policy which is even more consistent than his behavior with russia is the saudis. he broke with american tradition to go there as his first act. he has sort of lavished praise on the man who according to u.s. intelligence agencies sent his goon squad to murder and hack to death with a saw an american newspaper columnist. at every turn, he has backed saudis. the war in yemen, on their iran policy. are you confident he is doing that because of his foreign policy judgment and not because of his bottom line? no, not at all. i think he is totally this is the same issue we see with vladimir putin, okay. there is something in the financial ties between the trump family and the saudis or trump interests or people associated with trump and the saudis that motives this very strange behavior. and in this particular case, we know that tom barrack is one of his largest donors. he is the chairman of the president s inaugural committee, and he s a confidante.
tom barrack and ip 3 and others. apparently in december 2017, rick perry actually gave preliminary approval on behalf of the department of energy for transferring this technology. now, there is something called the section 123 act, section 123 of the atomic energy act which requires congressional approval for such transfer, namely, to make sure that there are safeguard such that such technology cannot be used to make a nuclear weapon. this is called the quote/unquote gold standard which tom barrack and ip3 and other trump associates want to water down or completely kill in order to basically make sure that the saudis end up purchasing their technology. do you the president the most consistent through line in the president s foreign
epstein, seen here at mar-a-lago. that was epstein s. many m.o. the reason why trump is mad at cummings is cummings heads up the oversight committee which is leading a slew of investigations into the president and his family. and trump probably shoo should be mad because those investigations are devastating. just in the past week, trump subpoenaed trump s son and daughter-in-law. cummings is also looking into the central con of the trump campaign embodied by the america first phrase. the whole idea that trump is putting america s interests above all else when from day one it has been clear he has been pursuing foreign interests in his own bottom line. the moscow tower deal trump lied about, that michael cohen lied about to trump s national security adviser michael flynn publishing an op-ed on election day to advance the interests of his turkish client. now the house oversight committee has found that flynn and trump s inaugural committee
the trump inaugural committee, tom barrack, along-time friend and adviser to the president, was also pushing a plan to help saudi arabia acquire nuclear reactors. we know all this thanks to the aforementioned 50-page house overcommittee report that detailed how barrack used to push for this new power plant deal with the saudis. he was quoted as advocating on behalf of foreign interests seeking to obtain this u.s. nuclear technology. those foreign interests happen to be saudi arabia, specifically, helping the country develop its nuclear program by going around a long-standing u.s. policy that prevents them from doing just that. much to the alarm of proliferation experts. now questions about whether or not tom barrack was working on behalf of a foreign power did come up in the special counsel s investigation. in fact, we know that robert mueller referred that investigation into barrack s ties to the middle east to the u.s. attorney s office in brooklyn, which right now has an open and on
standard, and we will in perpetuity not use our nuclear fuel to develop a nuclear weapon. right. this is first signed with the uae. and the u.s. has tried to uphold this standard since then there have been a couple of agreements we have signed that have not had this standard in place, but on a public facing front, the trump administration tries to get everyone to agree to this gold standard, particularly with countries that are a little risky, especially in the middle east like saudi arabia. and we should note that during the obama administration they refused to agree to the gold standard, and saudi prince mohammed bin salman, if iran develops a nuclear bomb we will follow as soon as possible. there is a huge sawedly interest in the ability to break out of the system. and tom barrack and michael flynn working over and inside the seams to try to advance this cause. do we know if barrack has any financial interests in this or