paying tone what jared kushner -- attention to what jared kushner said today, not only does the president not give consistent answers but what i heard from jared kushner is like a 14-year-old saying i didn't know there was going to be drinking at that party. look if don jr. invited you i have no idea why he invited me -- >> it's on the e-mail. >> which he said he didn't read. >> but how many of us have gotten an e-mail that runs page after page? >> are you defending the decision to attend the meeting? >> it's entirely likely he didn't read to the end of it. >> wasn't it more honorable to get to dirt on hillary or walk out when you found out it was adoption? >> basically what i think he looked at is this is a waste of my time. >> because it wasn't good enough dirt about hillary. >> once again i can't tell you if he read to the end of the e-mail. i suspect everybody here and everybody at home is listening look, it's a long e-mail. you never read to the bottom. >> but i think that if one is involved with a foreign power that's been hostile to the interest of the united states one might want

will come forward and when they'll hear from jared kushner. also, they've been seeking his testimony as well. >> so we stand by for that news. what about, jessica, this eighth individual in that meeting, he works for a russian oligarch. i know we have video where you can see him with donald trump in vegas back in 2013. who is he and what was his role in the room? >> reporter: yeah, brooke, we do have that exclusive video to us that appears to show this eighth attendee standing just steps away from donald trump in las vegas in 2013. there it is. you can see ike kaveladze. he's in the light-colored suit jacket. directly behind russian pop star emin agalarov who's talking to donald trump on the eve of the miss usa pageant in 2013. our pamela brown has spoken extensively to kaveladze's attorney and we know that kaveladze is the senior vice president of the crocus group, the real estate development firm run by emin agalarov and his father, and his lawyer confirms that kaveladze, yes, he was in fact in the room in that meeting in 2016. of course it

. >> yes, we are just learning from jared kushner's attorney that jared kushner is prepared to testify in closed session before the senate intelligence committee on monday. that would be july 24th. there is a statement from abby lowell that says as mr. kushner has been saying since march, he has been and is prepared to voluntarily cooperate and provide whatever information he has on the investigations to congress. further, mr. lowell says, working with and being responsive to the schedules of the committees, we have arranged mr. kushner's interview with the senate for july 24. he will continue to cooperate and appreciates the opportunity to assist in putting this matter to rest. so, to repeat, that's closed door testimony before the senate intelligence committee next monday. so, brianna, you have a week of testimony coming up on some key people in this russia investigation. >> it's going to be very interesting next week. >> yeah. >> i want to ask you a question. you may not know the answer to this, gloria, but i wonder if you think this may be an indication that robert mueller has alre

trump's son-in-law, jared kushner. they found his white house connection is still being yuuse to lure chinese investors to his family's projects. this, after the family apologized for mentioning kushner during a sales pitch in may. we have the report. >> reporter: the ethical question surrounding the promotion of this kushner family project in jersey city, new jersey are about to grow. that's because, despite a prior apology from kushner companies, cnn discovered groups working with a kushner project continue to use white house adviser, jared kushner, as a promotional tool for investors, labeling him, mr. perfect and trump's son-in-law. the promotions are for a kushner development covered under a government program. it gives foreigners and their families the chance for a green card, as long as they invest at least $500,000 in an american project. this project is the same one jared kushner's sister was pitching to wealthy chinese investors in beijing in may. she used her brother as a selling point, sparking outrage, a s

jared kushner is talking. he is the quietest member of the president's inner circle, at least publicly, but today he just became the most -- member to step before congress and explain his interactions with russia and during the transition time. really the bottom like is the president's son-in-law, top adviser is denying any collusion involving him or anyone else from within the campaign as far as he knows. he also stepped in front of the cameras, which we never see, in front of the white house shortly after meeting with senate investigators. >> my name is jared kushner. i am senior adviser to president donald trump. when my father-in-law decided to run for president, i served his campaign the best i could, because i believe in him and his ability to improve the lives of all americans. and now serving the president and the people of the united states has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. i am so grateful for the opportunity to work on important matters such an middle east peace and reinvigorating amer

that was the message delivered today by jared kushner the president's son in law and trusted adviser who was cool before the senate intelligence committee. because i did admit meeting with russian officials four times last year. but said there was nothing in the face about my contacts. the bbc's north america editor john so pull stunts our coverage. jared kushner the husband of a vanka the son in law of the president and the closest confidante to donald trump. defined himself in the cross hairs of this ruling rusher investigation. nnova. a man whose newly found studiously avoiding the limelight today found himself. uncomfortably the center of attention like right. for giving evidence to the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors he returned to the white house to insist he done nothing wrong. i did not collude with russia. nor do i know if anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. and i've been fully transparent in providing all requested information. so what were the contacts. in april twenty s

