erdogan does is illegal. every decision he takes, every time he calls you an undersecretary at some agency or ministry, it's illegal. it's the prime minister's prerogative to run the government, not the president's under the current constitution. which is why mr. erdogan is understandably worried about legal matters. and you know, we also know that when in 2015 he almost lost power, he lost an election and managed to nullify that election he sent family members out of the country to run the family fortune and other things like that in case that was to be needed. so i think his behavior suggests that he actually has much more reasons to be concerned about these kind of things than what would appear to be the case. >> so we've sort of heard -- ilhan, you just told us that there might be some sort of deal brewing. although i feel like we've been talking about this for a while. there was this strange question of why did reza zarrab come to the united states in the first place? he gets arrested in turkey for basic

if you like erdogan, you have seen his rhetoric, he started talking about erdogan by name, using the term of the turk a concession to the nationalist in his new coalition. if he becomes understood by the vast majority of turks as the representative of this nationalist impulse, which he wasn't, even five years ago, nationalists were against him because he was islamist. he's kept his identity of islamists while purging most real islamists from the government and adopting the nationalist costume. in a way, despite what i said about his weak internal position, that is what he is doing, in a sense by necessity in order to maintain his power. he's channeling something very real in turkey and not just something artificial. >> maybe before we go to questions to the audience we can pivot from an issue you raised early on about turkey's position between the u.s. and iran and how it sees itself dealing with its frenemy, one way to put it in the context of u.s. bilateral relations because the turkish-iranian relationship or relationship to interests in the region has been a problem in the u.s.-t

indicate -- implicate erdogan's son-in-law.i think that is why he is sensitive to possible things he might be talking. allies will have a lot of limitations inside or outside turkey. >> i think -- i agree. concerned.to be very i think it is because he sees this as a gateway to something that will hit closer to home. family members, something else. i don't know. i don't know what reza zarrab knows, but it is important to look at this in context. he should not need to be this concerned. he is weaker than he looks. he looks like an especially after the coup. if you scratch the surface a little, the dirty secret i keep talking about, he never had enough people to run the turkish state. he always had to rely on others. that was rationale for bringing in the gulen movement. speaks of them he did not have enough -- have enough filled. he had to lean on the nationalists to run various state agencies. that is one thing. is, in spite of the referendum, turkey is still not a presidential republic. it will only be after the next residentia

secondly, talking to erdogan, we talked to multiple sources who said it wasn't just gulan that erdogan interested in. they also wanted to have this iranian-turkish man who is jailed in the u.s. also freed. it's an ally, someone the government sees as an ally. that is just the way erdogan thinks. you saw that in the way of meetings he had, as you mentioned, with vice president biden and others. the significance here is you have that school of thought coupled with the relationship with flynn, and then trump wins the election, and they have this conversation where they try to continue doing business, is what the special counsel was looking for. >> i just have to ask you, nick, you worked in the national security council before you were in the state department and now an ambassador. just the sense of an internal security adviser supposedly bringing that into the white house. >> this is the most serious charge you can imagine if this turns out to be true. i think it's fair to say that general flynn has a right to speak for himself and a right to speak to these charges. i'm sure that's happe

attempted turkish coup in 2016 that was aimed at ousting erdogan. gulen denies the coup allegations but erdogan has reportedly asked the u.s. to extradite him. the obama administration resisted. did turkey turn to flynn? >> any government official to make any kind of deal that accepts money to carry out a directive from a foreign government is highly problematic and illegal. >> reporter: three people familiar with the russia probe say investigators are also looking into whether flynn and other participants discussed a way to free an erdogan ally jailed in the u.s. it is not clear how flynn would have successfully carried out either alleged request once trump took office. >> if these allegations are true, then obviously you're talking about a very serious crime. >> reporter: flynn, who was fired after 24 days as trump's national security adviser, has come under scrutiny in the russia probe for his past dealings with foreign governments. now it seems the walls around flynn may be closing in even more. and lester, tonight flynn's attorney is calling th

