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Your first reaction would be could this be true? and then you would discover it is true and move on from there. i dont want to overstate because obviously there is a lot we dont know. we dont know the exact content of the conversation. we dont know the objective that was stated from the kushner side during the conversation. those things we dont know. but i cant keep out of my mind the thought that if an american intelligence officer had done anything like this, wed consider it espionage. >> yeah...

We dont know the objective that was stated from the kushner side during the conversation. those things we dont know. but i cant keep out of my mind the thought that if an american intelligence officer had done anything like this, wed consider it espionage. >> yeah. would it be fair to say that a conversation like that, even if it wasnt -- even if the plan wasnt executed, gives the russians the feeling that they own jared kushner. they own a person from that point forward who would make a suggest...

We dont know the objective that was stated from the kushner side during the conversation. those things we dont know. but i cant keep out of my mind the thought that if an american intelligence officer had done anything like this, wed consider it espionage. >> yeah. would it be fair to say that a conversation like that, even if it wasnt -- even if the plan wasnt executed, gives the russians the feeling that they own jared kushner. they own a person from that point forward who would make a suggest...

People are going to want to ask, because as adam schiff said today, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence. and even though it is circumstantial and everybody wants to play lawyer on this, it brings to us and the intelligence community and jim comey who has to deal with that, with the counterintelligence teams is why? whys would there all of this contact and communication which we know exists, some of the people have admitted it themselves, with people in the russian oligarchy, was it financi...

Basement in moscow or coming from somewhere in romania, ukraine or somewhere else by distant servers by solo players. >> martha: this is not something that has happened once or twice and it will continue to happen and it will happen to republicans and all sides before were through. >> i was in the bush administration. my personal information was hacked into by the chinese i think director clapper called it espionage. what happened then? what were the consequences? were chinese diplomats thrown o...

Jared. were just not going to comment. >> national security adviser h.r. mcmaster did try to defend kushner without saying his name. >> generally speaking about back channel communications, what that allows you to do is communicate in a discrete manner. >> its very concerning that they wanted to have these communications at russian diplomatic facilities using russian phone lines. that shows that they were really trying to conceal this from the obama administration and from u.s. intelligence. >> ...

That shows that they were really trying to conceal this from the obama administration and from u.s. intelligence. >> the reactions to the kushner story include simple shock from the intelligence community. >> i cant keep out of my mind the thought that if an american intelligence officer had done anything like this, we would consider it espionage. >> reuters is also reporting that kushner had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the russian ambassador. including two phone calls be...

Worries about kushner, he also said the same thing about comey, he said the same thing about jeff sessions, he said the same thing about flynn. we know how all of those turned out. we criticized hillary clinton for taking a public and private response. were seeing more of the same. donald trump has to take a public response of having complete faith in jared kushner. i already know that hes been moved from his office next door to the oval office down the hallway to be with bannon. >> did he do an...

Went out of the way to field reporters questions off camera even if they didnt actually answer them. >> were not going to comment on jared. >> national security advisor did try to defend kushner without saying his name. >> generally speaking about back channel communications, what that i allows you to do is communicate in a discrete manner. >> that shows that they were really trying to conceal this from the obama administration and from u.s. intelligence. >> the reactions to the kushner story in...

Jared. were just not going to comment. >> national security adviser h.r. mcmaster did try to defend kushner without saying his name. >> generally speaking about back channel communications, what that allows you to do is communicate in a discrete manner. >> its very concerning that they wanted to have these communications at russian diplomacy facilities using russian phone lines. that shows that they were really trying to conceal this from the obama administration and from u.s. intelligence. >> t...