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identity and the identity of my family and the identity of my ancestors, being able to do that at this scale, at this time, you know, it's just a gift that i think that i'll be processing for the rest of my life. /s ♪ ♪ good evening. rachel is off tonight and we're on assignment in jerusalem. today we all watched harvey weinstein led off in handcuffs. obviously that's not how he wanted things to end. and he took steps to prevent it. he hired a company based here in israel called black cube. it's a private intelligence firm and its operatives tried to track and manipulate weinstein's accusers unsuccessfully as he found out today.
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well, it turns out black cube doesn't only try to protect the rich and powerful. the company had a political contract, too, to try to influence u.s. foreign policy by dee faming former american officials. just think about that for a second. a foreign company was hired to specifically demean and embarrass former u.s. government officials by targeting their families and friends to dig for information. it's a brave new world, and we'll have a lot on that story later in the show. but first another spy story. this one about real spies who carried out a really hard operation deep behind enemy lines, but was it all for show? for israeli spies, iran's capital tehran is both an inviting and a very dangerous target. >> tehran is the hardest place
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for mossad to act in. it's highly regarded with secret police, regular police, different militias, including some forces of the revolutionary guard. >> ronan berg man is one of the world's leading experts on the mossad, israel's famed intelligence agency. >> the iranians are always under the impression that the mossad is getting deeper and deeper into their ranks. >> are they right? >> yes, of course. >> over the past 15 years, the israelis have reportedly used everything from the assassination of scientists to cyberattacks to derail iran's nuclear program. to infiltrate iran they have relied on a local network of dissidents. how many operatives does mossad have in iran? >> many dozens. >> are they gatherers, assassins, what are they trained to do? >> depends on the agents.
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>> they were tasked to prove iran was secretly developing nuclear weapons, but they found no evidence. u.s. intelligence agencies believe that program was shutdown in 2003. still, when president obama signed the nuclear deal in 2015, he didn't take the iranians at their word. >> this deal is not built on trust. it is built on verification. inspectors will have 24/7 access to iran's key nuclear facilities. >> the iranians had tens of thousands of old plans and designs, evidence of a program they had always denied, and they didn't want the inspectors to find them. >> apparently they wanted to keep them for a better day, to the day that they will maybe relaunch the effort and the development to acquire nuclear weapon. >> so they made plans to secretly move the entire archive to this shabby warehouse. >> the mossad learned about that
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from human source in february 2016. >> so, a human source, someone in iran who had knowledge and told the mossad what was going on? >> yeah. >> it's a good source. >> a wonderful source. >> the mossad which used to have the biblical phrase, war by way of deception as its motto, decided that it wasn't going to waste such precious intelligence on the international inspectors. it also wasn't going to just copy the documents. it was going to steal them. >> mossad chief ordered a physical break in the facility. so these documents would be able to go to any forensic examination by any foreign entity, the germans, the french, the americans, whoever wants to, to check the authenticity of these documents. >> so it's about credibility. we have these physical pieces of paper. anyone who wants to look at them, fingerprint them, look at the ink, paper, everything. >> the assumption was the
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iranians would claim this is fabrication, this is fake. >> so after two years of planning, an audacious operation. part bank heist, part mission impossible was launched. the plan was to break into the warehouse, get into these saves and smuggle the enormous haul of documents to israel. >> it was nighttime, late january. they broke in -- >> broke in literally with lock cutters? >> yes. >> was the warehouse guarded? >> following surveillance through many, many, many other nights -- >> they knew at this particular time the guards were very likely -- unlikely to be there? >> yes. one mossad source told me i'm not jealous of the guard who is there that night, he is not going to be fired. >> once inside, the agents got to work. >> they packed the folders and the disks that they need into
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bags and they throw this into a truck, a small truck and they run away. >> how long were they at the warehouse? >> between half an hour and an hour, maybe even less. >> israeli sources are very cautious about revealing how the burglars got the documents out of iran. some reports have indicated that they took them across the border to azerbaijan, but our sources suggest that they may have been smuggled out by sea. berg man, who has written several books about israel's covert operation ands has excellent sources wouldn't reveal the answer either. >> i'm not able to share the other details. the sources believe could be of risk to the agent. >> so they went immediately for the border? >> yes. >> when did the iranians realize it? >> so, the iranians, according to one of the sources realized an hour and a half afterwards, and they started the chase. but they didn't know what to chase. they tried to search all over