kushner's legal team that initially found these e-mails we believe, which caused jared kushner to update his security clearance forms, the meetings he had with foreign nationals. give us insight into how this might have unfolded from there. >> many of us have filled out these forms. you need them for clearances. i am surprised a meeting like this would be omitted. most of us write down even trivial meetings with foreign nationals. one thing a legal team does is to go back and look for anything that could cause further damage below the wart line. look at appointment schedules, who you've met with and this obviously came up in that review and they did notify that they had to amend. that's correct. now this does happen. you do have people that have omissions. it's usually not prosecuted. if there's a pattern to that, it can become quite serious. and as jeff and i talked about in the past, the thing that gets people nailed in washington is generally not these other crimes. it's false statements. they try to talk their way out of problems. and that's where they get into trouble. it's that whi

they interviewed jared kushner today. senator wyden thanks for you time sir. >> thanks for having me again. >> after jared kushner put out his written statement that he was submitting to your committee today, you put out your own statement saying that what he had said, what he had told you raised more questions than answers. can i just ask you what made you say that, what new questions you have? >> rachel, as you know, i have focused in this investigation on the follow the money issues. and he made some very careful, very lawyerly-like comments. for example, he said he didn't rely on russian financing for his businesses. he didn't say i have no business dealings with the russians. he didn't say i have never received russian investments. and the lawyering obviously was very clever but his responses were incomplete. and as far as i'm concerned, this is just the beginning of the questioning. we've got to have him in the open so that the american people can see him questioned by senators of both parties. >> we have seen a cou

and jared kushner doesn't either. and second, the notion that you would privatize efforts in afghanistan in the armed services committee, we have been asking the administration can you bring to us a strategy about afghanistan? and they have not been able to do it. they haven't brought to us a strategy about isis. they haven't brought to us a strategy about syria. we're waiting for a strategy and the notion that you would privatize it, by handing a contract to a guy whose earlier career with blackwater was very controversial, who is a family member of betsy devos, the secretary of education, this raises many more questions. i do have confidence in general mattis. i think he could -- he could spot a crazy idea a mile off and people could make a pitch to him, but i do have great confidence in secretary mattis that he's not going to compromise what we need to do to be effective. >> let me ask you about health care, i know you're one of those who have been waiting for the call from mitch mcconnell for a bipartisan meeting.

and as far as jared kushner is concerned, this is just hearing far as jared kushner is concerned, this isjust hearing number one has to testify in front of. tomorrow he will face similar questions but it will face similar questions but it will be behind closed doors again. some of the questions being asked outside of those closed doors why is it taking so long forjared kushner to come up with his version of events. these meetings were in march so events. these meetings were in march so why has it taken so long for this information to become public? why is it being held behind closed doors is one of the questions that continually is being asked. when it comes tojeff sessions and james komi, the former fbi, all testify in public. when it comes to that, their testimony is open and transparent. but jared kushner goes back testimony is open and transparent. butjared kushner goes back to his statement, all it is, all of it is open everything i've done and said. iimagine it open everything i've done and said. i imagine it might not be enough, that perhaps there will be more to come. stay with

jared kushner... jared kushner. .. jared jared kushner... jared kushner is not being centrestage, is one of double trumps close as advisers he has been silent on his side seem rarely heard he has done some talking with russians. first with the russian ambassador. and even with this man, he is the head of a russian bank tied to the investigation. when asked about that meeting, sergey gorkov sergey gorkov said ask the white house. his father—in—law did not seem to please. jarrod has now become much more famous than me. laughter i am a little bit upset about that. mr kushner was also part of a meeting with the russian lawyer arranged by donald trump junior. he's with the russian lawyer arranged by donald trumpjunior. he's bound to be asked about it in congress today. we wa nt be asked about it in congress today. we want to know where that these meetings took place, whether other meetings took place, whether other meetings took place, whether other meetings to place. we have a lot of ground to cover. some democrats are described as a threat

and russian lawyer and with jared kushner. kushner's defense has been i didn't read the e-mail, i went in there and it was clearly a waste of my time. i had my assistant call me to have me exit the meeting. whether or not manafort's account squares with kushner's account is going to be a critical piece of information for the committees going forward. and so kushner is answering questions today from house members, remember it was intelligence committee staff on senate side that talked to him yesterday. today he's under oath with those committee members. and i think they are focus will be on teasing out whether or not there are any inconsistencies between what kushner has said in his statement and the documents he's provided and what these other witnesses may be saying behind closed doors. >> kasie, the president really appred of jared kushner's performance yesterday and tweeted out, jared kushner did very well yesterday in proving he did not collude with the rugszs, next up 11-year-old barron trump. stan stand by, kasie, let's

