kushner and his wife have remained in the white house despite mr. trump at times saying they should never have come to the white house and should leave. yet aides also noted that mr. trump has told the couple they should keep serving in their roles even as he has privately asked mr. kelly for his help in moving them out. he wants them to stay, but wants them to leave. that representative of so many other issues the white house is dealing with. >> that tells you everything you need to know. what's happening now is this seems to actually -- this white house operated in a state of chaos for over a year. this seems to be kind of having an impact now, not only with the gun meeting earlier this year -- earlier this month -- this week when the president was all over the place on guns, scrambling the issue for lawmakers, but yesterday talking about imposing these tariffs without any plan, spooking the stock market, concerning u.s. allies and relevant republican lawmakers on this policy chl when you have the inner circle shrinking with the departure of hope

do you have any sense about mr. kushner's role at this point in the administration going forward and whether he had anything to do with this firing? >> well, you know, jared kushner having lost his security clearance doesn't have access to some of the most sensitive intelligence that would allow him to take part in the national security dell remember ratil de. the white house intends to table that proposal at some point despite very, very bad conditions in the middle east. he's involved in dealing with mexico. he went down to mexico recently and trying to work to smooth out a relationship that has of usually been extremely contentions and so i think it's going to be interesting to watch whether he can korveg out a place with very powerful new personalities in the mix. mike pompeo is the president's ear and gets along well with the president and john bolton is outspoken and advocate for his views. his arguably has strong voices than jared kushner was before. i would only mention one more figure. the defense secretary

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kushner's efforts to set up back channels with the kremlin. so these are important questions. if we're going to try to find out, mike morrell said this was the political equivalent of 9/11. if we're letting the white house and members of the intel committee get in the way of trying to find out that truth, it's probably our own fault for letting it happen. we're going to do our best to make sure it doesn't. >> you've got the people on the left saying something like that. you've got people on the right who say this investigation is the equivalent of geraldo looking for the vault. that's why the answers so important. the facts are what would set all of us free. congressman, thank you for being with us. >> 17 entities on intel say it happened. >> there's no question the interference happened, but it's who helped, did anybody help, what is the connection to the trump organization, if any. those are the facts i'm talking about. thank you for joining us, congressman. we look forward to what you develop. >> thank you. >>> we have brand new jobs numbers that were just released by the l

today there's mr. kushner in mexico this is part of the president's first of all plan. >> do you know who likes it? sherrod brown, bobby casey, joe manchin. democrats are jumping on this because they said this. >> they're allowed to do whatever it is they want that's going to help them. more power to them. >> you don't agree with them? >> no, here's what i'll say. in 2016, bernie sanders won west virginia on a progressive economic message by 51% in the primary. it resonated. what did he talk about? about health care for everyone, about raising the minimum wage. there is a way to talk about the economy that dras are not doing a good enough job about it in a holistic economic plan way which we're not doing that, just about a small sector of the population. >> why should republicans talk like democrats? >> i'm talking about democrats. >> i agree with that. >> talk about it in a way that resonates. that's what i'm talking about. >> we deeb this had a lot during the campaign. bernie sanders constantly talke

. >> privately some aides have expressed frustration that mr. kushner and his wife, the president's daughter ivanka trump, have he mained in the white house despite at times saying they never should have come to the white house and should leave. he privately asked mr. kelly for his help in moving them out. >> and it changes on the day. sit not a consistent through line. not like there is a secret covert action to move him out on. but he was fine with it when what john kelly was trying to curtail their power. john kelly, despite telling me on the record, it was wrong, it wasn't wrong, he talked to a lot of people about restricting what they were doing in hopes they would leave. and the president has encouraged that at times. >> it makes sense. when you were first reporting about kelly pulling the clearance from kushner, the common sense notion is, well, that's it for kelly. it was bad on trump's family. but this informs why kelly is still there. obviously if the president is okay with it, the whole calculation changes. >> i think the president is