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iran and find some traces, who was there. nothing. >> somehow, somewhere, the agents met up with their israeli handlers and delivered the documents. more than a half ton of them which were immediately shipped to israel. once the documents arrived here in tel aviv, the team of investigators and translators got to work, digging for every nugget of information about the iranian nuclear program. they secretly briefed american intelligence agencies and the white house. but then a few weeks ago, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu did something dramatic. he revealed the top secret files and the story of the daring raid to the whole world. hard won raw intelligence turned into a prop for a low-budget powerpoint presentation designed to deliver one clear message. >> tonight i'm here to tell you
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one thing. iran lied. >> yes, iran lies. that is why we created a nuclear deal that is based on verification and not on trust. >> she was one of the state department negotiators on the deal with iran and oversaw its implementation. she said the press conference was nothing more than political theater. >> prime minister netanyahu's presentation seemed to be designed to mislead the international community and the american people. there was absolutely an element of fear mongering. >> you don't have to read fahrsi to see ten tons. tnt. >> it was hysteria. >> that was like five hiroshima bombs to be put on ballistic missiles. >> the presentation came just days before president trump was due to announce whether he was going to pull out of the iran deal altogether. netanyahu was careful to show respect. >> i am sure he'll do the right
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thing, the right thing for the united states, the right thing for israel, and the right thing for the peace of the world. >> some people have said that he really had an audience of one. he was talking to president trump. >> not true. this was not in any way an attempt to pressure president trump. this was his way to support a decision that president trump has already taken. this was highly coordinated with the american administration. >> every good drama needs its big reveals. so, the president kept everyone, even members of his administration, guessing right up until 2 1/2 weeks ago, he finally addressed the nation. >> i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. >> the one piece of intelligence the president said he relied on in making his decision was, of
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course, the nuclear archive. >> last week israel published intelligence documents, long concealed by iran, conclusively showing the iranian regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons. >> this was not an intelligence coup, this was not a revelation, this was not a basis force withdrawing from the deal. this was not some kind of presentation that was shocking or embarrassing to the iranians. this was known, documented information by the u.s. intelligence community. so, the idea that president trump was relying on this to justify pulling the u.s. out of this agreement is not just questionable, it's reckless. >> but when i grabbed a rare moment with cohen, the mossad chief in israel last week, he told me it was a victory. >> i'm very proud of my organization, very happy we did what we had to do. this is our pure obligation to
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the security of israel and maybe some implication to the security of the world as well. >> one thing is for sure, israel's embattled prime minister who is facing multiple criminal investigations scored points at home. even though he made the presentation in english. >> the fact that he is coming, proving, taking mossad's secretive documents, presenting them and making a statement that they will know would rock the world in a minute's time, that makes israeli's proud. >> so net in the's approval rating and his party's approval rating went through the roof. >> yes. >> this must have been a proud moment for netanyahu and israel, a moment they are walking in lockstep with the united states hearing their own intelligence fed back to them from the u.s. president. >> netanyahu has the upper hand in that. there is no doubt. and now he's winning. he has convinced the american
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president with, among others, material from this daring raid of mossad to step away from the deal and completely destroying obama's legacy. >> soon after the president announced the withdrawal from the deal, israeli planes were already bombing iranian targets in syria. another page in the prearranged script. >> there are bases in syria were wiped out by the israeli air force, summation, sabotage, convergelinging of missiles. iranians do not forget and do not forgive. >> fischer part of hillary's transition team and has criticized many of the president's foreign policy decisions worries this carefully scripted show could have a deadly act. >> president trump has really filled his administration with people like national security advisor john bolton, with secretary of state mike pompeo, these are people who have an agenda. we know what their agenda is.
