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Jared kushner, so of course the son-in-law of president donald trump, senior adviser to the president, and cnn has confirmed after the election last fall kushner explored the idea of setting up a secret line of communication with russia to discuss military operations in syria and other matters. even though it's unclear why a channel like that would be necessary. now kushner first discussed this idea during a meeting in december with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. now the line was never established, but it would have given kushner and the incoming national security adviser michael flynn a s...

Context is important, and you got that exactly right. this is yet another question mark, another, you know, small pillar of smoke, that surrounds not only the trump campaign but the trump administration with regard to its contacts with russia and i'm glad there are investigations going on to get to the bottom of that. i can only think of two reasons why kushner would have done this. the first would be, you know, he approaches kislyak and says we're in a sort of transitional period but we would like to start talking to you all, that has certainly been done in the past. the weird part, i want th...

I read, general flynn, he's doing the right thing and you cannot infer because he pled the fifth guilt. you cannot do that, fred, he should be doing that right now. he's the question -- the question is to what extent will it apply to documents. that's the next decision here. flynn was in that room with kushner and in that meeting. maybe now we are seeing more information why the president is so in n-- flynn has some informn pretty devastating to not only the president but kushner. we'll see what happens. >> yeah, there is a lot of different ways there is some sort of protection that the presid...

Security risks that it could potentially create for both the russian government and the trump transition. now ellen nakashima is the reporter who broke the story and did say this could be another attempt by the russian government to confuse the public about the trump administration's connection to russia. >> we caution that this is based on reporting by kislyak up to his superiors in moscow and that reporting was captured on intercepts and, you know, this could be russian or intelligence agencies are known sometimes to put disinformation into their feeds in order to sew confusion. sometimes se...

Possible kushner could have said we want to get this relationship going early, but we don't trust the obama folks still in charge so we need some sort of secret back channel to get things going. that's the darker interpretation. neither are very smart, neither are very -- you know, something you would recommend, but it's just sort of boggles the mind that these types of proposals and communications were going on. the back channel idea is not so weird. that happens. you don't really need a back channel with russia because you've got all sorts of communications. john brennan testified he called ...