erik prince, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me.nk, will associate your name with blackwater and the disaster that struck your company in 2007, when your personnel were involved in the killing 01:14 iraqi civilians in baghdad. and yet, here you are a decade later, making the case to privatise one key element of america's military deployment in afghanistan. how come? believe me, i think about the nisour square even almost every day. that was was 11 years ago on sunday. september 16, 2007. look, to define the whole company by one day's bad events is probably not fair. they guys did more than 100,000 missions, protective missions for the us government with no—one under their care killed or injured. that said, as america now rolls over 17 years at war in afghanistan, more than $1 trillion spent, 21100 dead, thousands more wounded and tens of thousands of afghans dead, we are still spending, as a country, this year, $62 billion more than the entire uk defence budget. i think it is time — the bbc itself did an exhaustive study of afghanis

erik prince. welcome.hink, will associate your name was blackwater and the disaster that struck your company in 2007 when your personnel were involved in the killing of 14 your personnel were involved in the killing 01:14 iraqi civilians in baghdad. and yet, he worry decade later, making the case to privatise one key element of america's military deployment in afghanistan. how come? i think about that event almost every day. it was 11 years ago on sunday. september 16, 2007. to define the whole company by one day's bad events is probably not fair. they did over 100,000 missions, protective missions to the us government with no—one under their care killed or injured. that said, as america now rolls over 17 yea rs said, as america now rolls over 17 years at war in afghanistan, with over $1 trillion spent, 21100 dead, thousands more wounded and tens of thousands more wounded and tens of thousands of afghans dead, we are still spending, as the country, this year, $62 billion more than the entire uk defence bud

everybody from erik prince to roger stone to jared kushner to donald trump jr. if they're now are going to be prosecutions against witnesses for lying to congress on this subject, where do we start? so we'll have more on that coming up tonight, as well. if you know anybody who has testified to congress on this subject, if they seem a little more nervous than they did before today, this guilty plea today and the statement of offense where they nail him for lying to congress, that's probably why your pal is nervous today. on this guy, sam patten pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate, i mentioned before he really wasn't on anyone's radar before he turned up in court today. that's true in general. there are a few important exceptions to that though. this spring, a couple of eagle eyed journalists did interesting interviews with, and profiles with sam particularly focused on his relationship with konstantin kilimnik and sam patten-'s role in the former soviet political universe that started to come into focus in this investigation when manafort first got in troub

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