. >> i'm here with vicky ward, the author of kushner inc.. it's great to have you here today and i'm very curious to know your thoughts as -- to start off with what made you want to write this book? >> i think you know my beat has always been the intersection of money and power and the culture of. it is about the book of the new york real estate and i had no donald trump over ten years. i have known jared kushner socially a little bit. i actually met him when he came to new york. what i was curious to see having understood the kind of unregulated world is whether they would take us with them to washington or whether washington would change then and i think the beginning of the a restoration there would be this, but i think that i think i saw y early on that perhaps it hadn't really gone to washington for public service but for self-service in the real estate business now running the white house and you saw that first week of the transition when ivanka, the whole family gathers for the 60 minute interviews and then have a fashion line put out

here's what kushner said or what else he said about the mueller report. with the whole notion of the russia collusion narrative came up, i was the first person to say happy to participate with any investigations. at this point, i've down three hours interviews, nine hours of special counsel. look at many statement from july, i put out about a 12-page statement explaining all of these things. everything i have said is true and very, very thoroughly investigated. the one thing the mueller report was conclusive on is there was absolutely no coordination or collusion with the trump campaign. not to say that the russians did not try. the white house has tried to figure out what it's going to do about the subpoena that came down late yesterday afternoon from the chairman of the house judiciary committee, gerald nadler seeking testimony on may 21 from the former white house counsel, don mcgahn. in a statement, gerald nadler saying -- >> mcgahn met with investigators more than 30 hours. it's unclear what more congress could learn in a hearing than mueller did in

why does kushner appear to be toeing the line at the kremlin. donald trump jr. refused to testify for the mueller report. we'll tell you what else we're learning about that meeting with russians. 2020 democrats break glass on impeachment. see who joined elizabeth warren's call for trump impeachment. all those stories coming up. l f impeachment. all those stories coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ did you know comcast business goes beyond fast with a gig-speed network. complete internet reliability. advanced voice solutions. wifi to keep everyone connected. video monitoring. that's huge. did you guys know we did all this stuff? no. i'm not even done yet. wow. business tv. cloud apps and support. comcast business goes beyond at&t. start with internet and voice for just $59.90 a month. it's everything a small business owner needs. comcast business. beyond fast. you inspired us to create internet that puts you in charge. that handles anything. that protects what's important. and reaches everywhere. this is beyond wifi. this is xfi. simple, easy, awesome. >>> quite frankly the whole

kushner has been meeting with republicans and democrats. lot of what stephen miller wants on the border but with stuff that republicans and a few democrats would like, which is allowing more high-skilled workers in from foreign countries, allowing more folks into the guest worker program to help rest raaurants and the hot industry. look at the good parts of immigration, the parts needed for a vibrant economy and one that is, at some places, at full employment and in need of workers. he wants to stitch those together and do for immigration what he did for criminal justice reform and what he's trying to do with middle east peace. this probably has a better chance than middle east peace but not criminal reform. >> why does kushner think he is in a position to do this? >> he has power. senior adviser. his father-in-law is running the white house. for all the people that dislike the guy, he is a survivor. he and his wife continue to be two of the three most powerful people inside the white house. he has some relationships with democrats because

i want you to listen to jared kushner and get your response. here it is. >> you were instrumental in the president's run in 2016. what are you seeing in this democratic field? any interesting characters, some more than others you'd like to run against? >> the president's going to have a fabulous campaign. i think he's got the right policies, and i think he's got the country on the right track. and i think a lot of different policies i see, a lot of these democrats advocating for or offering i don't think that's where the country is. >> socialism? >> i don't think that's where the country is. >> okay, give it to us, april. is that team trump's message? >> that's team trump's message. but just today with prison reform jared kushner and the president were in the room together. the president was giving jared all sorts of praise for this prison reform issue, the first step act. now they're looking to the second step. and they were saying it was bipartisan. they kept talking about bipartisanship with this and the broad range of people that were in th

