>> it was a company set up by jared kushner and josh kushner, his brother. estate tech platform so you can invest virtually in real estate essentially. >> and one of the things that you could do is make use through that platform of these opportunity zones, which are tax credits for certain areas. >> right. so the opportunity zones came about as a result of the tax cuts and jobs act of 2017 which is something that jared kushner and especially ivanka trump pushed in the senate and it just squeaked past. and what it enables companies to do, it enables people with capital to get tax breaks for investing in poor areas of the country, but they're so broadly defined and what you can invest in is so broadly defined that virtually anybody with capital can take advantage of this tax break. >> and the tax break doesn't seem to be particularly well targeted. i've seen lots of articles about essentially gaming these opportunity zones, parking your money in places that don't need investment and getting the benefits. >> right. we know in opportunity zones broadly there hav

give it to jared kushner.when he needed to figure out about china, googled and found peter navarro, who is not really an economist, to run their china policy. this is not the first time this has happened with jared kushner. >> no. remember, jared kushner is a senior adviser to the president, which means he can have his hands in anything and everything, and he has been there and is there when the president needs some advice and assistance and people to the go out there and talk to people. i mean that is one of the things that jared kushner does, is he talks to a lot of people, a lot of stakeholders on various issues that he's been put in charge of. i've had a number of people this week who tell me that he is in charge. you mention that facebook post of his brother's father-in-law -- his brother's father-in-law also said, i know the person who's in charge of this at the white house. so i mean the president very much relies on him. >> but this meth anothod has go this white house into trouble in the past, and at

that is one of the things that jared kushner does. he talks to a lot of people on various issues he is in charge of. i had a number of people that says he is in charge. you mentioned the facebook post of his brother's father-in-law the president very much relies on him. >> this method has gotten the white house into trouble in the past. at some point we have a nation full of public health experts. today seemed to be an indication that pressure built on the president. he had to deliver a press conference based on public health and not what was talked about in the oval office. >> we were hearing the president would not do this emergency declaration. it was very clear on wednesday after the address was criticized that it did not go far enough. that he said inaccurate information. he needed something new. he needed to be much more forceful. you know, he had people advising him to take bold action. i think he was looking at the markets. he was looking at what people were saying and felt like he needed to do that. >> the president said in r

this firm, kadre was set up by jared kushner's brother and jared kushner and it's an online real estateent platform. people told me, when i was reporting my book that jared kushner's father was advised by many people, he needs to make a decision, clean break or stay with the company. so he had a middle ground, he did not divest, the most recent filings were last spring. so last spring he and his wife, ivanka trump were making up to $35 million from passive profits from the companies while working in the white house. so now he has sold this company, which means that he has to declare that there's a potential conflict and at the same time he and his wife, ivanka trump pushed for this tax break which went through with no debate, no hearings, it was page 130, subsection z in the tax cuts and jobs october of 2017. but it's something this company has been directly profiting from and his family company can profit from. that's the inherent conflict and it is going on now, and i should also say jared kushner, he's one of the most powerful people in america, he's outlasted four chiefs of staff. i

jared kushner. of the film dan dimauro and morgan pehme have made their name as chroniclers of the trump admistration's more interesting characters, they directed the hit documentary get me roger stone, and i'm pleased to say theyjoin us now from new york. both of you, can you just explain the nature of the allegations in this movie? well, jared kushner is as you said one of the most influential people, if not the most influential people, if not the most influential person, in the white house after president trump. and still he remains a very enigmatic figure and there is a running joke that nobody has ever even heard his voice. so we thought in order to understand who was this policymaker thatis understand who was this policymaker that is notjust affecting the united states but the globe, we should look back at how he ran his company. and to do that we went to see his tenants and what they thought his practices were and what we found was that kushner companies has engaged in extremely ethically dub

and for jared kushner to say this is -- we're entering like a war zone, come on, brian. where does he know that from? the board game risk? think about what this has done in terms of economic damage. yesterday when you saw the fed in an emergency rate cut, the fed was supposed to be on wednesday, but an emergency rate cut on a sunday coordinated with central banks around the world, that tells the world they understand that this is crippling economic damage. when we are asking people to shut it down, self-quarantine, isolate, that basically takes any economic growth and puts it on hold. but it doesn't actually put the entire economy on hold because we've still got to pay all of our bills. so as this is playing out and as the number is spiking and more people are being sent home, there's this disconnect. and while monetary policy helps, it's fiscal policy that people are waiting for. we haven't even gotten to that yet. when you saw markets continue to crater this afternoon, it wasn't because the president was finally somber and forthcoming. in fact, that's a positive. the m

