of staff was fired, who were close a lot of people advisers to the president, like a ivanka trump, jared kushner, felt like they needed someone would bedvise, and he able to instill a sense of order, get rid of the chaos, stop the leak in, giving way to the sense of chaos and paranoia. look backhink you can a couple months from now and say he has been successful. there are too many people for their to be powerful entries about. think a couple of the chaotic news cycles, a couple of the stories circle around him, and you have to wonder about mick mulvaney. why would anyone take this job? host: he appeared on nbc this morning, telling jonathan karl chief of staff daley white house staff, he is not going to change the president. guest: right. there is an old saying from the campaign folks "let trump be tru mp," that is the way to manage keep him is the way to happy. people who abide by vacuu that survived longer. at the same time, i do not think it will protect mick mulvaney. when there is a negative news cycle, the president can get things done, which is usually the case. outside to view people a

. >> and why the memo should worry donald trump and jared kushner. >>> the untold saudi spending at president trump's hotel. >>> then, republicans follow through with the vote to grab power from democrats in wisconsin. >> let's face it, the republicans this year are very poor losers. >> and new calls for a new vote in north carolina at the state's election fraud scandal gets worse. >> what were you doing? >> i was helping mccray pick up ballots. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. president trump sat in the national cathedral today surrounded by former presidents for george h.w. bush's funeral. you have to wonder, what exactly was running through his head?

and knew how government worked and then jared kushner saying what you just heard there about what he needs to bring in a new chief of staff. what happens if trump>> no, i don't think he has the qualities or the experience for the job. the one thing he does bring is good chemistry with president trump and someone who could be 100% trusted to do what president trump wants to do. i don't think general kelly fell into that category or reince priebus fell into that category. so this is really circling the wagon in the most egregious sense. >> let me play i what jared kushner told cnn back in october. watch this. >> i don't make a lot of noise. noise is sometimes made about me but i try to keep my head down. >> so is that an important kwaults for a chief of staff when you have a president who is so loud and domineering that you keep your head down and the news should not be about who the chief of staff is. let the president do his talking or do you -- you want to have a chief of staff who also makes his own headlines and is willing to speak publicly about the president. >> well, clearly it is not what i would choose. it is what president trump would

trump have a role? >>> but first an explosive report on jared kushner's close ties to an executive. >>> jared kushner is revealed to the daily beast reporting growing tight with pecker during the early months of the administration. kushner bonded with ami's chief executive who caught and killed negative stories about trump and admitted to working in concert with trump campaign to cover up the alleged karen mcdougal affair that she had with trump. nbc confirming trump was in the room for a meeting with pecker and cohen on hush money payments. cohen and pecker are cooperating with the feds. kushner is loyal son-in-law and has played a pivotal role in trump's administration. >> jared, i want to thank jared for what's happening on prison reform because you've really been leading it. it's something very close to your heart. to have jared in our family with all of his relatives and all of our friends is a great thing. i'm proud of him. i'm very proud of jared. jared's actually become much more famous than me. >> joining me now is a white house reporter for the daily beast. he broke the exclusive reporting on

you cannot forget the president as someone who came out of a family business, relies on jared kushner and ivanka trumpd it's jared kushner who is an informal shadow chief of staff based on conversations with trump msofficials that is alway now around the president especially with john kelly heading for the exit. the president isolated often, reacting to the media and the family. not really tethered to the republican party. >> it's jared and ivanka who installed heather nauert in that position. jared and ivanka picked ayers who has represented some of the seedier characters in republican politics. a big defeat. some egg on their face today. how do you think this is going to go? >> exactly the way it's going right now. >> the way it's going. >> swimmingly. this is going the way trump wants it to go because to your point, trump doesn't listen to anybody because he knows all. when you are the wizard of oz, you know all because you are all. and he doesn't need all these other pieces. we sit back and we kind of look at this and we're surprised and we're taken aback. but trump told us straight up where he wa

inside the criminal investigation into the trump administration, did ivanka trump have a role, nir. first, jared kushner'sional enquirer. >>> jared kushner is revealed to be david pecker's top contact m the feds. kushner bonded with him after he caught and killed negative stories about trump and admitted to working with concert with the trump campaign to cover up the alleged karen mcdougal affair she had with trump. trump was in the room during hush money payments with the women. kushner is a loyal son-in-law and played apivotal role in the trump administration. >> i want to thank jared for what's happening on prison reform. he's been leading it. it's something close to his heart. >> to have jared in the room with all his family and friends is a great pleasure. i'm so proud of him. i'm very proud of jared. jared's become more famous than me. >> joining me now the white house reporter for the daily beast. he wrobroke the exclusive reporg on kushner's relationship with david pecker. let's talk about the relationship between kushner and david pecker. why has it become so important in all of this? >> well, be

