i'm a strong democrat, i disagree with jared kushner on 99 things, but on one thing, jared kushner has been a shockingly effective advocate inside the white house. he went toe to toe with kelly and others inside that building and said, this is an injustice and it has to be stopped. and trump acted. and listen, i think trump is wrong 99% of the time. but on some of these issues around prison reform and criminal justice, i think you're starting to see some bipartisan agreement that even in the age of trump, something needs to be done. but kim kardashian-west needs to be given credit. she was vilified in the press and may made fun of her, but she had a victory in the age of trump and she needs to be acknowledged. >> what you're hearing, van, john kelly opposed this decision? >> well, my understanding is that this was strong opposition inside the building from all quarters, and that jared kushner was willing to stand his ground to get this thing done and to get it pushed all the way through. and you have seen reporting out there that kelly was not a fan of this, didn't like this. and i thi

they spoke with -- the issue is jared kushner. jared kushner went around the process. he went around the staff. he made a recommendation to the president. if he couldn't take a hot second to do background work to figure out if this guy was for real, how much prep work is he doing on any issue he is working on? it would have taken 30 seconds to figure out this guy was a fake. >> why would bob menendez, new jersey senator, have an assistant with an english accent and an l.a. area code? it's the most absurd thing. if any of you listen to howard stern, i mean, to think back then, if you knew stuttering john and donald trump were going to have this conversation in the year 2018 -- >> you remember -- you used to listen to howard stern, maybe you still do. trump was a regular guest. >> everyone remembers stuttering john and the round table. one would be president and the other would -- >> if there was -- bob menendez and jared kushner share an attorney. >> i didn't know that. >> they have the same attorney. i wonder if that may have played a role. who knows? >> just back chec

jared kushner's push for peace. tell us more about kushner selling his plan while at the same time taking a swipe at palestinian leadership. >> jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser gave an interview to the israeli newspaper. that is quite surprising. he doesn't interview very often and second, how he chose to do so or who he chose to interview with for the palestinian people and they haven't met in recent months with the leadership with the trump administration. kushner laid out the framework or the basis of the peace plan the trump administration is working on. he didn't reveal details, but tried to reach out to the palestinian people and said even if the leadership won't, they should consider the peaz proposal & said both sides will be better off in the long run for doing so, but he points out this is not a final plan, but a basis for negotiations between the two sides. as i mentioned, they froze with the trump administration after trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel and now

embassy from jared kushner working from a deficient there. and hoping the prince has more luck. >> matt bradley in london for us thank you. >>> turkish president recep erdogan and his ruling party have claimed victory in the presidential election overcoming the biggest electoral challenge to rule in more than a decade. the electoral board declared he had an absolute majority paycheck the way for another five-year term. despite this the opposing republican people's party did not kmeeld concede defeat. . >>> we turn to emerging details about anthony bourdain's death. according to his toxicology report the chef appear television hoeft did not have narcotics in his byrd when he did. the details were revealed to the "new york times" saying there was only a trace of a non-narcoticic medicine in a therapeutic dose. nbc has not verified it. he was found dead earlier this month in france. he was in the village filming an upmany coming episode for his television show. police ruled his death suicide. >>> storm damage brought a disaster declaration to pa

just the idea that jared kushner got a security clearance.ve that means he's in the clear. other people that's absolutely not true. >> there's never been any person that looks more like not even god himself can sink me than donald trump. >>> next, president trump is brandishing his pardon power, offering to signal to all those ensnared in the mueller probe. is trump looking to pardon his way out of the russia probe? look at him smiling. of course he is. this is "hardball," where the action is. signature toughness... and one more thing... the world comes with it. the new, reimagined 2019 jeep cherokee. the full value of your new car? you're better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with new car replacement, if your brand new car gets totaled, liberty mutual will pay the entire value plus depreciation. liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance. the first survivor of ais out there.sease and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. visit alz.org to join

can jared kushner put forward a genuine peace plan without having spoken to the palestinians over the plan, steve, from your analysis likely to be dead on arrival if it does not include the palestinians upfront? >> you and i have been at this peace game watching business for a long time. >> sadly, yes. >> for years and years. i don't see a formula where jared kushner can roll out a play, that may have support behind the scenes from saudis and others without talking to the palestinians. to make them victims yet again of something imposed upon them i think is a recipe for failure, more violence and problems in the region. what we're seeing because of the decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem in part is that a significant part of the arab world no longer looks at the united states as a fair and objective broker in this process, it looks at it as one sided. and that's why the palestinians won't meet with our negotiators but at the same time it makes it impossible for the u.s. to impose a deal. >> valid points, steve. steve, an degrdrea, thank you b very much. president trump beli

