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>> there wouldn't really -- >> a private citizen wouldn't depend on that. if you had russia that the united states couldn't monitor, that wouldn't be okay. >> i think we have to find out the details but i think it makes a lot of presumptions we haven't seen yet. >> if we did know that was the case, that would be wrong. >> let's get a couple things clear about this so-called back channel. first of all, it's quite true that there are back channels all the time in diplomacy, and there's even a history of incoming presidents establishing some connections with the states that they will be dealing w...

This stuff up, by the way -- and jared kushner's insistence on going after the ban when the ban had sort of stabilized, this sort of put crosshairs on the president. we talked about jared island. this is really trump's island. there's only space for one island here, and i think jared is finding out very quickly that the president is the main guy. >> you don't get your own island in trump's island. kristen, the interesting thing to me, though, we've been talking about this war room that the white house is developing, this rapid response unit that can deal with media and deal with crises and law...

How likely do you think jared kushner's role will be diminished in light of these new revelations, regardless of whether they turn out to be true or false. is he going to get sidelined by them? >> i have to tell you, i don't know the answer to that and i don't put any stock into this. we have heard more rumors on cable television about shake-ups in the white house, more rumored shake-ups than a martini bar at a manhattan martini bar. it's ridiculous. there would necessarily not be anything wrong with him trying to establish some communications during a transition. i hear that -- >> dallas, dal...

Involved in the day-to-day, hand-to-hand combat in the war room based on his previous track record, for instance, being on a skiing vacation during the first round of health care stuff, is laughable. he has set up his own insulated little world with his own public relations person. our reporting on friday, maggie and i, found there was an operational staffer who was in the office across from jared's in the west wing. that person was kicked out so jared's pr person could be placed there. and the other thing about the friday story with the post, white house staffers were totally blindsided. jare...

Because james clapper is not given to overstatement. he said, my dashboard warning light was blinking. at some point, what does donald trump have to do about this? you can't just have donald trump's people saying, no biggie, and everyone else saying, this is very unusual. >> this is fundamentally the problem we're facing as a country by having the ceo of a family business bringing his family members into government. this is more akin to how saudi arabia, a monarchy operates, which donald trump now has a great relationship with them where issues are managed by family members. it's very difficul...