involved in that process. >> reporter: in a rare interview tonight, the president's son-in-law, jared kushnertells israeli tv that the democrats are playing silly games when it comes to impeachment. kushner also taking exception to comments from 2020 contender joe biden who told "60 minutes" this weekend that having trump family members in the administration is improper. >> what's improper about that? >> it is just simply improper because you should make it clear to the american public that everything you are doing is for them, for them. >> he's entitled to his opinion, but a lot of the work that the president's had me doing over the last three years has actually been cleaning up the messes that vice president biden left behind. >> reporter: tonight the president celebrating another blow to isis via twitter, announcing the death of isis spokesman who is seen as a possible replacement to al baghdadi. questions remain about trump as claim about how the death of the isis leader went down. >> he died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way. >> reporte

president trump's son-in-law jared kushner firing back at former vice president joe biden after biden business serving in the white house. and that is not all kushner is saying. cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is joining me now. he took shot on him while overseas. >> he said a couple of days ago in an interview with 60 minutes he thought it was improper for jared kushner and ivanka trump to serve in the white house in the president's administration. he has said that his own children would not do so. so jared kushner in an interview with israel channel 13, he fired back. this is what he said. >> look, he's entitled to his opinion. but a lot of the work that the president has had me doing over the last three years is cleaning up the messes that vice president biden left behind. >> what those messes are, kushner cited criminal justice and biden was part of voting for the '90s crime bill and jared kushner helped pass the first step act and those are what he pointed to and a political line of attack as well here. >> and kushner was asked about the impeachment inquiry. what did

harvard. >> i began speaking with people familiar with jared kushner's high school record and it turned he was not a particularly outstanding or motivated student. and there was no lack of people willing to attest to that. >> charles kushner had donated $2.5 million to harvard. jared got in. >> so what i don't understand is, how is it that harvard can let jared kushner buy his way in but it doesn't take a hit reputationally? we should adjust and just say, oh, okay, that's what a harvard degree means? all right. >> the kushner family has said there is no connection between the donations and jared kushner's acceptance. harvard does not comment on individual applicants. ivy league schools do point out that large donations give them the chance to educate students who could not otherwise afford them. they also contend that some children of large donors are rejected. what is clear is that in this meritocracy, it still matters who your parents are, especially if they went to the school of your choice. legacy admission gives strong preference to the sons and daughters of alumni. >> legacy admis

it's rare to hear from jared kushner himself speaking publicly. so what did he say? >> you're right, brooke. it is rare. during a visit to israel meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his political rival betty gaunce, kushner asked in his interview with israel's channel 13 about the comments made by former vice president joe biden suggesting it was improper for jared kushner and ivanka trump to have top white house positions and offices in the president's administration. here is how kushner responded. he said he's entitled to his opinion, speaking of vice president joe biden, but a lot of the work that the president's had me doing over the last three years has actually been cleaning up the messes that vice president biden left behind. jared kushner also went on to say the president is essentially entitled to pick his own team, but these are some rare biting comments seeing here from kushner who weighed in on impeachment and weighed in as silly games democrats are playing and insisted the trump administration will stay focused on the work its doing

we see that jared kushner has been tasked with a number of other huge initiatives by the white house, whether it's peace talks between israeli and palestinians in the middle east or, you know, the ongoing opioid crisis. we have seen that jared kushner has very much taken on a greater role, i think president trump has put quite a bit of trust into him and i think he is someone who the president looks at as maybe sort of very level-headed. he is very quiet, doesn't give a ton of interviews. i think this is someone who the president very much trusts. i think jared kushner also he has a lot of ties to democrats and the democratic party in his time before the trump administration. so maybe that could potentially be in the mix. but i think this all boils down to the president's habit of really putting a lot of trust into jared kushner, despite the fact that jared kushner has a lot of i would say, you know, some people would call suspicious ties to foreign governments or has been very much -- very much a target of many on the left for his past ventures. >> daniel, i want to talk about this m

