michael flynn has resigned. - flynn's shocking departure comes after just three weeks on the job. - hethe shortest-serving national security advisor now in modern history. - yeah! [cheers and applause] yes! trump! trump! trump! trump! donald trump finally draining the swamp of the people he brought to the swamp. president trump is a genius, people. he hires a cabinet full of terrible people, fires them one by one, looks like he's a man of action. drain the swamp! down to the previous levels! drain the swamp! down to the previous levels! it's not as catchy. it's just not as catchy. how big is this story? the national security advisor, fired after just three weeks. who, like, who could've seen this coming? - a red flag was raised late last month by then-acting attorney general sally yates, yates telling the trump white house she believed flynn was potentially vulnerable to russian blackmail. - remember after obama put sanctions on russia for election meddling, all right, to help trump win, you remember that? well, after that, flynn called the russian ambassador and told them not to sanct

they're demanding documents about michael flynn's ties to foreign powers. that i can tell you is a first. meanwhile, trump under siege from the grand jury, the internal leaks, and punching back today through a cabinet official that trump of course recently disdained, attorney general jeff sessions. calling for a crackdown on the leakers and on the press. i am ari melber, and this is a special hour of "the last word." >> donald trump is officially on vacation. >> as new signs robert mueller's russia investigation is growing in intensity and scope. >> he can lie all he wants in front of his adoring fans. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. >> he cannot lie to the fbi, to the grand jury. this is about matters of law. >> this culture of leaking must stop. >> sessions scolded everyone today about this. >> i have this warning for would-be leakers. don't do it. >> classified leaks have played an important role in bringing to light, you know, really crucial public information. >> are there any russians here tonight? any russians? >> he's the one who keeps b

this is stuff about flynn's time at the white house and not stuff -- not personal to flynn. that would go to flynn's lawyer. it is about flynn's time in the white house and about him specifically. what we know is the issues that mike flynn came up with at the white house. one was an fbi interview days after trump was sworn in about flynn's call with the russian ambassador in the weeks before trump was inaugurated and we know the questions about whether flynn was still, you know, taking money from the turkish government and doing work for them when he was the national security adviser at the white house. he was gone within the first month of the administration. >> in that time you had sally yates coming over to warn the white house counsel's office about flynn. in your reporting do you have information that robert mueller's investigators may want to talk to all the people that sally yates may have talked to and indeed talk to sally yates? >> i think that mueller is going to want to talk to everyone at the white house. the big question here which starts this is this february 1

flynn received substantial payments from turkey before trump was sworn in, before flynn became nationalecurity adviser. >> and didn't disclose it. >> flynn was supposed to encourage the trump administration to embrace the reign of erdogan and discredit one of my neighbors in pennsylvania, supposedly one of the authors of the opposition campaign against erdogan. you'll have to remember that one of the earliest world leaders to visit trump in the white house was erdogan. he got just a tumultuous reception from trump. he was embraced by trump and so on. one of the issues was, in fact, was the payments to flynn, in part, designed to influence the trump administration and president trump himself? his views toward this dictatorship in turkey. that could be a very interesting string to pull on. when you start to put all that together, suddenly, flynn and his absence for many months now from the white house, the interest in him begins to make some considerable sense from the mueller's investigation point of view. >> danny, with grand jury subpoenas, does it mean that any potential indictments a

requesting documents related to michael flynn and what that might involve? >> so in is clearly a deepening of the russia probe focusing very much ob michael flynn's contacts with turkey in this instance. so what we can obviously glean from that is a broadening of the investigation as it pertains to flynn. now, of course, there is a certain irony here, because president obama at the very first post election meeting with president-elect trump warned him against hiring michael flynn, and the president-elect obviously disregarded that advice and it is michael flynn who has proven the thread that the prosecutors can keep pulling upon to cause the white house considerable difficulties, and i think that we are seeing a new chapter in that book right now. >> and in that book, and in that chapter here, ned, includes the word turkey. it includes the question of payments, and it includes another development for michael flynn that this white house as kelly o'donnell was tell thing us, they want to move on from. >> that is right, richard. we know that michael flynn was a

