It is reported for the first time that federal prosecutors are looking into the mayor's dealings with five countries besides Turkey. The other countries are Israel, China, Qatar, South Korea and Uzbekistan.

Undoubtedly a dumb question, but what are these countries getting in exchange? I get that Israel is entrenched in our politics and has interest in maintaining that, but even for them there's got to be a reason they wouldn't just do this through AIPAC like every US politician.