just yesterday priebus held a meeting wisteve bannon and jare kushner. the goal of that meeting is to get everyone on the same page. cnn's sara murray has more. >> reporter: as ideology cal battle reaches in the white house. trump's strategist bannon is facing an uncertain future and have become isolated in the west wing. >> we hope that as long as america stands for justice, then peace and harmony will in the end prevail. >> the move highlighting the fault line emerging between the national wing of the trump's white house led by bannon and the moderate crowd encolluinclu jared kushner. the president's decision to appear in syria. >> i now have responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly. >> it is an abrupt change of tone from trump on day one where he will rely on bannon to craft a speech and hammering home this message. >> from this day forward it is going to be only america's first. america's first. trump has grown frustrated with fighting with top aids. the relationship between bannon and juared kushner has grown stra

i wanted to comment on jared kushner and ivanka trump. ast i don't understand is far as the republican party is concerned, they have lost all credibility. the implicitly and hypocrisy of being the public and party is staggering. for a candidate such as donald trump to now be in the white daughter to have his and his son-in-law -- this is nepotism at its highest. and it is happening in real time. and right in front of us. it is like a slow-moving car crash happening. and it is staggering to think of calledlican party who themselves on the constitution and they tout themselves as being patriotic with america first and all of that nonsense but the man that they have as their spearhead in the white house, this guy is going to ruin the country and he is going to make nixon look like child's play. with what he is doing. i am just watching this and i am stunned. if barack obama had done 1/10 of what this guy has done in 60 days? i mean, it is just hypocrisy. it is mind blowing. host: thank you. the white house gave a statement announcing that iv

your thoughts this morning on influence of ivanka and jared kushner. e're going to be talking about it for our first hour of washington journal" this morning. we'll also get you caught up on news around the country. king's park new york. steven, good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. good morning. call. iate the steven. u're on, caller: i appreciate the call nd i just wanted to express my enthusiasm to have ivanka trump member olunteer family white prestige to the house and i think she's going to do a good job. do you like about ivanka trump, steven? well, she has -- she has across tolity to come people as in her past -- you conveys a good image to the white house, and she's thinking. that's my best feeling i can say bout it, and it's a good portrayal of the white house. asset to bably be an distorted of the images that they try to portray n the media about, you know, don't throw dirt where it doesn't belong. call, and iate your nice speaking to you. ost: ivanka trump taking a formal position in the white house. it's an unpaid position. ad

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view to jared kushner. that's why the chairman of the joint chief of staff, joe dunford, invited kushner to take this secret trip to iraq, arrived unannounced. it's not just the generals. secretary mattis, nbc news learned has had several meetings with kushner that's here at the pentagon, as well as at the white house. and just to give you a sense of what kushner will be seeing, he's going to see a very aggressive fight. remember the fighting in west mosul is taking place in iraq, also in syria, some u.s. troops were inserted behind enemy lines last week near the dam. one quick note on this, there isn't that much air activity taking place today. there is heavy weather and sometimes that prevents the eyes and ears and there's a little less, as they say here, kinetic activity. but overall, the pentagon sees this as an opportunity to cultivate jared kushner, explain their perspective, and hopefully gain an ally on some policy discussions. guys? >> yeah, it's interesting when you hear words like "cultivate" and

how would jared kushner -- let's just be honest. if he saw a fight or skirmish or a scuffle in a war zone, what would he know a to z? he wouldn't know. that's what the secretary would know. he hired a bunch of generals and we haven't talked about that. you're reporting in the "washington post," you said, the loony strategic disaster in mar-a-lago this week, the president meeting with the chinese president thursday and friday. it's one of the most important relationships the u.s. has. why do you say that's going to be a disaster? >> because everything that donald trump believes when it comes to foreign policy is that what he wants out of countries like china or germany or what have you is pledges of investment in the united states. he wants sort of shiny deliverables to say, i have reached an agreement where china will bring $5 billion worth of investment in and that will create so many jobs. the question is, what is the quid pro quo for that? what will china ask for that? i think there is genuine concern where you will see u.s. fore