they didn't talk about flynn's resignation. he was pushed by russia 24, a state-run news agency, russia 24 questioners or interviews, about what else they talked about, he essentially cut off the conversation and said those were private. this comes as flynn himself is under increased scrutiny from the team of robbert mueller. it is interesting kislyak chose now to shed light on this. >> speaking of now, we are learning today russia is cooperating more closely with iran and this has to do with the sanctions bill here in the u.s. that the president signed. what are you learning about this cooperation that they're talking about? >> russian president vladimir putin said russia has other options for responding to the u.s. sanctions and eu sanctions. this is after russia closed two here and cut staff members. they'll increase military and technological cooperation with iran, also one of the targets of the sanctions bill. the deputy prime minister of russia is in tehran today talking to the iranians about what else they can work on an

is now sharing new details about his conversations with michael flynn which ultimately led to flynn's firing. sergey kislyak says they talked about terrorism, not sanctions. >> translator: there are a few topics that are important to u.s./russia cooperation. first of all, it's terrorism. this was one of the topics we discussed. this conversation was proper, calm and absolutely transparent. there were no secrets. at least on our side. >> we have a team of reporters covering all of these angles of these latest developments. i want to start with boris sanchez. what exactly was the fbi looking for? whan d and what did it find? >> from what we understand, federal investigators are now looking into the relationship between michael flynn and the government of turkey. the "new york times" is reporting that they have requested that robert mueller, special counsel, requested documents from the white house pertaining to flynn's relationship with turkey and payments he may have received in exchange for lobbying against a political enemy of the turkish president erdogan. from what we understand, t

>> we also have general flynn. >> okay. >> and general flynn -- >> go ahead. >> you -- you're raisinghe fundamental question here, we know paul manafort is if serious dep jepp naerd marriopardy. the question is what is the relevance to the question of whether the trump campaign colluded with russia. is there a connection here? do his russian entanglements in his business past bear on the question of trump campaign collusion with russia? that we don't know yet. but that's where this is all going. >> well, if you are trump, you must wonder, did i start this or did the russians start this? at some point you go, you know how russians do, you meet a pretty girl on the subway platform, lfrls you are having a relationship, all of a sudden she is a spy, are you a fool. you are shaking your head, i think that's russian trade craft. >> i think what we have here is the fundamental question that everyone must answer, before they do anything, is, is this a russian operation? was this a large scale long-term operation in which they tap their asset, palm manafort to come out and try to manipulate th

we of reached out the flynn's attorney. they have declined to comment. we've also reached out to the white house's outside counsel. they have told us that they do not want to comment on their discussions with the special counsel except to say that they are fully complying with the investigation. very important to point out, fred, in the spring, we heard from leaders on the house oversight committee who told us that michael flynn may have violated the law by not disclosing payments from foreign governments on his security clearance forms, one turkey, another rttv, the russian state news agency. so this gives you the idea the investigation is heading. when it pertains to michael flynn, keep in mind, this is still a very broad effort, fred. >> and cnn has exclusive reporting that on election day this team of fbi analysts gathered in a war room to track specific social media accounts. what exactly were they looking for? >> this is a really fascinating image, fred, in this exclusive reporting to cnn. there was a room of analysts and agents gathered around loo

michael flynn did have involvement. he did have an untruth on his forms he completed to get his security clearance. once you get in that door, you don't know where it is going to take you. it is better to start off with a given and work your way through that than to start to feel around and see if you can find something indirectly. >> kimberly, could all of this have been avoided if flynn had simply registered as a foreign agent and disclosed his ties to turkey on his security clearance form? >> a lot of it could have been avoided, but you have to look at the actual registration process and the history of that in washington, d.c. it's not very well regulated. a lot of people are advised to wait until the very last moment to register. in this case, flynn's friends tell me that he was in a chaotic campaign and also trying to run his business. and this was the result of inexperience. after he got forced out of the white house and he got really good legal help, it's then that the lawyers said, look, this is a vulnerability,

remember when mike flynn was national security adviser. he came out in the briefing room and said iran, you're on notice. nobody had any idea what that meant. it was completely dislocated from everything else that the administration was doing with regard to iran. tushd out it meant nothing and two weeks later mike flynn was gone. poof. is that what's going on here with this unprecedented threats to north korea or is this part of a plan. where would we look for planning evidence if it is a plan? how about the national enquirer? that's a blunt translation how trump would like the world to see him. it's a bizarre thing but if you're looking for something to strike your tuning fork, this is a supermarket tabloid that shows you more often than not exactly the way that trump would like to be seen. i mean this is what the national enquirer looks like now, trump takes charge, success in just 36 days. president trump tell all. how i'm cleaning up obama's mess. sense the election mixed in with all of these fox and friends style stuff, they repeatedl

