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>> the question critics ask is what good if any would a tomahawk missile strike alone do. a year ago it had no thought of assad's thinking. >> shepard: thanks, jennifer. president trump tweeting that he agrees with the strategy of cooperating with the special counsel running the russia investigation. but some lawmakers from the president's own party says congress should pass a bill to protect robert mueller just in case all of the people who advise the president on television and otherwise can fire him get their say. one republican is out with a new warning today. plus word that a doorman at a...

Equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the white house. joshua harris, the founder of apollo global management. during that period mr. harris met on multiple occasions with jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser. among other things, the two men discussed a possible white house job for joshua harris. that job never materialized but in november apollo global management lent $184 million to jared kushner's family real estate firm, kushner companies. the loan was to refinance the mortgage on a chicago sky scraper. this was loan was made, it says later on in the...

More problematic for jared kushner. the kushner company has been seeking financing, new financing for this massive sky scraper in new york city, 666 fifth avenue. a $1.8 billion project and they have been meeting with various investors and seeking financing. the problem is they had any discussion at all of that project or generally, his company's business, is that there might be a suggestion they were dangling the possibility of funding or other business advantagesn exchange for something, maybe exchange for warmer policy towards russia. that would be very problematic for jared kushner if that...

He also tried to broker the deal to build a sky scraper at trump tower in downtown moscow, the deal ultimately founded. but a deal that was going on all the way up until right before the campaign really kicked off. up until the iowa caucuses. he was playing that role between the trump organization and russian -- all in regard to the russian businesses. he has a lot to tell the committee about those long-standing financial ties. you also add, lawrence, if you'll recall on february 19, they reported he was playing a back channel role, back channel role between putin back lawmakers and michael th...

Staff of former vice presidt al gore. and he was also the chief counsel to chief jerry bash msnbc national security analyst and former chief of staff to leon panata at the cia and defense department. you have michael flynn saying he's going to comply. they asked for the documents. he's going to be supplying some or all of those documents, you can trust that with michael cohen's response and what michael cohen can expect the committee's response to be to his response. >> he's a very significant player. he knows the whole history of the trump organizations financial ties to russia. he, of course...