Jack - Mueller Expands Investigation

Episode Date: March 12, 2018

This week, we discuss Republican fundraiser Elliot Broidy, the Kushner/Turkey connection, as well as the UAE and its relationship with George Nader. Enjoy! ...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm Greg Oliar. Four years ago, I stopped writing novels to report on the crimes of Donald Trump and his associates. In 2018, I wrote a best-selling book about it, Dirty Rubels. In 2019, I launched Proveil, a bi-weekly column about Trump and Putin, spies and mobsters, and so many traders! Trump may be gone, but the damage he wrought will take years to fully understand. Join me and a revolving crew of contributors and guests as we try to make sense of it all. This is Preveil. Thanks for listening to Mullershi wrote. Have you ever asked yourself, what are those locked episodes?
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Starting point is 00:01:15 So to be clear Mr. Trump has no financial relationships with any Russian olivar. That's what he said. That's what I think that's obviously what their opposition is. I'm not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time of truth in that campaign and I didn't have and I have communications with the Russians. What do I have to get involved with Putin for? I have nothing to do with Putin. I've never spoken to him. I don't know anything about a mother than he will respect me. Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. So, it is political. You're a communist! No, Mr. Green. Communism is just a red herring.
Starting point is 00:02:00 Like all members of the oldest profession I'm a capitalist. Like all members of the oldest profession I'm a capitalist Welcome, hello, this is Muller. She wrote. I'm your host, A.G I use a pseudonym because I work for the federal government My job may be in jeopardy, so we aren't kidding about needing those subscribers you guys You guys so please hit us up and with with me as always is Jordan Coburn Hello everyone and Julie.isa Johnson. Hey guys. How are you guys this week? Good, yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Nice. Yeah, nice. You're nice. I'm nice. Yes, it's a nice week. I had a guy tell me to get on the pole last night at a mic though. Oh, like the stripper pole?
Starting point is 00:02:37 The mic stands. The voting pole. Oh, so easy. Get to those poles. That's what he was doing. He wanted you to vote Jordan my mistakes are Kind stranger. Yeah Well as usual we have a jam packed show It wasn't that crazy of isn't of a news week believe it or not
Starting point is 00:02:58 A lot of the news this week was not Russia related. It was it was porn star related more than Then Russia but there was still enough to go around and make a pretty pretty full episode. So today Jordan will be covering the Kushner and Turkey situation. Yes. And Jalisa will be going over a dude named Broiti. Oh yeah. And I'm gonna talk a bit about the United Arab Emirates. Lovely little country. But before we jump in we have a couple of corrections to make from last week's show. First, Mifsood is Maltese. He's not Russian. Just out there. So thanks for that pointing that out to us.
Starting point is 00:03:33 And there seemed to be a bit of unrest about our reporting on Ivanka Trump. We want to assure you we all think she's a piece of shit. So I think what Jordan, I think what you were referring to was that you were like disappointed that she turned out to be a piece of shit. Yeah, in general, not so much like, yeah, for sure no sympathy for her currently. If anything, it was just knowing, because before people were talking about her like, you know, Ivanka, maybe she's not that bad. She's, she's a respectable, maybe. That was the give her a chance. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Starting point is 00:04:08 People want to give her a chance. And that is strictly the only sympathy that I was extending was just respect for a woman making it period, honestly. And then realizing that she is also just a piece of shit was, was sad just in terms of hope for humanity. Yeah, it is. No one's saying it just started with that news last week either. No, and you know knowing that a lot of these dudes in the White House are trash is fine.
Starting point is 00:04:34 It's when we lose like a settlement to the dark side where we're like, damn it. Why? You know, and there's plenty in this administration. Yeah. Betsy DeVos is a piece of shit as well. So I just want to make it clear we don't like a vanka drum. Yes, and if I may add my own little thing that I found too, just on the topic of undeserved sympathy, they're, you know, we reported last week on the Russian model in Thai prison.
Starting point is 00:05:02 Yes. Russian model in Thai prison. Yes, so she, Nastya Rybka, I believe, as she goes on Instagram, but she, I learned, has been a active supporter of Harvey Weinstein, which now I would like to redact all of my sympathetic... Yeah, I redact all of the last episode. How do you support Harvey Weinstein? She would lead pro-Harvey Weinstein protests. What?
Starting point is 00:05:25 Like trying to say, like don't listen to his great dude. Yeah, saying that he was a great dude and he's good for women's sexuality. Oh my gosh. Well, not saying she should die either. No, but we're not getting there. I'm just saying, I, yeah, it's, it's, I find that it's hard to be sex positive and simultaneously supporting Harvey Weinstein. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I didn't know's hard to be sex positive and simultaneously supporting Harvey Weinstein. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:48 I didn't know that. That's terrible. Yeah, just so you can all sleep a little bit more at night, I guess. Thank you, Jordan. I was so worried for her. And now I don't have to worry. Thanks, Jordan.
Starting point is 00:06:00 All right, well, let's see if we can keep this episode a reasonable length. Last week was pretty long, but it was awesome. It was my favorite episode. You guys seem to love it. So thanks for checking that out. And let's get right into it with just the facts. All right, on Sunday, the New York Times reported that the Mueller investigation had begun investigating the United Arab Emirates involvement in shaping White House policy. I'll be talking about this later in my special report in my hot notes. So stick around for that.
Starting point is 00:06:29 It's pretty big news. We can't call it the Trump-Russia investigation anymore, because we've got other countries involved now. I really think that Watergate had was easy to name, because it happened at the Watergate Hotel. But I think we should just call this the Mueller investigation. He's got a lot of investigations, but I think this is the one that's going to define his life. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:52 And he deserves the cred. Absolutely. So I think we're just going to stick with Mueller investigation, because now we've got more than just Russia. New York Times also reported over the weekend that the State Department has been given $120 million to fight Russian attacks on our elections and they've spent, guess how much? Zero. Correct. They've spent nothing.
Starting point is 00:07:12 We didn't rehearse that or anything. No faith. Yeah. That's just a sad truth. Yeah, this is just American five seconds. And note this. Note this. Put a pin in this for later when I talk about Rex Tillerson because he's the head of the
Starting point is 00:07:23 State Department. He's the head of the state department. He's the one who's supposed to spend that money. So remember, just remember. We found out over the weekend also that Mueller sent a grand jury subpoena to a mystery witness asking for all communications this person had with a list of people, including like Trump, Hicks, Stone, and Bannon to name a few. Twitter was a light with speculation about who the mystery witness was. I thought it was going to be WikiLeaks.
Starting point is 00:07:48 Somebody thought it was, what did she say? Somebody thought it was Stone. Like, we find out later in the wait. Yeah, it's coming. It's coming. Oh, we already found out. We know. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:02 I'm excited. I don't know. Oh, we know. You know. You know. Sunday, we learned that Cone We know. Yeah, excited. I don't know. Oh, we know. You know. You know. Sunday, we learned that Cone was thinking about leaving the White House. Another one, Bryce the Dust.
Starting point is 00:08:14 Another one, Bryce the Dust. Apparently, he was upset by Trump's tariff announcements. So while the tariff plan was totally cool with him, the tariffs were just too much. So he, we learned Sunday he might leave. The White House pushed back hard on that, but Tuesday he quit. He's the White House was like, he's not leaving, he's not. He loves me. He thinks I'm great. I'm the greatest. He's the best. My tariffs are the best tariffs. Good for you. Two days later, he's like, bye.
Starting point is 00:08:45 I like to believe the White House just has a secret shoot that all these people are just shopping in to. Like down the shoot, like one in the jack button. Like one of those emergency airplane slides or something. That's great. You can also use it as a life raft. So that was just over the weekend, you guys. Wow, we were recording last week.
Starting point is 00:09:06 We haven't even started with Monday, so. But here we go, Monday, while you were all curling up with your Halo top and listening to episode 18, Nunberg was getting drunk and doing a little blow and getting ready for it all out of salt on the media, okay? So on Monday, Nunberg Monday. How? Nunberg, fuck, there.