. >> martha: with regard to this, joe biden speaking about state policy and jared kushner role in middle east, here is what he had to say about that. >> the idea you will have children, son-in-law, engaged in day-to-day operation of things they know nothing about. >> you don't think jared kushner should negotiate middle east peace solution? >> i don't. i don't. what credential does he bring to that? >> martha: what do you say? >> sec. of state pompeo: vis-a-vis president had eight years to work on that, the united states policy and peace plan led the effort and provide vision in direction, i hope we can roll it out before too long, looking forward to formation and when we do, i am confident people will look at what this administration does and say we got it right. >> martha: do you want to say anything to senator menendez bringing up your trips to kansas, what do you say to that? >> sec. of state pompeo: pretty rich senator menendez is taking shots like that, i went home to kansas, i love kansas, i hope i get to go back more often. i've answered that question. i went back for my son's be

joe biden should have pushed back harder and he should have asked more about ivanka trump and jared kushner and what they are doing in the white house. >> bill: here is doug collins with maria from over the weekend from sunday. roll this now. >> it's pretty amazing now that hunter biden after the light

the coke brothers, naacp and heritage foundation in partnership with the administration led by jared kushner ultimately were able to get a bill to the president's desk he signed into law. i was a meaningful accomplishment, in the context of dealing with the mass incarceration epidemic that we have in america. the judiciary committee last week at an oversight hearing led by karen bass on the first step act. where we heard from administration officials who continued to express commitment. >> .. >> .. to work with the president and the other side of the aisle. unlike, by the way, the posture adopted by the previous majority for much of the presidency of the barack obama where they had one mantra of obstruction now, obstruction tomorrow, obstruction forever. we have indicated by working with the administration on things like the first step to act that will take a different approach and we will take the approach on prescription drug pricing, introduction, usmc and anything that makes life better for the american people. >> have they been receptive to recent conversations can smack you, i parked t

. >> reporter: but three sources told cnn that trump's son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner isng to bring in tony sayegg to lead the efforts which includes personally attacking democrats conducting the impeachment probe. >> people are still in a basement in a secure room in the basement, trying to make us look as bad as possible. but that is not working too well. >> reporter: and going after the senior diplomatic officials who have testified like ukraine ambassador bill taylor whose testimony was described by one lawmaker as damning. >> here is the problem. he's a never trumper and his lawyer is a never trumper. >> reporter: but there is no evidence that taylor, a vietnam veteran who served presidents in both parties, actually is a never trumper. trump now blaming his secretary of state mike pompeo who recruited taylor to serve in ukraine. >> hey, everybody makes mistakes. mike pompeo, everybody makes mistakes. >> reporter: there was talk of a war room being set up back when the white house was trying to deal with the mueller probe but at that time they also decided against cre

even jared kushner, as a matter of fact, the president's son-in-law took some of this on.you care about is your friends in mexico because jared kushner had developed some relationships with people on the other side of the border. the president said i've had it. i want it done at noon tomorrow, which fortunately didn't happen. they were able to ask him to at least give them a week to figure something else out. >> okay. joe johns, thank you very much for that reporting. >>> this is just in to cnn. russian president vladimir putin responding to the scandal over president trump's call with the president of ukraine saying moscow asked him to release details of his 2018 conversation in he'lsinkhelsinki. fred plankin joins us from moscow. fred, do you see the president trolling, saying release the conversation perhaps because he knows it might be embarrassing? >> i assume trolling the u.s. president, trolling the u.s. government but in a certain way standing by president trump's side. it's very interesting. he had a panel he was a part of at the russian energy week where he made

