened before election day. so why people think this is about collusion with russia, and i don't know -- and let me tell you something. if you put kt mcfarland out there as someone who might conspire against the united states, that's the most laughable thing i've heard. she's the most loyal to this country as anyone else. >> kushner met with robert mueller's team earlier this month, what might this mean for kushner or is michael right the crime here is just lying to the fbi? others speculate and they

terrific words, jared. jared's work has appeared in the "new york times", new republic salon and he's currently crater of writing professor at georgia southern university. please welcome jerry and kevin. [applause]. gentlemen it's a pleasure to have you here and in reading your books it reminded me of why i enjoyed books like this so much because of the deep story telling and smart analysis and it was nice to read them together intend him because kevin takes us back through years and years going back to the 19th century of american culture and how we reveal things like forgeries and humbug and fake news and then jared gives us a more kind of up the minute approach based on what he saw during the 26 election and how it carried forward into our everyday discourse and i will tell you jared is not shy on twitter if you have checked out his twitter account. out to start with kevin and say going back to the beginning of your book he talks about a wonderful american character, fascinating american character in the

and outline he would want to protect jared kushner. there is still a lot of unanswered questions here. >> how do you interpret what happened with flynn? is there a way to read more into this than actually exists? or is it clear the line is drawn to the oval office? >> i think we can draw a few things from what happened yesterday. first of all, when you look at the statement of the offense filed in court and you look at the dates in the statement of the offense, we know that he spoke to the fbi, lied to them january 24th. that same week was a very busy week in the trump white house. on january 27th is the day sally yates went to the white house for a second time to warn them that michael flynn could be black mailed by the russians because he had misled officials and the fbi about his conversations in this particular case. but also that was the day of the comey loyalty dinner. and i think that when you're looking at the timeline here and you're using the papadopoulos statement of the defense and yesterday flynn's statement of the offense

and we can say with the russian sanctions, it appears that it is not jared kushner because jared kushner was in hawaii at the time. it didn't necessarily mean that it couldn't be jared kushner for the previous conversation, the december 22 conversation about delaying u.n. security resolution or voting against it by russia. the key point here is that the white house has basically been saying that nik michael flynn w freelan freelancing. this shows that he was very much working under the guise of the transition. and remember, donald trump tweeted right afterwards, right after the u.s. iimposed new ansn russia and russia decided not to respond in kind, donald trump tweeted it was a smart move by russia. so the question is, how much does donald trump know about these conversations. was he informed or is it just coincidence. and also, this testimony by michael flynn or this admission in these court documents shows that the white house once again is not being transparent. so it frankly calls the credit and credit and of tbility of the en going back for what was happening between the donald tru

i think jared kushner is going to be one of the potential targets here.e know that the mueller team interviewed him earlier this month. i have a sense that he, mueller, probably knew all the answers to his questions at that point by the time he was asking kushner. so if he was not telling the truth and there's evidence to the contrary, that could be big trouble for kushner. >> and sean, let's talk about this food chain. is there any conventional wisdom on robert ruler or investigators are looking at vice president mike pence, who has maintained that flynn lied to him? >> it's not clear at this point whether they're looking specifically at pence or the things that he said, but certainly this development, this escalation in this investigation when it comes to flynn is going to raise questions about other administration officials, what they knew about his contacts with the russians, what they said they knew about his contacts. it's a moment where now we're going to re-examine what people have said, in what settings, about what they knew, and why they said it

has jared kushner reacted to this?white house on this investigation. what we had was a tweet from donald trump about rex tillerson, who, 2a hours ago, we we re tillerson, who, 2a hours ago, we were wondering if rex tillerson had a future in the state department. and today, donald trump says that he does. there is maybe a bit of diversion tactics going on from the white house. what the white house lawyer has said is that the only person implicated in today's hearing is michael flynn himself. so what they are trying to do is distance themselves from michael flynn. laura bicker, there. let's look at some of the other news making the news is sour. protests against perceived fraud in honduras‘ presidential election have turned violent leaving one person dead and 20 injured. supporters of the opposition candidate, salvador nasralla, have blocked major highways, set vehicles on fire and attacked property across the country. mr nasralla has accused the electoral court of manipulating the vote counting system to favour presiden

what is jared kushner going to do?eaking of jared kushner i just got word from my executive producer that he just wrapped up speaking in washington talking about efforts to try to broker middle east peace and did not speak at all relative to anything with michael flynn. he apparently would follow advice of attorneys not to talk about things as others we have seen here in the white house have not done. thank you very much. good to see you. appreciate that. >>> let's bring in republican strategist and msnbc contributor howard dean, former vermont governor. good to see you both as always. ladies first with you. the president's tweet saying i never asked comey to stop investigating flynn, just more fake news covering another comey lie. what does he hope to achieve by that? >> i think all donald trump is doing like he does every weekend morning it appears is wakes up and wants to stir the pot. tweets about things that are on his mind. this is a very big concern for this administration. the more he can talk about it and muck

