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My favorite toptopic, let's talk money, power, politics. new investigations into possible connections between the trump campaign and russia. former white house communications staffer, boris epshteyn, has been added to the list of trump aides being questioned by the house intelligence committee as well as the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen. this comes after big news that trump's son-in-law and white house senior advisor reportedly tried to set up a back-channel communications line between trump's team and the kremlin. but what is it like to work with and for jared kushner? so many o...

All right, stephanie, thank you so much. disturbing story. up next, jared kushner under fire, but he has made a career of surviving crisis, as has his family. will he survive this one? the former editor in chief of "the observer" the paper kushner ran, joins us next. from the white house to wall street, a quick look at the markets. we're having a slightly unched morning. the markets have been on a tear, going up, up, up. opening a bit down this morning. not much, though. (vo) when i brought jake home,

And so sometimes -- >> what did he do? >> there are things like, you know, just the notion that you can just call up anybody and start negotiating. in his recent dealings with russia potentially, i could see where from a standpoint of naivete jared might think it was perfectly okay to ask for a back channel to vladimir putin because there wouldn't necessarily be anything stopping him from doing that in the private sector. >> did you see him do things like that in the private sector? was he influencing or running "the observer" in any way that you found curious? you only stayed there for a year...

Didn't really understand the ins and outs of the media business. he was primarily running kushner co which is a commercial real estate business and the dynamics and economics of it are very different. he wasn't in "the observer" offices on a day-to-day basis. we would communicate daily and meet once a week but he didn't have much incentive to really dig into "the observer" from the business side and i think he had very little interest in the journalism piece of it. >> you also know a decent amount about jared kushner's relationship with his father-in-law, president trump. what can you tell bus...

Quid pro quo for that? what will china ask for that? i think there is genuine concern where you will see u.s. foreign policy for rent. not all that value, either. they're going to charge low prices where the u.s. agrees to step out of the south china sea, for example, in return for a couple billion dollars of investment. the problem is, those pledges of investment, china made pledges of investment to russia, for example, that actually haven't borne out. but changes in foreign policy are very tough to reverse. so i worry, frankly, that the summit will go extremely well. that you'll see a lot of...