. >> bret: morand jared kushner's defense today in a few moments. first, the president puts republicans' feet to the fire over the stalled effort to repeal and replace obamacare. in a short but pointed statemen statement, president trump decried democrats for passing what he says was a big fat ugly lie and then turned on republicans, accusing them of not doing their job in something they've promised for seven years. congress isn't the only one facing harsh words from the commander-in-chief. president trump also called out his attorney general on twitter, saying jeff sessions is beleaguered. fox team coverage. peter doocy on capitol hill. we begin with kevin corke who is traveling with the president in west virginia where president trump is scheduled to speak in a few minutes. good evening, kevin. >> you are right. whether he's at home or on the road in the mountain state of west virginia, the president is obviously content calling out those he feels like our standing in the way of his health care agenda. in many instances, that includes members of h

-- jared kushner's legal team. they notified mark kasowitz and alan garden in the trump administration in the third week, june 21st is the date that kushner amends his security clearance form for the second time, it's the third version that he's submitted and on june 23rd, he's interviewed by fbi agents about this meeting. so by the third week in june, a senior white house official, kushner, and president trump's lawyers are aware of these e-mails and the meeting which makes the president's comments this week in which he twice said he only learned about it in the last couple of days puzzling to say the least. i mean, there are two options here, either his lawyers didn't tell him about this highly sensitive politically explosive series of e-mails central to the muler investigation, or they were told and the president chose -- they did tell the president and he chose not to share that with the american public. >> i mean, we don't have time to constantly compile these pieces of comments that the president and his fami

let's begin with jared kushner's interview with senate russia investigators. our justice correspondent jessica snooyder joins us with e very latest. t jared kushner says he's done nothing wrong when it comes to russia. >> he maintains he's fully transparent. he met with staffers behind closed doors for two hours, and then he made his statement in public outside the white house. tonight in a rare public statement, the president's son-in-law is trying to selt the record straight before senate investigators and the cameras. >> let me be very clear. i did not collude with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. >> reporter: kushner's brief prepared statement outside the west wing came after two and a half hours on capitol hill where he was questioned behind closed doors by staff members from the senate intelligence committee. >> the record and documents i have voluntarily provided will show that all of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of events of a very unique campaign. >> reporter: kushner kept his on-camera comme

jared kushner will testify tomorrow. i predict it will be the last time jared kushner talks about the russians. donald j. trump junior is a good guy, he didn't do anything wrong. we have an auditorium of people he was speaking to, it's ridiculous. >> somehow i think auditorium of russians might be a note that people will pick up again. there again the new communications direct near has a lot of support from the president from all indications that we have seen trying to down play the impact of what jared kushner's testimony could be. it will be up to the committee and the special council. how frequently they will seem to have contact with kushner. his lawyers have to sort that out as well if will be a pivotal week, but it is a big temperature in the russia probe as it relates to the trump white house. >> a little bit he said she said kelly o connell, thank you, kelly. >> you bet. >> i want to bring in edward mcmullen, and john wood the former u.s. u.s. attorney. the idea that he might fire robert mueller is key in the inv

. >> i think the bigger question is why jared kushner still has a job. there seems to be two scenarios here. either jared kushner didn't tell his superiors, didn't tell his boss, the president of the united states, that he had this meeting. if that's the case, he's subject to the same problem that got michael flynn fired. >> a former adviser to former george january preside georgia president. 100 additional names. >> right. look, richard, you previewed this in your introduction but let's review the facts when it comes to jared kushner and his complete lack of transparency here. it was jared kushner who did not initially disclose his meetings with the then russian ambassador to the united states. it was then jared kushner who did not disclose his meeting with sergey gorkov, the russian intelligence-linked bar intelligence-linked banker. it was jared kushner who proposed to the russians the establishment of a covert back channel using russian communication equipment in an apparent effort to evade sanctions and it was jared who took part in this june 2016 m