father saying mueller, he might need to question jared kushner.nteresting for chris christie to say that. before we go, caleb, i do want to share the statement from the kushner company where they said kushner companies has a proven track record that continually attracts institutional investors who want to align with us in our investments. do you have a sense of who those investors are, who they're currently reaching out to? because that building 666 fifth avenue, they need money. it is underwater. >> sure. 666 fifth avenue is a very interesting one because -- >> 666, the irony. >> they traveled all over the globe looking for somebody to help them knock it down, build another one twice as tall in its place and they haven't been able to do that. in these other buildings we report on today, you get some institutional investors here in the u.s. but also get a lot of investors from israel, including some companies associated with the diamond trading steinmetz family, some of the richest people in israel. so somewhere between mundane on one end and very

jared kushner was involved in both of those.n the russia sanctions business as you mentioned, that meeting with thall those interesting ca of characters that took place about the russia sanctions. and we also know jared kushner was questioned about what conversations he had with officials, what did he do in new york with regard to this u.n. resolution. because at the time that the u.n. resolution was introduced, the u.s. government position was going to be -- and it was in fact -- to abstain. so we weren't in opposition to the resolution which was the normal it had been the policy for the u.s. government, but the barack obama administration decided that they wanted to come out in opposition to the israeli current policy on settlements. again, because of their interests in having a comprehensive peace agreement and not doing anything to compromise that objective. the trump administration was basically playing loosey-goosey with u.s. foreign policy, they were running counter to u.s. existing foreign policy that the existing presid

was it jared kushner? certainly all roads lead to jared.seems to be the leading transition official mentioned in the charging document today. but how high does this go? does this go above jared kushner even? we know you don't make a plea deal with a big fish unless you think that fetch can help you net a larger fish. so the question in my mind, does this go all the way to president donald trump? i think there is circumstantial evidence that suggests as much. with the outreach to russians when it came to russian sanctionings, the day after they mounted these sanctions and punitive measure, president trump tweeted vladimir putin was very smart and he knew putin was a very smart guy. when it came to the israeli settlements, president trump held a call with assissi, the egyptian president after which it was claimed the egyptian president decided to post.that u.n. vote. >> why do you think that middle east stuff was in there? my view looking at it legally, mueller did not need to include it. he had enough. as you a allude to, it's in there, why?

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the jared last chance to save event. he went to jared because he's a very...smart...man. with hundreds of pieces you'll only find at jared. december 7th through 10th. that's why he went to jared. >>> good morning, everyone. i am john berman. >> i am poppy harlow. we are bracing on what will be a historic day on capitol hill, we could see senator al franken take to the senate floor and speak to whether he will resign. one democratic senator after another, look at all of them, called for franken to step down. 30 in total. his office insisted overnight no final decision had been made. it has been a month since the first accusations of misconduct against franken, unwanted touching and kissing. >> another came forward yesterday, and this is a moment that has national implications not just for this moment of moral reckoning over the treatment of women but political implications as well. will democrats force out one of their own as the republican party jumped into support a candidate accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl. let's start on capitol hill with the latest on what sen

is jared kushner in legal trouble? >> well, it certainly a strong possibility and one thing that i will say about the flynn's legal and flynn's plea agreement is that he got a good deal. despite all these rumors that we heard and reports that we heard about the liability that flynn had. he only had a plea of one count of a false statement fbi agent and the guidelines range from zero to six months. when you are looking at a federal investigation and a lot of potential felonies, zero to six months is a good scenario. there is nothing in life is free. federal prosecutors are not giving out good deals. and that means that flynn has to provide testimony that not only it seems to be truth full but would result in a prosecution of somebody sort of at his level or higher or somebody of a significant figure and jared kushner would fit that bill. it maybe another person, time will tell who that person is. one thing for sure is, it is very hard to imagine robert mueller giving that kind of deal. michael flynn giving him to someon

atacÓ a la hija del existente ivanka trump y su esposo jared kushner.e toda la campaÑa. >> lo mejor que podemos hacer es que se dedique a roy moore y que quede fuera de la polÍtica. claudia: expertos dicen que estas palabras muestran que bannon tiene su propia agenda y que de cierta manera, quiere mantenerse en el poder. las discrepancias son pÚblicas. bannon dijo: ¿quÉ pasa con las acusaciones de tu padre y esa menor de 13 aÑos? >> Él considera a jared kushner como un elitista. una mala persona que no conoce a los que votaron. claudia: algunos expertos creen que jared kushner podrÍa tener los dÍas contados en la casa blanca, debido a la sospecha de que estarÍa implicado en la presunta influencia de rusia. en washington, claudia uceda. aranza: el presidente donald trump redobla sus crÍticas al fbi a travÉs de twitter. el mandatario calificÓ de falso eel reporte. en otro twitter, escribiÓ que habrÁ un esfuerzo bipartidista para desarrollar un nuevo plan de salud que, eeventualmente eliminarÍa o -- obamacare. su pequeÑa victoria fue eliminar el mandato in

