Malcolm Nance: Intelligence Has To Assume The Worst About Kushner

Joy Reid started on the biggest story of the day by asking former State Department spokesperson Nayyera Haq how "typical" it would be for the son-in-law of the president of the United States or anyone in the administration "to not only set up a back channel with a foreign adversarial country but suggest doing so in that country's secure facility." Haq didn't mince words. "It is so beyond the pale, it does start to boggle the mind and lead to why, why do all these actions, all these meetings in such quick order after the election, if there was a goal to have a better relationship with Russia, why not wait a few weeks and months?" she said. "The idea this was happening during transition, without awareness of intel and diplomatic communities does point to something untoward happening." Reid pointed out that the Russian ambassador was taken aback by the suggestion by Kushner that they meet inside the Russian facilities which the Russians are monitoring and the U.S.