the jared kushner reporting on the elicit activity alert. it made it to a certain point and then the manager said, and the reporting says here, because of a different relationship, private banking basically, hey, don't push this forward to the treasury department. at least that's the department that said stop the reporting to the treasury department. is this consistent with what you have done in the past? some of your investigative reporting based on the transaction, excuse me, the bank history with the trump family as well as jared kushner? >> well, we know for a fact that donald trump has been involved in money laundering in the past, fined for it. we know that deutsche bank is fined over $600 million just for laundering money for russian al garks a al gorks and are nondenial denials. the trump organization said we never heard of this. why would you? it was locked up in the bank. the bank said we didn't stop anyone. the story makes it clear. tammy mcfadden pushed it up and then the career went badly after that. so in addition, "the times"

i've been wondering all day long how jared kushner and mr. miller ended up in charge of something that made its way to the rose garden today to come out of donald trump's lips as dead on arrival. that's political -- you know, really political incompetence at an unbelievable level. >> maybe the one success is that jared kushner and stephen miller were able to agree on something when it comes to immigration. maybe that's the win they're taking home today. i will say jared kushner wanted to be this person to reach out to business leaders, reach across the aisle and come out with some compromise. he likes to be transparent on this process, we saw that on the hill. you can be transparent and still not be able to answer people's questions and that's apparently what happened when he met on the hill. one thing i will note they want this to be business friendly. bring in people on a merritt based visa system so you have to pass a civic's test you're brought in for points if speak english, have a job offer. this is supposed to seem like catnip to silic

but again, like the jared kushner situation from the summer of 2016, quote, deutsche bank ultimately chose not to file those suspicious activity reports with the government, with the treasury department. three former employees telling "the times" that that was, quote, unusual for the bank to reject a series of reports involving the same high-profile client. so i mean part of the reason that deutsche bank has been such a matter of intrigue when it comes to the president and his finances and the whole investigatory question of following the money is because deutsche bank, someone inexplicably kept doing business, hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars of business with president trump when every other bank in the world would have nothing to do with him because of his financial history. deutsche bank kept giving him more money. even after he sued them, right? that's been of interest. meanwhile, deutsche bank gets in serious trouble for billions of dollars in illegal money laundering for russians. right? these two things exist supposedly independently of each other in the wo

a panel of at least 6-hertz discuss and analyze the remarks made by jared kushner, senior adviser to the president regarding the administration's middle east peace plan. this is 45 minutes. >> good evening. i am a member of the board of directors, which you just heard som,of the washington institute. earlier, we heard jared kushner describe the logic and rationale behind the expected middle east peace plan. to decipher precisely what he said and what he didn't say we wanted to gather a group for the nuances and subtleties of the peace process we didn't have to look far but for those of you that were not in the earlier sessions would like to introduce the newest visiting fellow who has experience in a different sort after 41 years of a service, we are delighted to welcome to the institute that just retired chief of staff of the defense forces lieutenant general. [applause] and he's joined tonight by his wife hannah. the institute is fortunate to have experts who served on every side of the middle east negotiating table. they bring decades of experience to the understanding of the dipl

theer: the ladies know that jared kushner security clearance was already settled. trump cannot ask him for the clearances. he investigated everything and issued the security clearances. host: do you want to jump in on that? caller: i'm not really sure what he is referring to. clearly, as i said before, the white house feels like they have dealt with it and had an internal review. the ben chief of staff john kelly put out a memo -- the then chief of staff john kelly put out a memo. the democrats feel it is not over and that they should have more information and are trying to get that information. the white house will not give that information. are they going to get that information or take a better look? there was recently a back and forth. the head of security, office of personnel granted the clearances, and was accused of --ing clearances two people to people who should not have received them. he has spoken privately behind closed doors. i think they are getting information, but a lot of times that is what happened in government. someone came forward and said, som

