Transcript for White House backs Jared Kushner amid Russia inquiry

and thought maybe he wasn't coming back to do that. We'll talk more with Jonathan Karl and Dan Abrams. Jon, let's begin with Jared Kushner. You reported on Sunday that he was under some pressure to take a leave of absence but he and the president pushing back pretty hard now. Reporter: Well, the president pushed back with a statement over the weekend saying he has complete confidence in Jared Kushner. But we are hearing people in the west wing concerned this will be such a big distraction for him, the fact that he is now at the center of the Russia investigation, not a target, George, no indication he will become a target, but clearly in the middle of the investigation a person of interest and you do have people very close to the president saying can he really do all of that and keep the massive portfolio that he has at the white house. Very little indication that Kushner himself wants to turn it down or the president wants him to. "The Washington post" reporting that Jared Kushner gets his own security clearances and some Democrats say he should lose his security clearance. Reporter: Like other senior officials here in the west wing he gets regular intelligence briefings and you heard most recently from the top Democrat on the house intelligence committee that that clearance that he has that enables him to get those should be revoked. That's another way of saying he should basically leave or dramatically downscale what he does given the work he does on national security and the importance of the role he plays those intelligence briefings are absolutely essential to being able to advise the president. Let's talk to Dan Abrams about the legal side. As Jon said, so far Jared Kushner not announced as a target of the investigation. What kind of legal vulnerabilities does he face? Well, right now there is no legal issue, crime that we know of that he may have committed. We can talk about possibilities. Let's remember, the key here that we're talking about is what did Jared Kushner do before Donald Trump became president? People are saying, oh, you know, back channels are Normal. Back channels are Normal. The question is, is it Normal to have a back channel before he becomes president? The answer to that is, no. Is it Normal to communicate through Russian channels. Exactly so the question there becomes, why? And who ordered it? Why was he having these meetings with Russian officials? Who asked him to have these meetings? Why is that important? That becomes important in the bigger scandal regarding Russia and the question there is, who was he talking to about what? We know he was talking to a Russian banker as well who is close to Vladimir Putin. The banker says this was about business, Kushner's business dealings. The white house says he was acting as a transition official. Look, that is a conflict but he would be better off if he was doing this as a private citizen because the bottom line is you simply can't start doing business in the government before you're in the government. When you've been inaugurated, you're president and then you have your team. When you're part of the transition team always know you have to be very careful in terms of what you do. You asked about the law. There is the Logan act which we talked about before. You can't do diplomacy on your own. Not as a private citizen. We saw the announcement. Mike dubki is out. This morning the president is on Twitter talking about the Russia story and taking on Germany. Reporter: Absolutely. I think there's talk getting the president off Twitter before inaugurated. Hasn't happened. Look what he's doing. He says we have a massive trade deficit with Germany. Plus they pay far less than they should on nato and the military. Very bad for the U.S. This will change. So keeping that battle up with Angela Merkel. Said the Russians must be laughing at the U.S. Now as well, Jon Karl, thanks very much.

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