three brave, young men who took us there and made america safe. that's our broadcast for this thursday night. thanks for being with us. good night from our nbc headquarters here in new york. i would like to welcome you to benson, arizona. benson, arizona has about 5,000 people. it's the home of the caverns state park. it's like a cave complex you can go see. it looks cool, doesn't it? i'm claustrophobic. i'm not sure i can handle it. that's cool. benson, arizona, calls itself the gateway to cochise county. it was founded as a rail

terminal for the southern pacific railroad in the late 1800s and still has a lot of pride in being a rail depot and the railroad history. if you go to the website for the visitor center, as you are poking around on their website, you will note that the cursor turned into a locomotive engine as you are scrolling around the site, you no longer have a little arrow. it's a little train. it's so cool. if you go in person to the visitor's center, you can operate a model train around 96 feet of track. a lovely looking little place. population around 5,000 people. the owner of the arizona diamondbacks baseball team wants to build a new housing development in benson, arizona. that would be 28,000 homes.

think about that. 5,000 people there now, but they want to put 28,000 houses into that town. plus golf courses. plural. multiple golf courses plus the 28,000 houses. and although benson, arizona, is in a lovely corner of the state of arizona, it's not the most lush place on earth. you think about what's necessary to keep a golf course let alone multiple golf courses watered and green, this is the desert plains of arizona. water is more valuable than the views. water is more valuable than the open space and even the cool state tourist attractions with the caves and history of the rail depots. water is everything. where is the water going to come from to support 28,000 homes and multiple golf courses in a sleepy town that right now has just 5,000 people in it? nevertheless, the arizona diamondbacks owner who is a big

republican party donor wanted to build this huge development in benson, arizona, for a long time. the problem is the likely environmental impact of putting 28,000 houses and golf courses in this corner of the state. as a matter of common sense may not be able to biologically sustain something like that. the worry about this development in particular is that it would so tax the ground water in that area that it would considerably shrink the nearby precious san pedro river. if you did that, that would have an impact on environmental concerns like threaten and endangered species protected by the federal government. part of the reason we know about those worries surrounding the housing development, part of the reason we know is in october of 2016, a month before the presidential election, the field supervisor for arizona at the

fish and wildlife service made a decision about this proposed housing and golf development in benson, arizona, being pursued by the guy who owns the major league baseball team. he announced his decision basically that this whole proposal would need a lot more detailed scrutiny before it could go ahead and receive the necessary permits that would allow the developer to build this absolutely gigantic thing in the desert. the field supervisor's report was based on the protocols of the fish and wildlife service was direct and indirect effects to threaten and endangered species are reasonably certain to occur. so, we need more scrutiny before we allow this to happen. october 2016. a funny thing happened the following month. it was november of 2016. donald trump won the

presidential election in november of 2016. that arizona diamondbacks owner who wants to pile the 28,000 homes and multiple golf courses gave quite a lot of money to support the trump presidential effort. he was named as official sponsor of the camouflage and cuff links fund-raiser which was timed to coincide with the trump inaugural. hats and boots welcome. it was supposed to be hosted by the two eldest sons. that technically was selling access to the president and his family in exchange for money and maybe don, jr. and eric shouldn't come to that event. now, this decision in arizona about the little town of benson and the mammoth proposed housing development that would something

like septuple the size of the town, when trump was elected, this was done. the month before trump got elected, there was a decision made that was going to have to be lots more scrutiny and a decision about land in arizona. the fish and wildlife service, they weighed in at the field supervisor level and got a decision. they need months more scrutiny and assessment of the environmental impact and the federal government made its decision. not long after trump was sworn in the summer of 2017, a number of things happened to change the course of events. this has been pieced together by brilliant journalism starting with "the arizona daily star." their initial work on this is very good work and picked up in advance by the associated press at the national level and cnn has done very good work advancing the story themselves.

what we have learned from that very good reporting is that in august 2017, the number two guy in the interior under trump was an oil and mining company lobbyist who trump gave the number two job at the interior department. in august 2017, we know that he, david bernhardt, took a secret meeting in montana with the major trump donor who wanted to build that big development in arizona. this was a secret meeting because david bernhardt is the number two official in this federal agency. his calendar and the people he meets is a matter of public record and subject to request on the freedom of information act. this particular meeting when he met the diamondbacks owner at this hunting lodge was left off the calendar. nevertheless it was turned up that the meeting took place.