i guess he's in an opportunity zone [ light laughter ] so jared kushner, the moray eel who was kissedprincess and turned halfway into a prince, is making a killing [ light laughter ] so how how exactly are the wealthy like kushner benefiting from this plan well, the vague language of the law leaves it up to investors to decide what kind of projects and developments they want to build. there's nothing that forces them to actually help low income communities. on top of that, the qualifications for what defines an opportunity zone are extremely broad, which defeats the very purpose of this program. >> clear pattern so far is if you're an investor and you're going to invest in a zone, are you going to do it in a developed city that's already gentrified or are you going to do it in a truly distressed part of the country that is going to be a risk? so a lot of the money is going to be toward the sure investment which in this case, we're already seeing is in the highly developed, already expensive, high employment parts of the country. >> some opportunity zones have also been criticized for

jared kushner would love to take his calling. but what has so many people wondering tonight, why bill ackman, who maybe has the right idea or very good intentions would put on such a ridiculous show and cause such damage to an already panicked market. that's what's puzzling. >> because you and i are jersey kids i want to read you this. also as an example of the kind of tragedy you and i are going to start covering here real soon. this is a "new york times" headline. march 18th. "coronavirus ravages seven members of a single family, killing 3." this happened in the county seat of the county i grew up in freehold, new jersey. when bruce springsteen sings about his hometown, that's his hometown. and this is sadly, stephanie, emblematic of the real genuine non-nyse related human suffering we're going to see. >> brian, that mother who died didn't even know two of her children had died before her. and to think we saw that today where we did see those pictures of people partying on in miami, bill ackman is not wrong. these are very seri

. >> peter baker, whom i know to be a hand washer, peter, the president has directed jared kushner to take some sort of leadership role in this. but ultimately as you heard alan blinder say moments ago, this is not a financial crisis. this is a public health issue. the administration -- or at least donald trump and it seems jared kushner according to reporting shares this view, that this is actually a public psychology issue as opposed to an actual public health crisis. >> it could be both. public spirit and public mood plays a role. we are having the first pandemic really of the social media era, right? it was 2009 we had the h1n1 virus, but we didn't have the prevalence that we do today of twitter and facebook, and they didn't play such a large role in our life, in which all the information that we're getting these days doesn't just come from television. it doesn't just come from the president of the united states. it comes from our friends and our neighbors and our colleagues, all of whom are scared. and this fear has no doubt caused a greater reaction than might have been seen in

speeches from last week's cpac conference, starting with mike pompeo followed by jared kushner who talks about the administrations accomplishments and president trump's reelection efforts and then acting white house chief of staff mike mulvaney in the subject of black lives matter on gun rights and now secretary pompeo introduced by susan pompeo. >> good afternoon. i have said to sue before he came out on stage just about my bad tennis game and my back cancel i love her, she's always looked up for me and i'm pretty sure mike is back stage, a little bit nervous because he thinks it's a good idea for me to introduce him until the moment arrives and then he gets a little nervous but hopefully he will survive. i thought that you all probably know a little bit about mike given who you are, but i'll run through his resume really fast and then tell you the insider he things that i think i feel obligated to share since i'm his wife. so fast on the resume: he was a fast study at two of the world's finest academic institutions. he did well, it was a good student. he studied on friday night. i know

what can you tell us about jared kushner and what he is doing behind the scenes?role can be working with private companies and getting them on board with whatever needs to happen. why are the two factions in the white house working on the same problem? >> willie, when i was at the capitol talking to senators this week, it was clear there is a split screen for this people in power on both sides. they see what's happening with the coronavirus task force and mr. kushner's so-called strike force that's working with different agencies and private companies. when you ask them, standing 6 feet away, not huddling with them at the capitol, about who is really running things right now, they say the person who they go to is a former hollywood producer who is now the treasury secretary. non-idealogical man, low-key guy in their eyes, named steve mnuchin. they say he is the person for them, whether it is speaker pelosi's allies or chuck schumer's allies. senator schumer saying he's been talking to secretary mnuchin today. they think mnuchin, because he doesn't come at this as