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and i think trump is being led by them. >> are we heading toward a war? >> war is already in motion. israel and iran is at war. this is a low-intensity conflict, but this is a war. >> the scary thing about prime minister netanyahu is he clearly believes that now is the time to initiate a war because he thinks he'll be able to drag the u.s. in with him. >> so, the mossad found intelligence and prime minister netanyahu and president trump used it to justify tearing up the iran deal. and while you digest that, coming up, another spy story. our investigation into black cube and how it targeted former u.s. officials. >> i was told by someone familiar with it who i trust implicitly that with a nudge and a wink, we have been hired by trump. m off thinking you've done everything for his well-being.
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welcome back to jerusalem. black cube, even the name, suggests something impenetrable. but after a long search, we managed to shine some light into that black box and speak to someone with direct knowledge of the company's operations and how it set out to destroy the reputations of former u.s. government officials and, guess what? this was also aimed at undermining the iran deal. even after he agreed to meet with us. >> hey, how are you? richard engel. nice to meet you.
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>> even after he agreed to sit down with us for an interview, he wouldn't allow us to show his face or use his voice. >> why are you disguising your identity? >> because this is an incredibly toxic story that spans the globe. there are so many actors in this story who might react badly to someone who speaks out and exposes what's been going on here. >> what do you mean? >> without trying to sound too paranoid, it could be anything from going after you personally, making things difficult for your family or just putting you in the glare of the spotlight. >> this is the first time for anyone with direct knowledge of the black cube's operation s to go on camera and talk about them without permission. so, we went to great lengths to cross-reference his information with other sources. how does black cube work? what do they do? >> ultimately, it depends on what the client wants. so, if a client comes to them and says, i just need information on my business rival, they'll set up fake companies, they'll maybe pose a journalists. >> so, they send operatives?
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>> yes. >> with fake identities, befriending people, pretending to be someone they're not? >> they're looking for back doors. they're looking for vulnerability. they're trying to find, is there someone i can approach and get close to? >> you have to cultivate relationships. >> you see this as an example. we're interested in funding something at your child's school. >> that is exactly what happened to rebecca cull. >> i was approached via e-mail by a woman claiming to work for an equity firm in the u.k. that was really interested in talking with me about our daughter's school. >> actually, the e-mails were from black cube and their real target, according to internal documents we obtained, was rebecca's husband, colin and his colleague ben rhodes, both senior former obama officials, both deeply involved in negotiating the iran deal. >> black cube had been tasked to basically dig up dirt on ben rhodes and colin to look into
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their private lives, to look into whether there's been any financial impropriety or sexual impropriety or anything really which showed that these two players and the fomenting of the iran deal were somehow corrupt and under handed. >> ben rhodes' wife was also targeted. internal briefs showed black cube had collected information on both former officials including intimate details about them and their families. >> oh, do you have them? >> nice. these depict a good picture. >> this is like your bio. that's my facebook profile picture. >> it's nice. >> they got our daughter's birthday wrong, her birth and year. >> this has the feel of a plan of how to go after me. >> my parents' names are on here. that's a little strange, and our children's names. >> it's creepy to know someone was trying to dig up your profile and the names of your in-laws and your kids and your wife and where you live.