why was jared kushner in iraq, what's the point of that trip? >> well, i think that's the million dollars question, it was an unannounced visit came at general joseph dunford. we know he's been charged with defeating isis in iraq. we know the two were traveling together in iraq, what we don't know are some of the key details, any time a senior official visits iraq some of the key details are kept secret. the bigger question is that when there are visits like this and some details kept secret usually we know why the visits took place in the first place, in this case we don't know why jared kushner was in iraq, what it does show is the continuing descending -- of trump family members, we see on the ground is a convergence of all of those three things, primarily military operations, there are decisions being made by american generals every day in terms of how the fighting is going, so how does jared kushner fit into that? that's the question a lot of the people are wanting the answers for. >>> fighting harder than ever before, it might be jared kus

but a meeting with jared kushner has not been scheduled. joining us tim matt, a correspondent for the daily beast who has been investigating the trump-russia question. and julian edelstein. tim mak, the significance of the intelligence committee wanting to speak to jared kushner about this, how do you read that? >> well, it's obvious that the senate intelligence committee wants to talk to jared kushner about his contacts with the russian ambassador and of course this russian banker, sergei gorkov, who as you noted was a graduate of the russian spy school as part of the broader investigation into the russian role in the u.s. election and whether or not anyone in the trump orbit was involved in that russian interference or had ties with the russian government. you know, jared kushner is the person closest to donald trump who it has been publicly reported has had meetings like this. >> julian epstein, how common are omissions like this in disclosure forms? >> well, they're relatively common. so long as people voluntarily come forward and clari

not saying that to jared kushner. is there any indication in any of your reporting that the president is putting any pressure on jared kushner to find the solution to this relationship? >> my understanding is that he's told them to cut it out. he's sick of seeing this. the last week has become -- the tension was sort of building, but this week has been ridiculous and there are stories from both sides. >> give us the most ridiculous example of how ridiculous it has become. >> you have stories now of like steve bannon saying to the president i want to talk my skills elsewhere if you don't like me. anyone who knows steve bannon he doesn't talk like that. he doesn't say sentences like that. so whoever put that out there, it's not steve bannon would say. he doesn't talk like that. he's a much more blunt instrument. the president is frustrated. my understanding is there is going to be a come by yeah but who knows if this is going to work. >> i don't want to hear steve bannon singing. >> we're done with it for tonight. thank

we see jared kushner's role expanding. he's been given new duties and he was in iraq just last week, kind of assessing the situation on the ground. so it -- what it seems to be if you read it, the president is taking a hard look at his entire team and assessing if they're in the right places. and if it makes since to have these two squaring o on whole host of policy issues allf the time. i can tell you, steve bannon isn't backing down from this. and if you talk to folks who are close to him, he thinks he's winning this fight. and as you point out, chris, he welcomes a good fight, a good one. he's the one using all of these war terms and throwing the bomb. he's not backing down. he's not intimidated by the possibility of being ousted, that's for sure. >> let's end by talking about the stakes here. you know all of this stuff, big picture, whether we go to war or not, wait until we get more aggressive. how we handle the situation in north korea. how we handle the future of obama care, the things people care about. they have q

>> here is my question, what is the job of jared kushner on advising the president? also, what is he advising? given that he doesn't have a lot of foreign policy or diplomatic experience. how is he synthesizing this information. i would like to see something to know where his world view is. >> we really know nothing about him. >> but it's even more necessary because donald trump hasn't flushed out many foreign policy positions, so it's very much up for grabs. but lastly, what is his qualification for this job and how is it not nepotism? i think it's fair to say, had jared kushner not married the president's daughter, he would not have this job. so because of that he needs a lot more scrutiny, because there's a lot of the stake here. just recently, a lot of civilians were killed in iraq, we need someone who has a strong position, that request implement whatever the president wants to do, but also convincing the american people. >> congressman kingston, should jared kushner be the one going to iraq before secretaries of state and before others? >> i don't think it real

jared kushner is not the answer to all of this. actually running the government the way it's supposed to be run is the answer. >> what qualifications does jared kushner have? >> that's a great question. i know many people who have had dealings with him over time. they say he is a very intelligent guy, considerable charm. he is a 36-year-old man who has not a stitch of government experience, who has not a stitch of diplomatic experience. and while that doesn't mean he doesn't have a fresh perspective that might, you know, have value to it, it does suggest saying he is the first person able to solve the israeli-palestinian conflict is the epitome of magical thinking. >> for someone with no political experience and no governing experience. you wrote in the piece said earlier of how important loyalty and family are to him. perhaps having, you know, key family members or key people around him, maybe that gives him some sort of comfort. do you think americans are at risk when the key people that interest r there, like jared kushner and i

