. >>> the flynn memo came out. michael flynn sentencing memo has been released. >> michael flynn, donald trump's national security adviser for just 24 days -- >> we learned he was an all-star cooperator and working with robert mueller for a year. i don't believe the trump team knows what he's provided. >> it's what's underneath that black magic marker that has my attention. >> he has information about president trump. he has information about the former campaign manager, paul manafort, maybe about jared kushner and donald trump jr. >> i thought to myself this is the best intel officer i ever met. >> did the longtime military man implicate his commander in chief and did the president try to cover up? >> was trump asking comey to move past the flynn investigation because he was being loyal to flynn or is it because there's something that flynn knows? >> from battlefield to political minefield, the complicated journey of michael flynn. >> he goes from the pinnacle of helping defeat you are enemy. now mired in this pol

and it is about michael flynn. michael flynn was the first official fired at the brand-new trump white house. didn't even make it a month. michael flynn then became the first guilty plea and the first cooperating witness in the russia investigation. michael flynn then, surprise, just a few weeks ago, became the first mueller defendant to have his sentencing hearing completely blow up in court when, among other things, the judge that was supposed to be sentencing him, diverted into questioning prosecutors as to whether they had ever considered charging mike flynn with treason. mike flynn to this day is now cooperating with prosecutors. sentencing got put off. he is awaiting a new sentencing date in federal court in washington, d.c. but what we learned today from this "new york times" reporting is actually a quite unexpected answer to what has been a persistent mystery about mike flynn since his story initially blew up less than one week into the trump administration. we have finally got an answer to what happened th

flynn to resign. excuse me, it was unclear where speaker ryan got that information but president trump seized on mr. ryan's words, that sounds better the president said according to people with knowledge. many trump turned to the white house secretary to break the news media, say that mr. trump ordered. but was that true mr. spicer pressed? say that i asked for his resignation, mr. trump repeated. and after that, sean spicer in fact walked out to brief reporters on mike flynn's leaving the white house the previous night resigning the previous night. he told reporters the president asked for flynn's resignation. apparently that was not true the president did not ask for flynn to resign. oh, spicer also told reporters that the white house exhaustively investigated flynn after they receive that warning from the justice department according to white house lawyers concerned about mr. spicer's comments at the time, that was not true. they had not exhaustively investigated flynn after that warning. spicer al

flynn had a sentencing date. the prosecution and the defense had both filed submissions with the court giving judge advice on what mike flynn's sentence should be. the appointed sentencing date arrived. mike flynn put on a suit, got in an suv, turned up in court. all the lawyers were there on both sides. it was time for us all to figure out in open court that day how much time mike flynn was going to serve in prison if he was going to get any prison time at all. but when it came time for mike flynn to be sentenced that day, in the end, he was not sentenced. it was sort of a shocking day in court. you might remember. flynn of course had plead guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with the russian government while he was serving in the trump transition. when he plead guilty, he became a cooperator, became a cooperating witness. the special counsel's office thereafter told the court repeatedly and officially that flynn was a good cooperator, that he had cooperated extensively with them and helped them

flynn's conduct.h us tonight to talk about it, shannon pettypiece, white house correspondent for bloomberg, and eric siege, reporter at the "washington post." shannon, knowing the truth now, it does make you question, as you've had reason to, some of what we've heard from that podium. >> well, i actually remember the night that flynn was fired. i was actually working that night at the white house. i was standing outside sean spicer's office with a group of other reporters for hours trying to get an answer on what was going on. because that evening we all saw flynn go into the oval office, and we saw flynn come out of the oval office, and we were trying to figure out if that was it, if that was the moment he was fired. when i think back to that moment, i just think a massive amount of confusion going on in the white house in trying to get this simple answer had the national security adviser just been fired. no one seems to know, and i remember people coming in and out of sean's office that night, other