jared? >> there are only three or four people who are bigger targets. >> jared? >> jared kushner. >> jared gave them the duty, basically, to kill that resolution against israel for its settlements. >> a couple of other, donald trump jr. there are not very many people that you would allow to negotiate, that you would negotiate a deal with someone as senior and important as michael flynn to get somebody else. it's got to be somebody bigger than him, not someone smaller. >> eli, is he the john dean of this event? is he the one, the deal-cracker that opens up the door to prosecution? >> there there are a lot of people who say that analogy is an apt one today, as people have been discussing and drawing those lines, those parallels back to watergate. inside the white house i think what unnerves them, what unnerves the president about mike flynn more than maybe anybody else in this investigation, is that he's been so quiet. they hadn't heard from him, they cut off contact with trump's attorneys. now they had no warning for this. so i think -- >> they did get the warning

buti rumours that could affect from —— jared kushner.uble, he changes the subject. he's been uncharacteristically silent. his to this afternoon, there was hardly anything for a while and nothing really about what's happening. maybe he's getting advice on when he feels is an safe territory dan hill comment. the white house is saying this implicates no one. —— then he will comment. they say it's implicating 0bama which is 1984 doublespeak. the point that michael flynn worked in the 0bama impersonation, calling him a former 0bama official. for misconduct. chaotic, disruptive and not following procedures. they point out he was only serving for 25 days in trump's administration. there was good duport reporting is not because trump hounded him out, trump was saying to the end that he was a good guy and it was the mainstream media. they're not guys. trump was lauding him as in the greatest thing since sliced three star general is one they appointed him. very also saw flynn saying in the run—up to the election, flynn was shouting lock up hillary

with senior trump transition officials about his contacts with the then russian ambassador to include jared kushner, the president son-in-law and senior advice exhibit and the former trump adviser katie mcfarlane. that's what they are reporting. we also know based on this plea deal that flynn is cooperating with the special counsel which suggests he has information on a person or persons higher up on the trump chain of command. so with all that background i asked the president this morning if he was concerned about what michael flynn might tell the special counsel. here's what he said. >> no, i'm not. and what has been shown is no collusion. no collusion. there has been absolutely no collusion. so we are very happy. >> so he says no collusion, no collusion. that of course is one of the things that the special counsel is looking into. and the thing we are all waiting to see is just what michael flynn is providing robert mueller in exchange for what appears to be a fairly lenient plea deal. >> let me ask you about the other news on today. the tax reform bill. he was in asia, out of town. what

jared kushner representing the interests of israel.ou had paul manafort representing the interests of ukraine here or parts of ukraine. this is, was a -- this was not, a corruptible thing to have in your -- >> the thing is, because there was money involved in all of those cases. right? financial interests involved. >> i don't know financial aspects in the kushner but definitely the other two. the other two about money. >> billionaires, israel, that -- we don't know, no. but -- one would have to assume that bob mueller is looking into that as well. >> all right. got to throw it -- did you see the breitbart headline? throw it up here. check it out. got it up? it says, over by thanksgiving? white house lawyer ty cobb was disastrously wrong. as we know, breitbart headlines, mr. steele, usually means, mr. bannon may be sending a message to his friend the president. he had been anti-cobb strategy the whole time. >> yeah. seems as though this talk happy, it's all going to blow over. best of all possible worlds sort of strategy, if you can cal

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that is jared kushner. nbc news confirmed it was jared kushner. we're yet to hear from the president about kushner or flynn who trump described before as a very good person. the one time we were supposed to see the president today was abruptly canceled. to get things started, tell us where we go from here, bring in nbc's hans nichols and ken delanian outside the federal courthouse in wall d.c. hans, start with you. hearing anything from the white house and specifically from the president? >> reporter: nothing yet. nothing as of 3:00 this afternoon. there is a holiday party taking place here. we'll be sure to read anything out if we hear from the president in that context. look, what we have confirmed here at nbc news is that the december 22nd conversation that michael flynn was not honest about to fbi agents in1r067volv conversation with a senior transition official nbc news now knows was jared kushner. that december 22nd conversation, ali, that had to do with ab abstains against this vote with israel and the united nations. we don't know who the