there was word that jared kushner was trying to get money from the golf organizations.t know and we shouldn't have to ask these questions. that's why in the past presidents have divested themselves. in this case the first family, which has a first policy poll. we have to wonder is ivanka getting trademarks from china for some reason? the chinese investment of a property in indonesia? did that influence the president's decision to reverse sanctions on the gte? we shouldn't have to wonder. but with this majority in congress unwilling to do oversight and with the first family unwilling to divest, we are left to question whether the policy is driven by their financial interests and not the interests of our country. >> who is looking into this? the public majority in the house of representatives not interested, right? >> not interested. it should be done by the government reform and trey gowdy, but it's not. they're unwilling to look into anything that will either embarrass the president, reveal wrongdoing of the administration, and that leaves the country in jeopardy. >> yo

the idea that jared kushner can bring peace to the middle east. he doesn't just lack experience, have zero diplomacy experience, he is a property developer, but he is a walking conflict of interest. this is a guy who, you know, is close family friends with the netanyahus. has been since he was a child. benjamin netanyahu slept in his bed when he was a kid. jared went to the basement. best friends with netanyahu. he and his father have massive investments in israel and from israelis in their own businesses back here in the united states. and his family foundation, the kushner foundation, ali, has given tens of thousands of llars to settlements in the west bank, which are considered illegal under international law, and which all administrations have called an obstacle to peace. how can you be a peace broker when both feet are plant eed firmly on one side of the conflict? >> where he does have experience is where he decided to be best friends with salman of saudi arabia, which ended up in qatar being ostracized and embargoed, really, by its middle ea

the russia investigation shines a spotlight on someone new, a close friend of jared kushner. later, president trump hints more pardons might be on the way including for martha stewart and former illinois governor. it's going to be interesting. late night's jimmy kimmel has his own theory. >> he part pardoned a far right man d'souza. it sounds like somebody's putting together his own oceans eleven team or something. he lowe on our rooms, guaranteed? let's get someone to say it with a really low voice. carl? lowest price guaranteed. what about the world's lowest limbo stick? how low can you go? nice one, carl. hey i've got an idea. just say, badda book. badda boom. badda book. badda boom. nice. always the lowest price, guaranteed. book now at choicehotels.com at fidelity, our online u.s. equity trades are just $4.95. so no matter what you trade, or where you trade, you'll only pay $4.95. fidelity. open an account today. one picky customer shouldn't take all your time. need something printed? the business advisors at office depot can assist with exactly what your business needs

this is a close friend of jared kushner.re are nice beaches there, it's not an obvious place for an american to go on vacation and to be in text communication with george nader, a very important figure in setting up this apparently back channel. >> i'll be skeptical now. why we have meetings that have occurred beginning in '16 well before the nomination of donald trump when he was just a candidate, there were meetings, of course, at the mayflower hotel here in washington, the famous one in june at the trump tower. there were meetings the rnc convention, republican convention with kislyak from moscow and all these meetings. the meetings in the senate office of jeff sessions. all of these meetings in public daylight. and then they have to meet in the seychelles with tersetory partners representing each other. why would they be so scared to meet over there if they're walking around in daylight in the united states? >> that's a good question. we know that the say shells is a place where this crown brins of abu dhabi liked to do

jared kushner inside the white house says this was an important issue.o prison. you can't look at a 63-year-old grandmother who will die in prison, never get parole ever because of a nonviolent drug offense a decade ago. it all came together you got to give credit to these young female attorneys, and these young video activists and you got to give credit to jared kushner. but kim kardashian walked in that white house, very few celebrities and athletes would do that. and she came out with a victory. you got to give her credit. >> why didn't president obama do it? >> president obama did more pardons and more come mutations than anybody. he had a huge operation to try to get that figured out. on this particular case i felt, a lot of people felt they were too cautious because she had negative associations earlier. they said we just don't feel comfortable. so many groups had her at the number one position on their list for come tagss under obama. i'm glad it got done under trump. i'm very very proud you can still eke out a chicken mcnugget even in the trump e

