the qatar investment authority which invests on behalf of qatar's government. so who says big city real estate has to be complicated? or foreign policy for that matter. qatar tells the kushner family real estate company no, we're not going to give you hundreds of millions of dollars to bail you out of your failing skyscraper in midtown. u.s. policy toward qatar almost immediately turns suddenly and radically hostile against qatar. qatar freaks out a little bit, scrambles a little bit. qatar decides okay, we'll take another look at the kushner family real estate company's failing skyscraper. and they decide actually on second thought maybe we really do want to invest. open checkbook, swivel wrist, here's your money. and everybody looking for an explanation for why u.s. policy toward qatar just got real friendly again. without explanation. everybody looking at that suddenly remembers oh, yeah, that's why jared lost his security clearance. even if this isn't the selling of u.s. foreign policy, even if this isn't the blatant shakedown and extortion of a u.s. ally,

his views of qatar, the trump administration's position toward qatar and inquired about wanting to meetsteve bannon. i did not engage with mr. rumaihi. i tried to ignore him and change the subject. on or around january 2018 mr. al-rumaihi invited me on a hike. i found this unusual. i assumed we would be talking about the money the defendants owed the big 3 since i was consistently requesting they complete the funding they owed and set a rapidly approaching dead like. the hike was after the michael wolfe book was published and it had been reported rebecca mercer and the mercer family had pulled financial support from mr. bann bannon. he stated to me he wanted me to convey a message from the qatari government to steve bannon. he requested i set up a meeting between him, the qatari government, and mr. bannon to say qatar would underwrite all of his political efforts in return for his support. now this guy, who helped found this basketball league, had a previous business relationship with steve bannon. maybe it's a normal thing, hey, i need to you hook me up with bannon. yes, technically, b

if that time something right that in june 2017 why is qatar back in the story? my speculation is that qatar fwhwas in on the deal to be intermediary between russia and trump. they needed to get the money to the trump world. once the dossier gets published in january, qatar gets cold feet, then when they start backing out, there is a gulf crease is with the saudi arabia and united arab themmerits and the reporting it kushner tried to escalate that cries in april. crisis in april. then trying to get back into good graces with bannon and $184 million loan qatar backs to give to kushner. my speculation is the deal was in place. qatar plays intermediary role in december. then the dossier gets published. they freak out. ultimately when the screws are turned they then deliver a loan to kushner. >> so, when this allegations that turn up in the basketball lawsuit actually turn up, this is after, according to the lawsuit, allegations in the lawsuit that are denied by the gentlemen in question, this effort is to try to make contact with steve bannon. steve bannon has alrea

qatar had this unusual white house response siding with the saudis and the uae against qatar.nt after qatar big time for a good six to eigh eight months. is there any connection to refusal to pay for access and the president's negative response after the saudi summit. >> it's not clear if there's a connection but it is clear if there's a connection there would be potential liability. there's two possibilities for cohen or trump to be in hot water. i would say both are remote. the first is the actual out reach. it didn't go through. on the other side of things, as you say, the supreme court has pretty well foreclosed a liability for a straight quid pro quo for just access. that's a potential straightforward bribe case. that's a lot of facts for mueller to fill in there. anything that goes beyond access potentially grounds criminal liability. >> is there any indication that mueller is investigating this? >> well, there's indication that mueller is investigating everything. we can see it a million times but should say it five million. every little snippet we have learned about, h

qatar had a lot of ground to make up. as you know, nicolle, qatar found itself on the wrong side of trump's perceived foreign policy approach at the beginning of the administration. i don't know it's a fact they got nothing for -- hired michael cohen or using him as a conduit. maybe it's worse for qatar. maybe they sanded off some edges. i don't think we understand fully unless michael knows or has evidence, what was the relationship, did they hire michael cohen, did they pay him, get us a meeting and we'll pay you later? what were they specifically asking and requesting? who were those people in the elevator, who were they meeting with and what were they seeking. these are all legitimate, very significant questions and i think we have to understand before we can make any judgments about whether or not this was merely swampy or actually illegal. >> any thoughts? >> i think that's right. we haven't disclosed everything we know yet. again, i don't think those gentleman are in the elevator with michael cohen at that time in

