this is definitely the emirati dream.this jewel in the crown have come other signature, large—scale construction projects. on saadiyat island, a cluster of magnificent museums and galleries include quite possibly the most prestigious art brand in the world, which has just recently opened its doors. for a decade now, the grand mosque has been abu dhabi's most popular tourist location — until this astonishing creation came along. the louvre abu dhabi houses artefacts on loan from paris, and others, bought and permanent. from ancient pieces to african sculptures, facing european masterpieces from every era. while contemporary arabic art shares space with chinese sculpture. it's a universal museum, it's a museum that takes you through time and through different geographies. you'll be able to see different cultures and different civilisations in contact with one another. in a way, to me, walking through the galleries is walking through time and seeing what's happening in different parts of the world at the same moment. there i

this is definitely the emirati dream.stigious art brand in the world, which has just recently opened its doors. for a decade now, the grand mosque has been abu dhabi's most popular tourist location — until this astonishing creation came along. the louvre abu dhabi houses artefacts on loan from paris, and others, bought and permanent. from ancient pieces to african sculptures, facing european masterpieces from every era. while contemporary arabic art shares space with chinese sculpture. it's a universal museum, it's a museum that takes you through time and through different geographies. you'll be able to see different cultures and different civilisations in contact with one another. in a way, to me, walking through the galleries is walking through time and seeing what's happening in different parts of the world at the same moment. there is a medina, or arabic village, feel to the layout and as for the architecture here, well, it's all about geometry and light. it's a dome symbolising islamic architecture, but as you can se

there will be negotiations involved donald trump put the call in to the saudis, the emiratis saying helphere >> peter boockvar just left the set, he said why is this happening, helema will know, probably the president making a phone call to the saudis >> that's traditionally what happens. if you look at the iran sanctions decision, that's something the saudis wanted, the emirateties wa emiratis wanted it, and donald trump i was told made repeated calls saying you have to help me out here >> so brent crude has turned around it's higher -- maybe the market is realizing, the saudis need or want slightly higher prices. >> maybe the market is assessing it won't be a million barrels hitting the market on june 25th. >> that possible even? >> no. it will be staggered but everyone is just waiting to see what's the volume going to be the saudis have to walk a fine line helping consumer anything thats out and helping the trump administration out >> we have a gigantic opec meeting in a couple weeks. what do you think will be the outcome? what do you think they're talking about? i know you're close t

the emiratis still ctrol the city, which creates friction with yemen's government. meantime, the vast majority of yemen's 29 million people suffer from critical food shortages, a lack of fuel, and a health care sector in crisis.to ght, again in partnership with the pulitzer center on crisis reporting, special correspondent marcia biggs reports. >> reporter: here in the neo- natal ward of aden's al sadaqqa hospital, mothers take turns looking after their babies, filling in the gaps of a broken health system and a skeleton staff. so you have 43 babies and how much staff dyou have? ha three. >> reporter: ines ed aklan runs the ward where vital electricity to power incubators and oxygenators comes and goes. dr. ines says she loses almost p quarter of theremature babies that arrive to her ward wiin ghurs. this baby was brouin just a week ago, premature, his lungs aren't fully formed yet.re he's in seespiratory distress, he's just over three pounds. today he has oxygen. reporter: today, today you have electricity. >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: but tomorrow? >> don't know. >

thousand residents on the island and many of them went down to the street denouncing what they see as emirati okupe nation of the island is it an occupation in your view catherine. yes i think it is i mean to go from i mean you have to remember that yemen is a sovereign nation and so its people have rights and if a nation is in fact imposing you know whatever whether it's military or you know otherwise its presence is forced onto a nation then yes it is not just an occupation but it's actually an octal war technically speaking and so i did again i'm not justifying the u.a.e. at all because i do think that at the end of the day the people of yemen have a right to decide you know who is it who's allowed in there you know within their territory and their borders and i think that the u.a.e. actually broke the law international law here and so you know the so we need to be discussed the problem that i have is that you know this occupation this particular curation is not talked about from the yemeni perspective but rather from a political perspective whereas you know the saudis are using this is a

cooperating with robert mueller, and cnn is reporting that nader attended a number of meetings involving emirati officials and trump's inner circle. >> it seems as if this august 3rd meeting that we were just talking about at trump tower, along with another meeting in the seychelles, and the allegations that there were policy changes in the aftermath of those meetings that nader is in the epicenter of those things. so what we thought was a sort of incidental witness seems now to be coming more important to the investigation. >> harry, also at the same time in january of 2017 of that meeting, cnn news reporting that nader was at the same hotel bar as eric prince when prince met with a russian banker and a friend of vladimir putin. prince later denied to the house intel that he was trying to set up a backchannel with putin. how do you see all this cloak and dagger? is this cloak and dagger stuff? >> it feels like it for prince. prince not only denies that, he denies that he had any communications and it looks like a flat lie. but the significance here is that nader is cooperating. mueller already

