for 500 rooms at trump s d.c. hotel. those are little snippets thanks to reporting and whistle blowers. we don t know much else. it would be helpful to have the president s tax returns which have been requested under u.s. law but are being blocked in court. today another avenue was open with the manhattan district attorney demanding the tax returns for the last few years. what else is there? what are the financial arrange wmts jared kushner. after he visited saudi arabia, the two princes are said to have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. swapping stories and planning strategy. today the united states, our country, finds itself at the point where the president is threatening war, threatening to put american lives, the lives of american service members, american blood, american treasure on the line for the guy who hacked jamal khashoggi to death for a regime that spends lots of money at his hotels. joining me now, ben rhodes, former deputy national security
stayed up until 4:00 a.m., quote, swapping stories and planning strategy. shortly afterward, the crown prince, mbs, rolled out a huge and flankly bizarre crackdown where he rounded up hundreds of members of the royal family and other rich saudis and basically jailed them, including torturing some of them in readd s ritz carlton hotel until lots of them were forced to hand over tons of money to him. and by tons of money, i mean like billions of dollars. i should also mention that as recently as this may, this year, 2018, jared kushner sought $100,000 investment from the saudis excuse me, $100 million investment from the saudis for his family real estate start up. donald trump and his son-in-law jared kushner who works in the white house, their relationship with the saudis is the kind of profound and blunt financial conflict of interest that we are not used to happening out in the open in an american presidential administration. but it s now something that we
click, call or visit a store today. about a year ago, the president s son-in-law jared kushner made an unannounced trip to riyadh, saudi arabia. it was his third trip there, but this was a secret trip, so he decided to fly commercial. he went there to meet with saudi arabia s crown prince, known to most as mbs. kushner and mbs, both in their 30s, bonded. they reportedly stayed up into the wee hours of the night, quote, swapping stories and planning strategy. days after that trip, mbs rolled out what he called an anti-corruption crackdown throughout saudi arabia, where he rounded up hundreds of saudis and imprisoned them in riyadh s ritz carlton hotel. some were subjected to torture. the intercept later reported that mbs bragged that kushner had leaked information from the presidential daily brief that included names of saudis who were disloyal to the crown
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politics play out there. saudi cares more about the yemen war and the uae cares more about qatar and so there s sort of a quid pro quo going there with saudi going after qatar and then uae goes after yemen. facilitating this entire thing is helping to explode an epidemic in yemen while we re at it. jared kushner is at the center of this. two pieces of information. kushner goes to saudi in 2017 in october. days before the head of the saudi government essentially purges a whole bunch of saudi oligarchs. reporting jared and mohammed salman had a kind of a slumber party. swapping stories, planning strategy. this is kushner at the center of the policies in the middle east that is very dangerous and high stakes that happens after one of