he was asked what role jared cushner would play in the trump administration and the president-elect seemed to play a little bit coy, peter. he said well we'll see, when asked if cushner was in fact going to be his senior adviser as you and kristen welker confirmed from a senior transition official. it's interesting in light of what you're discussing the idea there are for curb mer himself conflicts of interest he has to untangle with his own business, similar to what donald trump is dealing with at the moment. as you know, he is going through a process he says in which he is looking to disentangle himself from the trump organization. he was asked about that as well during this kind of peter i guess you'd call it an intoprom tu gaggle inside the lobby and the president-elect said he would talk about it on wednesday, the date of his frankly long-awaited press conference. he hasn't held one in about six months or so, so there are some questions he will be answering. he did say that it is a simple process, but he did not answer questions when asked what specifically he has done. what kind of p

breaking news on the trump administration, a senior transition official telling nbc news that jared cushner named senior adviser to the president coming up. cushner is trump's son-in-law, of course, married to ivanka trump and has his own share of high profile conflict of interest potential problems, this on a week where the topic of ethics will certainly figure highly in what promise to be combustible nomination hearings for the president-elect's cabinet. my colleagues kristen welker joining us momentarily and hallie jackson are here today. we'll talk to them in a moment about the latest on this, this news coming as there's been a series of headlines surrounding jared cushner, most notably about his cushner companies, with sources initially saying that his plans are to divest most of his interest for potential conflicts of interest, that includes one property, 666 fifth avenue, it's a skyscraper in midtown manhattan, where the "new york times" reports that jared cushner as recently as eight days after donald trump was elected president, met with the individuals who were involved in that. i

trump and husband jared cushner reportedly settled on a home two blocks from where the first family willhey move out of the white house. both in a very upscale d.c. neighborhood called kalorama. someone with me who knows d.c. well, real estate expert, co-host of a new show airing called d.c. flippers. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> okay. first, the pictures, the trump-cushner household, show me. >> the trump cushner household is very much like ivanka's style, modern, classic, clean, it's a beautiful house. it's going to be a little bit of an upgrade in terms of square footage because this one is about a little over 6500 square feet. and, so, while the obamas are going to be downsizing from their 55,000-square-foot house, the house a few blocks over -- >> 55,000 square feet, that's the white house. >> that's the white house, right. >> wow. >> and they're going to be moving a few doors down. i think they might be able to borrow sugar from each other. >> i mean, we were joking earlier. will they run into each other at the pink berry, will they share the neighborhood soul cycle? the

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our kari van can trump and jared cushner and family moving in just down the street from barack and michelle obama's new home? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." tonight we're watching the very public and growing riff between president-elect donald trump and the country's intelligence professionals. the fbi, the cia, other agencies, they agree russia is behind last year's election related cyber attacks. the president-elect now seems to believe wikileaks founder julian assange who says russia wasn't the source of the e-mails stolen from the democratic party, and hillary clinton's campaign. also tonight, the fight over repealing obamacare is underway. president obama came to capitol hill to encourage democrats, suggesting they label the republican alternative trump care. vice president-elect mike pence was inside the capital at the same time as the president promising obamacare will be replaced with something that lowers the cost of premiums and deductibles. but the republicans aren't revealing their plans. >>> we're also learning more right now about the 5 1/2 million dollars h

ashley: it's happening, let's get jared cushner to talk about and a half ter.iz: it's talk that canada wanted its own trade deal with the u.s. stuart: it's breaking up. ashley: canada says it shouldn't have a beef with them because it's equal trade. the beef they say is with the united states and mexico. that's developing, but interesting. stuart: now, i want to try to work something out here. we've got enormous amount of news on the economy and on corporate america. it's just one thing after another and it's happening right now. the market is pretty much flat, a 6 points, 4 point. that's it, 4 point gain for the dow. do you want to explain that, scott shellady? >> yeah, right now, sorry, right now, it's just a thought in the cloud. it has to really come down to the numbers and we have to start seeing those things come through and our monthly or daily economic reports. until that happens, we are going to be in a wait and see, but slowly, but surely when you start to see us move away from $15 an hour and organizing outside of mcdonald's, they talk about fox conn

jared kushner is the head of a pretty big real estate empire that was started by his father. he's in talks with a chinese businessman days after the election closing a deal on the prize cushnerperty in manhattan. crush never sa cu kushner says he's in the process of removing himself from these business contacts and also how he plans to remove himself specifically from these interests. all the we know is that he and his wife ivanka have started the process of moving here to washington, d.c. >> ryan nobles, thank you very much. >>> and this week, cnn has a lot plans, tomorrow night, chris cuomo has a town hall with bernie sanders and jake tapper hosts a town hall with speaker paul ryan. both of those will appear live on cnn. just checking my free credit score at credit karma. what the? you're welcome. i just helped you dodge a bullet. but i was just checking my... shhhhh... don't you know that checking your credit score lowers it. just be cool. actually, checking your credit score with credit karma doesn't affect it at all. are you sure? positive. huh, so i guess i could just check my credit score then. oh! check out credit karma today. credit karma. give yourself some credit.