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Very happy to have you with us. Happy friday. A lot to get to this hour in a heterogeneous news day. A lot going on. We will start with george nader. This is george nader. 1985. He was indicted in washington, d. C. On child pornography charges. He ultimately beat the charges in court because he and his legal team got the charges dismissed on the evidence in the case being improperly seized from his washington, d. C. Apartment. That was not the end of it. Not by a long shot. Five years later, george nader was indicted again on similar charges after he was caught with child pornography. This time not in his apartment, but in his luggage in Dulles Airport in the d. C. Area. He was convicted in that case and served time on the child porn charges, but that was also not the end of it. Five years after that, prosecutors excuse me, 10 years after that in 2000, george nader trafficked a child for sex into the United States. He brought a 14yearold boy to the United States from europe for the purpose of sexually abusing the boy here. Prosecutors said nader did that in the year 2000 and they have evidence to prove it. We will have more on that in a moment. Ye three years after in 2003, he was convicted in the Czech Republic of abusing multiple boys. It is unclear what his sentence might have been in conjunction with that conviction in 2003, but the conviction itself is a matter of public record. Then after that career, in 2016, the same george nader turns up in the Trump Campaign. In what is an astonishingly scandalridden presidency with a cast of characters, he remains one of the most unsettling figures in all of trump world. Again, to be clear, we are not talking about jeffrey epstein, seen here with the president who is also now in custody awaiting child sex trafficking charges. This is a whole different guy who you can see in this picture with the president who is now in federal custody awaiting a different set of sex trafficking charges as well as serious child porn charges and not for the first time. George naders role in the Trump Campaign and the transition and even in the Trump Administration is not a glancing thing. Hes not just a guy who showed up at a fundraiser once. In august of 2016, the peak or height of the campaign that year, he turned up at trump tower in a meeting with donald trump, jr. And eric prince and joel zamle and the purpose was to offer help in beating Hillary Clinton from foreign sources. The United Arab Emirates were offering material assistance in the campaign of a social media effort designed to turn off clinton voters and activate trumps voters. Nobody quite knows what happened to that pitch for that foreign assistance for uae in saudi arabia, but that was by georged in aner trump tower and nader ended up paying a couple of Million Dollars as soon as the election was over. What was he paying for . We know from the new york times, after that august 2016 meeting as election day got closer and closer and people were more and more for nettic, he was a welcome presence in trump world. New york times describes multiple meetings taken in the final weeks of the campaign between george nader and Trumps National security adviser, mike flynn and his campaign manager, steve bannon and his soninlaw, jared kushner. In the final weeks of the campaign when guys like that should have had time to meet with no one, they were taking multiple meetings with george nader. After trump won and before he was sworn in december of 2016, there is george nader again meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel with the ruler of the United Arab Emirates who went out of his way to not inform the Obama Administration that he was making that visit despite the fact that he was the ruler of a foreign country and thats what you are supposed to make the foreign country know about if you are visiting the United States. He did not tell them he was here in that meeting in 2016 during the transition. The cast of characters involved george nader, the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates and steve bannon and jared kushner. Also rick gerson because of his in funneling a putinapproved document that he obtained from the head of a Russian Investment Fund connected to the kremlin and he delivered that document to the trump transition with direct approval from vladimir putin. That happened in december of 2017. In january of 2017, there is george nader again at a meeting so that eric prince could meet the guy there as an emissary of the kremlin and he was supposed to be there for the Trump Administration and they mead in a meeting described in detail and again right there in the middle of that meeting, the same guy. The child porn guy, george nader. Once the Trump Administration took office, he is described as a frequency presence in the white house, making frequent visits to spend time with steve bannon in his White House Office just off the oval. He reportedly was part of multiple pitches made to the Trump Administration involving Elliott Broidy under federal investigation for his role in the inaugural and influence peddling in part through his great connections with this guy george nader who had so many ins with the Trump Campaign and the transition and the trump white house. He was a perfect conduit for a guy like broidy. Last month as george nader was flying in from dubai into new york city, he was arrested yet again on yet another round of