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>> it's pretty creepy, though, going after somebody's wife and sending them come-on e-mails and promising donations to their school. >> oh, it's incredibly creepy. the whole thing is. but if you exist in that world, you're used to it. if you don't exist in that world and you're reading it or seeing it on tv for the first time, it's like mind blowing. >> you're looking to find weaknesses so you can hurt people. >> yeah. >> exploiting weaknesses is black cube's specialty. on its sleek website, it promises that its team of veterans from israeli elite intelligence units specializes in things like harvesting in the cyber world, and a can-do dynamic approach to the social engineering field. euphemisms that sell the private spy's ability to penetrate computers and use deception and manipulation to infiltrate, intimidate and control their targets. hollywood producer harvey weinstein hired them to locate and gain the trust of the women
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who accused him of sexual assault. >> well, i did have spies after me that were formerly trained mossad agents from israel where i think the best trained elite force in the world. >> actually, the woman who approached actress rose mcgowan pretending to be a women's rights advocate was no former mossad agent. she was instead an israeli actress, stella pen pahanek. this is her in a documentary from her time in the israeli air force. because she was born in serbia, she does not look or sound israeli, making her a perfect choice for under cover operation. she's been caught on camera at least once meeting with a black cube target in the states. her true identity was revealed because black cube made two big mistakes that real spies rarely make. for one thing, they missed one photo when they scrubbed the real stella's pictures from the
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internet. for another, they used the same fake cover company that british equity firm for both the weinstein operation and the investigation into the former obama officials. so when that cover was blown, black cube's involvement was revealed. last year in a rare appearance on israeli tv, blake cube board member addressed the weinstein scandal. of course, we apologize to whoever was hurt. it's too bad, he added, that we took that job. but if anything, it appears the scandal gave black cube's business a boost. the company recently moved its headquarters from this modest tel aviv office to the top floor of this gleaming tower. until recently, black cube was for the most part focused on aggressive, but legitimate business investigations. but then about two years ago, according to our sources, the firewall that separated the legitimate operations from the part of the business that did what one source called political
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work was breached. several executives followed the head of legal affairs out the door, saying they didn't want to be involved in that kind of work. >> colin and i don't really have much to hide, but it is also not okay with us that some firm is trying to use the fact that we care about our daughter's elementary school to try to gain access to us and somehow, you know -- it's just not okay. >> the lady who wrote to the kahls was offering a generous donation to their daughter's school, but they suspected it was too good and too strange to be true and cut off the e-mail exchange. but that wasn't the only way that black cube was coming after the former officials. >> as far as i understand, people were contacted to see whether they themselves would reveal something nefarious about ben rhodes and colin kahl. also could it lead us onto a trail where we can get closer and ultimately find the dirt we're looking for?
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>> we obtained a recording of one of those calls to an iran expert. the black cube operative who called him pretended to be a journalist. we've disguised his voice and bleeped his name. >> [ bleep ] in london. >> how are you? >> i'm well, thank you. how are you? >> i'm doing well. >> he knows the two targeted officials and offered them his advice while they were negotiating the iran deal. he says the phone call quickly took a strange turn.
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>> he wanted know say that the administration was cutting a deal in order to make sure that people in the administration would be able to put money this their pockets and making money off of this. >> is that true? >> that is absolutely not true. i have never seen anything close to that. >> how was he trying to get you to say that? >> he was trying to corner me. he was trying to put words in my mouth and he was trying to take my answers and twist them into something else. >> all this sounded suspicious to parsi and he ended the call. but then he had reason to be wary. >> i was warned and sometime after the election, during the transition period, a person inside the u.s. intelligence services tells me through an intermediary that i should be very careful, that i'm on some sort of a target list, and that the folks are going to come after me. they're going to target me. they're going to try to dee fame me. they're going to try to slander me in order to take me off of the field essentially. and when i asked them, what
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exactly do you mean that the folks are going to come after you? i wasn't sure what he meant. he said the trump people. >> he said the trump people are going to come after you. >> yes. >> that is a quote? >> it was a quote, exactly. >> no one is suggesting, of course, that anyone close to the president personally commissioned the hit job. that's not the way that works. >> you'll never find their name on a contract anywhere obviously because even like with harvey weinstein, it's his lawyer that signed the contract. so, they can say, he was never our client, you know. >> what were you told? >> i was told by someone familiar with it who i trust implicitly that with a nudge and a wink we've been hired by trump. >> there was this kind of fever dream that emerged among a number of senior aides to president trump. i was responsible for being the puppet masters behind the deep state conspiracy to undermine the president and leak things. and it sounds nuts because it's kind of nuts. but nevertheless, there was this
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fixation on us. >> the fbi is now looking into black cube's contacts with the kahls, but so far the case is not under official investigation. in a written statement, black cube said that it has no relations whatsoever to the trump administration, to anyone close to the administration, or to the iran nuclear deal. and that anyone suggesting that black cube is targeting u.s. officials is misleading their readers and viewers. well, we never said black cube is targeting current u.s. officials. but described how it targeted former u.s. officials. so, we're glad we're not misleading you. coming up, an interview with a former mossad chief who thinks it's time to get companies like black cube under control. >> unfortunately, i'm not sure that it does well to the reputation of the state of israel. mr. stevens? this is your new name.