you know, personal to flynn, that would go to flynn's lawyer. so it's something about flynn's time at the white house and about him specifically. we don't know anything beyond that. what we know is the issues that came up with mike flynn when we was at the white house. one was an fbi interview days after trump was sworn in about flynn's call with the russian ambassador in the weeks before trump was inaugurated and we know about the questions about whether flynn was still, you know, taking money from the turkish government and doing work with him when he was national security adviser at the white house. flynn was gone within the first month of the administration, forced to resign. >> he only lasted that 27 days but within that time you had sally yates coming over in the justice department to warn others about flynn. in your reporting do you have any information that robert mueller's investigators may want to talk to all of the people that sally yates talked to and indeed talk to salary yates? >> i think that mueller is going to want to talk to ev

we have reached out the flynn's attorneys and they have decleaned to comment. we have reached out to the white house's outside counsel, ty cobb did respond, saying he would not get into specifics about his team's communication with the special counsel and their discussions. except to say they're fully complying with this investigation. the interesting part about this is that earlier in the spring, we heard from leaders within the house oversight committee who said that michael flynn may have broken the law by not revealing payments from foreign governments in his security disclosure forms, his security clearance forms. not only potentially from turkey but also from rttv, the russian news agency. so this gives you an idea of where the investigation is turning. it's not just focused on russia. it is looking very broadly into officials in the trump campaign even in the trump administration. as you remember, ana, michael flynn was fired for apparently having lied to the vice president. >> all right, boris sanchez and athena jones, thank you. this is not the first t

is sharing new details about his conversations with michael flynn which ultimately led to flynn's firing. sergey kislyak said he talked about terrorism not sanctions. >> translator: there are a few topics that are important to u.s./russia cooperation. first of all, it's terrorism. this was one of the topics we discussed. this conversation was proper, calm and absolutely transparent. there were no secrets. at least on our side. >> all right. kislyak added that he would refuse to testify before congress if he was asked. we're learning president trump who is on a working vacation will be meeting with his new chief of staff, general john kelly, during this time off. cnn's caitlin collins is live for us from bridgewater, new jersey, near trump's golf course where he is vacationing with his family. what more can you tell us about what might encompass the 17-day working vacation? >> yeah. it's day one here, fred, and we heard from a white house official this morning that said that while the president is here over the next two weeks essentially, he's going to be meeting with his new chief of sta

you have to think that flynn knows things. flynn is in the midst of the transition.gin his very short tenure at nsa. you have to think he's a key player in this, and it may be he's a key player because as the film said, because of his connections to turkey, it may be because those conversations that he didn't reveal. it may be because he was not forthcoming with the fbi when they questioned him. and perhaps michael flynn is sort of the hub in the middle of this and the spokes go out from there. >> asharks we also learned robert mueller is issuing grand jury subpoenas. what do you think is more consequential, the grand jury or the request of these documents from flynn from the white house? >> the grand jury subpoenas that were issued this week were coming out of a grand jury that was convened in washington. and the flynn subpoenas were for the white house were coming out of a grand jury that's in virginia. the new grand jury is an indication that this is expanding. this is probably still in the early stages. it would be normal at this point to collect more evidence. s

two weeks later mike flynn was gone, poof. is that what's going on here with the totally unprecedented threats to north korea? or is this part of a plan? where would we look for planning evidence, if it is a plan? how about the "national enquirer"? that's often a surprisingly blunt place. it is a bizarre thing, but if you're looking for something to strike your tuning fork, there is this supermarket tabloid that shows you more often than not the way that trump would like to be seen. this is what the "national enquirer" looks like now. trump takes charge. success in just 36 days. president trump tell-all, how i'm cleaning up obama's mess. since the election, mixed in with all this "fox & friends" style stuff, they repeatedly keep going back to trump declaring war on dictators. there's kim jong-un. on the cover of the "national enquirer." what did the trump talk about with vladimir putin that only the national enquinger is reporting on? apparently he talked about his plan to overthrow the dictator of north korea. the ones under

