emerged trump's son-in-law, jerod kushner, was present in the meeting with the russian ambassador and michael flynn, who of course has already been fired of national security adviser for giving misleading information about his contacts with russians. some other trump campaign aides were in direct contact with the ambassador. these are various pieces in a jigsaw. can claim this shouldn't be seen as extraordinary or newsworthy, it's pretty normal for various diplomats and ambassadors to seek out members of potential incoming government. -- that is not us not going to satisfy democrats who are calling for a special prosecutor to look into trump's ties with russia and an independent commission along the thes of that to investigate september 11 attacks. anchor: thanks again. a contentious travel ban on seven majority muslim nations. the executive order was knocked down by the courts and a second order has been delayed. number ofme, the people leading the united states -- leaving the united states and crossing the border into canada is on the rise. reporter: this pakistani family hopes maki

sanctions says that it met with jerod kushner late last year. jonathan: the justice department is turning to withhold grants from cities and states that a good ignore -- that ignore immigration laws. they say that sanctuary communities are doing a disservice by not enforcing the laws. they have adopted policies to frustrate the enforcement of immigration laws, including refusing to detain known felons. called on theions general assembly in annapolis to scrap a bill that would make maryland a section where alison: a woman behind bars tonight without bond after three incidents at the white house. l was arrested over the weekend after trying to jump the fence at the white house, and last week she tried to jump the fence but her shoelaces got stuck in the security spikes. days later she was arrested again near the white house, because it violated the terms of her release. this will be a trial that the world will be watching. the question tonight, who will serve on the jury in the case against bill cosby? defense wants to prescreen as many as 2000 po

jerod kushner joined a meeting between flynn and the ambassador in december.emocrats say that it calls for an independent investigation. president trump calls it a witchhunt. michelle: president trump took to twitter today with this picture of senator chuck schumer and russian president vladimir putin. "we should start an immediate investigation into senator schumer and his ties to russia. a total hypocrite." he then tweeted, "i hereby demand a second investigation of nancy pelosi for her close ties to russia and lying about it." vice president mike pence took time today to defend his use of a personal a email account for state business while he was governor of indiana. he was one of many republicans criticizing hillary clinton for her use of a personal in e department. there is no comparison whatsoever between hillary clinton's practice of a private server, mishandling classified information, destroying emails when they were requested by congress and by officials. we have fully complied with all of indiana's laws. michelle: vice president pence says that he f

francine: and jerod kushner has a new role in the white house.e economic policy that we are waiting from donald trump? put this question yesterday to several lawmakers on capitol hill and several lawmakers have said they want the tax reform by august recess but that is a a coal in the august. between now and as of now, there is no set timetable for the tax reform. kevin, get set for the 9:30 five tweets from the president. i'm sure we will get them. kevin cirilli. he and john writing have done timeless work on the federal reserve system. conrad dequadros, i want to go to what we heard from heaven. this has to affect gdp. but how much? how much will this dampen or improve gdp? among we seepends with the next policies. our feeling or hope all along was that the white house would go with tax reform first but that didn't happen. there is the idea that we potentially could get budget room as health care is passed first. and now, i think what happens going forth depends on what we see on tax policy. i think i am more optimistic than most that we will s

highlights of richardy are saying burr says he is nationally -- kevin: they say they are interviewing jerod kushnerr date. that was first reported later this week according to the new york times. they say they are going to have ongoing series of interviews with people in the trump campaign. the backdrop to all of this is, over on the house side, led by house selected intelligence , is also nuÑez continuing with his investigation and whether or not the trump transition team was surveilled during the transition. either way, i can tell you that this continues to dominate inside then both halls of congress and reverberate throughout the country. it comes at a country where this administration is looking to have a policy when following lest weeks loss on health care. more these headlines continue, the harder it makes trump's agenda to continue. scarlet: thank you so much kevin. you can watch the senator's comments live on bloomberg right now. we have some comments here. letter is the annual reports that he has published. let's read a highlight. he is talking about valeant. the investment that hasn't wor

visage ofsee the jerod kushner, senior adviser to the president.testifying on capitol hill as a. what can we learn from michael flynn? there is speculation -- what is your sense of what we can learn? offer can read into this to testify in a lot of ways. it doesn't mean he committed any crime at all. -- onsn't mean that he the other hand, he may have quite a bit of information about what went on in the early days of the trump administration. it wasn't even clear trump would win. reaction wasnitial that it is just a little bit early to consider an offer like this. the senate has said that they have 20 people that they want to hear testimony from. five have agreed so far to set a date to talk about what they know in this case. but remember, going back to michael flynn, this guy was not just a campaign aide and national security adviser. he was the head of the defense intelligence agency under obama for a couple of years. this is someone at the highest level of the u.s. national security process. materialquite a bit of that i think investigators could