the company run by the owner confirmed that the meeting happened. they also admitted that what they talked about was of course that big housing development and golf course development where he was told before the election that it wasn't going to happen. more environmental work needed to be done before he could get the permit to go ahead because the scientists and the federal government looked at it and said there may not be enough water to do this. you could really end up screwing that whole part of the state and country if you do it. he had received the no from the federal government. he gives tons of money to support trump and takes a secret meeting with the number two guy of trump's interior department. that takes place in the summer of 2017. at a hunting lodge in montana. they talk about the development. then, wouldn't you know it, what happens next, is that the field supervisor in arizona for the fish and wildlife who had made the determination that there couldn't be a permit for

this big development, that there were big environmental concerns that needed to be sorted out. he got himself an alarming phone call. according to "the daily star," he got a call from interior department headquarters, somebody he knew who worked at the d.c. headquarters, a lawyer at the agency and said she received word from a higher up at the agency that he needed to change his stance on the permit for that development. quote, if he knew what was good for him. it would later emerge from the cnn and "the daily star" put this together that right before that call and right after that call, the lawyer at the interior department who called the field supervisor and said he needed to change his mind, right before her call and right after her call she personally was paid a visit by david bernhardt, by the number two official at the whole agency. the guy who had taken the secret meeting with the trump donor who wanted that development and

wanted his permit to do it. that lawyer at the interior department gets paid a visit by the number two guy in the agency right after that visit she gets from him that day. right after she picks up the phone and calls the field supervisor and said someone high up in the agency wants to you change this or else. after she places that call, once again she checks back in with bernhardt and meets with him again. back home in arizona, the field supervisor got the call who found himself in the middle of all this. he went to the press to explain what had gone down and what was so wrong about it. he told "the daily star" that he got rolled. he said that the political pressure he experienced was the first he ever experienced in 34 years with the federal government, including 29 years with the wildlife service under 5 different presidents going back to gorge h.w. bush. this has never been done, but it

happened now that trump is in office and now that david bernhardt is at the head of the interior department. under that pressure, something he never experienced before. that supervisor from the fish and wildlife service, he reversed his previous call to say okay, maybe the permits are okay. he was told to do that and he did so. soon thereafter he resigned and soon after started talking to the local press to confess and explain what happened. the number two official, the guy who seems to have engineered this pressure or been involved on behalf of this big trump donor has since been promoted to run the whole department of the interior. he is no longer the number two. he's now in the cabinet of secretary of the interior. there was an opening for him to take the job because the previous secretary of the interior, ryan zinke, had to resign after he was under criminal investigation for his own corruption scandals while

running trump's interior department. he had to go because of the criminal investigations into his corruption. that's how bernhard got kicked upstairs into the cabinet job he now enjoys. only the best people. now david bernhardt's actions around benson, arizona, and this trump donor who wants the development there and screw the river and the science, i want it, now his actions in this little after school special which could be titled corruption for dummies. this is explaining how the trump administration is more than happy to mess up anyone and anything as long as it helps their friend and donors. this paragon of how corruption works, now david bernhard's actions are being investigated by congress and by the house committee, the oversight committee in this part of the

government and chaired by the congressman from arizona and knows these things and proclaimed himself to be mystified as to why the number two official might have been interested and personally involved in the permitting decisions on this one land deal in arizona if it wasn't just a help out a trump donor that he otherwise should have been blocked from doing for the good of the country. and now this week, the secretary david bernhardt, the oil and mining company lobbyist who president trump entrusted just announced plans to move a whole big swath of his agency, to move the bureau of land management out of interior department headquarters. out of washington. he just announced he is telling the employees of that agency they need to move out of d.c. and into western colorado right near his hometown. this is the part of the interior

department that oversees the use of federal lands. presumably lawyers will be given the same ultimatum given to the scientists at usda. they will be told they can uproot and move their families to colorado or choose door number two, which is you are now fired. that's the trick they played on the scientist at usda who were told they had to decide by monday night if they wanted to be fired or move to missouri. never mind the hardships. the employee struggling with m.s. and dealing with serious medical treatment issues is told that is not a hardship that would be considered to keep that employee off the roster of those who were moving. an employee in the middle of chemotherapy was told that was not a hardship that would result in the agent taking that scientist off the list of people who are being forcibly removed or you lose your job. they are doing that with the scientists at the usda and now

