27 May, 2017
Though the White House says the conversation was "general and inconsequential", the bank described it to ABC News as a "negotiation" during which "the parties discussed the business practices applied by foreign development banks, as well as most promising business lines and sectors".
Entous said sources had confirmed that us intelligence intercepted Kislyak's reporting of the meeting.
And the White House staff itself could be facing upheaval.
Kushner can often be spotted in the Oval office beside Trump, or on numerous president's frequent trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Although the 36-year-old had no political experience, Mr Trump trusted him at the helm of his election campaign, and in a perhaps unprecedented step, insisted both Kushner and his daughter take up jobs within the White House.
Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax Media and a Trump friend, said he expects the president will travel more when he returns from overseas and encouraged the White House to focus on issues that pump up his base voters.
The newspaper says Ambassador Sergei Kislyak told his superiors that Kushner proposed using Russian diplomatic facilities for their discussions, apparently to make them more hard to monitor.
"He will do the same if he is contacted in connection with any other inquiry".
If he were a "target", it would suggest Kushner was a main suspect of the investigation. The Post listed three current administration officials who had met with Russian officials-Kushner, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson-but did not identify which one was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, although the newspaper dropped broad hints pointing to the 36-year-old Kushner. The White House denies that there was ever any effort by Trump to interfere with the probe.
Previously, Trump said one of the reasons for his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey was the ongoing probe.
At the same time, Trump aides in attendance made contradictory statements as to the administration's commitment to maintaining economic sanctions imposed on Russia following the 2014 US-backed right-wing coup in Ukraine and subsequent secession of Crimea from Ukraine to join the Russian Federation.
The Senate Intelligence Committee also added that Flynn risks being held in contempt of Congress if he does not comply with the requests.
The news comes just one day after the Post reported that FBI investigators are looking into a number of meetings between Kushner and the Kremlin as part of its investigation into Russia's interference with the 2016 election.
Kushner also met that month with Sergei Gorkov, chairman of VneshEconomBank, a state bank under U.S. sanctions since July 2014.
Regarding Kushner, former FBI agent Jim Treacy said Friday: "If there is an investigation on anybody, would other folks around that person be of interest to the FBI as far as being interviewed?"
Flynn was pushed out of the White House in February after officials said he misled Vice President Mike Pence about whether he and the ambassador had discussed US sanctions against Russian Federation in a phone call.
"The FBI's Russian Federation investigation reached Trump's backyard, and now it's in his house", the Democratic National Committee said in a statement. And the investigation's increasing proximity to President Trump has not been lost on Democrats, who renewed their calls for Kushner's security clearance to be suspended shortly after news of investigators' interest in him broke Thursday.
The Post reported in April that Erik Prince, the former founder of Blackwater private security firm and an informal adviser to the Trump transition team, met on January 11 - nine days before Trump's inauguration - in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean with a representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "It's hard to think Jared Kushner was involved in anything that Trump didn't know about".
