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. another question why on earth would kislyak be telling moscow this in a communication that he clearly knew that the u.s. was going to be able to monitor. >> those are good questions. apparently in this conversation that the u.s. intercepted, kislyak the ambassador himself thought this is pretty strange that he would want to use a russian embassy communication channel. >> there is still the question are the russians playing all of us, is this a massive misdirection in this communication. although i don't understand what incentive the russian asthma would have ambassador would blo kushner beca...

Russian embassy in washington involving a top advisor to the president-elect of the united states would that be unprecedented? >> well, wolf, there's so much about this particular turn that this story has taken that just does not make a lot of sense to me. the short answer is yes it would be unprecedented. it would also seem to be just stupid. i don't understand why it is that jared kushner, i think julia is right we're tossing around the idea of a back channel, i'll stay with that, why if jared kushner wanted a back channel to moscow why do to ambassador kislyak and say i want russian communi...

Out to the russians so why would they want to spread misinformation about him. that aside, i think this is another piece of a story about a white house that is continuing to hide, conceal conversations and contacts with the russians and we don't have a good understanding why. why did jeff sessions not disclose the meeting with the russian ambassador. why did michael flynn lie to mike pence and oermthers in the white house about his conversation with kislyak. why about jared kushner try to conceal communications channel with the russians, in an extremely odd way, why did the president of the un...

Investigation. weather it is jeff sessions, michael flynn e, and now jared kushner who both failed to disclose his conversations with kislyak and this gentlemen gork a l who is russian bank chief sanctioned by the u.s., and so we have a pattern of senior trump officials concealing conversations with essentially russian spies and of course you throw into that the president of the united states when he gets in office taking several steps culminating in the firing of the fbi director to shut down the investigation of all this. there's a lot of smoke right now sk . >> a lot of us remember in the w...

Not sure i can explain it without more details how it all went down it's very unusual. >> the fact michael flynn was therep and emerged as top national security advisor certainly during the transition. i assume in a meeting like that he'd be playing a significant role, right? >> sure, absolutely. he would. and again i think a lot has been made, perhaps too much, but a lot has been made about early contacts with kislyak. again i think it's protocol, there's issues there. optics wise it didn't look good. especially what we knew and know about the russian intention to mess with the u.s. elections...