Monitoring Kislyak News Today

Channel. and jared actually proposed doing so at the russian embassy or at the russian consulate in new york, which is very strange. and kislyak was surprisesurpris. he was taken aback by that suggestion. >> when you say opening up a secret channel at the russian embassy in new york, how would that work? would people be going to the embassy to communicate? >> frankly, i dont know how they thought they would make this work. but i guess in theory, yes. somebody would have to go to the embassy and ...

And so what were doing today by explaining the contents at least according to the russian version of events of that meeting, i think could help explain what the fbi saw and what they were concerned about. >> yeah, thats the question. we have this very sort of neb y -- nebulous term thats been out there, the way theyre report it. a person of interest, not a suspect. is your understanding, your reporting here, that there is a link there between the authorities interest in jared kushner and what yo...

One and one does equal two. >> lets find out more about this again. this story just breaking in "the washington post." a report here that jared kushner during the presidential transition period suggested to russia that he wanted to set up a secret communications channel. adam entous, one of the reporters who reported this story. you see him there on the screen. adam, let me make sure on some of the details here. this communications channel was proposed by jared kushner. it never was set up, is t...

Mueller is going to approach this or any changes hes made. but we certainly have acceleration. >> again, if youre just joining us, we came on at the top of the hour thinking, well, its the friday night before memorial day. most people are already on their way to vacation. well just coast through the next hour. instead we have breaking news here, two breaking news stories that we are still digesting. the first one, this from "the washington post." it broke within the last hour. a report that jare...

Intelligence community. it seems here that just weeks into the transition, theres such a lack of trust in the intelligence community on the part of the trump team, that potentially theyre looking to do something like this. >> yeah, i mean its strange, especially when you consider that a couple weeks later, michael flynn, the designated national security adviser, talks to kislyak on an open line, which is intercepted because the fbi is monitoring kislyak. and so at moments you see a lot of attent...

The audiences likely feeling is somewhere in the ballpark. this feels like its accelerating because it appears to be accelerating. and so the senate intel folks, on a bipartisan basis, have reached a point where theyre not cherry picking or hand picking -- i dont mean that term with any significance, but theyre not looking at just individual people anymore. theyre saying the trump organization campaign as an entity needed to be searched. that again shows an acceleration. steve, when you go to ho...

Talking about right now to see the political sensitivity of it. lets not forget these communications occurred through channels that were not secure, and thats the reason why we know about them, because the nsa and some of the officials who are in the u.s. intelligence community, who are monitoring russian communications between russian diplomats and officials with any number of people picked up some of these communications with trump folks, ended up leaking it out. maybe if jared kushner and kis...

Nixon campaign. >> its no secret that kislyak, who is a russian ambassador, theyre phone calls are monitored. thats how flynn got caught. thats some of the information thats being reported. to twist it to say the obama administration was monitoring flynn? no. they were monitoring kislyak, who is an agent of the russian government. its not the obama administration, or the fbi, or the nsa or the cia, monitoring donald trump. he got caught from the person who works for russia. thats the twist that ...

Russian blackmail. were joined now by the reporter who broke that story. walk us through how and why sally yates, a national security official before she became acting a.g. inform the white house about this and who did she consult onhether she should even do it? >> you have flynn and the fbi and the fbi is monitoring kislyak. they write an intelligent report based on the transcript and that finds its way to yates. when news breaks that there are these calls, it later in january, mid january, you...

All the other business that white houses are supposed to do. this latest "washington post" story is just another example of a really deepening headache, deepening problem for the white house, certainly political if not legal. >> just a few more details. again, im learning of this along with everybody else out there right now, but a few more details from this article, again breaking in "the washington post" right now, saying that on december 1st or 2nd -- again, this was in the transition period ...