It gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. And it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. And a lot of whats written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. Its taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. Again i just want to im trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. So i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders . Well, we dont i mean i suppose its possible. Clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. Most of them, as you point out,
were coming through the front door, not the back door. The behavior he
About a pending vote in the u. N. General assembly regarding israel. According to the charges, a very Senior Member of the president ial Transition Team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. Nbc news reported today that the very senior official was Jared Kushner, the president s soninlaw. In a Statement Today Michael Flynn said, i recognize that the actions i acknowledged in court today were wrong, and through my faith in god i am working to set things right. My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the Special Counsels office reflect the decision i made in the best wanted of my family and of our country. I accept full responsibility for my actions. There was strong reaction to todays news from democrats on the hill involved in the russia probe. Their message, theres more to come. Inside the white house the
possible. to wrap this up, if flynn was acting at the behest of kushner, what does that mean big picturewise? it s not good for jared kushner. it seems we ve seen that it seems like, you know, michael flynn has more information to share and he might have more information about people who are even closer to trump than he was, and so now a lot of the focus is on jared kushner. was he directing flynn to do these things, such as lobby the russian ambassador and have these discussions that he probably shouldn t have? and that will obviously hit home very close to trump because he s his son-in-law. and so, i think that is why, you know, kushner can say that he s not nervous about this, he s ignoring the media attention, but i think that s probably not true, that people in the white house are getting very, very nervous about this, including jared and ivanka. john harwood, peter baker and amanda turkel, thank you for joining me. coming up, what the intelligence community is saying ab
possibility that trump actually had a hand in that. let s talk some legal questions here. john, you and then paul. let me ask you this. what about the president sees his son-in-law, he knows he has to care about just as long as he lives he s got to worry about his son-in-law, the husband of his daughter, his beloved daughter, and the father of his grandkids. he wants to keep him out of jail. i would think. the same way michael schmidt wants to keep his son out of jail, we saw that today effectively. there s the question. does he now simply pardon the guy? that kid we re looking at. he seems like a kid to me. i think any pardon at this point, i think any effort to try to undermine mueller or to fire mueller, results in impeachment proceedings. i doubt, i significantly doubt he s going to do that. paul? if he does, mueller would be like, make my day, president trump. fob number one, you are writing your own article of impeachment. that might be too much. a pardon of trump jr., of
should also add, shannon, some u.s. officials are downplaying the cancel meeting saying it was never set in stone adding kushner is still expecting to meet with egypt s president, abdel fattah el-sisi, at some point this afternoon. we are waiting on more information if that meeting is happening. what has come out of it, presumably the cut in aid will be a main topic of discussion. kushner did meet with the king of jordan and oman who said he was restarting peace talks between israelis and palestinians, and said the only way to bring about peace is through a two-state solution. a difficult undertaking, indeed. to give you an idea, shannon, of kushner s schedule, he is scheduled to fly back here to israel where he will meet with president netanyahu followed by separate meeting tomorrow with palestinian president.