anybody who ever believed that was a casual meeting in the seychelles. i would like to offer them the 666 building that the kushners now have. it was never believable. that was ridiculous, he's another contact to russia, it's another thing that is manafort and gates are clearly involved with, and they were very much involved in the trump campaign so we're looking at not just obstruction, we're looking at collusion, and i think the evidence is growing on both of those cases. >> i want to ask you something, joyce, the rosen stein memo this week authorizing robert mueller to look into manafort's business dealings, obviously manafort is the connection the memo specifically authorizes collusion by the former campaign chairman himself. the investigation of russian ties clearly is not limited to more fringe players such as george papadopoulos or the ever surprising carter page. it means the fbi had a basis to suspect russian collusion involving the highest levels of the trump campaign. this gets interest will it's a lot of money laundering, not disclosing busin

just a week later, prince was in the seychelles having a beer with that russian banker. a meeting he said was unplanned. prince has said he was not representing the trump transition and he has spokesman told us he stands by his testimony before congress. tom? >> pierre, thank you. >>> the fbi and other federal agencies shutting down the classified ad website, backpage.com. authorities blocking access to the website posting this announcement instead. backpage has been under fire for years for allowing adult ads for sex workers and for allegedly enabling the sexual exploitation of minors. >>> next, the menendez brothers reunited in prison. lyle and erik menendez convicted of killing their parents in a case that made national headlines. the two seeing each other for the first time in more than 20 years. here's abc's whit johnson. >> reporter: tonight, the brothers reunited behind bars. the member -- menendez brothers serving their sentence for murdering their parents inside their beverly hills mansion. their 1996 interview with barbara walters, one of their last times toget

just a week later, prince was in the seychelles having a beer with that russian banker. a meeting he said was unplanned. he says he was not representing the trump transition and he says he stands by his testimony before congress. tom? >> pierre, thank you. >>> the fbi and other federal agencies shutting down the classified ad website, ba backpage.com. authorities blocking access to this website. it has been under fire for years for allowing adult ads for sex workers, and for allegedly enabling the sexual exploitation of minors. >>> next, the menendez brothers reunited in prison. they made national headlines. the two seeing each other for the first time in more than 20 years. here's abc's whit johnson. >> reporter: tonight, the menendez brothers convicted in the high profile slayings of their own parents reunited behind bars. their 1996 interview with barbara walters, one of their last times together. >> i'm just a normal kid. >> oh, erik, you're a normal kid who killed your parents. >> reporter: back then, a detective arguing the partners in crime might conspire to escap

that was the president of the seychelles.h to modernise and decriminalise homosexuality. back to you. studio: thank you. we will talk more about that later in the programme. thank you. good morning. mps will honour the labour peer tessa jowell in the commons later today and her campaign to improve the lives of people with brain cancer. the debate has been called to mirror the one led by baronessjowell in the house of lords earlier this year, when she described her experience of being diagnosed with a brain tumour. baronessjowell had a long career at the top table of british politics, serving as culture secretary and olympics minister, helping to win the bid for london to host the games in 2012. this was baronessjowell speaking to the lords back injanuary. baroness jowell. i got igot in igotina i got in a taxi but couldn't speak. i had two powerful seizures. two days later i was told i had a brain tumour. they need to know they have a community around them, supporting and caring. being practical and kind, while doctors look at

a week later prince was in the seychelles having a beer with dimitriev.he was at the seychelles meeting, something prince never mentioned in his testimony. prince denied going to the seychelles as a representative of the trump transition and a spokesman of his tells us he stands by what he told congress. george. >> scope of this investigation is wide. thanks very much. paula. >>> there are also new developments this morning in that deadly water slide case which took the life of a 10-year-old boy back in 2016. the co-owner of the kansas park has pled not guilty to second degree murder, and abc's diane macedo is here with all of the details. diane, good morning. >> paula, good morning. jeff henry said only that his heart goes out to the boy's family as his lawyer called the allegations against him ludicrous. but prosecutors say henry ignored safety standards in a rush to open the world's tallest water slide. water park designer jeff henry is pleading not guilty to second degree murder in connection with the 2016 water slide death of 10-year-old caleb schwab