jared kushner and ivanka trump made $135 million last year while they're in the white house. his kids are jet setting around the world at taxpayer expense, by the way, because they get secret service protection, cutting god knows what kind of deals. they just sold $110 million in real estate for the trump organization that the president is profiting from. >> and you make a good point there, tara. let me give you a second to catch your breath and get van in here. >> we could do a whole show on it. >> i hear you, my friend. van, do you think somebody like senator rubio should worry trump? >> not yet because so far i think he's trying to find his way forward. one thing i think -- this is going to take a while. i think what we want to do is there's certain things we want to watch. there's a rubio we can watch. he's showing a little bit of independence but not showing much. you want to watch what are the suburban female voters in the industrial heartland thinking in the swing states? how much is this starting to push them down? in other words, you had a bunch of people who went fo

you don't think jared kushner should be negotiating a middle east peace solution?> no, i don't, i don't. >> o'donnell: case closed-- "eye on america" investigates why are rape cases closed, even when there's enough evidence to make an arrt? plus, rare snow leopards make a comeback after hunters are turned into nature photographers. and taking a stand. a top education official quits. hear his plan to wipe out nearly $1 trillion in student loan debt. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell. >> o'donnell: good evening. and thank you so much for joining us. this is our western edition. a huge portion of california is under a fire alert tonight. the warnings cover 25 million of the state's 40 million people. we're talking about hot, dry, windy weather that is whipping up extremely dangerous fire conditions. a new fire broke out today in a canyon about an hour north of los angeles. it's threatening about 300 homes. some have already burned. another explosive fire is burning in sonoma, wine country, that is north of san francisco. homes are destroyed there as

carve out again about the iphone it's remarkable how he has managed to get a special relationship jared kushnera lot, too. he's gone directly to kushner. this is not with any money being exchanged but with forceful arguments about trade. i think china is probably the third largest market to sell into apple and sell for apple i think the u.s. is probably around 40 some percent, 42%, europe 24, 25 and china is around 20% that's very important apple revenues. >> how has cook been able to walk that line hooch you have seen it, the journal points it out, we had a ceo come out and tweet out i think president trump is not terrible just something as innocuous as that in this environment cancel that company would be trending on twitter immediately if you associate with the white house, everybody comes out and says down with that product or service. how has tim cook been able to walk that line where people aren't saying, oh, shame on tim cook and throw away your iphone the google pixel. >> that's a really good point hooch more than 97% of political contributions coming from apple employees have been goin

meantime his son-in-law jared kushner someone who doesn't frequently get involved in political fights or verbal attacks is now getting into it with joe biden. tonight president trump attempting to discredit the first current white house official to appear as a witness before the house impeachment inquiry. the president labelling iraq war veteran and purple heart recipie recipient alexander vindman as a never trumper witness on twitter as he was sent to testify. trump claiming he doesn't know vindman, one of the top ukraine experts on his own national security council writing why are people i've never heard of testifying about the call. well some republican commentators questioned vindman's patriotism because he was born in ukraine and emigrated to the united states as a 3-year-old, others quickly dismiss that line of criticism. >> i'm not going to question the patriotism of any of the people who are coming forward. i'm not going to comment on the merits of what is going forward. >> we're talking about decorated veterans who have served this nation. who have put their lives on the line

. >> jared kushner and ivanka trump's roles in the white house opened up another potential avenue for influence. officials in at least four countries talked about ways they could manipulate kushner, in part by taking advantage of his complicated business. entanglements. >> ivanka trump and jared kushner took in as much as $135 million in revenue last year. that includes almost $4 million ivanka pulled in for her stake in the family hotel. >> last year, china approved more than a dozen trademarks for ivanka trump-branded products, the timing-- just as the u.s. and china were trying to restart trade talks, raised eyebrows. >> trevor: okay, come on, china approved a dozen trademarks for ivanka right as her dad was negotiating trade deals with china? you can't tell me that's not suspicious timing. i mean, it's like how right before christmas, my mom said that a horrible accident happened at santa's factory. ( laughter ) yeah. how-- how does this happen every year, mom? huh? they should look into safety regulations at the factory or i'll never get my toys. china does not mess around with t