Starting point is 00:09:24 Ha, ha, ha. Sam Nunberg, former Trump aid and Roger Stone suck ass, lost his shit Monday and he did a full tour of every newsroom, called every news organization. Basically, okay, so he was the guy, subpoenaed over the weekend that I was talking about, Jelisa, the secret subpoena, that was him, okay. Nice. And he also might have been the guy that leaked those four stories last week to NBC and CNN, all the things that Mueller was asking witnesses that we learned, because he just liked the talk.
Starting point is 00:09:57 Because he was drunk as far. He didn't have so much sense. Anyhow, he went on TV all drunk and crazy, saying there was no way, no how he was ever going to show up for that subpoena. He called Mueller and crazy. Saying there was no way, no how. He was ever gonna show up for that subpoena. He called Mueller and idiot. He dared him to arrest him. And by the end of the day, after a bunch of nice lawyers explained to him
Starting point is 00:10:13 that he could go to jail, reminding him that the last person to defy a grand jury subpoena by special counsel was Susan McDougall during the Clinton investigation. And she was jailed for 18 months. Wow. So you see his face too when he realized?
Starting point is 00:10:25 Yeah, when that lady told him, like, you can go jail. And he was like, oh my god. It just so- Well, definitely put the clip you shared on Twitter already, A.J., but the clip of him, that's just like five seconds. Where were those? That was the scene that it was like. Aaron Burnett was like, I'm been sitting close to you.
Starting point is 00:10:43 I smell alcohol on your breath. And he's like, hey, she goes, have you been drinking? And he's like, I'm been sitting close to you. I smell alcohol on your breath. And he's like, hey, she goes, have you been drinking? And he's like, no. And he's all red and slouchy in the face. He's so visibly drunk. He sounded like, you know, in our intro music, the Manafort. That's what I said. He said that's our position.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Exactly. Yeah. Maybe Manafort's a drunk. I'd be drinking if I worked for, yeah. Maybe made a fortune. Drunk too. I'll be drinking if I work for Trump too. I love wine. I love wine. You know, in fact, if you own a wine company, pay, sponsor us.
Starting point is 00:11:14 Yes. We'll drink this. We'll drink it all day. Yeah, we just were learning that our demographics are prime wine drinking in. Yeah, so this would be, this is a great opportunity. Yeah, and thanks everyone for taking our survey. We appreciate it totally anonymous
Starting point is 00:11:26 I'm not selling you stuff to anyone don't worry about it. Yes. Yes. Yes. I just want to learn who you guys are Yeah, totally and we love you So I think this this tidbit the drunken raid of all the media channels I think is my favorite development so far. It's just entertainment-wise, that is great. Oh yeah. I knew my friends like, there's blow in there. He did blow. He totally did blow. This is what I expected.
Starting point is 00:11:50 What do you know about blow? You're a comedian, stop it. From the beginning, I was just like, who's gonna break publicly? And he's the first. He's the one. I bet Shannon Woodward loved it too. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:01 I think it's like, yeah, so funny. All right, so while all the nunberg sh and anagons were distracting us, we missed an amazing piece on Christopher Steele by Jane Mayer at The New York Times. We'll be covering that in a bonus episode this week, and that's just for subscribers, so check that out, you guys. But one of the most important pieces of this article that is that Steele released a second memo after the first dossier, he released one more that we know about. It wasn't published by Buzzfeed and none of us had heard about it until this story dropped.
Starting point is 00:12:31 And it revealed that Russia may have actively blocked the appointment of Romney as Secretary of State. And Romney is like a known Russian hawk. He doesn't like Russia. Yeah, he doesn't like them at all. And then all of a sudden Tillerson is appointed, someone well known for being a friend to Russia. So those are the facts of the story. I'd like to go out on a limb and say Trump offered to pay nunberg's legal fees to take a bath in tequila and snort some blow and go nuts on the mainstream media. You did that totally distract.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Or it did that. From the fact that Russia handpicked our secretary of state pretty much, and of course that's conjecture, but like still, yeah, that makes sense. It happened. And I mean, that's just insane. I mean, Tillerson did a bunch of oil deals in Russia. He would want Russian sanctions lifted. He's a former Exxon mobile CEO.
Starting point is 00:13:18 He's their guy, yeah, it's Russian homeboy right there. He's got like a medal of love from them. I can't remember what it's called. A Russian medal of love. Like a holy order of we love your oil A medal of meddling. There you go. Yeah, he totally meddled So all right, so Monday also we found out that Mueller is looking into Kushner's ties with Turkey Mm-hmm, and whether or not that shaped White House policy all these things about the transition just coming out now that Nader is cooperating, which is interesting and I'll go over that later
Starting point is 00:13:47 Considering he was in a lot of those transition meetings and and we all know that Muller has all the GSA transition emails too. And Michael Flynn is cooperating and he's there for all that Yeah, it's beautiful And is the Flynn turkey deal connected with the Kushner Turkey deal? Like I don't know, remember how Flynn was gonna kidnap that one dude? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, are you gonna go over that? Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, so Jordan's gonna go over that a little bit.
Starting point is 00:14:12 Yeah, nice. On Tuesday, we found out something that blew me away. I didn't get much coverage, it didn't get much coverage in the news, but frankly, it shocked the hell out of me. And I don't blame the news, there's so much going on that it's hard to have a lead story these days. But we learned, because I think Tuesday is when the ship broke that Stormy Daniels is suing the president. Right.
Starting point is 00:14:31 But it broke on Tuesday that the House Intelligence Committee is leaking intel about the Russia investigation back to Trump's lawyers. Basically, a guy named Kramer had testified to the House Intelligence Committee in December. And let me remind you who Kramer is. A nice triangle. It's Isosceles. I love the name Isosceles. If I had a kid, I would name him Isosceles.
Starting point is 00:14:58 Isosceles Kramer. So let me remind you who Kramer is. He's the McCain aide that helped orchestrate getting the steel dossier into the hands of John McCain. Well, he testified to the House Intelligence Committee and after Kramer testified, Cohen, that's Trump's lawyer, well, his lawyer, called Kramer's lawyer and said, hey, a friend of mine in the House Intelligence Committee told me you might have information about the dossier that could help my client Cohen. I remember Cohen is implicated in the steel dossier. So he also said, quote,
Starting point is 00:15:34 don't tell the House Intelligence Committee, I said anything. Which is misprision, right? That's covering up a felony. Yes. So there is a leak, at least one that we know of in the House Intelligence Committee that called up Trump's lawyers and said, this is what Kramer testified to today. That's ridiculous. And we've been saying this, you guys, for ever, that the House Intelligence
Starting point is 00:15:54 Committee is just a leaky pile of crap. We're not going to get anywhere in there. I'm so glad Adam Schiff is in there at least to sort of try to hold things together and request like subpoenas and actually try to get things done. Although now, the head of the, they're trying to say that a Conway, who's the guy who took over for Nunez when he had to recuse himself, he's saying we're wrapping up the investigation
Starting point is 00:16:16 and they interviewed Lewandowski or Nunberg, I think. No, who did they interview this week? It was Lewandowski. It was Lewandowski. Okay. And they were saying that Conway saying that that's our last guy and we're wrapping it up and Adam shifts all,
Starting point is 00:16:31 well, like he wants to bring Eric Prince back in and all sorts of other things. So, but yeah, but it's not up to him, unfortunately. So we'll see what happens, but I'm never put too much into the House Intelligence and Senate Intelligence Committees or the Judiciary's because the Judiciary Committees because we have Mueller, so that's where the truth is. That's where it will come out.
Starting point is 00:16:55 Now, we might not learn a lot of stuff that Mueller finds out, but I'm, I feel okay. No, and he's handling it. It's in good hands, for sure. Yeah, also on Tuesday, the office of the special counsel said Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act twice You dumbass you have any questions about the Hatch Act just send me an email What's your name? Aging or a no Hatch Act G. Yeah, I know Hatch Act G now or A no Hatchag G. Yeah, A no Hatchag G. Now.
