Espionage Inquiry News Today

good to be back. >> its great to you have here. do you remember the name brandan van grek? >> as i have memorable name. if not, the circumstance of which you first heard it? but if you are like me and the first time you heard the name brandon van grabbing is the first time you heard the word he is spee naj formerly associated with the presidency of donald trump. espionage as in the espionage act, not just spy movie stuff, as in u.s. law. we were only about four months in to the trum...

Inherited from them. files seized from a former president part of espionage inquiry. what it meant specifically is that search warrant that they unsealed cited a portion of the espionage act that concerns the handling of national security information that could harm the united states or help our enemies. it means to get that twoornt search the house, prosecutors had to prove to the satisfaction of a federal judge that there was probable cause to believe that at trumps home they would find eviden...

Offering to the trump administration to get what this government, which is so anti-russian, which was lethal aid, lethal force in fighting the russian-backed separatists in eastern ukraine. >> and as part of what they may have arranged here, not only were the investigations into manafort dropped but it appears at the same time that kilimnik was allowed to leave ukraine despite the fact there was an espionage inquiry into him and he was allowed to go to russia, which is where we think he is now. ...

The business interests that he represented did not go anywhere. and in fact they tried to mount a challenge to the pro-western government that had come in with petro poroshenko, who was himself extremely corrupt. and it is not -- you know, closing down an investigation into one corrupt guy is not crazy in a government thats also riddled with corruption. so you know, i think this kind of makes sense as a kind of offering to the trump administration to get what this government, which is so anti-ru...

Himself extremely corrupt. and it is not -- you know, closing down an investigation into one corrupt guy is not crazy in a government thats also riddled with corruption. so you know, i think this kind of makes sense as a kind of offering to the trump administration to get what this government, which is so anti-russian, which was lethal aid, lethal force in fighting the russian-backed separatists in eastern ukraine. >> and as part of what they may have arranged here, not only were the investigati...

Reasons in addition to the espionage inquiry. >> last word to you on this, malcolm, does it ring true to you that all of these people, including jared kushner, would simply be freelancing and never have a conversation with the incoming and then president of the united states about what they were doing? >> no, thats completely improbable. you know, this leads back to that initial question of why did donald trump make that statement on july 27th when he asked russia, if youre listening, would you ...

Hed be leading it like hes leading pretty much everything else in the administration. how could it be possible, though, that jared kushner could be involved now that he is named as at least a person the mueller team is interested in talking to? >> well, lets just examine two ways in which all of this is kind of bizarre. the first way in which it is bizarre normally in an administration, if there is some suspicion, if there is some problem, some ethics accusation and the people in the administrat...

Jards kushner, the presidents son-in-law and one of his senior advisors is now under scrutiny in the fbi-russia investigation. the officials tell nbc news they believe kushner has significant information relevant to their inquiry. we should note that that does not mean that they suspect kushner of a crime or they intend to charge him with one. the fbi scrutiny of jared kushner now means the bureaus counter intelligence and criminal investigation goes not just to the white house, but all the way ...

Moscow and a banker. kushner is being 0 investigated because of the extent and nature of his interactions with the russians. tonight jared kushners lawyer provided us with the statement. mr. kushner previously volunteered to share with congress what he knows about these meetings. he will do the same if he is contacted in connection with any other inquiry. joining now is david, msnbc political analyst, david senior editor for the atlantic, michael issa cough, chief investigator for yahoo! news, a...