The Washington Post reporter by lining the story for us. Ellen thanks very much for joining us, the secret Communications Channel, your sources are telling you it was kushner who originally raised this idea, is that right . Yes, thats right. According to sources who have reviewed intelligence collecting by use of intelligence agencies. Jared kushner, proposed this secret secure channel at a meeting at trump power in december, with the Russian Ambassador. Talk a little bit about this secret channel, this Communications Channel, it was going to, what, be based at the Russian Embassy in washington . Thats what it sounds like, now, we caution that this is based on reporting by kislayak, up to the superiors in moscow. That reporting was captured on intercepts. And, you know, this could be russian intelligence agencies are known sometimes to put disinformation into their feeds in order to sow confusion. Intelligence officials exaggerate at point, but if this is true, it means kushner was see
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how does mueller get into all that data? will that be key to the case he s making? it is absolutely critical. i think she may be overstating the case in terms of what can be done with facebook. but what information facebook has, they know who the russians were targeting with respect to these phony stories, they know the demographics, they know geography. they need to take that data and compare it to what the trump campaign was doing with their data mining program. the person in charge of the date mining, trying to go in and target trump voters and the clinton voters, to suppress the clinton vote and bring out the trump vote. if you can take those two sets and compare them. i think you might find should interesting conclusions. do they match up? do the russians, does that match up to what the trump campaign was doing?
now. as a lot of us remember, it s reported in the washington post story, in that early december meeting that donald trump had with ambassador kislayak, michael flynn who would become the president s national security advisor was in that conversation as well. michael flynn is tied into these meeting that are not disploeszed. as ryan was saying, this story today was big, but it s big because of all the other stories, within the last 24 hours, just to remind everyone, nbc news and cnn both had stories regarding continuing focus of jared kushner, related to his data mining capacity and his data mining program during the campaign. now you have those stories, you have then during the transition, his outreach, i think we re
tower in new york michael flynn who would eventually become the president s national security advisor was in that meeting as well does that make any difference to you? absolutely because michael flynn is tied into these meetings undisclosed contacts that are not notified in the security forms. this story today is big. but it s big because of all the other store jis. other stories. in the last 24 hours nbc news and cnn had stories focused on jared kushner related to his data mining capacity and data mining program during the campaign. now you have those stories. you have nthen during the transition his outreach, i think we re using the term back channel incorrectly that s like when you want to the talk to the cubans and go to the pope to do