jared kushner and john kelly aren't often on the same page of some of these things and we're seeing jaredhner making a comeback in the west wing. he got his security clearance reinstated after so much drama with that. we are seeing him really make a stand here. he was given a lot of things in his portfolio when he joined the adtion involving peace in the middle east and several others and the office of innovation technology. prison reform has been one of jared kushner's main things and we are seeing him stick by that by inviting kim kardashian, and we are seeing it does say something about jared kushner's role in the white house and it also raisuestiof the president is trying to send a signal to his allies with this pardoning power. we know the paul manafort and michael cohen, those situations there as well. i also told one more thing. since the president has been pardoning people in recent days and his friends outside of the white house has bn calling the president or speaking with people who speak to the president often and trying to lobby for the president to pardon people. that they t

but also to his son-in-law, jared kushner. e first to actually hear kardashian west's plea. my next guest reports that kushner now has apparently pardon fever. "vanity fair's" gabriel sherman, we call him gabe around these parts, is with me. >> this seem to be not just an isolated case but the beginning of a larger strategy by jared kushner and he hopes his father-in-law to use the pardons to really change the narrative. what i find so striking is that this is at odds with the campaign promises that the president ran on, which was to be tough on crime and we should point out the president has talked about, you know, using the death penalty on drug dealers. so it's, you know, these two things are sort of really at odds with each other, but clearly it's sort of the jared more compassionate view seems to be getting some traction. >> some have jokingly dubbed kushner the secretary of everything. these are just a few of the things that have been assigned to him so far in this white house. this is part of his portfolio. white house i

eventually, you get a call from jared kushner, his son-in-law, and adviser.id he was in north dakota. i'm surprised they didn't give me his longitude and latitude. i mean, they told me where the president was and that i would get a call back. now, i thought it might be over. then, i don't know, a half hour later, i get a call from jared kushner in air force one. he's like and -- granted, i'm answering the phone with this bad long island accent of mine. i go, hello, hello? he goes, this is jared kushner. i put on my fake english accent again. oh, hello, jared. this is sean moore. how did they not know this is a scam? it is so obvious. then jared goes, i can get the president now for you, but he is in a meeting, or you know, i can have him call you back. i said, call back. i knew i had to call my friend in new york to record it. he said, one more question. what do you want, you know -- what does the senator want to speak to the president about? i said, oh, you know, the senator had a long conversation with the president about immigration and wanted to get some

and why is the house intelligence committee's top democrat, adam schiff, planning to go after jared kushner and ivanka trump? details next. >> importantly we would also be doing oversight again and making sure that the country is being run for the benefit of its citizens, not for the benef nald trump or iv or jared kushner or anyone else in the family. ♪ and if i can get comfortable keeping this tookus safe and protected... you can get comfortable doing the same with yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. ♪ rawwggwwrughh! well, i told you they wouldn't have it. rawwggwwrughh! it's ok, it'. we've got time. ♪ [impact collision] rawwggwwrughh! [impact collision] ...ughhhh! what!!! seeing your real-life millennium falcon get damaged is painful enough. filing your insurance claim shouldn't be. esurance makes it easy. so you can get on to your next adventure. oh, we gotta pick up my mom. ...ughhhh! ♪ esurance. see solo: a star wars story now playing. >> shannon: it is not fake news. a proposal to split california into three different states has gotten enough signatures to get onto the nov

there's been quite a bit of diplomacy going on the last few days in the middle east with jared kushner, do you have anything concrete to tell us about any sort of positive movement whatsoever from all of this? >> again, we think that the meetings that took place over the last week with senior advisor jared kushner and special representative jason greenblatt. they met with a number of officials and principals in saudi arabia, jordan, egypt, israel and qatar last week. they discussed the situation in gaza as well as the next stages of the peace effort. we'rengo continue those conversations, and we're committed to the peace effort, and we're going to keep working forward, but those conversations were productive. julie? >> sarah -- [inaudible] -- said today that they are no longer going to be referring people who cross the border with authorization of criminal charges if they are traveling with the children which would return to the obama administration practice and administrations before that, does the president support that approach and if so, does he regret trying to push forward on a z