it might not be that jared kushner doesn't know the plan. he could be vague because he doesn't want to alienate republicans. he knows if he's straight out of the gate alien natz the rush limbaugh s of the world, trump will shut this thing down. is is the real issue he shouldn't have rolled anything out unless he had republicans in his corner. >> what's very stunning is jared kushner spent months on this but didn't do the basic blocking and tackling that goes with getting support among conservative talk radio shoests and mitch mcconnell giving a tepid review saying he was going to look at it. but they didn't even give paper to different offices to say the talking points why they should support this. so if you're not going to do those basic steps, it really is i think befuddling to what their game plan is and the strategy is going into 2020. clearly as we saw today, the president is makeup more comfortable talking about immigration in terms of the border wall and keeping you know, illegal immigrants out and not about talking about legal immigr

we'll have more on israeli politics and jared kushner's so-called "deal of the century" after headlines. we will l speak with palestinian diplomat hanan ashrawi. president trump special security blamed iran for mines s that damaged oil tankers in the persian gulf as well as a recent drone attack on a saudi oil pipeline. john bolton offered no evidence of iranian involvement, instead asking who else would you think is doing it, so many from nepal? noton also said iran had reason to walk away from the iranian nuclear deal. his comments coming exactly a year after the u.s. did exactly that. this comes as the u.s. deployeyd in additional 900 troops to saudi arabia and qatar. in louisiana, lawmakers approved a bill wednesday that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, becoming the latest state to challenge the supreme court's landmark 1973 ruling in roe v. wade. louisiana house lawmakers voted 79 to 23 for the bill, which outlaws abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, while providing no exemptions to people who become pregnant by rape or incest. the state's de

so bad timing by jared kushner. although to be fair, he too could not have expected this. >> no kidding. bill, thanks very much. a arab leaders are gathering for meetings to discuss the escalating tensions with iran. matt bradley is live in saudi arabia with more. matt, what is going on there, what messages are the leaders trying to send to iran? >> reporter: well, you know these sorts of conferences typically produce kind of watered down pro information mapro forma statements just trying to make everybody happy. but this time it is unmistakable, there is not one, but there's different conferences. one for the organization of islamic corporation, and that involves leaders from all over the muslim world prp and th. and then there is one for the gulf leaders and another for the arab league. so this is basically saudi arabia trying to show that it has a united front against iran both across the arab, gulf and islamic worlds. and that is very important. >> and this is all happening as the pentagon plans to beef up its t

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jared kushner and others have been working assiduously for a while on a big immigration package. obviously border security is top of mind for this president. i took note, great note that since january, democrats have now 17 points more likely to refer to what is happening at the southern border a quote crisis is. remember it was in january that schumer and pelosi went on prime-time television following the president's oval office address said this is a manufactured crisis. people in their own party increasingly think they believe what they see. that we have a true crisis is. border security top of mind but also the president will be considering the merit-based immigration system. the president put together a 70-point plan, submitted it to congress in october of 2017. anybody that seems surprised that the president wants to end visa lottery system, end chain migration, have married based immigration system, deal with daca as he can a -- brian: that is on the table. daca will be on the table? >> it could be. i don't want to get ahead of it but it could be. obviously the president w

but what jared kushner is working on, like, who are you trying to fool? the raging debate over immigration has not been over the visa point system. it's been about securing the border, number one, and then, number two, what are you going to do with the people there? and jared kushner sticking his head in the sand and looking like, oh, we're doing something, but not actually doing it. that is a joke! if you're not going to do anything on those two matters, just forget it and do the lindsey graham plan. because there is a burgeoning immigration crisis. a record number of people coming, breaking records, almost every day. you have border patrol saying, we can't handle these numbers. so, you know, i give props to lindsey graham for actually trying to focus in on that. but what jared kushner is doing, it's going to get flushed down the toilet by talk radio in about two seconds. and they should just quit wasting their time. >> and jen psaki, as someone who worked in the obama white house on this issue, what the kushner approach is, instead of talking to senior