jared kushner was at the meeting. jared kushner is in the white house right now. this isn't -- this isn't an opportunity for detractors of the media to come out and say fake fuse. it can't be fake news when it is their own language. it is in e-mails and very clear what they were trying to do. >> play this out for me. if that meeting did happen and he did lay it out to the president, which would mean the president's tweets are wrong and the president's attorneys are wrong and the presidents comments on this are wrong, what would that mean for the president? >> well, the real issue is the collusion with the russians and the quid pro quo that is strongly suggested by these meetings. these are meetings where former kgb people apparently were there. so we need to get to the bottom of the substance, what happened. and to what extent the president during the campaign was aware of the collusion and any potential agreement that they would offer to lift the sanctions in return for damaging information on hillary clinton. we don't do that. we don't offer official action in r

let's talk about jared kushner. he's denying any collusion with russia and maintains he did anything improper. this was him today after his closed door meeting with the senate. watch this. >> let me be very clear, i did not collude with russia nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. donald trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign and that is why he won. suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted for him. >> this is the second time we've heard jared kushner speak publicly and this time it's about russia. what do you think about what he said there? >> listen, what i think you heard him there do, is articulate what is the trump world view not only of the length but the russian investigation. those two things in trump mind it appears but in closest advisers are intwined. the russian investigation, it seems as an accuse by democrats d

jared kushner does face such a chore. on monday he'll face questions about the 2016 russian election. that will be in a closed-door meeting with staffers. on tuesday he'll get questioning from staffers on the house select committee on intelligence. all in all this promises to be the most dramatic week yet on the russian affair. what the president's own son-in-law and former adviser getting sucked into the whirlwind that has characterized this white house from the very start and that's the white house's main concern this weekend with kushner's trips to capitol hill, mainly that some new disclosure will poison trump's most closely held inner circle and may up-en, infecting the president himself, yet the white house line even after 185 days remains vigilantly the same. >> media loves to talk about it only when it comes to president trump and they're been doing it for almost a year when there are real issues with some of the activities that the democrats took place. >> sarah, in fact, you know that's not true. for many months

jared kushner needs to lose his security clearance tomorrow. tomorrow. and bob mueller, he's got 30 intense intelligence attorneys on this. we've got to double and triple this because this is the scariest thing i've seen in my life in politics. really play this out. >> does the former soviet operative's name appear on jared kushner's form? or does he have to go back again and add him? >> there's some important reason why the lying is worth it. because there's so many people who are deceiving in this, so many characters, going back to flynn, to sessions not disclosing his meeting with kislyak. there's some important reason why they continue to not come forward with it all. and it's starting to upset republicans. if you heard trey gowdy the other day, he said enough is enough, spill it, tell us everyone you've met with. >> and gene robinson, don junior asked us to believe his account of not only who was there but what happened inside that meeting. we of course express skepticism right away that it's just his account of what happened. so not only did he not

they interviewed jared kushner today. senator wyden thanks for you time sir. >> thanks for having me again. >> after jared kushner put out his written statement that he was submitting to your committee today, you put out your own statement saying that what he had said, what he had told you raised more questions than answers. can i just ask you what made you say that, what new questions you have? >> rachel, as you know, i have focused in this investigation on the follow the money issues. and he made some very careful, very lawyerly like comments. for example, he said he didn't rely on russian financing for his businesses. he didn't say i have no business dealings with the russians. he didn't say i have never received russian investments. and the lawyering obviously was very clever but his responses were incomplete. and as far as i'm concerned, this is just the beginning of the questioning. we've got to have him in the open so that the american people can see him questioned by senators o both pf both parties >> we have seen

jared kushner and he never came back by the way. and the other individual who was at the same meeting was always looking at his phone. he was reading something. he never took any active part in the conversation. that was mr. manafort. >> they had the impression it appears that they were going to be told some information that you had about the dnc. how did they get that impression? >> translator: it's quite possible that maybe they were looking for such information. they wanted it so badly. >> have you ever worked for the russian government? do you have connections to the russian government? >> translator: no. >> okay, well that was keir simmons conversation, there was inconsistencies there for well because she met donald trump jr. for seven to ten, he said 20 to 30. nothing is particularly clear. let's bring in kristen welker and kasie hunt. why is this e-mail important? >> reporter: it's significant because it's the first time that we're learning that according to the "new york times," someone within the trump campaign in this inst

we put jared kushner on the top. yesterday chuck schumer admitted the democrats lost because they have no economic message. that's a huge bombshell. of course none of the major news media are going to pick it up. we are leading with jared kushner. again, i've been harping on this for a long time. there are no shreds of evidence of any sort of collusion, yet every single day russia, russia, russia instead of the things americans care about. >> eboni: we heard jared kushner distinguish the russia issue from trump winning. even though the investigation is technically still ongoing. clearly president trump had a message that resonated. he had voters who supported him as such. totally independent of russia's involvement. >> kat: that's how i see it. i breathe that. let's meet today's specialists. he's a former u.s. congressman from utah, former chairman of the u.s. house committee, plus a fox news contributor and specializes in wildlife photography. jason chaffetz is here. she's a political analyst, was a speechwriter for