still the question of what happened in the seychelles? and what did nader have to do that?pparently much deeper tied to the russians than we thought. we thought he was an in between person. he may have been part of the russian deal. meetings like that going back to trump tower with the family members there and all the time, michael cohen and what he's been up to overseas. is trump was he trying to make money as he ran for president and entang lick both together. >> mueller's investigation i think was always going to shift into a follow the money type probe in terms of whether or not the president actually had -- whether or not russian had leverage over the president probably in the form of something financial because of his real estate empire. with regard to nader, there was reporting this week that he actually met with erik prince before and after 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

could build a military base on diego garcia the largest island they were forced into exile in the seychelles often living in poverty but in two thousand and two a legal change allowed verma and their children as well as a small number born between certain dates to apply for british citizenship and now a community of several thousand lives here in crawley south of london but hundreds of them don't qualify for a british passport and the local member of parliament is now proposing legislation giving them that right and cutting the cost involved from fourteen thousand dollars to less than three thousand later generation born in russia born in the seychelles don't under normal nationality law have an automatic right to you cases and shit through no fault of their own because their ancestors were forcibly exiled from their home island so really what this proposed change in the law does is to recognise unique set of circumstances that at the moment is dividing families one of those families or the sergei's two years ago sharon america's national came to the u.k. with her two children to join her hu

he helped set up that secret meeting in the seychelles between the russians and a top trump adviser, that sneaky meeting in the indian ocean. tonight we're learning much more about him and his very deep ties -- guess what -- to russia? >>> plus as epa administrator scott pruitt is on the chopping block, it looks like it despite the bad headlines. he's holding on but trump's recent comments about pruitt aren't exactly a vote of confidence. >>> and with republicans facing a potential wipeout this november, party leaders are sounding the alarm. senator mitch mcconnell says the party could be in for a category five hurricane at the poll this is november. is the situation as dire as it seems for republicans? i think so. >>> finally, let me finish with what i think and how i expect things to end this year. this is "hardball," where the action is. ine, but we know a lot about drama. from scandalous romance, to ridiculous plot twists. (gasping) son? dad! we also know you can avoid drama by getting an annual check-up. so we're partnering with cigna to remind you to go see a real doctor. go, k

could build a military base on diego garcia the largest island they were forced into exile in the seychellesoften living in poverty but in two thousand and two a legal change allowed verma and their children as well as a small number born between certain dates to apply for british citizenship and now a community of several thousand lives here in crawley south of london but hundreds of them don't qualify for a british passport and the local member of parliament is now proposing legislation giving them that right and cutting the cost involved from fourteen thousand dollars to less than three thousand later generation born in russia born in the seychelles don't under normal nationality law have an automatic right to you cases and shit through no fault of their own because their ancestors were forcibly exiled from their home island so really what this proposed change in the law does is to recognise unique set of circumstances that at the moment is dividing families one of those families or the sergei's two years ago sharon america's national came to the u.k. with her two children to join her hus

we've been around the world on the couple of locations we was going to go to the seychelles we were going to go to it and i had the and all the planning and then rizzi says just not me the six and says i want to get married in the arctic and at that point i just said i'll just arranging to make sure i'm there and left it's who . i'm here we are. the couple spends ten days getting to know the country before the ceremony. on horseback they explore the sparsely inhabited expanses of finland snow covered forests. and discover breathtaking natural distance. then they visit a husky farm. the couple has very much been looking forward to a ride on a dog sled but first they have to take a crash course in mushing. time ok hold on and just then to gracefully look. like the movie it's ok yeah right. and if you aren't slow down you gotta just frank ok but but. i'm. spending time in the untouched nature and being close to each other those were the main arguments that convinced the couple that the wintery lucky ranch in the finnish arctic was going to be the right wedding location for them. we started o