Starting point is 00:17:25 But like, come on, it's not hard to not campaign under your official title. And that's basically what she did. She got on TV and she was talking to you about Doug Jones campaigning for Roy Moore with her official title on the screen and her with a White House in the background. You aren't allowed to do that man. I know it and it doesn't matter because Trump's just gonna not do anything He's the one responsible for for following up and doing something about now if I get fired For violating the hatch-act there's no president back in you up. I'm gonna sue because Because she's not getting fired
Starting point is 00:18:04 Yeah, oh, that's a good point. Yeah, so and you guys I mean I've I've heard some things my job could go away So we need about 10,000 subscribers Immediately That would be great if you could just you know hop on give a dollar if everybody gave a dollar We still wouldn't be anywhere close, but just do the thing. Do the thing. They don't like the hat-checked because then how do they fashish them?
Starting point is 00:18:30 Yeah, that's very true. How do you not put presidential seals on your golf tees and so on? What a take. Yeah, and the White House responded with this statement. They said, quote, Kellyanne did not advocate for or against the election of any particular candidate she simply expressed the president's obvious position that he has people in the house and senate who support his agenda
Starting point is 00:18:54 so where do you draw the line then like what kind of crap is that she basically i i wanted to say she simply expressed the president's obvious position that taking fourteen year olds-olds to bone town is totally okay. If I... you guys bone down, guys, come on! I got a take up there. What 14-year-old doesn't love bone town? They love it! Are we there yet?
Starting point is 00:19:15 Did you guys know what they called the 99-cent store in Britain? No. Pound town. Oh my gosh! That's not a dumb joke! That's a real thing. I like it. That's amazing.
Starting point is 00:19:27 I think Tamer told me that. They're so innocent. Funny. That is really funny. Go on a pound town. On Tuesday, we also got another piece of Manafort Darapaska news. If you remember from previous episodes,
Starting point is 00:19:39 Manafort was crazy in debt to Darapaska. Darapaska even sued him until Manafort got the job with Trump and then the lawsuit disappeared. As you know, Manafort promised Darapaska updates on the Trump campaign as a way to pay him back. He even sent an email saying, we good, is this good payback? Me telling you about Trump,
Starting point is 00:19:59 it was like your Kremlin connection email. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Mueller, don't open this. It sounds like a craze list, Dad. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Mueller, don't open this. It sounds like a craze list, Dad. It's so dumb.
Starting point is 00:20:09 It's so dumb. So anyway, we also learned that Manafort was dealing with an intermediary named Kalimnik to get his messages back and forth to Dera Paska. We also knew that a Russian sex worker, your Thai JL lady. Rupka. Yep. RupKA. Yep.
Starting point is 00:20:25 She took video of Darapaska on a boat in Russia with a deputy prime minister telling him about the Trump campaign in Manafort. What we didn't have was proof, or we didn't know that if that 52 hour window between the Manafort meeting with Kalimnik and the boat video, which was released by Navalny, his Putin's opponent, was enough time for Kalimnik to get that intel to Darapaska. Well Tuesday, a medium reported that Manifort was dining with Kalimnik in Manhattan in August 2016.
Starting point is 00:21:01 That's when he first met with him. Just as an aside, you know where they were having dinner? Trump Tower. 666 Fifth Avenue. That's nice. Just eating people's hearts. Yeah. Shots.
Starting point is 00:21:12 Shots. Shots. Shots. Shots. Shots. Shots. Shots. Shots.
Starting point is 00:21:20 Shots. Well, it's been confirmed that Dara Pasca's private jet landed in Newark that night while Kalimnik and Manafort were dining. Within 52 hours, he flew from Newark, which is minutes from where Kalimnik met with Manafort, to Moscow to pick up the Deputy Prime Minister to Norway where the yacht was that the Navalny tape was made. Wow. That's they they now have that travel I didn't know where they got it, but medium reported it out. So that is just another kind of
Starting point is 00:21:58 piece on the proof pile that there was a conspiracy for for Manifort to pay back Derapaska by sharing Trump campaign information with him. Yeah, absolutely. So that thought that was interesting. Manifort is fucked! Was that who it was? What I did was I have Manifort is fucked. We also learned Tuesday Mueller is looking into Cohen about his meeting with Sater and
Starting point is 00:22:23 Art of Manko. When they met to draft a peace plan between the Russians and the Ukrainians to clear a path to drop sanctions on Russia, it turns out Cohen and Sator were told that this plan came directly from Russia and they knew that going into it. So they were knowingly acting as conduits for easing Russian sanctions. Fun. Cohen's going down. He's going downtown.
Starting point is 00:22:43 He's just such a bad lawyer. He's just so stupid. You know, Trump thinks he's the best. Well, maybe not now. I think they forged that stormy note. I mean, yeah. And I wonder if Mueller's looking into this. Because if you think about this, think about this. Bill Clinton was impeached because lying about his affair with Monaco Lewinsky. Oh snap. Nothing to do with whitewater or any of the real estate stuff that they initially started, Ken Star and initially started looking into because the rules, the policies for this special council says Trump Russia investigation and anything that arises.
Starting point is 00:23:23 If Trump was looking, or if Trump's, excuse me, if Mueller was looking at Trump's finances and found this $130,000 payment from Cohen, he could actually just get him on campaign finance law. And lying about it. And covering it up. And that's hilarious. It could all come down to a blue dress like a disc. I really did before would
Starting point is 00:23:45 whatever it is like all this Russian conspiracy and they're just like oh you fucked porn star you're out you know ten years ago that would have been the thing that would have been the biggest story oh yeah and then and then somehow he has this evangelical base that are just refusing to he is a racist base well they sold their souls to basically they wanted to get a judge on the Supreme Court that would be against abortion. Right. That's what they're whole thing.
Starting point is 00:24:10 But they know that he's not down with that. They know it in their soul. It's like when they were still choosing to support Roy Moore, even though he was clearly a predator. There's something else. Clearly just, I don't know, I guess 14, the word, yeah, that's a fucking predator. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:24:23 Yeah, like 17 maybe is questionable, but 14, if's a fucking predator. Exactly. Yeah. Like 17 maybe is questionable. Two 14 if you can't best disgusting. Yeah. Yeah, totally. Wednesday, another crazy story. It was reported Trump spoke to two witnesses about what they talked to Mueller about. In one instance, Trump told an aide that McGahn should release a statement denying the New York Times report saying that Trump asked him to fire Mueller. The second time was Trump asking Privis, asking Privis if he was quote unquote, nice in the special counsel's interview. Now, this might not be against the law, it might not be obstruction of justice, it might
Starting point is 00:25:01 not full on be witness tampering, but it certainly carries an appearance of interference, which is just bad news. That's just poor, poor form. And his lawyers have to just be banging their heads against, against the wall because he, they, I know they've told him, don't talk to anyone about this, about what they said, don't just don't do it. You'll, it'll look like witness tampering. Yeah. So that reminiscent, sorry,
Starting point is 00:25:28 it's very reminiscent of the language he used with Comey in that meeting. Oh yeah. That he wrote down. I see, I would just like to know you could have honest loyalty. Yeah, pretty much. For your own mights side, you on Team Trump.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Yeah, it's like technically, I guess you're allowed to ask those questions But what the fuck yeah, it's just so it's weird. Yeah, no one has ever I mean we we've been living the president Just doesn't do that stuff and it's just not something like we've been living in in this kind of a like Expectations expectations like these aren't laws in this kind of like expectations, expectations. Like these aren't laws, it's just expected that you don't do this and then he's doing that. That's your own mistake. Armageddon.
Starting point is 00:26:14 Shame on me. No, trust me, yeah, trusting people with fully once. Yeah, I remember when Bush trying to do that. Well, you can't fool me again. Let's get that cool. Well, you can't fool me again. Let's get that cold, mate. Yeah. Well, that was it for Wednesday. Well, except for, you know, the impending trade war and the porn star suing the president,
Starting point is 00:26:32 that's a small blur from the New York Times, corroborating earlier reporting that the mooch still did meet with Demetriev. That mooch. Uh, 3CNN reporters resigned for reporting that mooch met with Demetriof because the right-winger said it was fake news and he didn't really have these three CNN reporters didn't really have a lot of stuff to go on. But New York Times corroborated it today, turns out it's not fake news. But anyway, that's what happened Wednesday.
