later would approach about this meeting. you know, during the campaign last year, prince was not officially part of the trump campaign. the people we talked to who were part of the transition said that he was, though, a frequent presence in their transition offices in new york last year, including in december, and that he was sort of an unofficial adviser on certain issues to the campaign. he has ties with bannon, the strategic adviser to the president, and appeared regularly on breitbart, the news organization that bannon was running at the time. so there was a connection there, and what we really don t know at this point is, you know, who, if anybody, basically asked him to make this outreach effort. i know you said the white house and prince denied it had
it s like having the power of a trading floor, wherever you are. it s your trade. e trade what happens in the seychelles stays in the seychelles. now there is talk about a secret meeting on a remote island between a black arab prince and someone close to putin to create a putin backchannel. tell us what you found. what we learned was that basically there was a secret meeting in new york that was attended by the crown prince of abu dhabi in mid-december with several of trump s top advisers. a few weeks later, eric prince, who was a supporter of trump, and, of course, the brother of