in mauritius and the seychelles we managed to get plastic bags band, very inconvenient in the beginninge have seen other exa m ples of used to a. we have seen other examples of that closer to home. he said radical measures. does the kind of thing announced by theresa may today count as radical measures,? i think it is very radical. it's radical in the way that this is a great role model and example for other countries to follow, and we are starting with this and soon we will move to plastic bottles because this is an area i work in, and mauritius we're getting people to shift from bottled water to tap water. examples like these are what we can take back home and take that to other countries in the commonwealth and pay them —— tell them this is what the uk is doing and you should follow them. is obviously the week of the commonwealth heads meeting and let's talk about the youth forum of the commonwealth summit as well because thatis commonwealth summit as well because that is something you know very well. i understand you met prince harry and meghan markle this week and they are clearly

and it gives much smaller nations are voices well, we were talking to the president of the seychellesant a voice on the world stage, we have almost an equal voice to britain or india orany of almost an equal voice to britain or india or any of the other members of the commonwealth. that's correct and from my eight years at the eu development programme, because i was working with the commonwealth on these issues, was how it worked on climate change, how it worked under small and developing states issue, and finance for small countries who tend to be wiped out after big storms and can't afford to borrow commercially. i saw the emphasis on trade so it picked up the idea of small islands and ran with it. do you think the commonwealth needs to modernise? gunfire there is the beginning of the gun salute. let's just listen in for a the gun salute. let'sjust listen in for a minute. 53 gun salutes to mark the 53 nations of the commonwealth. you're watching the king's troop royal horse artillery in green park next to buckingham palace with a 53 gun salute to mark the formal opening of the commo

time of real challenge when it comes to the environment and climate change, countries like the seychelleseel that the commonwealth is something that can really help. what would you outline as the key environmental challenges for the commonwealth? climate change is an existential threat to island nations and we would not be able to support human populations unless climate change is checked, just think of last year's hurricane season. think of last year's hurricane season. we had some hurricanes which really affected countries badly. so the changes that are coming, i think some of our nations might not exist if we don't tackle them. the british government is trying to set a lead with its consultation with a ban on plastic stores, for example, how important is that? —— plastic stores. the state of the ocean is very important. climate change is a bigger problem, more serious, but slower moving, but the situation in the oceans is extremely dangerous, and all of us depend on the oceans and all of us depend on the oceans and to have turned it into a garbage dump, a sewage place, i think is a cri

official a russian oligarch apparently who met with an emissary from the trump campaign in the seychelles in a meeting apparently arranged by this george nader and we know that muller has followed up on some of these suggestions that he has pulled a russian oligarch that he's had his his officials pull aside a russian all the guard who was at an airport in new york asked about donald trump in his connections with russia seized that man's electronics which are apparently being examined right now there was also an aussie businessman an australian businessman who was stopped at a washington airport he was questioned about ties to russia so and to the united arab emirates so what we know is that george nader is providing a lot of information on two different lines of the miller inquiry and we know that the mother inquiry has been questioning a number of important things as others have agreed to cooperate with the investigation how much progress is we're going to make. well miller's been very good about masking exactly what he's doing it seems to me that the information we get tend to be tends

prince of dobby has helped arrange a meeting with a trump liaison and a russian official in the seychelles but what we're learning more is that he didn't just ten generally have connections with russia he has had a relationship with russia that goes back for many years he helped broker an arms deal between iraq and russia that later fell apart but he also knows key people in this investigation one of them is carol demetrius he's a russian state investment fund manager and so what we know now is that muller can ask him not just about these u.a.e. connections but also about his connections with russia and we have evidence in the new york times article to suggest that miller is following up miller apparently had his people stop an australian on to a producer who was traveling in washington at the airport about his ties with the u.a.e. and about nader and russia and we also know that he stopped in all of our kit in new york airport asked about trump and seized his electronics so miller seems to be following up on these questions from nader who seems increasingly valuable to him how much progre