this is how, though, there were years that jared kushner reportedly did not pay taxes, there were yearsdly did not pay taxes. part of this was supposed to be removed as part of the last tax bill. but now it's back. that will, i imagine, julia, raise some eyebrows. >> it absolutely will. again, i'll give context. the business roundtable to the representative of some of the biggest businesses in the country. all asked for this and said look, can weave all have this, it will allow us to keep our employees on. there is an element here, a gain of not -- again, of not allowing every business including the real estate sector to go under all at once. to your point, the connections here are stinky and will always come back to that. >> an 800-page bill, if not more. julia chatterley, christine romans, thanks very much. >>> the united states has more coronavirus cases than any country in the world. we have so many developments to bring you this morning right after this. every presidency. we don't blame them for that. what matters is how they handle it. donald trump didn't create the coronavirus, b

. >> cpac, are we honored to have jared kushner here with us?[applause] >> thank you very much and thank you to all of you. [applause] ♪ a note ♪ ♪ >> coming up from the conservative political action conference acting widest chief of staff mick mulvaney on the administrations handling of the coronavirus and president trump's 2021 budget request.

then you had pence office ask jared kushner to help merge operations of the white house and the vicesident's office. the vice president's very maul team was getting overwhelmed trying to respond to questions and everything was going through them at that point. from there jared kushner took oen a much bigger role and the president wanted to come out and take an even bigger role. it made sense to have this task force based out of the white house in way that it hadn't been before. before azare, the hhs secretary. there are now so many cooks involved, so many people involved that it's hard to know exactly what's coming from where. >> appreciate it. thanks. when we come back, we'll take a look at what is the hold up with the testing. more tests are available. that's certainly good news. there's a lot more than there were. we're going to take a look at what happened and what the problems are now. we'll be right back. sure, principal is a financial company. but think of us as a "protect your family as it grows" company. a "put enough away for college" company. and a "take care of your emplo

i think jared kushner was having discussions with people from a division of google.et. so they were talking about this idea, and it is, again, a great idea. they'd be able to screen people quickly, to get to the right place. again, google could probably make this really quickly. they do this every day. they do this kind of computing. this is a difficult thing to make, but they can do it. they have the staff to do so. certainly have the will to do so. so it was an idea that was still in the early stages. i think the issue -- now, google said they're going to do it. they're going to try to roll it out. the stuff they've gotten up there is pretty crude, that they've put up there, and it is certainly not what is being described. again, it's a great idea. it can be done quickly. it just wasn't checked with google or alphabet, actually, before it happened. >> yeah. >> i don't know what to say. it just was like early.early. just the way the drive-up stuff was early. there's no ability to do that for the most part. so again, a good idea, but needs to be deployed just like at

jared kushner and steven miller are who you've got. they worked on crafting that speech last night. jared, as we know, one of the people who initially urged the president to downplay this story because he was worried about the effect on markets. and we've seen the president continue to do that, really. as far as why, you know, why he takes the numbers as personal, why he looks like this is my fault so we have to keep the numbers down. i don't know. this hpresident has always been upset with numerical measurements of his success. why he looks at this as something about him as opposed to something that's a leadership moment that he needs to step up to. this is what he has always done and beyond that, you know, for more analysis, you'd probably want to call in a psychologist. >> jared kushner does not have expertise in markets. and market leaders have said this isn't bay markets crisis. it's about a health crisis that now has turned into a financial crisis. >>> next, helping the homeless population. this is really important, during this outbreak. the biggest challenges for food kitchens

>> "the washington post" has an extensive story today about how jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, has his own so-called strike force working with hhs and other agencies trying to coordinate the private and public response. but mr. kushner's efforts have led to sweeping tensions across the federal government about who exactly is in charge. is it vice president pence and his task force? people also want to stay close to kushner knowing he can call up the president any time that he has access to president trump so for many bureaucrats within the federal government who work on emergency response and health issues, they have told "the washington post" privately that they are deeply concerned that there's not a chain of command, that they fully understand, and that there are fluid political dynamics with kushner there who is involved with the re-election campaign and other efforts and that's complicated the entire response. >> joe scarborough, your comment on that? >> it does -- you need a command and control structure with one person in charge. we don't have that he

