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Kushners performance on the international stage? >> well, theres nothing that jared kushner brings to the table in terms of substantive expertise or history or knowledge of these issues that require he have a clearance and work on these issues. the president does have the ability to say, jared, youre my guy on middle east peace, i want you to work on that. he also has the authority the give him security clearance over the express wishes of the intelligence community. but it raises two questions....

Security clearance and on kushners performance on the international stage? >> well, theres nothing that jared kushner brings to the table in terms of substantive expertise or history or knowledge of these issues that require he have a clearance and work on these issues. the president does have the ability to say, jared, youre my guy on middle east peace, i want you to work on that. he also has the authority the give him security clearance over the express wishes of the intelligence community. bu...

Kushners performance on the international stage? >> well, theres nothing that jared kushner brings to the table in terms of substantive expertise or history or knowledge of these issues that require he have a clearance and work on these issues. the president does have the ability to say, jared, youre my guy on middle east peace, i want you to work on that. he also has the authority the give him security clearance over the express wishes of the intelligence community. but it raises two questions....

Calling chaos. the west wing full of resignations and announcements in the russian investigation. "the new york times" has reported that the president has asked chief of staff john kelly to push kushner and ivanka trump out of the white house and back to new york. sheer cnn contributor maggie haberman. >> ivanka trump gets terrible press because of me, he has repeatedly said to aides. however, jared kushner is someone with whom he is frustrated. he goes back and forth with feeling bad about what...

Manafort did in other circumstances? how does he know what his father-in-law did in other circumstances. he couldnt speak to any of that. my only caution would be -- we tend to judge these things as sort of dance recite tales or operas. that was at a good performance, that was a bad performance, but that isnt really how this works. this is about reality and about facts and theyre going to come out. >> there are two realities here, though. one is the legal reality. the reality of whats going on o...

Whatever they want to talk about that isnt classified. so unlike today, well hear maybe both sides of the story. where as it appears today mr. kushners narrative will last until at least this evening when maybe well hear from some of the senior members of the intel committee. >> lets talk about jared kushners strategy here. i was looking at the very first page of this 11-page statement and one of the sentences is, "i am not a person who has sought the spotlight." true. a lot of people, frankly, ...

Will be given by the members themselves, not just their staff. so its going to be a little bit of a different animal. i think you might see members more intentionally, and again, this is all behind closed doors, not for the cameras, about but some of the democratic members may be more aggressive in trying to push kushner off his talking points, off his specific answers and see if he can be rattled. i cant help but think about the fact that this morning you had the president tweeting about adam s...

Being told he likely may make a statement, and then not answer our questions today, chris. >> all right, kristen, be stand by. thank you. i want to go to garrett. garrett, i want to get a sense from you. what happened today. what are we expecting then tomorrow. and a lot of people have questions about what it means to be under oath, not under oath. tell us what happened there. >> reporter: sure, chris. so we saw -- i think what we saw today was a very tightly organized defense of a very poorly o...

Oath for this. thats common. but it is a crime to lie to congress. so its not as though he could sort of talk out of school without, you know, possible consequences here. but hes not formally put under oath, like you would see if he appeared at a full open committee hearing or a closed committee hearing. tomorrow it will be more like what we have seen on television lately with these open hearings behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee. he will meet with actual members of the c...

Or not. and so i think what jared kushner will need to do today is to explain his defense, and perhaps put a little more meat on the bones. because as i read that 11 pages, the take-away that i -- that came to me was that his defense was that, look, i was naive, i was inexperienced and i was unprepared for this job. that may be the defense that mr. kushner needs to make. but its not a sufficient defense in order to forestall any criminal liability or the accusations that hes faced. >> but what h...