Starting point is 00:26:58 Slowest news day since we started the pod. It was kind of nice to have sort of a day off. Yeah, take a breather, just reflect the president being blackmailed by prostitutes. I can't believe it. She should just be like, she should just tell her story and be like, sue me. You know, usually yeah, like none bird arrest me. Yeah. Come on, man. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:23 Um, Thursday, the news started really early as Corey Lewandowski headed back to the HIC to testify for a second time. If you remember, uh, we reported, uh, the first time he didn't say much. Remember, uh, he kind of, like, banning, kept his mouth shut. He, so we'll see if that turns out any differently. I have that weird fantasy that they're somehow all gagged by Mueller, but you know, we'll see. We'll see. Man afford was back in court on Thursday. This time in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Eastern District, he has two cases going
Starting point is 00:27:56 right now. He has a 12 felony count case in the DC court. And now an 18 felony count case for bank fraud, tax evasion in Virginia. His other trial, the DC one is set for September 17th and we'll be here for you covering that. But this one hasn't been scheduled yet. And for these charges, he faces up to 18 to 20 years realistically. It maxed 270. It's crazy. But he's old. So he would just spend the rest of his life in jail pretty much. I feel like these like people when they get thrown in jail, like these rich people might
Starting point is 00:28:28 actually make the prison system better, right? They might actually improve it because they're all going to end up in jail. Yeah, I don't know what kind of jail he's going to. We're not going to white collar resort prison. No, no, no, no. We're going to federal pound me in the ass prison. I don't want to go to any prison. But yeah, either way, 18 to 20 years.
Starting point is 00:28:47 And that's just for this case. The best part of this whole story, you guys, is he has to wear another ankle bracelet. We have a new one. Seriously? Two? He's got a weird two. And then I would change.
Starting point is 00:29:02 One federal and one state or something. Well, they're both federal, but ones in Virginia, ones in DC. Wow. They don't talk to each other, I guess. So they got to work too. It's a low tech. And I actually tweeted out, I was like, I wonder if he wears both on one leg
Starting point is 00:29:18 or two on each one on each leg. And then I watched Maddo that night and she said that. And I was like, you, I love you. She's and she said that and I was like you I love you she's the best we got to listen and know you're listening we do we love you very much do you think that if he goes to prison then he'll talk too late but I mean just about anything he knows about Russia or or do you essentially I'm wondering if his life would still be in danger by Russian nationals if he was in prison even because we talk about prison being a safe haven for him potentially. Yeah, it's kind of the safest place for him to be. And so do you think maybe if he has the safety of a prison then he would, if he's already lost
Starting point is 00:29:58 exact, yeah, he would just maybe like spill his guts and say, jail? Yeah. I don't know, maybe. He doesn't seem like a real scrupulous kind of guy. So, that'd be interesting. Yeah, I wouldn't be able to guess. And I just, I just picture by the time this is all over, he'll have like 70 bracelets attached to him. Like, he'll be falling down. He can't even walk, because he's got too many.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Nice. He'll have wrist ones. Like, the girls at Coachella that keep all their festival wristbands on the phone. Oh, that's weird. A little flower in his head. Dude, seriously, if there's any cartoonist who listen, draw me a picture of Man of Fort with a hundred
Starting point is 00:30:35 ankle bracelets on it. Yes. I would be your friend for life. Ooh, and Muller gagging people. I want to see that as an example. Ooh, in our channel. Yeah. No, that's weird.
Starting point is 00:30:44 Ha, ha, ha, ha. I our channel. Yeah. That's weird. I'm going to be in DC in April. I'm totally going to like stock his office. Nice. And see if I can get an autograph. Business insider told us on Thursday about a letter Trump received from Putin in 2013. I did Trump send it to Putin. Trump sent it back.
Starting point is 00:31:04 I think it was like a reply to a basket like a gift basket Yeah, and so there's a new book coming out Tuesday, which which I'm excited to read I've ordered it and it talked about a letter Trump received after his misuniverse pageant in Russia right around the time He was looking to build Trump tower in Moscow which lost legs when sanctions were imposed by Obama in 2014, who did nothing to stop Russia. Basically, because he, when, remember when Russia tried to annex Crimea, yeah, that's why we put the sanctions on him in 2014. Of course, the post reported last year that Sator emailed Michael Cohen at the end of 2015,
Starting point is 00:31:41 telling him that Trump Tower was moving forward, and they'd be celebrating Trump being president insinuating Trump would drop sanctions. We also learned that Nader was accused of child pornography in 1985. The charges were thrown out on a technicality. So he had like a room full of kitty porn and it was somehow the siege, the search wasn't the war. The torture wasn't right. Oh my God. That's a privilege, man. Yeah, that's insane to me.
Starting point is 00:32:13 And then on Friday, Washington Post obtained a letter that Trump wrote to Putin. This is the other one. It was typed with a handwritten post-script that said he can't wait to meet beautiful women. Muller has and have them pee on him. Muller has this letter. I have no idea how he got it because it's a typed letter with a handwritten note from him on it. He is seriously just one of the best prosecutors of all time. I don't know how he got that letter.
Starting point is 00:32:40 Sneaky. But apparently something that maybe you knew or maybe didn't know, Trump doesn't use email. So he has a lot of assistance type up letters for him that he hand signs and they fax where they scan in an email on his behalf. So one of his assistants might have had a copy of this letter. Yeah, yeah. So we don't know.
Starting point is 00:33:01 We also learned that the FBI seized a bunch of property from the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Oh, yes. But you can help these children, Derek. By killing the Prime Minister of Malaysia, he's back. Oh, OK. So a while back, $700 million just ended up in the bank account of the Prime Minister of Malaysia. And he said it was a present from a Saudi prince.
Starting point is 00:33:23 It just sounds like an email scam, right? I like how they go to parties with million dollar limits. Right. Forkish. Yeah, what? It turns out the Prime Minister of Malaysia stole billions of dollars from his own country and then tried to laundress it by buying stuff like real estate, Picasso's, producing movies. He beat it dumb and dumb
Starting point is 00:33:45 and the wolf of Wall Street, something else. He bought yachts, just all sorts of shit. And the government seized it all. We learned about this on front Friday, so the Mueller investigation is paid for. I'm nice. Just $1,250 million yacht. We could investigate this for the rest of the...
Starting point is 00:34:03 That'd be so nice. How does a yacht even get that expensive? I don't know. I don't know, but it's ours now. That belongs to all the taxpayers. Yay. That'd be great to have a party when Trump finally gets arrested, and then he's just in a jail cell in the middle,
Starting point is 00:34:17 and everyone's putting all around. Party at Trump Tower. Just throwing that out there. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. It's a good idea. Oddly, Trump hosted the Malaysian
Starting point is 00:34:26 Prime Minister recently. We reported on that and a guy named Brody comes up into the picture. And Julie, so you're going to talk about that. Oh, yeah. We also learned Trump's lawyers are trying to negotiate to negotiate with Mueller saying Trump will meet with you if you and the investigation within 60 days. Oh my god. Idiot. Can you think that'll work? Can you see Moller like? Nah. Yeah. And his trump just so grossly unaware, he doesn't understand that his impeachment
Starting point is 00:34:52 is the subject of this whole investigation. So that's like, I'll give you the information you need as long as we can just wrap this up. We got things to do. It is a really interesting you ask that in light of this week's sabotage. Ooh. We'll get to that shortly. Nunberg testified to the grand jury Friday like a bitch.
