shin splints and plantar fasciitis. dr. scholl's. born to move. in this hour, president trump's campaign rally for roy moore in everything but name in pensacola, florida, just across the state line. just four days before the election. the president tweeting his support for the man several women have accused of sexual abuse or sexual assault. allegations he, of course, denies, lending his support on stage as well. >> we cannot afford -- this country, the future of this country -- cannot afford to lose a seat in the very, very close united states. we can't afford it, folks. we can't afford to have a liberal democrat who is completely controlled by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. can't do it.

his name is jones, and he's their total puppet, and everybody knows it. he will never, ever vote for us. we need somebody in that senate seat who will vote for our make america great again. >> some of what the president talked about. let's check in with alex marquardt for more. what more have we been hearing? >> this is really what so many here in this crowd came out to hear. the president's support for roy moore. now it took the president quite awhile to get to that. this was billed as a campaign style speech, and it has held true to that. you can see up there next to the podium, next to the president signs that say merry christmas. the president came out of the gate blasting political correctness. and thenhejustlaunchedinto what he has seen as many of his

accomplishments over the past ten months including the economy, strengthening the military and strengthening immigration control. now this was perceived in the days leading up to this rally to be a rally for roy moore as well. it's not lost on anybody where we are right now. pensacola, florida. this panhandle is all but alabama. we're about a 20-minute drive from the state line. anybody who is watching this speech on local tv tonight here in florida is doing the same in -- across the border in alabama because they share that tv market. so the moore campaign was eager for their supporters and volunteers to come out here to this rally tonight. the judge, we should note, judge roy moore is not here at this rally. but just to show you how this was a not-so-subtle wink at the fact this rally tonight is doubling as a roy moore rally. the daughter-in-law of the

president, laura trump, so the 1the wife of eric trump, recorded a robocall that went out to a large swath of alabama voters, some hundreds of miles away, saying that in your area the president is coming to visit, encouraging people to come here. of course, the big question, if the campaign -- if the president is going to endorse roy moore in the way that he has so vocally, not just here on stage today but also saying in a tweet this morning, vote for roy moore, why not just go to alabama and campaign with him. there are a couple answers. one that this is a very tight race. there's a decent chance next tuesday that moore could lose. at the same time, if moore wins, then democrats would use those images of the president, alongside a -- an accused child molester in campaign ads next year in the 2018 races. >> alex marquardt, thank you. just a small samp elf whle

the president has been talking about over the last 30 minutes or so. >> look, it's being proven we have a rigged system. doesn't happen so easy. but this system, going to be a lot of changes. this is a rigged -- this is a rigged system. this is a sick system from the inside. and, you know, there's no country like our country, but we have a lot of sickness in some of our institutions. and we're working very hard. we've got a lot of them straightened out, but we do have -- we really do. we have a rigged system in this country, and we have to change it. terrible. terrib terrible. they are resisting progress. they are resisting change. not only are we defeating these killers, these savage killers, horrible, horrible -- you don't even want to say people.

these are savage kill eers over there, but we sure as hell don't want them to come over here. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. you know, they come back to some countries and they come in. we're making it a very difficult process. we had such weakness. they go out, kill people and then come back and go back home to mom and dad. okay. before they went nutso and start over here. we're making it very difficult. you see what's being happened. we're watching every single one. we have thousands of people now under surveillance. surveillance? oh, that sounds familiar. that sounds familiar. remember when i suggested something like that? everyone says trump y is he -- well, turns out i was right about that one, wasn't i? but they call themselves the resistance. you ever see these signs?

resist. resist. >> look at these guys. blacks for trump. i love you. i love you. >> by the way, now that you bring it up, black homeownership just hit the highest level it's ever been in the history of our country. congratulations. oh, these resistors resist. hillary resisted, and you know what happened? she lost the election in a landslide.