the bureau of land management under david bernhardt under investigation by congress for appearing to reverse the permitting process for a land development in little benson, arizona on behalf of a trump donor he met with secretly and off the books. and congressman raul and his committee are on that. they are on that, this david bernhardt scandal and arizona diamondbacks owner, trump donor housing development scandal. they are investigating. on the usda and destruction of the science function of that agency, democrats in congress, particularly in the senate have been pounding away on that, too. >> you basically gave 547 employees 30 days to decide if they were going to move halfway across the country and take their families. this is not a relocation. it's a demolition. >> katherine green is unable to

relocate to kansas city. she expects most of the institutional knowledge on organic agriculture will be lost when she is forced to retire. >> for what? it's still unclear what problem the usda is trying to solve with this move. >> do you truly believe you are not going to lose significant expertise in areas of research and agriculture with this move? >> of course they know they're going to lose specific expertise. of course they do. that's the point. hollow out these agencies as they put it. let's demolish the agencies. they do inconvenient things. they do science. we will talk with amy klobuchar about this and lots more in just a minute. she found out her place on the two debate stages that cnn announced at the end of the month. there is a lot to talk to her about. you know what? in general in the news right

now, i would say this. there is a lot going on to focus on. this is the rotunda when dozens of nuns and catholic leaders were arrested while they prayed holding pictures of kid who is died in the custody of the trump administration at the border. and the homeland security secretary tried to justify to congress that yes, they are still taking kids away from their families. he tried to make the case for why that's okay. the president's old friend, jeffrey epstein got denied bail on sex trafficking charges. we got new documents showing the president's personal involvement in the campaign finance felonies that sent his lawyer to prison and helped get him elected. of course today the country continues to be convulsed and confounded and rattled by the president telling female

minority members of congress to go back where they came from, calling them unamerican and anti-american. last night the country was shocked by the president presiding proudly over the almost all white crowd shouting is send her back as he shouted about a congresswoman and how she must hate america. there is a lot going on. there is no law that said you have to do and think and feel and focus on subjects of the president's choosing. to the extent that the country's outrage and horror is being stoked by the president to keep us focussed on his on outrageous behavior because he thinks it's better for him politically than talking about anything else, i would just say now more than

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three days before the election, "the wall street journal" broke a remarkable story which would be one of the biggest presidential candidate scandals ever if we were talking about any other presidential candidate. the scoop before the election was about candidate donald trump. at that time three days before the election and maybe even still now, we didn't know what counted as a size large donald

trump scandal versus the normal scandal that breaks on your average wednesday and another one thursday and another on saturday. the journal reported three days before was kind of an amazing thing. even just on its face. it was a story about a "playboy" playmate who had a story to tell about a long affair with donald trump, one that she said took place during his marriage to melania, his third and current wife, the soon to be first lady. according to the journal that came out three days before the election, this model had been paid $150,000 to not tell her story and not talk about the affair before the election. even for a candidate like donald trump, that was a heck of a thing to ask the american public to swallow three days before the election because it was about his current marriage. what insulated trump for what

you expected from fallout from that story is that the way the journal told it, it wasn't trump who was paying this young woman off to keep her silent. what "the wall street journal" explained is that it was "the national enquirer." huh? the pro trump wacky super market tabloid run by trump's friend by the name of david pecker paid off this playboy model to not talk about the affair. david pecker, not trump. the fact that there was an intermediary paying her, that meant that scandalous story, as scandalous as it was, it was one step removed from trump when it came to who made the hush money payments to shut up a porn model before the election. because it was one step removed from trump himself, because there was this other entity that

appears to have paid the money, the story did not make that much of a splash even though it landed three days before the election. we know from documents unsealed in federal court that trump was "pissed " about that story that came out on the day it came out. we know that trump's immediate orbit including hope hicks and michael cohen celebrated and sent text messages after it did not appear to be getting traction. it worked! the gambit to have a third party have the playing off. it worked to keep his election chances intact. that was a criminal scheme. that was a felony to use a big cash payment to benefit the declare it as up. david pecker that fronted the money on trump's behalf to insulate the fallout, david pecker and his company got