what you're essentially saying is if we were going to keep investigating flynn and only flynn aspects in this case, we would keep using the same grand jury. we don't want to reinvent the wheel. by switching and starting his own grand jury in washington, d.c., just a stone's throw from his own office, he's saying this is going to be a broader probe, it is very serious and i'm expected to keep doing this for a while. >> and you've talked about some of the people that we've brought in as evidence that this is a very serious probe that could be long term. one of them is greg greg andress, a top partner at big law firm. explain why he's important. >> if you're a top partner in in a major new york law firm and you're making good money, you're not going to leave your good solid job at a major law firm to join an investigation that's not going to last very long or very serious. you're going to leave it for something that will end somewhere or someplace that's going to be -- a big challenge that's going to take a long time and a lot of time. you wouldn't leave a big law firm willy-nilly as one

i'm told this all ties back to flynn. so i'm concerned there. but in in any case what i want s president to do is get out of the way and let the investigation run its full course and just discover anything that's there so we can move past this frankly. julie: this 7-day work vacation is a good time to do that. to let mueller do his job. kristen fisher was addressing the fact there had been some talk of mueller losing his job. that would probably be something the president would be advised would not be a good idea, to get rid of mueller. >> i don't think anybody would advise them to fire him because the political consequences of that would be bad. this is a very serious investigation. this is what serious investigators do. they impanel grand jury -- jurid request document. somebody has to restore faith in the justice department. this is too many times this has happened and this is a serious matter. julie: to be fair here, robin, after flynn requested and was denied immunity from prosecution, does that help president trump distance himself from th

the two figures that are key to this right now are manafort and flynn, as she mentioned. and i would mention as a former prosecutor and someone who's defended the wrongly accused, manafort and flynn are having a tremendous amount of pressure put on them. and we're seeing that especially mann manifest right now. to sit down, to give a proper interview or -- and to understand the scope of this campaign because as manafort was the campaign chairman for five or six months, i think rightfully the special counsel's going to determine he might know if there was coordination beteen the russian government and the trump campaign. >> can -- >> go ahead. >> just to pick up on what matthew said and the pressure that both flynn and manafort are feeling is it's unlikely that both of them will be offered the golden ticket. that in fact this is somewhat of a race to see who can praufer about financial dealings because one of them does not want to be left out in the cold. and that is why this investigation is so intense right now and you're getting these stories every 12 or 24 hours. >> th

we'll see where it goes on flynn. but if this is something independent from russia and has to do with mike flynn's finances it's an indication of what happens when a prosecutor has this kind of power, this kind of latitude and gets curious about something. there is no telling where it goes. >> robert it's great to have you at the table and welcome. >> thank you. >> you've been on the inside. i saw a column today saying august has been cruel to some presidents. but with the right team, couldn't they make the case this could be a reset and rejuvenation month for them? >> absolutely. i think that's why you saw the president in west virginia. hello. mansion is up for re-election. the governor switched from a democrat to republican. if this white house had a professional team around it. >> imagine that. >> it would be i think mind boggling in many ways, and here's why. one the president and his team could talk about the stock market and economy. the president and his team could talk about the swamp in a more professional w

we reached out to flynn's attorney. that i declined to comment on the story.so reached out to the white house counsel including ty cobb who gave us a statement essentially saying they didn't want to get into the specifics of the conversation except to say they're fully complying with this investigation. very important to point out, ana, back in the spring, if you recall, the house oversight committee leaders there indicated that michael flynn may have violated the law by not disclosing some of these foreign payments on his security clearance forms, not only from the turkish government but also potentially from rtt, the russian news network. this is one slice of an investigation that continues to broaden. and as you remember, ana, flynn was fired for apparently lying the vice president about conversations that he had had with a russian ambassador. so there's still so many questions to answer in this probe, again, one that continues to broaden seemingly every week, ana. >> boris sanchez. we now know there are 16 attorneys part of robert moouler's team investigat

so we'll see where this goes on flynn. and there's no telling where it goes. >> robert, great to have you at our table. welcome. >> thank you. >> you've been on the inside. i saw a column that said august has been cruel to some. couldn't they make a case that this could be a reset and rejuvenation month for them? >> absolutely. i think that's the reason why you saw the president in west virginia. hello? manchin is up for re-election. the governor switched from a republic democrat to republican. if this white house had a professional team around them -- >> imagine that. >> it would be, i think, mind b bob geling. the reason why i'm here is to change things and to let me figure out with your help how i can do this. the point simply is that this is a white house that is in disarray. it's run by nonprofessionals and i think to your point, steve, this is what drives the white house crazy, is when they see perhaps the special prosecutor going in a different direction because if i was advising the white house, i would say, mr. pr