jared kushner is someone he's been in touch with who's been working with the governor. so, yes, there's still a lot more work to do. there's still a lot more that the state and that the city needs, but he says there are signs, at least for now, that things are working. so, some hope, but of course, we are nowhere near out of the woods here. there's still a lot to come. and as you said, john, it's that apex. we are anywhere from two to three weeks away from that, and that is when we can see significant more issues come along, john. >> and to that point, shimon, you're in new york today. you've spent some time in washington. politics is a funny business, even, it seems, in the middle of a global pandemic. on the question of the federal government helping new york state, i want you to listen here. we talked about this yesterday. governor cuomo tuesday versus governor cuomo wednesday. >> only the federal government has that power. and not to exercise that power is inexplicable to me. i do not for the life of me understand the reluctance to use the federal defense production

in the middle of last week, jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser stepped in to the helm. he's trying to take charge of this process. and, you know, some see him as parachuting in, but he is trying to bring some action. he's the one who called those executives to the white house on friday last week for that rose garden announcement which was premature. >> but do we know what those executives are actually doing baurk because, let's take a step back. jared kushner doesn't have financial expertise or medical expertise or crisis expertise or risk management expertise. so he may know the phone numbers of all of those ceos and with the exception of google, they all showed up at the white house and said we're here to do a lot. what is actually happening because that presentation was well produced and got the president's desired outcome which was jacking the stock market, but here we are two days later in free-fall. what's happening in terms of the public/private partnership that jared is in charge of bringing together? >> the partnerships are in their infancy and there'

from there, jared kushner took on a much bigger role. and then, from there, the president wanted to come out and take an even bigger role. it made sense, according to a lot of experts, to have this task force based out of the white house. in a way that it hadn't been before. before azar, alex azar, the hhs secretary, had been running it. but there are now so many cooks involved, so many people who are involved in it that it's just hard to know exactly what's coming from where. >> maggie, david gergen, appreciate it. thanks. when we come back, we are going to take a look at what is the holdup with the testing? more tests are certainly available. that is certainly good news. there's a lot more than there were. but we are going to take a look at what happened and what the problems are now. we'll be right back. paying too much for insurance is painful. like being stuck in the middle seat. but with esurance, you could save an average of $462. it's as easy as switching seats. really? hi, dennis quaid. when i was little i lived in a tent for a

>> jared kushner is curious choice. only because he's not confirmed but he has not a day of experience in widespread, large-scale disaster management, pdemics, global health cry sells. that would be like putting your gardner in charge of oral suot ecrg tor aerhend arentshony i f has served under six presint i think everyone i've spoken who to have on capitol hill iser comforted by him. he's no-no sense and uerstands the a issues hand. and let's give credit where it's due. the governors, cuomo and good aftern nuwsom have beenoon largely happy with the response from the trump administration at least they've said that. cuomo of new york said the other day thatsk everything he's for, he's gotten. that's a positive sign but list, there are tough days ahead, as eamon said. ae administrationust sent up 50 billion more in money for just the government self and there are going to be several trillion more of bills that need to get passed here and the president i in for a very long spring and summer. so menaersolleayrd of repng an

dinner in president zelensky's honor following the reception, which included president zelensky, jared kushneran jay leno, among others. >> "the late show" has acquired the audio from that dinner.

and that the president has brought in jared kushner, his son-in-law and his senior adviser to be part of this. and he's been working with the president today on the speech he will deliver tonight. >> jon, thank you. >>> abc news will carry the president's address live at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> still ahead tonight on "world news tonight," a major night for joe biden overnight. several victories on mini super tuesday including the key battleground of michigan. and bernie sanders's message. >>> harvey weinstein sentenced, we'll have more. >>> and dangerous thunderstorms, hail, and possible tornadoes, the late track as the news continues. we'll be right back. not just any retinol. accelerated retinol sa. for not only smoother skin in one day, but younger-looking skin in just one week. and that's clinically proven. results that fast or your money back. unless you're attached to your wrinkles. one week is all it takes. neutrogena®. teaching kids and having kids of my own. i didn't realize that having kids would be the hard part. so we planned to start ivf treatments. ♪ now i'm ready for som

