At the heart of the fire iing o National Security adviser michael flynn. The post reports flynn was at the meeting when kushner reportedly made this offer. But the president is pushing back and so are several of his top aids. Namely National Security adviser mcmaster. Listen to this briefing with reporters. We have back Channel Communications with them in a number of countries. So generally speaking about back Channel Communications, what that allows you to do is kmoout communicate in a discreet manner. It doesnt predispose you to content. So we would not be concerned about it. Lets begin with jeff zeleny. How is the president responding to all of this . The president is defending his soninlaw. Hes concerned by just a gravity and the deepening nature of this russia investigation. But the president is defending his soninlaw. It sounds like hes doing that for internal divisions inside the west wing here as much as anything else. Lets take a look at this statement that the president gave to the New York Times in a story they have this morning about his soninlaw. It says this. Jared is doing a great job for the country. I have total confidence in him. Hes respect ed by vir yulely everyone and is working on programs that will save our country billions of dollars. In addition to that, and perhaps more importantly, hes a very good person. Defending his soninlaw certainly is extraordinary. But theres no mention of any of the matter at hand of this russia investigation. His statement does not talk about that at all. So the question here is as the president tries to change the subject and get back to their agenda of doing something they were elected to do, the russia investigation is hang iing over them and the question is what happens to Jared Kushner. He was first among equals. Im told hes willing to talk to the fbi, willing to talk to members of congress here and hes going to. Keep his head down internally. What its allowed is for some of his rivals inside the west wing to sort of resume their previous positions of strength here. So all of this is going on as this white house tries to get back to the subject and their jebd. Now the russia investigation is one of their agenda items. Jeff zeleny, all of this at play. Lets continue the conversation with evan mcmullen, tomorrower operations officer. He launched a third party run for president against donald trump. Good to see you. First just on the news that kushner wanted to set up this russian back channel. Your response . I was shocked. And i think the term back channel is very generous to Jared Kushner. A back channel in the diplomatic sense is something that a president would sign off on. Its an officially sanctioned effort to communicate discreetly with the foreign government. Thats fine we do that as others have pointed out. The problem is that this was not that. This was secret communications or a desire to set them up with our largest adversary using their equipment at their facilities. This was before they took power. This was before inauguration. They can still have communications before inaugurati inauguration. Some would say that needs to be managed carefully, but you could still have that. The concern is that they wanted secret communications with moscow at a time when they knew that moscow and its role in our election was under scrutiny and they want the ed it now and wanted to be skrelt. The question is what is it that Jared Kushner and his boss wanted to communicate with such urgency in such secrecy with the kremlin. We dont know the answer to that. Im sure there are multiple committees who will want to. To your point on back channelling. At the cia if i arrange comes with russia outside of official channels and set up a a secret meeting, i would be tried tr espionage. Would you agree . Absolutely. Absolutely. Theres not a question. In the world of espionage, communications are critical, very sensitive. Topic. How communications are conducted, who controls them. Does it matter he would have been a private citizen . Granted on the transition team, but a private citizen versus the krirks a. They can be guilty as well. He had ak b ses to the protect. He was one of the president elects closest advisers. They were heading into a presidency with enormous power. Especially over sanctions. Reuters has reported that the fbi is investigating to see whether Jared Kushner was actually involved in conversations with the russian bank in which there was a a discussion about whether sanctions could be relaxed and then the bank could offer financing to Trump Associates in response. You have to wonder is this what they wanted to talk about or what these secret communications were necessary. Maybe no protocol. Hes not been in politics before. I think thats part of it. Thats a very important point. People seem to think that its something that comes separately from espionage. Many people who get into these situations do so out of incredible hue brous, ego, there are many things that are involved in decisions to commit treasonous acts, to commit es peon age. Sto say he was naive is a misunderstanding of how this works. You mentioned hr mcmaster and secretary kelly has come to his defense. But if you havent heard what they are saying, listen. Whatever the communication is comes back into the government and shared across the government. So its not a bad thing to have multiple communication lines to any government. Using their equipment in their diplomatic facilities . Again, dont know if all of that is true. I would just say that any line of communication to a country like russia is a good thing. They are down play iing it. They certainly are. Im sad to say that secretary kelly is misleading the american people. Its very disappointing. He says that any communications with a country like russia are a good thing. Its simply not true. If that were true, then espionage contacts would be okay. That could be a good thing. Its not true. And notice that neither he nor mcmaster refutes the underline report, which is there was this offer, discussion about