. >> obama did advise not to hire michael flynn, based according to reports on knowledge of michael flynnsome of the things he was engaged in. there has been a series of mistakes. this could have been avoided but it is getting worse. >> good to talk to you today. >> crews searching for three us marines who went missing after what is called a mishap off the coast, the east coast of australia. and osprey similar to this one crashed into the sea earlier today while trying to land. 23 of the marines on board have been rescued. live from the washington bureau, the very latest. >> reporter: it is nighttime in australia, crash happened at 4:00 lee -- local time. at events official says the osprey crashed as it tried to land on a u.s. navy warship. it is part helicopter part plane, used to transport marines into battle, 26 servicemembers were on board at the time of the crash, 23 marines are safe, three are missing. a few weeks ago 15 marines and one sailor died after their cargo plane crashed in mississippi. noncombat aviation crashes are up a significant amount this year compared to last. by th

in this case, they're focusing on michael flynn. they were looking at don jr.he idea is that while president trump really wants to see a narrowly focused investigation, he can't control it. and as a result, they can subpoena the white house for all types of documents, including his own financial records, if that's the case. if they want that. >> so caitlin, the calculation for republican senator thom tillis, in his attempt to protect mueller and future special counsels, what's behind that? >> well, you've seen long concern from republicans on capitol hill about the idea of the president firing robert mueller and everything we saw with the jeff sessions and his wanting to at least, tli his expression, shut this investigation down. so republicans, it's really interesting. you're starting to see them start to not only raise concerns, but look at ways to protect mueller, which is really interesting here. over the past week, we have seen republicans on capitol hill really in defiance of this president. remember, passing those russia sanctions in both the house and t

flynn is in a lot of trouble and i hope he has very good lawyers. if he's trying to get information that was secret or even colorable secret from russia almost said the soviet union wonder why i thought of that, there's something seriously wrong. he is a very aggressive guy. obviously mr. trump had a fondness for him and he's gotten mr. trump into nothing but trouble. i'd just like to see him get really good lawyers and i think good lawyers are going to be able to beat everything going on with him but he's a guy who signed on, tried to do the best he could. he just made a number of mistakes. >> liz: ben i'm so sorry we had to get to the breaking news i'd like to finish your thought. go ahead. >> my thought basically is that the economy is doing very very well. i'm sorry that there's all this brew-haha about gary cohen, and about him possibly leaving the president's staff. i don't think he understood that mr. trump is the most anti- racist non-hating person there's ever been in the white house. this is a man who does not have a racist bone in his bod

and this latest thing with flynn is interesting, just because, i mean, we know flynn has contacts --idn't disclose that were cozy with russians, and partly what got him -- >> right, and our reporting here, they said, yeah, we did contract there six days out but didn't raise any money. that close to an election it shows what was going on there. >> the company, cambridge analytica which is owned by this near billionaire mostly in america, robert mercer, who you mentioned, and steve bannon had a big piece of it, too, it tries to get military contracts here. and it has been very aggressive in pursuing them. so you can imagine that if they thought the trump campaign was going to lose, that flynn may have been making a play to try to sort of go work with cambridge analytica and it will try to get military contracts. it may just be that. it's hard to know yet. >> right. and take a look here at what jane was talking about, some of these strategies they used. here they talk about targeting neurotic voters. target different personality types with tailored messages, highly neurotic viewers were

what should flynn be most concerned about in terms of the legal trouble here? >> well, he's got a lot of issues that are percolating on the radar of his lawyers. i think we have to make sure that we say at the outset that anything that flynn is accused of or is alleged to have done, the prosecutors have to prove he did so knowingly and willfully and not by accident. so for example, he didn't register as a foreign agent and people say that that's a crime. maybe it is if he did so knowingly and willfully. that he didn't disclose payments on a security form. again that could be a crime if he did so knowingly and willfully and not by accident. with respect to the grand jury and the subpoenas, they're looking at the money trail that led to his being retained by turkey through cutouts. principally to damage the reputation of a cleric who lives in pennsylvania and to do other related things. so there's a money flow here that implicates possibly the money laundering statutes, possibly the foreign corrupt policy act because there was some sort of a kick back to the turk

