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 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 wi

that was all tom barrack. this is no different than jared, you know, what's happening with his buddies in the middle east. they are making money and they are doing it in donald trump's name. they are doing it for donald trump, doing it for themselves, doing it in spite of america's best interests. >> jared kushner was asked by jonathan swan in an interview several months ago about khashoggi. jared said we're waiting to see what it says in the report. the president was asked a day later and he said what are you talking about? we haven't covered this. in months, as defensive as you say this is, this is their playbook and it doesn't seem like anything is going to stop. republicans issued their own report saying they did not see evidence of wrongdoing with regard to barrack and this transfer. so that being the case, does anything happen here? >> well, and the congress just decided not to override the president's veto on the saudi arms deal. the efforts to get saudi sanctions aren't going anywhere. so this sort of

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the report zeros in on a number of trump's close associates, including his long-time friend tom barrack, who ran trump's inaugural committee. they say barrack pushed the white house to sign off on deal with saudi arabia to build dozens of power plants. a deal democrats said could have benefited barrack financially. the deal never went through. but barrack was still instrumental in crafting the president's saudi policy. in 2016, right before trump was set to deliver this campaign speech on energy -- >> we'll work with our gulf allies to develop a positive energy relationship as part of our anti-terrorism strategy. >> reporter: the report says barrack ran the speech by a business associate in the united arab emirates with connections to saudi leaders, who later sent it back with edits. trump's campaign chairman paul manafort emailing back that the speech "has the language you want." today's report, the work of the house oversight committee, led by congressman elijah cummings, who the president has been attacking on twitter. >> so, let's get to mary bruce in washington tonight. and mary, t

barrack circulated the draft among em iranian saudi officials and then passed suggestions back to mr brock who conveyed them to trump campaign chairman paul man of fort the house says it will continue to investigate the relationship and the senate says it will continue to try and block the arms sales meaning regardless of what the president wants saudi arabia will likely stay in the u.s. headlines for the forseeable future political gain al-jazeera washington at least $57.00 inmates have been killed in a prison riot in brazil 16 of the prisoners were beheaded during the violence that lasted for 5 hours the other suffocated to death after the cells was that old fire rival gangs attacked each other in a prison in the southwestern region of power 2 of the staff well held hostage the prison riots like these are not uncommon as trees about reports from when desire is in neighboring argentina. another brutal riot in brazil this time in the city of media in the northern states of apparently at 7 o'clock in the morning this monday a group of gang members tried to take over another side of th

the report zeros in on a number of trump's close associates, including his long-time friend tom barrack, who ran trump's inaugural committee. they say barrack pushed the white house to sign off on deal with saudi arabia to build dozens of power plants. a deal democrats say could have benefited barrack financially. the deal has not gone through, but barrack was still instrumental in crafting the president's saudi policy. in 2016, right before trump was set to deliver this campaign speech on energy -- >> we'll work with our gulf allies to develop a positive energy relationship as part of our anti-terrorism strategy. >> reporter: -- the report says barrack ran the speech by a business associate in the united arab emirates with connections to saudi leaders, who later sent it back with edits. trump's campaign chairman paul manafort emailing back that the speech "has the language you want." today's report, the work of the house oversight committee, led by congressman elijah cummings, who the president has been attacking on twitter. >> so, let's get to mary bruce live in washington tonight. an

was so close that when candidate trump was scheduled to give a major energy speech his close friend tom barrack circulated the draft among iranians saudi officials and then passed suggestions back to mr brock who conveyed them to trump campaign chairman paul man of fort the house says it will continue to investigate the relationship and the senate says it will continue to try and block the arms sales meaning regardless of what the president wants saudi arabia will likely stay in the u.s. headlines for the forseeable future political gain al-jazeera washington. because the senate wasn't able to block that the u.s. government is free to go ahead for such an guided munitions and related equipment worth of $8000000000.00 it will be some saudi arabia and the u.a.e. a weapons monitoring agencies has a 5th of all u.s. sales between 20132017 which a saudi totaling around mind $1000000000.00 at least $6000.00 civilians have been killed in yemen the majority by sound the u.s. coalition strikes me. senate is here the weapon sales will make the us complicit and more killings orlando smith says medi

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it involved president trump's long-time friend, investor tom barrack, who they say was trying to secure support for a nuclear power plant between the sawedies and the u.s. the documents show the kpheupb straert's willingness to let private parties with close ties to the president wield outsized influence over u.s. policy towards saudi arabia. the report said the new documents raise serious questions about whether the white house is willing to place potential profits of the president's friends above the american people and the universal objection of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. republicans on the house committee issued a minority report disagreeing saying there is no evidence to support the claims. the white house did not respond to a request for comment. joining me now is congressman from illinois serving on the house oversight committee. thank you for coming back on the show. . >> good morning, hallie. >> we should note that barrett's representatives have defended themselves and their client to the "new york times", to others, insisting there was no wrongdoing, if you will

the edits were handled by trump associate tom barrack, with the help of campaign manager paul manafort, who is currently serving a nearly eight year prison sentence. according to the r report, thoms barrack also lobbied trump to become a special middle east envoy and made plans to help saudi arabia build nuclear power plants through his private equity firm. california governor gavin newsom signed a bill tuesday that will require presidential and gubernatorial candidates to re-reveal -- to release five years of tax returns before they can appear on the state primary ballot. a ballotn still past for trump if he wins the republican nomination. in a statement, governor newsom said, "these are extraordinary times and states have a legal and moral duty to do everything in their power to ensure leaders seeking the highest offices meet minimal standards and to restore public confidence. this bill will shed light on conflict of interests, self-dealing, or influence from musick and foreign business interest," he said. in chicago, anti-violence motherss from the against senseless killings are sea

the edits were handled by trump associate tom barrack, with the help of campaign manager paul manafort, who is currently serving a nearly eight year prison sentence. according to the repeport, thoms barrack also lobbied trump to become a special middle east envoy and made plans to help saudi arabia build nuclear power plants through his private equity firm. california governor gavin newsom signed a bill tuesday that will require presidential and gubernatorial candidates to re-reveal -- to release five years of tax returns before they can appear on the state primary ballot. a ballotn still past for trump if he wins the republican nomination. in a statement, governor newsom said, "these are extraordinary times and states have a legal and moral duty to do everything in their power to ensure leaders seeking the highest offices meet minimal standards and to restore public confidence. this bill will shed light on conflict of interests, self-dealing, or influence from musick and foreign business interest," he said. in chicago, anti-violence motherss from the against senseless killings are sea

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well, his name is tom barrick and he's one of the president's long-time friends and ran his inaugural committee and according to this report barrack once pushed the white house to sign off on a deal with saudi arabia to build dozens of power plants that could have benefited him financially and also once gave one of his associates with close ties to gulf leaders a sneak peek at one of the president's energy speeches so he could have a chance to make edits. this report says that there are serious questions about whether the white house is willing to place the potential profits of the president's friends above the national security of the american people and it is exactly the kind of oversight of the trump administration that is likely putting the chairman of this committee, elijah cummings, in the president's crosshairs. >> certainly seems so, mary. let's switch gears and talk about the debate, second round of democratic debates begins tonight. it will be over two nights, ten candidates on each stage each night and tonight the front-runners in the center of the stage will be bernie sand