tomi. >> tomi: [laughs] >> jessica: jared kushner is in charge of mideast policy. don't even know if you took a particle science in college. >> tomi: is always back to trump, back to trump. i agree with you and chris and i think we all agree, it was this the best move for them to do this? no, he could have kept his hands clean and it would have been much better for everyone at the seat end of this country. it is what it is. the media should have covered it, asking questions pay the media should have, others should have done it. donald trump and rudy giuliani, probably not. it puts us in a bad situation. but here we are. >> jessica: the difference is what is illegal and what isn't. and what hunter biden has done, it is not illegal. you can say it stinks, that it shouldn't be that way. >> melissa: its public corruption. >> jessica: you keep repeating that, but no one has concluded that is the case. >> melissa: there's a reason it's illegal in this country to hire the children a foreign government officials. you can't do that. because then you are put in a position wh

and in the interview that joe biden did there last night, he actually brought up jared kushner, questioning his role inside of the white house. kushner is heading to israel this week and joe biden questioned the credentials that jared kushner has to be leading these middle east peace talks. of course the white house has suggested that these paus talks would come out after the israeli election, but of course the government in israel is currently at a dead lock and it's not clear if prime ben netanyahu will continue in his role. so you hear democrats talking about israel's role in the middle east. i want to bring in a student from hunter college. chloe, you're a senior over in new york. tell me what draws you to j street and why is the conversation about the u.s.'s role in the middle east important right now? >> i think this at that point with benjamin netanyahu's really consistent threats of annexing the jordan valley, the continued engs spangz of settlements in the west bank, all of that is making it clear to young, progressive jews like myself that moving toward a two-state solution is inc

. >>> kirstjien nielsen and jared kushner eventually persuaded the president to extend his shutdown of the border until friday. he then banned the idea and instead imposed tariffs on mexico. >> even though he has operational control, he does not have control of his public face of the didn't. he admits it has become a powerful tool for a partisan immigration agenda. mcaleenan told the "washington post" what i don't have control over is the tone, the message, the public face, and approach of the department in an increasingly polarized time. that's uncomfortable as the accountable senior figure. mcaleenan told the post the didn't's internal policy at the border was well intended, meant to stop smuggling but said child separation went too far. >>> we're just learning about a falsehood from president trump and the remarks he made at the united nations in new york. it happened to involve this network. bloomberg made public comments. see there. he claims the media buried the news of republican dan bishop's special election victory in north carolina's ninth district last month. >> the presiden

based on what we're speaking to sources about so far, some say it's jared kushner. some say it's mick mulvanemulva. and some say, it's trump himself. >>> mike pompeo saying the state department will follow the law in the impeachment inquiry. his comments coming after the white house blocked a diplomat from testifying at a deposition. >> i made clear, i think the white house has made very clear, we will ensure we do everything we're required to do by the law and the constitution. every time. pomp pompeo, offering little clarity if his officers will agree with the probe. >> they talked about the process that the white house is engaged in, making clear this is not a legitimate impeachment proceeding. we'll take our guidance from them how we respond. pompeo says he has a mission and objectives to focus on in ukraine. >>> mike pence is defending the administration's actions on ukraine. but says he never discussed joe or hunter biden with zelensky. he was asked if he knew that president trump asked the ukrainian leader asked to investigate his political rival, the bidens.

jared kushner calling the shots. >> it is -- debasing is a great example of it.in a big way. >> and when donald trump leaps to him which i think is going to be sooner rather than later after the next election, mick mulvaney will find himself like so many other trump employees, he won't be able to find a job around town because he's proven himself to be a liar time and time again and proven to do anything just to have the spotlight on him for a couple of seconds. there is such a sleaze factor and goes pack to what rick wilson has always said, anything trump touches dies. that extends to reputations of people who work for him. >>> still ahead on "morning joe." >> i could actually run by business. i could actually run my business and run government at the same time. i don't like the way that looks, but i would be able to do that if i wanted to. i'd be the only one that would be able to do that. a flashback there to a donald trump just a few days before inauguration. we'll have the latest on his push and than backtrack on a planned summit -- >> he sees himself as a h