we asked the white house or we asked mr. kushner's lawyer whether he sought any ethics advice to having meetings with both josh harris and also mike c on orbat at citigroup because they the gave kushner companies a loan last year after meeting with jared kushner in the white house and they declined to respond to the question. >> jesse drucker, thank you sir. i want to discuss this more with former director of the office of government ethics, walter schaub with us now. he resigned from his post last year after clashing with the trump white house. so that is the question. were they aware that there was some sort of ethical problem here? i guess the question especially with them not responding to the question as jesse just told us, should there have been an awareness on the part of all of the parties, not just jared kushner, but those who were lending money to his family's business? >> to answer that, let's step back and look at it from the 10,000 foot level. you have an assistant to the president sitting across the table from

kushner or mr. trump? >> i have no reason to believe that, but i'm not prepared to comment on it one way or the other. >> i've got to ask you about your friends on the house side of things. i know it's been reported that senators burr and warner went to speaker ryan about the behavior -- apparently about the behavior of the house intelligence committee and something that may have leaked out from the republican side about senator warner. how bad is the relationship between the senate intelligence committee and the house intelligence committee? >> well, i would say there's not much of a relationship at this point, to tell you the truth. we are trying to just continue on, on a bipartisan basis. you'll notice there haven't been all the memos and countermemos and that kind of thing. there really isn't that much of a relationship. we're only a couple of hundred yards apart, but it's worlds apart in terms of the way we've approached this. >> i'm curious what you think of tom rooney's comment, republican from flor

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in the past week we've learned more shady behavior on the part of mr. kushner with "the new york times" reporting that he met with finance executives who subsequently provided hundreds of millions of dollars in loans for jared kushner's family real staets company. the previous day "the washington post" reported officials in foreign countries including mexico and israel and others tried to influence jaird cured r because they thought he'd be an easy mark with his lack of acumen about the government. the fact he was allowed this close to the center of power is shocking and scandalous. i don't think anyone imagines this would have happened had he not been the president's son-in-law. this is not how the united states is supposed to run. >> ashley, you and your colleagues spoke to 20 people, i gather, about jared kushner's role in this white house. how far has he fallen or faded in that white house? i'll read one quick quote from the piece. kushner is now stripped of his access to the nation's deepest secrets, isolated and depply weakened inside the administ

if, indeed, mr. kushner was working with him over the months on key issues that he was involved in, including middle east peace, and mexico soliciting bolton's views. and now perhaps talking to mr. bolton about what the president's views are on these matters to help him get ready for moving into the white house, no surprise to anybody, john. >> barbara starr at the pentagon, great to see you, thank you very much. >>> as stephon clark's family prepare for his funeral, a new day of protests over his shooting death. we'll have the very latest next. sometimes a cough gets in the way of a good night's sleep. that's when he needs vicks vaporub. proven cough medicine. with 8 hours of vapors. so he can sleep. vicks vaporub. goodnight coughs. aveeno® positively radiant body lotion... it's time to get your glow on! with the moisture-rich power of soy. it transforms dull, dry skin to leave you glowing. positively radiant® body collection from aveeno®. >>> the funeral for stephon clark happens later today. cl

kushner and ivanka have remained at the white house, despite mr. trump at times saying they should never have been there. and now the counterintelligence unit may be investigating a business deal that ivanka trump may be involved in. a hotel tower in vancouver that may be under investigation. does trump want his kids in or out? >> this is what evan was saying. donald trump does not want to fire anyone directly. right now he wants his chief of staff, john kelly, to tell his kids, to tell ivanka and her husband to go back to new york. >> is he the nanny? >> right. so he has to avoid this confrontation. he knows deep down that hiring jared kushner as his senior adviser was a bad idea. jared kushner did not have any political experience when he entered this administration. when he was managing the transition per he was meeting with foreign investors to get support for his 666 fifth avenue building which is over a billion dollars in debt now. he came into this still invested in kushner companies. he did not fully diverse himself from his business empire

one of the things highlighted in that is saying this report this morning saying mr. kushner met with mexico's foreign minister but did not invite the american ambassador, a diplomat with more than 30 years of experience in the region to join him in the meeting according to senior administration official who are not authorized to speak publicly. - host: stanley in florida, go ahead. you're next. caller: yes. how are you doing? host: fine, thank you. caller: i listen to the stock channel and i listened to warren buffett the other day and he said that with the tax cut, he will receive $19 billion more a year. he would be able to give everybody in michigan, wisconsin, and ohio $1,000 each. and he would still make out with that tax cut. and he's been a gentleman about that. he always said his secretary should pay less than he does. and as far as the tax cut, i feel they're trying to buy votes. wait until they get this pass in november this year. host: have you -- have you seen the tax cut work out personally for you? caller: i don't -- i'm -- i have my money on and retire