and there is a split between jared kushner and john kelly. jared kushner arranged the meeting with kim kardashian to meet with president trump. but john kelly does not think alice johnson is worthy of a presidential pardon. so that is a debate going on inside the white house. larger what we're looking at is not an unusual pattern of a president pardoning people. all presidents do that. but what's unusual here is that the president has pardoned several people just 17 months in office. i'm told that has caused friends and allies of the president to lobby him on behalf of people they believe deserve forgiveness here, john. >> different, i guess is what way to put it. thank you. with me here in the studio to share their insights, maggie haberman, phil mattingly, and eliana johnson. the president is very different. there are a lot of systems in washington that need to be changed. is this one of them? what is the president's impulse here? is it i have this power, i can't get congress to do anything, is that what it is? >> i think that's a big aspec

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this one involves a hedge fund manager and close friend of jared kushners. in january of last year he was part of the meeting with the crown prince of abu dhabi. a few weeks earlier he'd been in a secret meeting with kushner and the prips at a new york hotel. that other meeting we reported on befores with organized in part by a guy named george nader. he's a lebanese businessman with close ties to the emirates. that included prince, the black water founder and the russian official. they're look at whether that meet, meeting two was an attempt to set a back channel with the kremlin. julie aimsly is here along with national security for the washington post. and, matt, i'll get to you in a second. julie, let me start with you and explain why this matters. why does it matter that he is now being looked at so closely on this? >> so it matters because of his connection to the united emirates. and it's just been emerging that he's not only interested in russian influence but united arab imrates as well which is thought to be lesser but still significant. he's close

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. >>> outside income, a new report this week on how much money jared kushner and ivanka trump made this year and the number is staggering. >>> heartache at the border, the separation of children from their mothers. there's a new report on exactly how many times it has happened in recent weeks. we've got those details now on "msnbc live." >>> new this morning, the president's attorney, rudy giuliani, responding to questions about presidential partens on the same day a judge revoked former campaign manager paul manafort's bail and sent him to jail. nbc white house correspondent kelly o'donnell has the details from her perch at the white house. with a good morning, what can you tell us? >> good morning alex. the top former campaign official for the president's 2016 campaign, paul manafort, lost the relative comfort and privilege of house arrest, he is accused of witness tampering and so late friday night, he was moved about a two-hour drive outside washington, d.c., to a regional jail in war saw, virginia. in a section called the vip 1 section of that jail. and paul manafort will have to w

jared kushner's father tried to get a significant loan from a qatari official.s turned down, the trump officials turned against qatar. that's why that amount of influence in the white house divest and these guys didn't. >> maggie haberman wrote about that they say they've made sacrifices to move to washington and to work in government, yes they're banking -- >> i really favor that word unpaid. another case we should bring up is zte. ivanka got a bunch of trademarks in china. right around the same time that trump tru trump decided he was going to forgive this communications company, not once but twice, the people behind it at the company were actually rewarded by the executives at the company. the u.s. government was ready to punish zte for not only this sanctions violation but accusations of spying but trump put the kibosh on that around the same time that ivanka got a bunch of patents from the government. it smellsweird. the real estate itself is a really shady, opaque kind of business. ivanka has a long history of working on projects with her dad that have tie

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here is what jared kushner is quoted saying and all cards today.essage directly to the palestinian president. he says, quote, i'm ready to work with president abbas if he wishes. it is ready to go back to the negotiating table we are ready to participate in the discussion. that's not the case, we are going to make the plan public. that's with or without us we are going to a peace plan. now's your get on board. >> that's right. if he wants to have any influence what happens come he better speak up and participate. it does not do any good for him to say he's not going to negotiate with the united states. we will see what happens. this is typical of the administration to do what it believes is right in the u.s. interest in the interest of our closest allies and adversaries are partners are going to have to figure out how to adapt and get the best situation for themselves and have to wake up to that. >> jared kushner certainly is speaking directly to the palestinian people. but the fascinating strategy. i believe that in order to reach an agreement, bo

here's what jared kushner told the palestinian newspaper.s, president abass is committed to peace, but i question that he is ready to make a deal. a peace plan hasn't been achieved in 25 years. that does not sound terribly optimistic. is it a nudge to get a move or is it an early rationalization of this isn't working, therefore, it's not our fault? >> it might be a lgt bittle bit all of the above. the language they used which the white house helped to push out over the weekend is really interesting because he talks about how long abbas has been around, how weak he is within the palestinian people. to me the question it raises is, okay, is the u.s. trying to replace abbas with a new palestinian leader, or is the u.s. saying, we're going to release this peace plan. the palestinians won't be a part of it. get ready, here it comes. i think we've always been expecting the last quarter of the year to see this plan. i think the goal is by the end of this year. we still have some time but it doesn't look like the palestinians will be part of the rol