child pornography charges and today in federal court in the Eastern District of virginia, he was formally indicted on the charges. He had a tentative trial date set for september. Prosecutors have added that charge of child sex trafficking dating back to the year 2000. That allegation of nader bringing a 14yearold boy to the country to abuse him that year. In todays court hearing, naders defense team signalled they would challenge that charge, the sex trafficking charge on the grounds that the statute of limitations expired. It was in the year 2000 and to go for him to be charged with that crime. The prosecution signalled they believe they have a work around to charge george nader even though it happened so long ago. The prosecution incidentally signalled in court that one of the witnesses that they will call to provide evidence is somebody who speaks czech, the czech language. Presumably that means there may be a nexus to the still mysterious child abuse charges for which nader was convicted in 2003 and about which no u. S. Reporters have been able to figure out very much. So bottom line, if you are wondering, no, all is not well. None of this is normal. Even if you ignore everything the president of the United States has ever said, including all of the atrocious deliberately outrageous racist things he has been saying just over the past week, even if you have never heard him speak, nothing about this presidency is normal. This is not normal what you are seeing on the screen here. None of the scandals surrounding this president including this one are anything like what we have seen from other president s. From even the worst president s. Part of the reason george nader, convicted child porn aficionado, george nader, part of the reason he is in trumps world is his name appears in the Mueller Investigation more than 100 times. He gave multiple interviews working with muellers team. Thats how we know what Mueller Reported about the somewhat mysterious meetings happening with the Trump Campaign and the transition and the Trump Administration and various foreign entities that nader was involved with. A lot of the stuff in the Mueller Report that surrounds georged in aer and that might explain his role is blacked out as grand jury material or protective techniques. I think this is page 148. Tons of stuff gets to the full narrative and its blacked out as grand jury material. If we get a judge to allow muellers report to be released to congress and the public, a lot of what we will see is flushing out of what nader was able to provide to fbi agents and the Mueller Investigation before he had to go back to jail to face more child porn charges and sex trafficking charges as well. As of right now he is in custody awaiting both sets of charges in virginia and the judge cut off his defense when they tried to raise the prospect that he might get out on jail. The judge said given the nature of the charges and the extensive overseas access he has, the decision have him detained is appropriate. They said we are asking the court reconsider that issue. We filed a motion when the case was under seal earlier today. The judge said i will have a look at it and the defense lawyer thank you, your honor, but the judge said i looked at the Pretrial Services report and when i saw the amount of time that your client is outside the us and carrying enough of an exposure that the incentive to flee would be quite high. I will read your motion to let him out, but really . There is george nader whose presence spreads like a food stain through the pages of the Mueller Report. Newly charged as of today not just with additional child porn changes that he face and done time for in the past, but also charged with International Child sex trafficking. That indictment unsealed today has bail denied. This happens of course just as washington braces itself for the expected testimony of Robert Mueller on wednesday of next week. There has been a ton of back and forth about the exact details and the logistics. He is going to do three hours with the Judiciary Committee first and then two hours after that with the comparatively smaller Intelligence Committee. The first round with the judiciary will focus on alleged obstruction of justice by the president. The second setting with the Intelligence Committee will likely focus on russias attack on our election and the Trump Campaigns involvement in and awareness of that attack. His team will be allowed to testify as well. Quietly a few days ago, the lead agent who worked on muellers team did do nearly five hours behind closed doors with the Intel Committee in the house. It was a closed door hearing so therefore we do not know what happened there, but that happening without much fanfare is a bit of a coup because other mueller personnel are having a hard time getting in the door. The Justice Department is trying to block two prosecutors from appearing at all and neither of the deputies is a Justice Department employee anymore. Technically the Justice Department doesnt get to say what they do now that they have gone back to private life. They are trying to block them from appearing in conjunction to next week. We dont know whats going to happen there. We hope to get clarity on whats going to happen with the deputies and the prosecutors before mueller starts his testimony on wednesday. Its possible we may be able to get more clarity tonight when we have a member here in person to ask. You have also know