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Starting point is 00:36:09 It's time for our special reports, hot notes. So, Jalice is going to talk to us about Broidy today. So this should be interesting. Jalice, take it away. Yes, Elliott Broidy. He is a big time Republican fundraiser. And he was actually the vice chairman of Trump's joint campaign fund with the Republican Party. So the interesting thing about him is that in 2009 he pled guilty to
Starting point is 00:36:31 a pay-to-play scheme involving New York's retirement fund for public sector workers. So in this plea, he gave the New York State Comptroller $1 million in gifts as I quote a reward for giving preferential treatment to Brody's investment fund Mark Stone Capital Partners. So this is a guy who has a history of shady stuff with politicians and he's in charge of a lot of Republican fundraising. So as the then New York Attorney General described it, Brody paid for five personal trips for the state comptroller and his family to places like Israel and Italy. Trips that included airfare, luxury hotel suites, and a helicopter tour. Ooh, very 50 shades of
Starting point is 00:37:14 gray. That's cool. Alright, you need to read the Sleeping Beauty series by Anne Rice. Ooh. It's the original 50 shades of gray, and it blows it away. Okay, I like that. Also written by sexually repressed Mormons. You know all about that, you're right. So like you were mentioning before, A.G., this guy, Brody, he even invested in an obscure movie called Cheuch, which was produced by a pension official's brother. So they just did whatever these guys wanted to get their way. More professional podcasts. We don't talk about chuch on our podcast.
Starting point is 00:37:45 Oh, wait, what is chuch? I know. Whoever signs on to chuch is not a chuch. I thought like, chuch and chong chuch. You know, I don't know. Chuch is what they call their love child. I don't know. It sounds like a baby.
Starting point is 00:37:59 It sounds like my vagina is what it sounds like. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I can see that. I think I'm gonna call it the chuch from now on. The chuch. I love it. The mooch and the Chewch. I love it. Very nice name. So in 2012, a judge reduced Brody's felony plea to a misdemeanor after he repaid $18 million
Starting point is 00:38:17 to the state. Brody also left his company Mark Stone, but he currently runs his own firm, Brody Capital. So, you know, slap on the wrist, basically. Here's another thing, though. This other company, CIM Group, it's from Los Angeles, they're a private equity firm that has a key role in real estate dealings involving Trump and Kushner. They're involved to this because they handle investments
Starting point is 00:38:39 from public pension funds as well. And they were basically a Brody at the time of his New York incident when he pled guilty. He was also on the board for the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Committee. So this guy was not only doing shady stuff in New York that he was found guilty for. He was also simultaneously on similar boards in Los Angeles. And it looks like that's where Mueller is trying to get some more info from. So according to the LA Times, Brody voted to invest $30 million of pension funds with the CIM
Starting point is 00:39:13 without disclosing that his own private equity fund had received $50,000 from them. However, he was not sanctioned for these crimes. So he was only charged for the New York stuff and yeah, I mean, there's a lot of information just sitting here waiting to be dug up again. And this guy Ryan Mahoney, a spokesperson for the RNC, he said this information about Brody is well documented and in the past there's a point at which somebody has paid their debt to society and Elliot has done that. So you know of course the RNC has his back on that, makes total sense. But fast forward to Thursday when the Washington Post published an article detailing how Brody and his wife,
Starting point is 00:39:55 they as a couple sought to make ends of millions of dollars if the DOJ dropped its investigation into an investment deal connected to the Prime Minister of Malaysia. So this, yeah, this is where the whole, it's in the past, don't worry about it, he's a change man. its investigation into an investment deal connected to the Prime Minister of Malaysia. So this, yeah, this is where the whole, it's in the past. Don't worry about it. He's a change man. This is when they can just prove that. So the Justice Department has been investigating Malaysian officials over allegations of money laundering through the US. And somebody reached out to this, you know, to Brody and his wife trying to get them to shut down this whole investigation. Over the past year, there's been emails discussing an arrangement. It's about a consulting contract with Joe Lowe.
Starting point is 00:40:33 Joe Lowe, is that how you pronounce that? It's pretty much just the... Joe and Lowe, let's just self-go. I think J-Lowe. Yeah, yeah. It's the company or the businessman, I guess, who's at the center of the investment scandal that threatens the Malaysian leader Najib Rizak. Long story short, the DOJ said that $4.5 billion belonging to a sovereign wealth fund was stolen by high-level officials at the fund,
Starting point is 00:40:59 including Lo, and some of the money allegedly benefited the prime minister who oversaw the whole thing. So your classic, you know, Putin style, I'm gonna claim my money was stolen, but by the way, I still have it and then, you know, you get more. So, just that typical crime, but yeah, Mueller's on it and the emails did not show that any deals were finalized, but you know, the idea is that Mueller's trying to figure out if they were. And I think even just the the planning of it, right, A.G. it's basically just like the attempt to do all these things. It's bad enough. So he's got that. Yeah, I mean, there's no, the stuff we're seeing is just so out of the ordinary. Yeah, so blank and insane. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:40 Yeah. It's nuts how expansive this program has become. Yeah. It's getting into Malaysia. I haven't thought about them since that plane when missing. So it's like, it's nuts how expansive this program has become yeah, it's getting into Malaysia I haven't thought about them since that plane when missing so it's like there's just so many countries involved in this Yeah, it's a good thing we didn't include Russia in the title of our podcast exactly. Yeah, that'd be too limiting We've got Saudi Arabia. We got North Korea. I mean, yeah, it's a world Investigation so I'm glad we kept it, you know, broad enough. Yeah, yeah. It's the Mueller investigation. And then yeah, Mueller's gonna find out basically what happened
Starting point is 00:42:10 on the California end of all of these, you know, skinny things. So that's where we are with Elliott Brody. But I mean, he's not in trouble yet. He's just someone that keeps popping up. So hopefully something happens with him again, besides the plea deal in New York. I mean, he's super someone I keep popping up. So hopefully something happens with him again, besides the plea deal in New York. I mean, he's super shady.
Starting point is 00:42:28 He is. He's getting away with it. Like in California, they let him go. So I don't know. I'm kind of hoping Schneiderman's doing something. I don't know. We'll see. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:36 That could be cool. I don't know. It's really, I guess, you know, I mean, like I said, there's so much that's being investigated that we just don't even know about. Yeah. We get these little tiny crumbs and tidbits about this investigation. And we spend them into hour and a half long shows.
Starting point is 00:42:53 Yeah. Imagine if we had all the information. Exactly. We're still processing it, you know. It would be too much. It's insane how much information is coming out about itself. Yeah, yeah, but I hope something happens to this guy Brody, yeah, I remember him. Yeah, thanks for that hot note of course Jordan is gonna talk turkey with Kushner
Starting point is 00:43:17 So Jordan go ahead. Yeah, so the old Jared Kushner Worst pub ever We're going tonight. We're going up to the old Jared Kushner. Nice. But so Kushner is now getting investigated by Mueller. And it's his size with Turkey that he is being investigated on now. So never cease to to amaze me what Kushner is managed to entangle himself in. It's honestly impressive.
Starting point is 00:43:42 He's so young. He's so ambitious. It's so hard to have him to do shady shakes 31 or something. Yeah, very young. This is the youngest pile of buffoons to have ever drastically shaped US history. But so US federal investigators are currently scrutinizing whether any of Kushner's business discussions with Turkish foreigners during the presidential transition, later shaped White House policies,
Starting point is 00:44:06 specifically in ways that were designed to essentially benefit or retaliate against those that he spoke with. So according to witnesses and other people familiar with the investigation is where this reporting comes from. It's pretty easy to get on board with them. Yeah, easy to get on board with then. Yeah, honestly. But it's specifically in relation to financing his real estate properties, which is something that keeps coming up with him.
Starting point is 00:44:33 So and this is regarding countries, the country's Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Russia, and China, all those people that we keep talking about. So essentially there's reason to believe that there is more quid pro quo, actions going on with Kushner and his talks, his business proceedings with these people. If you'll remember from last week, there was a story that came in about Qatar and how he was denied and then was involved in a blockade. Yeah, the Saudi blockade with A bit of a cattari. Yeah. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:45:07 And we have a base there, thousands of troops. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. And no bigs. Oh my god. Just eff those guys, right? Yeah, I guess so.
Starting point is 00:45:15 Yeah. And the Trump campaign already, as you know, has a history of potentially colluding with Turkey in some way. Our good old Michael Flynn is currently cooperating with a Mueller investigation if you have somehow forgotten. And it's believed that it seems like forever ago. It really does. It's almost like flipped, right? Yeah. It feels like it's a different investigation, but it's all part of the same thing. It's so true. It's insane. Yeah, this is crazy. It's a long one.