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so miss newbold is giving us some more reasons why jared kushner was denied. what veelse have you learned? >> miss newbold testified last weekend for hours before the house oversight committee, and she described in some detail the pressure that she felt under and the extent of the denials that she and a colleague in the security clearance processing office had issued, for individuals she described in the documents that were first released as white house official 1, white house official 2, and white house official 3, as you just mentioned. we now know that white house official 1 was jared kushner and that she had expressed multiple reasons for concern about kushner, but her recommended denial of his security clearance was overruled by her superior in that office. >> and kelly, what does the white house say? >> reporter: well, they refuse to really talk about the security clearance process. jared kushner himself was interviewed and he said that he's been accused of a number of things that turned out to be false, but he did not directly answer this. i happened to

i want to unpack some of what jared kushner had to say. hallie, to hear him say it, it was an untraditional campaign. that explains some of the reasons for this meeting that he said he would have forgotten about about russia and building trump tower had it not been for the way the media went crazy over it. he was asked a key question, why not say russia, we don't need your help, we don't court your help. and rudy guiliani in some ways answered that question a few days ago. your take on this rare interview with jared kushner. >> yeah, a couple of pieces to this. we have to say it again, it is notable to hear from him in a public setting. he's talking with a journalist who i see often, brian bennett, who opened up with the questions on the mueller report. remarkably, he believes that the ensuing investigations that stemmed from the russian interference investigation were more harmful to the country than the initial russian interference himself which he described as a few took ads. that is not an accurate assessment or understanding of what t

or as jared kushner so brilliantly put it, a couple of facebook ads. there's also this passage from the opening page of the mueller report -- "first, a russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate donald j. trump and disparaged presidential candidate hillary clinton. second, a russian intelligence service conducted computer intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the clinton campaign and then released stolen documents." look, the mueller report's long, what, 400 pages? 448, to be exact. and who's got time to read all that? luckily, here's the kushner's notes version. a couple of facebook ads. see? so easy. it works just as well for all items in the table of contents of the mueller report. section two -- russian active measures, social media campaign. items one through four, the i.r.a., the russian internet research agency, ramps up u.s. operations as early as 2014. or facebook ads -- just a couple -- u.s. operations through i.r.a.-controlled social media accounts, the same. u

let's start with what jared kushner said today.t was just a couple of facebook alds, and secondly the mueller investigation was actually the worst thing that happened to america. >> well, good questions, lawrence. glad to be here. first of all, i think it's sad that somebody that close to the president of the united states is supposed to be one of his trusted advisers cannot see the threat the intelligence and counter intelligence operations pose to russia. and secondly i think the bob mueller investigation and all the men and women who worked with him have allowed us to see a very clear picture how this white house is run. and i think we've pushed some answers back to the congress. >> if the time 100 had invited the russian ambassador today to speak, would he have said anything different than what jared kushner said? wouldn't they say, wem, it's just a couple of facebook ads or even if they wouldn't adimate to that, it's been harmful for america? >> i think one of the things people need to understand is when you talk about intelli

they may subpoena jared kushner and ivanka trump.hner has been breaking his silence as you know he's rarely heard from. he went on fox news to address the worries about this white house whistle blower and concerns about his security clearance calling some of the objections quote crazy. he was, of course, tapped by his own father-in-law, a senior white house aid. his responsibilities range, there is middle east peace, solving the opioid epidemic. there is fixing the way the federal government works. kushner, though, says most of these things outside of the media spotlight. we do know he has spoken with mueller's team. we don't know if he or his wife's name is in the mueller report. they may be in the clear on an of that stuff. they may be in the reports, these big families in the white house in public opinion. the "new york times" obtained escore polling with numbers on both of them. it basically features likability to find out which appeal to audiences, the time is right. 12% of people say ivanka has strong positive appeal. jared fal

like kushner was getting at. always the next thing.dge this administration on its merits. in a way, it's allowed them to do things like the usmca. it's allowed them to do things like the dereg movements that should help this economy move. in a perverse way, their obsession with russia has kind of let the administration do a lot more good stuff on the economy. that's really worked. >> you just put your finger on the biggest question facing democrats in this next cycle. will they continue to beat on this? even after mueller, even after it's clear that there's no there there. knowing that this by the way has not necessarily helped them up till now. what have they gained from it? not necessarily anything. are they going to keep doing that or are they going to talk about their own policies and attempt to tell voters why they should be elected to the white house next year? that's not happening. we know from the top meetings from the top democrats, there's a sense of worry among the rank and file that the democrats have no idea what the democ