>> deputy justin flynn encountered a peculiar situation.n inmate is lying beneath his bunk and is nonresponsive. >> no skylarking. let's go. >> for security reasons, flynn returns all other inmates to their cells before he investigates further. >> this guy was not acting right. that he was underneath his bunk. obviously, when you go in there, it looks like it's probably something mental. everything checks out otherwise. >> no one's going to hurt you. >> you get medical up here. mental health. get enough deputies in case he becomes combative. >> no one's going to hurt you, buddy. all right? >> we got him out of there and medical checked him out and he's good to go now. >> got it under control now, justin? >> yeah. >> barnes, come on out. barnes. everything is status quo. copacetic now. >> and on that note, deputy flynn is off to pursue a dream. he's headed to the pacific northwest on a three-week quest to find bigfoot. >> what about your brother? >> yeah. actually, just talked to him two, three -- two days ago. >> how's he doing? >> he just

russia. >> flynn is exposed to possible felony and fraud charges.he didn't disclose it, it's a felony. if he used a middleman to hide the payments it's a fraud and muller and his team think something of that nature occurred otherwise he wouldn't be inquiring about it. it's another example how at every turn, every stone that gets turned in this investigation can lead to something else particularly financial relationships that will be problematic for everyone in this thing. >> lieutenant general flynn is a patriot and he has served this country with distinction, and it looks as though he's gotten his political ambitions and the desire to get involved in this jir has really -- he's had a lapse in judgment here and it will get him in serious trouble, i was at the convention in the arena singing to the general lead a chant of "lock her up" which i thought was so inappropriate. i thought, no, what are you doing in this will sully your reputation as an american hero here. >> and a lot of the people he served with, frankly, in the past during that time were

is also being sued by a second adopts son who says flynn and his first wife abused him.n both lawsuits, flynn and his two wives filed court papers denying all the claims against them in the lawsuits. dan noise, abc7 news for the iteam. >>> president trump says he may grant a pardon to former arizona sheriff joe arpaio. that was welcome news for the former phoenix area sheriff who lost a re-election bid in november and convicted of misdemeanor contempt of court in july. a federal judge ruled his officers racially profiled latinos but the sheriff refused to stop his immigration patrols leading to the criminal contempt of court case. he said today he learned of the president's comments in the morning and was glad he stood by him. >>> now to the crackdown under way in mexico. authorities raiding dozens of popular tourist spots including hotels, night clubs and restaurants seizing 10,000 gallons of illegal alcohol. the sweep follows the death of a young woman from wisconsin. her family believes tainted alcohol at a mexican resort could have been to blame for her death. here's

on this question of flynn's relationship with turkey.ut if they're -- absent that hard evidence, this is very difficult to prove. but, again, a lot will come down to what can be demonstrated with respect to the knowledge and those around him when they made the decision to appoint flynn as national security adviser. and is this going to go on for a long time. and this is going to be the thing to distract those around the president who taking this very important. >> so, that's what's happening now with regards to mr. mueller's investigation. but we're also getting some insight into what happened back then through the cnn exclusive reporting, back then on election night. we've seen the images of celebration in russia on election night when mr. trump, you know, was elegislatcted pre. also with the celebration of his supporters in the united states. but what was seen behind doors with agents, leslie, agents were monitoring online present there ends of what was described as disinformation campaign. russians seem to be behind it in some form or

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and new details involving russia, michael flynn and the investigation.urse, north korea fired off three new missiles overnight. we'll talk about all of that. stay close. straight talk wireless lets you keep your phone, number... ...and 4g lte network... ...for a lot less, with the bring your own phone activation kit. find out more at straighttalk.com. >>> we'll continue our coverage of hurricane harvey throughout the morning. but let's now talk about all that came out of the white house overnight. the pardon of sheriff joe arpaio, the resignation or firing, depending upon which white house official you ask of the adviser sebastian gorka. the president's transgender theme, that the transgenders are not allowed to serve in the united states military. and reporting from "the wall street journal" reporting that special counsel robert mueller is examining the possible role former security adviser michael flynn played in looking for hillary clinton's hackers. and joining us now, your reaction from what wall street is saying about all of this, particularly from