as we speak mr. jajared kushner mexico. and we is "the new york times" times one of four countries they could roll kushner because of his financial exposure and because of the troubling aspects of his security clearance. what's he doing leading any delegation anywhere? >> that an important crucial question. they were all trying to manipulate kushner. >> exactly. >> i want to ask you about the other breaking story, white house press secretary sarah sanders the president was not aware of the $130,000 payment made by his lawyer michael cohen to a porn star to keep her silent about alleged a fair, at least as sanders knows, she says i'm not aware the president new. do you think the president was aware that he knew about this $130,000 payment which of course his lawyer said without reimbursement and goodness of his heart? >> it stretches it that the president had some kind of a fair with a porn star was not aware of the fact that his own lawyer was engaged in a payoff to keep her quiet prior to the election. that stretches kred

office issued a statement to nbc news saying he had done nothing wrong, saying mr. kushner has met with hundreds of business people during the campaign transition and in the administration to hear ideas about improving the american economy he has had no role in the kushner company since joining the government and taken no part of any business loans or projects with or for the companies after that nonetheless, this amounts to more pressure on jared kushner, ivanka trump, his wife has been under pressure and hope hicks close to both individuals. and then josh raffle, a spokes person close to ivanka and jared kushner announcing he was resigning earlier this week as well a real sense of confusion what the next steps are i can tell you mercedes shxtlap as one of the persons to take over here at the white house but there have been four communications directors in the space of a year. whoever comes in next will be the fifth, carl. >> a lot to watch in your area of the world we'll come back to you later on this morning, probably close to 11:00 a.m. eastern time. more on the

drama not about mr. kushner but if there's turmoil around economic issues or fights about that over the market very much cares back to you. >> thank you very much let's bring in now also steve for more context on what these trade tariffs might mean. >> it means possibly higher inflation. there's more steel users than steel producers. workers working at those in terms of total gdp there's also a broader issue here as to a broader break down of the global trading system such as it is. the idea that we're going to handle this thing not through general, wto or other means available, we're just going to slap these tariffs on. the president has the right to do this. i also understand to some extent the broader issue of the national security issues that the president has raised the question is is this the way to deal with it. there's a tweet from a washington post reporter and he said oh, he did that so there's not a lot of knowledge about this he was supposed to today didn't do it today >> didn't sign them. >>

in regard to mr. kushner's sinceic case, the dni policy standards and requirements. as mr. phelan stated, each individual adjudication, and iss is in agent number four, treated based on the whole person concept in which every particular piece of information, positive or negative, past or present, all of these things are factored into the adjudication. in my phalen has stated, opinion, the issues you have raised would be issues which would need to be thoroughly v etted in the course of the exit -- investigation. i have no reason to doubt that the federal bureau of investigation would not investigate each and every issue pulse only. -- wholesomely. sen. wyden: let me ask another question. ,uring our open hearing chairman, to his credit, mentioned security clearances being central to the question of protecting sources and methods. withed fbi director ray respect to rob porter how that decision was made. when did the fbi notify the white house? it was clear when you listen to wray's answer, it is what generalfar as kelly said to the american people. specifically, who makes deci

>> right well, secretary mnuchin likes this mr. jarrod kucher mr. jared kushner likes this they believe that larry can do the details. remember, he's a little more pro europe, more pro i'd say germany and japan over the car issue has not fought the steel issue does not like tariffs. i've known larry for years larry is the ultimate free trader however, if you've been listening to him both on the radio and on cnbc, he is much, much harder of late on china and i think that stands well with the president because china's viewed to be a not great actor when it comes to defense and not great actor when it comes to doing things with america that would weaken us. but again, i would just call him leading contender did speak to the president as recently as yesterday. i would say that he would absolutely take the job if he's offered it again, speaking as a friend only i think he would take the job. and as a friend from way back, he is much softer than the market thinks the president is which i think is viewed as being very, very positive for stocks would it be