the conversation between jared kushner and our executive director. as most of you know, robert is the washington institute. he's been the director for the past 26 years. [applause] among his many talents he's also a professional interviewer for the past 14 he has hosted a weekly talk show on the u.s. government arabic satellite channel explaining to middle east viewers how washington works or doesn't work. tonight we see those skills in action and if you don't appreciate the nuances of the discussion, fear not. after dinner they will decipher precisely what he heard and didn't here and on behalf of the washington institute i am pleased to welcome mr. jared kushner. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. it's a very special evening. i'm delighted all of you could join us for this discussion about the trump administration's approach to middle east peace. we are going to spend the next 45 minutes in a bit of a strange conversation talking about something but not really talking about it. [laughter] because tonight unless we make more news than i expect, t

jared kushner, the president's son-in-law andenior white house adviser, is leading a u.s. delegation to the middle east this week, drumming up support for his israeli-palestinian peace plan. among the stops will be jordan and jerusalem, and the first part of the plan will be unveiled in hrain next month. for more i spoke with our state departmentar correspondentra plett-usher. jared kushner gets to jerusalem just as benjamin netanyahu, a key trump ally, is trying to form a coalition.a is thaincidence? barbara: i don't -- i think iten is a coinc, yes. the question is will the visit tip the scales in favor of mr. netanyahu. i think mr. kushner is focused on his peace plan because he wants to unveil the phase next month. talk of a peace plan might complicate things for mr. netanyahu because his supporters arhardline on palestinian issues. i will t eyebrows, laura, was mr. trump's intervention. he tweeted quite blatant intervention saying he wanted mr. netanyahu's coalition to eesu that their alliance was good for the country. there is no question what he thought. laura: on th

amy: jared kushner sometimes is referred to as, well, the two of them, mbs and jared kushner, the crown prince and the clown prince. what do you think of their close relationship come almost seen as the crown prince whisperer, just recentlyly went to saudi arabiao meet with him yet again even after the murder of "the washington post" columnist khashoggi? >> i'm not very political. story.now is my sister i can't comment on something i don't really know anything about. amy: i want to thank you for being with us, lina and walid al-hathloul, sister and brother of the jailed saudi activist loujain. she is been in prison in saudi arabia for more than a year for her fearless advocacy for women's rights. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail t

the six-part proposal spearheaded by jared kushner would focus on border security and merit-based immigration. but there is another goal here. getting republicans on capitol hill to support it and that is where the problem comes in. cnn has learned that when kushner presented the plan to republican senators earlier this week, some of them were, to quote one senior republican official, underwelcomed saying it lacked substance. trump ally lindsey graham is taking this one step further while unveiling his own immigration proposal senator graham said the white house version was in his words not designed to become law. and that prompt the this response from the white house press secretary sarah sanders. >> we think it certainly is designed to become law. and we think it should. that is why we put it out and that is why we've spent a lot of time developing and making sure that this was something that could have buy in from both sides and actually fix our system that hasn't been upgraded or touched in decades. >> so about that buy-in from both sides, one issue that wouldn't get democrats on board, t

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trish: she really does not like jared kushner. it's amazing and it's not been unveiled and yet what do you know, liberal media is already ripping it apart because that's what they do. the plan i should point out does address border security so she doesn't know what she's talking about but it does not stop her, right? my lord. tomorrow will be all over this, i promise. immigration story front and center we have steve helton and britt mchenry and many others coming up and before we go i have a special programming note, catch a special town hall on capitalism for socialism and you know where i come out. tomorrow with charles payne at 2:00 p.m. eastern but turn right back in because we have a lot to continue discussing. more on our and what the heck went down in our fbi with this fisa warrant, total abuse of american civil liberties and more on what will happen with immigration in the united states and have a wonderful evening everyone. kennedy begins now. kennedy: thank you, trish. threat of war going on by the date and the united st