>> have you see mnuchin, jared kushner, what about the american contingent there? >> you brought it up. big support from the trump administration. jared kushner will speak in about five hours' time. we've not seen steve mnuchin. rick perry is expected to be on the energy panel tomorrow. we know the controversy around the impeachment and his testimony and not going forward as a witness. but a signal from the trump administration, we do back you. even though we're the number one oil producer, the united states, we're here to support you in that transition. >> human rights advocates. thank you very much. >>> wildfires are raging in california. the largest in the wine country. the kincaid fire is 75,000 acres and 15% contained. 120 structures have been destroyed including 50 residential buildings. strong winds, prompting safety power shutoffs. 2,000 may face power outages today. lu lou lucy kafanov in calistoga. >> reporter: those fires ripped through the area. you can see the damage they left behind. i'm going to step out of frame and show you what we're dealing with.

host: is there any indication with jared kushner continuing with his business interests?sie set those aside during the administration? guest: no. and he is worth up to $700 million. he has handed some of it off to a trust run by his mother, which is not exactly a divestiture. of course, the family business has been involved in seeking funding from overseas interests, including qatar related investment funds. we may never know how that nexus of relationships has affected what the u.s. government has done in its foreign policy, but we should never have to ask the question is a u.s. foreign policy being affected by people's personal interest in receiving funding from overseas governments? host: let's hear from william, democrat line, chapel hill. caller: hi. about ouro ask historical perspective. taught political science and have been involved in .overnment affairs for 40 years anything toen with the abuses that have taken place in the trump administration, hiring people in that have been --iness heads or violations you can -- the does not justify violation of emoluments or

rob: the trump campaign defending jared kushner and ivanka trump after 60 minutes released this interviewent my children will not have offices in the white house. >> jared kushner negotiating the middle east solution? >> was credentialed as he bring to that? rob: ivanka and jared our senior advisers and the trump campaign responding joe biden is correct, hunter biden would never have an office in the white house because his only qualification is being the son of joe biden. he highlighted the qualifications of ivanka and their successes in the white house. the secret service paid a visit to rapper eminem about lyrics about donald trump and his daughter ivanka. ♪ rob: that is part of his song framed released in 2017. they asked about those lyrics, agents interviewed the wrapper in early 2018. eminem released another song later that year referencing the encounter. ♪ the secret service to meet in person ♪ rob: the secret service did not file any charges. carley: christmas in october, walmart plans to kick off its holiday shopping deals online. kurt the cyber guy helps us score the best tech d

also, trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, is one of the officials focused on the president's impeachment strategy from the white house and finally this, the president is daring the democrats and the house speaker nancy pelosi on an impeachment vote. white house lawyers are drafting a letter saying they will not produce the documents until the full house votes on an open impeachment inquiry and here is more now from president trump. >> the way they're doing it, they've taken away our rights. so if they proceed, and they'll get their people -- they're all in line because even though many of them don't want to vote, they have no choice. they have to follow their leadership. and then we'll get it to the senate and we're going to win. the republicans have been very unified. this is the greatest witch-hunt in the history of our country. >> and just moments ago, cnn obtained the full opening statement of kurt volker, the former diplomat to ukraine who not only backed joe biden but also gave a warning to the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani. for much more on that, we go to sunlen serf

in the period of the transition, between the election and inauguration, jared kushner met with seniorof the ainge bang financial concern in china with a view to get hundreds of millions of dollars to rescue his desperately failing project on fifth avenue. that was exposed in time by "the new york times," and so the deal did not happen. but this was not a $50,000 pay day. this was not a $50 million pay day. this was a multiple hundreds of millions of dollar pay day. no one has to defend hunter biden. i think hunter biden should be out there with a statement saying i made mistakes, and i undertake now -- i'm taking a job at -- i'm going to go work in kansas city, do trust in estates work or something that he's not going to in any way embarrass his father. presidential families should behave themselves in more circumspect way. but the trump family is so far and away the most corrupt in american presidential history that you really can't think of who's in second place. >> yeah. i mean, you know, our friend, chris matthews, reports them as sort of the romanovs. you look at jared kushner, e