john kelly has not gotten along very well with the trump family, with melania trump, the first lady as well as jared kushner and ivanka trump. is that why we're hearing about this now today as the president was making his way for travel. >> i don't know object today because we've been hearing for months and months that the people around trump, especially his daughter and son-in-law resented and started treating them more like staffers and more recently there's been some tensions over melania as well. but it's certainly the case that this is a president who can only be managed as much as he's willing to be managed and the reason his family has so much policy influence in the white house is because he wants them to and no professional manager can stop the boss if that's the way the boss wants to run the government. >> and somebody who knows a lot about the check and balance that works between the ceo or the president in this case, and the coo and in this case, the chief of staff, chris whipple. as an msnbc contributor as well, what does this say then about how the white house is being run because you are writ

in the meeting, where donald trump jr., his brother-in-law jared kushner, and trump campaign chair pauldon came out and saw these people, they went in, and i said thank you very much, i'm leaving, and he said where are you going? i said i'm leaving. he goes why don't you just sit in. so you can get these people out at the end. i now find myself in the meeting itself. >> tell us what happened. was the dirt on the democratic party, and hillary clinton forthcoming? >> not as far as i was aware. i decided i would view the opportunity to check my e-mails to sit there, but to keep half an ear open. my eyes were definitely open. because although i thought, well, i don't really know about this subject, i'm smart enough to, i will be able to spot if there is a change in body language. >> goldstone said he noticed the mood deflate as the attorney talked about sanctions and the magnitski act. it didn't sound like dirt on hillary clinton. >> jared kushner next to me looked like he was becoming more and more agitated as the attorney continued and at what point jared said i have no idea what you're t

in the meeting, where donald trump jr., his brother-in-law jared kushner, and trump campaign chair paulame out and saw these people, they went in, and i said thank you very much, i'm leaving, and he said where are you going? i said i'm leaving. he goes why don't you just sit in. so you can get these people out at the end. i now find myself in the meeting itself. >> tell us what happened. was the dirt on the democratic party, and hillary clinton forthcoming? >> not as far as i was aware. i decided i would view the opportunity to check my e-mails to sit there, but to keep half an ear open. my eyes were definitely open. because although i thought, well, i don't really know about this subject, i'm smart enough to, i will be able to spot if there is a change in body language. >> goldstone said he noticed the mood deflate as the attorney talked about sanctions and the magnitski act. it didn't sound like dirt on hillary clinton. >> jared kushner next to me looked like he was becoming more and more agitated as the attorney continued and at what point jared said i have no idea what you're talkin

. >> reporter: the new york times reports, jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law and senior advisor maintained regular talks with the prince after the murder including advice on how to get past the fallout. >> no one is saying he is condoning the killing, certainly but that he is saying you have to look at the long- term and also that this young crown prescription is the long- term future of saudi arabia. >>> the president changed his mind about cutting the nation's billion reduction or 5%, he tweeted last monday the current budget is crazy, as he put it. he met with james mattis and republican congressmen that argued against the cuts. now the president is proposing a $34 billion increase for the 2020 fiscal year. >>> fema trailers arrived for victims of the campfire. in all, 12 trailers were brought to the rolling hills casino rv park in corning and will serve as temporary housing for evacuees. officials stress no current guests of the rv park will be asked to give up spots to make room for the extra trailers. the campfire broke out a month ago and destroyed 24,000 homes. >>> a gil

trump tower meeting. he claims that included paul manafort, jared kushner, donald trump jr. and the russians. and he witnessed trump org and trump foundation business practices which are under scrutiny not just by the federal government and fbi but by the new york state attorney general. >> you can go through there and plenty of possibility for hot spots of legal trouble. just with number one. potential violation of the foreign corrupt practices act when they were promising putin a $50 million apartment in moscow if the trump tower went through. this happening throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. you have the finance violations, the knowledge of the business practices of the trump organization which i think could be even -- even worse potentially than anything else. when you look at some of the reporting done by reporters such as adam davidson at the new yorker about the trump project and you look at how money was being funneled through the iran revolutionary guards and a lot of the financial journalists in new york city who have followed the trump organization for a long time say it's

