on here because it relates to things going on all over this country. thank you very much for having us. that does it for "all in," our special town hall from mcdowell county. thanks for watching. [ applause ] happy monday. thanks for being with us here tonight. a lot going on in the news today and into this evening. the big news that broke in washington late this afternoon was word from the congressional budget office that the republican plan to get rid of obamacare, the republican plan to repeal the affordable care act would throw 24 million americans off their health insurance, which is absolutely astonishing. if you're trying to get your head around 24 million americans, how many people that is, it is roughly -- it's slightly understating the case but it is roughly the population of all of these states combined. 24 million people is the entire population of vermont, alabama,

north dakota, south dakota, delaware, rhode island, nebraska, mexico, kansas and wyoming combined. d then some. that's the number of americans who would get thrown off their health insurance if this republican thing passes to get rid of obamacare. so that is obviously big and alarming policy news. it's big enough that it is also very big political news. we'll have more about the policy side of it and political side of that coming up tonight. that was the news that sort of struck washington like a thunder bolt late this afternoon. we're actually going to start the show tonight on the subject of money. lots and lots and lots and lots of money. money obtained by means you would rather not have to explain. if you have ill-gotten gains, if you have money where you cannot

account for its origin, not if you don't want to go to jail and it's not a little money that we're talking about, it's billions and billions of dollars, at that scale, at that size, it's very hard to turn that much illegal or shady money into something that you can use, something you can access without getting arrested. if you're talking about billions of dollars in dirty money, billions of dollars where you cannot explain where it came from, unless you got an industrial-sized scheme from making your shady dollars look legit, you may not be able to use them. at the end of january of this year, we learned about one such industrial-sized scheme to make dirty money look legit. it ran from 2011 to 2015. it happened at a bank, a big bank called deutsch bank. and this scheme that deutsch bank got iolved with was a fantastic, enormous washing

machine for illegal russian money. deutsch bank facilitated the laundering of about $10 billion worth of dirty money out of russia. that's way bigger than your average money laundering scheme. the way they were able to do it and get away with it before they finally got caught, they used the money through the stock market. stock markets are one of the only places on earth where you can hide a few billion dollars here and there and maybe it gets lost in the sauce and nobody notices something went wrong with the way it was moving. basically, the scheme -- again, from 2011 to 2015, it involved real stock in real companies but fake deals bo. both the buyer and the seller were in on the deal. it didn't really matter what the stock was. it didn't really matter whether it was economically smart or dumb to be buying that particular stock on a particular day. what they were doing with these stock trades was getting rid of

their dirty russian money. i know it sounds gross when i say it that way, but that's what i mean. they use rubles, ill-gotten gains, to buy stock in russia and then outside of russia they would sell that same stock and get paid in dollars. so it was a way to turn rubles into dollars. it was the same people doing the buying and the selling. it was a very efficient system for moving, you know, $10 billion, ultimately, in dirty russian money converted into dollars in what looked like a legitimate transaction. at least it looked like a sort of legitimate transaction, deutsch bank. notice what's going on here? eventually deutsch bank got nailed and at the end of january, they just got pinned to the wall for this scheme. they let their offices be the vehicle for this illegal fake stock trading scheme. and they had to pay a huge fine. i never thought that i would

have to learn this much about russian money laundering in order to follow the american presidency. but these are the times we live in and i'm an old dog learning a new trick. but it is kind of amazing when you learn money laundering schemes. it's exotic stuff and happens all over the world and there is a ton of it. i mean, russia's a big country. russia's got 140 something million people. but their economy, their gdp is like half of france. they've got more -- just turn the flag on its side. russia has more than doubled the population of france. they've gotten an economy half the size of france. why is that? part of that is because russia is governed by thieves. you keep hearing about russia oligarchs.

