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Youre supposed to see the president on the world stage. but to just have his daughter, and im not attacking her, im sure shes a great business american, but shes not a diplomat and she has no business being at the g-20. she was rubbing elbows with foreign leaders and theres a video where they seem to be uncomfortable with her presence. she even overshadowed the secretary of state, mike pompeo. doesnt work. no foreign policy experience and shes able to go where most americans cant because she has...

There was something, if there was something nefarious maybe it would have come up. it was a total waste of time. i didnt guest past saying show up here at 4:00. i showed up at 4:00. >> it is hard to do hypotheticals, but we were not given anything salacious. >> white house senior advisor and presidential/professional son-in-law jared kushner sat down with axios this week. joining me now is vicky ward, an

Investigative journalist. i want your reaction to that. thank you for being here to answer the question of whether or not it would be a bad thing to take further assistance from a foreign power should it be offered be offered again. what do you make of that? >> i think it just proves the theory of my book, "kushner, inc." which is really discreted how jared kushner and ivanka trump dont believe in rule, including the law. they disdain the rules and think theyre for other people, much poorer peop...

Describe as racist or bigoted? >> so the answer is no, absolutely not. you cant not be a racist for 69 years and then run for president and be a racist. and what ill say is when a lot of the democrats call the president a racist, i think theyre doing a disservice to people who suffer because of real racism in this country. >> was birtherism racist? >> um, i wasnt really involved in that. >> i know you werent. was it racist? >> like i said, i wasnt involved in that. >> i know you werent. was it r...

The story about him not having a security clearance was front-page news for weeks and weeks and weeks in 2018. as we know, he only got a security clearance because the president intervened. the chance that they did not discuss that according to my resources who are right there is nil. >> its very striking, especially given your reporting. i want to thank mara and vicky and christina. i want you to stick around for some of the breaking news we have. still ahead, donald trumps attorney general bil...

Enemy to his administration and to the family personally. so were no longer even talking about the fbi as the sort of separate isolated entity. that is there to uphold the u.s. constitution as well. >> and doesnt this go, vicky, whether it has been a net positive for the country and the trump administration to have the family so intimately involved? to paraphrase the ten crack commandments, was it a mistake for trump to violate one of them and not keep his family and business completely separate...

>> the decision that triggered the mueller report as the result of the firing of fbi director james comey and the decision to fire was prompted by the presidents son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner. joining me is vicky ward author of the new book "kushner, inc., the extraordinary story of jared kushner and ivanka trump." it is such a page turner. it is so good. its filled with extraordinary information. tell me first of all the relationship of kushner to james comey. why he wanted him to...

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...

Simple. easy. awesome. xfinity, the future of awesome. but his e-mails! democrats today demanding the white house turn over evidence on jared kushner using technology to avoid documentation of his messages. instead of a private server, its a private messaging app. kushner deploying it to secretly talk with autocrats like the saudi prince. a controversial relationship explored in a new book by vicky ward, my guest tonight, the author of "kushner inc.," exploring how someone as essential as ivan...

Nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. >> that ivanka trump asked to travel on air force one when it wasnt appropriate, raising questions about nepotism. a former trump legal adviser says that trumps former famously tv-obsessed lawyers just didnt get it, the difference between a regular pr issue and a criminal investigation, noting problems about advisers becoming witnesses and new problems that w...