jared kushner is a new yorker, and steve bannon has a different view. and when it comes up to issues on how to handle health care they have different visions, and so while yes, there are disagreements and a clash here, so much of it will be on the substance of what trump does. while trump was elected on broad ticket discussions, he didn't have a replacement. he said replace it with something terrific, it is up to bannon and kushner to replace it. and they differ on the specifics. >> well, i think people close to steve bannon told me what he thought were policy disagreements he has come to realize may be more personal than that. he does feel a bit kneecaped or felt that way maybe before the friday peace-making session that reince priebus organized. but i spoke to someone today who is not really on team bannon and they said you have to realize that steve, unlike other people like paul manafort, who was thrown overboard when he became too much of a problem, steve bannon, this person said, is close to this president. they do enjoy a close working relationsh

trump is giving jared kushner so much to do. and here you were bitching about your father in law asking you to set up the wi-fi. yeah, from now on, you will be, like, i am so glad. ( laughter ) that is so much stuff that there is no way kushner isn't going to get it all mixed up. i predict he's just going to miss the things up. mr. president, i sent the black people to iraq, imprisoned all our veterans and injected the chinese president with opium and, oh, i.s.i.s. is coming to mar-a-lago. it's all mixed up! ( laughter ) to sum it up, the man in charge of pretty much everything is an inexperienced 36-year-old real estate prince whose main qualification is being married to the president's daughter. i don't get it. what does trump see in this guy? >> what is he lacks in experience he more than makes up for in trust and loyalty. >> his expanding role is something that is indicative of, obviously, the deep level of trust that the president puts in him. he trusts his son-in-law -- >> trevor: oh, wow, look at that... turns out donald

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for jared kushner for anyone advising the. the to go to iraq to make the relationships and for them to be able to put a face to the name from their end but most importantly is to get that update. >> there is no substitute, you're right, for being on the ground and seeing it with your own eyes. how do you think what he's doing differs from that of rex tillerson? >> he's not the secretary of state, but he is a senior adviser to the president, so when you're at a table and discussing what the right policies should be to battle iraq, battle isis in iraq, or battling isis in syria, or you're talking about isis' moves in the command and control noelds popping up in libya or the other terrorist groups looking around the map and you have groups like the hakani network or al qaeda, al shabab, talking about latah bombs earlier in the show. it's more and more interconnected and the more informed you can be. there's a benefits, it says a lot for the leadership of the other government and our foreign troops to see those surrounding the pre

kushner. >> jared kushner finding the solution to this relationship. >> the last week has just become, tensions were building and this week is ridiculous and their stories from both sides. >> give us the ridiculous example. anyone who knows bannon, he does not talk like that and sentences like that. it is nothing that bannon would say. he does not talk like that. it is much more blunt. this leaking of both sides and the president is frustrated. my understanding is there is going to be some sort of attentive kumbaya. >> who knows if this thing is going to work? >> i don't want to hear steve bannon singing. >> thank you both for joining us. >> coming up, if you hate tv advertising. there is a show on fox news that does not have any. bill o' riley. one advertisement left on bill o' riley show. that's coming up. but then i realized there was. so, i finally broke the silence with my doctor about what i was experiencing. he said humira is for people like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majo

one, jared kushner as you point out is tasked with doing peace in the middle east. and then the other issue is that the bank is the subject of a very serious investigation by the department of justice as to whether or not they helped americans avoid paying taxes with regard to banks offshore. so the notion he continues to be the beneficiary of this business that he ran for many years, that is in business with the biggest bank in a country with whom he is going to be doing extensive work from a diplomatic perspective is quite surprising. >> richard, from an ethic's standpoint is that an issue for you? and now that both ivanka trump and jared kushner are both now white house employees do you see other conflicts there? >> well, the law does not require them to sell the assets, but if they don't sell the assets and they have not sold the assets in real estate the law does require they recuse from any government matter that could have any economic effect on those assets, and that includes anything that has an affect on the real estate industry, on the financial services

