Jared Kushner downplays Russian interference and Mueller report - live
(The Guardian United States)

Asked in New York Tuesday about the Mueller report, Kushner responded: `Quite frankly the whole investigation is just a big distraction´Sign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 5.05pm BST Kushner also spoke about an immigration proposal that he said he would present to Trump this week or next week. Kushner said that Trump´s immigration advisers Stephen Miller and Kevin Hassett were on board.Stephen and I have not had any fights. ... I think we´re at a time when people are understanding this issue better than ever before. I do believe the president´s position has been defined by his opponents, by what he´s against, as opposed to what he´s for.I´ve tried to put together a detailed proposal for him ... My hope is that we can put together something that will show people we are for immigration. 4.54pm BST Lauren Aratani brings us more lines from the Time 100 summit, where White House correspondent Brian Bennett is grilling Kushner now about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Kushner´s bosom friend Prince Mohammed bin Salman.US intelligence agencies say that the murder happened with MBS´ direct assent. Look, I´m not going to dispute American intelligence services and recommendation. I´m also not going to talk about anything intelligence related.What I can say is that what we´ve done, when we went to Saudi Arabia for the president´s first trip, it was a very important trip I thought. What we were able to do there was lay out the president´s top four priorities. Number one was priority was countering Iran. We´ve worked with our allies is to think about how we can push past against Iran´s aggression. Everywhere in the Middle East we look where there´s terrorism. ...The advice I gave was be transparent as possible. We have to make sure there´s accountability for what happened. The state department has. ...We´ll find out. ... It´s an absolutely terrible tragedy, what happened. It´s absolutely horrible thing. Again, my job for the president, I have c ...