here is how kushner responded. he said he's entitled to his opinion, speaking of vice president joe biden, but a lot of the work that the president's had me doing over the last three years has actually been cleaning up the messes that vice president biden left behind. jared kushner also went on to say the president is essentially entitled to pick his own team, but these are some rare biting comments seeing here from kushner who weighed in on impeachment and weighed in as silly games democrats are playing and insisted the trump administration will stay focused on the work its doing. of course, we should refer mr. kushner to the president's twitter feed where he is very much focused on this impeachment matter. brooke? >> jeremy, thank you. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> you are watching cnn. on this tuesday afternoon. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being here. the impeachment inquiry came to this. an active duty decorated army officer compelled to testify against his own commander in chief. this is what

and that is not all kushner is saying.le overseas. >> he said a couple of days ago in an interview with 60 minutes he thought it was improper for jared kushner and ivanka trump to serve in the white house in the president's administration. he has said that his own children would not do so. so jared kushner in an interview with israel channel 13, he fired back. this is what he said. >> look, he's entitled to his opinion. but a lot of the work that the president has had me doing over the last three years is cleaning up the messes that vice president biden left behind. >> what those messes are, kushner cited criminal justice and biden was part of voting for the '90s crime bill and jared kushner helped pass the first step act and those are what he pointed to and a political line of attack as well here. >> and kushner was asked about the impeachment inquiry. what did he say. >> behind the scenes jared kushner is very involved in discussions about impeachment at the white house but we have not heard from him publicly on the topi

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all right. >> the kushner family has said there is no connection between the donations and jared kushner'septance. harvard does not comment on individual applicants. ivy league schools do point out that large donations give them the chance to educate students who could not otherwise afford them. they also contend that some children of large donors are rejected. what is clear is that in this meritocracy, it still matters who your parents are, especially if they went to the school of your choice. legacy admission gives strong preference to the sons and daughters of alumni. >> legacy admissions, the idea that you get a special break because your parents went there, why, is this feudal england? i can't imagine what the thought process is. >> they're terrified what would happen to their fund-raising if they got rid of legacy preference. they believe a lot of alumni donate in the hopes of getting their children into the school. >> according to "the harvard crimson," about one-third of last year's freshman class had relatives who went to harvard. legacy admission is deeply entrenched at many top-

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

you know, jared kushner and ivanka trump are working in the white house. done. i don't know what else we would expect jared kushner to say other than defend the work he has done there. but the length of their tenure in the white house, i think it is another thing that joe biden can use to deflect the attacks against him when people are coming after his son. it is pretty easy to point to the white house and say, the president's children are currently working in this administration which runs in the face of ethical guidance that all of the previous administrations would have put forward. >> you used to work at the white house. what do you think? >> well, i mean, come on, when does the white house senior adviser go to isreal, one of our most bilateral relationships, play politics in an interview. this is unprecedented when you think will the roll white house advisers are supposed to be doing. >> you have strong views on that. >> wait a second. they're also making millions of dollars off of their work. >> oh, right. there's that, too. >> ivanka trump is gettin

then i came across jared kushner's parents on this committee.as interested because most of the people on the committee were alium alumni, and jared kushner's parents had no connection to harvard. i began speaking with people family with jared kushner's high school record. it turned out he was not a particularly outstanding or motivated student. there was no lack of people willing to attest to that. >> charles kushner had donated $2.5 million to harvard. jared got in. >> so what i don't understand is, how is it that harvard can let jared kushner buy his way in but it doesn't take a hit reputationally? we should adjust and just say, oh, okay, that's what a harvard degree means, all right. >> the kushner family has said there is no connection between the donations and jared kushner's acceptance. harvard does not comment on individual applicants. ivy league schools do point out that large donations give them the chance to educate students who could not otherwise afford them. they also contained some children of large donors are rejected. what is mer

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

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

trump and takes a direct swipe at joe biden with kushner claiming he spent years, quote, cleaning up the messes biden left. >>> and resort rejection. the kim jong-un regime turns down south korea offer of face-to-face talks on how to fix up a dilapidated north korea resort whose condition outraged the dictator. and tonight a new threat from the regime to the u.s. warning of imminent hostilities unless there is progress installed in denuclearization talks. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. house democrats have just released the text of the resolution detailing the next steps in the impeachment inquiry as it moves into the open from behind closed doors. a vote on that is expected thursday. this hour testimony by the top white house ukraine expert continues. alexander vindman telling lawmakers he was so concerned and worried by what he heard during president trump's call with ukraine's president that he sounded the alarm and told a superior. we'll talk about the breaking news and much more wit

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

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

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

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

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

biden said it was improper for kushner and ivanka trump to serve as white house officials.e's how kushner responded. >> look, he's entitled to his opinion, but a lot of the work the president has had me doing over the past three years is cleaning up the messes that vice president biden left behind. >>> all right. a new cnn poll shows two new england senators, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren neck and neck for the lead in new hampshire. the poll conducted by the university of new hampshire has sanders at 21%, warren at 18%, followed by biden at 15%, buttigieg at 10%. 36% still see biden as the democrat with the best chance to defeat president trump in november. elizabeth warren has gained ground on that, jumping from 9% to 18% in the last three months. >>> julian castro is pulling far behind the top 2020 democrats, but he's not giving up the fight just yet. he said he's hit 80% of his goal for october. he told supporters he needs to raise $800,000 by the end of the month or he would end his campaign. meantime democratic front-runner joe biden keeping up his rougher tone.

