perso persona, from a company called ruben capital partners which claimed to be a firm that kind of made socially responsible investments. and my wife, who is mostly a stay at home mom, was volunteering at my daughter s elementary school, public charter school in washington, d.c., and the e-mail pitch was, you know, school is great, we d love to talk to you about maybe making investments in your school. this all sounded weird, so, my wife reached out to some friends in the finance world, in the education world, nobody seemed to think this was on the level. so, my wife went back to this persona and tried to get them to talk to somebody else on, at the school, somebody else on the committee and they kept insisting they wanted to talk to my wife, at which point we concluded it might be some fishing scam, something, and we just discontinued that conversation. and that conversation went from may 26th, the first e-mail, through june 15th. so, in the same timeframe that
to it. do you suspect they were involved? i don t know. but i hope people ask i hope people ask them the question, because maybe it was just a coincidence that the exact same two people which seemed to be the kind of obsession of a handful of senior aides to the president at the very same time that this firm was hired to dig up dirt on those two people, maybe it s just a coincidence, but it s suspicious enough that i think people need to be asking questions. colin call, thank you so much for being with us. sure. so, breaking news tonight. new york governor andrew cuomo is calling for the resignation of new york attorney general eric schneiderman. this after four women accused the attorney general of violence against them. the accusations are breaking news tonight in the new yorker. two of the women spoke on the record, saying that schneiderman had hit and choked them both, both sought medical attention because of the alleged abuse. in a statement on twitter,
if you were a target, how does it feel to be in the center of this all? well, i athink in general, i feels creepy. when you re a government official, you expect intelligence entities to spy on you. when you re a former government official, it s much weirder. it also is, you know, especially creepy with a firm and even doubly so if they are coming at you through your family. let s keep in mind, for your viewers, that they came at me through my wife doing volunteer work at my 6-year-old daughter s public elementary school in washington, d.c. that s pretty scummy. and that may happen in the business world, it doesn t happen in my world. and if, look, i have no idea, i have no evidence that this has any relationship to the trump white house, you know, the guardian alleged that was the case, i have no idea if that is true, but if there is any connection, obviously, to the white house, then it takes on a particularly authoritarian cast
this happened. so, at this point, we should point out that black cube has denied involvement, and that no connection with the white house has been made, but, and this is a big but you say, again, the timing of comments made by trump officials tells you something. yeah, i mean, first thing, your the folks watching should know that the black cube denial is not really a denial. they said, they don t talk about who hires them. but they, you know, they weren t hired by the trump administration. what is weird, what kind of got my spider sense tingling, last spring, a number of trump aides started a public smear campaign to blame the entire, you know, what they thought was this deep state conspiracy on the ben rhoads colin call nexus, happened to coincide exactly at the same time that this black cube firm was hired, and coincidentally, also happened around the same time as the president s trip to saudi arabia and israel. you know, if you are, in fact, in the middle of this and
deal. he joins me now. so, colin, can you just walk us through exactly what happened? because from what i understand, you were a target of this operation through some kind of a company trying to get at you through your wife? yeah, it s very odd. let s back up just a bit. about a week ago, i was contacted by reporters from the observer and guardian, who said that in the course of their investigation into cambridge analytica, they came across information suggesting that trump aides had hired an israeli intel firm to dig up dirt on me and ben rhoads in an effort to discredit the iran deal and they asked, had you heard of this before, and i responded no, i had never heard about this before. and then a couple days later, the guardian story came out, and when my wife read the story, and the story alleges that this firm was hired last may, so, we re talking may of 2017, it triggered kind of a creepy memory that my wife had, which was that she had been approached by, supposedly a woman, a p