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jared kushner's baby. if this puts usmca in question, if it threatens it, then what happens? >> a trade war with china that is only escalating right now. the last thing you want is a multi-front trade war, especially with some of our biggest trading partners. i mean, i think it shouldn't be lost on viewers here that canada and mexico are our two biggest trading partners. when you think about where -- we export more than we import for them. that is a big difference with china. >> break this down for us one more time. this is really important. this is not like china where we buy all our stuff from. >> we are actually exporting a lot of stuff to mexico and canada. if they want to retaliate and put tariffs on, that could be a real problem for our goods that are going out the door that are going to be more expensive to consumers abroad. and that makes us less competitive. to me, i think that, again, we know we have an issue with europe. the president tried to push off auto tariffs between europe and japan a couple weeks ago. this thing could mushroom a little bit and we could find

he joins jared kushner and rudy giuliani who alarmed investigators, saying i didn't commit any crimes but i'm going to join christopher wray and others protecting the democracd. here are the comments that raised eyebrows. >> nothing wrong with taking information from russias. it depends on where it came from. >> quite frankly the whole thing is a big distraction for the country. look at what russia did, buying some facebook ads to sow dissent, it's a terrible thing but the speculation and things that have happened the last two years have had a much harsher impact on our democracy. >> that's the administration's position. the president doesn't raise the attack. jar ed says a couple facebook ads and rudy says there's nothing wrong with taking information from russians. >> a surprise to politicians in previous eras. i can't think of a time when they would have taken information from russians. not just russians but those advertised from the russian government. remember the trump tower meeting that was so famous was specifically stated in the email setting it up as providing incriminating

jared kushner. thank you very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] of peaces. institute is hosting a live panel discussion this afternoon, examining what is next for the afghan peace process. officials arean resuming peace talks for the first time since march. to addressected foreign troop coverage and counterterrorism. this is live on c-span. [indiscernible] [indiscernible]

attendees included jared kushner. kushner told the office that the event came at a time when the trump campaign was having trouble securing support from experienced foreign policy professionals and that as a result, he decided to seek simez's assistance during the march 14 event. simez and kushner spoke again on a march 24, 2016, telephone call, three days after trump had publicly named the team of foreign policy advisers that he had been put together on short notice. >> on march 31, 2016, simez and kushner had an in-person, one-on-one meeting in kushner's new york office. during that meeting, simes told kushner that the best way to handle foreign policy issues is for the trump campaign would be to organ advisory group of experts to meet with candidate trump and develop a foreign policy approach that was consistent with trump's voice. simes believed that kushner was receptive to that suggestion. simes also had contact with other individuals associated with the trump campaign regarding the campaign's foreign policy pos

the president is expected to enroll a two-prong planned and i heard from rechtives for jared kushner this could be a big pivot. what does it look like? >> it's interesting. first it deals with legal immigrant. these are people seeking legally to enter to get a visa. right now a lot of those go to people coming in on a lottery-based system or humanitarian issues. they want to change that and have those visas go to high-skilled workers. first, stephanie, they would have to pass a civics test. then they would be awarded points based on their age, english proficiency, offer of employment and even how much that offer would include, what their salary would be and base rd on those points they decide who comes in. they want more visas going to people based on merit. then when it comes to the border, they want a tougher immigration plan, they want more border security, wall in 33 areas, streamline the asylum process and turn back unaccompanied children who arrive from central america more quickly. all of these things sound familiar about the border security, it's because they've been tried be

my colleague elie kaufman spoke with mitt romney from the state of utah who said he thought jared kushner's presentation was a good one, but, again, it's a broad picture of what kushner's plan would be. it's worth reminding everyone at home when it comes to immigration it's very hard to find consensus. at the end of the day you still need 60 votes which means he need democratic support in the senate not to even mention the fact that you would have to get speaker nancy pelosi to sign on to any immigration bill no matter how small it was. jim? >> lauren fox on the hill. thanks very much. >>> america just had the fewest babies born since the 1980s. should that be a cause for concern? we will be on the story coming up. >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we know sooner or later... every chip will crack. this daughter was home visiting when mom saw a chip in her windshield. >> mom: honey is that a chip? >> tech: they wanted it fixed fast so they brought it to us. >> mom: hi. >> tech: with our in-shop chip repair service, we can fix it the same day... guaranteed. plus with most insurance a safelite c