sociologically, you see this wealth among this tiny group of shady russian guys with broken noses, right? but it tells you something about what has happened to the economy in that country and why russia is still limping so badly in economic terms, nearly 30 years after the wall came down. it's because this corrupt -- remember, it was supposed to be two super powers in the world? think about the economy of russia. in russia, there's this corrupt, elite class of connected thieves at the top who have been siphoning money out of that country like they are sticking a shop vac into an ant farm. i know we've got a billionaire class here and corruption here and we've got levels of wealth inequality, i get it. in russia, it is on a different magnitude. the class, the politically connected class at the top that is stealing is much smaller, it much more connected to the country's president and is much more traceable now in the short

amount of time in terms of the way they have yanked money out of that country and the way they have spread it all over the world to hide it and to disguise its origins. russian money laundering. you should look into it. it's interesting. but you know, a funny thing happened about that deutsch bank russian money laundering scheme. when it got uncovered. end of january, deutsch bank had to pay $630 million in fines because it got caught in that scheme. you know what happened on the day that fine was announced? utsch bank got fined $630 million. and their stock price went up. up. investors were psyched. whoo. only $630 million. sounds like a big fine but to those guys it was a relief. oh. easily survivable. no problem. here's the thing. there's still reason for them to worry about tlaur russian money

laundering problem. because that $630 million fine that they had to pay which was such a relief, that was a settlement that deutsch bank reached with new york state. that's interesting. the state. they have headquarters in new york city, new york state regulates banks headquartered in new york through the department of financial services and the department of financial services is who nailed deutsch bank. that's a good fine and a lot of money and that settled the matter as far as new york state is concerned but it's not over because there's also the fed. that was the state level settlement. there's also the fed, the federal government. when the feds get you, that's when things can really start to add up. for example, deutsch bank got nailed just in december for a totally different thing. deutsch bank got nailed in december by the feds for their shady, illegal mortgage practices that led up to the

financial collapse in this country. and the fine there, the deal with the feds was not some millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars. the fine there was a $7 billion fine, billion with a "b." that was for their mortgage scheme. on that russian money laundering scheme that deutsch bank already got caught for, the state settlement may be settled but the federal case is still opened, still being pursued by the feds. and you know who has been pursing the federal case against deutsch bank? preet bharara, who was just fired by the trump administration. he ordered to remove all of the u.s. attorneys around the country including preet bharara even though he was told previously he could stay on the job. it was reported that other presidents have replaced other u.s. attorneys or all of the

u.s. attorneys before but nobody has ever fired all the u.s. attorneys the way the trump folks did on friday night. called them in the afternoon on friday, told all the u.s. attorneys, all without warning that they were all fired immediately. they needed their desks cleaned out and keys turned in by midnight. get out. it's never happened like that before. why the rush? and why preet bharara? why is he included after you had given him personal assurance h was staying on? that investigation of deuts bank is one of many number of open investigations in the justice department that has just had a wrench thrown in the works by the sudden firing of the u.s. attorneys on friday. looking at the preet bharara firing, looking at this shock to the justice system that the trump administration just levied, deutsch bank is a particularly sensitive subject. deutsch bank is a particularly

sensitive subject of investigation for this president for a couple of reasons. first of all, the former chairman of deutsch bank, he left amid the scandal and landed very softly, though, at the bank of cyprus, which has been in hot water for russian money laundering accusations. the deutsch bank chairman was installed as the chairman of cyprus and the major shareholders include the king of fertilizer, as he's being called, for paying donald trump $95 million for a single house. it's the single largest prize paid for a house in the united states. he paid donald trump $95 million for that property even though trump himself had only paid $41 million for it a few years earlier. why did a russian oligarch pay donald trump $50 million over

what donald trump paid for that property? we still don't know. the king of fertilizer never stepped foot in the property, he has since torn it down. donald trump pocketed more than $50 million in that one sale with that russian oligarch, who is a major shareholder in the bank of cyprus. in terms of the bank of cyprus, there is one american who is involved in that bank. the one american who is a major shareholder is the new commerce secretary, wilbur ross. so the deutsch bank chairman landing there and donald trump's commerce secretary that makes deutsch bank a little bit of a

sensitive subject. the other reason deutsch bank is a sensitive subject is because the president himself owes more money to deutsch bank than any other single lender in the world. president trump is in mock to deutsch bank to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. deutsch bank is the largest known lender to trump's businesses. so summarily removing the prosecutor, going after deutsch bank, that has personal implications for this president. but that's not all. it's not just him. it's his family. this is the waldorf astoria. it's a big, fancy stately hotel. notice the emphasis on stately. heads of state from all over the world when they come to new york to do business at the u.n., they stay at the waldorf astoria. the president stays there when he comes to new york for the u.n. or any other business or at least that used to be the case.

