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Good evening. Washington is reeling from an extraordinary public appearance from someone they hear much of, but see very little. Jared kushner is president trumps senior advisor. Hes also his son in law, husband of ivanka. Today, he was called to give evidence over four meetings he had with russians before the election. Meetings critics say could have interfered with the democratic process. Well ask whether the sound and fury that surrounds team trump and russia signifies nothing but rumour. At ...

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 privat...

Picture of just how much influence jared and ivanka have and how entangled they are in the russia investigation. it was jared kusner who pused the president to make the decision that ultimately led to muellers naming. the author writes quote kushner was exposed by the media as someone who would almost certainly have an increasingly prominent role in the russian collusion investigation. not only had he met with russian government officials or connected officials but he had left those meetings off...

The press had learned that he had had these meetings with a russian ambassador, a russian banker connected to the kremlin, and he had not put them on his security clearance forms. and very uncharacteristically he made a sort of impassioned argument to the president in front of people. i mean, jareds normal method of communicating with trump is to sort of corner him quietly, which really annoyed reince priebus, who was trying to manage the place. but this time in front of everyone he said to the ...

Picture of just how much influence jared and ivanka have in this trump white house and just how entangled they are in the russia investigation writ large. in fact, it was jared kushner who pushed the president to make the decision that ultimately led to muellers naming. the author, vicky ward, joins us in a moment. she writes, "kushner was exposed by the media as someone who would almost certainly have an increasingly prominent role in the russian collusion investigation. not only had he met wit...

I dont think most people trace jareds involvement in the comey matter because absent the comey matter jeff sessions is still called mr. attorney general -- >> absolutely. >> -- theres no mueller and this is a presidency. >> entirely correct. i mean, you know, i think this is probably the biggest revelation of the book, actually. you know, at the time when the president fired james comey it was reported that jared kushner had just supported the decision. thats not what my reporting shows. what ac...

York and the country talking this morning. the title says it all. kushner inch, greed, ambition, corruption, the extraordinary story of jared kushner and ivanka trump. joining me now is the author, vicky ward. thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you, john. >> obviously you want to sell a lot of books. >> i do. >> you have said you want one person in particular to read this, and thats the president of the united states, donald trump. why? >> yes. because i think that you cant underestimate...

He had to submit at least three security clearance forms. i had filled them out in the past, had to submit a form before congress, anybody who had to submit three forms would not have gotten clearance and may have gone to prison for making misleading statements and thats why congressman buyer and i have referred him to justice for potential prosecution. >> wow, thank you for that information. jared kushners facing investigation for why he did get clearance. i wonder why the president wanted him ...

>> i think there are innumerable number of reasons, continuing by the way through the present day. jared kushner was whats happening with jamal khashoggi in the middle of an investigation, excuse me, whats happening with mbs in the middle of an investigation into jamal khashoggis death. he has made every counterintelligence misstep in the book and yet for some reason, and this is the million dollar question here, president trump still wanted him in the white house. president trump is probably th...

Because youre going to satisfy everyone. sure, you can give defensive arms to ukraine but you can also try to maybe lift sanctions against russia. it doesnt have to make any sense. in fact, it rarely does. and you know, i does appreciate the difficulty of kind of explaining this in a simple form. but every time you look at this theres something new. what about the secret meetings in the seychelles arranged by none other than the guy who started blackwater? you know, practically in every country ...