today it's qatar and tomorrow it's another country., institutions that are in sort of bad odor with the united states that is thinking can we buy ourselves out of this. >> thanks. appreciate it. >>> more on the breaking news after the break. will attorney general jeff sessions be able to comply with the president's order or could he become the incomes casualty of the trump administration if he defies the president? this is bill's yard. and bill has a "no-weeds, not in my yard" policy. but with scotts turf builder weed & feed, bill has nothing to worry about. it kills weeds and greens grass, guaranteed. this is a scotts yard. and greens grass, guaranteed. you're trying to lower your very hwith a healthy diet... and exercise. and maybe even, unproven fish oil supplements. not all omega-3s are clinically proven or the same. discover prescription omega-3 vascepa. the one that's this pure... and fda approved. look. vascepa looks different... because it is different. it's pure epa. vascepa, along with diet, is clinically proven to lower very

however many goods are still finding their way into qatar through other countries including oman and kuwait and checks have been announced to make sure that shops are complying with the ban the blockade of qatar was imposed last june by saudi arabia egypt bahrain and the united arab emirates they accuse qatar of funding terrorist groups diplomatic ties were severed and transport links with the country were closed but economist a jack russell has told us that qatar has managed to adapt to the new sanctions. could tarp probably feels that the u.s. military bases there are are important enough that it can take reciprocal action but the outcome whether they're going to sit down and negotiate now from equal strength they have a lot of exports energy products and a lot of people will want to buy them so i don't think it will have a long term effect on target and the united states really doesn't want to come down on one side or the other given its policies now towards iran could turn is a lot to offer of the countries that don't really care about the feud with saudi arabia there is a financ

and in the last month or two, the administration position on qatar has changed a great deal.hat there's an element of the deception here that raises the question of what are people trying to hide. you noted that the company involved told me that there was no basis to confirm the video, which, you know, it's a video. we can see it right before our eyes. they stood by that position. i e-mailed them earlier today, and they stood by that. they said that remains the company's position, that there is no basis to confirm the video of ahmed al rumaihi, oh, and also they stand by their other statement today that ahmed al rumaihi was in trump tower on december 12, 2016. and michael avenatti posted on twitter there is really no way to square those two positions. but for some reason sports trinity is trying, i guess. >> jeremy stahl, malcolm nance, david frum, thank you all for joining us. really appreciate it. >>> coming up we have breaking news on north korea. loved to smile; and we knew he ♪ i thought i was managing my moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. but i realized something wa

however many goods are still finding their way into qatar through other countries including oman and kuwait and checks have been announced to make sure shops are complying with the ban and the blockade of cut thought it was imposed last june by saudi arabia egypt bahrain and the united arab emirates they accuse qatar of funding terrorist groups diplomatic ties with transport links with a country were closed but economist jack russell most told us qatar has managed to adapt to these sanctions. could target probably feels that the u.s. military bases near our are important enough that it can take reciprocal action but the outcome we're going to sit down and negotiate now. they have a lot of exports energy products and a lot of people will want to buy them so i don't think it'll have a long term target and the united states really doesn't want to come down on one side or the other given its policies now towards iran. contrary is a lot to offer other countries that don't really care about the feud with saudi arabia qatar is financial center that plugs it into the broader world and i'm i'

qatar said no. this development is the first time that we understand cohen is believed to have pitched his influence directly to a foreign government. novartis and at&t, korea air space, but this is the first foreign government. a "washington post" reporter broke the story and joins me now on the phone. roslyn, this is pretty incredible. a million dollars. did he want it up front and you know, made it after sort of meeting someone casually it sounds like. tell me what you know? >> we understand he met this official at a breakfast during the transition and the official who was the head of the, of an investment authority run by the qatari government informed him they were interested in making a big investment in infrastructure in the u.s. cohen got very excited. and in a series of subsequent meetings, started suggesting he could help the government with this investment project the they pay him $1 million up front. >> and so he literally has breakfast with this guy. and this infrastructure fund comes u

today, because of the world cup, the labour law has changed in qatar. gulf are going to get the same experience. and, as i said, my ambitions will be to have those 1.2 million workers who are not directly related to the fifa world cup benefit the same conditions as the rest. over the past six months, we haven't heard anything negative about the workers‘ conditions in qatar. at least not from those who are today building the stadium, the roads and the hotels. which is, for me, a strong sign that, yes, football can help change culture and behaviour, even in the more conservative societies. last month, samoura was herself reported to the fifa ethics committee over an alleged conflict of interest. she was accused of not declaring a family link relating to the 2026 world cup bid. while she was swiftly cleared, samoura says it is a clear sign that she doesn't have unanimous support within the organisation. it was definitely one of the most, let's say, laughable things i have seen in my life. just because somebody is called diouf and is ambassador for one of t