but flynn and jared kushner had a ton of it, and it's not just donald trump that should be very worried tonight. it's a significant evening. but i think the pressure on jared kushner must be immense right now. >> let's talk about that separate criminal investigation. it says, flynn is also helping with a separate criminal investigation. that's to you, frank. any idea what that could be about? and the rest of it's redacted. you saw it. it's just like -- >> yeah, no. i mean i don't know what that is, but it sure is one of the most tantalizing details. i think it's investigations plural, right? >> it says the defendant has provided substantial assistance in a criminal investigation. >> well, doug mentions jared kushner. i don't know if that's what it's about. but i think it's important to bring that name up because there was an alliance there. it's also important to note that michael cohen and michael flynn, both very close to the president at different times and in different ways. so they have different tranches of information to offer mueller and his team. michael flynn is not just

the "nework times" is reporting that jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law and adviser, was in direct contact with saudi prince moha bmm salman after the death of saudi- dissident-journalist jamal khashoggi, and gave him advice on how to "weather the storm." kushner and the crown prince, known as m.b.s., were known to have a close rele ationship. imes" reports that the two are on a first name basis and used text messages in addition to calls and emails. in a statement to nethpaper, a white house spokesman said" jared has always meticulously followed protocols and guideli relationship with m.b.s. and all of the other foreign officials with whom he interacts." in london today, marchers took to the streets for and agaibrnst thit deal with starkly different visions for britain's one group led by anti-islam activist tommy robinson waved the union jack, chanted "we want britain out" and called for the complete severing the european union. a few miles away, left-wing marchers hoping to counter the far-right rhetoric carried sians calling fond to racism. parliament is expected to vote

we saw an event that wrapped up a couple of hours ago that had jared kushner, ivanka trump, tran jones, democratic law makers who came together and it's been overshone with the outgoing of the secretary of defense james mattis. we saw a stunning picture of the outgoing chief of staff, general kelly, shaking hand with the outgoing secretary of defense jim mattis out there at the white house driveway. it's going to strike a lot of people in this town and across the country as not a good harbinger of what's to come. >> i want to go back to jeffrey toobin for his legal analysis on this. you heard jim acosta saying this is not a good harbinger of what's to come. you look at chief justice roberts siding with them on this issue. what is the significance of this? >> i would be cautious of interpreting too much into this. this is certainly a defeat for the president, it is certainly a victory for immigration rights lawyers, but it is also a preliminary ruling. it is not a resolution of this case. it is not a resolution of the many, many legal cases having to do with immigration that are now wor

we know based on nbc news reporting that that very senior member of the trump transition team was jared kushner, donald trump's son-in-law. joining our discussion now, peter zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor and former deputy counsel for scooter libby in the george w. bush administration. and also joining us is nika oyang, a former staff member of the house armed services committee. peter, the jared kushner liability seems to be the one that first comes to mind when considering what trump family members might be in jeopardy now. >> oh, i would think so. and i think as frustrating as it is for those of us who are watching all of this to get that redacted filing, can you imagine how frustrating it is for the people who are really in jeopardy from this, who are dying to find out and read the tea leaves? and they don't even have any to read, so, yeah, i'd be very nervous because they've all been interviewed. and we know that mueller thinks that flynn has been completely forthcoming and honest. and he's had opportunity to share with them everything that happened leading up to the election and

trump white house. there is jared kushner, ivanka trump, sarah sanders. we saw the vice president pence speaking to former vice president gore as well as former vice president biden. it is always interesting to see in a town where there is not a lot of communication between democrats and republicans at times to see something like this bringing them together. >> it brings us back to an important evolution that happened during bush's presidency which that is the cnn moment when international news became globalized and simultaneous. there is a sense that people that are in airports and people in schools all across the country are seeing the same thing. it is a new evolution for the country. in 1950 this would not have been the case. in 1960 it would not have been the case. right now we can come together as a nation in a new way. >> what we are really watching here -- for a younger generation, they are watching history as they have never seen it if you are really young. what they are watching is the two republican parties that now exist meeting together in th

. >> more controversy for jared kushner because the trump administration has been pushing a policy thatshner's investments. here's the background. as we reported kushner hung on to a stake in some of his family's real estate deals and other assets, and that's including a company called cadre, and there's a new tax break backed by the president. this tax break is aimed at booming investments in low income communities, those areas that qualify for the program are called opportunity zones, and kushner already owned property in the new jersey area which was designated as an opportunity zone earlier this year. they spent about $13 million buying new properties that are eligible for the tax break. in addition, cadre, the company that jared owns a piece of recently announced it would be saw li soliciting investments in this deal. ethics experts and administration critics argue these situations create questions about whether jared is pra profiting from trump's policy. ivanka has been promoting the investment program and participated in a white house roundtable with business executives and elect