that stopped in 2025 aft15 afte chinese company bought the waldorf. the company has murky ownership which nobody can as ser stacert. there are accusations that it's a tool of the government and when they started rewiring it, u.s. national security agencies say they would no longer be confident that the american president could stay there without being bugged and so the u.s. president no longer stays at the waldorf astoria, even before we got a u.s. president who has his own place in new york. it started off as a car insurance company in china but have somehow become a global bohemeth and started buying property all over the united states. and some of the purchases were reviewed on national security grounds, again, because this company appears to be a front for the chinese government and you can't have foreign governments owning j anything in the united states.

foexample, this is the hotel del coronado in san diego. lovely hotel. right on san diego bay. but look at the hotel on a map. there's a hotel del coronado. on one side is the dog park, which looks lovely. right on the other side of it, our navy base. it's right next to a navy base. and so when this country linked to the chinese government wanted to buy that hotel, really, right next to the naval base? the committee on foreign investment in the united states blocked that purchase on national security grounds. well, now the obama administration is gone and the trump administration is in effect and now this chinese company wants to do a huge new deal. they want to buy a member of the beast, forgive me, 666 6th avenue. when it was sold for $1.8 billion in 2007, it was the most

expensive sale of a single building ever in the united states. they just started shopping around a deal to buy it now for more than a billion dollars over that price from 2007. they're valuing it at $2.85 billion for a single building. i believe that would make it the most expensive building in north america. that huge inflation in price, over a billion dollars more than the last time it was bought, that would result in a huge payout for the people who bought it back in 2007. if this deal goes through, the people who bought it back in 2007 are now going to sell it to this chinese company and make off like bandits and the people who bought it in 2007 are -- hey, remember jared? the kushner family, the kushner real estate empire. and this new offer just unveiled by the company tied to the chinese government, the kushners are looking at walking away with $400 million, including some

really inexplicable sweeteners to the deeal, like a $250 millin loan from their last re-fi effort. they would only have to pay back 50 of it. it's an 80% off sale. everything must go. this would be a massive purchase, though. way bigger than the hotel del coronado. but like any other major purchase by a company like this, this would have to be approved by a committee on foreign investment in the united states. it's not an obscure committee. its members are basically the whole cabinet. secretary of defense, secretary of treasury, secretary of homeland security, secretary of commerce, et cetera. yeah. sorry, actually. this would be the old committee on foreign investment in the united states. that's who was on it during the obama administration. now it's the trump administration. so now this is the committee on

foreign investment in the united states that will be evaluating whether or not jared's family gets $400 million. hey, look, it's wilbur ross from the bank of cyprus with the guy who paid donald trump $50 million extra for the -- two days before the trump administration decided to surprise, fire, all of the u.s. attorneys with no notice, get your things and clean out your desk by midnight, turn in your keys, a group of watch dogs wrote to preet bharara and asked him, based on his jurisdiction, to please look into whether or not the president was illegally receiving payments from foreign governments through his continuing ownership stake in the trump organization. top democratic on the judiciary committee has written to the justice department to ask for a list of all pending justice department investigations that involve members of the trump administration, members of the

trump transition, members of the trump campaign or the trump organization. he says he wants that list of investigation so we can understand the full implications of this weekend's firings of the federal prosecutors. re any of those prosecutors fired because of the ongoing investigations into the trump organization, trump campaign or trump administration? we don't know why the trump administration decided to fire all the u.s. attorneys in the way they did on friday with no warning, with apparently no preparation or no replacements lined up to nominate for those positions. we particularly don't know why the president did a 180, did an about-face and decided to throw out the u.s. attorney who has jurisdiction over things like, hmm, russian money laundering and the trump business empire. but just one last point to chew on here. the trump administration demanded, surprise, the

resignation of all u.s. attorneys on friday afternoon. preet bharara didn't do it. they asked for the resignations from all of the u.s. attorneys and preet bharara did not do it. he knew at the time, we all knew, that the president had the power to remove him and by standing up and saying i'm not going to resign, you'll have to fire me, ultimately, the president would fire him. he knew that's how it would work out. but because preet bharara didn't resign and took that stand and did not submit his resignation, because he said, you're going to have to fire me and then they had to go through the process of firing him, i mean, there was no suspense as to what the outcome was going to be or whether he'd be allowed to keep his job, he knew he would have to go. but because of the way he did it, because he didn't resign and made them fire m,e delayed the process. he dn't get fired. he didn't get removed from office until saturday afternoon by insisting he would not resign

and they'd have to fire him, preet bharara bought himself, as best as i can tell, about 24 hours and 29 minutes. 24.5 extra hours in office once he knew they were coming for him. so as you think about what pending investigations might have been rooted in that office in new york, trump campaign, trans transition, trump administration, trump organization, oh, and all of the banks in the world, what do you think preet bharara did with that last 24 hours once he knew they were coming for him? stay with us. r life can be. mom: oh no... tech: this mom didn't have time to worry about a cracked windshield. so she scheduled at safelite.com and with safelite's exclusive "on my way text" she knew exactly when i'd be there, so she didn't miss a single shot. i replaced her windshield giving her more time for what matters most.

