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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, January 3rd, 2020. I'm your host, A.G.

And today a wonderful interview with MSNBC contributor Katie Fang, one of my favorite people on the planet.

The interview originally aired as part of the Mollershi Road episode called Manafort Stone and Cohen Omai, and it aired February 17th, 2019.

The Manafort sentencing recommendations had just come out, and Katie and I discussed Tom Barich, that's the guy who got Manafort the job with Trump in the first place, the one that Jordan always drifts for her fantasy indictment league, and who would eventually go on to work in Trump's inaugural, which is currently still under investigation by the New York Attorney General.

And might still be under investigation by the Department of Justice unless Barr has somehow slowed it down or stopped it.

But anyway, please enjoy this interview with Katie Fang.

So joining us today for the interview is Yale Grad, trial lawyer and MSNBC legal contributor. Please welcome for the first time on the podcast Katie Fang. Katie, welcome to Mollershi Road.

Ah, the crowd goes wild, no joking, no thank you for having me completely in honor.

Thank you so much for your kind words. We've been wanting you on for a long time, so we really appreciate you coming by and thanks for responding to us.

So as of the time of this recording, it's Saturday. We have just gotten the Manafort sentencing memo and all this news about Manafort this week.

And I wanted to kick off this discussion about the man that helped Manafort get his job on the Trump campaign in the first place.

And his name is Tom Barrick. Katie, what can you tell us about him?

There's so much I want to talk about about Tom Barrick. I feel like when I talk about Tom Barrick, everybody looks at me like a nuts because he's not the guy that you hear about.

He's this stealth player, but he's the common denominator. And I was having a conversation with someone else last night who I deem to also be in the know.

And she and I were discussing all things Mueller. And she also was in agreement that Tom Barrick is this man who is behind the scenes who I suspect has been the huge puppeteer for a lot of stuff that has gone down.

And the reason why I say that is Tom Barrick is some multi-cugillionaire, but he's been friends with Donald Trump since the early 9 pre-Breakfast Club.

Way back. They were, oh, I'm talking like dudes thought they were the original masters of the universe, right?

And they both were in real estate, et cetera, but the distinction with a difference for Tom Barrick from Donald Trump is the following.

Tom Barrick has always known what side his bread is being buttered. And he's always figured out what's the next big angle.

So other than playing somebody like Donald Trump, and I'll get into more specifics about that, Barrick has ties to first cutter.

And now we're strongly with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. And we all know this as we sit here today and have this conversation.

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