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With anyone in the intelligence community? imagine if you're a u.s. intelligence asset sitting on the other side of the world, and you see communications coming in from kushner, who is in a meeting with flynn, who is under investigation in counterintelligence. we've just seen russia meddling in the election, and you want to know why does he want to communicate this information without the intel community knowing. >> well, forme members of the u.s. intelligence community have said why they have condemned kushner's back channel. let's listen. >> my dashboard warning light was clearly on, and i t...

Communication to moscow through a soviet spy working in the russian embassy here in washington. that relationship later proved crucial during the fearful days of the cuban missile crisis. it was bobby contact, in fact, who helped president kennedy make the deal that finally ended the standoff and averted nuclear war. the difference is that kushner was a private citizen with no government role. he reportedly did not consult with the sitting obama administration last fall, and further more, he omitted his russian contacts from his security clearance forms. i'm joined by clint watts, a senior fel...

Do you think back channeling is normal and acceptable? >> it's both normal in my opinion and acceptable. any way that you can communicate with people, particularly organizations that are maybe not particularly friendly to us, is a good thing. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was secretary of homeland security john kelly this weend, defending the use of back cel communications after jared kushner reportedly proposed using one to communicate with russia during his father-in-law's transition to the presidency. the news of kushner's reported proposal to the russian ambassador has raised numerou...

Story. you started itti years ago. the fact is bobby had good intentions. he wanted to convince the russians that his brother wasn't that weak. i'm reading from your book on this. they didn't want the russians to think we were weak after the bay of pigs because they might go for berlin. >> look, i think presidents often feel frustrated by their bureaucracy, right, and the people around them and look for other ways to do it. that can be a terrible idea, but it can also be a good idea. you can see why former intelligence officials hate it. >> yeah. >> because they don't like to be short circuite...

Constitutional, whatever, unconstitutional, there is an attempt to hide something. the question is, what is so tricky or dangerous about the conversations between kislyak and the russian bank president and the son-in-law that is so important to hide either with the fifth amendment or whatever, every technique? they're all lawyering up. why don't they just tell us what those meetings were about, robert? is it an elephant in the room, or is it an ant or something in between? what is so bad that they'd rather take this heat, see their presidency get gobbled up by this rather than tell us what hap...