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a very long -- >> if he wasn't the most famous u.s. attorney in the country before, he certainly is now. that's preet bharara, a u.s. attorney from the southern district of new york. look at the scene today. this is him outside his office. these are all of the people who work in the u.s. attorney's office of the southern district of new york, them giving him a long-standing ovation out in the cold today as he leaves office. he was asked for his resignation along with all of the other federal prosecutors on friday. denot offer his resignation. on friday he tweeted, i did not resign. i was fired. by waiting, by saying no he wouldn't resign, it's one of the curious things about the preet bharara's tenure at the u.s. attorney's office is that he now leaves office having had this interesting -- about 24 1/2 hours after he knew they were

going to fire him but before he actually left office. thinking about what he might have done with that time, with that little bit of time that he earned himselfby not quitting is one of the ongoing mysteries about what the justice department just did here. joining us now is michael beschloss, presidential historian. great to have you here. >> pleasure, rachel. >> i have characterized them firing all of the u.s. attorneys as something that is unprecedented in some ways and not in others. certainly previous presidents have replaced all of the prosecutors, gotten rid of all of the u.s. attorneys. sometimes they've announced it in one fell swoop. >> right. >> we haven't had this instance where they've told them, you're all gone, nobody to replace you and be out by midnight. >> no, they served said it by sun down. reagan did it over the course of his first two years. bill clinton announced it in march but gave some of the u.s. attorneys some time to go out. george w. bush staged it. he said, it's too much of a

disruption to fire everyone at once so it was done a little more gradually. >> michael, one of the things that we're seeing in terms of what's happening in washington right now and i think there's a renewed focus on preet bharara and some of the other u.s. attorneys in terms of they might have been pursing justice department investigations into some of the scandals of this administration, potential ties with russia, we are starting to see democrats raising the prospect that they might peal off from these congressional investigations, congressional intelligence committees, both in the house and the senate are supposed to be leading these congressional investigations. this weekend, democrats started to say, we're not sure that those are going to be free and fair and independent investigations. maybe we shouldn't be part of them. is that kind of negotiati and worry on the part of oneparty or another, that is the sort of thing that has precedent in previous years? >> it is. and we would think of devin

nunes and the house committee investigating the ties between donald trump and russia, plus, the russian attack on our election last year and interfering with democracy and adam schiff, the ranking democrat saying we might not stay involved with this, you know, if the chairman does not pursue a vigorous investigation. and, you know, the classic investigations of investigations that really work would be the senate watergate committee, 1973. senate said by 77-0, let's have this committee. there was great cooperation. howard baker, the republican vice chairman was very much of a straight shooter. he was trying to pursue truth. same was true with the joint committee that investigated iran contrain 198 -- iran-contra in 1987. and most of all, the chairman and ranking member, they had not

said at the beginning we think the president is innocent or guilt. the difference here is with chairman nunes, as we know, he has said he doesn't think there's much to the ties between donald trump and russia. he was a member of the trump transition team and has said that michael flynn was a victim and doing great things for his country. he rejected the intelligence report in january saying that the russians did try to help donald trump so there's no a sign that there's that same kind of a partisanship that you were hearing. >> michael beschloss, thank you for being with us tonight. >> pleasure. we will know soon. much more to come, including a lesson that several members of congress learned this weekend which now has national implications for all of us. stay with us. i moved upstate because i was interested in building a career. i came to ibm to manage global clients and big data. but i found so much more. ( ♪ )

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>> constituents made their voices known and held a town hall in california. some folks couldn't get in and were chanting outside and waving signs. congressman issa was re-elected by the teeny margin. since then, the spotlight on him has been intense in his own district. constituents have been holding weekly protests outside his california offices. among other things, they've been demanding that he hold a town hall so they can converse with him. they have visited and left letters outside his office. last month, they crowd funded $6,000 to take out an ad in the "san diego tribune." they held that town hall on health care but darrell issa did not show up. which made for its own fun. where is darryl?

