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You know, the danger for the democratic party is the longer and the longer that it takes for their seat to flip the progressive base angling for a fight gets frustrated. you've seen some questions about how much spending the national parties have decided to spend in a lot of these previous races. however, all of the guns and everything is being poured into atlanta suburb and district. so there won't really be any excuses. we'll see how these two candidates and how these parties can fight strength for strength. >> all the king's men and all the queen's women converging at the moment in georgia....

Welcome back. i'm richard lui live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we're following three major developments in the russia investigation. first off, president trump's senior advisor and son-in-law jared kushner under fbi scrutiny. "the washington post" reporting that during the transition kushner sought a secret back channel to communicate directly with the kremlin. according to reports by reuters, the second development kushner had at least three contacts with russia during and following the campaign that he did not disclose on his security clearance forms. the third development, "the ...

Gregg allman has died. the rock legend passed away at his home in georgia according to a message posted on his website. he was one of the founders of the allman brothers band, he was 69 years old. more now to this story on those gathering storm clouds over washington, d.c. various reports saying that the investigation into ties between russia and the trump campaign now focusing on his son-in-law and senior advisor. the 36-year-old senior white house advisor and heir to a wide ranging real estate empire, jared kushner a political novice, a mediocre student whose father made a $2.5 million donat...

Governments. >> why would he want to covert his communications from the u.s. government? that right there alone is covert communications. that is indicative of espionage activity of an american citizen that is working in league with a hostile government. >> mr. kushner's attorney has released a statement about her client's relationship with russia. it says that, quote, mr. kushner participated in thousands of calls in this time period. he has no recollection of the calls as described. it all raises questions of just who exactly is jared kushner. this week we got a look through a special window...

He's someone who encourages many of trump's more pugilistic instincts. he's willing to counterpunch. and he's mixed up with a lot of folks i don't think people realize he would ever get mixed up in. he's not sort of the pure golden haired, golden boy many thought him to be. >> how come we haven't heard him? >> well, i think he knows well enough to know that if you don't really know what you're talking about, if you're not an expert on it, that you don't speak. and if you don't speak, people sort of assume this air of mystery around you. it's really been this way for a long time. even in new yo...