Russia awaiting his arrival. The Washington Post reporting soninlaw Jared Kushner sought secret back Channel Communications directly to the kremlin. Then reuters that cushikushner three undisclosed contacts with russia and the Washington Post again this headline, Senate IntelligenceCommittee RequestsTrump Campaign documents. Meanwhile, the president faces domestic policy questions next week on the budget and health care and jobs. Trump saying today his new arms deal and trade stances mean lots of new jobs. Nbcs Kristen Welker has the latest from italy on his busy nineday trip. Kristen. Reporter hi, richard. President trump is traveling back to the u. S. And he left without holding a News Conference with reporters. This is striking because typically president s when they are on overseas travel particularly a major foreign trip like this one hold a press conference so they can answer questions about their trip. The president s top advisors asd about this. Their response washat he was very busy and had a number of meetings. Of course his predecessors had similar schedules when they went on foreign trips of this magnitude and still managed to hold press conferences. So look for that to get some scrutiny in the coming days. President trump did deliver a speech to u. S. Troops who were serving here in sicily before he took off. And he touted what he sees as the accomplishments of this trip. He says many nato countries agreed to pay more in defense. And he is still talking about that arms deal which he struck with saudi arabia about a week ago. He says its going to bring jobs back to the United States. Thats of course a familiar talking point for this president. But this all comes as there are mounting controversies back at home. Today the Washington Post reporting that his soninlaw and top advisor Jared Kushner tried to set up a back channel of communication with russian officials. New york times adding that that back channel had the goal of trying to create dialogue about the syria strategy moving forward. So the white house pressed for a number of questions about that. The president s top advisors, h. R. Mcmaster, gary cohn held an offcamera press briefing earlier today where reporters peppered them with questions which they dodged. Take a look at one exchange. This issue that youre talking in general about is not one hes spending time with on this trip. Are you saying no foreign leaders are asking him about his relationship or his staffs relationship with russia . It hasnt come up at all . Not once . No, it hasnt. So can we assume hs goi to retain that position for planned future trips were not going to comment on jared. Were just not going to comment. So President Trump bracing for more tough questions when he gets home. In fact, some of his top advisors already setting up a war room thats going to be led by Reince Priebus, steve bannon and his soninlaw Jared Kushner all as that special counsel gets underway, richard. Kristen welker with the president. Thank you so much. Joining us right now, coauthor of politicos playbook and on the phone former cia operative. David, ill start with you, avid reader of the playbook, first words in your headline, chaos. Is that what youre seeing in the white house right now . Yeah, we said theres kind of a drum beat of these very damaging scoops. Kushners perch in the white house is secure, but hes getting tired of the constant scrutiny. According to reports he and ivanka talk every six months are they going to stay in d. C. Or are they sick of this bad publicity and this reputation which has taken a hit. So they have told friends privately that theyre not guaranteed to stand by the president s side for all four years. They could potentially one of those sixmonth cycles could reconsider what is happening on the outside, the chaos youre reporting in the playbook. Michael, to you on this, with those three developments in just the last 24 hours, it has been said those whove been critical of it if they were to be confirmed and they were to be true that at this moment Jared Kushner should lose security clearance. From your perspective as an intelligence expert, is that what should happen in normal processes . Well, again, it depends on who was authorizing the discussions and who was aware of that theres a lot of speculation going on here. Part of this is definitely the fact came into the office into the new administration with a lack of discipline, lack o awareness, the importance of protocols and processes. And so, you know, they started out with a number of selfinflicted wounds. And that has allowed for this constant drum beat. But i would argue that, you know, part of it is Public Theater in the sense that i suspect in the Previous Administration coming into the Obama Administration for instance if somebody had said the Obama Administration somebody in there was trying to set up a back channel with the russians to try to find a way towards peace in syria, probably the response would have been fairly tepid and along the lines of, well, thats a very sort of nuanced and sophisticated way to try to find peace. And isnt that impressive. So, you know, im not dismissing it. We should be looking into these things, but part of it is perhaps im just getting exhausted from all the oxygen that its taking. Every day theres supposedly a striking contrast and drama. He doesnt hold a press conference when he leaves on this trip and suddenly its the