he took that meeting with qatar. no deal was reached. then in june, all of a sudden qatar getted blockaded. president of the united states says he supports it. qatar is funding terror. kushner backed that move at the white house. now here we are, may of 2018. all of a sudden the qataris, still under blockade, could be -- they are involved in the brookfield companies. brookfield says, not in this particular fund. but this lifeline to the kushner building appears to be imminent. is this timeline coincidence? >> i don't know. it certainly raises a lot of questions. maybe there's quid pro quos there, maybe not, i don't know. but this illustrates the problem that the president hasn't divested himself of his business interests. and the business interests of the kushner family with jared kushner being adviser to the president as well as son-in-law. so all of these raise questions as to whether decisions of the united states government are being influenced by business considerations of the trump businesses or of the kushner businesses. that's on

they wanted to overtake kuwait and qatar.under of saudi arabia, that's just historical fact. ok, is has lost its headquarters in raqqa in syria. you believe that they will go and reformulate a caliphate somewhere physically, geographically, again? if not that abu bakr al—baghdadi led entity, whether it is boko haram or the taliban, the impetus, the desire, the craving, the madness to create a so—called islamic state is alive and well in large numbers of islamists and their violentjihadist cousins across the middle east, across the muslim world. unless we confront that idea, the belief that it is a religious obligation — by the way, it is not and muslim scholars have repeatedly said it is not — unless we move that idea from under theirfeet, they will continue to attack and yes, there will be another caliphate declared in due course. right, so you make it quite clear and most would agree with you that you need to uproot this objective that the extremists have and try to get rid of the cause. is it only through a confrontational

i even realized where they were coming from the suggestion that it was an association between teen qatar and terrorism so you could argue this is working this is the black ops we know about we didn't know about the black ops during the iraq war so how much more it's been targeted at qatar and what's the what's the endpoint what's the mission here that's gone to that other regional power struggle that up until a few weeks ago was threatening the very fate of the earth itself great news for the world not so good news for the american armaments industry fortune report here's who isn't winning from denuclearization talks and friend in north korea south korea isn't winning we're all going to be alive and here merican military industrial complex isn't winning their shares have gone down down down since this all rich enough to have shares in military defense companies you still want to be alive and not be destroyed by a nuclear war but the fact is who is the military establishment was going up quite markedly up as the risk of a confrontation was regarded as becoming very serious and that's when

bureau of investigative journalism reports executive who over saw black ops in iraq hired for anti qatar attack bureau reveal we haven't been able to independently verify the story i should think that's true but i'd love to do that let's think about the the value of the original operators that is through their lives hundred million dollars are spent in this black ops campaign where fake videos are created which were meant to be for example videos and then they used those videos to track people who are watching them this is sophisticated stuff afshin and more than looking surprised nobody i mean and sort of this is all then used to attack the nation of kotor know what's happened is the same man his name charles i think is the way to say it he is now being employed to suggest that qatar is involved in terrorism there is no doubt at all that he is a trusted former member of the pentagon by the individuals who employed such folks for black ops hundreds of thousands of people have actually viewed this series and i've heard these stories emanating before i even realized where they were coming

to return the autonomy to catalonia and stop direct rule from it i mean what are the chances while qatar or the hispanics will be our always a spain i mean we have

-- and qatar on the other.reat respect for all of them. in thebeen a trader desert with all of them so i understand their cultures and they all come from the same family. this will be resolved, we have to let them resolve it in their own way. eric: are you still working with -- in qatar? tom: i work with all of them. they are all friends of mine. work you have done some with the public investment fund in saudi arabia. where specifically can colony do totar -- what can they dealshe pif to make more and do investments in the west? tom: you have mohammad bin salman who has revolutionized the kingdom. is moving that culture slowly and elegantly further to the west, he needs western expertise and enter -- and infrastructure. he is building a new city. he needs us to weigh in by investing there. as much as pif is investing in major companies everywhere. we need to believe in that system and being an investor in the region. hospitality, entertainment, resorts, things that were inconceivable in saudi arabia are startin

it's been one year since its neighbors imposed a blockade on qatar by land sea and air. a move that shattered the region's geopolitical landscape alliances have shifted and qatar has grown more self-reliant . but what caused the rifts between g.c.c. countries is there and insights and can the gulf ever be the same again the siege of qatar on a just zero. the chinese authorities call them the long and population. migrant workers who came to beijing to build clean and feed the capital. but they no longer fit the dazzling image president xi jinping wants for his show piece capital. so the city is getting rid of its poorest residents. and steve cho on this episode a one on one east we witnessed the massive dictions and demolitions reshaping beijing. during the beijing suburb of shin jan it's outside the fifty three road about fifty kilometers from the city center into recently almost one hundred twenty thousand people lived here now they must all leave. home. i mean it's really just an isolated actual price and that leader let's lighten up. they're not going to make them out