robert: that speech he gave helped -- helped by jared kushner and steven miller based on yr reporting and others. >> yeah. the speech was a disaster in the end because we saw wha ppened in the mark ds the ne. we saw the white house and the administration having to clean up a lot of the president's mistakes. the president's travel ban on europe was panned by public experts. and even the way he delivered it was not in line with what the actual policy was. so i think what you saw today was a president trying to sort of have a do-over and have anher chance to talk to the markets and talk to the public and say that he is -- in control. because usually behind the oval -- behind the resolute desk in the oval office in the prime time address you normally expect a presidento show that they have control over a crisis. and that's not what we s with president trump's sor of fumbled statement on wednesday. robert: was part of the strategy tget c.e.o.'s to stand behind him and offer a few words? >> yese. weeen that throughout the trump presidency. and he's always sort of called on tha he likes havi

tonight, jimspeech acosta who covers the white house for cnn reports that jared kushner is becoming more involved in the coronavirus response. mick mulvaney, the outgoing chief of staff, heads for the exits. this is sources close to him. others reporting jared is in total control. a little bit of the back story on tonight ahead of the president address this evening, speaker pelosi's spokesperson says that the speaker took a call from vice president pence and dr. fauci at 7:43 p.m.. they spoke about the forthcoming emergency house legislation and administration efforts to grow -- combat the coronavirus is. republican from new jersey. caller: can you hear me? host: what did you think about what the president had to say? caller: i thought it was all right. it wasn't anything to specific or special. he's doing what he can on the legislation side. we just hope it's another obama stimulus package. i think that's the core there. host: you hope it is or isn't? caller: isn't. host: why not? caller: we don't want to have the same thing that happened last time with that stimulus package. freeed the

. >> cpac, are we honored to have jared kushner here with us? [applause] >> thank you very much and thank you to all of you. [applause] ♪ a note ♪ ♪ >> coming up from the conservative political action conference acting widest chief of staff mick mulvaney on the administrations handling of the coronavirus and president trump's 2021 budget request. ♪ ♪ >> good morning. >> good morning folks. thank you for getting up so early. it's so good to see so many deplorable people. brazier and if you're a deplorable you will have fun this morning. we're honored to have mick mulvaney as you all know. he is the chief of staff for one of the greatest presidents we've ever had in this country, donald j. trump. so thank you for everything you do. he is a south carolinians. he served how many terms in congress? >> i served three. >> has been an amazing conservative and such an asset don't you think this guy is an incredible asset wax thank you for everything you do. let's get into it. when i give a lot of talks around the country about the economy people always a

that jared kushner pushed for a tax rebate in the current tax bill that was passed by republicans that directly benefited his company. so some of this i believe is just a distraction from what the real issue is, that the real corruption has been by the trump and, by trump's son-in-law, people serving in the current administration. everybody that has looked at the hunter biden situation, burisma said there was nothing done wrong. i think we will continue to prosecute the case as best we can, focusing on the case that this administration has been amount of a massive corruption that has benefited the administration. >> you said that when donald trump said you are the puppet, isn't that what you are doing here? guy: the first thing i said was that i think they've answered the questions correctly, that there has been a review of this issue, and that no one has found anything wrong. >> [indiscernible] guy: sure, we can do with optics or the facts. the facts are pretty clear in this case that what the trump organization has been doing is using this to distract from the fact that they are maki

that jared kushner pushed for a -- tax rebate in the current tax bill that directly benefited his company. some of his i believe is just a distraction from what the real issue is, that the real corruption has been by the trunk his son-in-law, and my people serving in the current administration. everybody that has looked at the hunter biden situation, everyone has said there was nothing done wrong. we are going to continue to prosecute the case as best we can, focusing on the fact that this administration has been engaged in a massive amount of corruption and quid pro quo that have benefited the trump administration. host: you said when hillary clinton said that donald trump, you are a russian public, he said no, you are the public. isn't that what you are doing here? you get a question about hunter biden and you say no, there are more corrupt. guest: there has been a review of this issue, and no one has found anything wrong. optics or weith can deal with facts. the facts are pretty clear that what the trump organization has been doing is using this to distract from the fact that they are