death of the republic, or he asks nato allies to pay more. How should the intelligence community, how should the cia, the fbi deal with this development if it were to become true . Again, we dont want extremes as you were suggesting, but what is the next best step, you believe . Well, the next best step i think is for them to just come out and say this is what happened. Again, they could have done this on any number of these issues. You know, probably put some of it to bed. Im sure we would have marched onto another issue or selfinflicted wound, but i think what they need to do is button down their internal discipline and their communications and their messaging. And when they have Something Like this, come straight out and say this is what we were trying to do. And this is, you know, who was aware of it. And by the way, you know, there is something to be said about this conflict supposedly between the Intel Community and the white house. And ive spent a long time in the intelligence business and maintain good friends and contacts there to this day. You know, everyone would like to be patted on the back and told what a wonderful job theyre doing, but at the end of the day the operators inside the Intel Community dont care. They get on with their task regardless whos leading the administration. They do their job day in and day out as we know the fine institutions we have here in intelligence here in the United States. Back to you, daniel, part of that reaction michaels intimating here coming from the white house was going to be a war room or at least a place to handle all of these questions and potentially handed them in very concerted and focus and had in ways that michaels describing. And one of the questions if that were to happen is who would lead it . Yeah. So steve bannon and Reince Priebus are kind of they return early from the trip a few days ago to lead discussions about setting this up. Because you want to kind of wall off part of the white house to deal with this russi vestigation. And then have another part of the white house actually carry out the domesti agenda and get things passed through capitol hill. Two of the names that were hearing that could lead that war room corey lewandowski, former Trump Campaign manager early on, also david bossi, kind of a clinton antagonist and also close trump outside advisor. These are war dogs. They are attack dogs. They would protect the president and his staff from this russia investigation enveloping it and making that nothing can actually get done. So they want to continue having accomplishments for the american people. Lets bring in msnbc contributor christopher dickey, going to join conversation right now. Chris, as you look at this, some of the reports right now that youre very well aware of happening in the United States in the last 24 hours, now at the top of if you will the news cycle is the perception there in paris, in france and in europe at the moment that potentially the europe trip its already done with, were now moving on to the issues back in the United States . Well, i think the feeling is i wont say a complete lack of confidence, but theres a terrible lack of confidence in the abilityf President Trump both to govern and to make valid decisions that affect the future of the world. I think thats part of what we saw going on at the g7 summit in sicily over the last couple of days. Those were very unpleasant conversations. German chancellor Angela Merkel made that very clear. And then to know that on top of his trurekals trans important t all the european leaders and then look at an administration almost fatally weakened about the stories that have come out about not only russian involvement with the american elections last year, but now more and more information about apparent contacts if not collusion between the people in the trump administration. In fact, the people closest to President Trump and the russians, all of that is extremely unsettling for the europeans. At a time when theres a lot going on in the world where they would hope to have clear leadership from the United States. And in fact theyre getting Something Like complete confusion from the United States. Right. Chris, very quickly here, what would be the headline, the takeaway from President Trumps visit to europe at this moment . Are relations better or worse or the same before he arrived . Id say basically theyre worse. His lecturing nato didnt go down at all and didnt seem to understand what nato financing is all about. And then the g7 winds up the headlines very simple, its g6 versus g1 on climate change. And follows through with what a lot of the schematics were leading up to his visit and that was the thought as you were telling us. Chris, thank you so much, daniel, michael. Britain has reduced its Terror Threat level as police in manchester conducted more raids. They made arrests earlier today following mondays terror attack weve got some new details. You know how painful heartburn can be. For fastacting, longlasting relief, try doctor recommended gaviscon. It quickly neutralizes stomach acid and helps keep acid down for hours. Relieve heartburn with fast acting, longlasting gaviscon. And helps keep acid down for hours. That goes beyond assuming beingredients are safe. Ood to knowing they are. Going beyond expectations. Because our pets deserve it. Beyond. Natural pet food. 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