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>> that's right. it's $500,000, and that puts you on the path to a green card much for a lot of chinese, that's a popular idea. they want to escape the smog, poor education system, and so they're willing to put up that money. for investors they get a source of relatively cheap financing. there's a lot of interest right now. >> tell me about the connection in which jared kushner and the president, donald trump, were mentioned in the course of this pitch. >> jared kushner's sister, nicole mentioned her brother recently left as ceo and now serving in the trump administration. earlier in the prese...

That's the basic through it of it? >> that's right. it's $500,000, and that puts you on the path to a green card much for a lot of chinese, that's a popular idea. they want to escape the smog, poor education system, and so they're willing to put up that money. for investors they get a source of relatively cheap financing. there's a lot of interest right now. >> tell me about the connection in which jared kushner and the president, donald trump, were mentioned in the course of this pitch. >> jared kushner's sister, nicole mentioned her brother recently left as ceo and now serving in the trump a...

Interest. leave us alone, she said. people from a chinese company that works with them surrounded me grabbed my shoulder. i was tled understand and forced to delete recordings and photos of the kushner family recruiting chinese investors. why all the ruck cuss? mire ininvoked her brother's service as chief executive of kushner companies to join the trump administration as they solicited 150 unfolds answer if kushner development in new jersey. the money would be provided the law much criticized government program known as eb 5 that awards foreign investments. the next day, sunday, kushner compa...

Conflict of interest beat joins us now. this was stunning as i read it as this was happening. i was like, that really happened? >> essentially, what this boils down to is it suggests the kushner family is willing to use its proximity to the administration for personal benefit. here's what happened. the kushners are trying to court wealthy chinese investors through a program called eb-5. under this program, a wealthy person can invest $500,000 in a job-creating program, like a real estate development, in exchange, that person gets a path to citizenship. now, here's the problem, though, the eb-5...

Eb-5 program. based on our reporter who was in the room, people came away with the impression that a kushner investment was safer because of this direct connection with the administration versus another eb-5 program that a competing developer -- [ everyone talking at once ] so the kushner organization this morning apologizing, saying quote/unquote, ms. meier wanted to make clear that her brother had stepped away from the company in january and has nothing to do with this project. kushner companies apologizes if that mention of her brother was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure invest...