themselves immunity for prosecution in the deal in exchange for them testifying. a second hush money payment to a woman with a similar story would be paid around the same time by michael cohen. again, the scam worked for trump. who is sitting in prison for making that payment to the other woman? it's michael cohen. although that payment was to benefit the trump campaign and michael cohen and prosecutors say the payment was directed by trump, today we got unsealed in court the litany of calls and e-mails and texts involving the president himself and cohen and kellyanne conway and hope hicks the guys from "the national enquirer," and the women gets illegal payments. cohen is going back and forth with the woman's lawyer and cohen is on the phone with the president as his first call after he speaks with the woman's lawyer. the president is on the phone twice before they send stormy daniels $130,000. cohen is out at the bank setting

up a new bank account from which he will make the payment. right after the payment is sent. cohen is right back on the phone with trump. we have all that was now from the case that prosecutors brought against michael cohen. they are not going to bring the case against anybody else. the scam worked, right? election chances intact. neither spoke about the affairs before the election. this was after the "access hollywood" tape and the had the apologized for that. neither of the women spoke about those alleged affairs before the election. election chances intact and the candidate insulated from the bad publicity and the legal fallout in the end because he got other people to take the fall for him. the felonies were committed.

they accomplished their aim, which was in the end to elect the candidate and the candidate walks. despite extensive evidence that we can now read about the president's involvement in the planning and execution of this scheme. federal judge who unsealed the documents yesterday warned about the greedy public ramifications of the conduct described in the materials. the judge called it a matter of national importance, what was revealed in the materials. he said it's time too every american has an opportunity to scrutinize the materials. now we have got them and we can scrutinize them. they show the president's deep involvement in the campaign finance felonies that helped him get elected. so what do we do with this now? if what prosecutors are letting us know is that he did it, but also he's getting away with it. what do we do with that? joining us now, is barbara

mcquaid, lawyer from the eastern district of michigan. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to get your top line reaction to the pages unsealed. the judge gave us a heads up saying this is a matter of grave public importance and a lot of americans would scrutinize this material when it was unsealed. what do you make of it? >> well, first, i can see why the judge would want to make sure this material was not kept secret from the public. even though the government lawyers wanted to keep it secret, it was important it be revealed. president trump himself knew and participated in the calls. as you said, a flurry of calls back and forth where president trump gets on the phone with michael cohen as they discuss back and forth conversations with david pecker and with "the national enquirer" and it all comes on the day after the "access hollywood" tape is released.

it seems strong circumstantial evidence that president trump was aware of this and directing it just as michael cohen said. one other thing that's important is, i don't know that that means it's criminal. michael cohen pleaded guilty to this, but an essential element is willfulness. you know it is a crime. you know that it is illegal. it could be the case that they did not have evidence that president trump knew that this was illegal. >> if you wanted to ascertain somebody's intent if you were prosecuting a case like this, you would interview the person whose intent you had a question about, right? >> that's one way and interviewing is important. it goes back to robert mueller's decision not to interview donald trump.

he carved this case out and handed it off to the southern district of new york. i don't know that this would have been within scope of his questioning anyway, but that certainly would be one way interviewing the person. you can also determine someone's intent based on the statements of other people. hope hicks it sounds like from these documents was involved in conversations with president trump to get him on the phone. what did she say? what about david pecker know? you can ascertain someone's intent from asking others. it is a high legal standard and one that stopped many cases in their tracks. >> on the question of hope hicks, there is concern raised today by members of congress that when hope hicks said she was not privy to conversations about the hush money payments and she didn't learn about them until november, there has been concern expressed today that hope hicks may have not been truthful in her testimony to congress. the judiciary chairman put out a statement and sent a letter to hicks demanding she come back to clarify her testimony, implying that she was untruthful when she answered questions about that. is that a significant worry for hope hicks? >> i think it is. it's not 100% clear that she lied, but it's an indication she knew what was happening as early

as october 8th about the calls. they don't have wire tap evidence knowing what the content was, but calls were made back and forth. they have e-mails and text messages. it seems that she was involved in connecting president trump and michael cohen as they are discussing these things. i don't know that it's clear that she knew what the plan was, but at least it raises the question that people are going to want to know. i also think it's important that even if donald trump did not technically commit a crime because you can't prove the legal element of willfulness, it was morally wrong and designed to betray the american people and conceal from them on the eve of the election the truth about his past conduct with women. >> barbara mcquaid, thanks very much for helping us out, particularly that i can tell you are taking time out from a setting in aspen. that gives you double points with me. thanks very much.

