donald's son-in-law and advisor jared kushner is in the middle east. he is sitting down with israeli and palestinian leaders in hopes of restarting the peace process. dutch police make a second wrestling to the threat that prompted the cancellation of a show last night. relateda second arrest to the threat that prompted the cancellation of a show last night. the tropical storm lisa trail of destruction across southern china with 12 people killed. a a tropical storm leaves trail of destruction across southern china with 12 people killed. the french legend will get his star on hollywood's famous walk --fame at a very young age 93. first our top story live from paris. and has promised he will reach peace in the middle east and what he has called the ultimate deal. his son-in-law jared kushner is meeting with israeli and palestinian leaders today. there is little optimism the visit will restart the long stalled peace process. let's go to jerusalem. what is the likelihood jared kushner will make any headway? >> i think it's a slim likelihood. what we heard

and then you have like jared kushner. he's talking to congressional interns, kristen, and tells them the trump team was too disorganized to collude with russia. these are off the record remarks to interns that were reportedly leaked to foreign policy magazine. any word there on both the substance of jared kushner's comments and the fact that it appears nothing is leakproof in the white house or in washington? >> reporter: that's why donald trump and john kelly will crack down on these leaks. in terms of the leak you were talking about, we have verified the contents to have audio. we reached out to jared kushner and his representatives for reaction. so far no response. but look, in addition to the comment that he made that you just read, he also talked about his foreign policy and the foreign policy strategy moving forward, particularly as it relates to the israelis and palestinians. take a listen to a little bit of that exchange. >> so what do we offer that's unique? i don't know. i'm sure everyone that's tried this has b

trump is giving jared kushner so much to do.out your father-in-law asking you to set up the wi-fi, yeah. from now on you'll be like, "i'm glad. i'm so glad." ♪ - so, michelle, what do you make of ivanka? a lot of people are really hyping her up as feminism's great hope under trump. - i mean...is she? ivanka's been silent on so many women's issues, like healthcare, domestic abuse, reproductive rights... - okay, yeah, but to be fair, no one can speak out on everything. she did propose a maternity leave policy. - her proposal only covers married women. you know who it leaves out? all the single ladies. - all the single ladies? - all the single ladies! - michelle, that's really unfair, because single moms have to deal with a lot of [bleep]. - yeah, and speaking of [bleep], let's talk about ivanka's childcare policy. she proposes a tax deduction for the cost of childcare, but that does nothing for poor people. they have nothing to deduct from. that's like offering me a free breast reduction. it's a nice gesture, but you're really not

find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. >>> well jared kushner left his family's real estateompany to go work for his father-in-law at the white house, the kushner company of course kept on going without him. they have made some changes since he's been away. most recently there's new reporting that the kushner companies have just hired a new team to handle their public and media relations. they've hired a big firm that specializes in crisis and issues management. you know the gigantic multibillion dollar scandal over volkswagen systematically cheating on emissions testing for their diesel cars? remember that? the kushner real estate company just hired them, the crisis management people who handle that disaster, they'll now be working for the kushners. we don't know what precipitated that decision, but there are things going on. the reporting that jared's family dangling his name to lure chinese people, the kushners in exchange for the u.s. government to give those people -- have already gotten dinged for that. they've been served up a federal subpoena for promising visas for

and jared kushner had all the facts.o now we do need to know, did president trump read that e-mail? because jared kushner, when he's sitting there on air force one hear thing statement being creat created, he knew the full facts. so how did he allow that statement to go through? >> what every legal scholar has said all during this is people involved in investigations should. talk about the investigation with other people involved in the investigation. so jared kushner discussing this with president trump or at least having this conversation about this statement just doesn't seem like a wise idea. >> no. he should have been protected. the president should have been protected from this. i suspect he probably inserted himself into it, at least that's what it sounds like. there's a couple of problems. one is talking about how donald trump did insert himself. the reporting is that the instincts were to get all the information out and then donald trump inserted himself and no longer were they going to be truthful and get all t