Starting point is 00:45:46 Yeah. Yeah, this is, I feel like the only way so what could comprehensively cover this whole investigation is how we're doing it. Just in it week to week, because it's impossible to organize everything that's going on. Yeah. And all the different webs that exist.
Starting point is 00:46:02 Yeah, somebody was like, you guys should have a commercial that says, we're just like last week tonight, except about Mueller and we're girls. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. Shout out to last week tonight. I literally just like it.
Starting point is 00:46:15 Yeah, John Oliver, hey, you were one of my heroes if you ever. Oh my God. When I come on the show and talk Mueller, just, you know, he's also a person that I find to be very sexy. So sexy, yeah. Super sexy, Justice.
Starting point is 00:46:28 Yeah, for me, so funny too. Oh my god, he's so funny. He's a part two character with all those guys. I would love to write for that show. That would be like the ultimate. He'd be great for that. We're available. Yeah, your commission notes.
Starting point is 00:46:41 Only all three of us though. Yeah, you can't pull it up. You can't, you can't pack it up. You can't sp- I like- Like any one of us is gonna be like, no! I turned down your job, unless- Unless the other two are coming with me.
Starting point is 00:46:55 Um, but just to remind you all, it's believed that Air to Ones saw and had conversations with Michael Flynn, uh, potentially about Quid pro crow deals. And I'm sorry, it was easy to misspeak on that. No, quid pro crow deals. Miller's team is essentially deciding if his contacts with these foreign countries have altered White House policy as well.
Starting point is 00:47:17 And the context that Kushner has in all of those conversations. And the real crux of it is whether or not Kushner stood to benefit financially from these policies. And just a reminder, under US law, it is illegal for any government employee, including someone being considered foreign and advisory role, to render advice based on financial interests. Yes. And that is really what is motivating this probe into Kushner in his relation to Turkey Thank you so much. Yeah, that was a nice little wrap up Jordan. I appreciate it hot notes all right hot notes Hot notes all right you guys. I'm gonna talk a little bit about the United Arab Emirates and a guy named George Nader And who's Nader? So he's this Lebanese American guy. He used to be a go between Syria and the Clinton administration.
Starting point is 00:48:10 And one wonders if the Trump White House's backing of the Cotari blockade came from Mr. Nader or Jared Kushner. Because remember, you were just talking about this, too, Jordan. When Kushner's dad went to the Cotari's to borrow money to put into the 666 Fifth Avenue property and they said no. And then all of a sudden Kushner pops up backing this Qatari blockade on the side of Saudi Arabia. Well, UAE was for this too and NATO was this UAE guy. So it could have been NATO's influence. It could have been
Starting point is 00:48:41 Kushner's influence. It could have been a combination of both that led to the blockade, we're not sure. Now, Eric Prince wants hired NATO to help him drum up business in the Middle East for black water. That was his private security firm I was telling you about. The important thing here is that NATO attended a lot of meetings during the Trump transition on behalf of the UAE pretty much, or as the go between to the United Arab Emirates. So here's a little timeline about these meetings that took place. So as you know, November 8th is when Trump was elected. Just a couple weeks later on December 1st, Flynn, Kush, and Kisleyak met in
Starting point is 00:49:20 Trump Tower to set up a Backdoor Communications channel and to set up a meeting between a Trump surrogate and a Putin proxy in a third country, like a secret off-site location. Yeah. Not in America, not in Russia. Now that meeting happened on 12-1 and we reported that meeting that week. We learned about it. Or the week we learned about it. Now on 12-12, almost two weeks later, Jared's assistant met with Kislyak briefly in Trump Tower. Now, Kislyak, in case you have forgotten, he's the ambassador to Russia. They met in Trump Tower on 12-12. That was a Monday. Tuesday, the next day, Kushner met with Gorkov from VEB, which is a sanctioned Russian bank. And then two days after that, Flynn, Kushner, and Bannon met with the Crown Prince's United Arab Emirates, who goes by MbZ, which is like, Wu Tang to me.
Starting point is 00:50:16 So I'm going to call him MbZ. MbZ and Nader was there with MbZ. Usually when the Crown Prince comes over to the United States when there's any dignitaries here, they inform the government. They didn't tell us this time, but we found out anyway, so. And then just after that meeting with Embeza,
Starting point is 00:50:36 Eric Prince approached Embeza and said, hello, I am to be the surrogate for Trump. When should we meet? and said hello, I am to be the surrogate for Trump. When should we meet? Well, on January 11th, less than a month later, Nader, George Nader, this guy, Eric Prince, Mbiza, and a guy named Demetriof, who's a Russian surrogate for Putin,
Starting point is 00:51:00 and a hedge fund manager that's given hundreds of millions of dollars to UAE, by the way. And he's also the guy who met with the mouge that those three CNN reporters got fired over. These guys all meet in the Seychelles in the Seychelles Islands. And remember we reported that, that weird meeting. Why was he doing there? Was he talking about sanctions, etc? Well, it was basically to set up that back channel. Wow. And Prince is...
Starting point is 00:51:28 He testified to that. No way. So which testimony to the House Intelligence Committee is true? Because Prince testified that it was a meeting to set up the back channel, but he didn't say Nader was there. And now he kept that secret. There's only like five dudes there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:44 And he left one out. There were only like five dudes there. Yeah. And he left one out. Yeah. So, it's suspicious. Weird. So now, Mueller is looking closely at this meeting. And Nader was arrested at Dallas airport. Ooh, when? When?
Starting point is 00:52:00 Very recently. Oh snap. On his way to Mar-a-Lago, it was in January. Oh, okay, okay. Nader was on his way to Mar-a-Lago. It was it was in January. Oh Okay, okay, Nader was on his way to Mar-a-Lago He's changing plans at Dallas International Airport to go to Trump's one-year anniversary party The one he almost missed because the government was shutting down So Nader's on his way like I'm gonna go party for Trump's one-year anniversary and the FBI shows up and says nope and You remember like I'm gonna go party for Trump's one year anniversary and the FBI shows up and says nope. And you remember, so, remember I reported earlier that he was not convicted, but accused
Starting point is 00:52:33 of child pornography in 1985. Yeah. Well, that's the first thing I thought of when they reported this. They said the FBI apprehended him and seized his electronics. And I'm like, oh, maybe maybe they got tiny porn in there yeah but and this is interesting because this is how they nabbed pop a dobbelis oh this is how they got pop a dot they got about the airport and and which means they already had a search warrant right now I don't know for pop it up a for
Starting point is 00:53:00 nature because they seized his electronics yeah see somebody's electronics okay and they might have already had charges. Oh my God. And said, we got charges and will now a native flipped and he's cooperating. Well, a flip, I don't know that he was. Not flipping, but still, it's great news. He's the cooperative.
Starting point is 00:53:18 He's surrendered immediately. Yes. Pretty much. And now think to all those meetings he was at. Mm-hmm. And Flynn was at. It's all during the transition. Yeah. People working with the team now.
Starting point is 00:53:30 And they all felt like they had to do all this before inauguration. Wow. So why, you know? Well, it's going to find out. Set it up back channel, but what for what? You know, just is this for back and forth? Like how are you going to pay us back?
Starting point is 00:53:44 What are we, oh, you like, yeah, they wanted to be able to talk off the record without the United States government knowing for some reason. And is there an act that requires that they identify themselves as being, because at that point, would they be considered an agent or what, what is the legality of being required? Yeah, yeah. What's the consequences of that meeting just or is it that they just want to be off the map and it's not necessarily illegal for them?
Starting point is 00:54:12 Oh, yeah, that's good. Oh, having a back channel of communication? Yeah. It's a necessarily illegal just within the context of this investigation. It just looks sad. You know that it's illegal. I think what covering it up is illegal, right?
Starting point is 00:54:26 Yes, but which they've done time and time again. Yeah, that's been proven. Yeah, but what I don't know, I think what the crime part is is what they were communicating. Right, the context. What they were setting up the back channel for. Yes, exactly, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:42 That I think is where the crime is because they apparently set up a back channel and used it. Now another thing I want you guys to remember is we reported on this a while back. Do you remember how Mueller got a hold of all of the transition emails from the GSA? Yes. Well, he just got him. Yeah, yeah. He just asked for them. And they're like, yeah, here. And he thought, Trump thought they had a lawyer in there, one of Giuliani's buddies. Yeah. He thought Trump thought they had a lawyer in there. One of Giuliani's buddies. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:05 Protecting those emails. He does, but that guy died. Oh, no. And so the GSA was like, yeah, here you go, bro. And so, yeah. So not only do we have Flynn and Nader from all those transition meetings, but we have all the transition emails.