because erdogan is in many ways a strong man leader. he's been cracking down on some key freedoms in turkey over the past few months. and so this is the type of leader that we have seen donald trump actually have a very productive, friendly relationship with. you can also point to the president of china. even vladimir putin to an extent. and so i'm not sure that this would be a warning shot, as much as, you know, promoting his relationship with erdogan. ahead of this conversation, essentially. >> sounds a little like his america-first agenda, though, is taking front and center in that tweet. rebecca berg, errol lewis, thank you both for your analysis. we appreciate it. >>> breaking news overseas right now. at least 184 killed in egypt after a terror attack at a crowded mosque. another 125 have been injured. this happened in the sinai peninsula as worshippers were attending midday prayers. and cnn's ian lee is now joining us live with the latest details. ian. >> reporter: ana, that death toll continues to rise. this is quickly becoming t

earlier this year as president erdogan looked on.t month turkey arrested a turkish employee of the u.s. consulate in istanbul. in an effort to improve relations, foreign minimum yildririm traveled to talk to vice president mike pence and talked to me afterwards. >> prime minister, nice to have you on the show. >> thank you. >> why have turkey/american relations, why is there so much tension between the two countries? we're meant to be allies, right? >> yes. turkey and united states are allies and partners, but nowadays, unfortunately, our relation is not at the level which should be desired. >> why is it? people look at turkey, in washington people look at turkey and they say, you are now buying weapons from the russians. you are a nato ally buying weapons from the russians. you are, as i say, threatening to say to the united states, you cannot use the air base. euro posed to u.s. efforts to fight isis because they involve using some kurdish forces. there seems to be areas where turkey is turning away from the west on its foreign pol

but erdogan were at some point allies. they turned against each other and erdogan has been on his case all that time. >> and we didn't get to it but we referred to it earlier, wilbur ross now being accused. he denies of having failed to disclose connections to putin's son-in-law. i think you have your work cut out for you, carol lee, and john mclaughlin. thank you so much. every day, on every street, in every town, across america. small businesses show their love to you. with some friendly advice, a genuine smile and a warm welcome they make your town... well, your town. that's why american express is proud to be the founding partner of small business saturday. a day where you get to return that love, because shopping small makes a big difference. so, on november 25th get up, get out, and shop small. before i hadburning,oting, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain, these feet... grew into a free-wheeling kid... loved every step of fatherhood... and made old cars good as new. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any

erdogan and glennon allies in the desecularization in turkey and had a falling out.rything that goes wrong it's automatically the gulen's fault. and blaming it on others saying they were lackeys for goulen an in cahoots. >> listen to congresswoman zoe lofgren from california actually questioning jeffrey sessions on tuesday, our attorney general during the house justice oversight meeting. take a live. >> did you know flynn was working for the turkish government while actinging a a sursg sursurrogate for the trump campaign? >> i don't believe i had information to that effect. >> did you know he was working for the turkish government after the election? >> i don't believe so. >> to you on this, paul. he was the leader of the trump trn igs team claiming he had no knowledge of flynn possibly d g deeg-of-being on the payroll of the turkish government to kidnap a u.s. resident, send rendition back to turk around cutting a deal this person is actually talking to the fbi is jeff sessions in any trouble over the flynn case and how much trouble is flynn in? >> sessions answered

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the prime minister erdogan has made position a super president.he little symbols of it, he has built palace that is four times the size of versailles. it isn't didn't look like a deepening of democracy. >> i invite you to ankara to see with your own eyes the presidential site. when you see that, i will see the reality. >> but i have gone to turkey and seen the reality that there are fewer independentexperts, many the united states and the west. you know this is true. >> this is related with this gulen organization again. more than 40 years these people, they insert inside the community. inside the army, inside judicial system, inside bureaucracy. and the business community. so they aim to, you know, remove our government and take over the country. and rule the country. >> mr. prime minister, a pleasure to have you on. i don'd paranoid, but d'ya think our recent online sales success seems a little... strange? na. ever since we switched to fedex ground business has been great. they're affordable and fast... maybe "too affordable and fast." what if..

