defend themselves so if the pentagon doesn't want to get involved there's conveniently eighth option erik prince mercenaries and soldier of fortune extraordinaire the founder of blackwater yes v. blackwater the infamous private military company who is operations in iraq resulted in it being banned from the country only to really. and a new name but i never heard that. they were dead bodies everywhere in the city now you've been talking about even with t.v. from inside among the dead bodies lying on the street that's it which causes the middle of next seven years old. prince was out of sight for a while before resurfacing on the trump whom he donated a quarter of a million dollars to prince says officials in the middle east have already contacted him about assembling a force for syria and with john bolton as the new national security adviser one of the most radically militant talks in washington no one's going to care about princes shady past john bolton is here and we just had a big. it's a win win if you are unwilling to occupy a hostile desert in a country that doesn't want you there well priv

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here's abc's chief justice correspondent, pierre thomas. >> reporter: this is erik prince, the founder of the security company blackwater. he is also the brother of education secretary, betsy devos. sources allege he was also a liaison between the trump transition and the russian government, something he emphatically denies. here, prince is leaving a closed session with congressional investigators clearly annoyed. >> i've already wasted four hours of my life. >> reporter: but tonight, sources tell abc news the special counsel has obtained evidence that may conflict with prince's sworn testimony. at issue, a meeting prince attended at this exotic seychelles resort just two weeks before the inauguration. also there, a russian banker with ties to the kremlin. prince has said his meeting with the russian banker was unplanned, a chance encounter while on a business trip. >> i happened to be there, and i met a russian, some fund manager. i can't even remember his name. we didn't exchange cards. >> reporter: prince remembered the russian's name when speaking to those congressional investigato

with regard to nader, there was reporting this week that he actually met with erik prince before andfter this meeting in the say shells to kind of brief him on this russian financier they were going to meet with. and what i've heard is that this meeting in the seychelles was actually about activating some kind of bank accounts. that is something that mueller would be interested in. why was erik prince a trump supporter defacto member of the trump campaign meeting with had russian financier who is very close to putin in the seychelles and what can george nader tell mueller about it. michael cohen has been privy to pretty much every deal the trump organization has made within the past couple decades. if he entered into business with a russian or eastern european, he would know about it. with his controversy surrounding the daniels case, might be in the position to be flipped and cooperate with mueller. >> mueller's people are stopping oligarchs at the border, and grabbing them. they're saying let's see your computer, can your laptop. they start going through it. this is aggressive stuf

you know, erik prince is in the seychelles. erik prince, brother of a cabinet secretary and supporter of the president. he tells us it's a meeting of no consequence, but a russian ole dpau -- oligarch just happens to be there and sits down with a member of the administration. i'm not saying that proves anything and one reason that the house investigation never should have been ended is we don't know exactly what happened in that meeting but that's one example obviously of oligarchs in odd places around people associated with the trump campaign. >> why do you believe the special counsel's team has told white house lawyers, the president's lawyers that the president is not a target in their investigation? >> well, first and most importantly, i think that's probably true. and as you in your previous segment pointed out, you know, a subject -- i guess my colleague, tray gowdy, pointed out a subject can become a target in a new york minute, so i'm not sure this is something to celebrate for the president of the united states, though

defend themselves so if the pentagon doesn't want to get involved there's conveniently eighth option erik prince mercenaries and soldier of fortune extraordinaire the founder of blackwater yes v. blackwater the infamous private military company who is operations in iraq resulted in it being banned from the country only to reemerge and a new name. for the birth or. they were dead bodies everywhere in this argument going about it with two people inside among the dead bodies lying on the street that's which of course is the building of seven years old. prince was out of sight for a while before resurfacing on the trump whom he donated a quarter of a million dollars to prince says officials in the middle east have already contacted him about assembling a force for syria and with john bolton as the new national security adviser one of the most radically minutes and talks in washington no one's going to care about prince's shady past john bolton this year we just had a big. it's a win win if you are unwilling to occupy a hostile desert and a country that doesn't want you there while privatized it give

