Unsettling problem the air force has gotten itself into. Look at the headline on this. Force that protected u. S. Nuclear weapons. I cant see it on my monitor. There we go. I couldnt tell that you could see it. Force that protects u. S. Nuclear weapons loses explosives on north dakota road and offers 5,000 to get them back. This is how the news gods welcome me home from vacation. The air force is offering 5,000 for leads on the whereabouts on a box of explosive grenade rounds its personnel accidentally dropped on a road in north dakota while traveling between two Intercontinental Ballistic Missile sites. Airmen from the Security Force team were traveling on gravel roads may 1, in north dakota when the back hatch of the vehicle opened and container filled with explosive ammunition fell out. The air force sent more than 00 air men to walk the entire sixmile route where the grenades were probably lost, according to a statement fwrt local sheriff, but two weeks after it was lost, the box of explosives still have not been found. Missing ordinance is a belt of linked grenades from the mk19 automatic grenade launcher, this ammunition is specific to that launcher and will not operate in any other launching device without catastrophic failure so if you are watching tonight from north dakota and found a green metal crate dont open it. The air force didnt tell the local sheriff until three days after this thing went missing. Now they are setting up tip line and offering 5,000 reward and making this Public Service announcement because any damage to the container could result in an explosion if you locate the box and find it in a damaged state the area should be evacuated immediately. Again this is a box of live grenades dropped out of a bumpy truck on a road nobody noticed it. Couldnt find it. Didnt tell the local cops for three days. Now its been two weeks. Uhoh. And that is the part of the u. S. Military responsible for the security of our live nuclear weapons. Its been that kind of day in the news today. Welcome back. Today north korea called off talks with south korea. Less than 24 hours before those talks were suppose the to start in the dmz and north korea calling off planned summit because joint exercise is going on between u. S. And south Korean Military its a exercise thats been happening every year for a decade but today north korea, surprise, decided this planned military exercise, this annual thing, is now viewed by them as such a terrible provation that talks tomorrow with south korea are off, at the last minute, and might mean the meeting next month between kim jongun and donald trump is off too. Nobody ever accused the north korean dictator of being the worlds most rational negotiator until donald Trump Association thought donald trump should be the first u. S. President to meet with x. North korean dictator but that meeting may be off now, they had no idea that was coming. No matter how you feel about donald trump talking to the north korean dictator and calling him honorable and complimenting him how excellent he treats american prisoners in north korean, surprise is not anything anybody looks forward to anything to do with north korean and nuclear weapons. For now it looks like the north and south korean summit tomorrow is definitely off. The u. S. North korean summit next month is basically on ice. Anything could happen at any moment well let you know more if we learn more over the course of this hornet. In federal court in washington, Paul Manafort was dealt a big setback. His lawyers once again sought to have the multiple felony charges pending against him thrown out basically by arguing that the special Counsel Robert Mueller was somehow improperly pursuing this line of inquiry in the charges against Paul Manafort. Manafort is pursuing that same line in d. C. And virginia, facing charges in both districts, the virginia motion is still pending but the judge ruled on the matter in d. C. And she ruled against manafort in a big way. Quote, the indictment alleged that not only definitives uk crane clients were supportive of and supported by russia but that manaforts primary client was embedded in russia relative to the charges. Quote continuing so Donald TrumpsCampaign ChairmanPaul Manafort already had his civil suit against the special counsel and Justice Department thrown out. The judge hearing his criminal case in d. C. Has also today ripped manafort as attack on the legitimacy of Robert Mueller and of the special counsel investigation and the judge has denied manaforts motion to dismiss felony charges pending against him in d. C. Again manafort will try this same line of argument in virginia to try to get the charges dropped there too. This ruling today does not bode well. It was not just a no, it was a no with about ten exclamation points from this judge. Beyond that legal trouble for the president s Campaign Chairman today. The New York Times has dropped this box of grenades off the back of the truck. According to the times, the fbi and u. S. Justice department are now investigating the data firm that the Trump Campaign used during the 2016 election, the controversial data firm that has disbanded in britain cambridge analytica. It is not clear whether the investigation is tied to the inquiry led by Robert Mueller special counsel. Times reports this tonight can thats interesting. And meanwhile. We