but you know what they're really resisting? they're resisting the will of the american people. that's what they're resisting. >> by the way, how are your 401(k)s doing? not too bad, right. over the weekend i was in new york city and i love to say hello to our folks in uniform, whether it's the military, whether it's law enforcement. and we had people backstage and i always want to take my time. and a man comes up. he was a police officer in new york city. first time anyone said this to me. he said, mr. president, i want to thank you. my family thinks i'm a financial genius. my 401(k) is up 39% in nine

months. i think it's going to be very hard for someone to beat us in a few years? can you imagine now we're only talking about a few years. with us, it goes up. with them, it goes down, and that's the end of the election, right? >> the president in pensacola. david gergen, gloria borger, jack kingston, brian fallon and tara setmayer. what do you make of the president's remarks so far? >> classic trump. lots of red meat and he's in trump country. and i reckon it will help roy moore some next tuesday. at the same time, it's important to point out that if you look nationwide, the trump rhetoric is actually continuing to lose some of its appeal. that is a very dangerous level

for a president to reach nationwide. but in terms of what he's trying to accomplish, i think he probably helped himself and probably helped roy moore. >> you pointed out last hour by doing this rally in florida, the president doesn't have to be with roy moore on stage. no photograph of them together. the message is certainly the same. >> yeah, he says vote for roy moore and made it very clear, we can't afford to lose this seat. the president believes this seat is more important than any damage this might inflict on the republican party as a whole, say, in the midterm elections or the tough decisions republicans would have if roy moore is elected. don't forget, there are some republicans who have said he should not be seated. and that's going to be another issue for them. the president tonight made it very clear where he stands. and he took an opportunity to do a greatest hits on everything he has accomplished. he believes during his first -- you know, first year, to me it was so much like a campaign

rally with him talking about the rigged system and the sick system and said there's a lot of sickness. the problem is the president is now the president of the united states and so when he talks about the system, he's actually the one in charge here. and his supporters believe that he's changing things. but his popularity doesn't show that most of the country agrees. >> phil, it's interesting. the president's remarks for the majority of the speech were not about roy moore. talked about the economy, immigration, crime. the rigged system as he calls it. all are issues which resonate with more voore voters. >> they absolutely do. without exception, it sounds a lot like a roy moore rally. it is about immigration. it is about the accomplishments of making america great. i mean, you know, if there were roy moore stakes.

>> where do you make of where the president is and what he is saying? >> i think he's enjoying himself. he's having a great time. i was at the white house earlier today, and the president was speaking about unemployment, the new numbers that are out. 228,000 jobs last quarter. he is in a good mood right now. he's going down there. he's contagious. it is an absolute campaign rally. but he put a little doubt in one of the accusers of roy moore, and then he quickly, having established that doubt, moved to the enemy territory, the safe enemies of pelosi and schumer and then said the stakes are too high because of all of the above. we don't need schumer and pelosi to get another vote. you and i need another vote in washington. he's brilliant in his simplicity sometimes. >> tara, does -- i mean, invoking chuck schumer, nancy pelo pelosi, does that have the power that the president believes it

has? >> i am surprised he didn't bring up mitch mcconnell because mitch mcconnell is a dirty word down there in alabama also. i think -- i mean, i wouldn't use the term brilliant but i think he's savvy enough to understand what buzzwords amp up the electorate down there in trump country. and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are the boogie men to those and we have to remember alabama is a decidedly red republican state. i think barack obama got something like 28% or 30% of the vote in alabama where you have a considerably large amount of african-american voters and that was all -- that's as well as barack obama did. so again, it's not -- it's pretty easy to invoke nancy pelosi and chuck schumer in a place where they've been the boogiemen for quite some time anyway. and that's what motivates a lot of these alabama voters. positioning this race as us versus them. that's why they don't have the

ears to hear about how deplorable, and i will use that word with -- unabashedly to describe roy moore. how deplorable he is as a candidate. they don't care. it's become us versus them. any of the criticism against roy moore is not working because of the -- they framed it this way about the washington establishment, including against republican leadership, to be honest. >> the president also bringing up hillary clinton. >> yes, and i'm sure that plays well in this deeply red corner of the country, the panhandle of florida. i agree with what david gergen says. i think this will deliver a short-term gain to roy moore's candidacy in alabama, but in the long term, this is just hastening a backlash that we're going to see play out nationally against republicans next jeer. if you think of this movement that has taken hold over the last few months where women have come forward, started to tell their story, finally hold men in positions of power accountable, it was really, i think, brought

along by the election of donald trump in the first place. you saw the women's rally the day after the inauguration. a lot of women and a lot of men were horrified by the fact that donald trump could admit on tape to committing sexual assault and then win the presidency anyway. so if you on tuesday have roy moore basically have a rerun of what happened with donald trump in 2016 have somebody, an alleged sexual assault er be elected to the senate with donald trump sort of willfully campaigning for him, holding up -- might as well be posing for a picture with him. i think they are daring that women's movement to take them on. and i think you will see those women rise up next year in districts, in senate and house races across the country. >> we'll have more from the president. also more from the panel coming up. plus a warning from president obama with echos of the second world war in what he says. later the trump campaign adviser. was he just a kid who got coffee or in high level contact with officials as he made ties with