what is the greatest fault line between turkey and qatar... qatar... the sunni and shia divide. i would say it is the is less ideology causing that divide the big —— islamist. the way you sold that is... you talked about the emirates. the founder of the emirates wanted to bring them together. it is called the united arab emirates for a reason. you think it can be done and you can ove rco m e think it can be done and you can overcome these differences? think it can be done and you can overcome these differences7m think it can be done and you can overcome these differences? if we and the allies in the middle east do not walk towards this you will identify islamic state being both iraqi and syrian, but look at the muslim brotherhood... the territory they have... they want to demolish borders. they are talking about another reject unified the region. if we do not get behind it, others will lead us to that direction and we will wonder how did we miss that? the middle east union would have to reclaim and get rid of the extremists? you think that cou

the title was social thirtieth three qatar under all. that means. was so awful that. there were three countries who most of whom one color only declared up and there was little state in the world that nobody recognized and of course european members they're not going to recognize got donya so within the european union that could be trans from a position of the people of barker's of somebody i meant but national state there will be no possibility for to integrate or to have any relation with the e.u. institutions you're absolutely right that catalan conflict has implications beyond the spanish border i'm talking about the western balkans because cost of us beat to join the you can advance any further. because ben will never recognize it probably fearing the couple and like you said d.c. any kind of scenario where spain may change position on cost of the of the keep its position on catalonia was foreign minister of spain during seven years and i have tremendous pressure from some european countries from united states from somebody countries to recognize course or i neve

and whether he may have funneled money from qatar's enemies to trump's campaign.nd then george nader became a cooperating witness in the mueller probe. this is a phenomenon we're having to get used to in the trump era. things we thought were completely separate stories, important and complex and dark stories in their own right turn out to be connected. often in even darker ways than we imagined. well, today it appears to be happening again. only the turnaround this time is apparently getting shorter. this time we did not have to wait months for two giant seemingly unconnected stories to merge into a larger trump scandal. this time it only took a week. let us recall how this week started. on monday evening jane mayer and ronan farrow at "the new yorker" published this deeply disturbing report of accounts by four women, two of them named on the record, who said they had been physically abused by new york attorney general eric schneiderman. " and in what has to be some kind of land speed record for cause and effect schneiderman resigned his office within hours. at th

the kushner family has been in -relatedth qatar officials and individuals previously.out with this statement telling us there is nothing to do with qatar julia:. and to take this. cool, we know jared kushner is heavily involved in the middle east. i think that establishing the jaredf an action between kushner and the kushner companies, the fact that he separated himself, and the relationship with the atari's. >> qatar is in a fraught wrongcal position, on the side of a blockade with saudi arabia, bahrain, and the uae, currently much more closely aligned with the white house than qatar is. as we have seen in the machinations around michael cohen, there are people around qatar trying to cut business deals. not necessarily this one, but in other places. julia: we have to separate that. it looks like the kushner company finally has someone who can take the 49.5% interest in the deal. what is their ongoing involvement? it is not completely out, even if -- >> they will separately owned the retail at the base of the building. it will be interesting to see how brookfield and k

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now in the region and they trying to be a bit more independent and if we recall what happened with qatar trying to do the same thing to try to actually pursue independent policies and trying to assert itself as an independent power within the region and the international community i think that is kind of running a. campaign against you trying to mr trey you do you raising tension or maybe trying to utilize this to its benefit and trying to to to get things out of context i'm not justifying the position of the u.n. support i'm just trying to give some context to it and the reason why today it's being criticized i thing. there's a great degree of hypocrisy. on the part of heidi and as with the u.a.e. i mean we have to understand that as a sovereign nation they're going to do what they see as in their best interest and i think that up controlling sick without the support of i don't and having a very heavy presence in the horn of africa makes sense from a you a perspective you know one says blown out of proportion distorted very nice words but you do have sixty thousand residents on the isla

it's its purpose in the courts or has been distorted mainly by the likes of the muslim brotherhood qatar turkey actually the us state minister for foreign affairs and want to get a gas on social media talks about historic links between the people of the u.a.e. and sokoto what are those links and how come all of a sudden they become important now. well i think to be completely fair with you i think that what we see is growing tension between saudi arabia in the u.a.e. and it's manifesting in sokoto where there is i think of race number one as your guest mentioned in london you know for control of the waterways for very obvious geopolitical reason and then of course i think given you know certain elements over the past few months and even a few years within the d.c. i think he stands to reason for the u.a.e. to be a little bit wary of west coming out of riyadh in terms of policies and the decisions that are being made you know when it comes to certain and alliances open friendships and so i do see you know these efforts encircled that are you know yes he has been blown out of proportion be