jared kushner is someone who very rarely appears or speaks publically. he operates behind the scenes. but now congressional democrats have a reason to haul him before congress and there is not much republicans or the white house can do to justify withholding that testimony. so at some point jared kushner may have to step forward and explain his presence at that meeting, explain why there were so many omissions on his first crack at the fs-86. again, because he's so close to the president, it is not easy for the white house to just isolate him when he's becoming such a liability for the white house. >> it was earlier this spring when jared kushner amended that security clearance form. he added about 100 foreign contacts is what his attorney said. but he still left off this meeting. it was only added a few weeks ago after his form was amended yet again, as you point out. bob, you have filled out these forms before. do you think that it could just be a mistake to leave this off? >> no. you know, with russians come in and propose giving dirt on your father-i

so jared kushner has something to talk about tomorrow. he'll be facing questions with the house intelligence committee, again, behind closed doors. his lawyer has worked with them to set about how they would do this. we are told it is a two-hour window of questions that may not be enough to cover it all, but adam schiff, who's the top democrat on that committee, has a lot in mind that he would like to learn from jared kushner. here's what he's thinking. >> want to know whether those meetings took place, whether other meetings took place. we have a lot of ground to cover. his counsel has said they'll only make him available for two hours, so we expect this is only going to be the first interview. >> and part of what happens here is when jared kushner's legal team went through his e-mails, calendar, background information, they came upon in some form or another that 2016 meeting at trump tower, where there were e-mails attached to that, and they revised jared kushner's security clearance application to reflect that meeting with the russian

jim, let's talk about jared kushner now. jared kushner denying any collusion with russia and maintains he did nothing improper. here -- this is him earlier today. after his closed-door meeting with the senate intelligence committee. watch this. >> let me be very clear. i did not collude with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. donald trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign and that is why he won. suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted for him. >> jim, it's really the second time we've heard jared kushner speak publicly and this time it's about russia. what do you think about what he said there? >> listen, i think what you heard him there do is articulate what is the trump world view, not only of the election but of the russia investigation. those two things in trump's mind, it appears, but in his closest advisers, are ent

jared kushner and he never came back, by the way. and the other individual who was at the same meeting was always looking at his phone. he was doing something. he never took active part in the conversation. that was mr. manafort. >> they had the impression, it appears, they were going to be told some information that you had about the dnc. how did they get that impression? >> translator: it's quite possible that maybe they were looking for such information. they wanted it so badly. >> have you ever worked for the russian government? do you have connections to the russian government? >> translator: no. >> reporter: so there you go. she says she does not have direct contact with the kremlin, that she was wasn't -- i asked her specifically, do you have direct contact, were you asked to go and do this, were you pushed to go and do this by russian government officials in any way and she says no, that that is not the case. >> all right. you can watch that full interview online. i have to get my panel to weigh in on this. tom, donald trump

and jared kushner arrived on capitol hill 80 minutes ago. the team was down on the c street and entrance to the office building. as jared kushner entered the building, he waved and smiled for reporters. we were told by senate staff are that they anticipate that jared kushner will be on the senate side from 1-2 hours answering questions from the democratic side and the republican side. they were not anticipating that senators would actually be present for the question and answer session. earlier today, jared kushner and his team released a statement for the record if you will that the context during the campaign and during the transition period, he said that he had forwarded contacts with the russians, but no nothing improper. i will read one section for you here. it states in part, i did not collude or know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded with any foreign government. i had no improper contacts. and he answers questions, critics say there were omissions for security clearance, this is known as ff 86, what he states is the followin

jared kushner, on the record. president trump's son-in-law and one of his most trusted advisers in the hot seat on capitol hill for the first time, facing questions from staff about his russia contacts. kushner's interview under way as we speak, behind closed doors, not under oath. beforehand, he released an 11-page statement detailing a lot of things, including four contacts with russians during the campaign and transition, denying he read the e-mail chain from donald trump jr. leading up to the meeting with the russian lawyer and denying collusion on his part and denying the russian's finance any part of his business activities. kushner declaring in his statement, he has nothing to hide. cnn correspondent pamela brown has more on the statements. first, let's go to manu raju on capitol hill. you have been following kushner's movements all morning. what is happening behind closed doors are you hearing? >> reporter: he is meeting with staff members. the members of the committee are not here. this is not considered