it really comes down to looking at the jared kushner statement. if you put those two together, you realize the president of the united states is orchestrating this entire defense. the lawyers have nothing to do with it. you could have put them on the plane, it wouldn't have made any difference. he would have thrown them off with parachutes. it really was all donald trump, and this is all part of his plan to obstruct this investigation. if you look at those two statements, they are very surgically drafted. you've got donald junior saying, well, i didn't know what was going on, it just happened to be about adoptions. of course donald trump had no idea that adoptions was just a code word for the sanctions. and with jared kushner, oh, i just walked in after the incriminating statements were made, and i left before anything happened and it was all in russian so i didn't know what was going on. >> so to your point, and emily, you cover jared and ivanka, jared kushner, according to "the washington post" reporting, and gloria said it, he was ready to be t

apparently jared kushner, volga drop say they look forward -- jared kushner, ivanka drop say they look forward to following general kelly's lead. when it comes to the people who have access to the president, will that conduit be narrowed down? will everything flowed through kelly? press secretary sanders: the president has given full authority to general kelly. he will make those determinations. >> this statement from the white house says that mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. you just said the president felt his comments were inappropriate. >> i don't see those as being mutually exclusive. i think anthony wants general kelly to be able to operate fully with a clean slate, while at the same time the president felt his comments were inappropriate. those two things are not mutually exclusive. >> with the new hierarchy, tell us what it looks like in this administration. >> as we have laid out, i think general kelly will bring new structure to the white house and discipline and strength. we are all excited

it's the jeopardy of his son, of jared kushner, of others. and i think that's really disturbing is that, you know, he's treating this as, basically, you know, the king with his family around him, and that he's going to call the shots and what's going on. i don't think this is going to end well for these people. i think he has to realize at some point that he does have lawyers, that his lawyers do know -- hopefully know what they're doing and they're advising him not to say this. two things when you're a lawyer and you're advising a client in ha situation like this. generally, you say, don't say anything. anything you say can and will be used against you. be quiet. if you want to take the full let it hang out route, then tell the truth. what you never want your client to do is lie, and he lies or misleads in such a way that it almost immediately comes out that it's untrue. >> well, it sounds like they were, in listening to carol, they were or the original thought was, let's just let it all -- let's get it all out there, the truth, let's go on

or jared kushner or michael flynn or paul manafort or any and all of those people or other people working in and around the trump campaign for president, and that is why, as "the wall street journal" is reporting, the special prosecutor is now working with a grand jury to hear evidence about his investigation. that grand jury has subpoena power. the special prosecutor does not. the special prosecutor can ask a grand jury to issue subpoenas for documents that he would like to examine. the special prosecutor can ask a grand jury to issue subpoenas for witnesses to come in and testify to that grand jury under oath. it is the grand jury that technically wields those powers, but they always do so under the guidance of a prosecutor whose requests grand juries usually follow routinely. this grand jury is the single biggest threat ever faced by donald trump or anyone else named trump or married to a trump. when jared kushner is subpoenaed to testify to the grand jury, as he surely will be, he will be testifying under oath. when donald trump jr. is subpoenaed to testify to the grand jury, he will

president and steve bannon, other white house advisers have been frequent targets, most notably, jared kushnerr bannon clashed with kushner, he called him a democrat talking about scandals. this talks about enemies in the administration by name. listing national security adviser h.r. mcmaster, deputy national security adviser dina powell, and economic adviser gary cohn. in april, the spokesperson predicted bannon would use breitbart to attack his opponents in the white house if he ever were to leave his post. >> if steve moves out and donald trump starts to veer to the center and abandoning the promises he made to the base that got him elected and to the others that got him elected, i think steve would direct the blame at why trump has turned on the promises at the people running the show, jared kushner, gary cohn, the so-called democrats, he calls them. >> randy kaye. >> thank you so much for joining us, you know, steve bannon in the remarkable interview with "the weekly standard," he said this, now i'm free. i have my hands back on my weapons, i've got my hands back on my weapons, there is n

steve bannon, kellyanne conway, jared kushner, ivanka trump to name but the most prominent. the list goes on to include most other people working in the white house. no other white house chief of staff has ever had the job of keeping most people who work in the white house away from the president. no other white house chief of staff has ever had the job of deciding whether to revoke the president's son-in-law's security clearance, which the son-in-law lied to obtain. that's john kelly's job now. john kelly is now the commander of a ship of fools. the challenge that he faces now is unlike any challenge he has ever faced. tomorrow's challenge and the challenge for the day after that and the day after that will be which fool did he control or get rid of that day. joining us now, chris whipple, the author of the gate keepers. max boot, a former foreign policy adviser to presidential campaigns of john mccain, mitt romney, and marco rubio. also with us, jeremy bash, a former chief of staff at the cia and defense department. jeremy, i want to start with you because you know general