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welcome back to jerusalem. tonight we've talked a lot about spies, but what do real veterans of the mossad think about all of this? the ones who built its storied and fear some reputation? well, we met one of them here and he was not impressed with president trump's decision to walk away from the iran deal or with what some of the spies for hire in this country have been up to. >> it is highly, highly impressive and it shows the high level of profession.
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>> as former head of mossad, danny knows what it took to pull off the daring israeli raid in tehran in january. but he was surprised to see the israeli prime minister make it public. >> it is unusual. i don't remember such cases or similar cases in the past. >> does it bother you? >> it did not bother me because this is the privilege of the prime minister to decide how to use the information. >> how necessary was this operation? a former u.s. state department official told us it wasn't really an intelligence coup at all. >> it was very, very important to have it because it will help the negotiators to negotiate with iran in order to try and to achieve better deal. >> it was political? >> of course it was political. it was in order to achieve a
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political goal which is the united states withdrawal from the agreement. >> right after that goal was achieved, israel and iran traded strikes overseer i can't. he thinks further escalation isn't out of the question. >> it will be rolling escalation until it might explode. >> so you think there is a now that there could be a war in the middle east? >> we have to take it into consideration. eappen though a even though all the participants do not want war today, but it might escalate to a war due to the exchange of blows between us and the iranians. >> like many retired israeli intelligence officers, yatome now runs his own consultancy. private intelligence companies are booming here, but he is worried about black cube is hurting the industry's reputation.
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>> it is not a secret any more. you know about what happened. i know about what happened. you cannot think that the people of the ministry of justice in israel or the people of ministry of defense in israel do not know exactly the same knowledge as yours and mine about the activity of black cube. if there is something which wrong, they should take action. >> what is this doing for the reputation of israel? >> unfortunately, i'm not sure that it does well to the reputation of the state of israel. we have to have very clear distinctions between what is permitted and what is not permitted. there should be inspection. there should be supervision. >> so no more uncontrolled intelligence agencies for hire? >> exactly. they should be controlled.
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100% they should be controlled. >> and, by the way, several more israeli intelligence companies were in the media this week. they are getting a lot of unwanted attention. and if it's not already clear, president trump has surrounded himself with quite a few iran hawks. and before they came to the white house, several were getting paid by a group that was, until recently, classified as a terrorist organization. yes, i did just say that. and it wasn't all about the money. >> what do you think is going to happen to that nuclear agreement? [ cheers and applause ] [music playing] (vo) from day one,
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talk to your doctor today about getting vaccinated against whooping cough. because dangers don't just exist in fairytales. welcome back to jerusalem. the ayatollahs in iran have dangerous enemies and i don't just mean israel and the united states. one of the oldest and most bizarre of them is called the mujahadin halk. and you'll be surprised to learn just how well kekconnected theye and who they have been paying. there is nothing the m.e.k. likes more than hearing from famous americans. so long, of course, as they stay right on message. >> the over throw of the regime -- >> regime change in iran -- >> has to be regime change. >> regime change. >> regime change. >> the speakers are paid well.
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>> what do you think is going to happen to that nuclear agreement? >> and they clearly relish the chance to share their strong opinions with a like-minded crowd. the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani and national security advisor john bolton were both regulars. >> there is a viable opposition to the rule of the ayatollahs. >> the regime is evil and it must go. free iran! >> the m.e.k. doesn't just want to free iran. it wants to take over, and giuliani seems to think it can. >> you're the vision for the future. you are the vision for the future of iran. >> but that vision is much darker than these public gatherings reveal. the m.e.k. has a sinister past and its promises of freedom and democracy sound hollow to those who know it best. >> you can't trust this group. they don't believe in democracy.