jared kushner and paul manafort and told them nothing of the substance. we had a meeting in june 2016 and after pleasantries were exchanged the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting miss clinton. her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. no details or supporting information was provided or even offered. it quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information, she then changed subjects and began discussing the adoption of russian children and mentioned the mag nifky act. they were a pretext to the meeting. i interrupted her and advised her my father was not an elected official, but rather a private citizen and her comments were better addressed if and when he held public office and the meeting lasted approximately 20 to 30 minutes. my acquaintance apologized for taking up our time. that was the end of it and there was no follow-up of any kind. my father knew nothing of these meetings or these events. the president was not aware of this me

jared kushner leaned on the same gechbs that we have heard from donald trump junior. i believe you spoke about it a little bit as well. does it explain away everything that happened. >> of course not, but the term he used is unique. i have seen it described as many different things. it is absolutely the first campaign of his time. we knew it would be unusual and untethered in a lot of ways when he walked down the stairs, and he won, there is more mistakes made in those kinds of environments. . it was not as buttoned down and focused group as other campaigns in the past, and i'm satisfied with the explanations they have giving for these meetings they have had. >> he said he didn't read it initially, it was on his calendar as between him and donald junior. you worked with him in private settings, is he the kind of guy that would skip an e-mail like that? it seems care less. >> i don't think it is when you consider the tenor and the volume of what was coming across in those days via e-mail in the campaign. they did not have in-house council, you might balk this kind of s

and the scrutiny on jared kushner. it seems the president might be sort of lobbing things randomly left and right, one might say, to deflect? >> certainly that's part of it, deflecting. we all know that the president can say one thing one hour and the exact opposite the next. we've been through this mow for six months. and that actually -- actually ever since november 9th. you're referring to the new york times interview that we had with him just a few days after the election where he was a very different president-elect trump than he is now. and we all know he was -- he talked about it's time to let it go. the clintons have suffered enough. it was quite striking when he said that at the time. he went in to the times in new york. and in that interview he was also very easy going, very open-minded about a lot of issues, and we know that he often plays to an audience, and i think in this case looking back, and we thought it at the time, he was trying to please his audience, and he certainly changed. and i do think that -

first that the president puts a lot of trust in jared kushner. perhaps more than anyone else in his immediate family. and also that jared kushner very much wants to protect the president. >> betsy woodruff, we knew that. but for that to be the impression of a member of congress who was in that house hearing, meeting with jared kushner today, seems to indicate that this democratic member of the committee anyway, is seeing someone bwho is there to protec in his testimony more than reveal possibly. >> i think what's important about understanding cukushner's interaction with congress is that he has the best legal team of anyone involved in the russia situation. it is not surprising that the comments he made to this committee seem informed by some sort of understanding of what direction this investigation could move in. i've been speaking with a number of folks in the d.c. legal community about the different attorneys that these folks have brought on to represent them as they are dealing with the russia investigation. the man you see next to jared kus

that's the power of and. >>> jared kushner lied on his first two security clearance forms. they're not memory failures. these are very important meetings with the russians, one involving a secret back channel. another one involving getting dirt on hillary clinton. you don't forget about those meetings. >> that was democratic congressman ted lieu, weighing in on the financial disclosure form that jared kushner amended. the revelation comes days before he returns to capitol hill to meet with lawmakers leading the russian investigation to sit down with the house yin tell committee tuesday. let's bring back daniel whitman, coar author of the daily play book. kevin certificate i will ee. thank you for sticking around. i appreciate it. >> of course. >> kevin, what should we expect from jared kushner's meeting with the house intel committee. is there a sense this will be different than the meeting with staff this past week? >> he will be pressed on the financial disclosures, particularly those that he has had to amend to get that national security clearance. there's been reports a

jared kushner is, though. and that means the potential legal jeopardy that may arise from this meeting, it not only enters the president's family, a lot of people have been talking about that today, in terms of what we might anticipate about the president's psychology, about defending his eldest son, if he's got real legal jeopardy here. the legal jeopardy not only s s enters the president's immediate family, it also enters the white house. because jared kushner still a senior white house adviser, even if the white house would not answer questions today about whether or not he still has his security clearance. but the jared kushner factor here lends some urgency, not only to what we expect to be a defense by the white house to these absolutely catastrophic revelations today, it also, for us as a country, lends some urgency to the legal side of this. to the question of whether and how this is prosecuted. i'll explain that in a just a second with congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligenc

