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Interest. >> w before woe go, the "wall street journal" reporting that muellers team is asking about kushners contacts before the election. how significant could that be? >> we know he has lied incessantly from the beginning. he lied on his forms for -- >> security clearance. >> security clearance forms. he lied about not having meetings with the russians. hes lied incessantly. hes been one of many people on the trump campaign who has lied incessa incessantly. we know theres tremendous collusion...

Thats what the senate judiciary committee should pay attention to and not create some sort of partisan gotcha game. >> let me bring in cnn analyst, and shimon prokupecz. shimon, just to you first on the reporting of all of this, remind us about the documents and the committee -- what the committee wants from kushner. >> right. in this letter, basically that was sent to kushners lawyer, kushner hasnt been forthcoming leaving out documents and information about communications with the former natio...

Has not been forthcoming, and this is some of what he said, that this is a classic gotcha question, as it relates to the wikileaks question that the judiciary committee has for kushner. mr. kushner was asked if he had contacts with wikileaks, guccifer or d.c. leaks and he said no. he also said during the time at the campaign, he himself did not have any contact with wikileaks. also the lawyer continues to say that from all i have now, seeing his statement is accurate then as it is now and in ove...

March of 2016. so we know not only were there lots of contact at multiple different levels at which these incidents that im describing are some of those attempted contacts, we know the trump campaign was eagerly looking for information coming from the russians that would be dirt on hillary clinton. and we know that the trump campaign, whether its jared kushner not disclosing his contacts with the russians on his security clearance forms, whether jared kushner was trying to set up the secret back...

Investigation, and they say jared kushner is withholding documents they know exist. the letter they sent to jared kushners lawyer is specific. they want an e-mail about a dinner invite, and as we know kushner previously admitted there was talk with the russian ambassador about setting up a line of communications with moscow through the russian embassy through the u.s. which some said was a backdoor channel. the senators say kushner has been cooperating with them but they still want more details ...

Overand over again, they have exculpatory events only to have new information contradicting the initial account. and till insist there is a new perfectly innocent explanation. just last night, the atlantic broke the story that donald trump jr. was secretly corresponding with wikileaks in the run up to the election, refuting the strong denial by then vice president alcandidate mike pence that they were in cahoots. its the same pattern we saw can don jr.s shifting stories on his meeting with the r...

Relaid to us just base on the what they have been asked for mueller. but it is significant in terms of how close this comes to the president. >> and also, this crosses the redline that the president intimated. he thinks that mueller should not cross. >> its also the issue with the security clearance forms, right? i mean, that is now perhaps something that muellers team wants to look at too. while his attorneys have said, it was their mistakes or he omitted stuff. theres still a question of why, ...

There are all these emoluments and ethics issues that are arising. >> but could it be something as simple as theyre just embarrassed about being drifters or they were just going there to get as much money as they could out of russia and not be collusion? >> it could be. it could be. i think as the campaign moved forward and they thought they could possibly win, they were looking for that decisive thing, what we used to call the october surprise. >> right. >> and i think their october surprise wa...

Looking for that decisive thing, what we used to call the october surprise. >> right. >> and i think their october surprise was hillarys e-mails. and so, i think they really ramped up their efforts to get this information, whether it be through papadopoulos or don junior in june. they were driving toward that information. >> lets talk about that, then. lets talk about some sort of connection to russia and all the people. you mentioned two of them. jared kushner failed to report multiple russian ...

Advisor. so if criminal charges are brought against either of those men, that is a political earthquake, alex. >> what about the likely range of charges that could be filed based on your reporting around the grand jury hearings. what do you think its going to be? and again, i know this is just speculation. >> we know that this investigation is about whether americans colluded with the russian effort to interfere in the presidential campaign, but we also know theres no statute prohibiting collusi...