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This week, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump privately spoke with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who was effectively Saudi Arabia's leader.

At the same time, Trump's private business dealings with the Saudis seem to be going gangbusters on multiple fronts.

And of course, Trump will be the GOP nominee for president,

which means the Saudis would have strong incentives

to, shall we say, remain in his good graces. All this raises all sorts of opportunities for corruption

that Congress arguably should be trying to shed light on right at this moment. One lawmaker

who has been calling for this in a sustained way is Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland,

ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee.

So we invited him on the show.

Congressman, we know Trump privately spoke with Muhammad,

but we don't know what was discussed.

What sort of concerns should this raise in the eyes of Congress?

Trump, like Muhammad bin Salman, doesn't acknowledge any distinction between his private business affairs and the affairs of state.

You know, when he was in office he was openly doing millions and millions of

dollars of business with foreign governments. They were also setting up

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