the president is also drawing controversy because he s married to trump s daughter, ivanka. transition team officials say they do not believe anti-nepotism laws apply to presidential advisers, but legal analysts are split on the subject. kushner is pledging to take no salary and give up his management roles at his own family s billion dollar real estate empire and the news paper he owns. his lawyer says he will also sell off a significant number of his assets, including this flagship building in manhattan to his brother or to a family trust controlled by his mother. watch dogs question whether he can fully cut himself off from having a financial stake in government decisions. family members will still benefit from the decisions he makes in the house. and on the other end of this, what happens when he leaves government office. will they give him his interests back? it s really not divesting himself from this, it s not separating himself from his financial interests. and donald trump
donald trump is tapping his son-in-law jared kushner with tackling one of the toughest challenges on the planet, brokering peace in the middle east. kushner is also preparing to take a key role in the white house as a senior adviser to the president. brian todd has new information he is getting, new details on trump s plans for his son-in-law. brian, what are you learning? israel and palestinians tonight are so far apart from even speaking to each other that neither side even showed up to a meeting in paris this weekend, ae an effort to get them to talk about talking. but still donald trump believes his 36-year-old son-in-law who has no experience is the man to bring the two together. tonight a lot of questions are being raised about jared kushner s role in the white house and his possible conflicts of interest. jared is a great young man, went to harvard.
questionable and politically airli perilous for him to choose someone close to him and the number one qualification that can they re related to donald trump. reporter: despite having no experience in politics or go. jared kushner is said to be one of donald trump s most trusted advisers. some analyst call him the trump whisperer. when two factions are fighting for example during the campaign, when some fiery conservatives wanted one thing and some establishment republicans wanted another, jared would bring them together and work it out. reporter: jared kushner recu from family business, but he was still negotiating a week ago. jared kushner did not comment for our story. thank you, brian. coming up, donald trump revives his claim that nato is obsolete. it s causing concern across europe.