chief of staff and vowed loyalty to the president's family including daughter ivanka trump and her husband jared kushner, both of them senior white house advisers and he told the president, if he were chief he would manage the staff but not the president and an answer trump liked this official said. this president makes no secret. he values loyalty. and here you say mulvaney swore it to him in no uncertain terms. is this what the president defines as getting along? >> he had an acrimonious relationship, john kelly did, with jared kushner and ivanka trump and they did not like him and were not proponents of him. for kelly's point, he didn't like their roles in the government and didn't think they should be in the white house actually and often deriding them for playing government. and what we have seen time and time again, that the family is crucial to president trump, and they win the battles, and they are in the residence with him, at mar-a-lago, and something he counts on more than anything at all. and i think mick mulvaney says, listen sir, i know you pride family and you want them in the white house

it was negotiated with the help of jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser. the house is expected to take up the bill on thursday. the news continues. i will hand it over to chris cuomo. cuomo prime time starts right now. >> thank you, jb. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." some big blows to the president's case he has done nothing wrong. first, a sitting president forced to shut down after a quote shocking pattern of illegality that involved his campaign. could the president of the united states really be banned from ever running a charity? >>> and treason, the flynn sentencing pos sentencing. sentencing.postponed asking the attorneys if he was treasonous. the white house promoting that lie. why? >>> and we have proof that the president is trying to change the facts as he prepares for the political fight of his life. a key part of the trump-tower moscow deal is being twisted up for political effect. we will prove what is true. facts first. let's get after it. [ music playing ] >>> tonight, the facts fly in the face of the story, or at least the story

nick ayers going inb, and kelly coming out, i think trump's realizing he's got to stick with the family. so the fact nick ayers with a big jared kushner trump, sticking to him, john kelly wasn't family. i think you're seeing people who are now coming around the president, the proverbial circling of the wagons because i do think there's a palpable sense of some kind of urgency and danger to what's happening with donald trump right now. >> this was seen as a coup because kelly really tried to limit their power. but i think it's important to note ayers is temporary. >> a few month from now we could be talking about somebody else, it's the real strategy for 2020 and the names that have been floated is mnuchin, nick mulvaney, richard lighthizer and who knows who will come up next. >> who would want this job? it's a circus and silly and for what? other then to take a check and say oh, i was the chief of staff for 60 days before i got fired and a tweet went crazy but why would you want that job? >> don't underestimate people's desire to be close to power. >> a 36 multi-millionaire, you figure out how to make money. >> there's something so de

henry kissinger as well meeting with top members of the trump administration. jared kushner, ivanka trump, larry kudlow part of that meeting we're told. we're also told president trump was there stopped by a for a brief period as well. talking about the future of inknow vision, 5g, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence. a senior administration firm telling us one of the reasons why we want these tech execs, we want to know how we can seek an environment to dominate in these industries. also present, top trade representative robert lighthizer. one of the reasons they brought him in the discussions because in advance they were gearing up possibility at least tech ceos would want to discuss theft of intellectual property. this is one of the top issues with the president's trade team as it relates to china and the on going negotiations there. melissa. melissa: you better get that phone, blake. it could be the president. connell: the panel, carol and adam back to talk about this a little bit more. carol, you know what i thought was interesting blake s

well, don junior, ivanka trump, and jared kushner are all on it. s father's presidential campaign. attended the infamous june 2016 trump tower meeting with russian lobbyists. when "the new york times" first reported the story, trump junior, don junior, put out an initial statement claiming it had nothing to do with clinton or the campaign. but then he had to revise his statement several times after it was revealed he agreed to the meeting when offered dirt on clinton. remember the e-mails, right? here's how he explained it on sean hannity in the summer of 2017. watch this. >> just sort of nonsensical, gas garbled and quickly went on to russian adoption and how we could help. paul left after a few minutes. >> so, around the time of the trump tower meeting, don junior also had at least three phone calls with aman agua lara, the russian pop star who helped arrange the meeting. trump junior also was briefly introduced to russian banker aleksandr torshin at the n.r.a. convention. torsion was the handler of alleged russian spy maria butina. i know it's a

nick ayers has the backing of ivanka trump and jared kushner but is a polarizing figure in the west wing hooz rise has already sparked controversy, one has said that they would quit if he is tap for the record the job with one predicting a melee of backstabbing to come. >> kelly tried to push out, suggesting that jared kushner and ivanka trump leave. they, in turn, backed nick ayers as a way to push kelly out, and succeeded. ayers is a controversial figure. notably, he is far more political than john kelly. and i think that's something that the president wants as he looks to 2020, but he is disliked by many in the white house. and i think those maybe are empty threats of those telling to the president but as a place filled with strong alliances, people pitted against each other are unlikely to change if he becomes chief of staff. >> in the context of this playing out -- we'll see if nick ayers gets the job. he's mike pence's chief of staff right now. his experience is in politics, not in policy or in government. as this plays out, paul ryan is leaving as speaker of the house. no reason t