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

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

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

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

you know, people can go to the chief of staff and then to kushner or kraoevice versa and s not a way to run a white house, and i think if the president has lost confidence in him then that's a different matter, what once you lose confidence and you have a chaotic white house and you are amidst peril you need to find somebody else, and i don't think he should make jared kushner the chief of staff. i think that would be a mistake. >> the president reversed course, and this also stood out, and the president doesn't do this, he announced the g7 would not be held at his property doral, and the reversal was called a bow to reality. why is this the issue that made the president cave? why do you think? >> because it's such an obvious one, and the public can understand it so easily, the double dealing you bring people in and put them in your hotel, and you make profits over time when it's the immediate deal or the hotel's representation grows and people want to come here in the future, and that's the definition of corruption. and the editorial pages in one newspaper after the other were argui

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

and kushner text each other.visit the white house again next month. that was before the current backlash over trump's decision to pull troops out of syria. before trump imposed sanctions, and before turkey's assault on kurdish forces. now the strategy and mutual admiration is being challenged by the same issue, be strong to their base but trying to prevent yet another middle east war. wolf today the president's quotes are interchangeable with what turk's president erdogan has been saying about the situation, that the kurds are no angels and that syria and russia should fill the security voids and fight isis and that u.s. should left turkey border to turkey. wolf. >> drew griffin, good reporting, thanks very much. coming up, why these curious pictures of kim jong-un riding a horse could signal potentially something big. (melissa) somebody would ask her something and she would just walk right past them because she didn't know they were talking to her. (deborah) i just could not hear. i was hesitant to get the heari

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

and kushner text each other.ast week the white house announced erdogan will visit the white house again next month. that was before the current backlash over trump's decision to pull troops out of syria, before trump imposed sanctions, and before turkey's assault on kurdish forces. now the strategy and mutual admiration between these two leaders is being challenged by the same issue, how to appear strong to their base while also trying to prevent yet another middle east war. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >>> just ahead in the newsroom, after a week full of revelations in the impeachment probe, more republicans are breaking with the president. but with the 2020 election just a year away, is impeachment gaining any ground with voters? you're live in the cnn newsroom. anyone can deliver pizza. only marco's can deliver america's most loved pizza. hot and fresh, and right to your door. every day, get two medium, one-topping pizzas for just $6.99 each. hello to america's most loved pizza. hello marco's. if you're on medi

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

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

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

dollars per quarter so you do the mother with all the injection of capito company who would end up at kushner's in 2020 now if that isn't a disaster i don't know what is but what does this mean for this larger trend we've seen of investor appetite for unprofitable unicorn's. basically the. pays a gentle and that we were. very glass weak for example and cancel its i.p.o. as a violation deflated rapidly and shares tumble 11 percent in the company's a market to bude. a so-called unicorn d s year earlier do small shares of a small direct like around 28 percent on his debut towards a one so far this year for our company over $1000000000.00 seeing the private market uber move to the 3rd place spot it with a loss of 7.6 percent on each shares my always valued colleague luis de harlow there thank you very much. chinese consumers are cutting back on a beloved staple after pork prices nearly doubled that's the result of a shortage caused by an outbreak of african swine fever ageing is now taking steps to keep pork becoming prohibitively pricey. chinese consumers are hoping to bag a bargain before the cou

are you want to get more now from correspondent stefan kushner he is joining me tonight from ecuador's capital quito good evening to you i mean we've seen some violent scenes on the streets of quito tonight what's the latest what can you tell us is the situation is impressive because protests in ecuador have tended east in over the past decade to extremely peaceful we've got a large group of people who apparently will successfully try to break into the congress again trying to run some political tone or general's office is just it is just across the street from congress listens to noon and also to try to take control of the city's historic center even though as it stands the government is no longer working from the prison. and how is their owing what number of earl of. 7 if i can just ask you how that's going to how is it going to work we've got the president moving the government basically outside of the capital will it look it could one could say it looks like he's running away from the protests and the problems is that what he is doing there. well it's yeah well you could consider c

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

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

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

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

kushner have no experience -- they're not lawyers to the best of my knowledge.y have no experience dealing with an impeachment fight. this is going to be a high-stakes battle. it's for the presidency, but perhaps they just plan to give it the back of their hand, so to speak, not even give it much attention at all. >> catherine, i have to ask you, before we let you go, the white house wants republicans to focus on the economy. we know the jobless rate is at a 50-year low right now. is that the best strategy at this point? >> what's interesting here is that trump and other republicans, other trump supporters keep saying how can you impeach a president when the economy is this good. it's not only we want to tout the economy, but somehow that's a defense against impeachment. the u.s. constitution has no provision saying there's an exception for high crimes and misdemeanors if the economy is good. that would certainly be news to bill clinton when he was impeached. beyond that, i think that they haven't looked carefully enough at the data lately. yes, the unemployment