perhaps jared kushner might bring a new perspective. keep in mind we have a young speaker paul ryan who is close with reince priebus. paul ryan says he talks to the president almost every day and he was young ambitious. we see jared kushner coming up. i don't think necessarily being a novice in policy is a bad thing. if you look at who he is compared with. >> also talking about the relationship between the speaker and reince priebus. there's word that reince priebus may be on the chopping block with gary cohn kicked around to replace him. gary is a former goldman sachs player who has now come in to help helm the national economic council. back to the bannon and kushner thing, john. the word is that donald trump has said work it out between the two of you. they seem to be completely polar opposites. if you look at that picture. i don't know if we can show that full picture from inside the room. i don't know if we can get wider. we cut the two main figures we're talking about out. steve bannon is by the door near the military guy. their e

with regard to jared kushner, saying he doesn't know anything, i'm not speaking on jared kushner's we-but clearly he has accumulated some level of trust an confidence an knowledge inside the white house to obtain positions that he has with the president. if we then appreciate that jared kushner's is in the spot he's in, and because the president tieks-- takes family so seriously he's not going anywhere, in your estimation f you are prescribing something for this white house beyond what is in this article, are you telling the president then to limit his portfolio? >> i would say that if jared kushner were truly public spirited person, what he would do, if he wants to stay in the white house, obviously he has to separate himself much more fully from his own business interests than he has. then he would say to the president, you need an a-team here. what i would like to do for you is run a staff prog ses whereby instead of giving your china portfolio to me and the middle east portfolio to me, and the reinventing government portfolio to me, we bring in people who actually knew about these iss

we know jared kushner's father was prosecuted a few years ago. he was a big democratic donor and he blackmailed his own sister's husband to avoid an investigation. and the prosecutor in that case was chris christie. multiple reports said that the reason chris christie was sort of moved out of considering in the administration was jared kushner seeking revenge. obviously i can't speak to that. >> how would that affect the administration? what would that have to do with anything? >> all i'm saying is if you're going to worry about revenge, there's already those stories coming out about kushner. in the case of steve bannon, steve is a -- >> wait, hang on. i'm just trying to get to understand what you're saying. you speak of bannon, you're talking about breitbart, which is a huge platform. which is also the alt-right. you said what about snit >> it's the anti-establishment. i've never used the term alt-right. >> steve sure used it. >> i'm just wondering how would jared kushner exact revenge from his father-in-law -- >> no, no. what i'm saying is ther

so has jared kushner. we know that. those are two facts. is it imminent he's going to get his head chopped off? i don't know, i don't think so. there's been a bit of a -- we'll see how it goes the next couple of weeks. >> we'll be watching. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >>> we're going to take a quick break. when we come back, we're not going to take a break, that was entirely me freelansing and looking for a midmorning snack. forget what i just said. the report in "the washington post" is taking a closer look at steve bannon and his, quote, multi-media machine and how it paid him millions of dollars. joining me is shane bodberg, thank you for being with us. most people know about breitbart, but, in fact, steve bannon's been in the world of media and profit-making media for some time. tell me about this machine and how it all works? >> reporter: yeah, we took a look at how steve bannon moved from hollywood and wall street into the arena of politics. and really leveraged the infrastructure that he set up on the west coast, combi

i don't know and nobody knows if jared kushner can do that. sooner or later professionals have to come in to take on the work that needs attention. >> eleanor roosevelt with her husband in wheelchair running world war ii used to go out and say i will be my husband's legs, his eyes, and his ears. not exactly a parallel to what you are saying there. >> for all of us, the panel will stay. coming up, we'll take a first break. after that, this week must be different for the president by design because he has meetings with three world leaders. >>> plus, the son-in-law turned white house aide goes to baghdad. when "the 11th hour" continues. allergy symptoms distracting you? doctors recommend taking claritin every day of your allergy season for continuous relief. claritin provides powerful, non-drowsy, 24-hour relief. for fewer interruptions from the amazing things you do every day. live claritin clear. every day. why pause a spontaneous moment? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. tell your doctor about your medicines, and

kushner he probably knows how to best manipulate donald trump in thinking how to win. >> and jared kushner has what the others don't have, which is he is married to ivanka so donald trump can't so easily get rid of them. >> gary kohn and him see to be developing -- >> that's a big problem as well. i mean -- >> but also, trump is loyal until he is not loyal. steve bannon you could argue got him to this point by getting him on message at the end of the campaign and disciplining him a little bit more in terms of trump. but now according to people that i speak with, steve bannon is in a precarious position because donald trump's poll numbers are not good, he hasn't gotten any quote, unquote, wins like susan is saying and jared is out to get hiand the family is out to get him. it took the family months to get rid of corey lewendowski and he was arrested for assault. that is true. so ultimately, even if bannon is dangerous on the outside as susan alludes to, is there a way for him to survive? >> i just think that you're right, that you do not want as a chief strategist, no matter how powerful yo

