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Projects in the middle east. that fund never materialized. it vanished when trump left office. as "the new york times" reports, kushner and mnuchin crisscrossed the middle east in the final months of the administration and launched competing competing private funds that used the same contacts while in office. while the three predecessors made a total combined of eight trips to the reover ten years in office. the apparent results when he went back to the private sector after the trump administrat...

Prepared by the main sompb wealth fund, which committed $1 billion to him. kushners new firm reached an agreement for a $2 billion investment from the saudis six months after he left government. joining me now is kate kelly who broke the story along with her colleague. lets start with the number of trips. 18 visits over four years to the prgs gulf compared to eight by his three predecessors over the previous decade. while jared kushner made ten trips. it seems highly unusual. talk to me about th...

Swiftly responded alongside the united states and that is a sign of where things may stand if new conflicts arise in the region. to go deep into the conversation im john but my old friend and colleague, nbc news foreign correspondent janet mackie for air, who was in beijing and knows everything i just said very well. put something on those bones for us, janice. >> well, president biden certainly has his work cut out for him on this trip to asia. but to the analysis so far is that really, he has ...

And by these other foreign hot spots. hes traveling here much later than his predecessors might have and really sort of thrown into question the idea of this whole pivot to asia. thats something that president 0 bam many talked about, that president trump alluded to, as well. now its president bidens turn to turn his attention and renew what hes said what is the defining challenge of the 21st century, to counter china. when you see him here in seoul the first couple of hours, his first stop will...

Last year and they are methodically and systematically working their way through that list. and certainly icbms is very high up on that list. there have been a number of other tests in the past couple of months that are believed to have been failures, but that still doesnt matter to north korea. they will still learn an awful lot from a failure. so, certainly, there is a concern that anything that north korea does could overshadow this trip. john? >> okay, paula. lets go to kevin now. and north ...

Policy, the bank of england has to act, we had the governor talking about— act, we had the governor talking about apocalyptic food prices and feeling _ about apocalyptic food prices and feeling helpless, that will not really — feeling helpless, that will not really work, the bank was admonished by one _ really work, the bank was admonished hy one of— really work, the bank was admonished by one of its— really work, the bank was admonished by one of its predecessors, mervyn king. _ by one ...

We are doing that. we are looking at breaking the cycle. we are looking at dealing with substance abuse and mental health by providing proper levels of -- when you move people out of the carceral system, that is not necessarily address the issue. when it comes to find a crime, we are prosecuting at the same rates and sometimes hire them a predecessors. when it comes to sexual assaults, we are prosecuting those cases at higher rates. the reality is that there are many components. as you indicated...

Want borisjohnson to appoint a cost—of—living minister. and that figure rises to 90% of those aged over 64. there is real concern. i think people are asking for the joined up thinking from a government, i mean specifically borisjohnson�*s government as boris johnsons government as opposed to borisjohnson�*s government as opposed to any of his boris johnsons government as opposed to any of his predecessors, thatis opposed to any of his predecessors, that is failed to have a simple thought...

American people know these stories. i am not the first secretary of defense to write a book. all my predecessors have. >> you guys denied stories that turned out to be true. >> name one that i denied. name one i denied. >> i will not violate agreements other reporters made. i will not violate that. there are plenty of things that seem to be denied by the pentagon that were later confirmed. >> you would have to cite it, and if i didnt want to talk about it, i wouldnt talk about it. theres always ...

Variants. i would say the only silver lining is if the true number of cases, indeed, is much higher than what were seeing or what is being reported, then actually the severity of the virus might be inferred to be even less, you know, virulent, lets say, than with current estimates. what i mean by that, if you think of something the case fatality rate, the number of deaths over the number of cases, if your denominator is much, much bigger that certainly makes us feel a little more secure than the...