sanders: again, we think that the meetings that took place over the last week with senior advisor jared kushner and special representative jason greenblatt, they met with a number of officials and principals in saudi arabia, jordan, egypt, israel, and qatar last week. they discussed the situation in gaza as well as the next stages of the peace effort. we're going to continue those conversations and we're committed to the peace effort, and we're going to keep working forward. but those conversations we productive. julie. >> sarah, the commissioner of customs and border protection said today that they're no longer going to be referring people who cross the border without authorization for criminal charges if they're traveling with children, which is essentially returned to the obama administration practice and administrations before that. does the president support that approach? and if so, does he regret trying to push forward on a zero-tolerance approach in the first place? sec. sanders: no, the president certainly supports keeping families together, which he has outlined several times over the

why jared kushner should be concerned. and families torn apart. outrage continues to grow over thousands of migrant children being held in custody without their parents as the trump administration enforces what it calls its zero tolerance policy on border enforcement. we begin now focused on north korea. the story this weekend, though, is quite different. >> we'll be meeting on june 12th in singapore. it went very well. it's really a get-to-know-you kind of situation. >> president trump yesterday minutes after meeting with kim yong chol, a top north korean official at the white house. in which he presented this enormous letter from kim jong un. now the sum sit back on eight days after the president cancelled it and seven days after the ladders of north and south korea held a meeting of their own and aft. with me is hans nichols. he is in singapore where defense secretary james mattis just covered a security summit. you've been at the wonderfully named shangri-la summit for these last couple of days. have i to a i have to ask you, first of all, wha

new reporting today on the surprising role that jared kushner played in the lead up to president trump with kim jong-un. the "new york times" reporting the north korean government used an american businessman to contact jared kushner to try to set up back channel discussions. "the times" also reports that businessman gabriel schules stood to gain financially running an investment firm that specializes in untapped economies. he first met the trump family when they wrecks plorg business deals asia according to "the times. "kushner notified the cia, specifically pompeo, and asked the agency handle the negotiations. at the time tillerson was secretary of state. joining me now is a former pyongyang bureau chief for the associated press and steven walled, professor of international affairs at harvard university. jean, i'm going to start with you on this one is this kind of outreach out of the norm, to reach out to someone like jared kushner? >> certainly not normal, but with north korea, the united states and north korea do not have diplomatic relations. the back channel that they had been u

the office of ethics says both jared kushner and ivanka complied with ethic rules.e are joined by bob acosta. the question is how did they manage to make billions of dollars where in theory they were supposed to have divested financial interest behind them where ivanka made a decision of taking an actual government job. >> it is a great question. when you go into government you are able to make money and the holdings that you have and those things can accrue different kinds of gains over the course of the year. while this shows while there has been many sacrifice by anyone who enters government and certainly take a pay cut, you have seen many politicians, public officials do really well having a position of power and seeing their own investment improved overtime. >> can we talk about the trump hotel for a second? >> according to these reports ivanka trump made $3.9 million in revenue of the trump hotels. we know from our reporting and others have done that it is becoming gathering spot in washington and if you sign up at the bar or the trump hotel, you will see an a

jared, he made more than $5 million from a kushner company property quail ridge. an apartment complex paid for in large part using israeli financing firms. in fact, bloomberg reports the kushner company line of credit at israeli banks increased five fold in the last year. ivanka trumped raked in 4 million bucks in her stake in the trump hotel in d.c. this comes as a federal judge was highly critical of president trump's financial interests in that hotel. accord together washington post justice department lawyers say the president, he's not break the law because he's not trading favors in benefit. david is a political reporter and a beast when it comes to all things trump and money for the washington post. first with the hotel. even if the trumpven if the judge rules against the president, which he already has in another matter, what's actually going to happen here? because president trump, jared ivanka, they could have a couple uncomfortable news days, but that's a whole lot of dough. >> well, this lawsuit you're talking about is a lawsuit from the d.c. and maryla