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president trump's speech tonight rallying the base in the florida panhandle comes just three days after former president obama spoke in chicago. he never mentioned president trump by name but issued a veiled warning when only the hard core bairx nse, not everyos involved in politics. >> you have to tend to this garden of democraerks otherwise things can fall apart, fairly

quickly. and we've seen societies where that happens. now, presumably, there was a ballroom here in vienna in the late 1920s or '30s that looked pretty sophisticated. and seemed as if, you know, with the music and the art and the literature and the science that was emerging, it would continue into perpetuity. and then 60 million people died. and an entire world was plunged into chaos. so, you got to pay attention and vote. >> back now with the panel. gloria, this is the same kind of thing that general michael hayden has said reportedly and

clapper and others. ominous remarks coming from the president of the united states. >> it's a pretty apocalyptic. and i think it's the way obama feels. that we're going through something that we all need to pay attention to now. the interesting thing to me, though is that president obama is not in alabama. campaigning for jones. and i think the reason he is not doing that is that perhaps democrats feel that that would not necessarily help. you know, you haven't seen a lot of high-profile democrats down there. you have some african-americans, cory booker, john lewis, who will go to alabama for moore and joe biden went in october, but i think there's a sense that if someone like obama went in, like he went into northern virginia, but i think there was a sense that he ought to not go into alabama, particularly with, you know, he feels so strongly about this. how he feels about this race.

and you know how he feels about what's going on in the country. if you listen to that. so it's interesting to me that he is not there. >> it's an interesting idea that if president obama or somebody else, a high-level democrat, did go down, that it might actually motivate not only roy moore supporters more, but it might motivate some republicans who are on the fence and thinking maybe just sitting this one out, it might motivate them to go for moore. >> one of moore's -- i should say, one of jones' challenges on tuesday will be sufficiently motivating the african-american portion of the electorate. he needs it to be around 28%, 30% of the overall electorate to have a good chance of winning. so in isolation, sending the president down, president obama would be helpful in that regard. but in general, jones' strategy has been the right one which is to seek to avoid nationalizing this race. if you look at, for instance,

what happened in georgia, jack may have his own views on that, but in terms of georgia six, that election, the more national attention that came to that election, the more it woke up the republican base and the fundamental redness of that district sort of showed itself. karen handle was able to hold on. democrats have wisely tried to avoid nationalizing this race. and that's the worst -- donald trump next year when midterm elections happen, donald trump is going to be on the ballot. not in a literal sense but all these democratic candidates will be going around and the fundamental choice they'll face is they want to have somebody there to help carry out trump's agenda. trump was able to throw out a lot of smoke screens and people would raise issues about him not releasing his taxes. he'd point to hillary clinton and the foundation. tri tries to invoke hillary clinton because he needs a foil, an enemy. let this election in alabama be

a referendum on roy moore and the election next year be a referendum on the direction donald trump is taking the country. >> when you hear former president obama talking in apocalyptic terms or warning about how tenuous democracy is, i'm wondering what you think of that. >> i think it's -- it just rings hollow. this is a president who says they'll bring their knives. we'll bring our guns. i was in congress. the president was not a very bipartisan leader. i was in the congress when president clinton was, and so i can compare it. i think that we have got into a rut in our country where each side has figured out getting their own base out to vote is easier than trying to convert people who are sitting on a fence. but, you know, i want to say this in terms of alabama. i do believe that if this candidate was a joe donnelly, or a joe manchin, he would be fine right now.

