The email discusses a potential investment fund with $40 billion in total equity commitments from Blackstone, including $20 billion to be raised from other investors. However, there is skepticism about the deal being real as one expert referred to it as "fake news" and another mentioned that all contacts in the defense business and on the Hill said that there are only letters of interest or intent, not contracts. It could take years to determine if the preliminary agreements announced in Saudi Arabia will become real deals worth hundreds of billions, or whether they were just hyperbole like Trump's announcements during his time in the business world.