jared kushner tried to set up a secret communications channel between the white house and the kremlinunately, he couldn't find a string love enough to reach moscow. [ laughter ] now we don't know exactly what came of all these attempts to set up a secret back channel, but earlier this week we learned more about what exactly the kremlin may have wanted from the trump team, when the "new yorker" published a blockbuster story about ex-british spy christopher steele. he's the guy who wrote that infamous dossier about trump's alleged ties to russia, the one that contained those salacious rumors about trump. now, i can't tell you about those rumors, because they are unverified. but i don't need to, because, as we've documented on this show before, trump wingman and fox news host sean hannity is all too happy, for some reason, to repeat the details of this embarrassing allegation over and over again on his show. and with the steele dossier back in the news, trump supporter sean hannity is at it again. >> remember, that's the dossier that talked about trump at a ritz-carlton in moscow with tw

again, we -- i think that the meetings that took place over the last week with senior adviser jared kushner and special representative jason greenblatt, they met with a number of principals and officials in saudi arabia, jordan, israel, egypt and qatar last week. they discussed the situation in gaza as well as the next stages of the peace effort. we're going to continue those conversations, and we're committed to the peace effort and working forward but those conversations with productive. >> the commissioner of customs and border protection said they will no longer be referring people for criminal prosecution if they are traveling which is essentially turning back to the obama administration and administrations before that. does the president support that approach and does he regret pushing forward on a zero tolerance policy? >> the president certainly supports keeping families together which he's outlined and he's called on congress to actually fix the system. they are the only ones that ultimately have the ability to change the law. the president's executive order has given a temporary s

new questions about the vast private earnings of jared kushner and ivanka trump as serving as unpaidcial disclosures say they took home at least $82 million in 2017. joining me now, adjunct professor. big welcome to you. should it beurprise they made that much money working in the white house? >> it's a big number, but how much money did the president make last year? how much money did anybody named trump make because we still haven't seen the tax returns. >> that's a good point with regard to the president. specifically jared and ivanka, are they profiting from the p presidency? some holdings have foreign ties. is there a benefit from them being in the white house and close to the president financially speaking? >> absolutely. absolutely. when the president went to china, i believe one of the things that happened was that ivanka got some permission to do more licensing in china, and that wasn't -- it was helpful that she was there with the president. and jared kushner's family company is now maybe going to get rescued from a very difficult situation with a skyscraper they own in man

. >> joining him, jared kushner, ivanka trump, donald trump jr., tiffany trump. staying behind at the white house it seems, first lady melania trump. the public hasn't seen her in 23 days, many wondering where she might be. >>> north korean summit restart is getting mixed reactions from ally. >> live from singapore where it's set to take place in a little more than a week. we're at the white house where we start now with ryan nobles. ryan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christi. this summit that was on and then off is back on again. lengthy meeting with kim on-choi, the president emerging from that meeting, announcing that the summit planned for june 12th would go forward as planned, despite the president himself saying in a letter to kim jong-un not too long ago that the summit wasn't going to go forward. and the president clearly taking a different tone as it relates to north korea. remember, a few months ago where the president described kim jong-un as little rocket man and was talking about being -- or talking about the size of his nuclear button. n

>> according to jared kushner, mahmoud abbas may not to agree. talking points in 25 years, we need the palestinian people to agree, but they may leave the palestinian leadership out. >> very different when talking about abbas agreeing versus the palestinian people. >> exactly, trying to split the difference, we will see how it plays out. more detail to come but the pace of activity has been incredible, trump's appetite for international deals very high-energy president. >> if you sit back and think about it, the amount in terms of foreign policy, folks are saying foreign policy would not be his strong point but he is getting a lot of things done. >> donald trump natural diplomat and his style was so different he wants to sit down with world leaders, doesn't care about the so-called optics, wants to shake their hands, look them in the eye, put out controversial ideas and see how they react. that is his style. >> john bolton headed to moscow tomorrow. is he laying the groundwork for the potential summit and what would the benefit be of that meeting