that immediate meeting included paul manafort and jared kushner and multiple russians with ties to the kremlin. when that story broke on july 8th the report contained a e-mail from donald trump jr. we discuss a program about the adoption of russian children that was ended by the russian government but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up. we learned the meeting was more than an introduction and that trump's inner circle did not go to the meeting expecting to hear more about adoption. donald trump jr. showed the back and forth he had with the person who appears to have set the meetling up. rob goldstone wrote that the russian prosecutor offered to provide official documents and information that would incriminate hillary in her dealings with russia and would be useful to your father. this is high level and sensitive information but it's part of russia and its government support for mr. trump and don junior responded in part if it's what you say, i love it. obviously that is very different from what donald trump jr.'s first pass explaining the meeting. when h

jared kushner met with the head of a russian bank called veb bank. veb bank is a bank but it's really just an entity of the russian government. the leadership of veb bank is hand picked by lad peer putin and veb bank's connections with russian intelligence are not subtle. sergei gorkov is the person that kushner met with. he is a grant of the fsb academy which means he went to kgb grad school. veb bank was coordination of a spy ring, that was the russian spying investigation where carter page was found by the fbi to have been essentially a willing target for those russian spies. at least he was a source of information for those russian spies who were looking for americans to give them information to help them with their spying efforts against america from their home base in new york, where they were ostensibly working for veb bank but really, they were spies. so there was the alfa bank servers communicating with the trump organization for some reason. what's that russian bank got to do with anything? then in the transition there's jared kushner meeti

>> jared kushner?> yeah. >> the same person misleading the public about this russian adoption meeting from the beginning and these only transparent after -- >> it's not transparent if you come out after the lie is told. >> look, i mean, what this is, in listening to jeff toobin, even jeff toobin is saying, well, you know, this may not be such a big a deal here if this that and the other thing. this strikes me -- >> he said evidence of obstruction. >> if there's some sort of pattern. if alice in wonderland appears tomorrow if santa claus comes, this is already like one more rabbit hole. >> if only we had jeff toobin. oh, we do have jeff toobin. >> good, jeff, please. >> i knew i could bring you back. is that what you said? >> translation. >> i don't think it's quite accurate to what i said. >> say again. >> what i said was, if it could be established -- >> if it could be established. >> let him finish. >> let me finish. let me finish. we know, as for a fact at this point that the statement that was put

that meeting included campaign manager paul manafort and trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, and we now know multiple russians with ties to the kremlin. that story broke in "the new york times" on july 8th, the report included a written statement from donald trump jr., describing the meeting like this. quote, it was a short introductory meeting. i asked jared and paul to stop by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago and was since ended by the russian government. but it was not a campaign issue at the time, and there was no follow up. well, we soon learned that the meeting was much more than a short introduction and that trump's inner circle did not go to that meeting, expecting to hear more about adoption. donald trump jr. released the e-mail chain, showing the back and forth that he had with the person who appears to have set the meeting up. the person in question, rob goldstone, wrote that the top russian prosecutor had offered to, quote, provide the trump campaign with some official docume

in this situation when jared kushner knows what's in the emails. we don't know if donald trump read the emails. and the reason you would lie is they're novices. the way they handle scandal is purely elementary. and maybe that's a travesty, maybe it's refreshing. >> we'll also hear what don trump jr. had to say about being transparent and whether anything else was going to come out. and james clapper. ♪ ♪ i'm... i'm so in love with you. ♪ ♪ whatever you want to do... ♪ ...is alright with me. ♪ ooo baby let's... ♪ ...let's stay together... searching for answers may feel overwhelming. so start your search with our teams of specialists at cancer treatment centers of america. the evolution of cancer care is here. learn more at cancercenter.com/experts that's why at comcast we're continuing to make4/7. our services more reliable than ever. like technology that can update itself. an advanced fiber-network infrustructure. new, more reliable equipment for your home. and a new culture built around customer service. it all adds up to our most reliable network