Starting point is 00:55:21 So I just picture in my head that these, like, here's the movie scene, okay? Cut to interior airport, Dulles International. We see Nader getting off of a plane checking his watch. Ready for party at Mar-a-Lago. It's just excited to meet Stormy Daniels. And then he's heard so much. And then five guys walk up in FBI windbreakers. The blue ones with the yellow writing. Oh yeah. And they come up and they have their fingers on their ears
Starting point is 00:55:49 because they're listening to stuff. And then they pull them aside, hand them a warrant, and then take his laptops away from him, and then say follow us. And they lead him down this hallway into whatever sort of weird question room they have at the airport when they question people and and Muller's in there just sitting across this table and there's one impending light metal hanging from the ceiling with the light coming
Starting point is 00:56:16 down on the thing and it's kind of flickering a little bit like Jason Bourne like the born-ident Like Jason Bourne, like the born-eyed underneath. And Muller's just like looking at him. Don't, don't. And Nader's just walking over and they push him down in the chair. You know, they like, send him down. And Muller just starts asking him questions about stuff he already knows about, because he has all the GSA emails. And Nader's like, no, I don't know what you're talking about, man.
Starting point is 00:56:43 I don't know. And he's sweating. And like sweat drops are dripping on the little table. And he's like, I don't know. No, I wasn't there. I wasn't at that meeting. I don't know the crown prince. I don't know, and Biza. And then Mother slams the email down in front of him and says, yes, you do.
Starting point is 00:57:02 You're under arrest for lying to special prosecutor. Yes, and you better cooperate or you're going to jail. Night. And he goes, oh yes, or whatever you say. He just starts singing. Yes, but not everything. They better give you screenplay royalties. Screenwriting royalties.
Starting point is 00:57:22 These ones comes out. Fade out. That's how I see it. That's screenwriting roles. These ones comes out. Fade out. That's how I see it. That's how I see it. Beautiful. Thank you. Wow, yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:57:30 We're going to add some applause there. All right, you guys. Thanks so much. That's hot notes. We'll be right back. Thanks for listening to Muller Shee wrote. The shee in Muller Shee wrote is no accident. Did you know that we were 100% women owned and operated?
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Starting point is 00:58:19 Alright guys, welcome back. It's time for Fantasy Enditement League! Yeah! All right, guys, welcome back. It's time for Fantasy Enditement League. Yeah. ["Fantasy Enditement League"] All right, we are still waiting for that second indictment of Russians to drop. I thought it was going to be like a Friday and a half ago, but we're still waiting.
Starting point is 00:58:42 In the meantime, I want to read you my entire list of my whole team. So here's who I have so far. For pleedials, I have page, banan, clovus, maybe roger stone. It depends on whether or not he cooperates or denies. Like if he pleads guilty or not guilty, I think he's a not guilty kind of pleader.
Starting point is 00:59:02 Okay. I've got pop-a-dop, Flynn, McGann, Gates, Hicks, Rafale. That's the other guy who was the babysitter for the Trump kids that left the way out. Schiller, that's the bodyguard, and Prince, not the singer. Oh, rest in peace. Those are my plea deals, okay. Now, some of them already have made plea deals for Gates, Gates, Flynn, pop it up. So we'll see. Yeah, I like that list.
Starting point is 00:59:30 Yeah, no. For indictments. I have probably Roger Stone. Okay, okay. I think he's gonna plead not guilty. He just, he's got a, he's got a tattoo of Nixon on his back. Oh, no. Jesus Christ. I should want to laugh. It's like this big. Just right in the center of his bag, Google it. With the pea sign, I want that one. No, it's just his head. It's just his floating head. Oh my god.
Starting point is 00:59:53 Google, you put that in the news. We'll put that in the news. I got to say that Google Roger Stone nicks in tattoo and it's there. Nice. She's this Christ. He's actually a pretty good shape for being so old and weird. So that okay so Roger Stone I've got on there. Nader I think although he could just plead guilty I think
Starting point is 01:00:14 I might move Nader to the guilty plea cooperating thing. Okay. Nunez. Right. Because it came out this week that Nunez there's some speculation that when Paige was in Russia giving an announcement of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, a day before he was actually announced as Secretary of State, Nunez was one of the guys in the transition team that was in charge of appointments. Yeah. And so, there's speculation that Nunez talked to Paige. That makes sense
Starting point is 01:00:46 So I think anyway the for many reasons I think I think he's the leak also one of them He's on there junior DT junior cush sessions pants trump sater Cohen Ross that's the can of soup guy. Mm-hmm. From the trade. Yeah tariffs where he's like now take a look's the can of soup guy from the trade. Yeah, tariffs where he's like, now take a look at this can of soup. He's old as dirt, like he's infinity years old. I like soup. He's like holding up a can of soup.
Starting point is 01:01:17 He needs some soup. There are two sets worth of steel in his can of soup. But if we raise it 20 bit, it would be head fractions of a panty. You know he loves his soup too. Poor old man. It's cute. I think he's going to get indicted.
Starting point is 01:01:34 Yeah. Torshin, Epstein, which is Epstein. I have a bunch of Russians. They already were indicted. But I have another bunch of Russians. We're waiting on that. Akofefi of Russians. Two bunch bunch of Russians, they already were indicted, but I have another bunch of Russians. We're waiting on that. Acolphefi of Russians. Two bunches of Russians.
Starting point is 01:01:49 I have a bunch of K-Street Guys. K-Street is where all the lobbying's going. Yeah, yeah. That Manafort used to work on at. So Manafort has to, I don't know, if Gates is telling all, he might turn in a lot of these K-Street Guys too. I think Manafort is on that list. He is, he has been indicted.
Starting point is 01:02:07 Three European dudes are going to be on there. Okay. Those are the ones that Manafort and Roarabocker met were with to try to get, to try to basically pass fake news around from that scadden report from the Giuliani firm on Temeschenko and Yana Kovic. How do I remember this stuff? I don't even know. So many means. Yeah. So he's on there. The three European dudes Pearson and Parscale. Those are the two people from the digital. They ran the digital campaign. Parscale is Trump's new campaign manager for 2020.
Starting point is 01:02:45 We heard his new campaign slogan today. Keep America great. Really? Not a joke? Like, he made it great. Now he wants you to keep it great. It was a pile of shit up until now. He's like, guys, I've fixed it in four years.
Starting point is 01:02:57 It's incredible. I'm gonna keep it this way. Everything's great. I love it. Yeah. I don't, but. Everything's great. I love it. Yeah. I don't, but. Tom Barak.
Starting point is 01:03:08 Barak. Barak. Tom. Tom. He's not worthy of Barak. I think Imbeza will be on there. There you go. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:17 Roar Abokker. Oh yeah. That piece of crap. Yeah. Ardemenko, the Agalorovs. Robbie Love You Love Live. I call him Roboc, because I don't know what else to call him. He's the guy who bought Trumps. Robocop's.
Starting point is 01:03:30 He bought Trumps $40 million mansion for $100 million and then sold it for $40 million. That's right. Ooh, I wonder why. That's Robbie Love Love. Where are the 60 million? Yeah. Dara Pasca, Kalimnik, and Putin.
Starting point is 01:03:42 And of course, Privis is the mole. That's so there's my list nice I don't know. What do you guys think comprehensive? I agree with everything on it. Yeah, we're gonna start hearing some Some names from other countries soon probably yeah, we're pronouncing some interesting foreign names Yeah, more than we already have more than Robla love more than Rob Liao, love you. You get a roll of the blah, blah, blah. Rob Liao, I think is how you say it.
Starting point is 01:04:06 Rob Liao, you have rib. That's a good list though. I mean, a lot of shitty people, but a good list. And you know what's really interesting is that's probably not even half of it. Yeah. Yeah. There's people like, who have heard of Vanders one?
