jared kushner's father did that. jared kushner's father went to prison for it. jared kushner's father pled guilty in federal court to making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasions, and witness tampering. the witness he tampered with was his brother in law. here is what jared kushner's father did to his brother-in-law because his brother was cooperating with federal investigators. jared kushner's father hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law. he arranged to record the encounter between the two. then he had that video sent to his brother-in-law's wife, sent to his sister. jared kushner's father sent that video to his sister. who would do that? jared kushner's father would do it and did do it. jared kushner knows what federal prison is like because he was a constant visitor to his father in federal prison after his father did that and was convicted of doing that in federal court. what do the kushner men do when they're in legal trouble? who won't they betray when desperately trying to save themselves from legal trouble? that is the question tonight i

wave from jared kushner. suzanne pointed out, which we hadn't known before, which is fascinating, is that the kushner team has no problem with the transcript being made public to this entire process. >> and it's up to senate committee's preferences whether or not he will go under oath for the interview but is willing to go under oath and give sworn testimony. >> again, we wanted to see, just in case, in the rare instance we would hear some of the first words ever from the senior adviser to the president, jared kushner, who almost never speaks in public or in a way that the press can hear him. now he is going to speak behind closed doors to the senate investigators, staffers from the senate intelligence committee. >> right. we should be learning more about that in a while. much more ahead. stay with us. (vo) dogs have evolved, but their nutritional needs remain instinctual. that's why there's purina one true instinct. nutrient-dense, protein-rich, real meat number one. this is a different breed of nutrition. p

jared kushner wanted to pushback. what do you make of the timing of anthony scaramucci previous to the weekend and him behind closed doors? now you have the president who has a team that is going to fight. scaramucci is not going to be a wallflower in the back of the room. >> steve: it will be interesting to watch her play out, because on the one hand to hurt him in the press conference and over the weekend that he wants to de-escalate and doing things like opening -- >> harris: you mean with the media? i mean the investigation and everything else. >> steve: yes, i mean, if they want to fight, you will have to -- if you are advising the white house coming you hope that they have grounds to fight on. one of the problems with her posture over the past six months, every inclination is there to fight, and to be new revelation. >> kennedy: here's what i will say about anthony scaramucci, he is very analytical. he has a good grasp on how things really work and how things need to work differently. he is probably if not the b

kushner. >> i think jared kushner ought to resign. either donald trump is lying when he says that he knew nothing of the meeting, or jared kushner failed to tell him about it. >> jeremy, your reaction to that? >> well, i think, again, bob mueller is going to look at all those conversations and ask every single person involved what did you tell the president and when did you tell him. it's interesting. the defense of donald junior is he's not that bright and he doesn't know very much, which is sort of damning with faint praise of the son of the president. but jared kushner is a bright individual with a very important job in government, and i think he's going to be held to a very high standard. and paul manafort has basically made a career of being an expert on foreign agent registration, on lobbying disclosure, on federal election law. he clearly knows that it is inappropriate and unlawful to accept a contribution from a foreign government, from the russian government, particularly when it's delineated as part of a russian government o

for jared kushner. five years bigger. >> in retrospect, i probably would have done things differently. >> this is the digital equivalent of the smoking gun left at a crime scene. >> there's an e-mail from a russian suggesting that the russian government wants to help, that would be very problematic. >> if isn't evidence of collusion, i don't know what is. we are beyond obstruction of justice in terms of what is being investigated. >> right now at this moment there is probable cause to charge donald trump jr. with the federal offense. >> i'm going to let bob mueller sort out all the criminality. that's not the job of members of congress. >> this meeting will become a mini investigation in and of itself. mueller's people will want to talk to everyone there. >> it is high time for president trump to come out with the full story. enough with the drip drip. come out with the full story. clearly they are lying and explaining their lies. >> sometimes people do or don't do what should be obvious. ♪ ♪ >> in