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you've got it right. i'm so happy that donald trump is there. to donald trump, cheers. >> pauline hansen was very excited that day and called it a clear message to everyone around the world that the people power is now happening. well, that -- the people power did not happen for her this weekend. senator hansen's party was projected to get a healthy 13% of theot they did not get 13%. her right-wing antimmigrant party actually got less than 5% of the vote. they bottomed out. rough weekend for the trump loving nationalist party in australia. no champagne toasts this time. we're still just figuring out how our new president became president in this country but other countries around the world can see us not making sense of it but a lot of them are also contending with their own version of this kind of politics within their own national traditions. the dutch have their elections

coming up the day after tomorrow and this is the netherlands' right wing nationalist candidate. >> i always tell my american friends, if you let islam be seated on your soil, don't be surprise that you will harvest sharia law. >> there are more than a billion muslims in the world. >> yes. >> can you keep them out of north america or indeed in western europe? >> if i would become the prime minister of the netherlands of the election, close the dutch borders for immigrants from other countries immediately. >> speaking at the republican convention in this country, he's anti-immigrant, anti-muslim. he's literally be founded guilty of inciting hatred against muslims. he's given the dutch prime minister a run for his money. the polls are close. it's unclear how things will go on wednesday and some people in the netherlands, i think it's fair to say, are rather freaked

out about what might happen in their elections in two days. they've been watching us tangle knee-deep in deang with russian interference in our election wonderi how that may have tipped the scales one way or another in our experience. well, the dutch are trying to ensure that there are no similar shenanigans. they decided to forego the use of electronic ballots. voters will use red pencils which will be hand counted and then tallied across the nations 20 voting districts. that's how the 17 million citizens of the netherlands will be voting this wednesday amid worries about russian interference in their election with this very provocative right-wing anti-immigrant standing, they are taking extra precautions to ensure the integrity of their elections. joining us now is eric a north american correspondent for dutch tv. thank you for being here. really nice to see you again.

>> nice to see you. >> so every american likes to draw parallels from our experience to explain every other country in the world and i know that's a little bit unfair. can you give us the bottom line in terms of the prospects for how the dutch are approaching this election on wednesday? >> here they call him the dutch trump. he's been in office as a parliamentarian way longer than donald trump has been active. he's one of the longest members in parliament and, yes, he could win. right now it looks like it's going to be a tie between four major parties but seeing the elections in the u.s., no one trusts the polls anymore. even the prime minister said, you know, it could go either way. the prime minister may become the biggest but it's still possible. >> what gives -- what's the basis for the concerns about potential russian interference? >> everyone saw what happened, of course, in the u.s. with the fbi and cia is saying about the russians meddling in these

elections and they are worried it's going to happen in holland. there's been sort of pr battles staged from russia as you saw here. there's worries about hacking and leaks. people are just very worried and skeptical and want to make sure that everything is just on the up and up. >> what are the russian interests in this election? >> they just want the sense that we're hearing from our parliamentarians and secret service, they want to sort of meddle and push a more pro-russian or maybe a less anti-russian politics in europe. of course, we've seen with what's happening in the ukraine and we had this horrendous moment when the plane was shot down from ukraine with 193 dutch people on board and the dutch authorities suspect that russians were somehow involved in that, maybe not the russian government but russians on the ground. there's a lot of worry about what are the russians trying to do and people want to make sure that democracy is working this

time. >> if wilders does get the largest portion of the vote, is it a foregone conclusion that he'll be able to assemble a government? obviously with four parties neck in neck -- >> even the prime minister said i will not govern with this man. you have to remember, this is someone who is way to the right. he wants to close all mosques and ban it in the netherlands and this is, of course, his moment and he says this is where it's going to happen, i'm going to be the largest party in holland. the polls are saying it's going to be really tight. >> one of the other things we've been watching here with both interest and i think it's been viewed with concern from the point of view of the dutch is that there have been a lot of american conservatives far right particularly anti-islam conservatives who have shoveled a lot of money. >> hundreds of thousands of

dollars over the years and we've only now seen that -- that's actually becoming a little less over this last year. "the new york times" is reporting that. but, yes, there's a large group of people in the u.s. who want to support his anti-is isllam message and are very actively helping him buy commercial time on tv, for instance. >> erik, thank you. appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> let us know how it goes. >> yes. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you're unbelievab♪e ♪ you're unbelievab♪e how to brush his teeth. (woman vo) in march, my husband