you in your sourcing, do you sense or sniff out the possibility that mr. kelly doesn't love mr. jared kushner? i don't think he does. >> based on my reporting, he says i'm the chief of staff. you can be family or you can be employees. if you choose to stay, you're going to be employees. of course, that has caused tensions. you can fully be an employee and still be the president's son-in-law or his daughter. this has created all this tension within the white house. even general kelly with four decades of experience in the military is finding it troubling to try to move forward and make some decisions. >> there's an irony -- go ahead. >> it's not just that this is some vendetta family versus staff. kushner has huge security vulnerabilities. the reporting we saw that foreign governments are trying to influence him through his business. >> what did he do wrong that won't allow the fbi to clear him? >> he's had meetings with foreign people he wasn't disclosing. when you're dishonest with investigators, that's a real red flag. he has foreign businesses that create huge vulnerabilities

in regard to mr. kushner's specific case, the dni sets policy, standards and requirements. as mr. phalen has stated, each individual adjudication, and this is contained in the security executive agent number four, is treated based on the whole person concept in which every particular piece of information, positive and negative, past, present, all of those things are factored into the adjudication. as mr. phalen has stated, in my opinion the issues which you've raised, senator, would be issues which would need to be investi. i have no reason to doubt that the federal bureau of investigation would not investigate each and every issue very fulsomely. >> let me ask one other question. during our open hearing, in fact, i think it was worldwide threats and the vice chairman to his credit mentioned security clearances being central to the question of protecting sources and methods. i asked fbi director wray with respect to rob porter how that decision was made. i mean, when did the fbi notify, you know, the white house, and it was clear when you listen to director wray's answer, it did n

in regard to mr. kushner's specific case, the dni sets policy, standards and requirements. as mr. phelan has stated, each individual adjudication, and this is contained in the security executive agent number four, is treated based on the whole person concept in which every particular piece of information, positive and negative, past, present, all of those things are factored into the adjudication. as mr. phelan has stated, in my opinion the issues which you've raised, senator, would be issues which would need to be thoroughly vetted in the course of the investigation. i have no reason to doubt that the federal bureau of investigation would not investigate each and every issue very fullsomely. >> let me ask one other question. during our open hearing, in fact, think it was worldwide threats and the vice chairman to his credit mentioned security clearances being central to the question of protecting sources and methods. i asked fbi director wray with respect to rob porter how that decision was made. i mean, when did the fbi notify, you know, the white house, and it was clear when yo

kushner ine mr. charge of that for the president. is there any progress going to be made in syria -- in this a rea? breakthroughs toward peace at this time are slim, not because of any questions about kushner or prime minister netanyahu in israel. there is not a will to achieve peace, particularly on the palestinian side. can getnd pray we herself sooner rather than later solution totate achieve peace. shery: president trump says they are working hard on the peace plan. he said at the embassy moved to jerusalem has come 20 years too late. how will the peace process happen if no official wants to talk about it? i know the palestinian leadership. there are domestic political reasons among the palestinian people. israel is the only country in the world where the united states does not put its embassy in the city because country says is its capital. is that we areg going to put the embassy in a part of western rosalynn no one thinks will be the subject of -- westerns jerusalem know when things will be the subject of negotiations in a gen

richard haass, you have a new piece entitled "dear mr. president, reboot before it's too late" beyond the obvious legal questions surrounding mr. kushner's activities that call out for answers, there should be concerns about how he is operating. white house staff are meant to coordinate and set policy not carry it out. such activities should be the purview of the departments and agencies. but the challenges facing this administration transcend jared kushner. history suggests that policy is in large part the result of the intersection between personnel and process. there are thus real grounds for concern as the trump administration is plagued with problems on both fronts. they haven't filled jobs. >> richard haass, of course you making a recommendation to the president reboot is like you making a recommendation to the storm system coming east. >> stops no one. >> you did it any way. if the president is -- if the president is listening, if he's read your op-ed, what's the take away for the president? what does the president need to do mainl