b Covert Communications with the kremlin. They dont dispute that. They go back to explaining why a back channel is a good thing. This is not a back channel and i wish we would stop using that term to describe it. Thats what the administration want. S to say to describe it. Thats not what americans, those of us concerned about National Security should say about it. Point taken. And he has said to congress, yes, you will meet with them and give up information of any of these meetings so far but the probe is widening. The president s soninlaw, thank you so much. Lets talk now that the political ramifications of all of this, the Washington Post reports that the Trump Administration is preparing a special strategy to handle the fallout coming from this russia probe, including latest allegations involving Jared Kushner. So we talked last hour to john wagner. He was reporting on how the Trump Administration is creating a war room, sort of the Monica Lewinsky bill clinton days with lawyers and communication experts. You can understand why. Because the goal here is to try to wall off people who focus solely on that. You just heard jeff zeleny say to that this is an agenda item. So that is is a realization that this is true. So try and get a team solely dedicated to that, those are the only people that answer those questions. Every time somebody gets questioned about the russia investigation say talk over there and then more importantly perhaps, free up everyone else in the west wing who is not working on that at all in the administration the flexibility to try to enact an agenda is just a strategy that attempts to cordon off what is all consuming so the entire administration is not engulfed by it. Then Jared Kushner issue, apparently the whole thing is jared island. This is how some of the trump staffers are referring to him to the New York Times. They discuss his special status in the white house. The fact he left that trip early almost protective of the president knowing the news was going to drop on this kremlin communication. Probably was a smart move. There are definitely are a couple different fangss in the white house. One that is circling the wagons around Jared Kushner and the other that are sniping behind his back and say iing exactly wt you said. The whole jared island conversation. This is one of the reasons that having a Family Member so close to power. The president is family above all else. Jared kushner is his daughters husband, so hes not easy to dispense of, nor does the president want him to be dispensed of. So the fact that the president is responding so vehemently to this, he had an on the record comment in the New York Times. How often does that happen . It shows how seriously they are taking this. And how problematic this is going forward, even if Jared Kushner does go to the senate and tells them what he knows. So this is on the agenda. We know the president is back because twitter has been afire in the last 24 hours. Part of that includes tweets like this one. It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up by the fake news media. Whenever you see the word sources say in the fake news media, they dont mention names, its possible that the sources dont exist and are made up by fake news writers. But reporters are pointing out they are asking to speak to reporters all the time. And trump is wanting his administration to find the leakers and saying the leaks are fake, you cant have it both ways. Certainly anonymous sources. Pi find little sthie for the white house when they complain about the white house. Nearly every white house has used that complaint and folks love to remain anonymous. So when it comes to the leaks here. Notice the movement of President Trump on this. He was asked flat out in february at a press conference youre saying that the news is fake or that the leaks are fake. He said the leaks are real. Now hes calling the leaks fake. So he has moved on this as the news that has been leaking out, has been less and less favorable to him. I think you just gave me a headache. Jackie, big week ahead. What should we be looking for . Its a really open question, to be honest. Congress is out of session. I dont believe, the last time i looked at my phone, there wasnt an agenda set for the white house. There is talk about the president weighing in on the paris climate agreement. Theres been some reporting this he might decide to pull out of it. But again, his daughter ivanka and eric have initially were telling him to stay in it. We heard there was a meeting that was supposed to have over this agreement rescheduled several times. So its sort of an open question at this point on what the white house decides to focus on this week. Paris acord, health care, well see if they can take some of the momentum from the trip and parlay it into Something Back here at home. Thank you so much. Breaking news now involving golf legend tiger woods. Look at this. His mug shot. He was arrested this morning suspected of driving under the influence. What we know, well tell you, coming up. Also ahead, new pictures of that Manchester Concert bomber and his blue suitcase. 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But he would make a decision to drive while under the influence of something, were not sure what it was yet. Its astounding. The fall from grace is just stunning. I cant even believe were discussing this. I was going back just to try to understand what hes been up to recently. Hes been in and out of action. He had some back fusion surgery as recent as a month ago where it was an instant nerve relief. And he said he hadnt felt this good in years. That was last no. The surgery was midapril and hes hoping to come back. We havent seen him much. Hes played three times worldwide in two years. Hes had four procedures. On the same spot in his back over the last three years. So four different surgeries in the exact same spot over three years. This was the latest. But this was what he felt was necessary to finally aleafuate the pain, which is why we havent seen him