his eldest son, donald trump jr., and his eldest daughter, ivanka. jared kushner, both of these two serve in the white house. obviously, jared kushner married her. we've gone over cohen, we've gone over manafort. papadopoulos, we know, george papadopoulos, former foreign policy adviser who started the entire investigation, when in a night of drinking in london, he bragged to an australian diplomat that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton. that's what triggered all of this. but look, michael flynn was the national security adviser. jeff sessions was the attorney general. these are not, as trump famously described papadopoulos, coffee boys, by and large. these are family members and absolutely, in the most part, senior, either campaign officials or administration officials. gosh, there's a lot of smoke here, brooke. >> yeah. smoke, but, you know, they're looking into everyone. chris cillizza, thank you, here in new york. michael cohen's revelations are sparking renewed scrutiny of the trump family business. "the new york times" is reporting the federal prosecut

you mentioned jared kushner. ivanka trump, as well. you have seen from the white house? because they claim victory. >> the white house support has been overwhelming. once again, well over a year, a year and a half ago, jared kushner was working behind the scenes on this prison reform, dotting the is, crossing the t's. the original board, we met together with the president, and different governors from different states. there have been so many behind the scenes meetings that i can't count, with the different pastors and men of state from around the country. black, white, hispanic, everybody took a part in this. the faith community came on board. prison ministry from different churches all over the country. it was a united effort, and it was a bipartisan effort. however -- and heard it on your intro coming in, will this lead to more bipartisan efforts in the future? let me tell you this -- this was an offer that the democrats couldn't refuse. because, as much as some do not like for the president to get a victory in any area, he made the

. >> -- had a lot of contact with the jared kushners and trump juniors. >> the kushner -- i mean, it's the kushner -- that jared and ivanka were very supportive of general flynn as was -- as was donald trump because he was -- flynn came in early. he was the first person with brass on his shoulders to endorse trump and trump appreciated that and felt it was very important and national security adviser was the job that he wanted, and chris christie did not want him for that job. barack obama warned donald trump about this, but he has had a firsthand bird's-eye view. the question i'm asking is, as he texted with kislyak and talked about sanctions and the u.n. vote, who was directing flynn? did flynn do this on his own? >> right. >> or was there somebody whispering in his ear saying, you need to do this? and who is that person? >> exactly. and i think that much of what flynn has told mueller is not reflected in this document at all and is probably part of what is going to become, what we expect to become the obstruction report by mueller because after all, the point that gloria is raising,

mellon university along with henry kissinger meeting with top members of the white house, jared kushner, ivanka trumpso told that president trump stopped by the meeting as well. senior administration officials describing it as a listening session to talk about artificial intelligence, computing, 5 g and advanced manufacturing. one official saying quote we want their suggestions on how we can create an environment to dominate in these industries. also joining the discussion the president's top trade rep robert lighthiz lighthizer. one official saying he was brought into the meeting in anticipation that the ceos would want to discuss the theft of intellectual property. that is at the very top of the list for president trump and his trade team as they engage in ongoing discussions with china. back to you in new york. david: all right, blake thank you. how will the president press these companies about the bias he sees in social media? >> well, david, this is amazing about these companies who know the political world they live in that they haven't gone out of their way to make amends to every constituenc

it was negotiated with the help of jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser.e is expected to take up the bill on thursday. the news continues. i will hand it over to chris cuomo. cuomo prime time starts right now. >> thank you, jb. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." some big blows to the president's case he has done nothing wrong. first, a sitting president forced to shut down after a quote shocking pattern of illegality that involved his campaign. could the president of the united states really be banned from ever running a charity? >>> and treason, the flynn sentencing pos sentencing. sentencing.postponed asking the attorneys if he was treasonous. the white house promoting that lie. why? >>> and we

kushner and trump. you mention the president trump's family members. why should kushner be so concerned? it was jared kushner and his wife, first daughter ivanka trump, that were insistent, that pushed for flynn to get that position and be rewarded for his loyalty to the president. >> it's a great point. kushner is knee deep into this. i think the fact that michael flynn had such a close relationship with president trump, and by extension, it's hard to believe he didn't have that close day to day interaction with the jared kushners, with the don juniors. as barb said, mueller has recommendled zero time. you can't get more lenient than zero time. flynn's crimes are substantial, they're consequential. they ran the real risk of damaging our country. and yet he gets zero time, gets away scott free, as some have said. he must have provided so much information about kushner, about don jr. and others. i think there's a lot of trouble coming down the pike. >> remember, acting attorney general sally yates recommended that something be done about michael flynn. because of the communication he had. he put himse