i mean, i don't necessarily think jared kushner is going to crack this nut. give it a try and again, it's up to the people that live there to make these decisions. >> one quick point. the palestinian demand, that the trump administration commits to a tuesday solution. that requires donald trump to reverse himself. february 15th with benjamin netanyahu at his side at the white house. the president effectively downgraded the two-state solution to one of many options. you find national security experts on both sides of the aisle who say that's the right call. the situation changed since george w. bush made that formal american policy. the palestinian government is less reliable, especially on a security front. settlements have grown up to a certain point. the region feels differently about it. but if palestinians be saying we can't do negotiations until donald trump commits to the way forward good luck. that requires the president 0 back away from his backing away. >> kushner gets attacked internally at the white house and among the breitbart nationalistic crowd

michael, what are the possible ramifications for jared kushner? under the immigration act of 1990 allows permanent resident status to make a million dollar investment ep generally or $500,000 in targeted unemployment area, high unemployment area and a perfectly lawful program if done right. the problem here, as it has been alleged, is that the properties that the kushner companies used for these eb-5 programs and they use it because they get lower interest rates on the loans, were esurly gerrymandered districts that incorporated into the district areas that really were not adjacent to it in order to sort of squeeze them in as we'll be told, how they do that in political gerrymandering. so if they find that that was done inappropriately, then there may be liability for violation of the eb-5 program and the s.e.c. brought, you know, cases against companies that have done this improperly. >> ken, i want your take. and add in there jared kushner's name being dropped. is it a crime to do that? >> well, certainly not for jared kushner, but it becomes pr

given what we know about jared kushner, that may be one of donald trump's many misjudgments. as far as we know, jared and eric never set up a channel direct to moscow that trump transition team could use at the russian embassy in washington. that was jared's idea. no one ever made a stupider suggestion than that. that was sarahedjared's idea. it bawas droonald trump jr.'s i to invite manafort to an important meeting. russia clinton private and confidential. the no, times knew about that meeting three weeks ago. last night it was reported that president trump personally dictated the words of donald trump jr.'s first public statement about the meeting he gave to the "new york times" when the times asked him about it. when the news of that meeting was first reported the president's lawyer said that president had nothing to do with donald trump jr.'s statement even though the "new york times" reported that the president was consulted in the drafting of donald trump's statement. today the white house press secretary said the president weighed in. >> he certainly didn't dictate but

nor does kelly careful remarks match the hail mary that jared kushner throw out on russia arguing themp campaign couldn't have colluded because they couldn't pull off a sophisticated crime. kushner told an audience the trump team was too disorganized to collude with russia. that's one reason not to do it. if you are keeping track, the white house defense on this has dpoen from i didn't do it, to if i did it, it's not a crime. to now, i couldn't do it because it was too hard. steve schmidt served as a long time republican strategist. steve. walk us through this general, who he is, who donald trump is and whether the circle can be squared. >> he's remarkable public servant. a four star marine officers, spent his career in the united states, marine corp. whose motto is honor card commitment. he lost a son killed in action. he gave juone of the most remarkable speeches four days after his son was killed in action at the american legion. he offers a vision and a conception that's so opposite trumpism. when you look at general kelly's life, his virtues and the vir sho virtues that he stands

. >> peace push, jared kushner meeting with israel's prime minister today, all captured by government cameras. no journalists allowed. is this any way to broker mideast peace? >> the president is very committed to achieving a solution here that will be able to bring prosperity and peace to all people in this area and we really appreciate the commitment of the prime minister and his team to engaging very thoughtfully and respectfully in the way that the president has asked him to do so. >>> and good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. president trump is escalating his battle with the republican leaders in congress. on twitter, going after mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, for not tying the debt ceiling increase to a must pass veterans bill. also defending himself from widespread criticism of his roller coaster ride over the last three days. swinging from harmony to harm and back again in three separate appearances. kristen welker is at white house for us. the mood swings are, you know, one issue. the politics of taking on the republican leaders when there is a short window before the

maybe the veb jared kushner meeting was a coincidence. maybe the sberbank thing was a coinciden coincidence. maybe it has nothing to do with donald trump and whether or not he has an illicit relationship financial or otherwises with russia which explains why russia tried to hack or election and rig it in his behalf. maybe none of those bank connections, alfa bank, veb bank, sberbank, maybe none of them have anything to do with the russian involvement to disrupt or election. y if you want to talk about donald trump, until today the only so spirks banking relationship we've known about him recently isn't with any russian bank, it's with deutsche bank. deutsche bank is the bank that donald trump owes hundreds of millions of dollars to. deutsche bank is the bank that departme dealt with donald trump for years when no other banks would. deutsche bank continued to lend president trump hundreds of millions of dollars for deals even when he was unable to pay them walk on early loans, and he went so far as to file lawsuits against deutsche bank be