a gold trader who is close to the turkish president erdogan is cooperating with prosecutors on a money laundering case. they may be seeking information on ties between the turkish government and mike flynn, investigating whether erdogan offered flynn upwards of $15 million to use his upcoming position as national security adviser to return his top political rival from the u.s. to turkey and see what the gold trader's case -- see that the gold trader's case was dropped. also tonight, "the wall street journal" reports special counsel robert mueller's team in mid-october issued a subpoena to president donald trump's campaign requesting russia-related documents from more than a dozen top officials according to a person familiar with the matter. the subpoena marked mr. mueller's first official order for information from the campaign according to the person. here with us to talk about all of it, ken vogel, political reporter for "the new york times." annie carney is back with us, white reporter for politico. and mika oyang, former counsel on the hill. ken, show mercy on us and try to use sho

what more do we know about trump's call to erdogan and why the president feels so confident about fixing the middle east? >> well, it's a significant call because this week it seems like the president and a lot of key players in the region have been spending a lot of time focusing on the syrian conflict. we saw the president speaking with russian president vladimir putin earlier this week and putin also met with iranian -- the iranian leader ha san rouhani and turkish president erdogan and erdogan this morning speaking with president trump, the turkish foreign minister has given a little bit of a read out of that call and one point of agreement was reached is that the united states is going to now stop funding apparently, according to the turkish foreign minister the y pg, a kurdish militia in syria that the turkish government considers a terrorist organization. let me read you a part of the quote. our is discomfort regarding the provision of weapons to the ypg was concan vaed to mr. trump once again. trump very clearly said he had given instructions to not provide weapons to the ypg. th

president erdogan and president trump discussed recent development in restaurants russ -- eight different region for the >> geraldo: administration to work with >> who have an interest in closing that file with israel so there could be altogether in the middle east with the united states against the new threat, which is the jihadist and iran. >> wants the president and congress returned to washington next week, not only is president trump meeting tuesday with the big four congressional leaderships, mcconnell, brian, schumer, pelosi, to avoid a december government shutdown, trump will also attend a senate geo tv policy launch that same day. and before the night of thanksgiving had passed, president trump again showed no thanks for obamacare. tweeting out one final thanksgiving dig. obamacare premiums are going up, up, up, just as i have been predicting for two years. obamacare is owned by the democrats. and it is a disaster. but do not worry, even though the dems want to obstruct, we will repeal and replace right after tax cuts. and there is some pleasure on this white house described work

rudy giuliani's name shown up in this and apparently spoken to erdogan about this guy. what's that got to do with this? >> exactly. we know that rudy giuliani was involved this case and he could potentially be implicated for his help with zarrab. we reached out the giuliani. have not gotten a response and he remains another intriguing piece of this because he was involved in the trump campaign, as well. so really what this is all coming back to, ali, the fact that robert mueller has a strategy that seems to be working well where he tries go from the outside in. from the outer most circles to get people to cooperate and turn on those on the inside so that he can figure out what's happening inside this campaign and potentially inside this white house. >> all right. everybody, mark your calendars. november 16th, 2017. the day most people learned about reza zarrab and met with your friends of whether to hear about him or never hear about this obscure character again. thank you for reporting on it. thank you, joyce, for sticking around with us. >>> coming up, the senate judi

since the attempted coup against president erdogan on 15th july, 202016, more than 50,000 peope haveeen arrested and more than 150,000 have been forced out of their jobs. more than 130 newspapers, publishers, and broadcasters have been shut down, as have more than 1000 non-governmental organizations. fear hangs heavy over the country's arts scene, too, bringing its own consequences. reporter: here in the beyoglu district of istanbul, it's openening night for r a new exhibition at the mars gallery. pinar ogrenci is nervous, because in addition to being the gallery owner, she will be presenting her own art alongside that of three other artists. her video installations address the subject of war and expulsion. pinar: it's not just people who migrate. their songs and instruments move with them, as i've shown in my film. it's about a whole culture looking for a new place to settle. reporter: pinar is originally from the other side of the country -- from the town of van near the iraqi border -- and studied architecture. over the years, the art she produced tended to focus on urban transfor

erdogan has had an obsession with this cleric.e're reporting that the special counsel is looking into whether this was this deal, not just for him but for also -- also involving a man who is considered an ally of president erdogan who is jailed in the u.s. under charges of helping iran skirt u.s. sanctions, the discussions that -- that what bob mueller is looking into is whether those discussions included an exchange for $15 million if flynn was able to facilitate not just the return of gulen but the dropping of the charges of this other man. in the meeting that he's looking into allegedly took place at the 21 club restaurant in new york, which you know very well is not that far from trump tower. >> also where donald trump had one of his first dinners after he was elected. >> right, right. >> that was a bit of a scandal. anyway, go on, carol. >> so, that's the significance of this is that, you know, these -- it takes the investigation into a whole new realm. you know, these -- if true, these are very -- would be very serious charg

