trump or people close to trump. it s been pretty bad for the last year, but honestly, without mcmaster and cohn i talked to allies, i mean, really serious allies who wish us well, say look, it s tricky working with trump, mcmaster on foreign policy, cohn on economic policy, we can work with them. if they were both to go, i do think there would be a it would cause it may cause trouble here, but i think it will cause real shock waves abroad. that s chilling. frank, there was a story today that entered our consciousness and brought in the united arab emirates, this has to do with a meeting in the seychilles. here s the headline in the times. advisor to emirates with ties to trump aides is cooperating with special counsel. mueller has convinced him it would be best to work with the home team. what is the thumbnail sketch of what s alleged to have happened here? so we ve got a brand-new
with trump, mcmaster, we can work with them. if they were both to go, i do think there would be a it would cause it may cause trouble here, but i think it will cause real shock waves abroad. that s chilling. frank, there was a story today that entered our consciousness and brought in the united arab emirates, this has to do with a meeting in the seychilles. mueller has convinced him it would be best to work with the home team. what is the thumbnail sketch of what s alleged to have happened here? so we ve got a brand new cooperator, we ve also learned that last week he testified before the grand jury. this is george nader, a known adviser to government officials, but what s intriguing here is that we have a secret meeting back in january 2017 in the seychilles, where someone with close ties to putin, former head of the black water organization, and a crown prince of the uae, all in a meeting in the middle of the indian ocean. mueller is interested in the
waiting to get into this conversation. they were on the plane, he was in dib he was on the ground and they didn t put him through. so in your time spent on the couch in the west wing watching people pass by, hope hicks was on the plane that day, one of president trump s closest counselors and advisers, she s been with him a long time. give me your thumbnail sketch of hope hick s relationship to donald trump. this is a super interest thing. hope hicks, her background is as a junior-level fashion pr person. she came in she has no other professional expertise other than that. she was one of the first people to join the campaign, has been attached to trump really at the hip for well, since he came down the stairs at trump tower.
and joining me is alexander, acting deputy director, currently at johns hopkins international school of service. john, first of all, chain migration, as i understand it, this is very broad-based, but the thumbnail is chain migration is afraid, used by immigration opponents, hardliners most notably. the program of who are here with green cards can bring in relatives. i don t know whether you have any response to that. it s always worth looking at every aspect of immigration, but i think it s probably not the primary thing we should be focusing on right now. what should we be focusing on? i served as an adviser through aspen to the homeland security department. and as we ve talked with them over the years about this, as an intelligence officer, we re
howard dean made a statement essentially saying if you are republican you are a racist. it is irresponsible and leading to what we are seeing right now. speaking of history, does anyone recall abraham lincoln was the first republican president and there were many, many democrats who thought the civil rights act at two thumbnail. they ve now become the side of african-americans in this country. we saw what happened to neighbor came lincoln statue. this is the last eight days that this uproar has taken over the nation. i m thinking the same thing. we read history books. we learned about the rights and wrongs in our country and in the lab state days.