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♪ everything your family touches sticks with them. make sure the germs they bring home don't stick around. use clorox disinfecting products. because no one kills germs better than clorox. back in washington it's a white house in crisis control. the president dweefending his son-in-law jared kushner after reports that kushner tried to create a secret back channel with russia before donald trump became president. kushner is being asked to lay low, but kushner's to-do list inside the white house isn't a short one, so who will step up to the plate if he has to diminish his role? i've got msnbc...

Reportedly inside the white house to deal with the growing crisis. also this hour, a warning from german chancellor angela merkel and why she says europe can't rely on the u.s. any more. trump delays a decision on the climate accord. we'll get information from bill nye, the science guy. first to the white house where we're hearing staffers are stunned by reporting over the weekend from the "washington post" that jared kushner tried to set up secret communications channels with the russian officials during the transition before donald trump was president. the president now standing by his son...

Conversations and stories that come up the pike that we have no idea about. >> kristen, i know you and i talked about this in the last hour, but there are possibly changes coming to the white house press office amid some of these controversies. do we know that that's sort of imminent? >> reporter: we don't. and, remember, ali, we continue to sort of have these discussions about possible shake-ups every couple of weeks. we know the president is considering potentially expanding some roles, bringing new people into the fold. you could see deputy press secretarity sy tsarah huckabee sanders, for ...

Criminal justice system, reforming veteran care, tackling opioid epidemic, lee son to mexico and china, liaison to the muslim community. big list, would you agree? >> it's a big list. i'm sure other people work on some of those things as well. i just don't know the difference of laying low and not doing that job. he's not an ambassador. he's not out making large scale public statements -- >> which leads to another problem. at least with an ambassador, secretary of state, with the ambassador of the united nations, secretary of defense, we in the media can hold these folks to account. they don't...

We know the president is looking to bring more people into the fold in the war room, more top staffers to help deal with this growing crisis defense russia. again, ali, this speaks to whether the president is going to, in any way at any point, decide to diminish the role of jared kushner. at this point he hasn't. will this headline, will this story line change things? it remains an open question, but at least for now, again, publicly he's standing by him, ali. >> glen, when people think about this and they worry about whether kushner follows rules or has to follow rules, what's the bigger issu...