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themselves so if the pentagon doesn't want to get involved there's conveniently a third option erik prince mercenaries and soldier of fortune extraordinaire the founder of blackwater yes the blackwater the infamous private military company who is operations in iraq resulted in it being banned from the country only to reemerge. and a new name but i never heard that. there were dead bodies everywhere and this is the arguments on it i mean we keep it it's not among the dead bodies lying on the street that's who it was in the middle of the seven years old the. prince was out of sight for a while before resurfacing and the trump whom he donated a quarter of a million dollars to prince says officials in the middle east have already contacted him about assembling a force for syria and with john bolton as the new national security adviser one of the most radically militant talks in washington no one's going to care about princes shady past john bolton this year we just had a big. it's a win win if you are unwilling to occupy a hostile desert and a country that doesn't want you there well privatize

themselves so if the pentagon doesn't want to get involved there's conveniently a third option erik prince mercenaries and soldier of fortune extraordinaire the founder of blackwater yes the blackwater the infamous private military company who is operations in iraq resulted in it being banned from the country only to really. and a new name but i never heard that. there were dead bodies everywhere in the city college but it's going to be with the people inside among the dead bodies lying in the street that's. the middle of seventy years old. prince was out of sight for a while before resurfacing and the trump whom he donated a quarter of a million dollars to prince says officials in the middle east have already contacted him about assembling a force for syria and with john bolton as the new national security advisor one of the most radically militant hawks in washington no one's going to care about prince's shady past john bolton is here we just had a big. it's a win win if you are unwilling to occupy a hostile desert in a country that doesn't want you there well privatized it give your bud

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we have erik prince. and it looks like these two guys didn't casually and accidentally meet in the seychelles. >> there have been a lot of forgotten meetings with russians or meetings with russians that weren't very important among people in the trump camp. i'm sure mueller has noticed that, now he has an interesting hook for learning more about those meetings. we have eric prince who by all appearances is on the hook for perjury, that's the sorts of thing where mueller would be able to approach him and flip him. he would get better treatment in terms of sentencing, than he would get if he were to go to trial or be prosecuted for this crime. perhaps mueller will be able to use prince to explain all of these unexplained and forgotten meetings throughout the campaign. >> jill, let's talk about oleg daraposco. he is somebody who has ties to paul manafort. these have been established. he is the one who was paying paul manafort for lobbying work on behalf of the russian government and perhaps getting some acce

we know erik prince didn't tell the truth about the nature of the meeting. if it wasn't on the up and up, nothing they needed to conceal, why not tell the truth. >> that's true. it could be something they ended up getting tripped up and got into legal jeopardy by lying about it. and the meeting itself might not have that much critical potential in it but more and more it seems to be clearly the back channel that robert mueller is going for and the -- the -- the team's belief, possibly, that within that back channel is what they need to find out about the trump relationship to russia. >> i think that's right. you know, the fact that people lie about things could be a crime in itself. but more often it's a red flag because it suggests a consciousness of guilt. that you've done something wrong and that's why you're trying to cover it up. the second time we heard about this back channel. there was also the report that jared kushner had discussed seeking a back channel. if there is a back channel, what is it they wanted to talk about that they couldn't talk about

he allegedly facilities a meeting with erik prince, the brother of the education secretary. now to those charged but pleading not. paul manafort opted to go to trial rather than plead guilty. he's charged with conspiracy against the united states and money laundering. there are 13 russian individuals and entities. the russian businesses and oligarchs will likely never face trial but the charges stand as a statement point by the special counsel. there's raids. last summer the fbi raided the virginia home and storage unit belonging to paul manafort. this week the fbi under the direction of the united states attorney for the southern district of new york searched the office and hotel room of president trump's personal attorney michael cohen. and here's a look at all the people in the president's orbit who have been interviewed by the special counsel. just to bring you up to speed with where this is. joining me now, national security reporter and nbc news casual correspondent peter alexander. i'm going to ask you about your take on this and where it's going. particularly the pot

abc news learned of new questions about the congressional testimony of erik prince the founder of securityblackwater, major trump campaign supporter. those questions now being looked at by special counsel robert mueller. abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas is in washington with this exclusive report. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: george, good morning. that's right. today we have new details about the special counsel obtaining documents from a new key witness in the russia investigation. sources telling abc news those documents appear to call into question the congressional testimony of a prominent trump supporter. erik prince, trump supporter and blackwater security founder leaving a closed session of the house intelligence committee frustrated. >> i've already wasted four hours of my life on that. >> reporter: but sources tell abc news that very testimony is now drawing increasing scrutiny from the special counsel. the brother of education secretary betsy devos was irritated by democrats raising questions about a meeting he had with a russian with close ties to vladimir p

he allegedly set up a meeting between erik prince and russian contacts.ow, to those who were charged but not pleading guilty. paul manafort. he's opted to go to trial rather than plead guilty. manafort is charged with conspiracy against the united states and money laundering, among other things. he sued to get the charges thrown out, both in washington, d.c. and virginia courts. there are also 13 russian individuals and entities. the most symbolic portion of the mueller probe was the charging of the russian businesses and oligarchs. they'll likely never face trial, but the charges stand as a statement point by the special counsel. >> serious statement. >>> while those russians are not going to face trial any time soon, we know who will. paul manafort. he chose to fight, and his trial is set to begin september 17th, which happens to be the 231st anniversary of the u.s. constitution. ahead of the court date, manafort is suing to get the charges against him tossed. we alleges the special counsel overstepped his authority when looking into manafort's work wit