presidential son-in-law and adviser jared kushner is directing that effort. it will bring together finance ministers and business leaders at a workshop in bahrain in june. a spokesperson for the palestinian authority president calls the plan futile. >>> in egypt at least 14 people have been wounded in an explosion that apparently targeted a tour bus. it happened sunday near the pyramids of giza. state media report that a device exploded close to the bus, which was carrying 25 south african visitors. no word yet on who's responsible. >>> tens of millions of dollars. that's how much the 2019 graduating class at morehouse college here in atlanta, georgia owes in student loan debt. >> that's right. and lucky for them, they won't have to pay one penny of it because billionaire entrepreneur robert f. smith says he and his family will pay the tab. he made the announcement during morehouse's graduation ceremony on sunday. take a listen. >> on behalf of the eight generations of my family who have been in this country, we're going to put a little fuel in your bus. this

companies, which is jared kushner's big real estate company, were doing business -- doing transactions outside of the united states that sparked concerns among anti-money laundering experts. the kushner transactions involved the kushner companies sending money to people -- to russian individuals. and that -- the way the systems work is that the bank is a computer system that automatically screens thousands and thousands of transactions and those transactions go to human beings or further review and investigation. and in all of these cases after being screened by the computer system, the humans who were investigating this and who were experts in looking for problematic transactions all raised serious concerns about the money that was moving betweenentities and kushner companies and folks outside of the united states. >> you point nout your reporting that not all transactions that are red flagged are necessarily inappropriate, but these employees you spoke with said deutsche bank has a lax approach to money laundering laws? >> that's certainly the view of not only employees but also of u

investigator reporter discussed the careers of jared kushner in ivanka trump. in their roles and the trump administration. >> this is really dangerous stuff, jared kushner doing the policy in the dark, cutting out the agencies to keep our country safe the national security council and we talked to jared kushner does understand that because he doesn't come from a world like that, even transition, the former president of goldman sachs was right next to jared kushner is horrified, he kept mentioning the jared was never there, and he said because he knew trump wasn't there and he could see trump for the cabinet. and i don't know it's a marked secret. gary said to jerry, jerry and you realize everything that you do wherever you are going you have to take a lawyer, you have to take somebody, you can just not go off and freelance. jared does not come from a world where he thanks that these kind of things are important. >> you can watch this and any of our programs in their entirety booktv.. >> every year booktv covers book fairs and festivals around the country, nearl

from what i understand about jared kushner,'s plan is to give business deals. the palestinians do not want that. they want their independence. so i think we have got a long ways to go. this young man for speaking out, because i do not think all americans are listening. that is my hope, that somehow we will not have a war, that we will not be sending young people in to die. we went into iraq under the wrong principles as well. so we have to rethink our political, uh, history. host: understood, grace, thank you. you have the final word there for the segment, from massachusetts. let's hear one final thought from our guest. guest: thank you for the comments, everyone. i appreciate it. i will say that the middle east has diminished in importance, and that is a reckoning a lot of people in washington have had. of oil,the expor worry about nonnuclear countries, and make that shift to our alliance structures and where we are focusing our resources on. host: our guest has been john dale grover, assistant managing editor at the "national interest ." ♪ announcer: c-span

jared kushner. [applause] rob: good evening, everyone. it's a very special evening. i'm delighted all of you could join us for this discussion about the trump administration's approach to middle east peace. we're going to spend the next 45 minutes in a bit of a strange conversation, talking about something, but not really alking about it. because tonight is not the big reveal. that day, if it happens, won't be for another month at the earliest. but there's still quite a lot to talk about the middle east peace process without actually talking about the middle east peace plan. so first i just want to extend again my thanks to you, jared, for joining us for this ccasion. mr. kushner: thank you, rob, for having mesm it's an honor to be here. rob: let's begin with what you're proposing. i've listened carefully to the statements that you've made and your colleagues have made. will it be a plan, a vision, a frame work, a proposal? which one of these words is an accurate description of what we're going to hear? mr. kushner: we can use a lot of different words to describe wha

