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I'm Jeremy Skaehill coming to you from the offices of the intercept in New York City and this is episode 57 of Intercepted.

Another week, another explosive headline alleging a campaign meeting just months before the election with foreign powers eager to defeat Hillary Clinton.

The Times story says a top trump booster and imissary for two Arab princes and an Israeli attended and a lawyer for the president's oldest child says Don Jr. does recall a meeting about a social media or marketing plan.

However, he was not interested and that was the end of it.

We are all living through a time in the United States where Donald Trump has fully embraced both official legalized corruption as well as good old garden variety individual corruption.

Did Donald Trump directly conspire with Vladimir Putin and Russia to influence the 2016 election? That's certainly possible.

Are we going to see concrete evidence of that? Especially evidence that would stand up in a court? That's also possible, but we haven't seen it yet.

It's also plausible that Robert Mueller issues a public report that would be damaging if not damning of Donald Trump.

But for whatever reason decides not to or because of Trump's influence over the Justice Department cannot pursue criminal action, we shall see.

But this much is clear. It is a major mistake to place all focus on Russia collusion, Russia collusion, Russia collusion.

We know that Trump's team has colluded with Israel. We know that Trump's team has colluded with Saudi Arabia and we know that they colluded with the United Arab Emirates.

Great honor to have Sheikh Mohammed with us today. A man that I've known very special, very special person, highly respected.

Great honor to have the Crown Prince with us. Saudi Arabia has been a very great friend and a big purchaser of equipment and lots of other people.

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