. >> support for the line he has taken, but he probably has support from the saudi's, israelis, emiratis and others in the region. what are we doing to reassure those friends of ours in the region about the wording them from malign threats of iran? >> i am grateful to my honorable friend. we have made it very clear to our good friend in the gulf that we don't share their perspective on this, and they understand that. i must say to all those who see an alternative in the gulf and elsewhere, an alternative future, it is incumbent upon them to show us a better way of constraining iran. specifically their nuclear ambitions. >> thank you, madam deputy speaker. while some may disagree with what the president has done, at the same time, it is a mistake to indulge in any anti-american rhetoric. and that the u.s. is our most important ally. >> hear, hear. >> i respect his sentiments and i wish they were more shared across the aisle. >> wasn't the deal was considered a couple of years ago, it was said that it was about more issues, that iran is responsible for, not least their human rights record.

that both the saudi and emirati princes wanted to help trump win the election. while it is not known whether the multimillion-dollar media manipulation proposal was ever put into effect, "the new york times" reports that after trump won the election, george nader paid joel zamel, the israeli specialist, up to $2 million. in response to "the new york times" expose, president trump launched a tweet storm sunday, in which he lashed out at both "the new york times" and special counsel robert mueller's investigation. in one of the tweets he wrote -- "the failing and crooked @nytimes has done a long & boring story indicating that the world's most expensive witch hunt has found nothing on russia & me so now they are looking at the rest of the world!" president trump went on to call for an invnvestigation into his claims his campaign had been surveilled, writing -- "i hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi/doj infiltrated or surveilled the trump campaign for political purposes -- and if any such

barrack also a has extensive relationships in the middle east, and, you know, the emirati s have come up in connection with the famous seychelles meetings, so he could be looking at anything here. >> and now, what about the role that tom barrack has been playing here, and he is a economic titan based in california, and what do we know about his role overseas? what have you understood, ned? >> well, he is a venture capital i ist, and someone who has connections extensively through the gulf, and that is something that is of great interest given the means to establish a back channel through the seychelles as mr. quinn said. also, with michael flynn. and you remember that michael flynn was involved with a consortium to try and build nuclear power plants in throughout the middle east that would require the trump administration to wave sing s-- sanction, and he and michael flynn and other private businessmen were working tolt on this plan, and there are some strong insinuations that during michael flynn's 24-day tenure that he attempted to move the plan forward using the position at the tim

he strongly backed the saudi and emiraty efforts to isolate their neighbor qatar, another american ally, even over disagreements with the state and defense departments. when that went down, people were saying why in the world would the president get involved in this mix. so what do you make of it? >> i think it goes back to the kind of person trump really is, and that's ultimately a transactional person. he wants to cut deals that will be most favorable to him. he most often listens to the last person who has been in his ear. he likes flattery. he likes the attention. so if there are people who are paying him all of those, then yes, i think he's going to be susceptible to cutting some type of deal with him, regardless of whether or not it's necessarily above board. you look at the bits and pieces that keep coming out about exactly what mueller has, the kind of information he's looking at. i think the best analogy for this investigation, i heard someone say the other day, is an iceberg. there's so much under the surface we just don't know about. i think will really open our eyes to how f

pro saudi, pro emirati? they sided with them in a regional dispute against qatar. foreign trip the president took was to saudi arabia which, when you think about it, is pretty extraordinary. so the question is did it affect policy. was there any quid pro quo? these are the bigger questions that are part of this line of inquiry. >> mark ma et setti, thank you for your long and boring piece. [ laughter ] very boring. >>> all right, we turn to the deadly school shooting in texas. a moment of silence will be held today there for the victims of friday's mass shooting at santa fe high school. ten people, eight students and two teachers, were killed when a 17-year-old student and suspected gunman is alleged to have opened fire. 13 others were injured. joining us now from santa pfe high school in texas, our msnbc correspondent marianna atencio. what is the latest? >> the 17-year-old gunman, dimitrios pagourtzis, is being held without bond and authorities aren't giving a motive but we know from the avid that he targeted those students he disliked and spared those he like so

you will have the saudis wanting one, the egyptians, emiratis it's a already a dru state.cretary of state. >> yes. brian: we asked her a couple days ago, what if we pull out? >> if we get out of this deal it is going to be just fine. brian: she went on to explain, you know we'll be back to where we were but at the premise, fundamentally they never admitted they had a weapons program. you saw what the israelis have proven. they had a weapons program. >> yes. brian: you want in, not you, they went into this deal on a false premise. that is what the president -- >> not quite, if i may say, i saw what happened. i saw benjamin netanyahu's excellent presentation that related to the iranian program after 2003. that is why it was a good idea to get them to do this deal and not to have nuclear weapons. by the way we're not just trusting, i mean -- brian: but you're not going to military bases. but you're not going to military bases. you have cameras on military base. >> there have been 400 inspections over last couple years. brian: you call ahead of time, don't you? >> what they ha

i have to say that gulf arabs, the saudis, the emiratis, still have a nominal commitment to the palestinian cause. they say all the right things. certainly their people get upset. there is a way in which they're more focused. it's a fact. they're more focused on iran, think that's one reason israel feels more comfortable dealing with this in the way that it thinks it needs to. so there is a way in which the palestinian issue gets less focused than it did at any time since i've been covering the middle east. and that goes back to 1980. this was a day when you just saw the blockage that really echo of richard haas was saying. the obstacles in the way of moving forward in the middle east. moving forward for israel to the kind of stale israelis want and want to celebrate moving forward. in iraq, toward something more stable. it's still a long way to go. >> and mika, for the rest of the world you actually saw an administration, a white house, and we'll say it since ivanka trump was there. a family. completely out of touch. with the realities of the region that they're dealing with. and you know,