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>> we turn to the diplomatic crisis erupting in the middle east. five nations cutting ties with qatar, accusing that country of supporting terror. qatar is a key ally in the fight against isis. today president trump decided to side with its accusers. we get more from andrea mitchell. >> reporter: tonight, only weeks after the president heralded his success at uniting the arab world in saudi arabia. a growing diplomatic crisis against the leaders. back then the president lavishing praising the premier of qatar. >> we've been friends for a long time. >> reporter: but today the president turning ...

Against qatar? we've got this base in it qatar, it's use policy to support qatar. u.s. policy specifically to hold off other countries giving qatar a hard time. and then the president just, woo, 180, hostile turn. now we're going to support this blockade by saudi arabia and uae against qatar. why was that? any number of possibilities have since emerged. it has since emerged for example that jared kushner's family real estate company had repeatedly approached cut tar -- qatar to get money for the family real estate business. one approach was through a former prime minister of qatar. they though...

Is because qatar wouldn't give jared's family any money. and now they're mad at qatar, so it's u.s. policy to all of a sudden be against qatar. is it possible that's what happened? maybe that is one potential explanation. in that's tr if that's true, that would be an explanation about money people inside the trump administration wanted and were denied. tonight there is another explanation. and that explanation is not about money being denied to people in the white house. it's about money flowing into the white house. foreign money, flowing in, in great quantities. and the new reporting from th...

Them down when they were trying to give him money and he didn't want it. hmm? jared kushner's father met with the finance minister three months after president trump's inauguration. a meeting at the st. regis hotel in new york city, at which funding for a financially troubled kushner family real estate project was discussed. however, charles kushner says he turned down possible funding. he told the post, even if they were there ready to wire the money, we wouldn't have taken it. it seems a little -- is awkward the right word? kushner companies would spend a couple years trying to get millions ...

Administration decided they were going to take a remarkably hostile turn against this country where we've got this giant base. they were going to take this sudden, non-previewed turn against qatar. >> five nations cutting ties with qatar, accusing that country of supporting terror. qatar is a key ally in the fight against isis. today president trump decided to side with its accusers. we get more from andrea mitchell. >> reporter: tonight, only weeks after the president heralded his success at uniting the arab world in saudi arabia. the president lavishly praising the premier of qatar. but toda...