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reporter: robert mueller has his hand obs tens of thousands of e-mails. part of the ongoing criminal investigation into the weeks following the election. under particular scrutiny, a meeting during the transition on december 1, 2016, puts trump s son-in-law, jared kush next and general michael flynn, his soon to be national security adviser, together in a room at trump tower with a russian ambassador who has long been considered a spy. kushner asks then russian ambassador sergei kislyak about establishing secure lines of communication with moscow. what some have called a back channel. the record and documents i have voluntarily provided will show that all of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of events of a very unique campaign. kushner told a congressional mitty that he asked if they had an existing communications channel at his embassy to use where they would be comfortable ....
Time and there s a m min mizati process. the only way it would have been if they specifically talked about the russia investigation or gave some reason about it, then it could be pertinent. but i think for the most part them trying to do message control from the white house. all right. i want to turn now to a tweet from the president where he said, quote, wow, senator mark warner got caught having extensive contact with a russian lobbiest for a russian oligarch. warner did not want a paper trail on a private meeting in london. he requested with steele of fraudulent dossier fame all tied into crooked hillary. this was president trump s tweet. marco rubio, fellow republican, quickly shut the president down tweeting, senator warner fully disclosed this to the committee four months ago, has had zero impact on our work. president trump was retweeting a ....
And general defense. controversy swirls over when chief of staff john kelly knew about the porter abuse allegations, two ex-wives. as new reports detail a history of john kelly downplaying disturbing accusations. you ll have to explain to the president what he knew, when he knew it. probably explain to the american people as well, maybe even hope hicks. we begin today with breaking news. a wild ride on wall street. as of right now, the shutdown crisis in washington appears to be over. but the meltdown in the markets keeps on going. i have a great team here to break all of it down, starting with cnbc s sima moody at the new york stock exchange. we are in correction territory so that is a 10% dip from the high. we have to remember january was the 52-week high. we have been on a tear. can t we look at this as normalizing? well, not necessarily. ....
They are skeptical. that s a bipartisan thing. both democratic and republican governors have proven to be skeptical about this. because first you have the public/private combination, really being a challenge for addressing some of the infrastructure needs. for example, toll roads. that s easy. but who s going to see profit in going into flint and fixing the pipes there? that is a problem we have all over the country. we have an aging infrastructure in terms of water, roadways. many of our bridges are over 50 years old. and going into these rural communities. the pot of money that the administration has put forth to kind of compensate for that, i m told by experts is woefully inadequate. well, i wish good luck to mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. because i watched the president s state of the union address and he urged congress to take the lead on this. so it s going to be a heavy lift. good luck, gentlemen. heidi, great, great piece. ....
I m calling on congress to produce a bill that generates at least is $1.5 trillion for infrastructure. the top of the line. it will be the best in the world. we used to have the greatest infrastructure anywhere in the world. and today we re like a third world country. ooh. let s talk money, power, politics. i want to note about four minutes ago, we were talking about the market. so to the white house when you say mainstream meet what doesn t cover the markets, time stamp, four minutes ago, we did, as we do every day. one of his biggest campaign promises, to improve airports and roads and bridges. now an exclusive report detailing the president s long awaited infrastructure plan which is expected to finally be rolled out on monday. i want to bring in the reporter who broke that story. i want to say it s her first exclusive since joining the nbc ....