many asking, where was ivanka trump and jared kushner? they are both jewish.hey were on vacation in vermont. here to discuss, cnn contributor. when bad things or controversial things happen in and around the white house, it seems like jared kushner and ivanka trump fail. the fallout with the e-mails they were in idaho. after charlottesville, they are in vermont. coincidence? >> there's a chicken/egg situation. hard to say if the scandal came first then the vacation or the vacation, then the scandal. there are two things, the first is when something bad happens, imimmedia immediately there is a story saying they tried hard. they tried to convince the president to moderate. the second is they are not there. whether its a coincidence i cannot say. it's a short trip and easily postponable. they have three children, jared kushner is a grandson of holocaust survivors. the trip could have waited. this is a low moment in the president's time in office and seems like a strange time to take a trip to vermont. >> $740 million. they could have afforded a full fare ticket

he has always clashed with jared kushner. shner sees the world as an internationalist, someone who is ok with international institutions and alliances. once to see the president move in a more moderate direction. steve bannon is against all of that and has been the lone voice , one of the few voices inside of the white house in the wake of charlottesville saying let , the president go out there and fight the media. let him go and say there are all sides of the argument. charlie: where is the republican party? you hear bob corker saying what he said. you hear the house speaker saying what happened in charlottesville, and the idea of neo-nazisemacists and , and others being given a voice, and some say emboldened. , does the party have any influence? robert: the party is facing its own crossroads. do they desert trump or not? they have a september that will be an immense challenge. they face a debt ceiling, a budget. they have to find a way to get a border wall funded. that is one of the president's main priorities. tax reform, i

let somebody else take other russia issues for jared kushner. and the whole reason we brought it up last month, i remember saying on the air, i'm going to figure this out. this makes no sense. the whole reason that has stuck in my craw and the reason we brought that up on the show is because that problem being settled around jared kushner's legal representation raised a really big question for paul manafort. because jared kushner lost his main russia lawyer last month because of that conflict because she worked at bob mueller's old law firm. that was seen as a conflict. you know who else worked at bob mueller's old law firm? paul manafort's lawyer. so why did jared have to lose his russia lawyer because that lawyer worked at wilmer hale but paul manafort got to keep his russia lawyer who also worked at wilmer hale? it didn't make any sense there could be a conflict there for jared but not for paul manafort. it never made any sense. i'm going to figure this out. today we figured it out. today those pieces all either fell into place or fell apart,

there are a number of figures who are being given more power than he was, jared kushner, h.r. mcmaster john kelly, the list goes on. he obviously marginalized. whether he chose to quit two wikz ago or whether he was fired by chief of staff it was obvious to bannon that he was on his way out. you have to see his activity as a real reflection of that knowledge. what he's done, he's pushed trump to not disassociate from the alt-right and not disassociate from what he considers bannon's base, and trump acquiesced and bannon is seeking to now capitalize on that. interviews at the american prospect, ripped foreign policy up and down and proclaimed that trump's foreign policy was too interventionist and now going back to breitbart. the battle lines are going to be that bannon was ousted because the globalists took control of the trump administration and bannon is the actual real leader of the populist nationalist alt-right movement, that the alt-right is a small wing of that but not the whole movement, but he is the true leader of that movement. he's a super adventurous guy and just

he is no longer encumbered by the west wing in the jared kushner -- >> exactly. he's in the white house and saw how the sausage was made. and now he is on the outside and has access to the center of trump's base that voted for him in the election. >> it will be interesting to see what he does. he's a very intelligent smart guy, and very powerful and that power will continue albeit from outside the white house. we'll see how he does over there. >>> everybody stand by. i want to bring in democratic congressman ruben gallego, member of the services committee. let me get your reaction. steve bannon will once again take charge over at breitbart. >> well, i mean, i think it's not necessarily good for anybody that steve bannon is involved in any type of policy whether it's inside the white house or outside the white house. doesn't really change much. you still have a lot of avowed white nationalists, alt-left -- alt-right members in the white house, like miller and gorka, including the president himself who espouses a lot of these views with or without bannon. it's chan