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flynn's conduct."g to the intrigue, spicer prepped for his briefing that day, according to the "times" in part by visiting with the president and other senior staff in the oval office. notably, the false account given by spicer and noted as false by the white house counsel's office that day, has never been corrected. one of the reporters wrote that story still with us as well as our group of reporters and friends. joining the conversation, tim o'brien, "bloomberg" opinion executive editor. mike schmidt, take us through the spicer reporting. how -- how did the counsel's office sort of co-exist or learn to live with the inaccurate account given by spicer that day and how did that inaccurate account from the podium come to be? >> so the important thing to understand here is that it's february 14th of 2017, and the white house for the first time is confronting russia in a very public way. they're having to explain why mike flynn has been -- has resigned and has -- and why it took the white house so long to

he found out that he was lied to by flynn.uestion is, how long did he know that he was being lied to? >> getting back to that denial from the president that we just heard today. you point out correctly, the president has often denied a lot of stuff that turns out to be fake denials. this is a case where a lot of people are suspecting the same thing. >> yeah. i think this is a problem of the president's own making. he has this credibility problem because he so frequently said things in front of the american people that have proven to be lies. a good example of this are the hush money payments to women that started as the president had nothing to do with it, knew nothing about it. it was all michael cohen. then michael cohen says in court that he was doing those at donald trump's direction. i think he does have this big credibility gap, especially when it comes to talking about anything that has to do with this investigation. the michael flynn thing is another great example in "the new york times." they thought by getting rid of

they've denied they ever hired general flynn. general flynn talked to them about a job. thought it significant enough he diz closed himself as an advisor. the firm says we never paid them. >> the thing that always stuck out to me, it's inauguration day. you're about to become the national security advisor to the united states. and there's a guy bopping around saying he's got a text from flynn saying the nuclear deal's going to go through? >> chairman, elijah cummings did distribute that report from a whistleblower that general flynn was boasting about the opportunities to make money with the inauguration and selling nuclear power plants to the saudis. i wanted to add the person identified denied it at the time. i think the important thing to remember about this sr not just the historic parts of this report with arguments in the white house, conflict of rules procedures not being follow oed. we're looking at big question. should we sell nuclear power plants to saudi arabia? >> and that's an issue in the white house. thanks for being with me. coming up, bernie sanders is b

the report describes how flynn and derek harvey who flynn had hired to oversee middle east affairs onl security counsel worked closely on the plan with a group of retired u.s. generals anded a michelle's who had formed a private company to promote him. the report says the white house officials and private sector allies worked to place a phone call with saudi arabia's king salman, despite warnings from white house staff and an order from the top lawyer to stand down. now the house oversight chairman elijah cummings, has sent a letter to chief of staff dick mulvaney to provide all the documents it has regarding building power plants in the middle east by march 5th. >>> vice president joe biden criticized mike pence's presence on the world stage. >> the vice president of the united states spoke there and i know him, and i like him, but he spoke on behalf of the president and lectured, lectured nato about their obligations and how they had to break all ties with iran and how they had to do in dictating to them. when he said, i'm here on behalf of the president of the united states of amer

. >> i knew mike flynn was trouble from the first day i met him. jared kushner was exacting a plot of revenge against me. >> but could christie really have changed the course of history if he had stayed on? what does chris christie say now? >> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible by... corporate funding is provided by... >> governor christie, welcome to "firing line." >> happy to be here, margaret. >> thank you for being here. you have been a federal prosecutor, a governor, a republican presidential candidate, and distinguished yourself by being the first really prominent elected official to endorse donald trump and his campaign. >> yep. >> and, also, were the first prominent republican to be dismissed from his campaign as soon as he was elected. >> [ chuckles ] yes, i was. >> is there ever a moment where you regret throwing in early for president trump? >> no. >> because, remember, nobody thought he was gonna win. >> no, i thought he was gonna win, and that was -- >> no, not then. >> i did. >> no. >> i did. i thought he was gonna wi