flynn failed to register as a foreign agent. we know that he did. the question is, did he intend to do that, trying to mislead the government. did he make a false statement, a material false statement with the intent to mislead? and that's the focus, i thinks, of the special counsel's investigation as it relates to mr. flynn. i'd like to go back to that fake news issue whether or not it had an impact on the election. to me, it's not the importance of whether there was impact but any cord dags with the trump campaign. it's hard to believe that the russians knew where to target this fake news without some advice. and if the trump campaign gave any advice to the russians how to do this, then you have the possibility of illegal collusion with the russian government. so, i don't know whether this information will make its way into the special counsel's office. but that is a possibility that if that news was out there, whether it had an impact or not, it still could lead to illegal conduct in a criminal investigation. >> i only have a couple -- >> christi

did they try to pass e-mails to mike flynn. russian hackers discussing how to obtain e-mails from mrs. clinton e-mail servers and transmit them to mr. flynn via an intermediary. a lot to report on. we're going to get right to it. your reporting suggests robert mueller is heading past that line. what can you tell us about your exclusi exclusive? >> absolutely right. my colleague carol lee tributed to this reporting. it's a team effort. he's issuing grand jury subpoena for testimony. we have known he's been subpoenaing documents from various places. now he's trying to compel people to give system. what's at issue here is a lobbying campaign involving paul ma manafort's work for a pro-russian politician. he said he got $17 million from this pro-russian ukraine party. various firms were paid to do some work on behalf of this party and these politicians and trying to have meetings with variety loose papers and politicians in washington. that's what's at issue here. robert mueller is very interested in what happened because initially

flynn is now exposed to possible felony and fraud charges.f he doesn't disclose it, it's a felony. if he used a middle man to hide the payments, it's a fraud. and mueller and his team clearly think something of that nature occurred otherwise they wouldn't be inquiring about it. and i think it's yet another example of how every turn -- at every turn, every stone that gets overturned in this investigation can lead to something else, particularly financial relationships that are going to be problematic for everybody circled around this thing. >> what's unfortunate about this is lieutenant general flynn is a patriot and he has served this country with distinction, and it looks as though he's got his political ambitions and the desire to get involved in this area has really -- he's had a laps in judgment here and it's going to get him in some serious trouble. last summer i was at the convention sitting in that arena listening to a lieutenant general lead a chanlt of lock her up. and i thought to myself what are you doing? this is going to sully yo

one of the russian officials flynn met with, the former ambassador serge kislyak, defended flynn saturday, saying his talks were transparent, focused on u.s.-russia relations and that the two never discussed punitive u.s. sangions. while the president is away, construction workers have started a $3.5 million renovation at the west wing. the walls now bear, the desk remove sd so the floor can be refinished. the building's heating and air conditioning system is also being replaced. white house officials said it made sense for the president to decamp. over the years, president trump denigrated barack obama. >> he plays more golf than people on the pga tour. >> reporter: he's made 12 trips to his resorts, including 7 to florida and five here in new jersey. >>> three u.s. marines are missing after their aircraft crashed into the sea off of the coast of australia. 23 people on board were rescued. the osprey, similar to this one, went into the water during training with australian forces. military ships and aircraft conducted a search today. no word on the cause. >>> people gathered today to rem

>> reporter: ralph flynn is also being sued by a second adopted son who said flynn and his first wife sexually abused him. they have denied all the claims against them. on the criminal side, ralph and carolyn flynn have their sentencing in november. >> thank you, dan. >>> we are learning new details tonight about a lake county man in custody accused of firing shots towards caltrans workers. a hi 43-year-old joshua green also threatened to blow planes out to have sky. >> during the incident, we had several aircraft above. one of the communications we had is by way of a family member. he said if the aircraft didn't get out of the air, he would shoot them down. >> green did not do that or hit any officers when he walked out of his home with a gun this morning. a neighbor's recent construction project blocked boun's eed bro to highway 29. today, his access was restricted. the sheriff says no one was injured when they took brown into custody. >>> police say a driver crashed into a pizzaria in france today, however, they do not consider it an act of terror. a girl between the ages of 8 and

clearing general flynn's name but. general blum has come to loot do you think those comments them from mr will actually carry a lot of weight in the current u.s. investigation. the problem is that in washington there's a very very strong and to a russian caucus and from the democrat side sometimes among the republicans and the liberal press and they will literally not accept anything which is positive about russia have a russian say something they don't believe it and they were. president trump say something about positive about russia the say that's treasonous he shouldn't be saying that russia is in fact already and we should be concentrating on that so unfortunately in washington now. you have on the one side president trump who would like and his people they would like to improve relations with russia. get things going and so on but congress as you know just passed legislation which increases i think sions not only does the do the increase sanctions but russia iran and north korea being put together has pariah stat