jared kushner has apparently ripped up the original pandemic plan and has handed it to fema.has absolutely no experience in ordering and securing the level of medical equipment and medical supplies. and the governors as you have been hearing from jonathan, the governors are in a dog eat, dog eat situation where they are essentially scrambling on the open market to get their share, very scarce sources of supply. i don't know. i don't have any special insight as to why president trump thinks this is a good way to ramp up production quickly because it's not working. production isn't being ramped up quickly and this applies to -- this applies to test kits as well. still, you're hearing very credible aanecdotal stories whee people in other countries getting tests, getting turned down for tests. i don't know why president trump doesn't realize that it's still very bad. >> coming up on "morning joe" we'll speak to daniel newman who was an actor in the zombie a apocalyptic drama. mr. newman recent lie tested positive for coronavirus. and in his saga to get that test he saw some eerie

president again, yesterday, about this situation and i spoke to the vice president, i spoke to jared kushner. the white house has been very helpful. we have to get the federal agencies on the ground to understand how this operates, especially fema. because we have to be coordinated and people have to know what they are doing. and this is no time for anyone to be learning on the job. and we are going to be working through that today. ppe, same thing. we want to know what everybody has. one stockpile and we will distribute it fairly. testing, when does this end? when we get a fast track test. test,home test, 15 minute and people can find out when they can go back to work because they are negative. we are working on additional testing. the department of health has a new test. but that is when this ends. we are working on new medications. we are leading the country in those developments. we have saliva testing now. we are working on the plasma testing and antibody testing. we put together a central team, it is going to be let by the department of health. rochester is on it, new york city is on i

but that is as far as the president has gone and suggested that jared kushner is in charge of it and he is studying it more. >> the president is expected in the next few days or weeks to declare a very limited emergency that would free up $40 billion that is sitting there that the government has for disaster relief. he wants to free up some of that money. the thinking is that he wants to go ahead and act quickly. he was on the hill yesterday. he didn't hear anything that would make him think they would quickly accept his ideas for relief and he wanted to get funds freed up so he could go ahead and do that. >> robert, you were reporting this evening about the fact that the president had a shouting match with his pressure treasury secretary about the measures that the fed and others have taken. this is his fed chief jay powell who he put in to place. he is very, very frustrated with the fed and thinks more can be done. >> he is unhappy with the federal reserve and chairman powell on monday afternoon. while the president was in the oval office meeting with top advisers, he lashed out. y

they're good contacts in washington, the people who seem -- president trump, his son-in-law jared kushnerd a few other people. most people in washington who dealt with the saudi's over the years were far more comfortable prince who hade been the minister of interior, had a very close relationship with the united states government in dealing with counterterrorism in particular. there waslieve that ever such a close relationship one of the older princes, very much a peer of and not anybody who i don't think had a particularly active role working with the united states. treason, i think there will be a lot of skepticism in washington, particularly from the congress as well as various parts of the thinkive branch, and i there will also be a lot of hostility in the u.s. media. anchor: what do you think of the possibility that this all relates back to the king. he's not quite old. he's quite frail. he's been ill for some time. if he were to die, the crown prince would have a clear shot to the throne, wouldn't he? would appear to be the case. i was in two meetings with king salman. i was highly

the peter navarro, jared kushner camp that is looking to do aggressive action, and then larry kudlow and secretary mnuchin and are looking for timely actions. a debate between fdr and herbert hoover in terms of how they should manage the situation. >> president trump meeting with republican senators earlier on, capitol hill, telling them he wants a payroll tax holiday dealing with economic fallout from the outbreak. that isa market rallying on the hopes there will be some bipartisan compromise. do we have some actual details up to what the fiscal response is? >> we do not. aboutgot a lot of talk, bu some sort of economic stimulus bill. trump told senators he wants a payroll tax holiday through the election. i don't think anybody, among democrats, think that is enough of the stimulus for the economic threat coronavirus prevents -- presents. >> we have a little with flash because a lot of green on the screen. pretty much a straight line up in the last two hours of trading. we closed at session highs. >> it has been a busy day in the u.k. first thing this morning, the bank of england su

the president suggested that jared kushner is sort of in charge of this and he's studying it more. >> right. a limited emergency that would basically free up $40 billion that is sitting there the government has sitting there for disaster relief. he wants to free up some of that money. the thinking here is he wants to go ahead and act quickly. he was on the hill yesterday on capitol hill and he did not hear from democrats or republicans anything would make them believe that they would accept some of these ideas for economic relief and he wanted to by pass them so he can go ahead and do that. >> robert, you were reporting this evening of the fact that the president had a bit of a shouting match with his treasury secretary about the measures and the fed have taken. apparently he's frustrated with the fed and more can be done. >> he's unhappy with chairman powell. while the president was meeting with mnuchin, he latched out about powell, that he need to try to get him to lower rate if at all possible and try to see if you can have a conversation with him to stimulate the economy. the pres