steve mnuchin leads the delegation, that is expected to include jared kushner.go live to riyadh, saudi arabia. how will the reception be for davos in the desert this year? >> reporter: well, we're getting a good indication here in the first couple of sessions, christine. i'm in the vast complex at the ritz carlton. and the crowd is bigger than 2018. this is the third future investment initiative. this is supposed to be the engine of driving innovation. they set up their own roadblocks, if you will, with the murder of jamal khashoggi, that scared many in the international community. and you have a war in yemen. after the event, they had an arrest of 400,000 saudi millionaires and billionaires. this scared off investment. but we see the trump administration, offering visual support in jared kushner, steve mnuchin, who came last year but didn't come to the venue. and rick parerry who had meetin. and the wall street players, in full force. there was bridgewater, blackstone, the ceo of goldman sachs, and ceo of hsbc, suggest they're paid to play. they're here to mana

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. >> jared kushner was among one of those looking for mulvaney's replacement even before the house launched their inquiry. is he already the defact yo chief of staff? >> that's been the problem for every chief of staff, he's the shadow chief of staff. you know, people can go to the chief of staff and then to kushner or kraoevice versa and s not a way to run a white house, and i think if the president has lost confidence in him then that's a different matter, what once you lose confidence and you have a chaotic white house and you are amidst peril you need to find somebody else, and i don't think he should make jared kushner the chief of staff. i think that would be a mistake. >> the president reversed course, and this also stood out, and the president doesn't do this, he announced the g7 would not be held at his property doral, and the reversal was called a bow to reality. why is this the issue that made the president cave? why do you think? >> because it's such an obvious one, and the public can understand it so easily, the double dealing you bring people in and put them in your hotel, and

are you supportive of jared kushner's efforts overseas? answer that first, you know, of course i'm supportive of efforts to make sure that we're doing our part to help achieve a peace and achieve greater stability in the middle east. i wish, though, that this president were more serious and that he would send somebody over there that actually has a track record and experience of being able to help achieve stability and peace. you know, the idea of jared kushner going and negotiating this peace agreement between the israelis and the palestinians, one of the thorniest, most complicated types of agreements that you can arrange, it flies in the face of, i think, what a president should do. it doesn't seem serious. obviously i'm hopeful for it but i'm not holding my breath. i think that what we need to do in this 21st century is embrace the values that we care about when we're engaging our allies and trying to deal with our adversaries. that goes for syria. that goes for trying to achieve a two-state solution between the palestinians and the is

jared kushner was the son of a real estate scion, whatever.s him capable of doing some things. but middle east peace? >> i follow sports really closely. >> yes. >> if my dad bought the washington nationals, i don't think that's a possibility, but i'm not qualified to be the general manager. right? that doesn't mean i don't know stuff about baseball, i can't coach my kid's team. but there's a different level of expeerps and lived in wisdom that comes. just one other example that came up to me was when it said i put in a trust. he didn't. again, we have written, talked, addressed this over and over again. but these are not normal things. it remains normal. >> tulsi gabbard gets attention to her position in the polls with itch is not high right now. she announced she will not run for re-election to congress. not going to run for re-election. mean time, she continues to do interviews on fox news. what's going on here? i don't really know in the same way i don't totally understand why hillary clinton -- i know she didn't name tulsi gabbard. but if

