because his name appeared on the flight manifest in abu dhabi before his plane took off. and so i don t know, again, i don t really quite understand the reason for the secrecy here with some of these engagements. later, keep in mind, the crown prince of abu dhabi is the host for that meeting in the seychelles that arab prince attends. officials told us the meeting in new york, which did not take place at trump tower, it took place at another location in new york. this subject of having this meeting in the third country did not come up. right. but you know anyways, that remains to be fully reported out. but the certainly there have been there were other contacts that were not being publicly disclosed and which were for some reason being cloaked. such as that uae meeting that i just mentioned. in addition to the kislyak communication. right. as you say, some of that is now of investigative interest. because of the nature and the approach to it. there are scoops, and then
because his name appeared on the flight manifest in abu dhabi before his plane took off. and so i don t know, again, i don t really quite understand the reason for the secrecy here with some of these engagements. later, keep in mind, the crown prince of abu dhabi is the host for that meeting in the say she wills that arab prince attends. officials told us the meeting in new york, which did not take place at trump tower, it took place at another location in new york this subject of having this meeting in the third country did not come up. right. but you know anyways, that remains to be fully reported out. but the certainly there have been there were other contacts that were not being publicly disclosed and which were for some reason being cloaked. such as that uae meeting that i just mentioned. in addition to the kislyak communication. right. as you say, some of that is now of investigative interest. because of the nature and the
me, wanted to use russian facilities. right. i think that s such an important point to pause on. this, according to the reactions to your story already and our sources suggests this was a failure of the american standard of national security diplomacy, also a failure of the russian standard in their reaction. i want to ask you the basic question, has any of your reporting uncovered an attempt to back channel any other country than russia? well, i mean, you know. there has been obviously some meetings that took place. you know, the crown prince of abu dhabi effectively snuck into new york around the mid-december 2016, about shortly after this about ten days after this meeting with kislyak. that was also very much under the radar, wasn t announced. in fact, u.s. officials only found out about the crown prince of abu dhabi coming to new york because his name appeared on the flight manifest in abu dhabi before his plane took off.
notify the u.s. government when they were coming in to this country for any reason. but in december, he flew into new york without telling the obama administration, without telling the u.s. government that he was coming. they later figured out he was here because his name turned up on a flight manifest. turns out what he was coming to new york for was to take a meeting with mike flynn, steve bannon and jared kushner. he met with them in december and then the following month in january, he set up and hosted these two days of meetings between erik prince and a russian emissary who was there on behalf of vladimir putin. that was the host of the organizer of that meeting, the crown prince of abu dhabi, better known as mbz. guess where he turned up today. great honor to have sheikh mohammed with us today. a man that i ve known, very special, very special person,
exactly who these men were. tom fuentes, if they were on u.s. watch lists, no-fly lists, would the european allies automatically have known that as well? well, they should have. and they should have also been able to communicate that to the u.s. you know, following 9/11 france was the first country in the world to supply a flight manifest to the fbi before the planes took off for the u.s. so if they are still doing that, and if they had done that in this case, if any of them had intended to come here, they would have come up before that plane left the ground to stop them from boarding. peter, how important is it for investigators to determine the role of that woman who died in that raid? what her connection to these terrorists was, how important is it for the investigation? well, you know, we ve seen isis recruiting women. we have data showing one in seven of isis western recruits are female. and this is kind of an unprecedented development. this is obviously a very ma sole ju