on to say, you don't know if that's jared kushner's voice or not?as jared kushner, i had nothing to do with that. >> nothing to do with that? >> it's quite shocking. >> you have a twin in voice. >> yes. >> so that's pretty amazing. so that's not your voice? >> no. no, that's actually jared kushner's voice. >> all right, we'll, i'm glad which got that cleared up. because you have such a unique voice, gilbert. >> it's amazing that he's a duplicate. >> we'll be back with more in a moment, gilbert godfrey, thank you. ♪ hey, is this our turn? honey...our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there. we'll find them in our subaru outback. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. get 0% apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 subaru outback models. now through august 31. for over 100 years like kraft has,natural cheese you learn a lot about what people want. honey, do we have like a super creamy cheese with taco spice already in it? oh, thanks. bon appe-cheese! okay... your body was made for better things th

now jared kushner i think is in a somewhat different category.tten much more into the mix of things and his role is extraordinarily ambiguous. i think the question is with john kelly as chief of staff, somebody who wants to cut off all the back channels, somebody who for instance has told both of these folks they need to communicate in the official way through him, does kelly want them in the white house? and does he have the authority to perhaps convince them to go back to their new york -- to the new york lives? i'm not certain how this is going to turn out but it's very clear they are getting less than they bargained for when they came to washington. >> heidi, can i bring you in on the jared kushner question? this "vanity fair" story that glenn was -- we were talking about. kind of walks through the events leading up to that statement that the president put out and this goes back to the russia conversation we were having earlier in the show, leading up to that meeting that don jr. called with russians back in 2016. kind of details of how kushn

andthen the family, ivanka jared kushner.obert: they have been on vacation until thursday in vermont. they returned to be with president trump. the too are alarmed at president's turn. they were part of the group that urged the president to issue a new statement and not go what -- not go with what he said when he was critical of the episode. they have been unhappy with the 's incendiary turn. jared kushner, ivanka trump, cohen, it is a reminder that no one but president trump dictates what he does. charlie: steve bannon, people have been predict that he might , depending on the advice he is giving the president, that his rhetoric went too far and he ng, but also engaging in a fight with h.r. mcmaster, some suggest his time at the white house was in trouble. robert: he is on thin ice. bannon joined the campaign in 2016. you see him since day one navigating a white house that never saw him as a natural fit. he has always clashed with jared kushner. jared kushner is ok with international institutions, alliances, and once the pre

bossert wrote back to the fake jared kushner, thanks, jared.hat i can't refuse. also if you ever need it, my personal e-mail is redacted. we take all cyber related issues very seriously and are looking into these incidents further. cyber experts consulted by cnn is illustrative of how vulnerable americans, even those within the highest reaches of power at the trump white house, remains in the potential threat called spearfishing. that's the process in which they are duped by hackers and exposed to various cyber threats. you might recall this happened to john podesta. no one in any of these white house situations clicked any links making their computers vulnerable and the prankster appears motivated by mischief, not anything terrible. he said, i try to keep it on the humorous side of things. i'm not looking for the keys to the vault. the severity shouldn't be overlooked but he poses as a white house official. it possibly played a role in the te tensions between anthony scaramucci and reince priebus. massacre aiding as priebus, he e mailed a whit

jared kushner was very interested in manhattan specifically.nted a big building to make a big splash. with the benefit of hindsight, hen market was really hot t and not so hot after, so they paid more than they should have. -- how$600 million due have they been trying to get investment to pay that down? >> the most prominent way is going around looking for the wholeto raise tower and build a new one. a huge moonshot of a project. we report in this new story that they look to the korean sovereign wealth fund, they talked to a saudi mall developer coming israeli companies and the ceo of a luxury goods brand. they haven't had any luck so far. david: what has been the quality of those conversations given mr. kushner's position in the white house? has that changed the way these conversations have unfolded? >> it certainly seems that way. were able to get in many more doors after mr. trump's campaign started its meteoric rise. the exact finances of the project and what the project looks like, it is so big and so expensive that even though they are ge