jared kushner walked by. he went into the legal team and looking into allegations to collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> before walking into this private, behind closed doors meeting, he released a statement, a long, 11-page statement. part of it read, i am not a person who likes the spotlight. it is true. let's talk to people who covered him extensively. david, works as a political reporter when jared kushner rand the reporter. and writer for vanity fair that covers all things ivanka and jared. in a piece you wrote about them, they have perfect timing when it comes to avoiding the heat when the spotlight gets too bright. he can't escape it. he came out all smiles and can't answer reporter questions. what do you make of what to expect from him and the statement? >> what i found most striking in a statement was his continued assertion that he was so busy throughout the campaign, so overwhelmed, such a political novice, he didn't know any of these things were wrong, he didn't have the time to re

we know jared kushner is taking it more seriously than the president because jared kushner has better lawyers than the president. jared kushner has washington lawyer abbe lowell defending him. no one in the trump/russia investigation has a better lawyer than jared kushner does. abbe lowell has defended senators and presidential candidates like john edwards, powerful congressional committee chairmen like dan rostenkowski and at least one speaker of the house. and abbe lowell served as counsel to the democrats on the house judiciary committee when the committee considered and voted on articles of impeachment against president bill clinton. alone among the defense lawyers in the trump/russia investigation, abbe lowell has experience defending a president in an impeachment proceeding. but he's not defending donald trump now. he's defending donald trump's son-in-law, who met with the staff of the senate intelligence committee today to discuss his meetings with russian government officials and associates of the russian government during the presidential campaign and during the transition. a

for jared kushner. five years bigger. >> in retrospect, i probably would have done things differently. >> this is the digital equivalent of the smoking gun left at a crime scene. >> there's an e-mail from a russian suggesting that the russian government wants to help, that would be very problematic. >> if isn't evidence of collusion, i don't know what is. ? we are beyond obstruction of justice in terms of what is being investigated. >> right now at this moment there is probable cause to charge donald trump jr with the federal offense. >> i'm going to let bob mueller sort out all the criminality. that's not the job of members of congress. >> this meeting will become a mini investigation in and of itself. mueller's people will want to talk to ecveryone there. >> it is high time for president trum top come out with the full story. enough with the drip drip. come out with the full story. clearly they are lying and explaining their lies. >> sometimes people do or don't do what should be obvious. ♪ ♪ >> i

to hear from jared kushner is so unusual. for the president's son-in-law and top and closest advisor to the president, all the things under his wing, the middle east negotiations, not to say getting into the persian gulf issues. for him to be interviewed by the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors and now when he comes out we expect to hear him speak. >> reporter: especially when you look at what happens tomorrow, when jared kushner goes back to the hill to talk to members of the house intelligence committee. there is a gaggle, a group of reporters and photographers that have gathered. this is traditionally where you might see mitch mcconnell and senate leadership make statements, they can come out, make a few remarks and head back inside the west wing. that is where we expect to hear from jared kushner when he returns to the hill and wraps up the meeting with the intelligence committee staffers. we are told that he will not take questions, but he will make a statement. remember that from a messaging perspective,

i don't think that jared kushner -- there's a conspiracy with jared kushner to collude with the russians. i don't actually believe it occurred. i don't think it's comforting what did occur. because look at the meeting itself. you had -- the meeting was interesting because no presidential campaign would take a policy meeting. >> right. >> let's agree with that. there was something else there and don junior seemed to think it was about getting dirt on the clinton, which i have to raise a red flag because we know that secretary clipton, there's nothing left to know about her. ran for president twice, secretary of state, u.s. senator, come on. to have the russians sit there and take a presidential campaign's time on a policy issue is ridiculous. this lawyer i would think would know better. why would you meet on a serious issue? the whole thing was set up by the russians for sure. >> say that's true. >> not comforting. >> if that's true, then either the trump campaign fell for it, which is bad enough, or they were happy to be a part of it, which a lot of the communication from don junior indi

here comes jared kushner to the podium. let's take a listen. >> my name is jared kushner. i am senior adviser to president donald j. 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 as middle east peace and reinvigorating america's innovative spirit. every day i come to work with enthusiasm and excitement for what can be. i have not sought the spotlight. first in business, and now in public service, i have always focused on setting and achieving goals, and have left it to others to work on media and public perception. since the first questions were raised in march, i have been consistent in saying that i was eager to share any information i have with the investigating bodies, and i have done so today. the record and documents i have voluntarily provided will sho

