Doesnt Kushner News Today

With anyone in the intelligence community? imagine if youre a u.s. intelligence asset sitting on the other side of the world, and you see communications coming in from kushner, who is in a meeting with flynn, who is under investigation in counterintelligence. weve just seen russia meddling in the election, and you want to know why does he want to communicate this information without the intel community knowing. >> well, forme members of the u.s. intelligence community have said why they have con...

Communication to moscow through a soviet spy working in the russian embassy here in washington. that relationship later proved crucial during the fearful days of the cuban missile crisis. it was bobby contact, in fact, who helped president kennedy make the deal that finally ended the standoff and averted nuclear war. the difference is that kushner was a private citizen with no government role. he reportedly did not consult with the sitting obama administration last fall, and further more, he omi...

Do you think back channeling is normal and acceptable? >> its both normal in my opinion and acceptable. any way that you can communicate with people, particularly organizations that are maybe not particularly friendly to us, is a good thing. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was secretary of homeland security john kelly this weend, defending the use of back cel communications after jared kushner reportedly proposed using one to communicate with russia during his father-in-laws transition to th...

Story. you started itti years ago. the fact is bobby had good intentions. he wanted to convince the russians that his brother wasnt that weak. im reading from your book on this. they didnt want the russians to think we were weak after the bay of pigs because they might go for berlin. >> look, i think presidents often feel frustrated by their bureaucracy, right, and the people around them and look for other ways to do it. that can be a terrible idea, but it can also be a good idea. you can see wh...

Constitutional, whatever, unconstitutional, there is an attempt to hide something. the question is, what is so tricky or dangerous about the conversations between kislyak and the russian bank president and the son-in-law that is so important to hide either with the fifth amendment or whatever, every technique? theyre all lawyering up. why dont they just tell us what those meetings were about, robert? is it an elephant in the room, or is it an ant or something in between? what is so bad that they...

>> reporter: -- or projects discussed? and how do these things intertwine in the conversation? this is speculation. its still a lot of reporting to be done, but thats the key question. >> wait a minute. peter, you picked up on this. why dont they just walk into the damn press room and answer all the questions about all the meetings right now? what are they mightihiding that criminal, unconstitutional, sticky? you know, what are they hiding? why doesnt kushner talk? he doesnt even talk, that guy....