the trump inaugural committee, tom barrack, along-time friend and adviser to the president, was also pushing a plan to help saudi arabia acquire nuclear reactors. we know all this thanks to the aforementioned 50-page house overcommittee report that detailed how barrack used to push for this new power plant deal with the saudis. he was quoted as advocating on behalf of foreign interests seeking to obtain this u.s. nuclear technology. those foreign interests happen to be saudi arabia, specifically, helping the country develop its nuclear program by going around a long-standing u.s. policy that prevents them from doing just that. much to the alarm of proliferation experts. now questions about whether or not tom barrack was working on behalf of a foreign power did come up in the special counsel's investigation. in fact, we know that robert mueller referred that investigation into barrack's ties to the middle east to the u.s. attorney's office in brooklyn, which right now has an open and ongoing investigation on that topic.