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>> i don't think any decent intelligence officer in america thinks they are trustworthy. >> he used to run the security detail for the group's ruthless leader, merriam who dreams of seizing power in iran for herself. >> how would you describe them if you can sum them up in a few s sentences? >> i would put two words. they control them physically, they control them financially, they control them emotionally. >> she took over from her husband. they both started out as foot soldiers of the group whose name means holy warriors of the people. it fought against the shah. in 1979 they participated in the storming of the u.s. embassy where 52 americans were held hostage for 444 long days.
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after the revolution, the ayatollahs took over and the m.e.k. was force today flee to nearby iraq. from there, armed and supported by saddam hussein, it launched a deadly campaign against the iranian regime. in 1997, the state department designated the m.e.k. a terrorist organization. >> there was a long trail of violence and blood shed here. and the m.e.k. really stood out as one of the really capable and dangerous organizations in the world at that time. >> daniel benjamin was the obama administration's coordinator for counterterrorism. >> it's pretty remarkable that a group that has american blood on its hands, even if it's now a former terrorist group, to have contacts like rudy giuliani, john bolton. >> but by 2012, saddam was long gone and the iraqi army was attacking the m.e.k.'s base regularly. it was time to get them out of the country before they were all killed.
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they expected the u.s. to help them, but -- >> no one would take the m.e.k. members as long as it was listed as a foreign terrorist organization. >> so, reluctantly, benjamin's department had them removed from the list. m.e.k. operatives are still believed to be conducting covert operations inside iran. but these days they do most of their fighting on capitol hill. where their regime change message has been embraced by politicians from both parties. >> they see this group who says they have popular support, who is making all the right noises about overthrowing them. and they see that as a group they can support. >> journalist joanne stocker has been investigating the m.e.k. for nearly a decade. she showed me a database of campaign donations to american politicians from organizations tied to the m.e.k. >> you've got people like george w. bush was given a thousand dollars in 2004. >> i see here john mccain.
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so, is this republicans, democrats? >> it's both. it goes across the aisle. so, mccain got $2,400, a thousand dollars. but then i mean, obama is on here, too. >> pretty small contribution. >> sure. but when you get them coming in from ten, 15 people every single year, they add up. >> but the speaking circuit is where it's really at. >> it is my great honor to present to you the most formidable list of american national security, military, political, and governmental leaders of my generation. >> they pay people thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars to go to their rallies and to speak in favor of them. >> john bolton never disclosed how much money the m.e.k. paid him, but stocker ventured an educated guess. >> on the low end, $180,000 just based on what other people were making. >> how do you come up with that number? >> because other people were paid -- we seem to have narrowed
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it down to 20 to $30,000 a speech. >> no one really knows exactly where the m.e.k. is getting all this money from, but saudi arabia is a pretty good place to start. >> i personally have brought money and gold from saudi arabia to iraq for -- >> you transported money and gold from saudi arabia? how did you do that? >> so, it was three trucks of gold. >> three trucks of gold, warbar? >> yes, tonnage. >> the tentacles have reached the heart of the american government. >> i personally find it pretty remarkable that anybody could have ties to the m.e.k., john bolton could get a security clearance. i think it ought to cause people an awful lot of concern. >> as far as the m.e.k. is concerned, their guy is in the white house. they're tied in this together. >> who is their guy, john bolton? >> john bolton is the m.e.k.'s guy in the white house. >> john bolton made it clear what he thinks the white house should do. >> the declared policy of the
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united states of america should be the overthrow of the regime in tehran. >> a recommendation he's now in a position to shape into policy. >> the 4-20-19, we here will celebrate in tehran. thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] >> bolton's office didn't respond to our request for comment, but giuliani did. he remembered very specifically what his relationship with the m.e.k. began. september 2008. but he said he doesn't resch how much -- remember how much money they paid him over the years. he calling them an terrorist organization is a mistake. that isn't the issue. the people who give president trump advice on how to deal with iran, they got it from those you heard about in the story. an uncomfortable thought because the stakes are so high.
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the president likes high stakes. he's always been a gambler and he hasn't always won. so, the question is can we as a nation cover his bets if they go south? >> ladies and gentlemen, our host here at trump castle, mr. donald trump. luckily for him, he uses super poligrip. it helps give him 65% more chewing power. leaving brad to dig in and enjoy. super poligrip.