ties to the manager of a state run russian investment fund to apparently set up a meeting in the seychelles with a russian fund manager and trump advisor and this apparently taking place just before donald trump took office another interaction that is being investigated we're told is the looking into the interactions that mr nader may have had in two thousand and seventeen with a new york fund manager and at that meeting supposedly stephen k. bannon who was the president's chief strategist has since left the white house and also chaired questioner who has been the special prosecutor's writer as well and is of course also donald trump's son in law was also apparently at that meeting so there's a lot of interest in the meetings that have been taking place and that is what the special cross prosecutor robert muller is looking into further and how is all of this playing out in the capitol committee is it putting pressure on the government . it's been under the the white house the executive branch of the government has certainly been under some pressure for a while that separate from the u.s. co

think that you can't decouple the activities with respect to the oligarchs with respect to the seychelles meetings that were investigated with the cooperation of gates. these are all evidence of a broadening financial investigation that includes both financial crime and what we call coordination in the -- or conspiracy in the election law context. >> guy? >> yeah, i think juliette and michael are right on point. remember, don, the prosecutors that bob mueller has picked on this case are some of the smartest, most aggressive, terrific prosecutors that i worked with when i was with the justice department. they prosecuted enron, world comm and a number of the most sophisticated financial fraud cases the department brought. they know how to trace money. to me as a prosecutor that was always very, very powerful, powerful evidence. and that's got to be really what's making the president very angry here, that this investigation is not condensing. it's not getting smaller. it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger. >> supposed to be over by thanksgiving and then christmas. did you want to weigh i

nader used his ties with the russians and especially a russian oligarch to set up a meeting in the seychelles islands. nader wasn't necessarily a major player in the trump campaign team and many respects he tried to burnish his resume and work experience. >> shepard: thanks, catherine. thanks for being with us. where do you see us in this investigation now, on sanctions and money? >> money is the key. it always has been. with in corruption or fraud type of cause, you follow the money. it's there. robert mueller and his team are locked into this. they always have been. we've seen that they have stopped some individuals at airports to talk about money that may have been sent to the nra and possibly funneled through to the election. so it's always been about money. even the manafort cause is about that. so you pulled that threat, it's true to any investigation like, this you usually reveal what the trust is. >> shepard: through this process, the kinds of people they interview, the kinds of questions they're asking, those that you have said give us an idea what it is they're doing. you say it's a

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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

eric prince in the seychelles and republican say this was not the smartest thing to do, but it's not collusion. democrats say, of course this is collusion and we have to figure out now if there's criminality. the republican report yesterday, that is the conclusion of their effort on the house intelligence committee. democrats say they're going to keep investigating. they brought in cambridge analytica whistleblower this week and adam schiff says he's going to continue to bring in witnesses. they don't have subpoena power, that will be the challenge. so the only people they'll be able to talk to are people who want to come in to them. that obviously changes if the house flips next year. until november, it's only going to be friendly witnesses. >> does it also open the door for republicans to cast dispersions on these interviews that take place if they're not willing parties to it? >> yes, and republicans aren't participating. the whistleblower from cambridge ana will. ytica met with democrats and republicans said we're not taking any part of this. they're standing by the report, sayin

we knew that he had arranged a meeting between a trump liaison and a russian businessman in the seychelles but what we're learning now according to this new york times article in and is that he also had deep ties to russia that he has had them since at least two thousand and twelve when he negotiated an ill fated arms agreement between iran and russia that he is familiar with all the guards there and what that means is that miller can ask not only about the u.a.e. connection whether money was funneled from the united arab emirates into the trump campaign or its allies we can also ask about russian collusion whether russia helped trump in that campaign so that intertwines two parts of two major strands of this investigation and of course nader is a cooperating witness he has an immunity deal and that means he is protected when he talks to miller and he isn't the only figure who has made a deal with rob a lot of there are those that have been questioned on l. cooperating with the investigation how is the inquiry making progress. well we know that motor has been recently following up on both