Thinks Kushner News Today

♪ everything your family touches sticks with them. make sure the germs they bring home dont stick around. use clorox disinfecting products. because no one kills germs better than clorox. back in washington its a white house in crisis control. the president dweefending his son-in-law jared kushner after reports that kushner tried to create a secret back channel with russia before donald trump became president. kushner is being asked to lay low, but kushners to-do list inside the white house i...

Reportedly inside the white house to deal with the growing crisis. also this hour, a warning from german chancellor angela merkel and why she says europe cant rely on the u.s. any more. trump delays a decision on the climate accord. well get information from bill nye, the science guy. first to the white house where were hearing staffers are stunned by reporting over the weekend from the "washington post" that jared kushner tried to set up secret communications channels with the russian officia...

Conversations and stories that come up the pike that we have no idea about. >> kristen, i know you and i talked about this in the last hour, but there are possibly changes coming to the white house press office amid some of these controversies. do we know that thats sort of imminent? >> reporter: we dont. and, remember, ali, we continue to sort of have these discussions about possible shake-ups every couple of weeks. we know the president is considering potentially expanding some roles, bringing...

Criminal justice system, reforming veteran care, tackling opioid epidemic, lee son to mexico and china, liaison to the muslim community. big list, would you agree? >> its a big list. im sure other people work on some of those things as well. i just dont know the difference of laying low and not doing that job. hes not an ambassador. hes not out making large scale public statements -- >> which leads to another problem. at least with an ambassador, secretary of state, with the ambassador of the un...

We know the president is looking to bring more people into the fold in the war room, more top staffers to help deal with this growing crisis defense russia. again, ali, this speaks to whether the president is going to, in any way at any point, decide to diminish the role of jared kushner. at this point he hasnt. will this headline, will this story line change things? it remains an open question, but at least for now, again, publicly hes standing by him, ali. >> glen, when people think about this...

America leaves? >> reporter: no, i think actually its more sincere than that. i think there is a feeling that america has become very unreliable and capricious, or at least its president has become that way, and is that way. and i think there is a feeling that now, especially with the election of emmanuel ma crcron e in france, that europe has some new life being breathed into it. merkel is a little bit of the old guard, more than a little bit. but shes also a rock around which europe has been b...

Chris dicke for us in paris. trump will decide if hes jumping out of the paris climate accord this week. we talk about what will happen if he does do that. president trump visited arlington national cemetary. he laid a wreath at the grave of a fallen soldier. >> thank you for joining us as we honor brave soldiers who gave their lives for ours, spending their last moments on this earth in defense of this country and of its people. words cannot measure the depth of their devotion, the purity of ...

French newspaper yesterday kind of deciphering that moment. were watching it on the screen right now, chris. tell us a bit about it. >> reporter: well, that was a photo op that he understood perfectly well in terms of its symbolism. he knew that trump was going to give him a firm handshake and test him in the handshake, a typical kind of country club ploy by the president of the united states. and he decided to give it right back to him. he gripped just as hard, he stared trump right in the eye,...

Remind him of all the extraordinary and to the rest of us obvious apparent facts and we can get to work, and may i say, stave world. >> always happen to have you on the show. >> happy memorial day. >> well be talking more about this in the coming days. it is a crucial topic for us. this memorial day marks as jonathan altar says the birth of kennedy kennedy. he was assassinated when i was 46 years old. about halfway through his first term as president. we want to leave you with some words from pr...

Very good person. weve got reporters covering all angles of the story for us. kristen welker at the white house for us, including glen thrush at the "new york times." kristen, whats going on behind the scenes? >> reporter: behind the scenes very different. we know that a number of staffers have suggested to jared that this is a good time to lay low. this is a lot of concern about the headlines. one person telling me they were speechless when they learned about the revelation that was reported in...