jared: big words.d press conference by apologizing because this is not how his mother raised him to talk. >> i got an earful of it from my mom. that's how i was raised and i appreciate you guys. jared: really one of the good guys, one of the times that say comes from good parenting. no more they trade him to oakland a's, battling als. cheryl: i love that his mom got on back to the story other about his language. jared: you don't talk like that. it would be great. make the world a better place. lauren: not nba fathers. jared: i don't know who you're talking about. lauren: you can catch jared max in 24/7, siriusxm 115. cheryl: bailing out european market this is week. we are going to london, we will be right back cheryl: european markets seeing the most money leaving those markets, this week and what's behind the big move riva gold joins us on this friday? what's going on riva? >> good morning, italy is a big stress for investors in e question fbi funds this week according to epfr global, they have annou

jared kushner is also involved in all this.directed flynn weeks before the inauguration to contact the russian ambassador about a u.n. security counsel vote on israel settlement. the here's a time line of flynn's known contact with russia. december 22nd, 2016 during the transition, according to court documents general flynn asked the russian ambassador to postpone the vote. then, december 29, president obama announced new sanctions against russian and flynn asks kislyak not to retaliate. december 30, russian president vladimir putin says he won't retaliate. january 20, 2017 president trump is enag rated. jan flynn lies to the anybody. january 26 when when sally yates warned the white house that flynn was lying. and on january 30, president trump fired iyates after she refused to defend the travel ban. fast-forward to february. on the 13th of february flynn resigned after admitting m misleading vice president pence. well now, flynn's bombshell guilty plea would seem to have thrown the white house into turmoil by the president sa

eric: we just saw jared kushner.he has a unique transition team. >> the peace process crew hasn't performed wonders in getting an israeli-palestinian settlement. because of the threat of iran and the nuclear weapons program and its general effort to establish hegemony in the east, there are possibilities that old formulas would not necessarily turned up it's a huge uphill struggle. but the world in the middle east is changing rapidly. eric: that it is. ambassador john bolton, good to see you. arthel: the clock is ticking for republicans to get a deal done on tax reform by year's end now that the house and senate get ready to hammer out the final bill. are there any sticking points in the way? .. eric: welcome republicans once welcome republicans once at closer to get a street being to the next task. marathon voting -- and now both houses must hash out the differences to the conference committee before sending one final bill to the president's desk. caroline shively lachman washington with what we can expect. >> the h

you mentioned implications for jared kushner, and it's my colleague said we know jared kushner was inouch with israel officials during the transition as well discussing that united nations security council resolution which is referenced in the plea agreement regarding conversations michael flynn had as well. before we go final thoughts from both of you, laura and david, perhaps david if i can begin with you, how big a deal for this president? >> well, among other things, on a day when he's achieving a major legislative victory with this tax bill getting through the senate, this is the overwhelming story. it's one that has moved the markets because of concern about where it may lead. and it really puts the lie to a president who has been saying that there was nothing to this, that it's all made up on democrats. he has special prosecutor he's up against doing his job pretty methodically and now really making some headway. >> and in the face of repeated attempts by the president to get in the way of this investigation? >> certainly. and everyone should be nervous surrounded by the inner

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let's start with jared kushner.ow that michael flynn talked to senior transition officials, quote, unquote, about his contacts with russia, one of them presumably could be jared kushner. this is from the wall street journal back in november. jared kushner also happens to be the person who reportedly pushed for the firing of jim comey, who was investigating all this. >> the statement of offense contain this s this narrative on having these conversations with the russian ambassador. then calling a senior trump campaign official. it sounds like jared kushner. so he's got exposure. not so much for a substantive offense, but for covering it up. if he lied to the fbi about it, then he is going down. again, president trump is famously disloyal. who has he been super loyal to? michael flynn. flynn knows something. muell mueller's about to find out exactly what that is. >> one person he's been disloyal to is jeff sessions. jeff sessions is not necessarily out of the woods either. this is adam schiff regarding jeff sessions o

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he helped put jared's dad in prison. >> he was largely responsible for putting jared's dad in jail.vor, jared was in no small part for ousting chris christie from the transition and taking over that process. there is a personal grudge side of this, make no mistake about it. but chris christie has a point. if jared and the trump kids had not shunted him aside and taken command of the transition themselves, i don't know that jared would be facing the kind of legal scrutiny that he is right now. i don't know that he would be in a position to have the meetings that we know special counsel mueller is now looking into. >> chris christie thinks as a prosecutor as opposed to a real estate scion. >> that is why children of presidents don't normally run transitions. it is not just that christie had the transition. he was to be the vp. that was kabashed. >> it is notable because chris christie has never been that ham strung to say what he truly feels. now he is truly free if he is stepping out of the politics. >> he speaks his mind and takes shot at the president. this is not a john kasich wha

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