one of the russian officials flynn met with, the former ambassador, defended flynn on a russian tv panel saturday saying his talks with flynn were transparent, focused on u.s.-russia relations and the two never discussed definitive u.s. sanctions. while the president is away, construction workers started a $3.5 million renovation in the west wing, the oval office among the rooms refurbished. walls are now bear, and the historic derveg removed so the floor can be refinished. the floor's heating and air-conditioning system is being replaced. white house officials say is made sense for the president to decamp for what's being called the working vacation. over the years, trump denigrated his predecessor, president obama, for taking too much time off. >> plays more golf than people on the pga tour. >> reporter: this is the first full vacation, but made 12 trips to his own resorts including five this this golf course in new jersey. david wright, abc news. >> the congressman is spending part of the washington recess with constituents in town hall meetings. abc 7 news was at mark green sports ce

and nbc news has not confirmed the "new york times" story but it's been obvious for some time mike flynn is in the cross-hairs of the special counsel and one of the issues is the lobbying he did on bhaehalff the turkish government which he didn't disclose at the time of the campaign was on behalf of the turkish government and later amended his forms to disclose he got paid $530,000 to do that and people may be wondering what does that have to do with the question whether donald trump and his campaign included with russia. mike flynn appears to be in legal jeopardy and the question is does the special counsel have the ability to charge him with crimes and then have leverage over him to testify about what he may or may not know regarding the trump campaign's collusion with russia. because after all he had some meetings with the russian ambassador sergei kislyak. he didn't tell the truth about them according to the former acting attorney general so that's where the mike flynn angle plays into this whole russia investigation. >> be nbc news confirmed mueller has gone to a couple different gr

>> reporter: ralph flynn is also being sued by a second adopted son who said flynn and his first wife sexually abused him. they have denied all the claims against them. on the criminal side, ralph and carolyn flynn have their sentencing in november. >> thank you, dan. >>> we are learning new details tonight about a lake county man in custody accused of firing shots towards caltrans workers. a hi 43-year-old joshua green also threatened to blow planes out to have sky. >> during the incident, we had several aircraft above. one of the communications we had is by way of a family member. he said if the aircraft didn't get out of the air, he would shoot them down. >> green did not do that or hit any officers when he walked out of his home with a gun this morning. a neighbor's recent construction project blocked boun's eed bro to highway 29. today, his access was restricted. the sheriff says no one was injured when they took brown into custody. >>> police say a driver crashed into a pizzaria in france today, however, they do not consider it an act of terror. a girl between the ages of 8 and

turkish government paid flynn for lobbying work.lso under investigation for dealings with russians on behalf of the trump campaign. one that he met with defended flynn on a russian t.v. panel saying the talks with flynn were transparent focused on u.s. russian relationships and never discussioned sanctions. >> construction workers started a $3.5 million renovation at the oval office. the walls now bare, the desk removed so the floor can be refinished. the building's nearly 30-year-old heating and air conditioning system also replaced. it made sense for the president to decamp in a working vacation. over the years trump deny graded his predecessor for taking too much time off. this is trump's first vacation but he's made 12 trips to his golf course. >>> apparently this is a good week for world leaders because others have been spotted enjoying leisure time. this video of vladimir putin speer fishing. he made the trip a few days ago. the footage was broadcast by russian state television quoting on the fisca physical fitness oe presiden

one of the russian officials flynn met with defendant flynn on a russian tv panel saturday, saying his talks were transparent, focused on u.s.-russia relations and they never discussed punitive u.s. actions. 's away,e president construction workers have started a $3.5 million renovation of the west wing. the oval office among the rooms being refurbished, the walls now decorationsstoric removed so the floor can be refinished. the heating and air-conditioning system is also been replaced. white house officials said it made sense for the president to have a working vacation. over the years trump criticized barack obama for taking too much time off. this is trump's made 12 troops to his own resorts, including seven to mar-a-lago andfive to his golf course in new jersey. kimberly: stephen miller is reportedly under consideration to become the new white house communication's director. currently a senior policy advisor, he clashed with reporters over immigration policy. miller would become the administration's third or,munications direct replacing anthony scaramucci. big ways to save on back-