Starting point is 01:04:19 Right? Right? Who's that guy? We're going to make a physical like list. I didn't know about Nader until they started talking about the UAE. Like, we're learning. Who's that guy? We got to make a physical like list or something. I didn't know about Nader until they started talking about the UAE. We're learning. I appreciate if nothing else from this investigation, I'm learning so much about foreign policy.
Starting point is 01:04:35 Just the lethal. The list of potential indictments is almost as long as the list of people who have left Trump's cabinet. Good point. We should compare them. Let's see which one's longer. Almost longer as long as the list of people who have left the White House. I love when a motto puts that wall up. It's a good wall. It's colossal.
Starting point is 01:04:51 Yes. I think we try to send it out every week. Updates to that wall. Yeah, yeah. In the newsletter. So keep your eye out for that. All right, you guys ready for sabotage? Yeah. You guys ready for sabotage? Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Starting point is 01:05:05 Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Starting point is 01:05:13 Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Starting point is 01:05:21 Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! to add to his legal team. Guess what, this lawyer is specializes in. Ooh, porn. Improved. Impeachment proceedings. Oh!
Starting point is 01:05:30 Oh! So this is where we do part one of the happy dance. Happy dance. Yes. Oh, such vindication. Yeah. It's an admission of guilt, at least a little bit. At least a little bit.
Starting point is 01:05:42 It's a little squirtle of guilt. Oh, no, that's not me. Yes. I think a... It's not squirtle, something you a little bit. It's a little squirtle of guilt. He's not squirt. Yes. I think a- He's not squirtle, something you catch on Pokemon. It is. So, yeah. He's squirtle. Also a little pee.
Starting point is 01:05:50 It's what I- It is adorable. He's square too. But I had to feign being surprised a little bit there, so sorry if it seemed- Oh yes, you fainted. He's like, did Jordan! I haven't heard- yeah, I didn't hear this one. But I saw this one and I saw that it was the same lawyer that Clinton used when he was in Trump.
Starting point is 01:06:10 Oh, well that worked out lovely. Yeah, so. Yeah, well he's Trump. Yes, he was this guy. Well, I mean, that, okay, that's true. He wasn't, Clinton didn't get booted, which would be. He wasn't a better deal. He thought, well, I don't know.
Starting point is 01:06:25 I mean, it stopped that, yeah. Once once the impeachment part is done, then, yeah, they saved him from that. Then it's not up to that lawyer at all anymore, but yeah, that's crazy. Right. If it would end up even remotely, how it ended up for Clinton, I'm cool with that.
Starting point is 01:06:38 I don't care how it happens. Stormy Daniels are what, just let it happen. Yeah, so he's been meeting with this guy, and this came out today, and I just think that's so amazing. That's great. That's great. That is so good Emmett T flood Oh, like flood. That's like somebody from the dukes of hazards I've never known how weird names can be A rostcopy cotree You guys don't even know what to do.
Starting point is 01:07:05 No, but it sounds like when I was Trump's people. It kind of is. You ever watched Duke's The Hazard? The only trouble around in a big car with a general e-painted on the top of it. Oh my God, that's so true. I know that much. Balls hanging from the license plate. And it was so sad when I found out, like,
Starting point is 01:07:21 because I was a kid when I watched Duke's The Hazard. I love that show and I love that car with my favorite hot wheels. and then I found out what the Confederate flag was and I was oh no I'm glad you found out though. I it's kind of funny to know that you didn't know from the start because they don't really teach that I was being a bad thing like I wonder how many kids are naturally drawn to the aesthetics of the Swastika yeah Yeah, all the OCD people are like oh man No, I wasn't sad when I had to give up the swastika. I was sad.
Starting point is 01:07:47 Good for UAG. So this basically is a signal that Trump is preparing for the investigation to continue throughout the immediate future at least. So apparently when Trump's lawyer said, we'll let him talk to you. If you end the investigation in 60 days, this is an indication that Mueller said, go fuck yourself pretty much. Yes. So anyway, it's already produced multiple indictments.
Starting point is 01:08:12 The president's seen departure of Key White House personality you were talking about. And it's just gonna keep going. And so he's looking at adding this guy to his lip. Yes, amazing. I love this so much. It's good. Emmett T. Flood.
Starting point is 01:08:24 Yes. It's good. Emmett T. Flood. Yes. It's good. Everyone that has already great names for the movie. Exactly. You don't have to make them all. You don't have to make them all. Sounds like an evil thing.
Starting point is 01:08:34 Yes. Who's your favorite pop-a-dob? Gotta be. Pop-a-dob is pretty good. Best name. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I like Ambisa.
Starting point is 01:08:42 Pretty hard right now. Okay, okay. He's pretty great. But like, just every, all these names are so great. Yeah, it's enough weird names to go around. I'm it to hope Hicks. Hope. Hope her name is hope and she might help us take down the whole thing. Like I just never know. This is all great. All right guys, let's go to some questions that we had in some comments this week. So send us your questions. Of course you can visit mullersheewrote.com and click contact. And send us your questions any time. We'll We'll happy to answer them on the air. So Roy Arale wanted to know what the collective noun for obstructions of justice was.
Starting point is 01:09:10 And we've decided it's a cafe, hey. Yeah. Oh, it's cafe, hey, I say cofephi. Am I wrong? I like cafe. I like cafe, hey, too. It's just got a nice, slashy swashiness to it that I appreciate.
Starting point is 01:09:23 So it's a cafe of obstructions. At Jen the NAB asked us to set up a secret Facebook group for patrons. So we set that up. So if you're a patron and you subscribe, join us on that Facebook page. If you're not, it's just a dollar. You can do it. Come on. We love you.
Starting point is 01:09:39 Get a big Mac for more than that. Come on. Yeah. That's totally true. Yeah. All right. At I be that dude, he and I had a conversation about the Tillerson thing and I told him I thought Trump probably agreed to pay none. Berks legal fees if he went nuts on TV. That's that's where that conversation came from. I do. I think I think Trump was like dude.
Starting point is 01:10:00 I'll give you a million dollars if you I bet he would distract from the fact that Russia hired our secretary of State. And it worked technically he did distract us from that article. That was a great article too. Yeah, I'm glad you covered it. We're going to be doing it in the mini-sode this week. Oh, we didn't go in depth, that's right, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I just covered the little tip of the iceberg.
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Starting point is 01:11:43 Thank you, Kevin. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. At Penn Umbrely, AKA Fitzwilliam asked us, how long can this go on? In reference to how long can Trump's lawyers negotiate Trump's interview? Okay, okay, I thought he was like,
Starting point is 01:11:57 I can't take it how long? You said it. So they can really drag this out pretty much as long as they want, but at some point I assume Mueller will start pushing pretty hard. Yeah, yeah. Anthony, Cripole or Cripole? Cripole. I'm going to discriminate.
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Starting point is 01:13:04 Because this is going on for a while. Oh yeah. Buckle up. That guy's name has like anywhere. Yeah. In fact, when I was talking about Manafort's trials, he's got his first one coming up at September and the one for Virginia District Court.
Starting point is 01:13:16 They didn't set a date yet, but it was funny because the defense-ass Manafort lawyers were like, if we had our wish, our wildest dreams come true, it would be in November. And he's like, well we had our wish, our wildest dreams come true, it would be in November. And he's like, well, you know, I just know that's not going to happen. And it was really, it was kind of funny. That would be perfect. No, not going to happen.
Starting point is 01:13:36 Yeah, it's going to be crazy fall anyways. Regardless what happens, it's going to be a crazy midterms season. It is. And we're going to do some sort of, we're going to figure out how to do this, but we're going to broadcast live for the midterms. It is. I thought you guys would be interested in knowing that. Mark your calendars now. And vote. Yes, get in those polls. Now I also wanted to give a shout out to Rachel Maddo. I know you listen, I know you're listening. You and your fabulous neck.
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Starting point is 01:14:13 And hers, she made one. Yeah. And it was so hard. She's a very smart cookie man. I don't damn you. Ma. Good stuff. It was killing me.
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