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sources telling cnn that the president tapped a senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner and acting chief of staff mick mulvaney to head up impeachment defense strategy. jeremy diamond joins me from the white house. the white house for weeks pushed back against the idea of a war room like during during the clinton impeachment. is this a war room or something smaller. >> as of now there is no wore room at the white house. and the president and officials around him have largely resisted doing so. there has been some strategizing at the white house, primarily led by the white house chief of staff mick mulvaney and senior adviser to the president and his son-in-law jared kushner. but what we have largely seen is the president alone, at least as it relates to the messaging around this impeachment strategy. and that led to some dismay among white house officials and allies high spoke with over the last day, who said they were disappointed to see the president go out yesterday on the south lawn of the white house and ask another country to investigate the bidens, saying the president is ma

and -- >> who now represents jared kushner. >> well, you know, but kushner seems to be free and clearring it to david, then, because, david, the same question to you. donald trump as you know is full of branding contradictions. >> yeah. >> one of them as we've discussed before is claiming to fight all the time when actually running away in court, settling, et cetera. here they're stonewalling. do they ever pivot? >> well, one of the things we saw when the president made a statement about baghdadi with all of its fictitious details, there's a real question of how connected donald trump is to reality. it's hard to make good legal decisions when you won't september truth about your legal jeopardy. one of the differences that's going to come up in this process and it will come up later when this affair goes to the senate. in 1998, 1999, but the time the impeachment got to the senate, the republicans wanted to get it over with as rapidly as possible. the senate process was quite short because by then the public had spoken, clinton was polling in the low 70s and the republicans wanted to ge

jared kushner is not one of them.ngress and figure out this border wall funding mess, i think what he realized in that meeting was that it's a lot more complicated and that the focus on the wall had really diverted the attention away from the real solution. >> is there a feeling inside the white house that the wall is not going to work and they should back off it? >> no. there is no feeling like that. i mean, i think everyone at the department of homeland security who has work eed on this issue r a long time, they understand that practically speaking it is not going to do what the president wants which is to cut down on both legal and illegal immigration. but they also understand what mike said is very true that this is not something the president is ever going to drop. it's part of his political identity. it's a big part of this campaign. build the wall. he's always saying that. he's not going to stop saying that. what they're engaged in is an effort to try to -- while he still talks about that, try to do other thing

jared kushner. he could be a liberal.cheers and applause] president trump: he wanted to get that through. he came to me, i said, jared, ok. just don't ever come again, please. just leave it alone. [laughter] president trump: we got it right, didn't we, jared? we got a couple of folks who understood what we were doing and they were incredible. it has worked out. it has been a while and it has really worked out. it has had tremendous support and a lot of people are very happy. i want to extend my warmest condolences to the friends and family of elijah cummings, who are celebrating his life today in baltimore -- not long ago i met with elijah in the oval office and i saw the passion he had with me for lowering prescription drug prices. he had a very strong passion for that. we are going to get it done. we are absolutely getting it done, but i was with elijah and i have rarely seen anybody want to do something like that, and we are going to have that done. production prices are coming down. the first year in over 50 years whe

i am wondering what happened to, for the lack of a better term, jared kushner's proposal on merit-based immigration. we keep hearing every couple of weeks it is going to come out. i have not seen the language. so is -- that do you support that? has that gone away now? i don't really, quick sense you mentioned the campaign, are you going to campaign for president trump? >> i can't. >> i'm volunteer time you can. >> well, i am caesar's wife on the stuff, so my understanding of the edges is that we are more hatch than other people. i am new, as you know, i needed, to the federal government. it was a different world in virginia, and i approach all that extremely cautiously. my understanding is that i cannot do that. and to your earlier question, that was our second question, tell me first again. >> jared kushner's merit-based plan. >> so i have been involved in the discussions they've put that together. i cannot speak to timing, but to your question about whether i support what they're doing there, are very much to do. and i'm looking forward to seeing that final product come out. i think i