and then we've got jared kushner moving around on his own. and then we have a statement department sitting over there waiting to be asked a question, maybe a translation. they're not being talked to. meanwhile the president where he meets foreign dignitaries, this is -- you thoughts. there's a lots going on. >> i could not have said it better, chris. the competence issues here are just enormous. it's unsustainable. i mean, you can't sustain state craft like this with jared kushner in charge of everything. the question of how do they coordinate with the state department, well, indeed. i mean if jared kushner is off meeting with the chinese and taking care of israel and palestine, when do they connect with the state department. is the state department in the loop on all of this stuff or not. >> i don't think kushner sets palestine. we'll figure that one out later, any way, thank you. >> it's going to be okay. it's going to be okay. >> very comfortable with his movement. by the way, it's all over the place. up next top level from north korea say

with jared kushner, you get a different set of problems. obviously, he's less ideological, he's not connected to breitbart. but he doesn't know anything. even more than that, the problems of public integrity become worse the more power the kushner family has. it was the kushner family that negotiated this $400 million -- a chineseigh state influenced bank. people in every day the kushner family are thinking about similar kinds of transactions. having the affairs of the u.s. the hands of people who don't know anything about them -- they are not children. they haven't bothered to learn anything. their idea of research is to go to amazon.com and google the titles of books. reportedly, if true. and the book you pick is one that nobody interested in the field would recommend you to read, and the advisor you select on that basis is someone with no concern about these issues, this is in its own way as troubling as anything you have with steve bannon. it may be more familiar and less shocking to the prejudices of people who cover politics, but it i

kushner, jared kushner said to -- sorry. steve bannon said to jared kushner, here's the reason there is no middle ground. you're a democrat. there he is accusing jared kushner of the worst thing he could possibly be other than jewish in steve bannon's mind, a democrat. >> well, i want to know if jared kushner returned the favor and said you know you said you were running a platform for the all the right which is part of a conservative movement made up of white nationalists. are you a racist? are you a white nationalist? they can go back and forth. i think the real problem is not kushner, bannon, reince priebus, kellyanne conway. it's not anyone. it's donald trump. they are trolling about because at the core of the white house there is no core. donald trump has gone back and forth on many key policies. health care, tax reform, abortion, middle east, you know military action. because he doesn't give strong directions about ideas because he doesn't have is a lot of ideas and because it's never about his ideas, it's just about h

jared kushner is a new yorker, he was a democrat before this. bannon is a hard right, he calls himself a pop you list, a nationalist. they have different ideas. when taxation comes up, when it comes to issues on how to handle health care they have different visions. s, there is a clash they are. so much of it is going to be on the substance what have trump did. while trump was elected on changing things up, he didn't have any specifics, he said repeal obamacare and replace it with something terrific. >> people close to steve bannon told me over the few days what he thought were policy disagreement may be more personal. he felt knee capped maybe, perhapst before the friday peace making session that reince priebus organized. but i spoke to someone today who is not really on team bannon. and they said, you have to realize that steve unlike other people like paul manafort who back during the campaign was thrown overboard when he became too much of a problem. steve bannon this person said is close to this president. and he is really the biggest link

flank, you wrote a klcolumn on jared kushner. jared and ivanka have these centrist views. where exactly did they come from and that's clearly not what the president ran on. does he not risk losing his base if he caters to a liberal new york crowd he crushed the entire campaign. >> he totally risks losing his ba. where jared and ivanka are coming from he risks losing his presidency if he operates in the first weeks when it seemed as if he was enthralled to bannon. jared kushner and ivanka trump have revert to who they were before the campaign. they were willing to keep mum and bite their tongue in whatever way they had to get elected and i find where we are is frustrating. in one way you're rooting for jared and ivanka because they seem to be the centrist voices of reason but they want credit for saving us from this president whom they helped to put in place. like they smashed a crystal glass on the ground and they sweep it up and aren't we great. they saw up close how inconstant donald trump could be, how immature he could be, yet they worked as hard as they could to put h