in which jared kushner also attended. now, in his statement, john, he does discuss this meeting and says there was really nothing to it. he really didn't know anything about this meeting with russians who offered dirt to donald trump jr. and said he got an e-mail he didn't really read. this is a part of what he said. when at this meeting, which he arrived at late, was looking for a polite way to leave and get back to my work. said i actually e-mailed an assistant from the meeting after i'd been there ten minutes or so and wrote, please call me on my cell. he needed an excuse to get out of the meeting. i have not met the attorney before the meeting or spoken with her since and thought nothing more of this short meeting until it came to my attention recently. john, vo, this tame to people's attention recently, forced to amend his security clearance form because he did not include this meeting initially, when submitting his form, security clearance application. so -- so clearly this is one issue, john, in which investigators

lets you were jared kushner has to say. -- let's hear what jared kushner has to say. mr. kushner: my name is to kushner. -- jared kushner. i'm senior adviser to doesn't donald j. trump. when my father-in-law decided to campaign, i served the best i could because i believed 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'm so grateful for the opportunity to work on important matters such as middle east reinvigorating america's in a bit of spirit could -- innovative spirit. every day i come to work with enthusiasm and excitement for what can be. i've not sought the spotlight. first in business and out in public service, i have always focused on setting and achieving goals and i've left it to others to work on media and public perception. since the first questions were raised in march, i have been consistent and say that i was eager to share any information i have with the investigating bodies and i've done so today. the record and documents i hav

jared kushner and a notetaker. also present about a half dozen senate staffers and a transcript that was taken of that interview. a transcript the legal team says they certainly do not object to being made public. something that we don't know when it will be made public but certainly it will be available. also we're told before this meeting that according to a source, that jared kushner would take all questions. our ted barrett, producer, asked him on his way out whether or not he, in fact, did do that. he said, yes, he had. all the questions they had, he said it went very well. he is on his way to the white house and we know this was not sworn testimony but tomorrow will go before the house intelligence committee that will be sworn testimony and expected to be interviewed before members of that committee. not just staffers and then a transcript made available. as you know, wolf, part of a very concertsed effort and orchestrated effort, if you will, to show some transparency from jared kushner and his team going to

you have jared kushner speaking in about 15 minutes. two hours later, president trump himself will come out and speak. he is expected to talk about health care and then on air force one as he travels to west virginia, where he was set to speak before the annual boy scout jamboree tonight. the new press secretary, answer huckabee sanders is expected to take questions off-camera on board air force one. one more thing i would note, melissa, anthony scaramucci said today on twitter that the cameras, the tv cameras, will be back on. we believe that means that the on camera briefing should be back. although when, we do not know. >> melissa: we will keep watching. thank you. >> jon: for more, laspina david, senior politics writer for world report. where it goes from here depends a lot on how well the senate until committee members receive jared kushner's testimony. he put out a vigorous defense of his actions and that 11 page statement. >> he had three main excuses or explanations for his contacts with russia. he said, either forgot about them

the mounting troubles for jared kushner. the new scrutiny of the president's all gark friend and why the defense of e-mails points to bigger problems. >> i love e-mails. you can't erase e-mails. >> then the new health care bill is out and it is already in deep trouble. and a reminder from france. this is man we elected president. "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. now that there's evidence that there was at the least attempted collusion between the trump campaign and russia, they are shifting to another argument. collusion is fine. everybody does it. the white house fuming over the news that his son and son-in-law met last summer to try to collaborate on defeating hillary clinton. today during a trip to paris, the president made his first public comments on the controversy. >> i think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. it is called opposition research or even research into your point. i've had many people, i've only been in politics two years. i've had

do you have when you face jared kushner this week? >> sergey gorkov, the banker train bid the russian intelligence school, known tore very close to putin. we're going to want to understand what was said in that meeting. of course, there's different reports. the bank, veb, a state russian bank, issued a statement after that meeting, saying that they had discussed business. jared kushner said that did not happen. we've got to reconcile that. we're going to want to better understand the process of submitting his form. he discusses this in his 11 pages. the sf-86 where you apply for a security clearance is just like a tax return. you essentially swear that the information you're submitting with a signature may be electronic, you swear that that's true. i want to understand why we've seen amendment after amendment after amendment to that form. >> as you sit here today, knowing what you know from his 11-page statement this morning, do you think that jared kushner should have security clearance? >> again, we assume that people are innocent i