of course, a lot of issues with turkey and erdogan including the fact that erdogan and the leaders of russia and iran met just a couple days ago to talk about the bloodshed in syria and how to stop it. there are many pitfalls there as we all know including about what to do with syrian president bashar al assad and what to do about the competing factions inside syria and how to bring them all together. so there's one other tweet here from the president this morning, he writes, after turkey call i will be heading over to trump national golf club where he is now, jupiter, to play golf quickly with tiger woods and dustin johnson and back to mar-a-lago for talks on bringing even more jobs and companies back to the usa. now, tiger woods, apparently has a house up there in jupiter and our understanding is dustin johnson did, too, until a couple years ago. it is a popular resort, about 25 minutes up the road from mar-a-lago and donald trump owns that too. ana? >> all right. thank you, joe johns, again traveling with the president in florida for us. meantime as congress members prepare to retu

>> reporter: you know, this issue the gullen issue is president erdogan is obsessed with. he brings this up with u.s. officials all time and pressed them to extradite this cleric and he clearly, you know, saw if this allegations turn out to be true, you can envision turkey seeing someone like flynn, that they had a relationship with as somebody they may propose something like this to. >> thank you. >>> with me now nbc legal analyst and attorney nick ackerman, a team that prosecuted watergate. i mean talk about whoa if true. >> this is unbelievable. i mean, this borders on quid pro quo bribery. it borders on a huge conflict of interest. i think it's a part of the same pattern that you've seen in this administration where people are in this for themselves and not in it for the good of the american people, they're trying to line their own pockets. so this is all a part of the same pattern that we've seen right across the board. >> it's a good point. manafort, one of the post-incriminating e-mails manafort sent was turning around to his assistant in ukraine after he gets to be

is there a concern that erdogan is too overbearing?ing or is the central bank still free to act independently? that is definitely a concern, and in fact, it may be the primary concern for investors in turkey. erdogan did say the central bank was on the wrong path. he has been for a long time an advocate for lower interest rates, whereas most investors think turkey need significantly higher interest rates. it has shown that it has been willing to raise despite objections. anybody looking to take a long position on turkish assets has to bet they are going to do it again, which given the president's influence over policy in turkey, is a difficult call to make, obviously. guy: the market is beginning to come around to the idea that we could have to see some sort of emergency meeting here. is that what people are talking about in istanbul and ankara? benjamin: definitely. that is a big topic of conversation. the next central bank meeting is on december 14. we have got a long time to go until then, and the markets are really pushing to see s

if they can separate erdogan from al-qaeda which which doesn't seem likely to me and and if the but the us game is not over yet when mad dog mattis the secretary of defense who is really running us in military foreign policy according to our president says we're not going to just a what walk away with right now even though isis is military defeated in eastern syria their last territorial acquisitions there have have have evaporated and now we have the word out that the leaks that the us military is about to admit that they have far more tricks up to for. mark we're going to go to a short break and after a short break we'll continue our discussion on some real news staying with our team . kind of financial survival today was all about money laundering first to visit this cash into three different. oh good this is a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something overseas in the cayman islands it will pull these banks are complicit in the kleptocracy you just have to give me a call and say hey i'm ready to do some serious mone

federal target was this man, a cleric living in pennsylvania who turkish had ties to erdogan blames for the last year's coup attempt. the discussions allegedly involved the possibly of transporting mr. ghoul -- gulen on a private jet to a turkish prison island of imrali. flynn's lawyers call allegations broadly false, did not address them specifically. reportedly under investigation are both flynn and his son, michael flynn jr., in march the elder flynn belatedly registered as a foreign agent after it was revealed the flynn intel group was paid $530,000 to secretly lobby on trump's behalf while he was working on his campaign. flynn op ed ran on election day hailing our allie turkey and seeking the expulsion of gulen. flynn cast as a radical islamist who may operate a dangerous sleeper new yorker. i am joined by political reporter carole lee. well, that's a heck of a story. what do we know about what investigators know? >> well, we know that they're looking into whether there were these two asks from turkey to michael flynn. there was the gulen one you walked through very well. there was