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interestingly, jared kushner is responding to this. we don't often hear from kushner and we don't often hear from him talking about security clearances in these meetings. i want to play for you what he had to say. >> i can't comment for the white house's process but i can say over the last two years that i've been here, i've been accused of all different types of things and all those things have turned out to be false. >> joyce, kushner dismissing concerns about these clearances. is he right to do so? >> he's absolutely wrong. security clearances, this is not a political football. it's not a partisan process. and this white house which has destroyed so many guard rails has destroyed guard rails here, as well, with the president inserting his own judgment to replace that of career officials. and it's not something that is irrelevant and not something that is minor. it goes to ensuring the integrity of our country's practices, policies and, most important information. if you have folks who have conflicted loyalties, you open up a whole h

. >> miller versus kushner. a collision course in the oval office. >>> attorney general william barr under fire and prompting questions who he serves. is it the president or the american people? >>> developing this hour, increasing legal and political fallout as the president reviving a controversial immigration proposal that his administration had rejected as being unworkable and illegal. the president, though, still says he is strongly considering a plan to take central american immigrants, apprehended at the border, and bus them to so-called sanctuary cities. the president made clear this is in retaliation to democrats. >> we'll bring the illegal -- whatever you call them. illegals. they came across the border illegally. we'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area take care of it. they want more people in the sanctuary cities. we'll give them more people. we can give them an unlimited supply. they say we have open arms. let's see if they have open arms. >> democrats stating it is inh

new today, jared kushner goes to bat for his father-in-law. and vladimir putin all but dismissing russian attempts to upend the u.s. presidential election. the former veep finally taking the leap, breaking today. cnn learning when joe biden will announce his presidential bid with 19 other democrats and president trump waiting to mix it up with him. plus, president trump set to visit the uk as a guest of the queen, now if only he could find a place to stay. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm brianna keeler in for jake today. we begin with our politics lead. white house senior adviser and presidential son-in-law jared kushner downplaying russian interference in the u.s. election, suggesting it was just a couple of facebook ads, and the u.s. investigation into that russian operation was worse for the country than what the russians did. special counsel robert mueller detailed in his report a massive multi-pronged operation by the russian government to undermine and sow discord in the u.s. political system, in a, quote, sweeping and systemic fashion. k

author of kushner inc. the incredible story of jared kushner and ivanka trump.eel. >> i think what you saw this morning was a master class. he is a plausible liar. this is what makes him so dapgs. you listen to what he says and it is terrifying, right? >> what did you think of, he is still on the talking points of undermining russian interference. what does that tell you about the whoa kush enterprise that you've reported on? in fairness, they have a good argument. russia did a bad thing and mueller found trump folks didn't help. why is not he saying that? >> i think what is so interesting, there are echoes what giuliani jue sarudolph giu sunday. dismissing it. he said something like, what's the problem? i'm paraphrasing, if we talk to a couple of people. >> it can be difficult to paraphrase. >> and here you have jared kushner saying the whole thing just boils down to a couple of facebook ads. but it doesn't. >> you spebl so much time on this. is it an inability to update? >> the whole book is about jared kushner has a disdain, the traces that came through, a di

jared kushner, the conflicts he had is all he had was conflicts.gn business relations. >> special rules for family, but also special rules for other political appointees. and, again, throughout the white house, you have individuals with access to classified information, sensitive secrets, potentially sources and methods, law enforcement methods, other things that are vital for national security, and you give it to people who can't we trusted or subjected for foreign influence, that's national security issue. >> the justice department building. you know who it was named after? robert f. kennedy. what is this story going to lead to, subpoenas by elijah co cummings. >> he's going to try but the white house is going to fight. >> the whole dirty deal, this nepotistic crap. thank you cuba ken dilanian and jeremy bash. >>> up next, hard to belief stuff about trump. listen closely. hard to believe stuff. you're watching "hardball." (client's voice) remember that degree you got in taxation? (danny) of course you don't because you didn't! your job isn't unde