gary cohn and jared kushner his son-in-law and ivanka trump. they have been dubbed the goldman sachs wing of the west wing. then you have steve bannon and reince priebus who like to call themselves the originals. sources close to the administration have said repeatedly this week that this has really reached a boiling point where president trump felt that he needed to intervene in order to ensure that his west wing leadership is able to sustain a period of difficulty going forward and that he can keep them in place and in power until they are able to reach some legislative accomplishments. >> ben, what do you think? we've seen all of this reporting over the last 72 hours. >> i think that, one, the thakt that it's come out that priebus is there shows that he and his allies continue to want to show that he is in the game still, even as rumors swirl that he'll soon be out. it shows that he and bannon have continued to be the sort of odd bedfe bedfellows. they come from rivaling parts of the republican party but have this shotgun marriage of conveni

and jared kushner saw that very operation. the reason i bring it up, what was his influence in the white house? and influence going up against steve bannon has the headlines in the last several days have been these two trying to get close to the pleasapresident, k like the missile attack in syria. >> one of the great curiosities about the white house, it's true in the past as well but much more in this white house is the tension among top leaders because the president set things up in a most unusual way. having his son-in-law have tremendous power. you're right. he made that visit to iraq. and the kind of battle plan. the sort of assessments that the pentagon made towards syria, options given to the president. they were not drummed up overnight. they were longstanding and often revised ideas they could put in front of the president. jared kushner had a quick infusion of knowledge from the pentagon side. >> right. >> then you have steve bannon who wants no u.s. action around the world. he's part of that nonglobalization. so wha

. >> you mentioned jared kushner has a team working with him. help us understand what's in the portfolio and who is on the team? >> he's announced the office of american innovation the other day. we named a bunch of those folks that have been part of that team. he works with different people in the white house that oversee different parts of that portfolio. whether that's part of the team doing the middle east who has won things. there's people part of the team that are talking about the office of american innovation that he's discussed last week with respect to opioid use and others. so there's a team depending on the subject that is working with him and he's providing oversight and direction. >> so he's overseeing teams handling these dumpbt issues. there's mexico, canada, palestine, iraq. >> on iraq, don't go too far there. he was invited by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. to e see the work that's being done there firsthand. i don't think let that translate into seeing iraq. he was invited to go see something by the chairman of the

it's not the jared kushner wing of the party. it's not the gary cohn ring of the party, the reince priebus wing of the party and it sure as hell isn't the steve bannon wing of the party, even though he tells everyone it is. it starts and ends with donald trump. >> agreed. problem is that his political philosophy, such as it is, doesn't match up with congress. the problem in making the sell is if you take democrats and republicans it's not clear what his governing coalition s one thing that will result from t s this, they may not get certain wins. foreign policy is a place he doesn't need congress so much. forget steve bannon. he hasn't figured out the governing philosophy and mechanism for this administration. >> pretty simple. 175 republicans and 40 to 45 democrats. >> no issue on which they're currently positioned to do that. >> infrastructure, we could do that -- >> even there, they're not. >> democrats think about infrastructure as spending. republicans think about it as tax credits. they're totally different things under the

in the white house he trusts jared kushner. it's not as much as having a son-in-law give him advice as much as a senior advisor. >> well, what is his son-in-law -- hold on. if it's not his son-in-law, if it's a senior advisor he trust, what does jared kushner know about iraq or peace in the middle east or negotiating with mexico or china? >> first off, you know, you surround yourself with experts on all -- you have a cabinet and secretaries all have their lane of expertise. >> what is jared's expertise in terms of being in iraq right now. >> as far as him being in iraq, i've taken this trip where last time i went to iraq was december of 2015. and when you meet it with the ambassadors, the iraqi leadership, you meet with our military commanders, you get briefed on the developments of the iraqi counterterrorism, the latest in taking back mosul and efforts to push isis out of iraq, we need to form a coalition government. and the relationships with surrounding countries like iran or turkey, and the kurds both in iraq and syria as w

jared kushner, his son-in-law and to his daughter ivanka at the moment. if he's doing that, how much are they floundering. as we saw, he was there to sign an executive order when he was questioned about russia. potentially because he was challenged. he forgot the focus of what he needed to do which is sign the executive order. >> i wouldn't say the dark clouds. yes, he does trust his son-in-law and certainly his daughter, but he also trusts steve bannon. certainly trusts reince priebus who has a lot of experience in washington and he trusts the other members of his administration. so i wouldn't write too much into this. i know kayte walsh having been a part of the rnc now for seven years and worked with her closely. she's extraordinarily cableable. and the administration is right. when they said there was no air cover for what they were doing in congress, so they are sending her to work with a superpac to give them the air cover they need to -- >> out in the field. >> -- the laws this country needs. >> putting her in the field. >> they weren't doing what

