wonder everybody is quitting. joining us now is adam goldman, new york times reporter covering national security and a reporter that broke this story. mr. golden, thank you for joining us on short notice and congratulations on this scoop tonight. thanks. so can you tell me about the difference between and the transition between the reporting from the times this nater was a focus? how did that reporting involve? nater s importance is he was essentially unregistered foreign agent of the united emirates and he was essentially peddling influence on behalf of uae, you know, in the united states and around the world, sort of delivering their message, right? and he has become the focus
this story. mr. golden, thank you for joining us on short notice and congratulations on this scoop tonight. thanks. so can you tell me about the difference between and the transition between the reporting from the times this weekend and that nader was a focus to he s actually cooperating. how did that reporting evolve? nader s importance is he was essentially unregistered foreign agent of the united emirates and he was essentially peddling influence on behalf of uae, you know, in the united states and around the world, sort of delivering their message, right? and he has become the focus because i believe that mueller and his team want to learn what
but then you add on top of that the particularities of this administration, which hasn t bothered to appoint a director at the national security council with responsibility for africa, which hasn t bothered to appoint an assistant secretary of state for africa, which just inexplicably last month angered and infuriated the neighboring nation of chad by adding them to the president s travel ban despite chad being our most experienced battle-hardened military ally in the region against boko haram and other militant groups associated with isis and al qaeda and all the rest of it. and of course at the apex of military responsibility here we still have a commander in chief who will not discuss this incident. even today. will not talk about is it. thanks to this new reporting from voice of america and nbc news, we at least do have our first disturbing key insight into how that day may have unfolded and why. joining us now is courtney kube, nbc s national security and military reporter who s t
guy-s and that s one of the main reasons they re involved in this. they also have some sort of role in forensics here. i don t really know the extent of it. but that s one those are two of the areas the fbi investigators are helping with. courtney kube, nbc national security and military reporter, lead reporter on this scoop tonight, nbc news. courtney, thanks for helping us understand it. really appreciate your time. thank you. former attorney general eric holder joins us live for the interview in just a moment. stay with us. except for one of us. i write them a poem instead. and one for each of you too. thats actually yours. that one. yeah. regardless, we re stuck with the bill. to many, words are the most valuable currency. last i checked, stores don t take words. some do. not everyone can be that poetic voice of a generation. i know right? such a burden. the bank of america mobile banking app. the fast, secure and simple way to send money.
following day he was due to speak to the judiciary committee. is it something about his congressional testimony that sparked the timing or this urgency or this aggression from muller? sure. and to be totally honest, we just don t know. there are not a lot of coincidences in this world, but to be totally honest, i don t know if that was something that muller s team saw in the initial back and forth between manafort and the hill, if he was trying to head off having testimony. i ve heard speculation he wants to try to head off manafort giving a statement to the hills so that, you know, manafort s statement is given to muller and not to the hill. honestly, we don t have reporting to say what the connection, if any, is. reporter for the new york times , help break this scoop tonight. thanks for helping us understand. thanks a lot. lots more to come tonight. busy night. stay with us. r life