who is connected to who and who has been indicted already and who has been pardoned. let me ask you from your understanding if i screwed any of this up in the way that i told it. yes, i think you got it pretty right. it is pretty confusing. i have to say i m going the add one more confusing part of this. you know, you ve outlined a couple of parallel influence operations, one that went through tom barrack, trump s best friend, a businessman who has done business with trump and also with these persian gulf princes. then there s another one which is george nader, an emissary from the uae who subsequently has been convicted of pedophilia who was in there, in trump tower trying to set up the social media manipulation scheme. you got to add to that another leg in this, which is it turns out that the prince who was working through barrack and nader was also working with nader to try to play match maker
has done business with trump and also with these persian gulf princes. then there s another one which is george nader, an emissary from the uae who subsequently has been convicted of pedophilia who was in there, in trump tower trying to set up the social media manipulation scheme. you got to add to that another leg in this, which is it turns out that the prince who was working through barrack and nader was also working with nader to try to play match maker between the trump campaign and the russians. so mbz and george nader were setting up a meeting for erik prince to meet with an emissary from putin around the same time which is one of the elements that have drawn it into the scope of the mueller campaign. if you are putting it under the umbrella of foreign countries trying to influence the trump
their state. like amy klobuchar who has been involved in these negotiations from day to day. all right, it s going to be a busy day down there. now to nbc s peter alexander over at the white house. peter, we barely heard from the president this weekend, except for twitter. take us behind the scenes. because i was wrong, on friday, i had spoken to people inside the white house, and spoken to people who have done business with trump for decades and they said there will be a deal. he knows reality tv. he s going to swoop in, do a deal with chuck schumer and he will be in mar-a-lago by saturday night at a party. and then of course friday happened. it seemed he had a deal with chuck schumer. and then steven miller and john kelly got involved. then we were reminded while the president is the author of the art of the deal, he s also the man behind trump mortgage, trump casino, trump steak, trump vodka, trump magazine, trump