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Something laid at the doorstep of his administration was the biggest mistake in modern political history. having said that, we have to talk about jared kushner. there's so much that happens. there's been other news going on. your paper, shelby, first reported back in july that some members of the president's legal team and we should say that has since been shuffled thought jared kushner needed to leave the white house. the president's special counsel told nbc news the story is false. but give us a sense of where this story is right now. >> right, so my colleagues were reporting that back when ...

Financial problems? >> obviously we need to find out if this was part of a russian influence operation. >> reporter: just yesterday, abc news tracked down gorkov, also in st. petersburg, but he refused to answer any questions about why he met with kushner, as did the white house today, other than this one. >> does the president have confidence in jared kushner? >> absolutely. >> reporter: we also learned today that just weeks after president obama expelled russian diplomats, emptying those two russian compounds and imposing sanctions for russian meddling, there were concerns the newly installe...

>> don't worry, be happy. >> reporter: and, like the white house, vladimir putin today blamed the democrats for what he called the hysteria over the russian hacking during the campaign. "does someone have a pill? give it to them," president putin said. "honestly it's just incredible." and in his most belittling tone, the russian president claimed the clinton camp was behaving like anti-semites who blame the jews for everything. "a hacker could make it look like a 3-year-old did it," he said. "that's not proof." but u.s. intelligence agencies say there is plenty of proof of not only the russian...

Channel, it was the russians and the discussion was about syria and their concerns about on the ground and that it leaked from the russia side as far as this story is concerned. i should point out that president trump today, kevin mentioned the list of tweets he had. he also had about whenever you see the word sources say in the fake news media it's very possible those sources don't exist but it's made up. fake news is the enemy. he did retweet the story that we just mentioned which was an unnamed source from the white house talking about kushner and not being behind the back channel. so, list...

Of these approaches to the russians. >> i do think there ought to be a review of his security clearance to find out whether he was truthful, whether he was candid. if not, then there's no way we can maintain that kind of a clearance. >> i know jared. he's a great guy, decent guy. his number one interest really is the nation. there's a lot of different ways to communicate back chanlted, publicly with other countries. i don't see any big issue here relative to jared. >> joining us now from washington, d.c., national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. good morning to you. president trum...