how has it been -- what has mr. kushner's engagement on the issue been from your perspective? >> jared has a lot of very refreshing ideas. he's also got a refreshing amount of intellectual curiosity. he likes to learn about issues like this. and he asks a lot of good questions. he has a lot of enthusiasm as a reformer. so i've appreciated the opportunity to work with him. >> so i want to turn for a moment to the policy itself, to sentencing reform as one aspect of the broad problem i think it's fair to say of incarceration in the u.s. and its spread. some would say that sentencing reform, and especially federal sentencing reform is kind of nibbling around the edges of the scale of the problem, that because relatively -- a relatively small percentage of those under correctional observation in the u.s. are federal prisoners, now this is where the matter of women is most directly affected, of course. half of drug offenders that are imprisoned at the federal level are women. but it's still a small number being imprisoned in the country overall. most are in state and local prisons.

tonight new focus on mr. trump's son-in-law, jared kushner. his top security clearance revoked last week. now "the new york times" reporting that kushner's family business received loans after bank executives had meetings at the white house. >> jared's still a valued member of the administration. and he's going to continue to focus on the work that he's been doing, and we'll continue pushing forward on that front as well. >> reporter: earlier today chief of staff john kelly poked fun at his own rocky tenure during a homeland security event, the agency he once led. >> i miss every one of you every day. i went -- the last thing i wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of homeland security, but i did something wrong and god punished me, i guess. >> reporter: partially driving the chaos, the ongoing russia probe. tonight nbc news has learned that, according to several current and former u.s. officials, special counsel robert mueller is preparing more charges against russian nationals for meddling in

tonight new focus on mr. trump's son-in-law, jared kushner. his top security clearance revoked last week. now "the new york times" reporting that kushner's family business received loans after bank executives had meetings at the white house. >> jared's still a valued member o of tf the administration. and he'll continue to focus on the work he's been doing and we'll continue pushing forward on that front as well. >> reporter: earlier today chief of staff john kelly poked fun at his own rocky tenure at a homeland security event, an agency he once led. >> i miss every one of you every day. the last thing i wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of homeland security, but i did something wrong and god punished me, i guess. >> reporter: partially driving the chaos, the ongoing russia probe. tonight nbc news has learned that, according to several current and former u.s. officials, special counsel robert mueller is preparing more charges against russian nationals for meddling in the election. >>> now t

mr. david patel, president of the services council and brenda farrell from the government account billy office. welcome to all of you. we appreciate your willingness to appear, and more importantly, thank you for the thousands of employees you represent who work every day to support the whole of the u.s. government. many of our nations most sensitive programs and operations would not be possible without your work. i look forward to hearing from you on how your respective companies view the security clearance process and how it affects your operations, your hiring, your retention and your competitiveness. i also hope you have come prepared with ideas for reform where necessary. our second panel will include representatives from the executive branch. mr. charlie, director of the national background investigation bureau. also mr. dan payne, director of defense security services at the department of defense. they will provide the government's perspective on this issue and we update us on the

mr. trump reportedly joked maybe the u.s. will consider such a move. tonight the president attended a press dinner and joked about jared kushner's security clearance, and even getting into a fistfight with former vice president joe biden. >>> it's been a contentious week for the president. the new tariffs expected to be a hot-button issue. on the sunday morning talk shows. he hear what the commerce secretary is saying on "meet the press" at 8:00 after "today in the bay." >>> hundreds of thousands in the dark as that powerful nor'easter continues to wreak havoc on the east coast. winds so strong this large big rig nearly blown over. you see it tilting. in massachusetts the state of emergency tonight, the east coast seeing no relief from the vicious nor'easter. parts of quincy, massachusetts, totally cut off. the national guard's been carrying people to safety. >> it's extremely cold in our house, we have no wait to heat it. we're shivering and they were getting freaked out. >> at least eight deaths now blamed on that storm, left armly due to trees crush