also have a whole new plot line to try to figure out tonight. I swear the news gods save these things up for me when i go fishing, like a test to see if i can get into the swing of things and make sense of Something Like this right after i get back. This is a weird one. This starts with basketball, sort of. You know how theres regular soccer. Theres prosoccer and then theres indoor soccer, looks like a cross between ice hockey and foosball but its live, arena soccer hasnt quite caught on in the same way but is a spin off of normal soccer which is hugely profitable, successful and profitable. Similarly you know how there was once an xfl, an xfl spin off of profootball like a cross between profootball and prowrestling, that spin off didnt catch on either, xfl only lasted one season. Well like arena soccer, for soccer and xfl for football theres also a probasketball spin off now. Its three on three instead of five on five. You play on half court instead of full court an the rules are tweaked to make it just different enough that its a spin off of regular basketball. Not just a mini version of proball. Theres all sorts of gimmicks in this three on three game. In regular basketball one point for three point and two points normal shot and three points outside of the arc that marks the u, the far distance from the basket. The new three on three, in addition to one, two, and three point shots theres a fourpoint spot if you stand in a specific circle marked with the four. Those spots are really far away, so to shoot from there you get extra points, four points, and theres only three players instead of five players. Theres a very fast shot clock. You have to take a shot at the hoop quickly when you get the ball. Makes it exciting for fans. Theres tons of shooting. For the players its also nice. Not that much running around. For its short court only half a court. You have to shoot really fast. Theres not a lot of players on the court it pass it around anyway. Its perhaps not a coincidence that the athletes expected to be the stars off the three on three league are player whos are retired from the nba, players who are still very big and very strong and probably very good shots but maybe dont want to run up and down the court so much any more. Three on three probasketball. It may eventually become, you know, the biggest maybe bigger than nascar, bigger than the nfl, bigger than olympic curling, who knows. Skys the limit. But for now pro three an three basketball is a quirky idea, right. Its a first season start up idea. Might work. Might not. Among the founders of the league are ice cube. Legendary rapper who was in nwa and other things and gone on to acting and sports stewardship the guy who played ice cube in Straight Outta Compton was ice cube sons in real life. I know. Another founder along with ice cube is a connected hollywood guy names jeff q they filed a lawsuit in california, brought a civil lawsuit against investor whos they say promised a ton of money to get the league up and running but the investors fell through on the commitments and that hurt the league. It makes clear these guys are thinking big about their start up Basketball League. In the civil lawsuit they are suing for damages, specifically 1. 2 billion in damages. Sure, why not. The reason this random start up half court retireeoriented new Basketball League is making National News tonight is actually because of a new filing in that lawsuit. It diverts from the four point shot and shot clock and exciting rule s about Technical Rules and swearing. With this new filing and lawsuit it veered sharply towards the white house and weirdly towards the special counsel investigation, the basketball lawsuit did, im not kidding, that story is next. Stay with us. 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Mr. Elliot, whats your wiwifi . Ssword . Wifis ordinary. Basic. Do i look basic . Nope which is why i have xfinity xfi. Its super fast and you can control every device in the house. [ child offscreen ] hey lets basement. And thanks to these xfi pods, the signal reaches down here, too. So sophie, i have an xfi password, and its daditude. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Now lets break down some basic rules for the big 3. The home team starts with the ball. No jump ball. First team to 50 wins, but you have to win by two points. Halftime hits when a team reaches 25. Theres a 14 second shot clock. Thats right you only got 14 seconds once the ball is in play. Animated ice cube explaining the rules of the big 3 threeonthree proBasketball League that hes a founder of. Our life as american citizens is just weird enough now that mr. Cube and his cofounder and by extension their new quirky basketball start up league are now part of our National Political news and news about scandal involving our new president because of a lawsuit that was just filed by the cofounders of that league against investors in that league. So check this out, this is a sworn declaration that ice cubes Business PartnerJeff Kwatinetz has fired, quote quote continues by way of introduction, right. Now we get to the reason of the lawsuit. Quote and now heres the reason for the lawsuit, quote definitives only funded 6. 5 million said they would put 20 over could you haved up only 6. 