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kushner, she was also given her clearance that same day as well. and you at home should look under your chair because you get a top secret clearance too, and you get a top secret clearance and you get a top secret clearance. everybody gets one, no matter the serious disqualifying red flags in your background checks and how many ways actual national security screeners believe that you can't be trusted with the nation's most secret information, you get one anyway. again, the president's son-in-law jared kushner being named as white house official number one, previously not described by name in those reports. we're going have more on that story ahead. >>> we're also going to have more ahead on this major shot across the bow tonight from the ways and means chairman richard neil. congressman richard neil of massachusetts heads the ways and means committee. today he notified the irs in writing that he is invoking the section of the federal tax code that requires the irs to show him specific tax returns that he wants to see as chairman of ways and means.

his son-in-law jared kushner.ddle east peace, the opioid crisis, is now crafting an immigration compromise. and he thinks he can find common ground between both parties and his father-in-law the president. >> i've had both steven miller and kevin hassett who runs the cea involved. i think they both agree with what this is. i say if i can get them to agree on an immigration plan, then middle east peace will be easy by comparison. >> right then. joining me now correspondent jacob soboroff and correspondents. i would like to start with you about the political realities of doing all of this. jared kushner makes immigration reform sound easy. would you say that's the case? >> it's certainly not easy. we know that from the last 13 or 14 years. every immigration reform effort has had a sad ending, including the one that we led in the last congress to try to get something done. it will not be easy. the only thing that gives me about this much hope is that jared kushner is or was the architect of one of the few big biparti

but jared kushner is not exactly a neutral observer here.e is someone who is not just a senior member of the campaign, but is mentioned in great number of times in the mueller report in part of course for participating in the infamous trump tower meept meeting where he at a minimum went into receptive to the house with russians and they didn't act on it because the russians didn't come forward with the damaging information about hillary clinton they promised. >> david, what do you think? >> there was no finding in the report of a conspiracy to defraud the united states. you would expect jared kushner and others until the administration to tout that, to say, look there was no crime committed or as the president said, no collusion. but to spin these facts their own way, that -- the face -- of what was going on on facebook was fine and that the mueller report or the mueller investigation itself was more damaging to the country is just completely mischaracterizing what was an orderly process of justice in their own justice department by their ow

kushner? because if it is, then you have to worry about how that foreign influence affects his counsel to the president and the actions that he has taken in pursuit of u.s. national foreign policy. and so it's just one dimension of a really dangerous and concerning set of circumstances in which you cannot decipher what's in the national interest, what somebody's doing purely in the national interests or what are they doing in their personal interests. >> you've been among those lawmakers pushing for accountability in the death of "the washington post" journalist, jamal khashoggi. now an investigator for jeff bezos, who owns "the washington post," is writing in the daily beast, and let me quote from that article. this was apparently -- this was the article. our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the saudis had access to bezos' phone and gained private information. so what do you think? apparently, this was in response to "the washington post's" very tough cove

do you pose a grave national security concern to the country, jared kushner? >> anymore the white house. i work with phenomenal people. the last two years, the president has done a phenomenal job identifying the national security priorities. i hope i played a good part in pushing those objectives forward. because of the president's leadership, the world is safer today. >> laura: you get the sense that the democrats keep moving the goal posts? it strikes me as interesting as this comes out today as mueller fizzles. >> what i learned, there's people in america care about and what people in the media and washington care about. >> laura: i read on what cnn was saying about it after it passed. it was like they couldn't believe that donald trump would do something that would happen disadvantaged people, people that made big mistakes, criminal mistakes, and it's almost like they didn't want to believe it could have happened. does that disapoint you? even when something that should be bipartisan is still viewed in a negative light? odd. >> when he was approached with

jared kushner is omitting things about russian interference.t was more than just buying a few facebook ads. there were all sorts of secret meetings between russians and trump campaign people. he didn't mention that. the idea that he's reframing this as that's how they try to dance around the edges of the election. this is what robert mueller said. the russian government interferes in the 2016 election in sweeping and systematic fashion >> that's the second paragraph. i know it's 448 pages >> i'll read the whole thing right now. >> jared didn't have to get far to get to that statement. >> what is it that he just said? >> look, it's not just facebook ads or meetings with trump officials. this was aggressive hacking of democratic campaigns, party committees, leaders in the party and humiliation by having that released publicly. this is one more episode in the multi year effort by the president and his closest associates to treat as trivial what was far from trivial in the 2016 campaign. i think it's something that happens on a visceral level with