but we don't know if jared kushner would be willing to testify publicly. i tried to ask him that question today, he would not answer that question. he did not answer questions from reporters at the white house either, anderson. >> and whether it's public or not, does he have to come back for another interview? >> it's possible. a number of members on the senate intelligence committee are telling me that they do have more questions for jared kushner, because they were not at that meeting today, even mark warner, the top diplomat, said there's broad bipartisan support to bring him back. tonight, adam schiff, interviewing kushner tomorrow, is telling our colleagues that tomorrow's session will not be enough, because there are ault of the members that will be at the meeting. but that time frame will not be enough to get through all of the area they want to talk about. >> what about donald trump, jr. and paul manafort coming to capitol hill if>> reporter: it's possible they will face a public hearing. a deal that was cut between paul manafort and donald trump,

. >> and his son-in-law, jared kushner, under serious fire. new calls for the president's son-in-law to lose his security clearance. >> jared kushner should be fired or he should resign. >> plus, no margin for error. the new republican health care plan officially out with numerous senators still on the fence and they cannot afford to lose one more. >> this bill doesn't repeal obamacare. >> i'm very disappointed because i've been very vocal about my concerns. >> all right. you know what we are going to start with, that nbc news exclusive, a former soviet counterintelligence officer with alleged ongoing ties to russian intelligence also happened to be in that controversial meeting last june with don junior, paul manafort and jared kushner. i want you to stay here because we have an amazing team of reporters and guests to break all of it down, but taking you first to nbc's kristen welker live in paris where president trump attended that high profile parade this morning for bastille day. kristen, what can you tell us about this massive bombshell?

jared kushner is, though. and that means the potential legal jeopardy that may arise from this meeting, it not only enters the president's family, a lot of people have been talking about that today, in terms of what we might anticipate about the president's psychology, about defending his eldest son, if he's got real legal jeopardy here. the legal jeopardy not only enters the president's immediate family, it also enters the white house. because jared kushner still a senior white house adviser, even if the white house would not answer questions today about whether or not he still has his security clearance. but the jared kushner factor here lends some urgency, not only to what we expect to be a defense by the white house to these absolutely catastrophic revelations today, it also, for us as a country, lends some urgency to the legal side of this. to the question of whether and how this is prosecuted. i'll explain that in a just a second with congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence co

we watched jared kushner walk into the house side. this is him getting out of his suv just in the last 45 seconds ago. you watched it here live. this is a rerack of that tape as we say it. casey, it's not just jared kushner who is on the hill today. nbc news has learned from a source close to paul manafort in the next 24 hours, palm manafort the former trump campaign chair is expected to be on capitol hill to talk with senate investigators specifically about that june 2016 meeting at trump tower. and all of this is happening as senate judiciary issues a subpoena for manafort in the last couple of minutes here. you spoke with senator grassley about this, right? >> i did. and the senate judiciary committee has subpoenaed paul manafort now to testify before the committee. remember they have an open hearing tomorrow morning, where they have requested that he and don jr. both testify here. actually i'm going to walk a bit. senator dianne feinstein is approaching our cameras here. he has agreed to be a part of this, essentially it takes her

back in january, jared kushner said that he had met with no foreign nationals. so at that point all we knew was jared kushner and the team met with no foreign nationals. by april 6th, the "new york times" reports there were no foreign contacts. the "new york times" took his word for it, nothing, there was no foreign contact. by may 11, jared curb mer filed a new form, i met with more than 100 foreign nationals so now the new word from jared kushner he met with more than 100 foreign nationals and he didn't mention this meeting. we only found about this meeting in june when he filed a third revision. if you took their word before, you'd think they met with no foreign nationals. >> right and my assessment of jared kushner is bravely different than my assessment of trump jr. and my assessment with trump. so i think each of them are culpable for different actions. >> okay. >> i want to point out that yesterday this new information about the lobbyist who has come forward. i wish we knew that in the beginning because that actually corroborates trump jr.'s argument that

and that meeting or jared kushner and that meeting. i think more significantly, what we have learned today bears on the credibility of these witnesses. i thought for a long time, this case is going to come down in the end to an evaluation of who to believe. they are hurting themselves with the constant, changing stories. i thought for a long time, in the end, legal jeopardy may well be best framed in terms of who is going to tell the truth under oath. when you have these evolving stori stories, it's hard to remember what you said yesterday and the day before yesterday and the day before. when you get into a grand jury and you have to tell a consistent story that is truthful, they are putting themselves in a difficult position to remember all that which they have said over the evolving period of time. i think there's jeopardy for these guys from a truth standpoint and credibility standpoint. >> remember, that first statement that came from don jr. that was crafted with the help of some white house aides, that was about -- the meeting wa