accent of mine, and then as soon as i go, h hello, hello, and they go, yes, and he is goes, this is jared kushnerand then i put on the fake english accent again and hello, jared, this is shawn moore and how do they not know it is a scam. it is so obvious. and then jared goes, then he said one more question. what does the senator want to speak to the president about? and i said, oh, you know the senator had a long conversation with the president about immigration and we wanted to get some closure on it. who knows if that ever happened. i don't think so. he goes okay, great. and that was it. and then 20 minutes later i get a call from the president on air force one. >> what's the goal here? you get him on the phone. you talk to the president of the united states. it lasts about six minutes. once you start talking to him is the goal to keep him on the hook to make it last as long as it does. you played it straight. you talk about immigration legislation. you talk about who might be the next supreme court justice. what was your strategy going into the call once you realized you were going to have a c

much. >>> back in the white house, the rich keep getting richer if your name is ivanka trump or jared kushnerw filings reveal the couple made $82 million in outside income last year. at least 70 million went to kushner from companies tied to estate empire. ivanka trump pulled in at least $12 million. the new disclosures show even as the two remain unpaid advisers inside the white house, they're still making a lot of money from their business ties. a. amy briton crunched those numbers. she joins us now. amy, so you've looked at all the numbers, obviously people are going to say what about the conflict of interest, how can they still be making money from their past business relationships? what did ethics experts tell you? >> well, i mean, this is a situation that is highly unusual when you're dealing with two senior advisers who have this amount of personal wealth that they retained while also working in the white house. now, i can tell you that jared and ivanka's team, they believe that the vast majority of their holdings do not pose any conflicts for them. we did an analysis last year on the

. >> and president trump's son-in-law and seen year advisor jared kushner says the administration will soon unveil its middle east peace plan with or without input from the palestinians. >> good morning, everyone. it's monday, june 25th. the federal government under president trump is now tasked with putting families back together after they were forcibly separated at the southern border. children from those families have been spread from maryland to michigan to california as well as shelters in virginia and what the washington post describes as cold institutional settings with adult who is are not permitted to touch them or with foster parents who do not speak spanish but who hug them when they cry. department of homeland security told nbc that as of june 20th, 2,053 migrant children were separated from their parents. a migrant lawyer says that people separated from their children are being told they can reunite with their kids at the airport if they agree to sign a voluntary deportation order now. in el paso a charity tells it's housing 32 immigrant mothers and fathers who don't know

jared kushner was jt in the region recently.re young men, unelected, trying t make a difference in this region in different ways, but there it has to be noted, this is a place where even elected politicians have nails again and again. back to you. >> keir, thank you. >>> the u.s. supreme court will wrap upts term thi week, we are waiting on several decisions s including president trum travel ban. justices aid dg the third version of that ban. the court allowed it to go into effect back in december, pending appeals. as soon as that decision comes down, we'll send an alert out on ngton app. >>> prayers continue to pour in katie arrington. this is a look at her on the ai campaign l. she's in critical condition now after a car accident th claimed the life of the other driver over the weekend. the head on crash happened friday night. her campaign manager saying that arrington is expected to remain in the hospital for the next weeks as she recovers. her oppont suspended campaign activities. >> well, they can't drink alcohol or join th

the president has been influenced by a jared kushner.who did not want high pressure offer this comcommutation including his chf of staff john kelly. but what do you see this signaling to the department of justice? >> this is little inconsistent with a.g. sessions' directive. that is federal prosecutors should charge the highest level cr and prosecute the highest level crimes. i hope they can reevaluate that. i have federal defendants dealing with that directive. in this conation, let's take at that directive. kennedy: do you feel it's fair for alice johnson to get all this attention when there are plenty of other people who got life. >> there is a process for clemency. not everyone may have kim kardashian behind them. but it starts with a discussion. this is a step in the right direction, kennedy. always pleasure. kennedy: kim k. isn't the on celeb making pical w. five-time nba champ dennis rodman will be in singapore for the sum the worm has hmit kingdom five times. he has even taken some credit for improved relations and claims he gave