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meanwhile, in minnesota tonight -- welcome home ilhan! welcome home ilhan! >> they are saying welcome home ilhan, welcome home ilhan. they turned out at the arrivals terminal and they think they might be in baggage claim as the congresswoman arrived back home to her district for the first time since the president led an

almost all-white crowd as they chanted send her back. send her back as the president denounced congresswoman omar and called her unamerican. the senior senator from the great state of minnesota, amy klobuchar who just in the past hour learned where she will be standing and which night she will be on. she rebuked the president for his ongoing attacks on her home state congresswoman. saying that the president is putting congresswoman omar in a threatening situation, that he is putting her at risk with his continued attacks as this controversy shakes not just congresswoman omar in senator klobuchar's home state, but rattles everybody in what we are capable under this president. joining us now, senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. great to see you. >> great to be on and great seeing you not across from the debate stage. >> i have a ton of stuff to ask you, about you just found out

you will be on night one again of the two nights. this was a random draw that was presented with much glitz and glam glamour and drama. >> like an nfl draft. >> steve bullock is the only new contender. eric swalwell dropped out and he got his spot. what do you make of your position? >> it spans the country where people are from. that's a good thing. sometimes we have a lot of coastal people. it's positive. it will give me an opportunity to make my case of why i believe i'm the best one to lead this ticket. the fact that i have someone that believes they got to tell people the truth at a time when you see a president tearing this country apart and believes we need to move ahead and bringing

down the cost of pharmaceuticals and i have a way to do it, a better way than the other people on the stage. i'm looking forward to sharing that and we will have opportunities to go deep into the inside and the fact that i won in these very red districts and that i can lead a ticket and i won in places that donald trump won by over 20 points. every time, every place, every race. that's important going into this election and just to tail off where you ended there. with the congresswoman. last night i talked to a lot of people and this morning. staff members in the senate. people who couldn't sleep last night who were watching what the president did. and for me, if people are looking for solace, to see the pictures of my hometown airport and seeing the people just showing up spontaneously to greet her with that warmth, we have a refugee population and

she is one of them. this is something that donald trump has engendered. he divides people and spread this is hate and does it for no other reason but to invigorate his base and two, to divide so people don't notice what else is going on. all of these things he hasn't gotten done and the broken promises. the raids. the raids were another example of that. if you are really trying to deport the security risk which you would be from time to time, why would you alert them a week ahead of time? you want to make news. that's what he does. >> the agencies admit that they haven't committed these raids, you change the subject and get people talking about something else. >> on the targeting of that congresswoman, i was struck that you said that he is putting congresswoman omar at risk and creating a threatening situation for her.

i wonder if you can elaborate on that. people are horrified by the scene of that crowd chanting. whether or not he was saying he was happy about it or not. in terms of the harm to the country and what damage is done and how we fix it. how do you look at that as a practical matter? >> first of all, she had serious threats against her before. one of the guys went to jail, actually. a guy in new york that made threats against her. when he says that on national tv echoes on the airways, people see that. that's the first very serious thing about this. the second is that he is trying to open wounds and trying to make people hate each other. he is doing that and we know it.

the final thing that she pointed out herself and i thought she put a great quote from the author toni morrison. the very serious function of racism is distraction. it keeps you from doing your work. that's the other thing he's doing. to me the solution is that we must always stand up against what he says and at some point instead of going down the rabbit hole and this is why the congresswoman put this out there, you have to move on and keep doing your own work. people have to see an optimistic economic agenda and see an alternative to who he is. they want to see an alternative from the chaos and a different agenda that you have their backs and do something. he said he would bring down the cost of prescription drugs and it would make your head spin. over 2,000 of them has gone up in double-digits. he hasn't done his job. he said he would make us safer by getting out of the iranian agreement. now you have iran enriching

uranium as we speak. that doesn't make us safer. he said he was going to do an infrastructure package and build things. he said that on election night. he hasn't done anything. i think one of the jobs of our candidate is going to be not only to call him a horrific racist things he said, but also to create literally an alternative agenda so people understand there is another path forward. he broke promises. if you voted for him, maybe you wanted change. you felt left out of this economy. there is people all over that felt like that. it's not coming true and here's the way we can do it. >> senator amy klobuchar is our guest. we'll be right back after this. s to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed.