we are waiting a statement for jared kushner. he was on capitol hill talking to the senate select committee on intelligence in a closed session. we will bring you his comments from the white house live. democrats and the party members starting a chart to power and what they call a better deal. senate republicans plan a procedural vote to consider health care legislation again. ♪ david: as we await comments from jared kushner, who is expected to address reporters outside the white house, let's get the latest on his appearance before a summit select committee. us who is on joins capitol hill today and kevin whitelock covers congressional coverage from our beer in washington.

it's not what jared kushner will say today. and we saw again this morning donald trump is clearly pushing in this direction of wanting jeff sessions to either resign out of humiliation or who knows, maybe he will actually fire him and appoint someone that he believes would actually fire mueller. >> let's stay on that. i want to bring in peter alexander, live at the white house. to jonathan's point, the president is clearly intensifying attacks on his own attorney general, jeff sessions, who basically was with him from the beginning of the campaign, the first senator to back him. i mean, the president waking up this morning while health care is on the table, talking about jeff sessions taking a very weak position on hillary clinton crimes. are you kidding me? >> yeah. this is clearly the first thing on his mind as he went to bed and appears when he woke up again this morning, the topic of his attorney general jeff sessions and really the frustration, he's been fuming privately and now increasingly publicly about his a.g., who wa

he's not where jared kushner is. >> correct. the consequences for jared kushner in many ways are starker. he's the one that has filed the forms, which he has had to update now several times. because some of these meetings with russians were inadvertently omitted the first time around. we know for instance the democrats have been consistently saying his security clearance should be strict. others saying he should have to forfeit his white house job altogether. >> shepard: the tick tok on the day, so far, early morning, before 6:00 a.m. eastern time, this 11-page statement came out from jared kushner. it was embargoed until 6:00 a.m. so nobody could mention it in your local 5:00 a.m. show or whatever it was to start the 6:00 a.m. hour. and then for today's show and the good morning america and all of those shows at 7:00. we go through up until the time of the meeting. he hasn't done it. his story is the story out there. this gives them the top of the fold, the top of the website, alerts as people are waking up. he hasn't spoken, s

so you have jared kushner really pushing for that. and then we learned today, according to a senior administration official that president trump is going to hire tie cobb who is a veteran lawyer in washington, d.c., no stranger to tough legal battle is, but to effectively come into the white house to help with their legal and pr messaging. there's a sense that it hasn't been dispinned enough. and we go back to the briefings that i sat in on in which we ask deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders questions about the russia controversy over and over again and the responses to refer our questions to outside counsel. so i think there is going to be a more robust attempt to not only anesthesia questions that they are getting on a daily basis but to do so in a disciplined manner. >> you've done a lot of reporting on this. let's talk about this fifth character we now know was in the room, reign that the ak men shon. who is he? what did he bring to that meeting, and is he tied to russian intelligence? >> well, he denies and has denied i

it's a harder argument to make in jared kushner's kals. the bigger issue isn't what was on the form, what wasn't on the form, what was in the phone call or not. it's going to be the fundmental fact that the e-mail that invited everybody to this meeting said this was material on hillary clinton being supplied by a -- the russian court, essentially, the russian government. that's what should have set off all of the alarm bells. >> because you look so many months later, the intelligence community said it believes the russian government was trying to support the trump campaign. rebecca, to you now. in light of this, there's a peculiar moment from the campaign trail, it happened june of last year, four days after the e-mail promising dirt on clinton and two days before the meeting took place. let's listen. >> i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week and we are going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you are going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >>

