"the washington post" reported that sergey kislyak talked about the instigation having a private communications channel and wolf writes that the jared and ivanka faction and again this is wolff's characterization. the exact sourcing is unclear and as wolff says in the book because of the white house's lack of procedures for setting parameters for conversations. with that in mind, here's what wolff wrote. i'm quoting from wolff, "part of the by now deep enmity between the first family couple and their allies and bannon and his team was the jarvanka conviction that bannon and to be wholly discredited and possibly even jailed. this was not merely an internal policy war. it was a death match. for bannon to live, bannkushner would have to be discredited. with me now is christopher rudy and josh green, author of "devil's bargain." so the rivalry between bannon and jared kushner and ivanka trump was not a secret.