the democrats would take this seat. unfortunately, mr. jones is no -- is not out of step at all with pelosi and schumer. and there is an enemy, and those are the enemies. in terms of politics again. but he has not distinguished himself as an alabaman. he's been more of a national democrat, which is not good politics down there. >> and anderson, i think if moore wins, republicans might rue the day here, because he is now their hood ornament, and democrats can certainly use that against them. and also in terms of everything mitch mcconnell wants to do for the president, i'm not so sure roy moore, if he were to be seated, would be with him on half of these things. roy moore is kind of out there. >> i agree with you. >> and so i think problems for donald trump and mitch mcconnell

but also for the rest of the party. they may say why did we bring this guy into congress? >> and david gergen, the president bringing up hillary clinton, the crowd going with a "lock her up" chant. it's interesting he continues to talk about her. continues to tweet about her. it's been a year since the election. >> i know. he can't give tit up, and she's still bruised badly, too. you'd hope for the country's sake we'd move beyond it. let me come back to what president obama was saying. he's giving voice to a conversati conversation. that is threats to democracy. between the end of the first world war and beginning of the second world war, are the number of democracies in the world declined significant. it's possible to go backwards, and progress is not.

what we're seeing in the world today is the rise of authoritarian movements and country after country strong men emerging in places like turkey and egypt and the philippines and a growing number of other countries. and the worry that people -- started to have about whether our own democracy is under some threat. this polarization is driving us apart. and the lack of civility. it's something that i think deserves a more serious kind. after george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi, the president and his team made him out to be a low-level volunteer, a coffee boy some called him. now his fiance is speaking out saying she has a much different view, much different story of his role in the campaign. that's ahead. ars running. but some people still like cable. just like some people like wet grocery bags.

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says about her fiance, george papadopoulos -- >> it was a volunteer position. >> he was the coffee boy. >> he was not a low-level volunteer in the trump campaign or a rogue agent who acted without approval. >> it was foreign policy adviser for the campaign. he helped those editing trump's speech on foreign policy. contact with high level officials of different countries. actively giving his input and insights in terms of strategies. and, of course, it was approved for any initiative. >> reporter: in march 2016, president trump named him as a top foreign policy adviser. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil energy consultant. excellent guy. >> later papadopoulos met with the president and now attorney general jeff sessions where papadopoulos allegedly proposed setting up a meeting between

trump and putin. sessions claims he nixed the idea but when news broke of his cooperation with the special counsel, president trump slammed papadopoulos in a tweet. >> a young low-level volunteer who was already proven to be a liar. what was your reaction when you saw that tweet? >> it's the same person who called him excellent guy. >> reporter: her fiance interacted with campaign manager corey lewandowski, steve bannon, paul manafort and michael glassner and rick deerborn. and former national security adviser michael flynn. most have denied, downplayed or said they didn't recall their interactions with him. >> you say he was consistently in touch with these high-level campaign officials. >> yes. >> what was his interaction with michael flynn? >> he was in contact with michael flynn, and worked with michael flynn during the transition and was active ly

contributing to the foreign policy strategies for the campaign. didn't take any initiate identify his own without campaign approval. >> reporter: he e-mailed campaign officials in march 2016 about setting up a meeting in moscow between uthe trump campaign and the russian leadership to discuss -- the campaign adviser now identified as sam clovis responded, great work, and i would encourage you to make the trip if it's feasible. a separate campaign official identified as paul manafort said it should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal. she tells cnn that papadopoulos even did ap interview in the fall of 2016 with a russian news agency interfax. and the deputy communications director brian lanza, now a cnn contribut contributor, signed off on it. lanza declined to comment. >> the campaign approved him

doing the only interview with russian interfax? >> yes. >> signed off by the campaign? >> yes. >> was russia a big focus? did he have a lot of contact there? >> my understanding of his contribution to the campaign, russia was really secondary and he really did big work with egyptians, israel. >> reporter: she points to his role as a foreign policy panelist at the republican national convention. and a meet with israeli settlers around inauguration day, seen here in video obtained by the jerusalem post. and while she says papadopoulos communicated with bannon, dearborn and flynn later in the campaign, he never discussed russia with them. >> why do you think the white house was so quick to come out and call him a coffee boy or low-level volunteer? >> i think they wanted to disassociate him from the first person who decided to actively cooperate with the government. i suppose this can be quite threatening for some people.