heading into what is going to be a big week next week, you should know this weekend you have the opportunity to get yourself ready for next weeks big week. On sunday night, msnbc will air a special, a prep session for you and the country on muellers investigations and muellers report and his findings. Thats hosted by ari melber at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on sunday. Attendance is mandatory. If you are driving somewhere for the summer weekend or if you are going to be foali imolding the or doing dishes or time to listen to something, i might also commend thee to the brandnew podcast Just Launched today that is aimed at explaining the Mueller Report, but dramatizing it and making it cool and listenable. This was dropped by the good folks at law fare. A lot of people have read the Mueller Report out loud including members of Congress Reading it out loud and project and turned into theater. The law fare folks have done a really, really good job producing this as an audio document, as a podcast to make it cool and suspenseful. It is 2014 in st. Petersburg, russia. In the heart of the city, a small nondescript Office Building sits beside the river. Inside, workers stare at computer screens, open to facebook and twitter, furiously typing. Their task . Sow discord, disinformation and doubt. Their target . The United States of america. Through fake social media accounts and armies of bots, they are flooding online media with disinformation. This is a troll farm. Its name . The Internet Research agency. This is the report, an audio series from law fare, breaking down the report of special counsel robert s. Mueller iii. Cant you see yourself driving down the highway and miles slipping away as you lose yourself in that . The report. A podcast explaining and dramatizing the Mueller Report in time for to you listen to that. This weekend you need to get prepped for muellers testimony next week. The sunday night special at msnbc at 9 00. Do not be caught unaware. This is the time to get ready. Ahead of muellers testimony, there was a big new volley from the controlled congress to the Justice Department. This is to sdny, the Southern District of new york. Related to the hush money case and the Campaign Finance felony case that put Michael Cohen in federal prison. In a letter today, to that attorneys office, Elijah Cummings is demanding information from the Prosecutors Office about why it is that Michael Cohen was the only one charged with the felonies and whether or not the president would have been charged with the felonies if he were someone other than the president and whether or not main justice and bill barr interceded to shut it down with no further charges being brought and lines of inquiry involving the president s business. Cummings told sdny he wants copies of immunity deals and evidence collected in the case against Michael Cohen and evidence related to the president s potential involvement in the felonies. He wants answers. Written answers. Quote, did your office conduct an investigation into potential criminal conduct to the president of the United States . Did your office collect evidence to the president s direct participation to criminal conduct. Did your office not indict the involvement of the sitting president. What was the involvement in any decisions of this case and potential crimes relating to your investigation, did your office, the attorney general or any other Justice Department official render a prosecution judgment with respect to the president . It goes on and on. The last question is, why have no other participants in the Campaign Finance violations been charged with a crime . The likelihood that sdny will respond and hand over this material he is requesting is that i will hit a land speed on my crutches. Its not going to happen. The u. S. Attorneys offices dont respond to inquiries from the hill. They may get something from main justice, but that will be controlled by william barr. Whats he going to say . I did it . Ahead of muellers testimony, i think this volley is important. This is a direct shot at the Justice Department that they should have to explain their decisions and explain who made those decisions. 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Nbc news reported that the interviews are definitely not a sure thing any longer. There is still ongoing discussions with the house intelligence to allow some of muellers deputies to appear in closed classified session to discuss portions of the redacted report or underlying evidence. One democratic staffer saying this just seems to be another effort by the attorney general to limit the amount of information coming out of the special counsels office to protect the president. Even with testimony scheduled, there is still a ton of dram a. One of the people questioning mueller, whether or not the deputies of here, a member of the house judiciary. Let me ask you about that deputys issue. Is that settled . It was on and then reportedly off and now its in flux. I dont have the answer to that question. Im not sure. There are a lot of moving parts. I would defer to the chairman who is doing a tremendous job. From my Vantage Point the focus ought to be on the special counsel himself. Would it be valuable to hear from the fbi agents or the prosecutors . Sure. The last two months, we are in need of the ability to hear from the fact witnesses themselves. From my Vantage Point questioning the counsel will be an