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Channel. and jared actually proposed doing so at the russian embassy or at the russian consulate in new york, which is very strange. and kislyak was surprisesurpris. he was taken aback by that suggestion. >> when you say opening up a secret channel at the russian embassy in new york, how would that work? would people be going to the embassy to communicate? >> frankly, i don't know how they thought they would make this work. but i guess in theory, yes. somebody would have to go to the embassy and pick up the phone, and that would be a secure communication line. now, as i'm sure your viewers are...

And so what we're doing today by explaining the contents at least according to the russian version of events of that meeting, i think could help explain what the fbi saw and what they were concerned about. >> yeah, that's the question. we have this very sort of neb y -- nebulous term that's been out there, the way they're report it. a person of interest, not a suspect. is your understanding, your reporting here, that there is a link there between the authorities' interest in jared kushner and what you're reporting tonight? >> yeah, i mean there's no question our sources told us that they're in...

One and one does equal two. >> let's find out more about this again. this story just breaking in "the washington post." a report here that jared kushner during the presidential transition period suggested to russia that he wanted to set up a secret communications channel. adam entous, one of the reporters who reported this story. you see him there on the screen. adam, let me make sure on some of the details here. this communications channel was proposed by jared kushner. it never was set up, is that correct? and if so, why not? who nixed it? >> yeah, i mean frankly we're not entirely sure what...

Mueller is going to approach this or any changes he's made. but we certainly have acceleration. >> again, if you're just joining us, we came on at the top of the hour thinking, well, it's the friday night before memorial day. most people are already on their way to vacation. we'll just coast through the next hour. instead we have breaking news here, two breaking news stories that we are still digesting. the first one, this from "the washington post." it broke within the last hour. a report that jared kushner, donald trump's son-in-law, one of his top advisers in the white house, that he tried ...

Intelligence community. it seems here that just weeks into the transition, there's such a lack of trust in the intelligence community on the part of the trump team, that potentially they're looking to do something like this. >> yeah, i mean it's strange, especially when you consider that a couple weeks later, michael flynn, the designated national security adviser, talks to kislyak on an open line, which is intercepted because the fbi is monitoring kislyak. and so at moments you see a lot of attention to communications discipline, if you will. and at other moments, you see a sloppiness when it...