core. jared kushner shouldn't have been in any of these meetings in the first place, he is an unqualified real estate developer, everyone knows he wouldn't be in those meetings if he wasn't married to trump's daughter. once he did the meetings, tried to establish a secret back channel to russia and lied about it, trump fired the fbi director who is investigating his son-in-law. this is beyond partisan debates. people that are defending as normal behavior are deluding themselves, this is not normal behavior for a president to do. if you want to discuss syria with another foreign power, you can do it openly, don't have to do it secretly, don't need to lie about it, fail to disclose it on security forms. people need to take stock of this, say do we want to defend this behavior, it is rotten, there's something to it, needs to be investigate rapidly. either the president's chief adviser, one of his main advisers is compromised or has dubious dealings, either way it