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Putin. randy kay has more. >> reporter: this is the man jared kushner met with in july of 2016 just a month after donald trump was elected president. he has ties to russian president vladimir putin who appointed him to head the bank. he graduated from a reduction academy to trains security forces. heres how the white house explained kushners meeting with the banker. >> jared did a job during the transition in the campaign where he was a conduit to leaders. he wants to make sure hes clear about t...

Petited him to head the bank. he graduated from a russian academy that trained people to work in russian intelligence and security forces. heres how the white house explained the nature of kushners meeting with the banker. >> jared did a job during the transition of the campaign where he was a conduit to leaders. he wants to make sure he is very clear about the role he played and who he talked to and thats it. >> that may be true but doesnt square with what the bank itself has said about the mee...

President said, which conflict with what sara and sean spicer said and conflict with the firing memo. >> i think rosenstein is an interesting guy. hes a great record, everybody trusts him. hes been used as the fall guy here. hes responsible for the firing of james comey. was he an effective cause or was he an instrument? was he brought in just to find cause? can you think of a reason? you guys dont like the way he acted last year, how about that? who decided to fire comey? the president did. and...

That you cannot do this, unless it is somehow removed from the influence of the president. >> exactly. this goes back to my very first point about what it is were talking about here. president trump injected the russia investigation into his youre fired letter the fbi director, who is overseeing it, runs the organization overseeing it. that just doesnt hold water and it doesnt square with the other justification that the white house, which somehow is completely surprised by this backlash, which ...

As we reported, sally yates testified today, she warned the top lawyer in the white house, that michael flynn could be blackmailed by russia. multiple investigations are looking into whether trump campaign associates colluded with russia to interfere with the election. tonight, a prominent golf writer says that doesnt square with what one of his sons tells him. >> i hate this. i really do. >> reporter: what author james doddson hates the being caught up in the conversation about russia and the a...

As we reported former acting attorney general sally yates testified she warned the white house that then national security adviser michael flynn could be blackmailed by russia. multiple investigations are looking into this. president trump insists he has no ties to russia. tonight a prominent writer says that doesnt square with what one of trumps sons adlejedlleg told him. >> reporter: what author james dodson hates is being caught up in the conversation about russia. his connection to it all st...

Discussing sanctions just doesnt square with the facts. december 29th was the day that the sanctions were imposed on that day, he spoke with the ambassador. he spoke about sanctions. it wasnt as if they bumped into each other at a cocktail party. they were talking about the news of the day. they were talking about an unprecedented very aggressive move by the united states to kick out diplomats and otherwise put the world and russian leadership on notice that something very, very important and ve...

Assad. so your view of this doesnt square with reality. arent you a little bit embarrassed now that thats obvious? >> no, not at all. first of all, i dont think we know what putins number one foreign policy is. he has a lot of bigger fish to fry and he is interested in the united states of america. but look, tucker. you and i can disagree on the trump administration, the connections with russia. the bottom line is either of us really dont know. thats why ive been a consistent advocate for what t...

It is clear that they want to focus on the question right now. that doesnt square with allies. im sure they will hear about that today. alisyn. >> elise, fascinating to hear the thinking on assad. up next, what leads someone to join isis? clarissa ward talks to a man who is willing to lead and die for isis. she talks about it next. in my johnsonville commercial we open up in the forest. hi. im jeff. im eating my breakfast and all of a sudden a raccoon come up and ask me, "what are you eating?"...

Drip, which we see here. if its all innocent, and if it was just a bunch of pro forma meetings, put out chapter and verse, put out those details and let the american public know. >> the first rule of damage control, its better that you put out the embarrassing information and let your -- than let your adversaries put it out. >> this drip, drip, drip, is not helping them. have you had any contact with the russians. because these things coming out and its -- as you said gloria, its not like we kno...