he's defended jared kushner. so i'm not really sure. this is something that will absolutely resonate with the democratic base. they will be able to raise money off this sort of thing, their base will be activated because they firmly believe that 70% of democrats came out saying donald trump should be impeached. there is a no-lose situation if you're a democratic leader like nancy pelosi. i think this is very much unlikely it moves donald trump's hand in any way. >> he just has interim clearance right now. he hasn't gotten full clearance for many reasons, one of which he didn't properly fill out his form which was left blank on questions initially on questions about which foreign officials he had met with which sort of led to the snowball of where we are now, the delay in saying that he had this meeting and so forth. so there is that. but the other thing to keep in mind, and correct me if i'm wrong here on this, bill, for someone like jared kushner who is a senior adviser to the president of the united states, to have no security clearan

jared kushner has been completely transparent. he has provided information, which he was not required to provide. he has filled out his sf-86 form and all his contacts over 100 different contacts with foreign leaders were informed on that document. and, moreover, right, he has volunteered to cooperate in any investigation to prove beyond any doubt whatsoever no coordination, collaboration or cooperation between the trump campaign and anyone involved with russia. >> he's talking about that in this statement that we know he is going to be giving to members of congress and basically using this as an excuse. he was essentially overwhelmed and didn't know better in some of these instances. does that excuse hold water? is that good enough? >> when he was asked to attend a meeting and particularly a meeting that was call under to question here from his brother-in-law. meeting between jared kushner and donald trump jr. no indication of what that meeting was about. he didn't read the full e-mail chain. he was added to it later in the chain

and jared kushner, later in the broadcast. this comes after president trump and russian president vladimir putin had their first official sit-down meeting on the sidelines of the g20 summit in hamburg, germany, on friday. during the two-hour meeting, the two discussed a ceasefire in parts of southwest syria, whether russia intervened in the 2016 u.s. election, and a plan -- which trump is already backing away from -- to form a joint cyber security team to work against election hacking. on sunday, trump tweeted -- "i strongly pressed president putin twice about russian meddling in our election. he vehemently denied it. i've already given my opinion." following the meeting, russian president putin said trump had accepted his denial of election interference. >> our position is well-known. i have spoken about it. there are no grounds to believe russia interfered with the election process in the united states. asks a lot of questions about this issue. i answer these as well as i could. it seems to me he accepted it and agreed, but

, jared kushner, his son-in-law, and senior advisor. the other one was playing with his iphone. he's referring to paul manafort there. don listened out of politeness and realized it wasn't, honestly in a world of politics most people are going to take that meeting. if somebody called and said, hey, you're a democratic, by the way, they have taken them. so there's a little conversation style here. hey, i have some really -- some information on donald trump, you're running against donald trump, can i see you. so you kind of can almost hear the president's cadence. how many people are not going to take that meeting? what's notable about this is the president said this on camera in large part today when asked at the news conference. so when we have an off the record conversation with the president, it isn't necessarily that there is some secret or some kind of thing that wouldn't be said publicly. my experience is they usually say it publicly right after they talk to us, but it's an opportunity for presidents to sort of work it there out, t

. >> and jared kushner wants to push back harder on the negative news coverage including a move to get the cable news networks to change graskt. >> is trump going to invite putin to the white house after putin corrupted the the race for the white house? the 11th hour begins now." >> and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 175 of the trump administration. and if it's thursday it must be paris. the trumps are guests of the french in the city of lights. and if you watch the coverage today with no sound it was pretty straightforward president stuff except an odd clingy moment between the president and the first lady. with the sound on the day was more striking. president trump who has savaged paris in the past was ee fusive today. the two presidents a generation apart in age and a world apart in culture looked like great friends including the dinner tonight. the other sound you would have heard was russia following trump to france and the president defending his son and his son's choice to welcome russian help in the campaign. >> mr. president your

this was the first time i think i heard jared kushner's voice. we always see him in video walking behind the scenes. this is the first time we see him out front like that. >> there was an event he was at and not speaking to anything that's has to do with campaign. it was strike at first to hear him. let's talk about the substance of what he said. tomsome is talking about this. this was not under oath but the whitehouse is trying to discredit the russia probe and this was the chance to follow that strategy. >> well you know new wanted to get attention and you wanted to get eye balls put a new face on this that is jared kushner. as shawn said he's a bit of a fix in the city. people know who he s people see him a lot. but nobody really quite as ever heard from him and they certainly have never heard from him like this today. and this was a remarkable reason. one of tophi officials today one of the highest who actually now has gone to house intelligence committee and answered questions about the russia investigation. it's kind ever a preamble to all