aimed at ousting erdogan. erdogan has repeatedly asked the u.s. to extradite him. the obama administration resi resisted. did turkey turn to flynn. >> for any government official to make any kind of deal to accept money to carry out the directive of a foreign government is highly problematic and illegal. >> also looking into whether flynn and other participants discussed a way to free erdogan ally jailed in the u.s. not clear how flynn would have successfully carried out either alleged request once trump took office. >> if these allegations are true t then you're talking about a very serious crime. >> flynn was fired after 24 days of national security adviser. has come under scrutiny in russia probe for past dealings with foreign governments. now it seems the walls around flynn may be closing in even more. >> kristen welker reporting. joining me now, danny, michael plin flynn's lawyer says the allegations are falls, outrageous. >> in a word, they're looking at communications between the parties. on the one hand, you already have flynn suspected, i should say, of lo

gulnur aybet is a senior adviser to president erdogan. the two leaders' conversation. the summit that took place between iran, turkey and russia on wednesday and sochi probably had a strong impact on what was happening today with the tweets coming out from president trump and then his phone call to president erdogan. i think the message coming out of sochi was very clear, but the belief —— that the political process from now and the political process from now and the endgame syria will be driven by this process and i think the american leadership to make sure as to how their nato ally is onboard there. i think they are quite assured that there is a nato ally at that table, e—commerce turkey wanted the united states tojoin that table, e—commerce turkey wanted the united states to join the process , the united states to join the process, but they distanced themselves from it because of the iranian involvement. we thought it would be healthier if they were at that table but i think at this point now that the endgame is coming the us has alwa

potential target was this man, fet ula gulen, a cleric living in pennsylvania, who president erdoganlames for last year's failed coup attempts. the discussions allegedly involved the possibility of transporting gulen on a private jet to the turkish prison island of imrally. according to one of the persons who has spoken to the fbi. flynn's lawyer called the allegations false but did not address them specifically. under investigation are flynn and flynn jr. in march, the elder flynn belatedly registered as a foreign agent after it was revealed the flynn intel group was paid $530,000 to secretly lobo turkey's behalf while flynn was working on trump's campaign in 2016. also, flynn penned an op-ed that ran on election day, haling our ally turkey and seeking the expulsion of gulen. flynn cast him as a radical islamist who may run a dangerous sleeper terrorist network. kara lee, that's a heck of a story. what do we know about what investigators know? >> well, we know that they're looking into whether there were these two asks from turkey to michael flynn. the gulen one that you just walked

by our election day, he wasn't criticizing erdogan, the turkish president for sliding towards islamismr the coup. by the day of our election in november there was mike flynn writing an op-ed in support of erdogan, in support of his turkish government and leveling some over the top criticism at a cleric who lives in the united states who the turkish government blamed for starting the coup. in four months mike flynn went for, yeah, let's clap for the coup, to we really ought to think about extraditing that terrible monster who turkey says startedám? that coup. total 180+43r÷ in four months. what changed? well, for starters we know in the middle of those two events mike flynn got paid. he got paid over half a million dollars to lobby for the turkish government. he disclosed only after he was fired as trump's national security adviser and failing to register as an agent for the turk irk government is one of the reasons why mike flynn finds himself in what looks like serious legal jeopardy. in march 2017 a former cia director jamesed james woolsey told "the wall street journal" that he had

the focus remains on erdogan. there's no doubt about that., great to focus on some issues. up next, we are going to take a look at some the biggest movers in today's trading. this is the stock market open. london, up and running. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to "bloomberg markets: european open." i am matt miller here in london. i want to talk about the banks ranking list that is put out by the financial stability board which is a g20 mechanism that keeps track of the world's biggest and most important banks in terms of their danger to the system should they go under. they have five buckets with which they rank the banks. but the number five being the most dangerous and bucket number one being the safest. the higher you are, the more you have to pay in terms of a capital surcharge and they come up with a list that shows a number of banks, all of them falling to a less dangerous bucket. citi falling from bucket number three to four. 2%.surcharge will be it had been 2% -- it had been 2.5%. the only bank and bucket for his jpmorgan. t

the man is close to turkish president erdogan.al expergts say prosecutors may be seeking cooperation. they are investigating whether erdogan offered flynn $15 million to kidnap a man. let's bring in paul butler. explain to us who is this gold trader and how does he relate to michael flynn? >> sure. he was born in iran but grew up in turkey. he essentially made a lot of money helping turkey and iran evade sanctions with the blessing of senior turkish and iranian officials. that's really the key to this case. normally turkey might not care about some random citizen. but the case was at the core of the turkish scandascandal. they found prescribes abribes a corruption. that's why erdogan is keen on having him released and that's why he may have talked to michael flynn about a way to make that happen. >> i guess the idea is for him to be able to get out of conf e confineme confinement, the idea is that he was cooking up a scheme with michael flynn to kidnap another guy. >> it's a crazy scheme. the story is just as crazy. this guy was f