opportunity for the American Public to finally hear from the special counsel directly about the significant evidence of criminality and the conclusions he reached. Its just the beginning and not the end. We need to hear from mr. Began and ms. Donaldson. You had the chairman on your program many times. We authorized him to issue a number of subpoenas for additional fact witnesses, many of whom never worked for the administration and can make no argument for the supposed privileges they continually tried to invoke that have no legal basis. They cant even assert that. We expected them to appear as well. The wrangling over the fact witnesses is frustrating to a lot of observers and people who still want the story to be for example unravelled because it is taking a long time. You and the chairman expressed you are on strong legal footing and asserting privileges that dont exist. Is the idea that this is taking a long time, but ultimately after he went into court the dam will break or is every one of the fact witnesses going to take months or years to spill out and we will all be in an Old Folks Home by the time we get to the first volume of the report. I hope its the former and not the latter. We are on strong almost footing and these witnesses will ultimately be com peopled to testify. Next weeks hearing ought to be where the focus is. Its an important first step. I will say part of the challenge has been the fog of confusion created by this administrations whole congress. You documented it on your program many times. The administration constantly rebuffing congress or refusing to obey congressional subpoenas that were duly issued. They created a fog ever issues and thats why the hearing is so important. The public can finally understand what he concluded. Have you been doing like a moot court like dry run practice sessions where somebody pretends to be Robert Mueller . We have been preparing. I wont reveal the activities, but i will say this. Who is playing Robert Mueller. We will after next wednesday. There are capable talented lawyers on this committee. Many of whom you had on your program. We are unified and the stakes are very high. If in the moment it needs to go longer than hours, do you have the power to do that . I will defer to the chairman. A disciplined man. Thank you very much for being here. Great to have you here. Definitely. Much more to come. Stay with us tonight. Y. 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Neither of those requests for an extension was approved by usda. Democratic members of congress this week wrote to trumps agriculture secretary, sonny purdue to make sure he knew about the hardships the employees were facing on his mandate. They face the decision of having to choose between Insurance Benefits or relocate to an entirely new city and attempt to find a team of physicians to provide treatment. These members are asking for more information about how many usda employees have asked for hardship extensions and not been approved. Congress wants these answers by monday as in this upcoming monday. Joining us is the member of Congress Whose signature is first. Jennifer wexton. Thank you, rachel. Great to be here. Let me ask how you and your committee came into contact with your employees who requested the hardship extensions from usda due to their health. How many people do you think might be in this circumstance . They have been contacting us about the issues they are facing as they try to make these incredibly difficult decisions on a short timeline. They have been contacting us. There is a total of 544 employees who will be moving and we dont know what we have. Thats the reason we thought it was necessary to write to the secretary and what the grounds are for the attorney if they are going to grant the extension and what the grounds were for those. We just dont have any information at this time. As you say, this is more than 500 people given this ultimatum. A number of scientists who we have been in contact with, a lot of them said what they think is going on is the Trump Administration is torpedoing the ability of this agency to do the kind of scientific work they are renowned for. They are targeted at the core of usda. Do you have insight as to why the administration is doing this or are you in agreement elt who suspect that might be the reason . They said they want to move them out to missouri to st. Louis to be closer to the farming interests out there. Rather than being in washington, d. C. I question the veracity of this given this administration a history of pretextual reasons. Where its located in the d. C. Metro area, im from virginia and virginia is the number one industry is agriculture and the same for maryland. In missouri it doesnt even make the top four. I question that and i think the much more likely explanation is that these agencies have created research and scientific and Economic Research which directly conflicts with this administrations political goals. Briefly, if you dont get the answer that you are looking for, if you cant get the information you are looking for, is there discretion on your committee of potential subpoenas or investigation into this decision . Obviously if you are concerned this might be pretextual that they are lie being why they are doing this, is that a matter of investigation . 