we ve been watching this story unfold. one thing is this appears not to be over. when the state department started talking about this, they seemed like it happened long in the past and resolved and retroactively trying to invest gate. it seems as recently as less than a month ago, there was at least one additional attack. the geographic none specificity of this in terms of hitting people in their office, homes and multiple hotels is confounding. the investigation is apparently aggressive but there are are new disturbing details that we got tonight about the state department blanking cuba when cuba offered to help with this investigation. crazy stuff. watch this space. tch guarantee . tch guarantee . and if that s not enough. we should move. our home team will help you every step of the way. still not enough? it s smaller than i d like. we ll help you finance your dream home. it s perfect.
is not just mike flynn but steve bannon and jared kushner, who does still work in the white house, buzzfeed reports that the three of them were in on a meeting, a previously undisclosed meeting with the king of jordan during the transition at which they talked about that nuclear deal. again, this is chris mcdaniel and the reporters at buzzfeed. and it s really interesting. they get denials i love the way they source this. they get denials from three individuals, one close to flynn. one close to kushner. and one close to bannon. and each of those three people close to each of those guys denies flynn s nuclear business deal thing was discussed at the secret meeting with king of jordan. now check this out. check out this wording. quote, people close to the three trump advisors say that the nuclear deal was not discussed but a federal official with access to a document created by
application, steve bannon, we don t know yet but working on it. beyond the secrecy about this, the fact it has not been disclosed until now, here is another really acute problem about what buzzfeed just reported. democrats on the house oversight and foreign affairs committee reported on wednesday morning this week that another thing mike flynn failed to initially disclose was that he was a paid agent working to advance a business proposition to partner with, among other companies, russian nuclear and security companies in order to do this gigantic multi hundreds of millions of dollars project that would build nuclear reactors in the middle east. most of them would be in saudi arabia, which yes, floats on the sea of oil so question mark about nuclear power anyway. also in the nation of jordan. so congressional democrats on wednesday released this information that they said shows
miles an hour and people fleeing off of the thing into the night. of course, that s not counting the no notice firings of dozens of federal prosecutors and the firing of the acting attorney general salary yates and the firing of the fbi director james comey. this is all just white house. last night the new york times broke the news that on the day robert mueller was appointed special counsel, president trump reportedly lost his mind at the attorney general jeff sessions because sessions had recused himself from anything related to russia. quote, when the phone call informing him about the muller appointment ended, white house counsel don mcgahn relayed the news to the president and his aids. almost immediately mr. trump lobbied a volley of insults at mr. sessions. telling him the attorney general it was his fault they were in the current situation. trump told sessions that choosing him tore the attorney general was one of the worst decisions he had ever made. he called him an idiot a
schwab warned would have a more pliable attitude on ethics towards this white house. that is the guy in charge of the ethics office now and he s revised the rules around legal defense funds for administration personnel under the new interpretation of ethics rules, mike pence and any other white house staffer that needs to fund the legal defense will be able to accept unlimited anonymous donations from lobbyists to defray any legal bills that arise out of these white house scandals. oh, good. what could possibly go wrong? if there is one thing for lobbyists to fund, it s the legal defense for white house officials facing the russia inquiry. tonight administration announced that they do not want this to be seen as a change in policy. i m sure they don t. but the outgoing director at the ethics office has been banging the drum over this for the last couple of days since they made this change warning that this really is a turn for the worse. today for the second time, we learned of a witne