erg that we know about flynn is that there was so much else. he was an agent for turkey while in office. all of these other things that were criminal statutes. >> while the president's instincts is always to try to stifle any questions about him that he went to really direct, forceful, and extreme lengths early on. it was almost uncharacteristic of donald trump in a sense that he was so insistent about the phil flynn point that what else might there be there. this wasn't awfully far awfully early. >> it looks weirder when you look back at it. there is about assumption that donald trump and brad pascale are not out of the woods because they have not been interviewed you are probably a target. should -- is that how we should be reading thist don junior situation. >> i don't know the full story on whether or not he has been interviewed or why he has not, but i find it hard to believe that since what we know about donald trump junior goes to the heart of what mooul sere investigating, i find it hard to believe that mueller would issue a report and

i said please tell me it's not mike flynn? he said stop. you just don't like mike flynn. i said you're right, i don't like you. you want to know why? he said yes. i said he can get you in trouble. it was the next day that i was fired. >> host: then you recount in the book a passing conversation at the white house after michael flynn is fired. >> guest: yes. valentine's day 2017, my wife and i went for lunch with the president. jared joined for lunch with the three of us. mike flynn had been fired the day before. the president said now that we fired flynn when i can hear anymore about this russian stuff because he was the a guy who interacted with russia. i just started to laugh. i said mr. president, , there is no way. i said, i had run these investigations. i said i've been a subject of these investigations. the fact is that you are going to be going through this. will be talking about this at least through valentine's day of next year if not further. and he said no. jarrard told me, you're crazy. i said no, i'm not crazy. i've done this before, many, many times. i've ru

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my lovely colleague paul flynn mp has died.ncipled, fascinating man who was devoted to his constituents & constituency." labour leaderjeremy corbyn has also said this message... now on bbc news, the film review. hello there, welcome to the film review here on bbc news. taking us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. mark, what delights do you have? a mixed bag. we have the kid who would be king, which is an arthurian update. we have a private war, a drama about a real—life story. and jellyfish, a low—budget, but ambitious picture. so the kid who would be king, a kind of retelling of the legend of king arthur? yes, this is byjoe cornish, who made attack the block a while ago. louis ashbourne serkis plays this bullied kid named alex, and he and his other equally bullied friend stumble upon a sword in a stone, and they pull it out and they take it back home and they realise that what they have stumbled on is the sword in the stone, the great arthurian story, and now rises a curse with morgana coming to threaten them

the white house had said flynn submitted his resignation, it was voluntary. the president didn't want spicer to say that. the reporting is, "say that, mr. trump ordered. was that true, mr. spicer pressed?" trump told, asked for the resignation. "say i asked for his resignation, mr. trump repeated." didn't care what the truth was or sean spicer was in the job of telling the truth to the press. >> right. absolutely. that was a major part of this story. the president basically ordered a false story. a false tale to be told to the press. it's very similar to what happened on the tower meeting when they were in the airplane and he dictated his statement about what happened. and very likely what happened in the last few hours. with "the new york times" story that has broken. this is a pattern we've seen. it's very, very distressing to see it because it shows, underlines the fact that you can't really believe anything. on face value. there's always another story behind the story. >> it also shows, erin, just -- it also shows that so many of the things the president

flynn. one of mr. trump's advisors mentioned in passing paul ryan, then speaker of the house, had told reporters. that mr. trump had asked mr. flynn to resign. it was unclear where mr. ryan had gotten that information, but mr. trump seized on mr. ryan's words. that sounds better. mr. trump turned to sean spicer, say that, mr. trump ordered. but was that true, spicer pressed. say i asked for his resignation mr. trump repeat. betsy you've covered this administration for some time now. does that surprise you at all? >> it's not particularly surprising that trump would hear somebody say something on tv and then seize on it. what i think is pretty extraordinary about what the times has reported is that spicer then went to the podium in the white house press room and made a number of claims that the white house's own lawyers believed were not true. and that those lawyers memorialized the failure of spicer to correctly and truthfully describe the way flynn's firing played out. remember, flynn's departure from