>> reporter: she says she was interviewed by the fbi in october. and that a key focus was on london base d mitsud. high told papadopoulos during the campaign that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton, thousands of e-mails. she met papadopoulos in september 2016 through listeninged in because she was working at the london center of international law practice where he had worked earlier in the year. when they met, mitsud was running the center. >> i suppose that the fbi was interested in knowing my connection which makes perfect sense. >> reporter: she says despite that coincidence, she told the fbi she's not a russian spy. >> they ask me if i speak russian, if i know russian people. i think people got why i don't

tweet about being a spy, thinking i was the russian. that was like a bit of fantasies and everything. >> despite everything they've been through, she continues to stand by her fiance and his willingness to work with investigators. >> i'm very proud of this choice to cooperate with the right side of history. >> pamela joins us. what did papadopoulos' fiance say about him lying to the fbi? >> i asked her about that. he didn't intentionally mislead the fbi. she says he believes he might have gotten confused with the dates about when he met with the professor mitsud but he is taking full responsibility for it. he pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and she hopes president trump will pardon her fiance because she says he has been loyal to him. we reached out to the white house, and the white house did not provide a comment for the story. >> pamela brown, thanks very much. at the top of the program, we intended to show you a

picture of deputy press secretary raj shaw. instead, we showed you a photo of a former raj shaw formerly in government. we regrets the error. we'll have more on the breaking news from "the new york times" about presidential adviser hope hicks and the warning the fbi gave her about russian operatives. also, our other breaking news out of washington. congressman trent franks moves up his resignation date from january to today. we'll tell you why when we come back.

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there's more breaking news tonight. congressman trent franks has moved up his resignation date from january to today. one of his accusers said he offered $5 million to bear his child. what we are learning about the allegations against congressman franks? >> some of the details are quite disturbing. i spoke this evening to a confidante of one of the accusers, a former aide in the congressman's office who she says has detailed these allegations over the course of a couple years to her. she says the former aide said she was asked by the congressman to be a surrogate in exchange for money.

the woman said she was asked to look over a contract to potentially carry a child for him. and it was said if she conceived his child, she would be given $5 million. now this is according to andrea laferty. she was in the room last week when this accuser brought her story to speaker of the house paul ryan's office up here on capitol hill. we know there was a very swift move by the speaker's office to pressure him to resign and to leave. >> why the sudden change of date for the resignation? >> yesterday he said he'd resign january 31st. today he says he will rezip today, effective immediately. now officially the congressman is essentially pinning it on his family. he says that his wife was admitted to the hospital with an ongoing ailment and the best thing for his family to do right now is to be by her side. but, clearly, there was so much pressure on him, clearly there was just no appetite for him to

stay a day longer up here on capitol hill. and we do know from speaker of the house paul ryan, he believes the allegations. he called them yesterday very credible and very serious. >> sunlen, appreciate that. new information about russia's efforts to connect with the president's team. "the new york times" is reporting the fbi warned president trump's communication director hope hicks about russian operatives who tried to make contact with her during the transition process. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is here with the latest. what do we know about the fbi warning? >> senior fbi officials cautioned hope hicks about several introductory e-mails she received from russian government addresses. fbi agents met with hope hicks twice at the beginning of this year inside the situation room at the white house and they told her these e-mails were not what they seemed and they may have been part of a russian intelligence operation. that's according to "the new york times." so this was a very specific warning, and it shows that law enforcement was alarmed, that

russians were still trying to establish contacts with the trump team even after the election. hope hicks disclosed it to don mcgahn and hope hicks met with the special counsel's team yesterday and today as part of their ongoing russian probe. >> when it comes to the case against manafort and rick gates, what did you learn? >> we've learned about a whole slew of information that prosecutors have. they have 400,000 documents in their case against gates and manafort. they include financial records and e-mails and prosecutors have even labeled 2,000 of the documents as, quote, hot, meaning that they could be particularly relevant. so also what the government has, they have 36 electronic devices that they seized from paul manafort's home back in july. investigators have also issued 15 search warrants and probably the most interesting thing in these filings is that the government referenced that manafort and gates have actually given deposition testimony in another matter. prosecutors, though, are not

