investigators finds that tom barrack leveraged his close ties to president donald trump and the administration to promote his own interests including by pushing mike flynn's saudi nuclear plant. elijah cummings wrote the trump administration has obliterated the lines normally separating government policymaking from foreign -- from corporate and foreign interests. the report says that barrack and trump campaign chair paul manafort worked together to try to put language that had been drafted by saudi officials into a trump energy speech. emails obtained by the "new york times" show them discussing how to change trump's speech to, quote, make our gulf friends happy. then during the transition, barrack negotiated with the trump administration for a position as middle east envoy to the uae while at the same time