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Baroque. bear with me. a meeting organized by his boss that nader attended in january of last year before trump is sworn in with a russian investor and blackwater founder erik prince who was informally advising the trump transition team. one of the reporters who broke the story, mark maseti joins me now. who is this individual first? let's start there. >> george nader has been sort of an international man of histories for some time. he as you said worked for blackwater. he did back channel negotiations between the israelis and syrians notice '90s and most recently reinvented himself as an advi...

Which means democrats might have a shot maybe at electing one of their own to statewide office in texas for the first time in a generation. one of the big seats they are eyeing belongs to ted cruz. he will likely be facing democratic challenger, a 45-year-old congressman from el paso in november. he joins me tonight. ted cruz had words about you tonight that i wanted to read to you and get your reaction. he says congressman orourke is a left wing liberal dep cat. he is running like bernie sanders across the state. are you a left wing liberal democrat? >> i'm doing my best to represent my const...

For with painful cuts. one suggested medicaid. still, for the teachers of west virginia today marks a big success. they went on strike and had demands met. it's the thing that might give ideas to other under paid teachers like oh, say, the teachers in oklahoma who haven't gotten a raise in a decade and the lowest paid in the nation. some of them are teaching in the dozens of schools across the state that have cut back to four days a week. a lot of those teachers now saying they are going to follow in the west virginia teacher's footsteps and we'll definitely keep our eyes on that story. ♪

There is a new witness in the mueller investigation. "new york times" reporting george nader, a lebanese american who represents the saudi crown prince who is essentially runs the united arab emirates is cooperating with the special counsel and gave testimony last week to a grand jury. according to times," mueller appears to be examining the influence of foreign money on trump's political activities has asked witnesses about the possibility that nader funneled money from the emirates to the president's political efforts. of particular interest and this is where this gets extremely interesting ...

The governor signing a bill today giving teachers and all state workers a 5% pay raise. and 5% raise was part of a deal teachers struck with the governor last week but the teachers crucially stayed on strike after the deal was struck because they didn't trust republican control legislature to actually pass it and that turned out to be a totally valid concern when the state senate balked and passed a 4% raise this week. although republicans got on board with the 5% raise today, they say it will have to be paid for with painful cuts. one suggested medicaid. still, for the teachers of west virgin...