emerged however now there are at least cross links that lead to a with rb and there are actors like erik prince so one of trump's advisors sisters to it is the head of the department of education who was hired by the u.a.e. to create a private mercenary army partly to control the the were a guest worker population in the country. thank you very much for your time and your insights and to this call thank you. now the ministry of health and god has one palestinian has been killed by soldiers near the border and another has died of their injuries suffered in friday's bloodshed and that man from number of palestinians killed by israeli forces at the border on west twenty and a stephanie deck of a port from western bristol and the volunteers put the israeli army's rules of engagement under scrutiny these are unprecedented scenes along gaza's border with israel it's the biggest protest since a tiny strip was sealed off after hamas took power over ten years ago israeli army has been widely criticised for using excessive force it's hard to project their orders were strict i mean nobody should cross. th

nader who is this strange fixer character who can shows up in the meeting in the shea shells with erik prince and the russians, who has several child pornography if i charges against him on two different continents but who was trying to work over broidy a bit. >> broidy is beak trying to advance his interests with the uae and against qatar and you know, then his e-mails were hacked. so you know, there are issues there, as well. >> we got this today in federal court. mike cohen, we now know the federal prosecutors got his e-mails months ago. what's that mean? >> i've communicated with michael cohen quite a bit. this is not the kind of reserved tempered lawyer who in his communications. this is a guy who most of his activity as far as i can tell is either this nda stuff or business deals often with very unsavory people around the world. he's a very direct person. he's. >> my favorite quote in the daily beast story about a rape allegation withdrawn by donald trump's former wife, what i'm going to do to you is disgusting is what he said to the reporter. >> he uses extreme language and he contradi

why we can't figure out whether roger stone was being truthful or whether erik prince was being truthful. that work is still going to have to be done, if not by us, then by the special counsel delicious is a school of thought i hear coming from republicans, allies, the president, that there is something illegitimate, if it ends up being the case, the investigation into russia and the possibility of collusion leads investigators towards other evidence of wrongdoing or crimes committed by people in the president's circumstance oral by the president himself. that stuff somehow doesn't count. it's in some other category. the only thing that matters is this sort of narrow question is did the president collude. what is your response to it? >> first of all, the scope of the investigation, the chart they're bob mueller has been given is to do a russia investigation. the relationship between russia and the trump campaign, but also to investigate anything that arises from that. now, i don't know that you can say that the stormy daniels stuff -- and i'd have to look back at the origin of it, that s

fund manager he arranged a meeting between dimitri of and a liaison from the trumpet ministration erik prince just before the election also miller's apparently looking into a meeting between a hedge fund manager a guy named richard gerson who is a friend of jared cushion or steve bannon was there nader was there as well nader seems to be this sort of this this this around which the wheel of much of this investigation goes so we're learning a lot about ties to russia that we had not known before so he was thought originally to be a source for this ten general line of questioning into whether money was being funneled from the united arab emirates into the trump campaign or somehow helping out trump now we're learning that he has ties to russia that go to the very center of miller's investigation john hendren in washington thank you very much for that stay on top of the miller investigation with got a spotlight page up on al jazeera dot com with all the latest developments the major players and a closer look also into the web of connections between the u.a.e. of russia and the trump administrati

. ♪ erik: welcome to this bloomberg television special, an exclusive conversation with prince alwaleed schatkzer. ♪ erik: he is one of the world's richest individuals and undoubtedly saudi arabia's best-known businessman. his kingdom holding is one of the largest companies listed on the saudi exchange, and his investments span the globe. last november he became the most prominent figure detained in the so-called crackdown on saudi corruption. alwaleed would be held at the now infamous ritz-carlton hotel for 83 days. since his release, he has kept silent -- until now.

syria or if they are replaced by a nato arabs of military force the saudis so to speak organized by erik prince they will be nothing other than a trip wire allowing the u.s. to bomb either through bombs or missiles against any force including the sovereign syrian arab army that seemed to interfere with the american zone of influence in the northern and eastern part of syria the trumpet ministrations decided to drop some restrictions on sales making more american military drones available to its allies there are concerns the policy puts money above human rights as americans explains the trump administration says that the these new reforms are intended to strengthen the american economy now the policy will cut back the time it takes to approve arms deals as well as ease limits on drone exports to name a few but it's not the only reason why trump is trying to make it easier for other countries to buy american weapons to reduce their reliance on weapons from china and russia but if we look at trump's time in office so far this really isn't anything new he kicked off his presidency a signing an arms