as part of this effort to get discovery in the bijan kian case, kian's lawyers now say in this letter they want information on, "mr. flynn's contact with russian officials including kiril following the presidential election in 2016." after the presidential election in 2016. trump's national security adviser had contacts with that guy, too? the money guy close to putin who everybody has been lying about talking to. we've never heard this allegation before. i mean, we know that dimitriev went out of his way to praise mike flynn during the transition, his willingness to have an open dialogue with russia. as far as we can tell from public reporting, there were never any known contacts between mike flynn and this russian guy. there were never even any public allegations they had any contact. now, i should say this is just an assertion by bijan kian's lawyers in a criminal case. asserting it is not the same as proving it in court. they might be wrong. we might found out further in trial proceedings or if they try to bring it up in court that this isn't true and they're just blowing smoke. b

trump national security adviser mike flynn was kian's business partner.key witness in this trial against bijan kian. and as that case gets closer to trial, kian's defense team has been asking the government, they've been asking prosecutors to give them a bunch of information about mike flynn. he is going to be a witness against their client. they want to be able to cross-examine him. they are entitled under federal trial rules and under the constitution to receive whatever information the government is planning on using against their client. that includes, in this case, information about the key witness against their client who is mike flynn. and as we reported last night, the back and forth in that bijan kian case ahead of this trial that's due to start in july, it now includes a provocative new assertion from bijan kian's defense team. they are asserting in court documents that after the 2016 election, mike flynn had contact with the head of a russian investment fund. the same head of a russia investment fund who met with erik prince in the seychelle is

kian's defense team wants all of those. they want the ones that relate to his case directly and the illegal lobbying work for the nation of turkey that he's charged with. they want everything on that subject matter. naturally that makes sense. but they also want everything else. they want the whole universe of everything flynn has said to anybody from the government including the special counsel since he became a cooperating witness. and they had a big fight about it in court on friday. we have obtained the transcript of that. i'll read you a little piece of it. quote, from the defense lawyer, quote, your honor, this is not an ordinary case by any means. the judge, right. k the office of special counsel has disclosed they interviewed mr. flynn who's the key witness ins this case 19 times. that's at least 20, probably more than that. quote, the reason that we are here before the court is that mr. kian has a great deal of work to do to put together a cross-examination of mr. flynn. there's a great deal there. and in order for