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>> reporter: this is the city of ventura. around me is simply devastation from the fire. the reason why we just got word that much of this city, almost all of it, the evacuation order, is being lifted. i will show you why. it's actually sad story when you look at why. the fuel for the fire is pretty much gone. there's just nothing to burn in some of these neighborhoods because it's already been burned to the ground. we looked around us. there were 20 homes we could see with the naked eye that were burned to the ground, just the chimneys standing very much like the house you are looking at now. that's on one street. we have gone street to street to street on this hill, and seen the same kind of devastation on each street. and every now and then, you will have a street that nothing is burned. it is the way the fires work. but they are still raging. we are talking about a fire that is now three times the size of

washington, d.c. and it has not let up yet. that's 132,000 acres, which is about 200 square miles, that is burnt to a crisp. i should mention, those pictures you were just showing there of the helicopter shot. the best view of these is from the sky. because as you see, some of this is burning in a very densely wooded area and it's too dangerous to get up close to. and 101, that beautiful road that goes along the coast from here to l.a., there was a point which we had to pull over, cars were swerving around fire as it jumped from one side of 101 to the other towards the ocean, where there are quite a few homes. those homes did survive though, anderson. >> last hour, you were saying it's about 10% contained, is that right? >> reporter: yeah, and you imagine that 10% when you're talking about this kind of a fire, this is going to take a

long time to deal with. you talked about this very important fact, that it is extremely dry. at one point, the dew point was in the negative. i didn't know that was possible. which means there's less humidity than they could imagine. that is terrible for fighting a fire. and the winds kicked up at one point to about 70 miles an hour over the past couple of days. now that red flag warning is what they call it, is extended. it was supposed to stop on thursday, extended through thursday. so the big worry is the neighborhoods, like this one, where there could be another round of evacuations, and more fire. for right now, the latest news here in ventura, which has been hit the hardest with about 400 structures, many of them homes burned, the latest news is that the city of ventura is saying look, the evacuations for most people have been lifted. anderson? >> appreciate you being there. thank you. up next, a sneak preview of "cnn

special report: the mystery of michael flynn," a fascinating look. jim sciutto looks at how flynn went from military hero to mading guimade i -- pledding guilty for lying to the fbi.

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before michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi in

the russia probe and before he was the national security adviser to president trump, he was a military legend. now he's at the center of the biggest political scandal in bekadb decades. jim, so your report is called "the mystery of michael flynn" and looks at the life and career of someone many people don't know much about. >> it's true. the reason we chose mystery, the way he went after his time in the military, distinguished career, a heroic career, was something of a mystery to the people who knew him best, and served with him, admired him, served under him, risked their lives together, why did he take this turn when he went political, particularly among military folks. his going so political, the lock her up chants at the republican rallies, et cetera, was something they felt was a step too far for someone who just came out of uniform and a step

beyond the flynn they knew in uniform. >> i understand there was an expression some of his colleagues used to describe his approach to intelligence. >> that's right, particularly when he was the director of the defense intelligence agency when he left the military. they called these flynn facts. that was not a compliment. it was cases where flynn went beyond, it seemed, the facts and the intelligence. this is something we heard even from the man who hired him there, the former director of national intelligence, james clapper. have a listen. >> inside the intelligence agencies, some grew concerned that flynn's position sometimes contradicted the facts and the intelligence. flynn facts they called them. >> people talked about flynn facts. you've heard this expression. >> i was hearing it from more than one source in dia about

what became flynn facts. that concerned me. >> can you give me an example? >> i think he was convinced the iranians were behind the braz benghazi attack, and they weren't. and he insisted to find evidence to back up that proposition. >> the increasingly infamous flynn facts became one symptom of broader concerns about flynn's leadership at dia. >> flynn started to manifest some of the more controversial behaviors that ultimately played out on the national stage. >> that issue arguably got bigger, particularly on the campaign. you had his comments about islam the religion saying it's not a religion, saying people are right to be fearful of muslims. then you had him sharing on the campaign conspiracy theorys,

even that debunked theory that hillary clinton and john podesta had a child sex ring at a pizza parlor here in d.c. so a lot of those trends got even worse in view of the people that knew him best. >> jim sciutto, thank you very much. that does it for "360." "cnn special report: the mystery of michael flynn" begins right now. >> the following is a cnn special report. general flynn! >> it was a precipitous fall. >> michael flynn charged with making false statements to the fbi. >> general michael flynn, a decorated military commander and close trump confidant, pleading guilty to a federal crime, and agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors. >> the charge reveels flynn wasn't acting alone in his talks to russians. >> how damaging could all