and jared kushner, later in the broadcast. this comes after preresident trp and d russian presidident vladir putin had their first t official sit-down meeting on the sidelines of the g20 summit in hamburg, germany, on friday. during the two-hour meeting, the two discussed a ceasefire in parts of southwest syria, whether russia intervened in the 2016 u.s. election, and a plan -- which trump is already backing away from -- to form a joint cyber r security team to work against election hacking. on sunday, trump tweeted -- "i strongly pressed president putin twice about russian meddling in our election. he vehemently denied it. i've already given my opinion." followowing the memeeting, russn presidident putitin said trumpmd accepted his denial of election interference. >> our position is well-known. i have spoken about it. there are no grounds to believe russia interfered with the election process in the united states. asks a lot of questions about this issue. i answer these as well as i could. it seems to me he accepted it and ag

it's almost entirely up to jared kushner. if he decides to stop and talk about what he said, we will find out. there's not expected to be any public transcript. there's not expected to be any public readout of it. a few minutes ago joe manchin democrat on this committee whether he thought anything should be made public. take a look at his answer. >> if he doesn't end up testifying public in front of the committee would you want a transcript from the session released publicly so people can see it. >> if it's not classified it should be. anything classified is when assets are in jeopardy, make sure to protect them. if there's nothing of that sort, we should make everything as transparent as possible. >> we'll get a little bit more transparency when kushner talks to the house intelligence committee tomorrow. that's because members are going to be there. the committee members expected to hear from some of them afterwards what he says. the guidance from around the intel committee, look, this the first meeting but not necessarily t

., it was about jared kushner. how much did protecting jared kushner play into all of this sh. >> we're told a big part of the discussion was making sure jared kushner, who was the only person inside the meeting about protecting him and making sure that there donald trump jr., who is a private citizen doesn't have to disclose the meeting, that all of the blame goes on him and part of the issue is you have people that white house who purpo purposely were supposed to be left out of the russia investigation who may have to answer questions from the special counsel, mueller, because they've become part of the discussion of this meeting. we'll see if robert mueller decides he wants testimony from all of the aids who moilth have been part of this strategy to respond. >> they'll be treated as witnesses. >> yes. >> a growing witness list, no question. is the white house once again changing its story on a key detail of the russia investigation? this time on when the president knew about donald trump jr.'s meeting with a rus

name is jared kushner. i am senior advisor to.donald j. trump. when my father-in-law decided to run for president, i served his campaign the best i could becauseible in him and his ability to improve the looils 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 as middle east peace and reinvig rating america's innovative spirit. every day i come to work with enthusiasm and excitement for what can be. i have not sought the spotlight. first in business and now in public service, i have always focused on setting and achieving goals and have left it to others to work on media and public perception. since the first questions were raised in march, i have been consistent in saying that i was eager to share any information i have with the investigating bodies, and i have done so today. the record and documents i have voluntarily provided will show that all of my act

another issue that nancy pelosi brought up once again is a call for kushner's -- jared kushner's security clearance to be pulled. would that be enough to satisfy democrats or is this just the beginning? >> i think, like you said, this is just the beginning. inside the white house, my sources tell me that there is basically a clock ticking for how long jared kushner will remain inside the white house. his presence is considered quite toxic at this point because he is the administration official who is closest tied to the russia investigation. they don't see it as sustainable. also with the pressure that he's putting on the comm shop and press people to defend him, his own spokesperson is inside basically spending all of his day defending him in the russia investigations. once he starts testifying i think it is going to be really difficult for him. if anything new comes out, i don't know how they can justify continuing to give him a security clearance. but if it is just nancy pelosi calling for it, we'll see. but once the republicans come along, then they're in some real trouble. >> i want

piece of it, the jared kushner piece of it as well. he was obviously in that meeting. that has made things, i think, i hear from people close to this white house very difficult for people inside the white house, because there are people who work inside this white house who can't be fired, right? we know there are different factions in all sorts of white house, whether it's the obama white house, the bush white house, the reagan white house. the fact there are top level folks there who are related to donald trump and in his family and are essentially a protected status skpand untouchable. that makes things different for this white house. >> you followed this story closer than the rest of us. did you think this would all come out in a tweet by the president's son? >> it had to be a russian billionaire known as the donald trump of russia and also has a son, aside from being a pop star, works with his father at the krocrocus group. you want to talk about connections. agalarav is very close to the kremlin, the government, with president putin. he has developed some of the b

