has connections or close to power and erik prince is one of these guys erik prince is a very good friend of steve bannon he's his sister is betsy demos who is the education secretary and the trump administration well apparently he pitched a plan to strategically scam the american population and basically plunder afghanistan and thus exposing what the plan was all along private war erik prince has his eye on afghanistan's rare metals controversial private security tycoon erik prince has famously pitched an audacious plan to the trumpet ministration hire him to privatized the war in afghanistan using squads of security contractors now for the first time however buzz feed news is publishing that pitch a presentation that lays out how prince wanted to take over the war from the u.s. military and how he envisioned mining some of the most war torn provinces in afghanistan to help fund security operations and obtain strategic mineral resources for the u.s. once life for example shows that he believes that there's one trillion dollars worth of rare earth metals and things. like lithium for batte

erik prince very wealthy so prince briefed the top trump administration official directly talked up his plan publicly on the d.c. circuit and published op eds about it he patterned the strategy he is pitching on the historical model of the old british east india company which had its own army and colonized much of britain's empire and india quote an east india company approach he wrote in the wall street journal will use cheaper private solutions to fill the gaps that plague the afghan security forces including reliable logistics and aviation support you know you go to the wall street journal you go to bloomberg or you go to financial times and you see all of this stuff openly discussed the never gets the sauce on the shrieky cable news which is pushing hoax after hoax after hoax about very are social issues whereas the empire is being divided up and cut and chopped all the wealth stolen around the world in the only in the pages of the financial press you know well of course the east india company was a colossal failure and bubble the first could be the south sea bubble as well that the

his cia days was being rehired by erik prince. it was the first indication that things were moving and that money had been allocated. now we should point out that we have no idea where the money came from. the money could have been private. the money as far as the government is concerned appears that they're not paying for it, although i don't know that that's a settled question yet. so there is certainly a background here for the people involved. there is a senior official at the white house right now named michael berry who is the nsc intelligence director who worked with erik directly on the cia assassination program during the bush administration. and in fact, we have sources who said listen, berry was in our office all the time down in moyock working with erik to run these things. so you have a group of people who certainly know each other well, have the familiarity, and have clearly said to the president, you know, you're not getting the intelligence you need in north korea. you're not getting it in iran. we have the solutio

erik prince. also the subject of a bombshell "washington post" report in april that he as emissary of the incoming trump administration had gone to secret meeting in the transition in seychelles islands with emissary from vladimir putin's office. subsequent reporting revealed that the russian he met with was head of the russian sovereign wealth fund, fund that's subject to sanctions by the u.s. government. we now know because transcript of his testimony to house intelligence committee has been released today, based on the transcript he denies he went to the meeting in the seychelles on behalf of the incoming trump administration. also denies that he had any idea before he got halfway around the world to seychelles islands, no idea while he was there would be meeting with this head of the russian sovereign wealth fund. had no idea that's what he would do. but admits once he got there, met the russian guy. and now first time we have erik prince's characterization as to what that meeting was about. q

has connections or close to power and erik prince is one of these guys erik prince is a very good friend of steve bannon he's his sister is betsy demos who is the education secretary and the trumpet ministration well apparently he pitched a plan to strategically scam the american population and basically plunder afghanistan and thus exposing what the plan was all along private war erik prince has his eye on afghanistan's rare metals controversial private security tycoon erik prince has famously pitched an audacious plan to the trumpet ministration hire him to privatized the war in afghanistan using squads of security contractors now for the first time however buzz feed news is publishing that pitch a presentation that lays out how prince wanted to take over the war from the u.s. military and how he envisioned mining some of the most war torn provinces in afghanistan to help fund security operations and obtain strategic mineral resources for the u.s. once life for example shows that he believes that there's one trillion dollars worth of rare earth metals and things like a.

erik prince advised president trump's transition team. he is also the sister of -- he is also the brother of education secretary betsy devos. after trump took office, prince publicly pitched a plan to privatize the u.s. war in afghanistan. another member of trump transition team, cia veteran john maguire, is also reportedly working with prince on the new privivate spies and d global rendition plan. the intercept reports prince may have foreshadowed his new proposal in a 2016 interview on former white house chief strategist steven bannon's radio program, in which prince proposed reviving a version of the cia's vietnam war assassination scheme known as the phoenix program. phoenix like program. the phoenix program was a root canal done -- >> this is the phoenix program of vietnam? >> it was a vicious but very effective kill/capture program and in and that destroyed the viet cong as a military force. that is what needs to be done to the funders of islamic terror, and that would be even the wealthy heretical islamist billionaires funding it fr