and then there is jared kushner. his business arrangements are under fire and drawing attention of mr. mueller and he had to talk to mr. mueller. not by choice. and now nbc news is reporting that the national security adviser h.r. mcmaster is leaving soon and that might be one he is happy about. this white house is compromised by the russia investigation. look at the casualty list but ultimately ask yourself is there anyone left around the president that he trusts. how do we figure that out. joining me now one of the first campaign advisers, sam nunnberg, good to see you. >> thank you for having me on. >> so let's start with -- you are somebody fired a couple of times by donald trump. >> i think three or four. >> three or four. you're not even sure how many. >> correct. >> right now i look at the folks that are currently around this president and i look at the folks that used to be around this president and i'm wondering, he can't be happy. what is it like when he doesn't have people around him that he trusts? >> wel

jared kushner is close to donald trump, someone who had the confidence of mr. trump and i think the russians are very, very clever in terms of how they exploit relationships. the russians services are very good, cunning. they will look for individuals who they're going to be able to exploit. as i said, sometimes the individuals don't know that they are being manipulated and exploited by russian intelligence. i think mueller and his -- what is behind the meetings and engagements and discussions and how then the russians or others might be trying to use it to their advantage. >> so one meeting we know went downment jared kushner was in that meeting, as was the president's son, don joir. was in trump tower met with russians to get dirt on hillary clinton. that seems to have crossed the transom from unwitting to witting cooperations, isn't it? >> in terms of individuals, don trump jr. was excited about it -- it's hard to disavow something like that on his part. i don't know what's behind curtain. i know that this investigative team is among the very best investigat

mcmaster as national security adviser was probably written on the wall as soon as we saw mr. mcmaster named in that bombshell "washington post" story a few days ago about jared kushner and national security concerns that were driving white house officials to oppose a permanent security clearance for jared kushner separate and apart from anything that the fbi might have been finding out about him in their background report. general mcmaster was said to have been, quote, taken aback by what he learned about jared kushner's meetings with foreign officials that he took without notifying national security council that those meetings were happening. mcmaster reportedly had been briefed repeatedly on what foreign officials were saying back home about what their meetings with jared kushner were like. just as an aside here, one of the rationales for having anti-nepotism laws, anti-hiring your children laws, when you hire close relatives for important positions it creates weird power dynamics. when other senior officials come into conflict with a special white house official, somebody

mcmaster as national security adviser was probably written on the wall as soon as we saw mr. mcmaster named in that bombshell "washington post" story a few days ago about jared kushner and national security concerns that were driving white house officials to oppose a permanent security clearance for jared kushner separate and apart from anything that the fbi might have been finding out about him in their background report. general mcmaster was said to have been, quote, taken aback by what he learned about jared kushner's meeting with foreign officials that he took without notifying national security council that those meetings were happening. mcmaster reportedly had been briefed repeatedly on what foreign officials were saying back home about what their meetings with jared kushner were like. just as an aside here, one of the rationales for having anti-nechlt potism laws, anti-hiring your children laws, when you hire close relatives for important positions it creates weird power die nam beings when other senior officials come into conflict with a special white house official,

pena nieto for talks amid strained relations over trade and mr trump's continued demands that mexico pays for a border wall. the visit by mr trump's son—in—law comes after plans for the mexican leader's first visit to the white house were postponed last month. the former captain of the sri lankan cricket team, kumar sangakkara, has taken to social media to call for an end to days to communal violence. members of the sinhala, buddhist majority have been attacking muslims in the central district of kandy since sunday, when a buddhist man was killed in a dispute with a group of muslims. four people have been seriously hurt in two knife attacks in the austrian capital vienna. police say it is not clear what the motives were or if there's any connection between the two assaults. an afghan man has been arrested. bethany bell reports from vienna. a police spokesman told the bbc that a man attacked a family of three, a mother, father, and their grown—up daughter. the victims, all austrian citizens, were taken to hospital with life—threatening injuries. the attacker fled the scene in