have any of his kids have an office in the white house, a clear reference to ivanka trump and jared kushner. how it is going to play tomorrow, once there is this interview with hunter biden comes out, i think it has to do with how hunter biden answers many of the questions. either way, trump campaign folks are fairly happy that this is going to be a point of discussion. this is what they've been trying to do. they may have been falsely characterizing the extent to which there is any evident of impropriety or corruption here. but they've managed to get it into the ethos and to have it be part of conversation and to have this interview happen on debate day, it makes it almost impossible not to address it at some point during this nationally televised debate where millions will tune in. >> not to mention the fact that the president has been tweeting out and asking his supporters where is hunter. that is his thing. he wants to make tee shirts about it and now suddenly hunter biden is doing the interview and the president will say, there you go, obviously he was afraid or just -- he'll feel that

mick mulvaney, the acting chief of staff, along with the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, are the people who are said to be leading that effort. so the other thing that's important to say is that it is pretty clear in one form or another, the white house is going to go after the issue of process, up on capitol hill. specifically no vote for this impeachment inquiry as you said at the top, it's not constitutionally mandated but could be a problem if the democrats have to go to court to try to dislodge documents and depositions. back to you. >> the white house is not reluctant on to go to court on a whole host of requests from congress. >>> you heard from the last several days, questions from the whistle-blower complaint from the president and questions from the surrogates undermineing it. now, we have text messages from officials, in this administration involved in dealings with ukraine. . take a look at these text messages. here is cnn's national correspondent you z correspondent suzanne malveaux. >> three house committees releasing an avalanche of new evidence after former u.s. s

tell me your first again. >> jared kushner's merit-based plan. >> you have been involved in the discussions. i cannot speak to timing but your question about whether i support what they're doing there, i very much do. and i'm looking forward to seeing that final product come out. i think it is easy and common in the policy arena for people to say what they're against. but it's important to stake out what you're for. the president is determined to do that. he's charged with helping -- jared, as you know, he's to do that. that is work we've spent time on in our agency. and i look forward to that. >> what's the delay, though? >> i don't have an answer to that. i don't know the answer. >> raphael bernall from "the hill". >> going back to the politics, a lot of you are in acting roles, from the secretary downwards. from the inside, how much does that hurt your potential for action to be able to enforce president trump's policies and do you want to answer that and we'll get to the second one? >> sure. i don't think it hurts at all really. the practical effect -- i've been asked variations of this

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all the times he's setting up the guardrails. >> and jared kushner still got a security clearance.rity clearance. his daughter got a security clearance. donald trump still did every single thing he wanted to do, in spite of some of the general's concerns. so my point, again, it doesn't matter what any of these people say. as adrienne said, trump believes he won alone, but the only negative side of this is if he loses, he's not going to lose alone. he's not going down alone. many of the folks around hiem are going to go down with him. >> he thinks he can do it all by himself, he's an idiot. i have worked in politics for years, and every politician needs counsellors, men and women around him who will say be careful on that. you're going to get in trouble with that. >> you can ask some of the most effective white house chiefs of staff in recent history, rahm emanuel, john podesta, leon panetta, none of them were yes men. there's no way barack obama would have gotten the affordable care act passed. rahm emanuel made that happen because you have to be contradi constructive. you have to

. >> brennan: you write about jared kushner, saying we've wasted two years on immigration. >> middle the government shutdown, the i shutdownn over thehe border t w, at some point he gets sort of deputized to find president trump a way out of this. and he has kind of an immigration 101 download from immigration advisers inside the government, and he's questioning them about what can work and what can't work, and it donees on him in one of these meetings, and he says out loud, we have wasted the last two years that they have focused so much on the wall, focused so much on this physical structure they haven't ended up getting their hands around the problem. >> brennan: thanks to all of you for trying to make sense of boss: it's a big responsibility. employee: oh, it's huge. i know, it's huge. boss: and the salary... employee: oh my god, yes. i was literally about to move in with my parents and right before... yeah, so this saved me. boss: i really believe in you. you know? employee: thank you. it's nice to hear that from someone. boss: these are cool. did you...um? where did... armando: