Jared Kushner flew home from Rome on Thursday with his wife Ivanka, after a week viewed as a badly needed win. In advance of President Donald Trump’s first trip abroad—a reality show-esque odyssey that took him from kings in Saudi Arabia to the Prime Minister in Israel to the Pope at the Vatican to world leaders at the NATO Summit in Brussels and finally to Sicily for the G7 Summit—Kushner spent weeks in daily meetings to present the most camera-ready view of his father-in-law and boss to the wider world. He briefed the president, a political neophyte who rarely travels to places without Trump-owned properties (something that none of the destinations he visited this week had), on what he needed to know about the people he would be meeting and the landmines he needed to avoid. And, by and large, he avoided them, a little off-tempo Arabian sword-dancing notwithstanding.

Kushner appeared largely pleased with his efforts. He even applauded his job well done with a rare on-the-record statement, proclaiming the administration's “great progress” and noting that he “[looked] forward to continuing to accomplish the president’s ambitious objectives.”

Kushner’s presumptive victory plane-ride home was largely upended, however, by the latest beat in Trump’s ongoing Kremlin crisis. He returned to Washington amid reports that he is a focus of the F.B.I. inquiry into Russia’s interference in the presidential election. While Kushner has not been named as a target or accused of wrongdoing, according to a story published by The Washington Post on Thursday evening, he is being investigated on account of his interactions with Russians official during the campaign and the transition.

On Friday evening, just before Kushner and his family began observing Shabbat, *the Post published another rattling report about the First Son-in-Law. According to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports, Kushner and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak talked about setting up a secret, secure communication channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin at Russian diplomatic facilities at a meeting in Trump Tower in December—a move that the Post notes would allow their discussions to continued unmonitored. An hour after sundown, Reuters reported that Kushner had at least three more, previously undisclosed, conversations with Kislyak during the campaign. (An attorney for Kushner told Reuters that Kushner has no recollection of the calls, since he participated in “thousands of calls in this time period,” and asked for the news organization for the takes of the alleged calls so they could look into them.)

This is the second time that Kushner’s meeting with Russian officials has overturned a rare positive news cycle. In late March, the White House announced that Kushner would have his own office in the White House, with his own veritable SWAT team, to tackle an unbelievably broad slate of issues from overseeing infrastructure policy to addressing opioid crisis to reforming Veterans Affairs. “We should have excellence in government,” Kushner said in an interview to the Post. “The government should be run like a great American company.”

About 12 hours later, however, The New York Times broke the news that the Senate Intelligence Committee wanted to question Kushner about his December meeting Kislyak, and another meeting he took at Kislyak’s request with the chief of a Russian bank that had been placed on a sanctions list by the U.S. government. Kushner failed to disclose both of these meetings on his security clearance forms—an omission his lawyer, Jamie Gorelick, said was an unintended error and one that he would correct. On Thursday, Gorelick said in a statement that Kushner “previously volunteered to share with Congress what he knows about these meetings” and that “he will do the same if he is contacted in connection with any other inquiry.”