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just learned she will be on night one. elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg, beto o'rourke. tim ryan and steve bullock. >> unlike last time, i'm not with all the giant people. >> for we organize by size. i'm average height. i'm 5'4", but i was the shortest one on the stage. someone said that means you are grounded. >> harder to knock over certainly. it's fun tow read a list of 10 games and i'm sure it's difficult to prepare to be in a 10-person debate. i know it's difficult to prepare to be a moderator. now that that's done, what sucked the most about the first debate? >> you want to answer to answer every question and you want to get in there on climate change and tried to raise my hand, but that's frustrating because you

have seven or eight minutes. the other thing and i think the second night you guys sort of let people go a little more on the time, you have that one last line and it's cut off as you try to say it. that's normal in debates. you want to make things in the debates. i come from a state that's not as big as the other ones. this is a big opportunity for me to make that case. you just want to get in there on everything. by the fall and i'll be making those debates, but in the fall there will be less people and that will make it easier. >> you are on track to make the debates in the fall. >> yes. >> in terms of cnn criteria set that it's already done. is there a way you think they could be done better? >> you asking me this as a moderator? >> yes because i have done mine. >> i'm glad we have opening

statements. the viewers thought for some of them who are these people. >> standing for a long time. that might have been nice for people to be able to introduce themselves. i think they are doing that. then i think maybe taking one person what they say and asking another person to respond. you did some of that, but more of that so there is less interrupting. so you want people to go. it's hard to be a moderator. >> thank you very much. >> and i just think the stakes are so big and everyone gets that. democrats and independents and moderate republicans. they understand that the stakes couldn't be huger. watch what he did last night. we can't afford to have four more years of tearing the country apart. i used the opportunity and hope more people do it. it's not just democrats watching. it is independents, moderate republicans.

i figure i'm not running for chair of the national democratic committee. i am running for president of the united states. i decided it was important to put my vision out there and my bold ideas, but also to show the contrast with donald trump. i hope more people do that. because people need to hear that. >> in your first 100 day speech, you said that you took a line from fdr's first inaugural saying we need vigorous and direct action. you feel like the 100 day agenda is more important than it would be in terms of redirecting the country? >> completely. when you look back to 1933, we were in economic crisis, but fdr understood you needed marathons and sprints. the reason we need a sprint and we need not just plans, but deadlines and not just promises, but real promises that people can deliver on. there is now a crisis of our constitution. people feel what is happening to our democracy.

in my first 100 days, no mean tweets. two, reach out to our allies. i think that's important and stand up to dictators. three, move quickly on things that we can do right away. get back into the international climate change agreement. put the clean power rules out. you don't have to go to congress. the gas mileage standard. closing the loophole for gun safety and legislation. you can actually apply for a waiver with the fda and apply for a waiver to be able to bring in less expensive drugs from safe countries like canada. imagine that pressure. i led that bill that you can do it herself. imagine the pressure that will put on. i just went through over 100 things that you can do in the first 100 days that are by the way, legal, unlike what this guy does. you go clearly to congress and i

have the experience to get this done. i passed over 100 bills where i am the lead democrat. this is what we will do right away and this is what we will do by the end of the year. our country is yearning for that leadership. after last night, i don't think we can wait much longer. >> great to see you. come back soon. we'll be right back, stay with us. ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. bill's back needed a afvacation from his vacation. an amusement park... so he stepped on the dr. scholl's kiosk. it recommends our best custom fit orthotic

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>> here's a heads up about something about to happen in the news. there so far have been two criminal trials in front of a jury that derived from the mueller investigation. the first was the paul manafort trial. the second one is happening right now. it's the trial of a trump transition official who was charged with being a secret foreign agent. in that case, the prosecution rested today and that means we are about to see the defense start to make their case. the defense is going to make their case on monday. one of the things that emerged has to do with mike flynn.

palestine flynn admitted to having been illegally acting as an agent of the government of turkey. kion is on related charges. that may be causing this >> good evening, rachel.