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he solicited a payment from the government of qatar in 2016 in exchain for access to and advice about the then incoming administration. the offer with qatar declined came on the margins of a december 12 meeting at the trump tower, cohen did not participate in the official meetings but spoke separately to a member of the qatari delegation. joining our discussion now, jennifer rogers, a former federal prosecutor, harry litman is with us, a former federal prosecutor, and david corn, washington bureau chief and co-author of the new best-seller, "russian roulette". he's also an msnbc political analyst. and jennifer, i would like to begin with your observations about where this summer zervos lawsuit might take us. >> the important thing i think is not so much whether she ends up proving that he didn't tell the truth and defamed her and so on, it's the discovery. so as you were saying to rachel and she was saying to you, getting trump under oath talking about really anything is really, really dangerous for the president. so if she pushes ahead and is able to depose the president we're back i

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foreign policy against qatar changes.s, the refusal to be concerned about how bad this looks puts the trump administration in a league of their own. >> i agree. that's -- i think the appearance of conflict of interest, the suggestion that this was pay for play is damaging in itself. we now have a special counsel who is conducting the most serious legal investigation to find out whether charges like this have any factual foundation and i think it's important to distinguish between the appearance issues, which are real and should be dealt with, and the question, was this done for money? we don't know the answer and we shouldn't pretend we do. >> andrea mitchell, we should play the game can you imagine what donald trump had said if candidate clinton or president obama or the clinton foundation had written something like too many jobs in china lost which is what he wrote in his tweet. >> exactly. >> but what this raises, andrea, is the reminder the president has not divested that he's still at the top of a company doing busin

you're reporting michael cohen went after $1 million payment from the qatar government in exchange for access to the trump administration. walk us through this. it was september 2016 that tom barrack who had a relationship with the qatar government and royals for decades took them to trump tower to meet with team trump. they'd never met him before. what's cohen doing here? >> yeah. what's interesting to me about this one is it brings the cohen situation just that much closer to the trump administration. what we understand is that michael cohen met this qatar man who heads basically a government investment fund at a transition fundraising breakfast in early december, and then he ends up having sort of a side meeting with the man when the qatar delegation comes to visit michael flynn, the incoming national security adviser at trump tower in december, 2012. what cohen says to them is he hears they're going to be making a major investment in u.s. infrastructure, and he says i can help you do that. i can help make that work and pave the way. you have to give me $1 million up front. and the

england bidding to win the world cup in qatar in 2022, as greg dyke said.go with plenty of hope and optimism that they could cause something of a surprise. many thanks indeed. lets' have a closer look at the squad now with former captain terry butcher. well, long. are you excited by this 23? i'm excited. it is notjust for this competition but for the euros in and then in qatar as well. if you look at the way he's going to the back three to start with, it looks as if he is going that way. we found the 23 at 2pm. i put you on your spot and asked you about the your spot and asked you about the your 11th. you went with that three at the back and you believe that kyle walker, john stones and phil jones will be the three men at the back. i don't think they will be, thatis back. i don't think they will be, that is my team. i can't second—guess gareth. it should be that three? it is a good three at the back. five spurs players in there. the experienced cahill is out. and obviously be left wingback. a steady five men. just more experience than anything else. ken as

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he's taking their side against qatar which is one of our strongest allies in the gulf. and has a base for 10,000 american troops. and so he's turning his back on them. it's like one story after another with china, he's bashing china but yet all of a sudden, was a zte he was going to impose sanctions. he takes them off after all of a sudden coincidentally this company that he's got in indonesia gets money. >> half a billion dollars from the chinese government. the craziest this you talk about ukraine and russia, there's a similarity which is in both cases, qatar and uae are having a beef. they're fighting each other for u.s. influence. you've got ukraine and russia fighting for influence. what better of a situation if you're an auctioneer than when have you two bidders. >> exactly. >> seriously, that is what the picture starts to look like. you've got ukraine, we've got reporting saying the week after president poroshenko rushed home to key effective, ukraine's national anti-corruption bureau announced it was no longer investigating paul manafort. everything starts to lo

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