Kushner Has News Today

Even after their time in the White House, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner remain an influential couple. Here are some facts you might not know about Donald Trump's son-in-law.

And ive dealt with a lot of the other regional partners in that effort. >> a lot of progress are the key words there from kushner. but experts say there is almost no progress, no peace deal, and the principals in this process havent met in the past six months. thats about 25% of the entire time kushner has held this post. and today kushner has said his other big priority, other than the middle east, is refoorming the prison system. he cited his fathers time in prison and how he is working with n...

U.s. approval. >> this was a bipartisan group of senators who are really trying to put this on the presidents radar. so far he essentially said he will be mad if he finds out something went wrong here. we dont know what kind of conversation this administration is having with the saudi arab arabiaens, and is kutchthere an pressure to give details. its a flawed foreign policy to sort of say that friendships can somehow change things. for instance, this friendship with the crown prince that kushner...

Nothing good they can say about it. it is one of those issues the administration doesnt see as helpful. >> within portfolio that kushner has, is there a score card or accountabilities. when xi jinping visited the united states and they had the dinner at mar-a-lago, they announced they would have a 100 day review between the u.s. and china to open things up and review trade. were coming to that 100 day mark. are we going to have results or hear from jared? >> i can tell you on the north decree ad...

>> reporter: as for his son-in-law jared kushner who is now of interest to investigators in the russia probe, the president joked just a few moments ago that kushner has, quote, become more famous than me. oddly thats something that the president once said to james comey. later tonight the president is the having dinner with a number of senators including marco rubio and tom cotton. we should point out both rubio and cotton sit on the same senate intelligence committee that will be questioning c...

Influences around the white house, i asked that question. is kushner essentially functioning as secretary of state. he said no, because tillerson meets with the president so often. he believes tillerson has the presidents respect, has his ear and hes aligned himself with mattis and they are working on plans to deal with things like russia and isis. that is not the same kind of access or relationship that kushner has, but this member of congress says because kushner out of necessity has to go out...