. >> the new york times reports jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law, maintained regular talksith the prince after the murder and advice on how to get past the fallout. >>> nissan is facing allegations of financial misconduct. tokyo prosecutors inditeed the japanese auto maker and former nissan chairman for allegedly under reporting his income. prosecutors say that nissan, another former top executive, greg kelly has also been indicted. they were arrested after an internal investigation revealed acts of misconduct. >>> tesla ceo has been called a visionary, this area he got more notice for his erratic behavior including smoking pot during a pod cast and a twitter feud with a thai rescue diver. on 60 minutes last night he was pressed on allegations of abusive conditions at his tesla factories. >> there has been an aggressive campaign by the uaw to absolutely attack tesla with a load of non sense in order to try to unionize the company. >> you think they drummed up the charges. >> these are utter non sense. >> there are several investigations by the press and by regulators this c

jared kushner's father to jail. and all this churning that happened around john kelly was driven in large part by jared kushner and ivanka trump idea he's on the list is very hard to believe. but in the end i just don't think he wants somebody who's really going to manage him. but some part of him he knows that he's going to need that because of what's coming down the road. >> that's got to be the last word. i've got to run. thank you both. i appreciate it. we'll be right back. hey! yeah!? i switched to geico and got more! more savings on car insurance!? they helped with homeowners, too! ok! plus motorcycle, boat and rv insurance! geico's got you covered! like a blanket! houston? you seeing this? geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. ♪ can you feel it . ♪ can you feel it put a smile on everyone's face this holiday, with great gifts from amazon. with low prices and free shipping on millions of items, for everything you need this holiday, visit amazon. >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. here's the breaking news. a source close to president trump telling cnn that the president now sees impeachment as a real pos

was the one who helped organize that june 2016 trump tower meeting with russians who are promising dirt on hillary clinton. jared kushner had meetings with the russian ambassador in late 2016. ivanka trump was part of the dealings talking about a trump tower in moscow at a time they were in the 2016 election. michael cohen talks about all of his contacts and pleading guilty to lying about those to congress. felix sater was doing business with the organization for many years. he was part of the trump tower discussion with the russians. george papadopoulos is the foreign policy adviser, the first one that the fbi noticed was talking about possible dirt on hillary clinton coming out from wikileaks. that began the fbi investigation that we are talking about. paul manafort, the chairman of the campaign, carter page who is one of the first person the fbi took notice of because he was spending time in moscow in uniand july. it's clear after all of the claims from the campaign and the white house that the trump campaign and the president and his family had nothing to do with russia. that is simply not true and it's clear that r

jared kushner's father to jail. and all this churning that happened around john kelly was driven in large part by jared kushner and ivanka trumpncredible influence over the president. sought id so the idea he's on the list is very hard to believe. but in the end i just don't think he wants somebody who's really going to manage him. but some part of him he knows that he's going to need that because of what's coming down the road. >> that's got to be the last word. i've got to run. thank you both. i appreciate it. we'll be right back. ofor a limited time,ur holidays even better! get a 4-course meal starting at $15.99. treat yourself to the perfect gift today, because the aussie 4-course won't last long! and now, get a $10 gift with every $50 in gift cards. ingenious space- neat nest™ by fasaving design. all designed to stack and protect the lids, and the pan surface. farberware neat nest™. stacked & intact™ >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. here's the breaking news. a source close to president trump telling cn

they were meeting with top members of the obama administration, jared kushner, ivanka trump, larry kudlowcomputing artificial intelligence. we want to have their suggestions how to create a environment to dominate in these industries. also part of the meeting today was president's top trade rep bob light highs earns. the reason he was involved we're told the white house was anticipating once they get all the ceos in the room one of the issues they would want to talk about is the theft of intellectual property. charles, as you know, that is at the very, very top of the list for the u.s. trade team as it relates to their talks with china and potential new trade deal. charles. charles: sounds like it was exciting. blake, thank you very much. folks it is easy on days like today for people to worry about their 401(k)s. coming up real advice how to handle the volatility and how do rich people manage this sort of thing, right? we'll be right back. the ♪ only half the story? at t. rowe price our experts go beyond the numbers to examine investment opportunities firsthand. like e-commerce spurring