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

so jared kushner is going to be apparently in charge of this. maybe it will work. he got him elected in 2016. who am i to say he won't get in 2020. >> they need to unwind this and figure out the chain of events speaks to something else. >> it speaks to the fact they don't know the underlying facts. remember the initial line of defense was that well all i was concerned about was other countries weren't paying enough. that is gone. then the defense was well there was no quid pro quo. now that's gone. presumably the defense going forward will be well there was a quid pro quo but there is nothing wrong with that. and that presumably is what you are going to hear from republicans. you know, i think, you know, my brother david gergen, is always -- you know he's so hopeful. isn't will hurd a good guy and straight guy. what do we know about will hurd? he'll johnny jeff flake and bob corker leaving, the only republicans who ever criticize the president is people who are leaving congress. as flake did. as corker did. will hurd is leaving after this term. let's see a republic

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jared kushner and ivanka trump's roles in the white house opened another potential avenue for foreignnfluence. last year, china approved more than a dozen trademarks for ivanka trump branded products. the timing, just as the u.s. and china were trying to restart trade talks. and according to "washington post" reporting, officials in at least four countries talked about ways they could manipulate kushner, in part by taking advantage of his complicated business entanglements. the president's sons have insisted their dad isn't swayed by business deals. but the elder trump jumps at every chance to tout his properties on the world stage, even naming his ideal location for the next g7, trump national doral. >> it's a great place. it's got tremendous acreage. it's really -- people are really liking it. plus, it has buildings that have 50 to 70 units in them. so each delegation can have its own building. >> reporter: we asked the trump organization if they wanted to shed any light on how they're preventing potential conflicts between president trump and his children. they did not respond to a

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

but these are some rare biting comments seeing here from kushner who weighed in on impeachment and weighed in as silly games democrats are playing and insisted the trump administration will stay focused on the work its doing. of course, we should refer mr. kushner to the president's twitter feed where he is very much focused on this impeachment matter. brooke? >> jeremy, thank you. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> you are watching cnn. on this tuesday afternoon. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being here. the impeachment inquiry came to this. an active duty decorated army officer compelled to testify against his own commander in chief. this is what is expected from lieutenant colonel alexander vindman going before three house committees today arriving there in full uniform. a copy of his opening statement reveals he was so disturbed by the pressure president trump was putting on ukraine could conduct political investigations vindman reported it not once but twice. both on july 10th and july 25th to national security lawyers. july 25th the day of the critical phone call between p

he was someone seen on the side of jared kushner and kushner really saw him as an ally during the government shutdown earlier this year but an ally he did not win over with stephen miller. we know stephen miller rules at the white house. >> short list to replace him? >> well, the short list is one name so far at the top which is ken kuchinelli. he's the acting director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services. before he was named for that job, trump floated his name as immigration czar, a new job he was going to make up for ken who is very vocal who goes beyond what kevin mcaleenan would do and bring in more extreme positions and policies to that role. we've seen him over the summer talk about i.c.e. raids. he was pushing for that even though he had no role with i.c.e. immigration and customs enforcement. he wanted to be more involved and pushed for more extreme things the whole way. he's someone very vocal on cable news. he goes on fox very often, and that's something that the president sees as a value and attribute in the person he wants to name to oversee this large law enforcement ag

i'm told that kushner does support the high hire of not on anybody but for tony sayak. he was the spokesman at the treasure department and rumored to be a potential hire for white house communications director after the president's close aide hope hicks left the white house last year. now i'm being told the president has not yet signed off on this pick and there are some white house officials who oppose his hire already. but again, this is the latest that we're seeing so far from the white house as they look to develop this kind of impeachment messaging strategy. jim, poppy? >> perhaps a war room by another name. jeremy diamond at the white house. let's speak more about this with political analyst sabrina sadiki for "the wall street journal" and cnn national and security legal analyst susan hennessy, a former nsa attorney. democrats are now saying that they may not need to call the whistle-blower to testify that they have enough from the complaint, plus they have concerns as expressed by adam schiff about exposing this whistle-blower to attacks, et cetera. is that legit

and officials in at least four countries talked about ways to manipulate kushner.president's sons have insisted their dad isn't swayed by business deals but the elder trump jumps at every chance to tout his properties on the world stage. even naming it trump national doral. >> it's a great place. it's got tremendous achage. people really like it. plus it has building that have 50 or 60 and each delegation can have its own building. >> we asked the trump organization if they wanted to shed any light on any potential conflicts between president trump and the children they did not respond to our request. >>> a second day of working level talks between the u.s. and north korea is due to take place in the swedish capital. the meeting in stockholm is the first formal face-to-face contact between the two countries since donald trump and kim jong-un met in union at the korean dmz. >> that's when they view vowed reinstate negotiations. and after days after a ballistic missile was launched. >>> and still ahead, bernie sanders released from the hospital. doctors reveal he had

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