jared kushner and his third revision of the security clearance form adding this meeting towards the end of june when the president of the united states found out about this meeting. obviously we now know that the trump re-election campaign paid $50,000 to the lawyer you're talking about, alan futerfas. what did you just learn about that payment and the timing? >> yeah. that's right. this was a payment of $50,000 in late june paid on behalf of the trump re-election campaign to alan futerfas for his work on behalf of don junior and this is the same day that my colleague called jared kushner's team about the meeting. he found out through a source about this meeting that no one had reported on yet so on that day apparently this is when that lawyer was hired to represent don junior. just quickly, i found this interesting, he released a statement talking about the fact that he and his client were going to provide more information about the meeting initially before "the new york times" article. he said don ju

not so with jared kushner because he has occupied a curious role. he lets it be known to the world that he's got great influence. crow about their supposedly moderating influence on the president, but then they hold back and say they are not political types. one thing about jared kushner's it bothered me that he dwelt for a moment on, yes, i went into that russian meeting, but it was a complete waste of time, so i went right away. that is not the issue. the issue is this meeting was built to donald trump jr.. if jerry -- if jared kushner read the subject line, which said russia, clinton, private, confidential, it doesn't matter what was in the meeting. it matters if they went to the meeting. his statement does not satisfy me in that regard. as susan said, it's not the beginning of the end, it is something else, i we looking at the beginning of what might be six months of hand-to-hand fighting between the trump investigation? >> that's what we are watching. if the president believes it is a witch hunt, if he's convinced he did nothing wrong, or if he

first that the president puts a lot of trust in jared kushner. perhaps more than anyone else in his immediate family. and also that jared kushner very much wants to protect the president. >> betsy woodruff, we knew that. but for that to be the impression of a member of congress who was in that house hearing, meeting with jared kushner today, seems to indicate that this democratic member of the committee anyway, is seeing someone who is there to protect in his testimony more than reveal possibly. >> i think what's important about understanding kushner's interaction with congress is that he has the best legal team of anyone involved in the russia situation. it is not surprising that the comments he made to this committee seem informed by some sort of understanding of what direction this investigation could move in. i've been speaking with a number of folks in the d.c. legal community about the different attorneys that these folks have brought on to represent them as they are dealing with the russia investigation. the man you see next to jared kushn

the president's son-in-law jared kushner and then-campaign chairman paul manafort. this seems somewhat of a reversal of a statement trump had given hours earlier when he said that meeting was to primarily discuss adoption of russian orphans. there was no evidence that anyone on the trump team knew at the time of the russian hack of the democratic national committee, but it is worth noting that a few weeks after that meeting, after the hack of the e-mails was made public, trump was quite dismiss sieveiv trump's campaign manager, blaming russia. >> they'll say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again lie after lie. notice he won't say, well, i say this. we hear experts. his house cat at home once said this is what's happening with the russians. it's disgusting. it's so phony. >> that is a bit of moral outrage from someone who weeks beforehand met with a russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging information about hillary clinton. for months the trump team insisted falsely that there were no contacts. here's vice president pence in january. >> of c

clearly jared kushner is looking to clear his name and move on. today kushner expected to answer questions from staff of the senate intelligence committee as we mentioned investigating russia. the interview will be conducted behind closed doors and kushner will not be under oath. that june 2016 meeting at trump you to we are donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer expected to be at the top of the agenda. as we've been saying just in this morning is a copy of the statement to congressional investigators. he's expected to say that trump jr. invited him to the meeting but at that time he did not know who else would be there. and didn't read the entire e-mail. the only concern about that is the subject line was pretty clear. >> the first word was russia. >> the first word was rush yachlt "a rifd at the meeting a little late. when i got there the person who has since been identified as a russian attorney was talking about the issue of a ban on u.s. adoptions of russian children. i had no idea why that topic was being raised and quickly determined that my

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jared kushner later giving it a statement. 11 pages and all, insisting all of his actions were proper. listen. >> let me be very clear. i did not collude with russia. nor do i know if anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contact. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. >> julie: chief intelligent correspondent katherine harris is live. what happened earlier today? >> we have been here on capitol hill all day, and jared kushner arrived with his lawyer about three or four hours ago just before 10:00 eastern. we were down on the east side