make the >> the president will make the right choice for chief of >> reporter: jared kushner praising john kelly.ay trump ane had a strained relationship. ck a the job to replace kelly. the new chief of staff will hph navigate the mount iing investigation. closed-door president claimedk testimony on james comey revealed there was no c with this01campaign. later he tweeted, th mmiornd a smacking gun, he ningllss a bipartisan group of 44 senators published a washington post op-ed warning current lawmakers of a constitutional crisis saying ahead of the mueller report, it's up to the senate to defend our democracy. >>> here's a look at one of the brightest stretches of highway you'll find this morning. i can guarantee you on either side of, this the fog ives very thick. enjoy that little stretch while you can.co er.13 in the north bay up look at these mido t through the san ramone val yle . walnut creek northward and you take that right hand turn and head out to highway 4. to ou upper 40s around san francisco. 39 in novato. 34 lot of dew because of the this is which is n 7ormall8y not as fotgyog it. anger on

trump jr. and possibly jared kushner. donald trump jr.ady have members of the house intelligence committee and the senate judiciary committee say they're going back to revisit donald trump jr.'s testimony to them about two deals that trump was involved in in russia. the initial cohen deal involving trump tower moscow and an earlier deal that preceded that. so donald trump jr. is now exposed to possible felony charge for lying to congress, and you have a very charged up judiciary that is sick of the trump team constantly undermining the rule of law and slagging the credibility of law enforcement officials who now are going to put evidence in front of the public. >> what does it mean that federal problems, the mueller probe and judge here in new york cited the crime of lying to congress. a whole bunch of people, much wider universe than just jared. steve bannon was before congress. rinse priebus. a bunch of these folks went up to congress and it is a known/unknown whether they were truthful. >> the message sent today was a couple of things.

>> well, i think that, you know, david got close to the trump pals, including saudi money and jared kushner's, you know, banking friends. so he ultimately gathered some bargaining chips that he planned to use in time to get something he needed. >> do you have reason to believe mr. pecker knew other incriminating things about trump that have not come out? >> yes, certainly. >> do you know what any of them are? >> i know some of them, and there are stories involving, of course, the trump-kushner family. there are stories of, you know, sibling rivalry with the children, back biting, discord with his wife. >> would you describe them, because obviously we're talking about things that haven't come out and we haven't verified them. but would you characterize them as merely embarrassing, if you will, or do any of them arise to the level of being potentially criminal? >> well, actually both. they're certainly embarrassing. and then when you get involved with the actions of his children, including his daughter and son-in-law, we're getting closer to criminal activity. >> let me read to you, as we talk

forums, if trump had taken his advice, especially about michael flynn, he could have prevented many of the problems in that white house. and he, it's been widely reported about jared kushnerristie -- they have a long, deep history. but i do think chris christie would be happy to see his name in the headlines today. >> the jared kushner/ivanka trump thing is interesting. ultimately, it seems as though whether it's priebus or john kelly, as well -- not to mention plenty of others who have left the white house, if you are not on jared and ivanka's good side, you are on the outside. >> it's so true. they are winning the game of who is controlling the white house, seems to be jared and ivanka. >> here's a news flash. the president is not going to fire his daughter. >> i actually think this is the easiest guessing game in town. who is going to be the president's new chief of staff? it's going to be donald trump. yeah, the person whoever he picks, they're going to get a nice corner office, they're going to get the title. but he is his own chief of staff. he makes those decisions. all we have to do is ask john kelly and reince priebus. it is going to be donald trump who wants to

of donald trump's family, you have new reporting on something that will be talked about later today at my other job at the white house, these opportunity zones, and specifically jared kushner walk us through what your reporting is about how they could benefit from this new program. >> in a huge way. these opportunity zones -- and it's a great idea designed to create tax incentives for developers to go to economically depressed areas across the states and make an investment. we've talked so much about hollowed out areas, and you would assume they'd be a truly distressed areas. the treasury said 8,700 zones. those zones were approved by governo governors. you would think those would be tough areas, not brooklyn heights miami, brooklyn heights the median house sale is $2.3 million. if you go to soho house in your neighborhood, should you be considered an opportunity zone? absolutely not, but they are, richard la frack dearest old friend of president trump. trump asked him to build that wall between the united states and mexico. he's got a massive project, 183 acre project, a $4 billion project in miami that he broke ground on four years ago. it's not a new project. the idea i

