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My favorite toptopic, lets talk money, power, politics. new investigations into possible connections between the trump campaign and russia. former white house communications staffer, boris epshteyn, has been added to the list of trump aides being questioned by the house intelligence committee as well as the presidents personal lawyer, michael cohen. this comes after big news that trumps son-in-law and white house senior advisor reportedly tried to set up a back-channel communications line betwee...

All right, stephanie, thank you so much. disturbing story. up next, jared kushner under fire, but he has made a career of surviving crisis, as has his family. will he survive this one? the former editor in chief of "the observer" the paper kushner ran, joins us next. from the white house to wall street, a quick look at the markets. were having a slightly unched morning. the markets have been on a tear, going up, up, up. opening a bit down this morning. not much, though. (vo) when i brought j...

And so sometimes -- >> what did he do? >> there are things like, you know, just the notion that you can just call up anybody and start negotiating. in his recent dealings with russia potentially, i could see where from a standpoint of naivete jared might think it was perfectly okay to ask for a back channel to vladimir putin because there wouldnt necessarily be anything stopping him from doing that in the private sector. >> did you see him do things like that in the private sector? was he influe...

Didnt really understand the ins and outs of the media business. he was primarily running kushner co which is a commercial real estate business and the dynamics and economics of it are very different. he wasnt in "the observer" offices on a day-to-day basis. we would communicate daily and meet once a week but he didnt have much incentive to really dig into "the observer" from the business side and i think he had very little interest in the journalism piece of it. >> you also know a decent amount ...

Quid pro quo for that? what will china ask for that? i think there is genuine concern where you will see u.s. foreign policy for rent. not all that value, either. theyre going to charge low prices where the u.s. agrees to step out of the south china sea, for example, in return for a couple billion dollars of investment. the problem is, those pledges of investment, china made pledges of investment to russia, for example, that actually havent borne out. but changes in foreign policy are very tough...

Mild-mannered, very nice, well-bred. i think the assumption about him is hes not the sharpest tool in the box. >> thats not the assumption, frankly, thats what youre finding out? >> thats what im finding out. i think there are reports that his father gave a large donation to get him into harvard, his grades were not stellar before then, he took over his fathers business when his father was behind bars, he married ivanka, and now he somehow wound up as one -- >> what do we know about -- theres a ...

Ones who maybe support a breitbart news, which is seven bannan. just yesterday, rudy giuliani said to me, stevphen bannon, hes not running the campaign. donald runs his own campaign. you sawpend a lot of time with stephen bannon, what is his role in the campaign? >> the machiavelli figure with trump. backstage at the las vegas debate. as soon as trump came off the stage, the guy whose ear he was whispering in was ban non. stephen bannon, jared kushner, the project alamo that we write in our new ...

Is it serious? >> theyre doing all kinds of tests. theyre doing everything they can. they just dont know. >> man, that sucks. >> youre right, it sucks. >> it sucks really bad. >> it sucks quite a bit. >> big fan of connie britton, though. big fan of connie britton from "nashville." the film premiered to a standing ovation at sundance so obviously, critics are loving this. peter travers says "it pulls the ground out from under you but stays smartass to the end." can we say that at this hour? am i...

>> susan boyle dropped another stunner, revealing that she has been diagnosed with a form of autism she struggle with her entire life. heres abcs rina ninan. >> reporter: she was the woman with the voice. ♪ [ applause ] >> reporter: no one saw coming. quirky and shy. >> but susan boyle has become a singing sensation, selling 14 million records around the world. and for the first time revealing her doctor diagnosed her with asperger syndrome, a mild form of autism. in an interview with the brit...

Muscular and the editor said that sounds bias. you have to find something in between. he is broad. >> brawny. >> brawny is a word. >> he is a fire hydrant. >> bill, are you a fire hydrant on the weekends for elderly men. is there a difference between muscular and thick set? >> believe me there is a difference. muscular is a compliment and thick set, while meaning something different, also a compliment. call me captain thick set. >> thick set can be a compliment. sylvester stallone in his prime w...