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In china they had a slide of the president in there saying that he makes big decisions about the eb-5 visas known as this investor visa described as a key decisionmaker. kushner, his attorney has said that kushner has no involvement in the company and divested his interest by selling into a family trust that he and his children, wife and children are not beneficiaries are. the office of unpublic ethics saying he will recuse himself that the eb-5 visa program, but not only think about this and the fact that there is a slide of the president and we know that he is a senior adviser to the preside...

In the operation and recuses himself concerning the eb 5 visa program. the sister highlighted her brother's role in the administration and also showed a slide of president trump saying he would be overseeing how this hot potato issue because they are -- there are certain folks in d.c. concerned with this visa program, making changes to it, but this is a huge cash grab, kind of a bait and switch promise to invest in the kushner company for some kind of pay to play potentially. what are the optics? >> not very good. >> the only thing going to matter regardless of how jared kushner distances hims...

Optics if kushner? >> it is not very helpful for him. clearly, there is always going to be an issue when someone has very complicated business interests, and i note what his lawyer has said there, but in a situation like that, you have to be rauultra careful about the optics, as we say and the optics in this instance seem pretty awful, quite frankly and there is the slide as you mentioned suggesting that donald trump would be in a position to somehow rule on the eb-5 visas, and that visa program is controversial in the first place and a lot of emphasis was put on the kushner family and people ...

This is the thing that happens in china all the time. famous people apply for trademarks. the trump organization says they have the right to do what they have been doing. that is where things get tricky. donald trump is the president of the united states. ethics lawyers say if the approval are seen as a gift from the chinese, that is obviously a conflict of interest and perhaps unkuns unconstitutional. >> and the visa program which benefitted business executives. including those in china. what can you tell us? >> reporter: this is the eb-5 program. investing money in projects to create jobs in...

And it was born confidence. >> you're absolutely right. and at least four of those classified emails had their markings changed to a category that shields them from being released to congress and the public. they actually changed them from a b 5. from a b 5 category, they were actually switched to b 5, originally marked classified. and when they're b 5, it goes down to a deep, dark black hole where no one can ever see it. why would they do it? >> why would they change it? they don't want it out there. as you said, she said she hadn't sent it, she sent it. and not only was it classified, top se...