meetings during the trump transition. one meeting that mr. nader attended was one where he accompanied the crown prince of the united arab emirates to trump tower where they met with michael flynn and steve bannon and that was reportedly held in part to discuss opening up some sort of open channel in the future that would be a way to have representatives of president trump speaking with representatives of president putin. mr. nader was reportedly present at a followup meeting in the seychelles islands and acoal n accompanied the crown prince between eric prince acting as a representative p representative between the transition team and the representative of putin. this news arrives the day paul manafort was arraigned on federal tax and bank fraud charges and plead not guilty to
trump and kim jong-un meeti ing personally and directly according to tonight s announcement and planning to do so reportedly a few weeks from now. now you might imagine another president in this circumstance. kim jong-un makes a request, you want to meet? might think another president in this circumstance, you can imagine a president asking himself or herself why has no other american president ever agreed to do this? why has no sitting american president ever met with a leader from north korea? why has that never happened in all the decades north korea existed. this might be particularly risky. i think that s how most presidents would approach the idea of a personal meeting with the north korean dictator.
being promised russian government material that was said to be damaging to hillary clinton. when that meeting was first reported last year, the american public was introduced for the first time to some of these characters at that weird russian meeting these are all people we ve never heard of before. but in new reporting today by the super star investigating team, we learned not just about donald trump hanging out years before with some of the russians who helped set up that trump tower meeting. turns out two of those guys actually met with the future president in trump tower well before the presidential campaign in early 2015. quote in january 2015, trump had them as guests to his office in trump tower. a meeting that was never publically revealed during the investigations that followed the 2016 election. never publically revealed until now. in a new book i have been very excited to get my hands on, two
conclusion, this was a surprise on a number of different levels. let me ask you one last prieiec. no other sitting president has ever agreed to meet one on one, to meet in person with the north korean dictator and because this was a surprise, because the secretary of state, you know, isn t there, secretary of state is in africa, there isn t a south korean ambassador. the long-time head of policy just left his job just left last week. is there any concern that the president by agreeing to take this meeting, that he may be doing something risky. there may be people within the national security establishment and military that may object to the president taking this meeting one on one? it s definitely risky. one of the things this would do, if we have a picture of kim jong-un and president trump standing next to one another, this actually achieves one of kim jong-un s long-standing and his father s goal which is to
so monday the 12th kislyak is back at trump tower again meeting jared s assistant. tuesday the 13th, sergey is back meeting with jared himself. two days after that, trump tower again this type it s flynn, kushner and steve bannon taking another secret meeting. this time with the crown prince of the united arab ep rats known by the initials mbz. they didn t disclose this meeting to the obama administration even though the u.s. government figured out he was here in the end. so mbz is accompanied that the meeting by an adviser named george nader. after that meeting, erik prince reportedly approaches mbz and tells him he is authorized to act as a surrogate for trump. he asks mbz to set up a meeting for him with a surrogate for putin. according to the post, mbz agreed and proposed the say