in all of the ways where specifically instructions came down through emma rathi officials, it looks likeood set of evidence. as far as not registering as a foreign agent, that is something that other people around trump have been ensnared in previously. paul manafort, michael flynn, elliott broidy. brody was engaged with the emirates as well. taylor: we appreciate you running here to chat with us as we continue to tie further into these headlines. a story that is not going away anytime soon. we will indeed bring you back. coming up, from real estate to the art market. christie's seeing one of its best first halves in years. we discussed the performance with their ceo next kriti: -- next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ caroline: demand for everything from non-fungible tokens to jewelry seeing record sales. christie's released a key performance take away from the first half of the year. the auction house selling $3.5 billion in art so far this year. 13% higher than pre-pandemic 2019. we've got ceo guillaume cerutti. talk to us about what you are seeing in 2021. people are back and buying all sorts

we have seen from that side of things, the emma rathi's are trying to distance themselves from the saudi'sement of america in this is important because the abraham accords with the way for the errani's to buy credit in washington. the saudi saw it is buying credit at their expense because there was a lot of leverage being put on the saudi's to normalize and that was not just by kushner. many of the inner circle were looking at this as a way of the varieties putting pressure on him and saying maybe the saudi's can do it. there was pressure on saudi arabia at the level -- a level were saudi's could not make concessions without being too costly. it was probably not the right decision to go forward with normalization. that was an important element of competing in the information space. looking good in the eyes of washington. it sees -- seems they have tried to dissociate themselves from saudi arabia, leaving them to bear the burden of the conflict and leaving the emiratis with the freedom to maneuver without occurring costs -- incurring costs. >> complete the thought. >> in israel, the emirati