do you actually think about expediting fethullah gulen which is a key goal of erdogan. what do you know of this extradition that would have happened after flynn was actually in the u.s. government? >> just the very, very basics, chris, just what we said in the story, which is that the fbi was asked during the trump administration while mike flynn was the national security adviser to take another look at this. and they had no reason to reexamine it because they had already looked at it during the obama administration and had no evidence to fulfill turkey's extradition request for fethullah gulen who lives in the poconos and is like public enemy number one for turkey. mike flynn at one point in the wake of the turkish coup actually gave a public statement saying the turkish coup could be a good thing. and then he completely 180 changed when he began being paid on behalf we now know by the government of turkey. and he published that op-ed on election day, which basically had turkish government talking points. it wasn't even disguised. a lot of people look at that and said

specifically his potential involvement in a plan to forcibly remove one of president erdogan's politicalpponents from the united states and deliver him forcibly to turkey. well, the plan which the uncoming national security adviser discussed with turkish officials in a meeting during the transition could represent, quote, a potential quid pro quo in which flynn would be paid to carry out directives from anchora secretly while in the white house and on the white house payroll. in exchange flynn was offered upwards of $15 million to be paid directly or indirectly if he could complete the deal according to two sources familiar with that meeting. well, it's the kind of leverage that mueller could use to persuade flynn to become a cooperating witness in the larger russian investigation. well, late today flynn's lawyer said in a statement we have intentionally avoiding responding to every allegation but today's news cycle has brought allegations about general flynn ranging from kidnapping and biebry that are so outrageous and prejudicial that we are making an exception to our usual rule. they

if he knows anything else about the president of turkey, recep erdogan. if he knows -- and he's close to that family. if he knows anything else about michael flynn's relationship with the turkish government, even just how the turkish government operates, at this point, that could be an advantage to u.s. prosecutors on numerous levels, as well as perhaps to special counsel robert mueller. >> there are a lot of people who are freaking out about the fact that this guy is no longer in mcc and talking to prosecutors tonight. but as you say, we don't know yet what he's saying. tom winter, nbc news investigative reporter, tom, thank you, i really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> congratulations on this scoop. >> thanks. >> all right, lots more ahead. very, very, very, very, very, very busy news night. stay with us. is this a phone? or a little internet machine? [ phone rings ] it makes you wonder. shouldn't we get our phones and internet from the same company? that's why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you get up to 5 lines of talk and text at no extra c

turkey's president erdogan talked about applying a coop against his government. the investigation fork using on an alleged deal where flynn with the help of his son would get paid as much as $15 million to somehow seize the cleric and hand him over to turkey. ghoul in, by the way, has legal residency status in the united states and lives in pennsylvania. a spokesman for flynn denied the talks. what? again, innocent until proven guilty, but if the special counsel is looking into while he was on the campaign payroll and while he was slated to become national adviser in the trump pedestrian during the trump transition had a consuling business and meetings with the turkish government or representatives to essentially -- >> do a special op? >> the two people about whom we talked most for the campaign and flynn are the two about whom we are finding out the most about trady sections and actions. >> it also speaks to the breath of this investigation. it seems like there is more pieces to this and this could be a story and a separate investigation. that's fascinating. >>

president trump spoke by phone today to turkey's president erdogan.rdogan described the call is productive and the president tweeted they would be discussing bringing peace in the middle east. and there is a signal that former trump and national security advisor michael flynn may be in discussions with some kind of special counselor robert mueller. that is according to people may with the investigation. michael flynn's lawyer issued information with trump's legal team. the trump fired michael flynn by allegedly -- global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm taylor riggs. this is bloomberg. vonnie: taylor, thank you. coming up, oil rising to a two-year high as opec and russia are said to have agreed on a framework to extend supplies -- too thin supply cut. futures in focus is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ matt: live from the german capital of berlin, i'm matt miller. vonnie: and from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. in this is "bloomberg markets." focus,ime for futures in deputy i could hittin