on the golf course. So he would have been in a good place and would have been happy. I think it also shows the depths of where he is. He cannot play the game he loves. He was groomed for this. Hes won 14 major titles, but none now in 9 years. Just the difficulty of his life in this public demise and tall from grace is sastounding. Maybe not surprising entirely except the decision of a man w has his life together to make this decision. He will regret that and live with it for his entire life. What do we know about his personal life . Just over the past couple years, you mentioned his two kids after the infamous divorce. The run . Was 2009. Then the cascading debacle of his personal life fall it iting apart all selfinduced. He has two kids. A boy and a girl who plays so soccer and takes them to and from school. He has a Good Relationship with his exwife. By all accounts hes living a very nice life. Except for the back problems hes had and the surgeries hes had to endure. He doesnt play much golf because he hasnt been able to play. He opened a restaurant. Hes seen around town in florida. And as i said, hes living a relatively normal life. So again, this is something that is just a misstep that he could not afford to make. Thank goodness no one was injured. Thank goodness. We wish them the best. Thank goodness for him and anyone else that could have been on the road. Thank you so much. Coming. Up next, a shocking attack on a portland, oregon, metro train. Two men killed, another barely survived after stepping in to defend two girls from a man shouting antimuslim slurs. Well hear from the heros Family Members and ill speak to the mayor in moments. He died fighting the good fight protecting the innocent. Its what he would have wanted. I count on my dell Small Business advisor for tech advice. With one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. Itthat can make a worldces, of difference. Expedia, everything in one place, so you can travel the world better. The future isnt silver suits anits right now. 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The young women there tells us she and her friend moved to the back of the train to get away. But then a stranger steps in. He defends them and says to the men yao cant disrespect these young ladies like that. More strangers step this. That is when the knife comes out. The suspect starts to stab. Right there in broad daylight on a train in america. One of the girls says she just heard arguing, fighting, then saw blood everywhere. Two of those hee e rows didnt survive. They died defending strangers. One, a military veteran, father of four. The other, a recent college grat wait who just started his career, started his life. Today one of the teens they saved is saying thank you. Thank you to the people that put their life on the line for me because they didnt even know me. They their life because me and my friend and the way we looked. I just want to say thank you to them and their family. That i appreciate them. Because without them, we probably would be dead right now. The third hero right now in the hospital and despite his serious wounds is expected to survive. His mother says, as badly injured as Micah Fletcher is, he blames himself. I am feeling very, very cllu and thanking god. Im feeling bad for my son who thinks its his fault. They missed the jugular by a millimeter. They cut one of the arteries. This is the man accused of the attack. He has a history of White Supremacy activities. Critics slam President Trump for not condemning the attacks. Today he tweeted the Violent Attacks in portland on friday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are with them. With me now, the mayor of portland, oregon. He joins me by phone. Thank you for coming on. My condolences to your city and these families. You have talked to some of these Family Members. Can you tell e me what you have learned about these heroes who stepped in . The main thing i would want people across the country to know is that there are people like this in portland, oregon. They were attacked because they did the right thing. Its very obvious that their actions were brave and selfless and should serve as an example and inspiration to all of us. Theres no question in my mind that these men were heroes. How are their families doing . They are not doing well. As you can imagine, this is a very traumatic time for them. Theres no limits to the amount of grief they are feeling and the community is feeling that grief right alongside them. And if theres any consolation for them, its this. They stood up for the right thing. They stood up against hatred, against bigotry, two of them paid with their lives. And one, as you just stated, is still in the hospital and is expect ed to survive. And i just cant tell you that there are no limits to the grief and the anger that this community is feeling right now. What about this suspect . E we have been trying to understand. I guess he has a history of White Supremacy before this train attack. Theres cell phone video, appears to be him. We have a piece of it. Theres very little to understand here. The bottom line is this. The man was filled with hatred. And we have got to change the political die nam niynamic in t country. People that dont want to get involved, this is the time we have to get involved. We have to stand alongside the memories of rick and with micah, we have to stand with them and say the political dynamic in this country needs to change. We cant continue to accept hatred and bigotry and its time for ordinary people to stand up and say, listen, we want this country to be what its supposed to be. Which is a country of people who work together, who get along together, who strive together and love each other. And i am so inspired by the actions of these men. They laid it all on the line. And they paid the ultimate price for standing up to those values, which are bedrock to this country. All of us should be inspired now to stand up and be accounted for and demand change in this country. It speaks volumes of your city there in the pacific northwest. Mayor, so sorry and we wish mr. Fletcher in the hospital a recovery. Thank you so much. Thank you and please know this. Our community has rallied around this and appreciate the support. The outpouring of support we have gotten from around the nation and around the world for these three men. Good, as it should be. Thank you. Coming up next, a rather stunning remark by one of americas closest allies. The german chancellor says europe can no longer rely on the u. S. Hear what happened on the trip that sparked that. Plus new pictures of the Manchester Concert bomber. Why authorities are asking for the publics help. The opioid my doctor prescribed for my chronic back pain backed me upbig time. 