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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Jared Kushner emerges as focus of intel whistleblower complaint about Gabbard

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

For more than a week since the initial report from the Wall Street Journal, information about an intelligence community whistleblower report and the accusation that Tulsi Gabbard did not handle the report properly has been slowly leaking to the public. Now it has emerged that Jared Kushner is the subject at the center of the report. Andrew Bakaj, chief legal counsel for Whistleblower Aid, and the attorney for the whistleblower in question, talks with Jen Psaki about where the case stands.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We've got a big, huge show for you tonight. I just mentioned a couple of our guests.

0:04.7

And I mean, some of these people are people who I really think you're going to want to hear from,

0:08.5

because this is one of the big issues happening in this country, and it is so telling for so many reasons.

0:14.5

I mean, the Trump administration just announced that the surge of their immigration operations in Minnesota is concluding.

0:20.1

And let us all be hopeful.

0:21.6

We should all be hopeful. But I'm going to believe that when I see that. And there are a lot of

0:26.5

questions to be asked about what still needs to happen. And we're going to talk about what that

0:31.4

announcement does and doesn't mean for the situation on the ground there. What's actually happening?

0:35.9

And what comes next in the fight to hold Donald Trump's complete goons accountable for what they did there?

0:42.2

Because that's part of it, too.

0:43.8

Minnesota Senator and now candidate for Governor Amy Klobuchar is going to join me here at the table in just a moment.

0:48.8

And Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, fresh off of a very heated hearing on Capitol Hill, is going to join me here as well.

0:56.2

But before we get to all of that, again, I told you there's a lot going on today. So we're going to

1:00.2

talk about all of it. I just want to take a very quick step back and take stock of how absolutely

1:05.7

terrible things are going for Donald Trump and his administration right now. I mean, today Trump was tuck the whale,

1:13.4

cozied up in the White House,

1:15.0

bumbling through a nonsensical answer,

1:17.3

and yet another one of his buddies' associations

1:20.3

with Jeffrey Epstein.

1:23.9

Mr. President, were you aware that Secretary of Commerce

1:26.5

visited Epstein's Island? Do you continue to have to... No, I wasn't aware of it. No, were you aware that Senator in Commerce visited Epstein's Island?

1:28.3

Do you continue to have to...

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