there was a secret meeting remote island off the coast of africa just before trump s inauguration. at that meeting, erik prince, the founder of the private security company blackwater and a russian official close to president putin. the seychelles meeting was part of an effort to establish a back channel to russia that the meeting that erik prince had with the russian banker was not happenstance is obviously at odds with what we heard in the testimony before the house intelligence committee. sandra: it turns out that may not be the whole story. lee land vittert is live in washington with exclusive breaking news tonight. lee land? good evening, sandra. talked to erik prince a couple of times today. he tells me, he quote never ever represented himself as a member of the trump transition. didn t set up a back channel. didn t lie to congress and adam schiff just has his feelings hurt. plus, as you might remember, he testified about this meeting a couple of months ago, prince is a tru
please join us on the fox news channel for continuing coverage. back again with texas congressman will heard, lieu tenants michael waltz joining us, fox news contributor and tom rogan. i want to go to you first on this, tom. a few questions on this. meeting will taking place. north korean leader wanted it as soon as possible. and the president has agreed to meet by may according to south korea there. where and what will be discussed? i think it would likely be in south korea. frankly, i think president trump should take kim jong un up at his word and have this as soon as possible again for that time line to see if kim jong un is being serious. why not do it next week in the only issue i think if both sides are willing is the secret service. what would they have to say about it? but functionally again the key here is not going to be word. it s not going to be pledges along the future time line. the urgency of action now. i think the united states, it will come down to if it is possibl
classified information about him. sandra? sandra: leland vittert, thank you for those baracking details. with us tonight byron york, washington examiner, fox news contributor. good to see you in the evening. good to be here: i think the most important thing to remember is the main question that everybody has been pursue something did the donald trump campaign and russia collude to influence the 2016 election? keep that in mind when you remember that this meeting in the seychelles was in january 2017. it was two months after the election. it was not a meeting to try to influence the election. after that, what does it mean? even if erik prince were representing the trump transition and you just heard leland report he said he definitely was not. but even if he were, i mean, this would be the incoming administration trying to establish some sort of ties
suspension of military training, north koreans say they don t care about that at the moment, fine. they are not offering from talks. when it gets to the meet, can you get those enemiers n a matter of weeks, two weeks or less. can you get a verified report. can do you snap inspections the kind of things you haven t seen in iran. if you can t get that, proof he is not serious and big game as he has played before. if he is serious, president trump deserves credit for the biggest diplomatic break through quite frankly since the end of the cold war maybe even before that. sandra: congressman the sincerity of this meeting will obviously be questioned and speculated on up until may when this actually happened. have you not agreed with this president on all of his policies and strategies but do you, however, sound like you do agree with what he is doing here. is it working? is this a good move? i think it is. i have been supportive of the tough rhetoric for quite a while. this is and also
donor, founder of blackwater and brother to education secretary betsy devos. he says he went to the seychelles back in january 2017 for a business meeting with the leader of the united arab emirates and while there spent 30 minutes with a russian businessman with close ties to moscow. the washington post reports, quote: a witness cooperating with special counsel robert mueller told investigators the meeting was set up in advance so that a representative of the trump transition could meet with an immess sear moscow to discuss future between the countries. prince denies this. if the left s fantasy of collusion is true, why did the meeting two months after the election matter at all? and he continued his meeting with the russian businessman only touched on u.s. relations with russia. prince said at that meeting if stalin and roosevelt could come together to defeat nazi fastism and then