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he tore up the iran deal and now he's playing chicken with north korea over who wants the summit more. he's betting big. he always has. >> it's time to play television's nonstop game of knowledge, trump time. >> ladies and gentlemen, our host here at trump castle, mr. donald trump. >> in the 1980s, manhattan real estate game, a young donald trump played the high roller. >> take a look at my next guest, donald trump, 33 years old. >> primarily our purchases have been in new york. >> then, in 1990, the property mogul started betting on the world of gambling itself and opened a string of casinos. his first venture was the flamboyant taj mahal in atlantic city. >> with revenue topping $37 million a month, donald's biggest gamble is turning up aces. >> in the casino business they say the house always wins. not in this case. just over a year after it opened
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taj mahal folded, declaring chapter 11 bankruptcy. somehow, trump was still able to come up, well, trump's by turning his hand to reality tv. >> my name is donald trump and i'm the largest real estate developer in new york. about 13 years i was seriously in trouble. i was billions of dollars in debt. but i fought back and i won big league. this time on "the apprentice," he play business genius he always wanted to be. over 190 episodes, 15 season, trump earned millions of dollars and worldwide name recognition. >> we have an elevator that goes up from the street and down to the street. >> ladies and gentlemen, i am officially running for president of the united states.
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>> it was a massive long shot, with all the cards stacked against him. >> there's not going to be a president donald trump. >> donald trump will not become president. >> he is not -- donald trump is not going to be president of the united states, take it to the bank, i guarantee it. >> all right. all right. >> but against all odds, he pulled it off. >> i'll never forget the guy who was saying for months, there is no path to 270. for donald trump. but there is a path to 306. >> the businessman turned president brought his "hardball" tactics with him to the white house. >> the united states has been played beautifully like a fiddle because you had a different kind of a leader. we're not going to be played, okay? >> when he was dealt a card he didn't like, the iran nuclear deal, he walked away. >> i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. the united states no longer
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makes empty threats. when i make promises, i keep them. >> but that left us with no seat at the table. it's one of the many risky moves he's made in this, the ultimate high stakes game. >> you know what gets your nuclear war? weakness gets you nuclear war. >> for decades no one knew whether the north koreans were bluffing or showing their cards when they tested nukes and threatened to send them our way. but president trump just went ahead and doubled down. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury, like the world has never seen. >> that gamble could pay off big. an historic summit, maybe even a nobel prize, but it could also backfire. the chips are on the table. the president is betting the house we all live in.
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and the third was for us to start listening. listening to our riders. listening to our driver partners. i think listening is ultimately going to make us a better company. welcome back to jerusalem. there's now a guessing game going on around the world. yes, north korea summit, no, north korea summit. yesterday, seemed like ancient history already, seemed like no. >> based on the recent statement of north korea, i have decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore on june 12th. >> it was this letter send yesterday from president trump to north korean leader, kim jong-un that appeared to send their upcoming nuclear summit crashing to a halt. president trump wrote he
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objected to north korea's rhetoric ahead of the planned meeting, saying, sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long-planned meeting. world leaders were reportedly stunned by president trump's sudden decision to kill the summit. but today, there were signs of life again. the president told reporters the white house is back in touch with north korea, discussions about rescheduling the summit are back under way. the president saying quote we'd like to do it. we'll see what happens. just tonight, there have been yet more developments. the president tweeted about an hour ago we are having very productive talks with north korea about reinstating the summit, which if it does happen, will likely remain in singapore on the same date, june 12th, and if increase, be extended beyond that date. oddly enough, north korea doesn't seem to mind all this
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back and forth. maybe it's how they negotiate, too. so, will the summit take place in two weeks? who knows. but if it does, we'll be covering it. follow us on twitter at oarichardengel, that's all from tonight, good evening from jerusalem. she told archie she was dating this man. if he didn't like it he could leave. >> he had been stabbed multiple times. nobody saw anything. i went dad? and i touched him. i'll never forget that feeling. >> it was just before dawn when he found his father dead in the driveway. >> there's no doubt in my mind what happened. i immediately knew. >> there was someone else who may have known, too. >> i t
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