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we have white house aides who have, quote, noted that mr. trump has told the couple they should keep serving their roles, even as he has privately asked mr. kelly for help in moving them out. how do you make sense of that? the president is wanting them out? >> it's hard for me to believe that president trump would want to get rid of his daughter and her husband who are, you know, arguably at this point his closest allies in the white house but, look, this is the issue when you have nepotism. especially when jared and ivanka are not getting paid. since they are foregoing a salary, they seem to think that maybe they can instead, you know, by pass some certain rules that are very standard when it comes to being federal government officials. look, again, this is a very disturbing trend that we've seen time and time again. mueller is closing in on his investigation and we know more and more that he's looking into jared kushner so, again, i think this is something that is only going to make voters more concerned when they go to the ballot boxes in

wants to foster and mr. pecker just ended up in the middle of the mix. let's take a step back and we don't do very much because there is too much news but here is the purveyor of the tabloid company in the white house with a saudi connected person and that built his cache in saudi arabia. and what we are not mentioning is the inquiry printed a nearly 100 page glossy -- >> i try to to find this. >> there are 12-00 thousand copies across the united states. very much celebrating -- the crown prince. so very interesting development which kicked up a lot of interests in washington and new york and elsewhere. >> the $14 magazine devoted to muhammed bin salman. and david peckers interest in saudi arabia and owns inquirer and men's journal and why does he have an interest in saudi arabia. jared kushner interested in building relationship with the crown prince. what about david pecker and the -- >> well i think there are a number of possibilities for david pecker. but the ones we know of include a meeting that took p

mr. hill: well, that is a very good question. qjoe jut last week, and victor cha, of course, is not going out to seoul. it is a veryood question. hope they are not picking jared kushner at this point, but certainly they have to start staffing up the state department. i think this special envoyin should bhe state department, and i hope there is a real effort, because you can't have diplomacyut diplomats, and that is precisely what this administration has been trying too. christian: what do you make of what president trump is saying, hat it is his rhetoric th done this, the maximalist approach is taken to north korea? he might be right. maybe the north koreans have blinked, maybe the chinese h e mr. hill: he might be right, whatever. he is going to claim credit. that is fine. the south koreans are doing well to work with him and giving him t credit that if not due, it is ok, that's fine. the question is how we go forward, how we can find something new in this, if we can do something about theble situation in the korean peninsula. j

someone who had the confidence of mr. trump. and i think the russians are very, very clever in terms of how they exploit relationships. the russian intelligence services are very good, very cunning, and they will look for individuals who they're going to be able to exploit. and as i said, sometimes these individuals don't know that they are being manipulated and exploited by russian intelligence. so, i think bob mueller and his investigators have every right to try to find out what might have been behind some of these meetings, some of these engagements and discussions, and how then the russians or others might be trying to use it to their advantage. >> so, one meeting we know went down and jared kushner was in that meeting as was the president's son don junior, within trump tower, they went there to meet with russians to get dirt on hillary clinton. that seems to kos from unwitting to witting cooperation with russians, no? >> from the press reports and individuals, don junior was rather excited about the opportunity -- >> right

among other things, the two men discussed the possible job for mr. harris t never materialized, but in november, he sent 184 million to kushner's family. the loan was to refinance the mortgage on a chicago skyscraper. it was one of the largest loans kushner company's received last year. an even larger loan came from citigroup which lent the firm and one of its partners $325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in brooklyn. that in the "new york times" if you want to read more on that. also "usa today" front page a.v. plot.sed of one of the top secretaries actily lobbied capitol hill to demand his boss' resignation. the assistant secretary for public affairs asked a senior aide at the house committee on veterans' affairs to persuade law maketories call the white house and say they wanted shulkin out. he's the second's highest ranking aide and tasked with publicly defending him and the agency. he denies he tried to out shulkin. then also many of you heard the news that hope hicks, the president's communications director and also long-tim

meeting that was literally billed to him as, quote, "part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump." and yet don, jr. went on fox news to claim the gop memo disproved the entire russia investigation. >> what does this say now about the entire investigation? is it rotten to the core? >> listen, it always has been. you're right. we always said this. i mean, it is so ridiculous that -- let it go, though. at this point, let it go. at least they uncovered this, because what if they wouldn't have? what if -- if they would have just let it go, at this point, i mean, there is a little bit of sweet revenge in it for me and certainly probably the family. >> seth: sweet revenge for the family? that sounds like something you say to a guy just before you close the car trunk on him. [ light laughter ] "say hello to the worms from the trump family." so what does this memo written entirely by house republicans actually say? well, to understand the memo, you first need to understand the man behind it, california congressman devin nunes. who, of course, has been compromised by the russians ev