jared kushner gets to jerusalem just as benjamin netanyahu, a key trump ally, is trying to. form a coaliti is that a coincidence? barbara: i don't -- i think it is a coincidence, yes. the question is will the visit tithe scales in favor of m netanyahu. i think mr. kushner is focused on his peace plan because he wants to unveil the first phase next mth. talk of a peace plan might complicate things for mr. netanyahu because his supporters are hardline on palestinian issues. i will tell you what did raise eyebrows, lra, was mr. trump's intervention. heet t quite blatant intervention saying he want' mr. netanyahs coalition to succeed, that their alliance was good for the country. there is no question what he thoughla a: on the israeli-palestinian peace plan, jared kushner wants to unveil the economic aspect in bahrain next month. but no talk of land or sovereignty yet. how is that going down with the palestinians? barbara: very badly. the whole process has gone down kery badly with the palestinians because actions by the trump administration have so favored israeli positions. ,

he supposed to strike the deal of the century jared kushner arrives in the middle east to drum up support for president donald trump's peace plan but he finds himself in the midst of a storm israel's prime minister couldn't form a government so parliament's been dissolved and the palestinians don't want anything to do with trump's deal and uphill battle lies ahead i'm. this is the day. the over the very last night. and it's still bad what happened this is real it looks like it's over with that reality and now they're back in the debate stage. our commitment is for a national government and not an ultra-orthodox government. your efforts to strengthen the relationship between our 2 countries it's never been stronger so. i need to look up. also coming up on the day harvard honors german chancellor angela merkel by awarding her a doctorate and she give something back and return today is a day of joy it's your day many congratulations. i am delighted to be here today and would like to tell you about some of my own experiences. we start with a trumpet ministrations long awaited peace plan for t

mueller brought no charges against president trump or jared kushner. you are damning your chancing for 2020. >> stick to some facts. >> i did. i cited polling and facts. you have cited none. >> obstruction, 900 federal -- form ir federal prosecutors -- >> why didn't he bring charges? >> because -- >> it's congress' job. >> justice department policy. you know that. >> he made no recommendation. why didn't he make a recommendation to bring charges? >> how about this? will you ask the president next time you see him why he lied to the american public during the campaign when he said he had to do with russia while noeshtding secretly and involving putin's office? >> he has no business dealings in russia. he has no business dealings in russia. >> you know that's crap because he had a letter of intent he signed. you're not telling the truth. >> there is no business deal in russia. point me to one product that is in russia. >> deals with -- we are re-litigating things reports and said many times and we have confirmation he was trying to do stuff with russia o

is jared kushner who wants it to be muted? >> perhaps. we know kushner was on the hill briefing republicans about this. maybe there was feedback in terms ofhamight be pushed through. the old adage, if everyone is angry, maybe something's wrong. people on the far right of the spectrum saying we want low immigration were very unhappy with it. on the far end, people unhappy on the left because it didn't orress daca or "dreamers" undocumented population. on the whole, the president called it a sweeping overhaul of the immigration system, it would be, if went anywhere, which don't think it will. >> i think it was weird. it was a weird -- if the goal was to get compromise, there was nothing in there to get democrats on board so you're not trying l toislate and if it is just a politically messaging tool, make it something guys on capitol hill getxcited about. get it to be a bill you think will excite your base and align with the ideology that has been the driving fce of your administration and it came off as maybe he was trying to soften his l v

jared kushner has been taken around a powerpoint presentation that calls this a republican plan they haven't been talking to democrats. they've been having republicans and they. there is no bones about it, this is a republican plan. >> bret: which jared kushner plan has more of a chance of passing? congress or the middle east plan? >> two intractable problems. he knows how to pick them. >> we released a poll today which listed immigration was third out of six issues in the minds of the american public as being important, health care was number one, economy 26% and emigration was at 15%. it has been an issue and it will be in the 2020 elections. the problem is not only to republicans who need to get unified but democrats are offering no solutions, to paraphrase our colleague mollie hemingway, orange man hates brown people as a partisan argument but not a policy solution. they aren't coming to the table and they control half of congress and the right immigration laws. >> bret: does lindsey graham's asylum bill have a chance? >> that was democrats because once you open up the immigratio

