Secret Service responds to CBS News correspondent prevented from interviewing Jared Kushner

The secret services said on Wednesday that they "had no intention of obstructing these rights or media access to a protected secret service recipient" when "the secret service" was used by the secret services. they prevented CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett from asking questions of Jared Kushner. Barnett was trying to interrogate Kushner, a special adviser to President Trump, on a plane about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

In the video, which Barnett posted on Twitter, he identified himself as a CBS News reporter and presented his references to the White House as Kushner and the Secret Service agents stepped out of the plane. But the secret service agent covered Barnett's camera and said, "I do not care who you are, there is a time and a place."

In their statement Wednesday, the secret services said that "the actions were taken only in response to a sudden movement of an unknown who then identified himself as a member of the media".

Barnett told CBSN, after the publication of the statement, that he "had disputed the characterization that I did not identify myself because it was the first thing I 'd like. have made ".

But Barnett noted that after posting the video, a Secret Service agent who did not participate in the incident contacted him and said that covering the camera violated the protocol. "So the secret services are put in a position with this video that goes viral and really hits a cord with so many people to say publicly," said Barnett.

Barnett said that until this incident, "100%" of his interactions with the secret services were positive. Barnett said that's why he thinks this video is "so unusual". Barnett said that he thought the video had become viral because it was so unusual.

The reason why Kushner has a particular interest in disappearance of Khashoggi CBS This Morning is that he played a key role in establishing a relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and the massive sale of weapons to the kingdom. Trump does not want to end the deal, saying it would hurt US manufacturers.

"He was behind this $ 110 billion arms deal that the president is reluctant to denounce because of questions about what happened to Jamal Khashoggi." The question I was getting ready to ask was, "What do you do? you know about Saudi denial and the White House? Jared Kushner, National Security Advisor John Bolton, spoke to the Crown Prince last week, "said Barnett.

"The important thing is when is the time and place to ask a question to Jared Kushner? He does not make himself available and there are so many other questions to ask," Barnett said. at "CBS This Morning". "But these questions persist.There is an open invitation to talk to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump about this incident and what they think the US should do next."