also jared kushner today said the mueller investigation was worse for this country than the russian attack itself, which he tosses off as a couple of ads on facebook. >>> andrew sullivan is here tonight to tell us why he believes donald trump is more dangerous than ever before. and what we're still finding that's not getting news coverage inside the mueller report. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a tuesday night. >>> and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 824 of the trump administration and this white house is fighting back on two fronts, pushing back against the mueller report while also resisting house democrats' efforts to investigate this president. tonight "the washington post" reports that trump not surprise eingly is opposed to having current and former white house staff testify before congress. most especially his former white house counsel don mcgahn who has emerged as one of the stars of the mueller report. robert costa of "the washington post" spoke with the president tonight by phone. "the post" quotes trump as saying and

i mean, that's perhaps why jared kushner needed some help to get his security clearance.ry, nbc news reported that when jared kushner first applied for his clearance he was initially rejected until the career officials who made that decision got overruled by highers-up in the trump administration. "the new york times" followed up with this bombshell that it was actually the president himself who ultimately intervened so jared could get his clearance. in short order, cnn reported that it wasn't just jared, it was also the president's daughter ivanka trump who had to have her dad weigh in and pressure white house staff to get her a clearance she otherwise wasn't able to get. so high-ranking official applies for security clearance. high-ranking official gets turned down for serious security reasons. that decision gets overruled by the white house, specifically on orders from the president. we had heard reports of that happening in the trump white house two times. well, today the overrule the security clearance determination list got a lot longer. the democratic chairman of t

and we heard it already from jared kushner, the son—in—law of the president?distraction to this country, far more damaging than any russian interference in the election." right. if you want a system that people have faith in, that is not politicised, that is not toxically and corrosively damaged by politics, is impeachment really the way to go? it depends on how anything is done. as i say, people are going to view the result of an investigation or enquiry as just and fair if they think the process was fair and they think the people involved are fair—minded. i understand jared kushner. people who are within the ambit of an investigation never like it. i have never a defendant, i've never met a target who embraced me and sent me flowers and sent me chocolates. that's not how it works. and to say that the investigation has damaged america and american standing, one could respond by saying the activities and the conduct of the president that necessitated an investigation — that was started by the way by his people ? bob mueller was put in place by donald trump's o

as for kushner's comments, to me they were clarifying. this is how the white house feels about this issue. >> thank you for your reporting. >>> the question to impeach or not impeach president trump. that's the question swirling through washington since release of the special counsel final report, it is a question that two democratic candidates voiced support for. >> the tools that we are given for that accountability is the impeachment process. this is not about politics. this is about principle. this is about what kind of a democracy we have. >> i think we have very good reason to believe that there is an investigation that has been conducted which has produced evidence that tells us that this president and his administration engaged in obstruction of justice. i believe congress should take steps towards impeachment. >> all right. i want to take a moment to walk through what impeachment is, article 2, section 4 of the united states constitution that reads the president, vice president and all civil officers of the united states shall be

among them, jared kushner and ivanka trump. we have more on this.aura, good morning. >> good morning. that whistleblower is tricia newbold. for the last 18 years, she worked under republicans and democrats in the personnel security office at the white house. it is unclear if she will stay on the job following the allegations. the white house has yet to comment on her future. a career white house official says 25 people in the trump administration were granted security clearances despite disqualifying issues. >> things like drug uses, criminal activity. >> reporter: a memo from elijah cummings says tricia newbolt felt this is my last hope to bring integrity into the office. >> the things she has told us -- >> reporter: newbold told the committee about two senior white house officials still on the job, both drew objections on staff. the objections were overruled, despite concerns such as foreign influence. none of the 25 people were named in the memo. the committee has been investigating security clearances of nine senior officials, including the pres

he's talking to the president and jared kushner weighs in and jared kushner says we're going to changehe entire government works. kushner said without a hint of irony in the book, mccain says good luck with that, son. it seems to me that good luck with that son is actually too subtle for the jared kushner who is portrayed in this book. he would think mccain is wishing me luck. i can get this done. >> i think the entire trump administration came to washington which is a town as you know well is not really into change, is not into up ending structures around for 100 years and jared kushner is body somebody who fancies himself a dealmaker somebody who could tear part the government and rebid it in his liking. it does get to the point frankly what you were talking about before about cleaning out the department of homeland security. the president likes that. the president likes people who are going to try to complete his missions, try to do things in his image. i think kushner was trying to do that in front of the president say we're going to remake this whole government. donald trump got e