which is erik prince's new for this new eric prince thing they want to hire them for millions of dollars to set up a large intelligence network and run counter terrorist propaganda. i think that means are going videos for the internet. so that's exactly who it's this is a private company whose officials and employees are full of veterans of u.s. covert wars in the reagan area. contra affair and recent actions in iraq and i get these are not nice people these are people who quite literally have it least every single one on one occasion has ended up in court on on the possibility of war crimes or war crimes adjacent. and who are some of these well known when i know who one of the items that he bought on to kind of help pitch this apparently is all over north from raleigh from the iran contra scandal you know he. according to scale and then he was brought in to kind of lend credibility that might help sell the efforts to the white house i think as you said is going to because this is ari nor odio no longer represents the last it's so bizarre because north following north actually represents

got that right here we have an american empire on the verge of collapse and here we have a guy erik prince who's connected to the political powers that be who wants to expand well who plunder the rest of the nation while the u.s. still ok ok so so in the us either the british empire in east india company versus the american empire america princes yes neo east india company whatever he's calling it is there any east company yes yes he wants to do it through his chinese registered company as you do. because he knows which is the next them fire this is him transitioning to the next empire i think i don't know if he's even allowed to set foot here but one surprising element is the commercial promises prince of visions that the u.s. will get access to afghanistan's rich deposits of mineral such as lithium used in batteries uranium magna site and where earth elements critical metals use some high tech from defense electronics one slide estimates the value of mineral deposits and helmand province alone one trillion dollars he doesn't mention actually even though he's doing it through he's proposi

you may recall erik prince, one of the key means behind this so-called intelligence network reportedlylled to the seychelles where he met with a russian operative. and guidance sought on the question of america's president in afghanistan tan jared kushner and steve bannon apparently went to him earlier this year when president trump was ready to make that decision. again, we've seen the trump administration turn to the same cadre of people who would undermine the intelligence committee. >> i also note that she had no knowledge of any such proposal. net price, thank you. >>> we have new polling data on a survey conductedgy the public research institute shows while president trump had the support of the majority of the gop, 3 in 10 republicans, 31% would prefer a different an indicacandidate e election. in a new quinnipiac university poll shows approval of president trump's performance at a near record low, 35%. with disapproval of voters at 58%. that compares to a november 21st poll that had his approval rating at 38% with 55% disapproving. and the tax plan, 29% of voters approving of t

about proposition eight to pay what it will to share time about security over the past six stone erik prince is going to step down. despite his busy schedule gotham travels the world to live out his dream and fly the colors of the indian flag it's a vet check out flashing audio wins from print outs pay to the entrance ticket to the sunday sports event a million dollars at that price the souvenir video looks like the trial for an action film. for his first year the novice finished school wide. the new maharaj as of today see themselves as the heroes of modern india. but in a country where hundreds of millions live below the poverty line. the lives of the super rich can have a dockside. india ranks number one in the world for tax evasion more than five hundred billion dollars a set to be hidden abroad. in guessing most flamboyant a will for default out of the business or bank housing for the for getting that on three dollars or has been developed by the government. they jane mallya made his fortune in the alcohol business as the boss of kingfisher beverages. he then launched his own airline ea

in germany scale of the intercept some high profile trump team advisors including our good buddy erik prince the notorious founder of the blackwater mercenary group are apparently pitching the administration on a new global lives that privatized version of the cia to circumvent the. u.s. intelligence agencies to the white house and cia director mike pump aoe not this apparently is true scale and call right that according to sources the plans have been pitched to the white house as a means of countering deep state enemies in the intelligence community seeking to undermine donald trump's presidency. so trump versus the deep state could bring us even more layers of deep state except this time it's privatized deep state because that sounds like just the thing the world needs most right now yet another globetrotting intelligence agency running out of control and behind the lines with weapons cache and very very very very very little oversight. well let's stop watch . you. know you get the. real that is what. lies at the bottom it's. just. what it looks like you know i got. to. the. limits of. the

interesting is everybody is denying this everyone's all across the board americans everybody denying yeah erik prince actually said and in e-mails to the intercept he said that unequivocal you stated that i have zero to do with any such effort and saying that i did do would be categorically false knowingly publishing false information exposes you just have a legal action the only effort i've quite publicly pitched is an alternative to afghanistan oh gosh you wouldn't believe all the north american friends you know the worst thing is. you know they're. we're going to cover two because national security codes this one from michael emerson told c.n.n. told c.n.n. that the white house does not and would not support such a proposal and could by no evidence of this ever came to their attention of anyone at the n.s.c. or white house at all so we will just have to hold our breath and find out if this is going to actually be something true however this year it was neither a person nor a winner of the reader's poll that took on the honor the honor went to the me to movement the cover and put it actually judd t