who were close advisers to the president, like a ivanka trump, jared kushner, felt like they needed someone bedvise, and he able to instill a sense of order, get rid of the chaos, stop the leak in, giving way to the sense of chaos and paranoia. look backhink you can a couple months from now and say he has been successful. there are too many people for their to be powerful entries about. think a couple of the chaotic news cycles, a couple of the stories circle around him, and you have to wonder about mick mulvaney. why would anyone take this job? host: he appeared on nbc this morning, telling jonathan karl chief of staff daley white house staff, he is not going to change the president. guest: right. there is an old saying from the campaign folks "let trump be tru mp," that is the way to manage keep him is the way to happy. people who abide by vacuu that survived longer. at the same time, i do not think it will protect mick mulvaney. when there is a negative news cycle, the president can get things done, which is usually the case. outside to view people a havingst wing inherentlys more value

relationship of trump and pence, but also the extended sort of network inside the trump family, namely means jared kushnera trump. nick has been able to go back and forth pretty seamlessly. that's raised his profile. will he be the choice? we don't yet know. there's also been discussions that mick mulvaney, the director of budget and management for the president is some name that's been circulated as well. what will be a huge choice for anyone involved in this process is, is it the job that they think it is? i think even john kelly on reflection would think it's not what he thought it might have been. the chief of staff is in charge of the executive office and sort of the great gatekeeper of the president. this president operates differently. what role will it be? what authority will it have? one thing that john kellry tried to institute was a firm grip on the oval office door, eto the extent of his daughter and son-in-law. that's been part of what we have seen. also our colleagues at nbc news reported tensions between john kelly and the first lady, so that certainly was not going to bode well. these are

because, remember, june 2016, that's the same time when donald trump jr., paul manafort, jared kushnerey had that meeting in trump tower with a russian lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton. that's also the same month that the special counsel says that cossia started releasing these hacked democratic emails. the next month, candidate trump comes out and calls on russia to find hillary clinton's emails. so the special counsel is looking at whether this was all just one big coincidence or there was something connecting all these events. >> glor: and who else do we know that the special counsel might be looking into right now? >> reporter: it's so interesting. in cohen's plea, he reveals he also had discussions with other members of the trump family about the moscow trump tower deal. the question is, though, who did he talk with? and that's what mueller is going to try to figure out. >> glor: paulahank y veh. the tt revealed today its starwood reservation system was targeted in one of the largest security breaches ever. hackers gained access to the personal information of as many as 50

both president trump and his son-in-law jared kushner have undermined these findings. and tried to stifle the intelligence community conclusions. they have undermined not only these conclusions but more broadly the intelligence community itself. president trump has debased and dishonored brave intelligence professionals by demeaning their fact-based conclusions as feelings. president trump has falsely claimed we may never know all the facts surrounding the murder of mr. jamal khashoggi. who secretary of state and secretary of defense furtherately have demeaned those findings by saying there is no direct evidence or there is no smoking gun. the fact is that there is powerful and compelling evidence. we know from public statements of my colleagues coming from by the intelligence community. we recently learned the white iuse middle east advisor, should put advisor", jared kushner, offered advice to his salmanriend mohammad bin about how to weather the storm during the warranted backlash against saudi arabia after the murder of jamal khashoggi. rather than hearing accountab

including the intelligence and judiciary committee, they will hand over some testimony of jared kushner and donald trump jr. and others, it is not fair they do the same with james comby an comey and hs testimony. >> absolutely, let's see who committed perjury, including clapper. biggest question, is when did the surveillance operation on trump campaign begin. who initiated it? right now if you follow writing of lee smith, sarah carter, john solomon it looks like john brennan with a international sting in australia dip pat in papadopoulos start the a hold chain told james com comey on oa file in america, if that is the case, perjury is all over the map, cia, fbi, doj. kennedy: and see if national security was compromised in any of this. because as with hillary clinton, and you know her server scandal, that is the biggest issue. were lives ever at stake, was government power abused to obtain politically damaging information, so far they have not achieved their goal of pulling down the president, yet, they are still working furiousry to connect the dots, we'll keep our as on it, thank you dr. going to work

house intelligence committee prevented us from subpoenaing documents from michael cohen, jared kushner, donald trump jr. >> so will you subpoena those now? is that your expectation? >> without a doubt. without a doubt. i'm certain that we will. >> and so what is your expectation that when you can have those in your hands? what is your expectation about what those may show you? >> well, i think the documentation is going to probably show us that in many cases, they weren't telling the truth. i mean, it's astonishing to me that you would take the oath and say that you're going to tell the truth and then sit down and proceed to lie to congress. but that's what's been happening in a number of cases. >> when cohen is talking about the timing here of the payments to karen mcdougal and to stormy daniels, he says the president basically feared. he said, if you think of the timing of this, this was after the "access hollywood" tape. what is the implication to you of that timing that the president would have -- if cohen is right and there is corroborating evidence, that he was concerned about the outcome of t