and jared kushner's royalties here, this is from a financial disclosure. again, we only know this because of the rules that force them to come out, $1 to $5 million in rent or royalties. and finally, what the ethics committee says we should do about this. what should be done? richard paynor, a former bush ethics lawyer, says on trade, tax reform and wall street deregulation, all these under ethics rules, neither of the family members should advise the president on them. we don't know if they will voluntarily comply with the counsel. that's something people debate. but we are certainly learning about more of the money and the potential conflicts based on these disclosures. >> well, let me ask you about this, ivanka and jared remain as beneficiaries to kushner's family real estate business. valued at $741 million. now, she resigned from the day-to-day management of her fashion brand, but she transferred assets from her business to a trust where she's the sole beneficiary and it is managed by her in-laws. and she has a stake in the trump international hotel h

big winner, hawkish son-in-law, jared kushner and h.r. mcmaster. big loser, america first steve bannon. first those 60 tomahawk missiles trump sent flying last night were a direct target at the bromance with putin. syria's reported chemical weapon attack earlier this week. according to oechingss, last night's target was the same military airfield that was used to launch those deadly chemical weapons attack. u.s. officials tell nbc the strike destroyed aircraft, infrastructure, like fuel pumps. syria claims at least six people are dead. it all unfolded as president trump hosted the chinese president at the mar-a-lago club in palm beach. shortly after the missiles were launched, president trump gathered again with his national security team to be briefed in a makeshift situation room. roughly 30 minutes later, the president delivered his remarks on the strike, which he said served the national security interests of us. >> it is in the vital national security interest of the united states to prevent the spread and use of chemical dedly chemical weapon

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jared kushner has been given massive portfolio. let's look at his jobs. shadow diplomat, ahead of american innovation, reimagining veterans affairs, solving opioid crisis, brokering middle east peace, what makes him able to do that. >> i would say he's a good multi-tasker but no one is that good a multi-tasker. i think trump's logic in giving him those things, a, they are things he doesn't want to handle himself. it may be things jared putting up his hand and saying i'm interested in that. it may be simple, no overarching strategy. >> is he a trump like personality? >> he can be. his temperament is a little different. he's not going to be boisterous as trump is but they share some personality traits. >> on the other side you have people quite angry about kushner's role. the airstrikes produced a tweet storm of some of donald trump's supporters, alt-right, far right, paul joseph watson, one of these alt riders saying he's getting off the trump tim kaine. ann coulter saying he said he said be president of the united states. on board, compete apology change.

jared kushner is a democrat. steve bannon is maybe a republican, but he's mostly a disrtoon the right. then you have others as well. it does create for a different kind of white house than we've probably ever seen, but out of that, the president hopes to get diverse opinions and advice and hopefully it leads to good decisions. >> how do you work, though, matt, when somebody is a democrat and somebody else is not really a republican or whatever steve bannon ultimately is, an economic nationalist. these are not just competing idealogies, those are idealogies in direct conflict with each other. how do you run a white house like that? >> katy, it's a great question, and a lot of us looked at the creation of the white house staff and wondered how this was going to work. when you win a white house, you're so much fighting the bureaucracy which tends to lean left, and usually you're unified politically with the political jobs fighting the bureaucracy. what we have in the trump administration is real conflict at the poli

value of the business empire th ivanka trump and jared kushner have amassed, the story broke in "the new york times" just a short time ago. one key detail, although kushner is not in a manager capacity from his family's business, he is still benefitting from it. another revelation, ivanka trump will maintain a stake in the trump hotel just down the street from the white house. joining us, jesse drucker from "the new york times" as well as richard painter who served as attorney general in the george best of your recollection administration. what have you been able to find out from the benefits? >> well, i think the thing that is of most interest is for the most part nothing has really changed as far as the economics of the kushner business for jared kushner, in other words he has given up his role as ceo, but economically he has still benefitted from the profits from the company as he did a couple of months ago before he joined the white house. >> so he has not divorced himself from making money from his companies just as president trump has not divorced himself from making money from