russia these are the sort of questions that have been asked the trumpet ministration denies it all erik prince denies it all with no idea how this even fits in to the general investigation into the trumpet ministration but we do hope for a transcript of the hearing going on behind those doors in the coming days the turkish uranium gold trader has admitted money laundering and helping iran evade u.s. sanctions rob told a new york court that turkey's president. it was prime minister at the time approved the transactions one of the banks implicated in the scandal vacuum kay denies any involvement. kenya's main opposition leader is refusing to recognize the inauguration of president over to. says he's going to be sworn in on independence day and become the people's president has been so reports in the capital nairobi on the fallout from another violent election process. there was a cheerful child who went to a neighbor's house to watch t.v. and play with his friends now his family moans him they say the seven year old was shot as he played on the balcony during confrontations between police and tw

erik prince was talked to about his connection with russia.hat can you tell us about that investigation? rep. heck: i think it is fair to characterize this football game, we have entered the second half. i have been saying for quite some time we were in the first quarter, but i think we are in the second half of this investigation. -- the pace,pace the interview schedule is dizzying and brutal. we have days when we interviewed two witnesses, and in order to interview witnesse witnesses require the consumption of hundreds of pages of documents, but we are proceeding the pace, and i am optimistic, as i have been from the beginning, that we will get to the truth. if you want to rewind to january and look how far we have come, it is considerable. in january, for example, the and ministrations was saying the entire allegation of russian interference in the election was a hoax. they are not saying that anymore, and for quite some time, they said there was no collusion except for now what they are saying was that collusion is not a crime. we are proc

and i was thrilled that douglas brinkly, erik prince, jane hampton also endorsed the book.i had them read it first, as well as general mcchrystal. because i wanted them to know that i went out of my way to be accurate but keep it moving and bring some new reporting to the it and, thankfully, they did that as well as brad meltzer. thank you very much. does anybody have any questions? [applause] >> [inaudible] thank you. you mentioned his early background and bringing up, are you aware of anything where he reflected on what drove him? he was very driven individual -- >> right. >> but that part of it, was that difficult upbringing? >> i'm going to use my pop psychologist, right? you have two choices when you have no supervision. and you don't get a present your entire childhood, he doesn't remember getting a single christmas present or birthday present even recognized. you could say to yourself i don't matter or i'm determined to matter. and he spent his life, according to the people who knew him best, making sure people knew he mattered. and, you know, an indian fighter, the

erik prince and put together a mercenary separate army.le to declare martial law, to be able to put into effect a world in which he controls it completely. and then he has this little mafia family inside the white house that will run the game. >> and we talked about this a little bit last night with chris matthews on "hardball" and i made the point that americans cannot wrap their heads around that idea because we're not familiar with an erdogan-type government or putin-type government. all over the world you have a family that runs the country, an insular fan base that is rabidly for the leader no matter what he does and then the resistance on the outside trying to get in. donald trump -- are you surprised by the swiftness with which he has corrupted and recruited the republican party? you have people on capitol hill who sound exactly like donald trump every day, trying to exonerate him and declare robert mueller to be a criminal. >> well, it shows you how effective he is at co-opting anyone who he has any chance of getting on his side an

erik prince did the same thing last week. he just said, you know what? answering your questions around pretty important issues. and donald trump jr. is coming in under a voluntary, you know, arrangement and he has not been required to turnover documents and we have not suspected relevant documents for his testimony. i don't think that's how you get to the bottom of this. i don't think you take these individuals who failed to disclose contacts in the past at their word. they're not worthy of that anymore. >> congressman swalwell, jeremy bash here. you guys are looking at the big issue of how much leverage does the russian federation have over american foreign policy. what's your view of that? does russia have leverage over our president? >> well, they certainly were able to get a response from general flynn right after president obama had put sanctions in place for what they did in the interference campaign. an immediate response by general flynn. and then of course the stipulation of facts in his guilty plea shows that he was talking to individuals, seni

council process and pushing this idea to do basically a private militia or in afghanistan with erik princeand this now is what happened is my understanding at mar-a-lago, and i think your point is correct. i think this is potentially where we could see this heading. not within the formal hours of the oval office, because i don't believe that's changing but it's the opportunities outside the oval where this happens. >> and where do you think he got the conspiracy theories? i mean, he didn't get those from general kelly. he got those from people like steve bannon and others that are sending him these articles and conspiracy theories and saying you need to back roy moore. >> but then what's happening in the construct. >> birtherism again. make racist jokes. >> what's happening in the construct of the white house when he does those things? what are they saying to him, and by the way, then it felt filters down to the white house press secretary. at what point do you say i'm not going to do this? >> what you're going to see is -- >> rip up the script. >> i think you're going to see general kelly