there's a space for kushner to get in. he is a survivor.n him or ivanka you lose. the other thing we can forget the president loves the chaos. i wouldn't be surprised if this is just a flare up and then they sort of settle things and they go on their way. as we were talking about earlier, the president is determined for this whole immigration issue to flare up constantly. that is his political strategy. and so it may be in his mind this is just act 17 of this drama and then next time we'll go on to something else. he'll fire somebody else or something like that. he's perfectly find with that. >> jared kushner has this wonderful veneer. he can take the hard-line approach but say jared is working on something else. >> this the season four of the episode and ratings are flagging and let's bring back one of the original fights. >> adam is in the room right now. we can get him back. >> you're right. the idea is jared does represent something to a lot of people in washington this idea we had or they had early stages of the president he would be a

roles in the trump administration, in her book "kushner inc."he is interviewed by a former "new york observer" editor in chief. >> well, donald trump, this is the other really interesting dynamic, they will at some point become too much of an obstacle for him, that he just has to let them go. he goes back and forth on this. had a system of women misused emails, because that is what he went after hillary clinton with. that caused him to say to john kelly, can you just get rid of them? trump, heis it is can't pull the trigger on his own daughter. then he seems to forget about it. announcer: watch book tv sunday on c-span2. >> there are many new cases of the 116th congress, including representative madeleine dean of pennsylvania, former attorney in english professor who serves in the pennsylvania state house. >> at what age did you get

we know are jared kushner had a problem. we know this congress is looking into that.ly denied that is worth looking at. that does go to how this white house has gone. it could go to the business ongoing of jared kushner's company or even the president. >> and remember, manafort delivered particular information to a russian oligarch in terms of particular areas that they needed to work in, in terms of wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania. we also remember in the report, florida. the actual machines. something happened in terms of the infrastructure in florida. so part of what follows from this, is our election infrastructure secure? can it be tampered with? and what we see is that for reasons that are unknown to us, trump and his administration aren't concerned. >> it was originally reported the chief of staph said he didn't want to talk about security and securing our elections in 2020. it shouldn't rise to that level because the president doesn't like it. >> so you have that on the one hand. we still don't know the financial entanglements of donald trump and his f

questions for him would naturally include how is it jared kushner got his security clearance. that same committee has also had to push back its deadline for a subpoena of trump's financial records after trump sued to block that request. oversight chair elijah cummings, democrat of maryland spoke earlier on this network about the president's effort to stop congressional inquiries. >> when we allow these things to happen, basically what the congress is doing and negative the republicans in the congress is allowing president trump our power and in turn take away the power off our constituents. >> there's also news tonight about the only person convicted thus far in the mueller investigation. one paul manafort. he's now officially a federal prisoner. we learned today he'll do his seven plus years at the federal potentiary. the aforementioned robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post," moderator of washington week on pbs. maya wily, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now with the new school here in new york. and david joll

there's speculation president trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, may be among them.allegations. >> over the last two years that i've been here, i've been accused of all different types of things. all those things have turned out to be false. we've had a lot of crazy accusations like that we colluded with russia. i complied with all the different investigations. >> the whistle-blower made her complaint during a private interview with the house oversight committee. abc's kyra phillips has the details. >> reporter: a whistle-blower working inside the white house tells congress top officials authorized security clearances for at least 25 people whose applications had been denied for reasons including foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct. tricia newbold, who has worked in the white house personnel security office for 18 years, warns the situation could impact national security. she says among those 25 people, two very senior white house officials with significant disqualifying factors, in

. >> jared kushner speaks out overnight after a white house insider accuses the trump administration of putting national security at risk reversing security clearance denials for staffers despite serious disqualifications. what could happen next? >>> breaking overnight, a vigil for murdered music star nipsey hussle turning violent. the sudden chaos that triggered this stampede. several people injured as police announce a suspect in the brazen daylight shooting. the manhunt right now. cheers erupting in court after a late night conviction in the case of a woman murdered while out for a jog. her family's reaction this morning. >>> plus, mick jagger's medical condition revealed. what his rolling stone bandmates are saying. >>> holy guacamole. how president trump's threat to close the border could cause an avocado shortage. >>> and later, one dad's big career change, the viral post from his son catapulting the aspiring model dad into internet fame. >>> good tuesday morning, everyone. we begin with a whistle-blower at the white house revealing what she describes as serious concerns about