jared kushner was in a meeting with a foreign agent. now we know that he was in a meeting not just with a foreign agent but with a former and "former" counterintelligence officer. formers no such thing as counterintelligence officers if you ever worked for the soviets. once you are in the kgb, you are always in the kgb. it was not to talk about adoption, it certainly was not to talk about anything else but if anything, it was there to cap information and the fact that jared kushner lied and admitted it, until finally revealed today, asks the question whether that man should be in the white house right now instructed with this type of information. military,were in the if we had this type of her and our security, that would have been -- what would have been our punishment? clearance would've been suspended immediately an investigation open. i'm glad you mentioned jared kushner because many are wondering why is he in the white house caps on -- in the white house? in the first form, he light on it. he did not disclose a single meeting with

. >> 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

we should be focusing on jared kushner and the president. jared was on those e-mails. he knew that the russian government was purportedly trying to help the campaign. this was a meeting set up at the behest of the russian government. all of the analysis about donald trump jr. applies equally to jared kushner and potentially the president if he was told about this. >> that begs a question i wondered about when i read this statement, particularly the part that says, "to a committee of a political party." in other words if that's who gets the information. now, donald trump jr. had, adam, know fis no official role in the campaign unlike paul manafort, for example. are the stakes different if they were an official part of the campaign or not? >> i think they are. even with donald trump jr. he clearly had a role with the campaign, even if informal. having the chairman of the campaign and having jared kushner who had an active role in the campaign would satisfy that aspect of the legal requirement. i think now it turns to really the focus of the investigation probably would b

jared kushner was in a meeting with a foreign agent. now we know that he was in a meeting not just with a foreign agent, but a former and quote-unquote, former, soviet counterintelligence officer. let me tell you something there is no such thing as former counterintelligence officers if you ever work for the soviets. once you are in the k.g.b., you're always in the k.g.b. why was that person in that room? it was not to talk about adoption. it certainly wasn't there to talk about anything else but if anything it was there to pass information and the fact that jared kushner lied in his clearance, lied and omitted it until finally revealed today, really call into question whether that man should be in the white house right now and trusted with this type of sensitive information. ted, awe andy -- you and i were in the military and we had security clearances. if we had this type of mission in our security clearance what would have been our punishment? mr. lieu: our security clearance would have been suspended, and an investigation would be o

there is jared kushner. he is going to make his way back to the white house where we do expect that he is going to make a statement on camera. we are going to take it there live as he gets into a vehicle and makes the short drive down pennsylvania avenue probably over to the white house. he was there for the interview for a couple of hours? >> it was a couple of hours when he left his home this morning. he was smiling and confident. when he was just leaving the hearing room he was smiling and confident, as well. we will wait to see exactly what he says when he comes back to the white house. he is expected to make comments at the stake out camera. at the close of the hearing you had democrats come out and say that what was discussed that was not classified in this interview should be made public. senator joe mansion making that call saying he should also be willing to coif in an open session so is that public can hear what this senate committee heard. we will see how kushner responds to those calls from democ

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

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

they are talking to jared kushner. neil: do you think this drags on, before the judiciary committee, also a closed door meeting, we will have a lot of the hearings, whether they are private or not, does that supercede the attention that would normally be given to these issues? >> of course, look at the madness. we are not talking about health care, we are not talking about tax cuts, we are not talking about regulatory reform. let's get to work and do the work of the american people rather than fixate on the russia nonsense. if there's there, let the special counsel find it. neil: do you think the administration is not trying to provoke that but sort of stumbles into it by revealing that it hadn't revealed additional meetings? >> yeah. neil: cocktail party receptions or not, i understand there are differences, it fuels this argument that they are hiding something. >> you know what, we got the really weird emails and i think we should flag them now, put them on the table, they could have handled this so differently and i

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

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

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