29 May, 2017
On his first trip overseas, the president has been unable to escape ongoing developments back home related to the FBI Russia investigation.
Cohn said: "We're not going to comment on Jared".
"I will tell you that my dashboard warning light was clearly on, and I think that was the case with all of us in the intelligence community", Clapper said Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press".
One Saturday, Mr Trump also cancelled a rally in Iowa next week "due to an unforeseen change" in the President's schedule, but there was no further elaboration.
Kushner, who serves as senior adviser to Trump, has drawn the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation because he considered setting up a secret line of communications between the incoming administration and the Russian government, primarily to discuss a resolution to the crisis in Syria, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has "asked President Trump's political organization to gather and produce all Russia-related documents, emails and phone records going back to his campaign's launch in June 2015", The Post reported.
The White House did not immediately comment on the report.
"They need to quarantine this stuff and put the investigations in a separate communications operation", said Jack Quinn, who served as White House counsel for President Bill Clinton.
The White House also faces a cascade of other worries related to the Russian Federation probe in the coming week.
As for Congress, Boehner said he's still celebrating his leave saying, "I wake up every day, drink my morning coffee and say, 'Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah'".
"He's still trying to tell people it will improve but he seems like he was trying to convince himself", one of the sources told Politico.
There are rumours among Trump's allies that the president could be looking at bringing former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and former deputy campaign manager David Bossie back into the fold.
A person in regular touch with the White House said it needed a new structure to focus on the "new reality" that there would be continued leaks to the media, which have increased in frequency since Mr Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey this month.
Federal investigators and several congressional committees are looking into any connections between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign, including allegations that there may have been collaboration to help Trump and harm his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recently appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to head the Russian Federation investigation as a special counsel.
Kushner was joined by Michael Flynn, the retired general who would resign as Trump's national security adviser after reports that he secretly spoke with Kislyak about sanctions.
Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, have repeatedly said that Russia had not interfered in the internal affairs of foreign states.
Four months into his term, Trump has typically taken two questions from the USA press after bilateral meetings at the White House. It is also not clear whether Kushner engaged with Kislyak on his own or with other Trump aides.
All communications gathered through a back channel would be "shared across the government, so it's not a bad thing to have multiple communication lines" with any country, Kelly said.
Even prior to that, Back Channel to Cuba, written by Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive and William LeoGrande of American University, claims that every USA administration has had some kind of secret diplomatic dialogue with Cuba since President Kennedy in 1963.