or jared kushner? and you don't know if any family member including the president is giving you a full account of that. >> and margaret made an important point about the idea we don't know what the president knew at the time. did we know about the e-mail kman donald trump jr. put out. had to. got caught, and better account, being transparent but the e-mail, dirt on hillary clinton. we want to meet with you. the first story, on a "hannity" program, does your father know about this, point blank asked. >> did you tell your father anything about that? >> it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i mean, i wouldn't have even remembered it, until you start scouring through the stuff. literally a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. >> a wasted 20 minutes? now the issue is, the "post" reporting again, special counsel, perhaps in the end it's nothing. but talk to hope pix and the others on airs one. eventually the president. >> the reflex of every white house, to say as little as possible when you get

but gone through it before with bannon fighting with jared kushner, trump stepped in, figure it out. you never wane fight with the family. laid low and survived. i don't know how many times you can do that in the normal white house, answer is zero to one. i don't know what it is in this white house. if you're steve bannon you can't be sleeping all that well in the evenings at this point. >> see what happens. could be developments. who knows. stick around, everybody. david drucker, chris cillizza, tawana summers. >>> now wanting dealed information on more than a million people who visited a website organizing protests against president trump on inauguration day. also, author of a new book, you see him live in the studio complaining what he calling the troubling truth behind the rise of the alt right movement and white sprim sifts. supremacists. we'll be right back. trust safelite autoglass to fix it fast, and we'll get you back on the road! [dog barks] ♪safelite repair, safelite replace.♪ no splashing! wait so you got rid of verizon, just like that? uh-huh. i switched to t-mobile, kep

now, that is potentially a legal concern for jared kushner because of legal proceedings in at least four that have put the steinmetz family's money in the crosshairs due to allegations of bribery and money laundering. the kushner family real estate business has dropped its public association with the steinmetz companies, but they are definitely still in hock to them for hundreds of millions of dollars, which is potentially a problem for jared kushner if he did those deals with money that turns out to be dirty and that he either knew was dirty or that he should have known was dirty when he did the deals. we knew about that potential problem for jared kushner as of april of this year. well, today benny steinmetz got arrested in israel. he and four other people. here's the financial times today. quote, benny steinmetz, the israeli billionaire, has been detained by police for questioning on suspicion of crimes including fraud, breach of trust, money laundering, and forging documents. quote, police said they'd been investigating a number of people on suspicion that they had worked with their

but in may the company apologized after jared kushner's sister nicole meyer told chinese investors thatntire family and specifically mentioned jared, now a top aide to the president, raising questions of peddling. and there's the question of the u.s. immigration fund. republican senator chuck grassley is calling for a federal review of that company's arrangement with the kushner company. jersey city's mayor has his own questions about the eb-5 program. >> i think the goal of the eb-5 program is low income -- and i think that obviously did not serve that goal. >> did not. >> did not. >> jared kushner's trust still maintains an interest in that trump bay street project, but his lawyers point out he's divested himself of the one journal square project and says he will recuse himself from any matters concerned the eb-5 visa program. anna werner, cbs news, washington. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," our ""morning rounds" shows us the transgender oregon man who gave birth to a baby boy on social media.ring his story >>> plus, closing the digital divide. we'll tell you why the government

he's been the lead lawyer for jared kushner, including the russia information. bob mueller quit his role at that firm in order to become special counsel but that's a dicey issue for wilmer hale. is it okay if you're a big law firm to have your highest profile partner, your highest profile former partner working on opposite sides of a major case like this. that's a dicey issue. an arguably issue in terms of the legal ethics of that and the practicalities of that. so we did a story about this last month. in the middle of last month. in fact jamie ga relic had to step aside as jared kushner's lead counsel on matters related to the russia investigation. she continues to represent him on other things. but when it comes to russia, that conflict with her law firm, she had to step aside, let somebody else take other russia issues for jared kushner. and the whole reason we brought it up last month, i remember saying on the air, i'm going to figure this out. this makes no sense. the whole reason that has stuck in my crawl and the reason we brought that up on the show is b

