you don t have, not collapse, because we have collapsed now, so you don t have utter total collapse. yeah, we knew it was something that the president wanted after the iraq war, was for america to secure the iraqi oil fields, so perhaps he is just holding onto that political campaign dream of his. richard engel live for us in northern syria. thank you, my friend. be well. joining me is malcolm nance, author of the plot to destroy democracy and msnbc contributor. malcolm, always a pleasure to have you on. we can run through the list of why what the president is doing is a violation of international law, securing another country s oil fields as an exploit of war, even though they haven t even announced what they re going to do with it, is internationally illegal, and yet, it seems lost on this president that he wants to use american troops to secure oil fields in a foreign country that his country is involved in militarily. like richard said a little bit earlier, this was a campaig
more and more evidence. why aren t we at the target trump? let me go to malcolm nance on that. here s the thing, you lay out a very, you know, clear-cut case in your book the plot to destroy democracy why and what you think is going on that donald trump has been cultivating for a long time as an asset and is the theory in your view, malcolm, that the lure to keep trump in play as an asset is the idea of building the tower? the tower is the lure. or could it be that all of this that we ve been talking about for almost three years, has just been a giant plot to build a tower in moscow and cultivate the relationships with kremlin figures to get it done and make money? could it be really that simple? no. the lure was the tower. one of the many, many lures.
renewed speculation president trump s former fixer michael cohen could be a corroborated witness after vanity fair reported cohen has likely been in touch with mueller. joining me is glen kurshner and malcolm nance, and author of the plot to destroy democracy and craig, author of house of trump house of putin. let s get started glen with you. watch what adam schiff had to say about manafort s cooperation with bob mueller. let s listen. manafort is a key person to help us unwind whether this is the most improbable string of unlikely coincidences of whether this was an an act of conspiracy. clearly, the trump team is terrified about what manafort may have to say. that s how you view it, this is about fear of manafort? absolutely. absolutely. they may think they know what manafort has to say because he was part of the joint defense agreement, but they have to know that he may not have told them