It's complicated. We learned this week that the FBI is looking into what Trump's son-in-law and top adviser knows in relation to Russia meddling in the U.S. election and whether the Trump campaign helped. Kushner has not been accusing of wrongdoing, and he is not the central focus of the FBI's investigation.

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But Kushner certainly has information that FBI investigators think will help them. For example, he met several times with Russian officials during the campaign. While it's not weird for presidential campaigns to meet with foreign officials, under this context, it was.

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Why? Well, right around the time Kushner held a meeting with the Russian ambassador to the United States last spring, the CIA noticed the Russians were talking about trying to influence the U.S. presidential election against Hillary Clinton. And they needed U.S. people in on the game.

If you don't want to talk about Kushner: Just show them this of French President Emmanuel Macron giving Trump some serious handshake shade:

Wait, who else is under investigation by the FBI?

We don't know, since the FBI is working largely behind closed doors. We do know that several former Trump advisers have ties to Russia as well. Let's take these one by one:

1. Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, had conversations with the Russia ambassador to the U.S. about sanctions that outgoing President Barack Obama put on Russia for meddling in the U.S. election. Flynn then lied about the nature of his conversations to his bosses, which got him fired — 18 days after the Justice Department told the White House Flynn was lying. Flynn is currently fighting subpoenas in Congress to hand over information related to all this.

2. Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for Trump's campaign, is an energy executive who, unknown to Trump, had been on the FBI’s radar since at least 2013, report The Post's Tom Hamburger and Rosalind Helderman. Russian officials allegedly tried to use him to get information about the energy business.

3. Paul Manafort is Trump's former campaign manager. He's done business with Putin-aligned business titans and worked in Ukraine for former president Viktor Yanukovych. He recently turned over hundreds of pages of documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is the main congressional committee looking into Russia meddling.

If you don't want to talk about Russia-Trump ties … I can't help you. It's the biggest political story of the moment right now. There's no escaping it.

Did President Trump really shove that world leader?

It looks like it. Trump appeared to push past Montenegro's prime minister, Dusko Markovic, at a NATO event in Brussels on Thursday.

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Whether the shove was real, Trump definitely wasn't warm and fuzzy with his European colleagues. He gave a speech chastising NATO members, accusing them of “not paying what they should be paying.”

As Trump said this, he was speaking in front of one of the most recent and poignant symbols of NATO allies coming to each other's help — a twisted shard of the World Trade Center.

What's up with that congressional candidate shoving a reporter?

Republicans' newest member of Congress is facing misdemeanor assault charges, is what's up.

On the eve of Montana's special election to replace Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, GOP candidate Greg Gianforte allegedly body-slammed a reporter and broke his glasses on the eve of the election. Eyewitnesses said Gianforte may have even thrown a punch.

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Gianforte initially refused to apologize. He won the election the next day by six points. (Not unexpected, given Trump won the state by 20 points.) Only after securing victory did Gianforte apologize. But Republicans' newest member of Congress still has to deal with his assault charge.

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If you don't want to talk about this: Wow the questioner with your useless knowledge that Montana is the 44th most-populous state in nation. Are there more cows than people in Montana? Fair question.

So, how much shade did Hillary Clinton throw at Trump?

A lot.

We're talking about Clinton's commencement speech to her alma mater, Wellesley College, on Friday. Ever the politician, Clinton has decades of practice in the art of subtlety. She threw that all out the window and gave a remarkably aggressive anti-Trump speech. You can read the whole thing here. Some can't-miss excerpts:

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“By the way, we were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice after firing the person running the investigation into him at the Department of Justice.”

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“You are graduating at a time when there is a full-fledged assault on truth and reason.”

“Look at the budget that was just proposed in Washington. It is an attack of unimaginable cruelty on the most vulnerable among us … it is shrouded in a trillion-dollar mathematical lie.”

If you want to shut down any Clinton talk: Totally fair game to point out that (as of this writing Friday afternoon), it's been 200 days, or 239,040 minutes, or 17,280,000 seconds since the presidential election was decided.