. >>> jared kushner has plenty to say about the mueller report in his first public comments since its release, and it looks like democrats will have to fight if they want to see white house staffers testify before congress about that report. here's nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: overnight, president trump saying he's opposed to current and former white house aides testifying to congressional committees in the wake of the redacted mueller report. in an interview with "the washington post," the president indicated complying with congressional requests is unnecessary because he already cooperated with the mueller investigation saying, there is no reason to go any further, and especially in congress where it's very partisan. the administration's already pushing back on several fronts fighting a house judiciary committee subpoena for former white house counsel don mcgahn and ignoring demands from house democrats to turn over the president's tax returns. it comes as one of the president's most trusted advisers, jared kushner, unloaded on the mueller report. downplaying its findings on

but to hear jared kushner is a reminder there's no one in the white house, not mick mulvaney, jared kushnering the president he doesn't want to hear. mick mulvaney told kirstjen nielsen to not take this conversation to the president because it's not something he likes to hear because he still equates it with undermining his own 2016 victory. and so this is where trump's owown ego is affecting policy decisions and future elections and it's concerning and how these personalities around here and these stories we work on matter because it's these people blocking him from getting the information he doesn't want to hear. >> are there any republicans left on capitol hill who care about our national security? i'm old enough to have worked with people like john mccain who were very alarmed, who were constantly traveling to russia's neighbors to assure them that america would have their back when russia attacked them. now not only do we have people like that, we have people that don't want to protect us when russia protects us. anyone left in congress that saw russia the way john mccain did? >> if yo

>> terry, thank you. >>> this evening, jared kushner making headlines with rare public comments. blasting the mueller report as more harmful to america than what the russians did in the 2016 election. just a short time later, hillary clinton was on the same stage. here's jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: jared kushner today seemed to downplay russia's meddling in the 2016 election, suggesting investigations into what happened have been more damaging than anything done by the russians. >> you look at what russia did, you know, buying some facebook ads to try and sow dissent, it's a terrible thing. but i think the investigations and all of the speculation that's happened over the last two years has had a much harsher impact on our democracy than a couple of facebook ads. >> reporter: russia's actions amounted to much more than buying some facebook ads. special counsel robert mueller's report called them sweeping and systematic, including spreading disinformation on social media, and hacking of the dnc and clinton team. but today, kushner suggested the russian effort didn't amount

>> someone who may be scrubbed from it was on fox news tonight, jared kushner. let's watch. >> talking about this nonsense further, especially after two years and being wronged so many times, it's just really not productive and quite frankly it's kind of an embarrassment for our democracy. >> so this guy talking about embarrassments for our country, i need 47 more minutes. this is the guy who couldn't get a national security clearance, but his father-in-law weighed in. this is the guy who uses whats app to text with world leaders. this is the guy bho -- please, an embarrassment to the nation is nowhere near, robert, as mueller and his investigation. >> this is also the same guy who was busily courting chinese investors to bail his family out of a say scraper that they overpaid for on fifth avenue and the circumstances around that have never gotten fully resolved. they only backed away from dealing with chinese investors during the transition because it became public through reporting. he then held meetings with russians when he was asked in the congress, did you

now, a source tells cnn both jared kushner and ivanka trump are on the list of 25. important to note here, the president is legally entitled to order a security clearance for anyone he wishes. chairman cummings comparing the clearance overrides to hillary clinton's use of private e-mail server as secretary of state. >> if the violations are accurate, and i do think they are as ms. newbold has told us, i think this is a million times worse. what you have here are people who literally have the top secrets of the world, and they have not been properly cleared. that should alarm each and every american. >> jared kushner responded last night on fox news. >> over the last two years that i have been here, i have been accused of all different types of things, and all of those things have turned out to be false. >> that's apparently a reference to conclusions in the mueller report, which has not been seen by congress or the public. chairman cummings plans to issue a subpoena this morning demanding an interview with carl kline, cummings is sending a subpoena even though kline