family has realized that they have somebody who wants to appear royal himself in trump. and so they re going to be capitalizing and playing on that, rather than any substantiative conversation about ending terrorism in the region. and naveed, it s hard to believe that donald trump or his team, quite frankly, really understands sort of all of the players that intricately. donald trump notoriously only reads bullet points with his name on them. he doesn t read detailed policy papers. but if he did, what would might somebody who did understand it make of a couple of dots? one that jared kushner apparently just inked a deal personally to get a good deal for the saudis on buying some military equipment essentially from lockheed martin. they just inked that deal. and in iran, the chief rival, that these are two sort of rival in that region, just re-elected mr. rouhani, which is the moderating influence in iran, which is the donald trump team said is on notice, at one point. what do you m
dynamics? i think nayyera is absolutely right. the reality is that these foreign countries, they have intelligence services that read the news just like ours do. and they re wondering, is donald trump going to stay in power? is he going to make it past 2020. as such, they re going to fo formulate a source of action that s going to be neutral. they re looking for short-term appeasement. how the new york times has a plan to use small words and appeal to his ego by complimenting him on his victory in the election. i think if they re smart, they re just going to kind of do something that s sort of middle of the road, let him get his little victory lap here and wait to see what happens next. i don t think he s in a position to really trade. not to mention what just happened with russia, i m betting these countries are not big fans of russia, turkey aside. they re probably thinking, let s just make this a grip and grin and let s not invest too much, because we don t know how long this gu
war, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, thriving cities, seoul, is going to be virtually destroyed even if we, quote, win, unquote. that s why you want to get to the table. not to underscore, make this too fine a point, but we have been in the region before as united states military and it was not what we would consider a most successful engagement. the korean war is the reason why we have a north and south korea. thank you all very much. nayyera and malcolm will be back later in the show. up next more on russia ties. a moment of maxine is next. stay right. there. you re going to be hanging out in here. so if you need anything, text me. do you play?
well. i think that s the right thing to do, but it s setting a dangerous precedent because what are we going to do, what s next for the liberals who are crying wolf about this? what is next? should every member of congress who has a small business, has a car dealership, a pest control company, mortuary, whatever, should they have to shut down their businesses? no. they should not. and this is where we ve gotten to at this point. now, there s no evidence of pay-for-play, no evidence of any impropriety with the trump foundation or eric trump foundation specifically. we did see that with the clinton noun da no foundation. the clinton foundation is not the point. that went away with the outcome of the election. nayyera, go ahead. this is the unfortunate thing. all of us who have served in government, who have security clearances, have to go through extr tre vetting of our finances because there s actual security risk here. because of our financial dealings, what are we at risk
constitution which does bar officials from accepting payments from foreign governments. kate? oh, the emoluments still, jessica. thank you so much. great to see you. reporter: our favorite. our favorite is right. outfront now former white house steen your director under president obama. and parris denard, member of the national diversity coalition for donald trump. great to see both of you. nayyera, donald trump dissolving his charitable foundation. good news? step in the right direction? step in the right direction but it s a little late in the process. i mean, at this point, it s more about the investigation and what has been uncovered. here s some of the facts we know already about the foundation. and what makes this troublesome in particular. only no employees, only five people. four, trump family. one part-time volunteer. the same irs records show that payments were made from the foundation to buy paintings of donald trump that are hanging in his own golf clubs and als