point or at least who is most under investigation. i mean, nothing has been proven at this point. his family company is saying that these investigations by the brooklyn prosecutor is simply in response to damaging media reports and there s again saying there s nothing to it, they re complying with everything. i think we need to let the investigation run its course to see where it goes. it does look strange that the same senior adviser to the president, his son-in-law who met with a russian bank official, right before the election, was also meeting with deutsche banc and, you know, i think we have to wonder about what was going on here. as you say with the targeting of russians and the bots and the trolls. i think isikof s reporting for yahoo! was interesting and we ll all have to pick up the threads and continue the reporting. it suggests the mueller investigation continues to move in all different directions simultaneous. great to have you with us.
they see a broader strategy that is work with the saudis, go after anyone who has supported muslim brotherhood and by the way that includes hamas and as the saudis appreciate that, they jam fatah, the other palestinian entity into the equation. i understand what they re doing and it s based on the notion that the enemy of your enemy must be your friend but it s still your enemy so i m not sure it s really going to work and, you know, of course it s a nice try to do something very different but, you know, what about the secretary of state? he s got lots of experience in the middle east. why isn t he thrown into this? why do we have to go with a son-in-law who, as you point out, has very fairly limited experience. ambassador mark, josh, thank you. and speaking of jared kushner, he just spoke moments ago
kushner, his son-in-law who met with the russians during the transings. even with president bannon who clearly was top aide and ran the campaign. paul. you are deal with people who will be witnesses or maybe even subjects of the investigation. you can t be unbiased. you have to set this outside of your own decision-making. no matter how much hype you come in with, oh, i m totally nonpartisan. it s a human interaction every day. this is why when jim comey was faced with the same choice in the valerie plame case, the first thing comey did, brought in patrick fitzgerald, the u.s. attorney in chicago. brought him in to deal with that leak case because he couldn t deal with white house officials who he was having to investigate at the same time. we ll see if he gets confirmed, we ll see if his opinion changes when he becomes deputy attorney general. all of this, of course, against the backdrop of the president s allegations against president obama that president obama wiretapped him.
that s a thing of the past. we re talking about the nay zant transition team, as you point out. you have been a proud member of the never trump movement. let s play this game. if trump selects giuliani, would that ease some of your concerns about a president trump? as emerson once said, an institution is the length and shadow of one man so no matter how many folks he brings in from the outside, if it s basically a matrix of decision making based on donald trump s preferences and philosophies and ideologies and as assisted by steve bannon as his ideological sort of north star it concerns me, the direction that rolls downhill no matter who s in those various jobs. but another planet in addition to the north star is a reince priebus, then you have jared kushner, the son-in-law who, by the way, when you look at all three of them, they could not be more different age, politics, religion, ideology,