. >> i get a call and it is jared kushner. i know it is jared, i am a political news junky.e i'm going in and out of my english accent. i'm like yes, how are you doing jared, he said i can get the president out of his meeting now and call him back in a few minutes. i said please have him call me back. i knew i had to call my friend in new york to record it. now i'm getting nervous. i'm like this kane can't be happening. sure enough 20 minutes later, and then i answered with my bad long island accent. i was like let me get the senator on the phone. i was like bob, i want to congratulate you. i didn't even know he was in any legal problems. if they would have asked me what party affiliation he had or what state he represented, i would have been stumped, i had no idea. i don't know anything about senate e me lor melendez. >> i want to bring in samantha, you worked for president obama. i know you have been the person that has to patch through the calls to air force one. is it easier for something like this to happen than we may think? >> no, tons of prank calls come in every day

jared kushner told me his father-in-law wants a peace plan.s going to put a peace plan on the table. the arabs will say maybe. the palestinians almost certainly are going to say no. mr. trump will say i tried. palestinians will probably take the hit. and the whole process will be parked through the midterms. >> failing a tiation, that's the best outcome for this administration. >> you're not very hopeful at all? >> that this peace plan is supposedly a 30 page document will generate some progress? >> i mean, you know, i'd be the first to break open the champagne, we didn't have much success over the course of the last 20 years, i hope they succeed, i just don't -- i think mr. kushner has mission impossible. >> the next hour, the president will be receiving jordan's king abdullah at the white house. i assume they're going to have a note toe op at the top. jordan is under enormous pressure right now, all the refugees coming in from syria. >> on june 19th, mr. kushner saw the king. and on june 21st, the white house denounced that the king was comi

and i say that, as we now know that jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, met several times withiss kardashian leading up to this, in the months to leading up to her release from prison. >> mike: there are some things for which people should be locked up for life, there are some crimes that that heinous. i ha it out as governor. i didn't enjoy it, but there are some crimes for which that is an ou can't just go around and put everyone in a lock up. so what you do, you have to realize that when people come out as a felon come up they can't even get a job emptying a bedpan in a nursing home because we have created background checks that say, if you have a conviction, most jobs he will never be able to do. how does that help us in the long term? th truth is, it doesn't. >> sandra: fascinating stuff, and i'm sure we will learn more about these women. those will live on forever. we will keep following this, governor. than for being here tonight. >> mike: always a pleasure. >> sandra: first lady melania trump making her first public appearance in weeks. so where was she? greg gutfeld ha

much of jared's revenue that's coming is from kushner-related properties. ivanka not nearly $4 million from the trump hotel in d.c., actually. >> in total, i think you reported $12 million for i van car from the breakdown -- as you said, trump hotel in d.c. also reference payments, although she -- what, she may return to the trump organization a bit later on. the clothing line. also the trump organization's international projects. so, overall, the lawyer for the couple says they've complied with all of the government ethics rules. but is there a very thin line there? >> well, some of the outside ethics critics say they haven't done enough to really draw a line between their private interests and their roles in the white house. if you look at the situation, it's really unprecedented the amount of outside wealth that they have. the fact that they're serving as unpaid senior advisers to the president. and they're relying on the advice of their attorneys to say if there are certain situations that they should recuse themselves. for instance if there's a tomek i

eye on twitter of a reality star kim kardashian who took up her case, and she pleaded it with jared kushner and president trump. just one week later, she is a free woman. she walked out of that jail cell this morning where she was supposed to spend the rest of her life and into the arms of her weeping and grateful family, can you imagine how all of these people feel having their mom and their grandmother back? she is going to join us in just a moment but we begin tonight with breaking news. it's been very interesting to watch this, this has become a priority for the trump administration to grant clemency, grant pardons -- what do you make of this part of the president's goals? >> it will go into the books for a lot of people as another example of him ignoring the norms of presidential behavior. there is a process i which pardons are supposed to be gathered and processed and examined and recommendations made to the president. the president has to be sure sweeping authority to grant pardons. the purpose of all of those processes is to make it easy for him and to protect him from making a mist

she connected me with her husband, jared kushner, and he has really been amazing. he listened to her story, would always ask for more deill thats and more paperwork and letters. and he was, like, on top of it. >> what was it about this case that just grabbed you? >> well, i do think there's something to, i had happened to be on twitter at that exact moment. i just really fell for her. you felt that she's a good person. she lost her long-time job, got a divorce, her son died. just all of her -- everything was going so bad for her and she got desperate. and she had four other baby she is had to take care of. and she was desperate. and she made choices that i feel honestly, you know, maybe not to that extreme, but when you're in a desperate situation, you'll do whatever you have to do to take care of your kids. and i know that i would do anything for my kids. anticipate so i just felt this connection to her. i wanted to help her. >> you got ivanka trump's phone number. it must have felt like hey, listen, i eave got to do something. the meeting with president trump, th