I have not relied on russian businesses, and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. Charlie donald trump jr. And former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort will also appear before the Judiciary Committee this week. Joining me from washington, robert costa from the Washington Post and moderator of washington week, on pbs, susan page of usa today, and hugh hewitt, of the hugh and frank bruni of the New York Times. Tell me about the appearance today and what might have been this week with respect to the testimony. I think Jared Kushner did about as well as anyone could in a difficult situation, charlie. I read his entire 11 page letter over the air so that commuters could hear it. It was not denial. It was specific and details. It was explanatory. For those trying to give trump the benefit of the doubt, they would find it comforting. I found it interesting that he said he has never met sergei gore called for before. I also found it interesting that he specifical
I have not relied on russian businesses, and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. Charlie donald trump jr. And former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort will also appear before the Judiciary Committee this week. Joining me from washington, robert costa from the Washington Post and moderator of washington week, on pbs, susan page of usa today, and hugh hewitt, of the hugh and frank bruni of the New York Times. Tell me about the appearance today and what might have been this week with respect to the testimony. I think Jared Kushner did about as well as anyone could in a difficult situation, charlie. I read his entire 11 page letter over the air so that commuters could hear it. It was not denial. It was specific and details. It was explanatory. For those trying to give trump the benefit of the doubt, they would find it comforting. I found it interesting that he said he has never met sergei gore called for before. I also found it interesting that he specifical
House last night to review classified documents. What are you learning about that visit . Reporter were learning that adam schiff has a different impression of the documents than devin nunes. Nunes, when he reviewed those materials that led to him holding a press conference, suggesting this backed up the president s claim about being under surveillance by the obama administration. Last night, the chairman said essentially that while he was able to review these materials he didnt really learn too much that would have made him believe that the actions that devin nunes were necessarily the appropriate ones and essentially saying that every member of the committee should be able to review them as the chairman does. This comes against the backdrop of a bit of new information and that is about Michael Flynn, the National Security Agency Director who was removed from his post after it was revealed the repeated meetings that hed had with russian officials. As you know, the white house is slowl
under particular scrutiny, a meeting during the transition on december 1st, 2016 puts trump s son-in-law jared kushner and general michael flynn, his soon to be national security adviser, together in a room at trump tower with a russian ambassador who has long been considered a spy. kushner asked then russian ambassador sergey kislyak about establishing secure lines of communication with moscow, what some have called a back channel. the record and documents i have voluntarily provided will show that all of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of events of a very unique campaign. reporter: kushner told a congressional committee that he asked if they had an existing communications channel at his embassy we could use where they would be comfortable transmitting the information they wanted to relay to general flynn. later in december, jared kushner and another questionable meeting. this time with russian banker sergei gore cough who also had ties to russian presiden