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They tried to pry this information loose and if what pills went where was made public, it might give the Drug Companies an advantage in the marketplace where the hungriest most addicted markets were. Valuable information. You know how many pills you can sell . We cant let that information out there. The Drug Companies have to submit information that ends up in the database and the database is kept secret. The reporters were trying to get it made publicly available, made public to them in their newspapers. The Washington Post and the gazette mail saw a window with a federal judge overseeing the single largest civil action in u. S. History. Its a case that consolidated about 2,000 Different Cases all brought by state and local governments against the Big Companies that make and sell the pills. That federal judge previously allowed some of the plaintiffs in that case to themselves access some of data from this big important mind blowing database. It was under a protective order. Even though they could see it, they couldnt tell anybody about what they could find there. In a legal proceeding, thats known as a good place to start. So the good folks at the Washington Post tried to build on that and filed to intervene in the case saying if you can let the localities see this stuff, we as news organizations and through us, the public, we should be able to get access to the database, too. The judge told them no. But the newspapers didnt accept that answer. They appealed the judges ruling and lawyers argued that this information served a public need to know. It would serve the Public Interest and understanding and fighting the Opioid Crisis to know which manufacturers and which distributors sent how many drugs where and which drugstores sold them. Ultimately it was a federal appears court that agreed with the news organizations on this and ruled in their favor. The data will aid us in understanding the enormity of the epidemic and aid us in ending it. With that, six years of data from this massive database tracking every opioid pill sold in america was made available to the public. And the most made this widget that allows you to access it in this convenience way. You can get this data for any place in the country. Put in the state and the county. It is amazing to scroll around. If you pick the county where you know and click on that, you will recognize the pharmacies that pop up. Now that we have access thanks to the reporters in their legal intervention, we can all now see for the first time what has been going on down to the individual pill. The number of pills the company sold in theyear time frame are staggering. Far exceeding what previously has been disclosed in limited filings and news stories. Far exceeding. I wonder why they didnt want anybody to see it. You may not want the country to know you are shipping out more than 12 billion highly addicted pain pills in a year. 12 billion pills to a country with only 320 Million People in it. I probably wouldnt want anybody downloading that data either. What the post has been able to get their hands on is data from 2006 to 2012. All the reporters were able to get out of the courts. One of the Amazing Things is so many more billions of pills were being shipped out than anybody knew about, but also it got worse and worse overtime. Again, this is a sevenyear period starting in 2006. Over the years from 2006 to 2012 lit the country on fire. The death rate started skyrocketing and the country started freaking out about it. Over the course of those seven years, while 100,000 americans were killed by the drugs, we can tell they kept upping the numbers they were shipping. They were at 84 in 2006. In 2012, they were up to 12. 6 billion pills. That meant they were shipping on average 36 highly addictive pain pills for every man, woman, child to, aand baby in the United States. You can check to see if your county is on par for that or if your county went whole hog. The per person average in 2012 is 36 of these pills for every man, woman, and child. 36. In norton, virginia, the smallest city in rare vvirginia were not shipping 36 per person. They were shipping 306 pills per person. Over the course of just one year. Its astonishing. The other thing thats amazing is it doesnt just tell us how they went up and up as the country got more and more addicted, but what the companies knew about their own behavior. This is what they knew they were doing. Their own data they plugged in. They knew. This companys speck knew they were shipping 4. 7 million highly addictive pills that year into a town of 4,000 people. 4. 7 million pills . Walmart knew it alone was distributing 3. 4 million higheely addictive pills into a town of 4,000 people. The database reveal what is each knew about the number of pills they were shipping and dispense when they were aware of those volumes and case after case, the company allowed the drugs to reach the streets of communities large and small despite red flags they were being sold in violation and diverted to the black market. They have been reporteding out the details that they pried loose from the government and they to their credit released it for everyone to see for your own community. Click on your state and county and see the number of pills per person unleashed on your community. Its a remarkable tool. We have it for seven years. Hopefully for every year. A lot of companies wanted to keep it secret. Now we all have access thanks to the journalists and thanks to the Washington Post and west

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