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we've reported in recent days about some of the unexplained, unanswered questions concerning the firing of national security adviser mike flynn after only 24 days on the job. we've also been reporting a lile bit o what's happened to hip since he was fired. since he was fired general flynn was amairntly persuaded to retroactively file papers to declare himself a foreign agent. he was a paid lob buryist, lobbying for the interests of the government of turkey while he was also helping to elect donald trump and serving in the trump transition. also incidentally while he was sitting in on ton secret national security briefings. but it turns out to be super important that he has filed those papers now. the filings specifically end up being important. we're now learning something from his i am a foreign agent papers that have finally made a very mysterious episode from the campaign last year all of a sudden make sense. oh, that's why that happened.

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pressed the fbi to change the classification of e-mails stored on hillary clinton's private server. according to fbi interview summaries set to be released in coming days. the under secretary of state for management discussed providing additional overseas slots for the fbi in exchange for revisions to classifications of the sensitive e-mails. then comes the runner-up sexiest words in politics. the fbi records official says his colleague pressured him to declassify an e-mail "in exchange for a quid pro quo." you're not using that phrase right. but, you know. coverup! the clinton state department trying to cover up something about her e-mails in a quid pro quo. cue the avalanche. >> fox alert, the fbi releasing a set of documents related to the clinton e-mail investigation believed to be connected to the allegations of this quid pro quo at the state department. >> quote, this is a flashing red light of potential criminality.

>> a quid pro quo arrangement during the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. >> the documents contain allegations of quid pro quo. >> kennedy held a closed-door meeting with redacted and redacted where kennedy pointedly asked redacted to change the fbi's classification determination regarding one of clinton's e-mails. >> fox news and conservative media took that coverup, quid pro quo, flashing light of criminality, redacted, grabbed that mystery bait and went straight for the bottom of the pond. they played it three days straight. coverup, quid pro quo! a top to have are at the clinton campaign offering to trade something they wanted if they helped father a clinton e-mail message. 2016, heading into the election, fox news stayed on that stockry long enough that real news started to follow it up. when that happened, it started to get walked back. first off, the redacted redacted redacted, now former fbi

official, who wasn't named in those reports? he came forward and he said that he was the one who suggested any kind of deal. i'm the one who threw that out there, he told the "new york times." and second, it was no big deal, this former fbi agent disputed he had ever characterized his conversations with the state owe department official as a quid pro quo. "that's a reach, i said hey, what's this about, listen, there was no collusion, there was absolutely no collusion." no story, nothing to see here, no cow lose, that's a reach. damage was done. three straight days of quid pro quo, flashing red light of criminality, coverup. damage was done, well done. apparently now we know it was well paid. because now we have a new revelation about this story. last week the former national security adviser to the president filed some new federal paperwork, mike flynn registered retroactively as a foreign agent, admitting he took paid work as lobbyist for the interests of the turkish government during the

presidential campaign where when he was advising donald trump. general flynn was pushed out of the white house for his contact during the transition for the russian government and for lying about them. but his work involving turkey is proving to be its own clingy scandal. josh marshall, talking points memo, has looked into general flynn's new foreign agent filing and look what he found. the former fbi official at the heart of that quid pro quo story? the one who walked it back after it had spent three days on constant rotation at fox news and the conservative media? that former fbi official apparently was on mike flynn's payroll during the campaign, getting paid by flynn two weeks before the scandal. got $5,000 from general flynn on october 4th, $3,000 from flynn on october 13th. that so happens to be two days before the coverup quid pro quo story broke. then he got another $20,000 from general flynn down the line. when he did walk back the story he said he considers general flynn a friend.

i'm sure that was so, quite sure. it helps to know now his friend the general was also his boss. he was on the general's payroll. just as it helps to know his boss was a foreign agent. when he was breaking that story all about hillary clinton's e-mails. it does make you wonder what else there is to learn about that particular side of the story. watch this space. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." rachel in primetime tv when you hear the phrase "foreign agent," you're usually in the world of fiction. it is not commonly thrown around by us in news discussions in primetime tv. i am having trouble getting used to it. >> also, whenever i hear "foreign agent" i think, i'm probably going to like this show. >> good location, all that stuff. thank you, rachel. today, one of donald trump's little lies, an important lie but a little lie, was