more. that s the very kind of person that isis and other extremists are looking to recruit, brooke. so you mention all these countries and how substantive this trip is for her, and i know you slipped, she s not the secretary, but, elise, there has been speculation that perhaps this. not yet. this could be an audition for nikki haley to become the next secretary of state. what are your thoughts on that? what are you hearing? reporter: well, look, i mean, look, she s really doing the kind of work that is the provident of the secretary of state. sitting down, head to head with world leaders, with african dictators, and giving them the kind of lay down the law of the united states. but if you remember back when we met with nikki haley in july, she told us that the president trump offered her the job and she said no, i don t think i have enough foreign policy experience. i said, look, there is a lot of
good when the fbi raids her house and so on. i mean, i don t know the guy. but i do know that he s done some consulting business and lobbying for african dictators. his friends with some arms dealers. he has represented rebel groups in africa. now lately he s been dealing with a lot of ukrainian politicians and that s why the democrats are trying to go for the russian angle. it trumped brings them in for just a couple months. the conventions, that s what he specialized in. he did it for dole. he was apparently at that meeting with the russian woman. they raided his house. who knows what they re going to find? he better have clean books because if he doesn t have clean books, he s going to go down for a white-collar crime. maybe they try to flip him but what does he have anything on? i think it s a conspiracy that the left is going into. dana: when they do something like that, a preened n
good when the fbi raids her house and so on. i mean, i don t know the guy. but i do know that he s done some consulting business and lobbying for african dictators. his friends with some arms dealers. he has represented rebel groups in africa. now lately he s been dealing with a lot of ukrainian politicians and that s why the democrats are trying to go for the russian angle. it trumped brings them in for just a couple months. the conventions, that s what he specialized in. he did it for dole. he was apparently at that meeting with the russian woman. they raided his house. who knows what they re going to find? he better have clean books because if he doesn t have clean books, he s going to go down for a white-collar crime. maybe they try to flip him but what does he have anything on? i think it s a conspiracy that the left is going into. dana: when they do
jesse: has innocent until proven guilty but it s never good when the fbi raids your house at dawn. i know that he has done consulting business and lobbied for african dictators, he is friends with arms dealers. he has represented rebel groups in africa. now lately he s been dealing with a lot of ukrainian politicians and that s why the democrats are trying to go for the russian angle. trump brings him and for a few months, lining up the delegates for the conventions. he has done that for bush and dole. he was apparently at that meeting with the russian woman. they raided his house. who knows what they re going to find? he better have clean books because if he doesn t have clean books, he s going to go down for a white-collar crime. maybe they try to flip him but what does he have anything on? i still don t see the conspiracy that the left is pointing to. dana: i asked a former fbi agent, when they do something
used to be a giant empire wanting to be an empire again. and trying to advance its interests. i do want to say about paul manafort, he s a lobbyist. he was a lobbyists for lots of other unsavory foreign governments in the u.s. african dictators, filipino dictators. the problem here is that he then became donald trump s campaign manager and didn t declare these activities, that he didn t register as a foreign agent. and then he lied about it repeatedly and the trump administration lied about it repeatedly. the very fact that he was lobbying for the russian government and russian businessman, albeit a very scary man, is not really all that newsworthy. lots of western companies provide consulting and image management to really unsavory russian actors. the pr agency, catch them, for example, did a lot of work for the putin government when he was the prime minister from 2008 to 2012. from here in russia. trying to improve their image and their standing abroad. and ultimately, what i want