dinner in president zelensky's honor following the reception, which included president zelensky, jared kushner, and comedian jay leno, among others. >> "the late show" has acquired the audio from that dinner. >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert! dems the break week: 2020. candidates gone but not forgotten, except the one's we've forgotten. tonight, all hail breaks loose. and stephen makes a new "lord of the rings" trilogy. plus stephen welcomes senator kamala harris, and musical guest, lady antebellum. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hello! happy thursday. please have a seat, everybody. thank you so much. welcome, one and all to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. and it is-- ( cheers and applause ) and you can feel the excitement. everybody is so excited about day five of the live impeachment hearings. yeah. the witnesses have been compelling. e ated wt the whistleblower said, but the people on the tv say the whole thing has one

. >> and just jared kushner sitting there in a swivel chair stroking a hairless cat, saying, "oh..."nd her empire, and all that stuff? >> i did that years ago anyway, so-- ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) wow. wow. is it. >> stephen: oh, yeah. we're americans! we're americans. >> no, i'm a dual citizen now, so i have two passports, like jason bourne. >> stephen: oh, really? >> yeah. >> stephen: wow! >> yeah. >> stephen: wow! >> yeah, that's right, i can go anywhere, kill anyone. that's the "bourne." >> stephen: right, i believe that's what it is, if you have dual citizenship. >> i think his confidence in getting strong and hurting people really came from his ability to live and work anywhere on earth. ( laughter ) >> stephen: you get to vote now as an american. yes. >> stephen: are you excited about that? >> yes, very excited. they signed us up the day that we took the oath. >> stephen: that's fantastic. it must be very moving to be in the room when people are being naturalized like that. >> it's incredibly moving. like, it's odd. as a comedian, you're kind of slightly allergic t

the president and vice president were there and top presidential officials, jared kushner, ivanka trump, mick mulvaney, members of congress. at this time there was no indication that the president or the vice president had been in close proximity with this attendee. the white house was taking some precautions to monitor the president and they'll continue monitoring the situation going forward. but the other question when it comes to big gatherings of people as you noted, there are these political rallies that the president holds. sometimes those can be in a stadium that holds 15,000, 20,000 people, like a basketball game, rock concert-type gathering. the president was asked about that yesterday, and here's what his response was. >> we'll have tremendous rallies. we're doing very well. we've done a fantastic job with respect to that subject on the virus. and we've had tremendous cooperation with other countries, and all over the world. we've made it very, very tough, very strong, very stringent borders. >> are you saying that the virus is getting close to the white house? >> no, i'm not

>> jared kushner is playing a key role on this. we saw it with the wednesday night speech, the address to the nation on wednesday night. the kushner faction. we don't quite know how the mark meadows and mick mulvaney chief of staff role is playing into this. meadows is the new chief of staff. you have mulvaney, who is leaving. he was out for large parts of the week because he had been exposed. he wasn't part of this. then there's the president's outside advisers. that's always the problem when you have a chief of staff that isn't particularly strong or, in this case, isn't particularly stood up, is so many people can get information into the president. as we see with this president, he is liable and likely to say whatever the last person told him. that may account for some of theothe responses from the president. kushner is playing a key role, as well as the new chief of staff. i think people are still feeling their way around this new environment. remember, it was just the end of the month or beginning of last month that, in the m

among the doctors and medical experts at the middle of the white house plans, jared kushner. >> the washingtonreporting he enlisted a doctor in his family who crowd sourced response suggestions from facebook. >> join us now, kevin cirilli, bloomberg news. good morning. what's your reaction to that? any surprise he's getting involv involved? >> politics aside, his portfolio has included virtually every top high profile situation in the administration. it's not a surprise. he worked on the u.s.-china trade front. i think the broader takeaway, kushner aside, the broader takeaway, speaker of the house nancy pelosi working round the clock with steven mnuchin to advance a bipartisan bill that targets free testing for all when they're come with the help of the private sector, working with government officials on both sides of the aisle. this is what i think folks have to focus on, the small business administration. 30 to $50 billion in liquidity to use that they're going to be targeting over the next several weeks and months with the help of speaker pelosi and democrats to small businesses around the