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Mr. manafort, the former campaign chairman, also recently disclosed the meeting. and donald trump jr.s role in organizing it to congressional investigators who had questions about his foreign contacts. according to people familiar with the events. and so, ron, it seems to me that the trump administration knew this was coming out. manaforts disclosed it. the house investigators know it. now its on jared kushners disclosure form finally, and it represents a possible crime in jared kushners case be...

His s. on the other hand, is though, what i would say is when you look at the lawyer and the background of the lawyer, there were some issues where -- >> why wasnt the campaign looking at the lawyer and the background of the lawyer? why was this a campaign well you had an open door policy where you could have unplanned meetings with a unnamed people? >> well, this was a weird presidential campaign and it was a weird presidential cycle. when it first started it was a skeleton campaign. people lik...

The bush administration was that we worked with the office of government ethics to go through financial holdings of potential nominees, two cabinet positions and other positions, to fill out financial disclosure forms. tell them what assets they had to sell to comply with the ethics laws. all that was done before the nominee was announced. this administration chose instead to announce nominees and ebb then tell the government ekt iks afterwards they wanted paperwork jammed through even though th...

Ethics. >> well, absolutely. that was his job to help this administration and he did. he reached out to them. and the procedure we followed in the bush administration was that we worked with the office of government ethics to go through financial holdings of potential nominees, two cabinet positions and other positions, to fill out financial disclosure forms. tell them what assets they had to sell to comply with the ethics laws. all that was done before the nominee was announced. this administra...

I am not sure whether you are aware that -- at present we have no reliable lines of communication with the transition team. the circumstances also unprecedented. explain that, richard. because it sounds like his view is he was trying to help the incoming administration, and they at any time even want to return his calls about ethics. >> well, absolutely. that was his job to help this administration, and he did. he reached out to them, the procedure we followed in the bush administration is we wo...

The president is making and how much he owes. these are the big headlines here that we have. over last year and a half, president trump claims to have made between 600 and $650 million in income. $37 million of that came from the maralago resort as known. trump made another $20 million from his washington, d.c., hotel. as far as debt, president says he owes $311 million in mortgages and loans. now that number could actually be much higher if the president only had to report a value range. lets d...

Certainly something that really started the cascade of these stories and that was his lie about barack obama tapping his phones. >> correct. >> right. >> and then all of the lies that flowed out of that. think about how many of these things are self-inflicted wounds. they reach out to russian contacts. they lie about reaching out to russian contacts. they lie on their disclosure forms. they lie before congress. they keep lying about russian contacts. theyre not lying about contacts they had with...

Jfk, who would have been 100 years old today and was a very good president, he got advice from his very good attorney general who happened to be his brother. in that case he had to be confirmed because he was attorney general, but he had theodore sorenson and other people in his white house who werent confirmed. thats fine. you cant lie on your disclosure forms. there are rules. if youre going to be in government, you need to abide by those rules and its quite clear jared kushner did not. thats ...

Completely. and so, his loyalty, which has not been incredibly strong towards other members of the administration, i think probably will go much deeper to jared. but on the previous point, i just wanted to mention that one of the things that was sort of mentioned as an aside in the "washington post" article is that the investigation seems to have broadened to possibly encompass not just electoral issues but potential financial improprietie improprieties, and this is important when jared kushner ...

And the fbi cant just go over to moscow and set up shop and say, hey, were going to work from here and find out whether this stuff is true. >> so mike, lets talk about another story that broke yesterday, and that is the jeff sessions, the attorney general failed to disclose meetings with russia, with russian authorities on his disclosure form. this is an ongoing habit, an ongoing trend by members of the trump administration. why cant these people truthfully, truthfully fill out disclosure forms?...