5. Quote continues now at this point i need to tell you the defendants in the lawsuit are four guys, supposed dead beat investors said they would give this money and didnt hand it over, four guys from the nation of qatar and the leave investor is the lead investigation that governor uses to spend money all over the world. His name is akmed. R. The lead defense in the civil Law Enforcement at this point of the lawsuit he becames the main character. Quote quote continues now, this guy, who helped found this Basketball League, had a previous business relationship with steve bannon. He was connected to steve bannon. Hes a friend of steve bannons. So maybe its a normal thing that this investor guy and his firm is like hey i need you to hook me up with bannon yes technically from the rules of logic but step back for a second as i citizen this is crazy, right . This is a lawsuit about qatari guys not coughing up their investment for aged players and now offering money to make steve bannon their paid agent after he has been fired from the white house. What . Yeah. This is real. This is our life now. Youre not asleep. Back to the transcript, quote o i have no idea about Michael Flynn and your money. But at this point, the story is still absolutely worth ignoring, right. Maybe this is a fascinating wacky off shoot of the plucky story of the threeonthree Basketball League that could. Right. Without casting aspersions on any of the people involved this is a civil lawsuit file in california in a showbiz sports world case by a guy that once had business connections to steve bannon. No reason to think this is anything other than a wild assertion made as a publicity stunt to make people talk about new way to play basketball without running around too much. But then this happened. Michael a the lawyer for Stormy Daniels and her case against the president and Michael Cohen, he has a flare for the dramatic, obviously and he has broken some significant news over these last few months during which time hes become unavoidable for comment in the media but made subsequent claim thats have been born out and he just posted online this picture with this cryptic caption, quote. Obviously the only recognizable person in this photo is Michael Cohen on the right. We dont know what avenati is up to with this. Tick, tick, tick. Whats going on . What details . Whats this about . This is his follow up quote now at this point, its still possibly just a publicity stunt for the threeonthree Basketball League with an assist from lawyer from Stormy Daniels hyping that publicity stunt and one of his own, wild claims about qatari guy linked not just to basketball. Seems nutty but late this afternoon we get confirmation from the qatari guy in question who was an official and he confirms, yeah thats me. Yeah that was him in the elevator at that picture at trump tower. He confirms he was there december 12, 2016, to meet with trump transition officials. A person familiar saying quote so. The news gods are mischievious and i swear they sometimes throw things at us just to make sure were pay ago tension. In this story we have a qatari Government Official who was in control of a huge pot of qatari money and is accused of bragging he used qatari money to bribe, slash fund Michael Flynn and hes accused of using more qatari man to bribe fund steve bannon and turns out believe it or not, the dude was actually at trump tower during the transition and he confirms and admits he was there during the transition to meet with trump transition officials, plus Michael Cohen who was not a trump transition official or a Trump Campaign official but whose Financial Life is held up by the ankles and shaken by federal investigation led by prosecutors in the Southern District of new york. Qatar was also approached by Jared Kushners family about funding their real estate family, those approaches made after Jared Kushner was working at the white house. Qatari famously not handing over information to the Robert Mueller investigation as the investigation clearly tries to follow the money. So there you have it. Threeonthree probasketball of all things is now part of the scene and the cast of characters here. And eventually somebodys going to have to explain why the teeny, teeny, tiny very rich nation of qatar keeps turning up in the middle of all these shady trump story lines. Joining us, curator of timelines between connection of qatar and Trump Administration thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. This story is nuts. And i spent almost all of the first almost all of the amount of time reading about it thinking this was a publicity stunt that was dropping names and provocative allegations just to get attention to this Basketball League then we got confirmation from this qatari official saying he was involved with meeting with trump officia officials, what do you think is important about this story . Theres a lot of moving parts on this timeline and true qatar keep popping up in various weird moments. Lets start briefly with the steel dossier which alleged there was going to be a plan to sell 19 of this giant oil company that russia owned as a state oil company and to sell 19 and generate commissions to pay off the trump people as a kwid proquo for lifting sanctions, that dossier doesnt get published until after the election, around time of the inauguration. Turns out while was in couple hands the events were playing out in realtime. Ju