>> we learned that even before the g20 summit, both jared kushner's team and don jr.'s legal team felt the strategy should be a detailed account about the trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer. then it appears the plan changed aboard air force i on the trip back from the g20. the degree to which the president was involved, what exactly he knew at the time and who else was involved in this initial misleading statement varies depending on who you speak with. we've been told that some of the president's closest aides, as we heard jeff zeleny report there, helps strategize on this response. as we previously reported, anyone involved in crafting the statement, including the president, could have legal exposure in the special counsel probe. and you can bet that robert mueller, who is leading that probe, is very interested in who is crafting this statement. >> i want to you stay with this. i also want to bring in our other specialists. phil mudd, your latest reaction to these developments because these twists and turns are dramatic. >> in some ways they're not twists an

and jared kushner and ivanka kushner playing key roles inside of the white house, one thing we'll find out how willing they are to exceed to the direction of john kelly, the new chief of staff as well. in some ways this a white house staff being built from the bottom up but the big question going to be is the president himself willing to change and change the way he does business? willing the change he communicates and is he able to fashion a coherent agenda, and dealing with the turmoil in the west wing he is alienating the allies he need in congress. like mitch mcconnell and lindsay graham and scott of south carolina. in order to get anything done in the senate he cannot afford to lose two votes and alienated key members every single day. >> every politician's goal, the first day in office is to get reelected. steve bannon is the person that helped him get reelected and tapped into the people that mainstream media forgot. steve bannon somehow now who the voters were. will it hurt the base? >> you are right about the influence in a steve bannon had even though the psident chafed at it

does that include jared kushner, steve bannon? everyone reports to kelly? sec. sanders: that includes everybody at the white house. >> and i have a quick question about tax reform. will the administration absolutely support the version of tax overhaul that comes out of the ways and means committee. sec. sanders: we are working hand in glove. we put out a joint statement with the big six. we will continue working with them and announce details as they come forward. >> thank you, sarah. when sean spicer resigned, it wiped the slate clean. now that anthony scaramucci resign, it was also for a clean slate. has the slate been thoroughly cleaned at this point? should we expect my staff shakeups? is everyone else planning to remain? sec. sanders: yes, they are. >> thank you, sarah. two very brief questions. is there any chance you will just leave the job of communications director alone, people whoto -- two held it leave rather abruptly. sec. sanders: we will let you know when we have any personnel announcements on that front. >> the other thing i wanted to ask was one

talking to the president and they're saying this includes first daughter ivanka and her husband jared kushner. is that the way things hr going to be? we sent out ronica cleary to get pulse of the people. what did you find out? >>reporter: people felt pretty unanimous about this topic. it came up in yesterday's briefing now that general kelly is in charge will people have to work through the chief of staff to get to the president in yesterday's comments when sarah huk bisaid they were enough for the white house press core, they asked her again today. take a listen. i don't think anybody just wonders into the oval house house. he's the president of the united states of america and there are processes. what are the chances of talking to the president without the approval of general kelly. i wouldn't say approval is the correct word . it's not like we're getting permission slips signed i do think there is something to having a structured process in order to make things run more smoothly at the white house. so let's say that that does become the standard that everybody from ivanka to steve bannon,

but in may the company apologized after jared kushner's sister, nicole meyer, told potential chinese investors that the journal square project was important to her entire family and specifically mentioned her brother jared, now a top aide to the president. that raised questions of influence peddling. and there are questions about a florida company the kushners used to recruit chinese investors called the "u.s. immigration fund." republican senator chck grassley is calling for a federal review of ha company's arrange. with the kushner company. jersey city's mayor steven fulop has his own concerns about the financing for the trump bay street project. >> i think the eb-5 project is low income, investment in low-income areas. i think that obviously didn't serve that goal. >> reporter: it did not? >> did not. >> reporter: jared kushner's trust still maintains an interest in that trump bay street project, but his lawyers point out he's divested himself of the interest in the one journal square project and says he will recuse himself from any matters concerning the eb-5 visa program. anthon

other advisers have been frequent targets and most notably jared kushner. h kushn kushner. this article calls out bannon's enemies in the administration by na name. listing hr mcmaster and dean powell and gary cohn. bannon would use breitbart to attack his opponents in the white house. jared kushner and the so called west wing democrats that he calls them. >> cnn, atlanta. >>> joining me now is editor and chief, raheem casana, thank you for joining us. >> steve bannon of this remarkable interview, now, i am free. i got my hands back on my weapon. i am going to cross the proposition, there is no doubt. i built a blank machine at breitbart. >> i think the president is in agreement with him, too. certainly that's where i understand the case to be. there were people in there that adopt subscribe to the way that president trump was elected. >> in the white house. >> in there? >> it is not a secret. there are people in there who have more -- and more george h.w. bush of doing things. people who are not helpful to the president's trade agenda. i don't think it is g