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Jared kushner, so of course the son-in-law of president donald trump, senior adviser to the president, and cnn has confirmed after the election last fall kushner explored the idea of setting up a secret line of communication with russia to discuss military operations in syria and other matters. even though its unclear why a channel like that would be necessary. now kushner first discussed this idea during a meeting in december with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. now the line was never establ...

Context is important, and you got that exactly right. this is yet another question mark, another, you know, small pillar of smoke, that surrounds not only the trump campaign but the trump administration with regard to its contacts with russia and im glad there are investigations going on to get to the bottom of that. i can only think of two reasons why kushner would have done this. the first would be, you know, he approaches kislyak and says were in a sort of transitional period but we would lik...

I read, general flynn, hes doing the right thing and you cannot infer because he pled the fifth guilt. you cannot do that, fred, he should be doing that right now. hes the question -- the question is to what extent will it apply to documents. thats the next decision here. flynn was in that room with kushner and in that meeting. maybe now we are seeing more information why the president is so in n-- flynn has some informn pretty devastating to not only the president but kushner. well see what hap...

Security risks that it could potentially create for both the russian government and the trump transition. now ellen nakashima is the reporter who broke the story and did say this could be another attempt by the russian government to confuse the public about the trump administrations connection to russia. >> we caution that this is based on reporting by kislyak up to his superiors in moscow and that reporting was captured on intercepts and, you know, this could be russian or intelligence agencies...

Possible kushner could have said we want to get this relationship going early, but we dont trust the obama folks still in charge so we need some sort of secret back channel to get things going. thats the darker interpretation. neither are very smart, neither are very -- you know, something you would recommend, but its just sort of boggles the mind that these types of proposals and communications were going on. the back channel idea is not so weird. that happens. you dont really need a back chann...

Tain that position to plan future trips? >> were not going to comment on jared. >> generally speaking general, would you be concerned if somebody on the national security council or in this administration were to seek a back channel communication system with the russian embassy and with the kremlin? would that generally concern you not to address kushner specifically but in general terms? >> no. i mean we have back channel communications with any number of countries so generally speaking, about ...

Proposal during this meeting during the transition phase in trump tower. so what are your greatest concerns about whether this proposal of a back channel is something that jared kushner engaged in? >> well, if evidence proves this allegation is true, obviously thats a big mistake. we have the fbi, the doj, multiple committees in the house and the senate, made up of republicans like me and that are friends of mine and very qualified and also democrats that are friends of mine that i serve with th...

Not denied the reporting and has not responded to questions and senior white house officials have refused to comment. but this development once again raising questions about the depths of kushners involvement with russia and the role it could have played during the campaign. >> ryan nobles thanks so much in washington. president trump stayed quiet on the brewing controversy surrounding kushner while speaking at a u.s. military base in sicily, the last stop of his nine-day international swing, ...