the proposal we're about to hear was crafted by the president's son-in-law jared kushner along with senior adviser and immigration hardliner stephen miller, a plan designed to appeal strictly to the president's own party and focuses on border security and on legal immigration. it establish eds a merit-based system, one that includes a civics taste and focuses on age, education and language proficiency. very noticeably absent from this plan, there is no help for dreamers and no path to citizenship for people who are already here. so little, if nothing, in this this plan reaches across the aisle. joining me now is chief white house correspondent hallie jackson and julia ainsley, former spokesman john boehner and astrid silva sfwls what is the point of this exercise? >> to get a starting point out there. listen the point of this is to put something out that shows what we're for. we've heard a lot of conversation, at least we have from the white house and you're hearing the same thing from people on the white house perspective, listen, we wanted to get a document to show what we're for, not ju

that was done by jared kushner in private. i'm not surprised that even republicans found it kind of a waste of time because they didn't have any input into this and they tend to like to have input into legislative processes. >> we have lindsey graham on two fronts on iran and immigration criticizing this. his instinct is to be with the president but he can't put a band aid on this thing. they're not working the legislation the way it's normally done. we'll have to leave it there. we'll come back to this in the days to come. thank you all. >>> coming up, arrested development. the audiocassetwkward moment bey pelosi and bill barr. wait until you see this. bill br wait until you see this. so in this commercial we see two travelers at a comfort inn with a glow around them, so people watching will be like, "wow, maybe i'll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com." who glows? just say, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com. like... a business borrowing solution to help get a little more space with a lot less mom

the broader package is being drafted by jared kushner. kushner briefed a dozen on the plan yesterday. earlier today one of the republicans addressed the two main points of the west wing discussion. >> that's going to be reforming asylum laws to make sure we don't have people showing up and getting paper and saying magic words that lets them into had country. we have way too many people coming in who are unskilled workers or low skilled workers. what we need are more people who are doctors or computer scientists, engineers. that's the direction the president wants to go. they laid out broad principles yesterday. i think we have pretty widespread agreement on those principles. >> cnn immigration reporter joins the conversation on the immediate change. steven miller has pushed this. i assume the view is that the border patrol agents will have a tougher view. >> the idea is that it will speed up the asylum claim. this is something the administration has been talking about, an uptick in asylum claims at the border. so what they are trying to d

they've tried to make jared kushner, jared of all trades and the guy knows nothing about anything, you know. he was supposed to fix middle east peace. he was supposed to do immigration reform. he was supposed to do all of these things without really having any policy experience. these are complicated issues. a lot of the senators in that room had a lot of knowledge of the policy and they haven't been able to figure out the solution and the politics or have the political courage for it. but, look, don, it's going to take more than that, and i live in a city here in miami where, you know, we have so many people that are political exiles from places like cuba and haiti and nicaragua and now venezuela. so on the one hand, you know, you've got trump and his administration, rightly so, talking about the murderous thug that is nicolas maduro in venezuela and the horrible, horrible conditions, the horrible human rights abuses that are being committed against the people of venezuela. well, those people are here. those people are here in miami applying for asylum, and what are we going to do wit

in addition, numerous witnesses including but not limited to jared kushner, sarah sanders, rudolph giuliani, michael flynn, steve bannon, and john kelly all stated they could not recall events. the president himself said more than 30 times that he could not recall or remember enough to be able to answer written questions from the special counsel. the special counsel also recounted that, quote, some associated with the trump campaign deleted relevant communications or communicated during the relevant period using applications that featured encryption or do not provide for long-term retention of data, end quote. based on these gaps, the mueller report concluded, and i quote again, the office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would have shed additional light on or cast a new light on events described in the report, end quote. and contrary to the conclusion that the special counsel's report did not find evidence of communication or coordination between the trump campaign and russia, the mueller report explicitly states and i quote, a statement that the investigati