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Trump is treating his own a.g.? >> isn't that extraordinary? i have to talk about the jared statement. jeremy, let's dig into this. i want to share a part that stood out to me. "the record and documents i am providing will show that i had perhaps four contacts with russian representatives out of thousands during the campaign and transition, none of which were impactful in any way to the election or particularly memorable." okay, jeremy. fine. four meetings out of thousands. i've taken thousands of exams in my life, but if i really cheated on one of them i'll still get kicked out of school. >> ...

Are they only digging themselves deeper? >> i'm not sure what was more surprising, the fact that scaramucci gave up the president or a source or that the president was fundamentally wrong in his assessment. >> are you calling the president an anonymous source? we know they don't like those. >> one key fact that again in the context of the kushner statement needs to be examined on october 27th, 2016, the national -- director of national intelligence and the director of homeland security put out a statement saying it was the russian government that engaged in hacking. so after october 7th, all t...

Obamacare. he has not gone before the press and answered questions about the specifics of why he believes what he believes because we don't even know what that senate bill he's asking people to support looks like. in the last half hour, the white house put out a statement about what he's going to do today. he's going to push for that motion to proceed. that's the first step to getting a full bill before the senate. he wants repeal and replace. remember, last week he had gone back and forth about where he really stood on this. but all of this really is about putting pressure on a handful of sen...

Back channel with russia? i mean, he tries to y s ties to away, but this is a nation-state many consider an enemy. how do you explain that? >> he said in his statement kiselak said to him, hey, do you have at the transition offices a way to communicate securely with our generals? and kushner said no. by the way, that's not true. i worked on transitions. there are secure communications attrition offices. jared turned it around and said however we can go to the russian embassy and speak on secure communications channels with your senior officials in russia with those who have responsibility for ...

Down starting with garrett haake on the hill. jared kushner put out an official statement before going into this closed door meeting. what are the key bullet points? >> reporter: the key point here is that kushner ends with the statement that he did not chud with russia in any way. he lays town a marker in bold print. we can read to you from end of the statement. it's kind of important. he says, "i did not collude nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded with any foreign government. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds to finance my business activities in ...