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Whats she getting at . First of all, thank you for your comments. Secondly, i would say having spent 12 years of my career in germany, when i first heard this, it just shocked me. But as i look more into it and folks i know in germany, it was an offhand comment at a beer hall. It wasnt a major policy speech. But having said that, it is still very disturbing. She has her own internal politics to be concerned about. They have an election in september. So shes actually countering some of the rhetoric of her main competit competitor, who has been asking her to step up against trump. So i think this was a valid opportunity, but its certainly indicates what kind of affairs took place at the g7 summit and nato conference, which we all saw play out. They are not happy with the Trump Administration in europe. That awkward moment where President Trump is calling out nato allies for not paying their fair share and that awkward glance on all these leaders faces. David fraum twooeted this. The supreme goal in europe of the ussr was the severing of the u. S. German alliance. Trump delivered. We were wondering watching the nato coverage last week if somewhere in a darkroom Vladimir Putin is just loving it and cackling. What do you make of those words . Sort of the unofficial slogan of nato since its inception of keep america in, russians out. Now its keep germany in, russia out and america out to lunch. Under this presidency, American Leadership is is suffering. Thats the messaging that germans, french, even the bri british are getting. Im less inclined to down play offhand remarks. I do think this represents a sea change. Not just in germany, but also in france. Look at what was said. That was intentional. The white knuckled handshake. Comparing donald trump to two world leaders. Two authoritarian and increasingly dangerous world leade leaders. This is a signal from a continent to america. We love you, we hope some day you will come to your senses and come back, but for now, we cannot afford in our security and perhaps even in the geostrategic chess game that is world politics, we cannot afford to rely on you because youre too reck skplless. I got to say e we arent that too far apart on this. It wasnt a policy speech, but its still damning. I agree with him completely on this. Again, things are not going well in europe right now. They are seeing us as they dont know what to do with the United States in terms of relationship. There was a lot bigger fish to fry other than the 2 gdp payment that trump emphasized, which frankly he doesnt understand and the European Countries that are part of nato do understand what that 2 means. And there were a whole lot of other things to discuss. The strategy for afghanistan, the strategy of terror, russian expansionism, what to do ukraine, forces on the continent, all those things were much more important to talk about in a very changing world, and trump tended to insult the allies during several conferences. You can see it on their faces. Let me e ask you, michael. Moving away from that and on to the manchester bomber. We now in addition to getting this photo of him and this big blue suitcase in the days before the attack and police are putting it out for publics help. Paul cruickshank said that british officials are telling him they are less sure that the bomber actually received training in syria. That was the initial reporting. Not only had he been in libya, but in syria receiving training for months. I think thats probably right. It would be very stupid for ab isis operative whether or not hed been radicalized remotely or activated remotely to try to get him to syria right now. The turkish policy is they ban you from the country. Its too dangerous. Its too front with complications given interNational Security concerns at the moment. More likely he would have gone to libya. He has his father, his brother, libya is even more of a failed state than seyria. At least in terms of the attention thats being paid to it and the pourous through which you can get in. It just doesnt pass the smell test. Also the reporting from the airport folks in istanbul that you cannot connect and fly into syria. He didnt go into turkey, but connected on a flight. We wait to see reporting on that. General, before i let you go, north korea has tested yet another Ballistic Missile. This was what was said about this action. John would probably the worst kind of fighting in most peoples lifetimes. Why do i say this . The north korean regime has hundreds of artillery canons and rocket launchers in range of one of the most densely populated cities on earth. We are working with the International Community to deal with this issue, this regime is a threat to the region, to japan, to south korea and in the event of war, they would bring danger to china and to russia as well. But the bottom line is it would be catastrophic war if this turns into combat. If were not able to resolve the situation through diplomatic means. What do you think that means . Whats the appropriate response from the u. S. . Secretary mattis is just pointing out the obvious. Its a blinding flash. We have known this for awhile. What we have seen is theres been an emphasis on diplomatic action. So far under the Trump Administration theres been ab e