well, you should know that he, that same general, was the main contact for elliott broidy and george naderrnment. for whatever nader and broidy were up to in the election, and thereafter. nader wrote to elliott broidy about a terrific, magnificent meeting with the saudi crown prince. "he was very positive overall, the prince even asked them to discuss their contracts with general ahmed." the same general ahmed. so apparently the guy who is going to be assigned to take the fall for the jamal khashoggi murder, he can maybe also take the fall for whatever election interference scheme the saudis may have been pitching to the trump campaign, the one that robert mueller is nailing down right now. nice. two birds with one stone, right? nice. congressman eric swalwell from the intelligence committee will be our guest live, next. of good start packaging. we distribute environmentally-friendly packaging for restaurants. and we've grown substantially. so i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back.

this guy, george nader, a somewhat mysterious figure.h president trump and another with the crown prince of saudi arabia. but we don't really understand how his whole part of the story is going to fit into the mueller investigation and our understanding about what happened to us in our last presidential election. but the other person we know nader was involved with at this time was a guy named elliott broidy, who is under federal investigation for deals where he was purportedly peddling influence over the trump administration to benefit saudi arabia, among other countries. his business partner appears to have been george nader. so we haven't really learned yet about what the george nader, elliott broidy part of the scandal is all 57b8about. but these two guys, and broidy until recently was a deputy finance chairman of the republican national party, they are some of the most intriguing question marks that remain. i think we can be sure, because one of them is a cooperating witness, that the question marks about them will not be therefore.

his name is george nader. he is an unusual figure in the russia scandal. he has been convicted on child pornography and child molestation charges. he appears to have had several ins with the trump campaign, including him apparently paying this foreign firm right after the campaign. he paid this foreign firm that had offered this mysterious pitch to the campaign in 2016. george nader is now a cooperating witness for the mueller investigation. he's cooperating, allegedly, under a deal that grants him immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony. so because of him, because in the middle of that strange story, they've got a cooperating witness whose already got immunity. he's already in the tractor beam of the special counsel's office here. i think that this story is one of the more intriguing mysteries of the russia scandal that we may ultimately get an explanation for. that one may ultimately be explained. for my money, though, the single most fascinating story in all of this is what has just been reported by veteran investigative journalist dexte

george nader is now a cooperating witness for the fueler investigation. he is cooperating allegedly under a deal that grants him immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony. so because of him, because in the middle of that strange story, they've got a cooperating witness whose already got immunity. he's already in the tractor beam of the special counsel's office here. i think that this story is one of the more intriguing mysteries of the russia scandal that we may ultimately get an explanation for. that one may ultimately be explained. for my money, though, the single most fascinating story in all of this is what has just been reported by veteran investigative journalist dexter filkins at "the new yorker." just before the presidential election on halloween, october 31st, 2016, franklin phora published this fascinating and very controversial piece at slate.com. and honestly, it has been driving me nuts ever since. we talked about this reporting a few other times on the show. you might remember it was about logs of internet traffic, logs of comm

ended up bringing these people together at trump tower in august of 2016 and exactly the role of george nader nader is an adviser to the uae and is now a cooperating witness in the mueller investigation. you know, how these different aspects fit together we are still trying to figure out. but we now know more about the back story to the august meeting. >> let me read you a statement from zamel's lawyer. he says he and his company have never been a target and provided full cooperation to assist in the investigation and we have never heard from them since. are there questions about legality. one of the things in your article -- it was all fascinating was the notion that they hired a u.s. law firm to figure things out. >> it is where is the line of what is allowed in terms of foreign participation, the participation of foreigners in campaign work. we reported the story that the firm reached out to a large firm based here in washington and asked for a legal review. we tried the firm and the firm didn't give a comment about the conclusion of the review. it's unclear exactly whether as proposed it

>> well, george nader had also been facilitating operations for the united arab emirates by linking theo the uae government. it could be that. but we don't know. all we any is there's unexplained money flying around at a time that psychological influence operations by this israeli group were paramount for almost everybody. another key point to this is, robert mueller went to israeli with israeli authorities and they tore cy group apart. they interviewed everybody, went there, seized computers and documents. this group is a black hole in the story of which we can only learn more and see whether they were actually tied to moscow in some way or just an independent operation that trump funded. >> can't wait to see the puzzle when it's all put together, perhaps sometimes this fall. >>> up next, add another name to the unusually long list of departures for the trump administration. this one on her own feet. what does nikki haley's exit signal a month before the midterms? there she is, on good terms, quitting. you're watching "hardball." rms, quitting you're watching "hardball. ♪ my lonely day

the proposals at a 2016 trump tower meeting with donald trump, jr., united arab emirates adviser george nader, and erik prince, founder of the mercenary company blackwater. "the times" reports there's no evidence gates acted on psy-group's proposals. last year, rick gates and his boss, paul manafort, were indicted by special counsel robert mueller's team on multiple counts of fraud and tax evasion. gates pleaded guilty to many of the charges. in turkey, authorities are searching for a black van seen leaving the saudi consulate in istanbul as they investigate the case of disappeared saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. on monday, "the washington post" published a photo taken from a cctv camera at the consulate that is believed to be the last known image of khashoggi. he had entered the saudi consulate to obtain papers related to his coming marriage. in tech news, the wall street journal is reporting that google will shut down its social network google plus after the revelation of a data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of ththousands of user. the breach was discovered in march, bu

one of the men said to be in that meeting george nader.is cooperating with robert mueller in his investigation. >>> this morning the guardian is reporting on a new lead in the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. he walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul one week ago and hasn't been seen since. turkish officials believe he was killed inside the consulate by the squad of saudi agents. now the guardian reports that officials are searching for a black van that left the consulate two hours afriter after khashoggi entered. security footage shows boxes being loaded into the van which carries diplomatic license plated. lea investigators say one of the vehicles, a van with blacked out windows, has become the focus of the investigation and was recently tracked to a nearby motorway. saudi officials say khashoggi left the consulate but turkish officials say that won't suffice. >> i don't like hearing about it. hopefully that will sort itself out. right now nobody knows anything about it, but there's some pretty bad stories going around. i do not li

obama and i believe bernie sanders did damage her in the primary and ralph nader cost al gore and rosross perot didn't help georg. w. bush, so there've been these kind of movement and i think a lot of the candidates or more moderate but if i were a republican -- >> president obama kind of help with the lid on things. you will find the glue that held the coalitioholdthe coalition tg unglued and let me give you one fact of the 30 top performing districts in the house, not one will be represented in the next congress to. it's not an indictment it is just the politics and where it is taken in some of these different directions. >> thank you for being here tonight. with one week left do you think we have seen the prius or is there more time for the pollsters? >> hard to read. >> we don't know. as the governor was saying, we all said two weeks is an eternity. trump has had a few good weeks of getting a trade agreement with canada and mexico in line with having the economic numbers where they are house i think helped his numbers and helped republican candidates. that's not a surprise but it's different and awarthat'sdi