emphasis on military action. Those are two of the four elements of National Power that have to be brought to bear in a coalition against them. It hasnt been done. This was a subject that was another one at the g7 conference saying what are e we going to do next about this and the same day that the conference broke up, north korea again fired missiles. So were talking about the requirement to get multiple nations, japan, south korea, china, russia and others involved in instances of pushing back on north korea. That hasnt happened in the Trump Administrations approach to transactional relationship. We probably need to take a fullthroated power approach to north korea that hasnt been done yet. Thank you both so much. Thank you. Just in, new details on ivanka trumps mind set as questions swirl around her husbands contacts with russia. Thats ahead. The things they love to do most on these balloons. Travel with my daughter. Roller derby. Now give up half of em. Do i have to . This is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. But, if we start saving even just 1 more of our annual income. We could keep doing all the things we love. 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This is the president s first memorial day as commander in chief, Bill Parcells tis baiting in the longstanding tradition of laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. The president paid his respect at Arlington National cemetery where he talked about the sacrifices of those who died while serving this nation. To every gold star family who honors us with your presence, you lost sons and daughters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers. They each had their own names, their own stories, their own beautiful dreams, but they were all angels sent to us by god, and they all share one title in common, and that is the title of hero. With me now alison jaslow, the director of iava, and also laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns on behalf of the organization. We love iava here at cnn so thanks so much for being with me. I want to talk about the go silent campaign today. Iava really wanting americans to remember the true meaning of memorial day. Tell me about that. Well, we launched our go silent campaign a little over probably about two weeks ago, and largely wanted to not only make sure that people saved one minute to remember the true meaning of the day but raise awareness of it. Unfortunately, as the war is have drawn down recently the day and the sacrifice of the fallen has gone into the backs of peoples minds, but the reality is that Many Service Members have given the ultimate sacrifice recently. Their families share that sacrifice and we still have troops in harms way that we need to keep in mind. We lost a soldier i believe just two days ago as well overseas so we want to make sure that people remember it. Our go silent campaign achieved that and what is a very divisive country and no matter what political affiliation you have and what opinions you can stop that day for that one minute and remember those who gave all. And talking about our nations heros, what about women. You and i talking about, she who borne the battle, really focusing in on women who have sacrificed. So iavas top priority this year is to raise awareness and recognition, increased recognition, for women veterans. Unfortunately, when people think of veterans they dont think of a woman who looks like me, and that extends to the fallen as well, so ive spend as much time as ive been able to on my own to raise awareness for the nearly 200 women killed in iraq and offing, but i cant thank you enough, brooke, for giving me an opportunity to share that with your viewers today. Iava, thank you so much for all that you are doing there for your veterans across this great nation. Appreciate your time today. Thank you. Brooke, thank you for having us. You got it t. Now to a tragedy in the middle of fleet week. A navy s. E. A. L. With the elite sky diving unit has lost his life during a team jump. Were told his device malfunctioned. This is in fact the video showing a piece of his parachute falling between the buildings. The navy s. E. A. L. Fell into the water near the park where the skydivers were. He has not been identified but our thoughts are with his family, especially on this memorial day. Its our little differences, that can make a world of difference. Expedia, everything in one place, so you can travel the world better. People flying in and out of the u. S. May eventy will have to leave laptops at home or be prepared to check them. The Homeland Security chief says he might dramatically expand an International Ban on laptops and ereaders in airplane cabins. His decision comes amid escalating concerns about a terrorist attack. Theres a real threat. Theres numerous threats against aviation. Thats really the the thing that they are obsessed with, the terrorists. The idea of knocking down an airplane in flight, particularly if its a u. S. Carrier, particularly if its full of mostly u. S. Folks, people. Its real. Right now large devices are banned on some u. S. Bound flights from ten airports across eight nations in the middle east and in africa. And today marks what would have been president john f. Kennedys 100th birthday. Jake tapper talked exclusively to Caroline Kennedy about what she thinks her father would make of the country now. I went back actually and i was looking at a speech that he gave right before he became president , and he says history will judge us by four qualities, courage, integrity, dedication and judgment, so i think that thats how he would judge politics today. Tune in at any time at 7 00 here on cnn for a special jfk night. Im brooke baldwin. Thank you so much for being with me. The lead starts right now. Thank you, brooke. Air force one returns and the president is out of airplane mode. The lead starts right now. President trump returns home with a tweet storm as the russia investigation hits closer to home. 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