flynn calling his assistant, t.k.oland in miami, at mar-a-lago, and they all come up with this crazy story that ultimately results in flynn lying to the fbi about this lifting of sanctions. >> right. natasha, the huge thing to me also is the centrality of kilimnik. and the idea that the kilimnik/manafort relationship, there's so many different players to keep track of. this transcript makes me think that this is at the heart of the collusion investigation, if, in fact, that is what they find. >> it certainly could be and, of course, kilimnik is associated with russian military intelligence, the same russian military intelligence unit that hacked the dnc in 2016. and of course, it might not just be because he went to a school in, you know, the '70s or '80s that produced gru agents. it might just be, we don't know, that he has ongoing ties to russian military intelligence. that certainly seems to be what mueller's team thinks. and we haven't seen all of that information. but i think mueller's team is also particularly s

finally after flynn was fired, h.r. mcmaster said we have to stop work on this, we're done, but now -- because h.r. mcmaster is gone, as you know, it's back on the table. that's what the house is concerned about. the trump administration is continuing to pursue this plan. we know there's close tie twos the trump administration and the saudi arabia. >> the first one to look at is whether or not this transfer of technology or the building of these nuclear plants in the middle east makes sense from a policy and national security perspective. the second one is whether there were folks who were involved in encouraging this, because they might have had a business interest in it, or as some might say cloolloquially on the take. >> another fact on that. tom barrack, he was commissioned as a special envoy to sort of sell this plan. he has extensive business ties, the backers of the the project had a draft order for the president to sign naming ba barracks as the special enjoy. the issue is the 15udis had never agreed to follow t

i asked him -- we talked about flynn. i have a flynn obsession.emed like to me, he seems like the criminal that's most confounding. he had the authority to talk to the russians about policy. he could have as a new national security adviser just change u.s./russia sanctions. that was in his purview. instead he lied about it when asked about it. that made him according to sally yates and others a poem blackmail threat. that was among the reasons and that and lying to the vice president about those contexts. we know from the sdny sentencing documents in the cohen case that some of cohen's testimony has been corroborated. it is found to be credible by federal prosecutors, and one of the things he's testified to is that the conversations about trump tower moscow went on a lot longer than donald trump told the american public than was represented. why wouldn't donald trump represent the same sort of threat as somebody who could potentially be blackmailed, with the russians knowing more than we did? >> that's a great question. the basic theory is, of cou

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if we get rid of flynn, the russia problem goes away. here we are two years later. >> it's fascinating reporting in "the new york times." thank you. >> now, andrew mccabe, who ran the fbi after the president fired james comey. it was a highly kaungs conventional act. it happened at the time seemed to be a deeply troubling moment in history. this is how it looked to an insider. the man, acting director mccabe was no outsider, although his firing made him one now. his new book is titled "the threat, how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump." andrew mccabe joins us now. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> let me ask first of all about the reporting you just heard. would it surprise you that the president of the united states would try to personally intervene through whitaker to reinstate a political -- somebody he viewed as a political ally to run the cohen investigation? >> let me say it's a remarkable piece of reporting that i had the opportunity to review just today as everybody else has. i would have

and mike flynn lied to the fbi about giving it to them.mike flynn got on the phone while president obama was still president, putting in place sanctions to punish russia for their actions during 2016. mike flynn got on the phone and affected their response to the sanctions. what other loops are closed? what other loop makes more sense in your analysis you gave us, jeremy? >> just imagine the mindset of the fbi squad that was looking at whether or not would uphold his end of the bargain. the only question would trump do what was asked to be done? literally days after the election day, days, hours, they in fact saw, they heard, it was revealed to them mike flynn was doing precisely what it was that they expected. then, of course, at the very end of december, i think december 29th when president obama sanctioned the russian fredration and said we're going to kick out all of these intelligence officers and the entire jelgs community expected the russians to react ferociously as they would normally but in fact mike flynn was saying to them, don

michael flynn pleaded guilty inned the investigation. back to john roberts again. michael flynn, saudis, nuclear. >> this is something that elijah cummings had been investigating for a number of months when he was a ranking member. now with democrats control of congress, he's launching a full blown investigation to what was going on. according to a report that i read, according to whistle-blowers a staff report from the committee, multiple whistle-blowers have come forward to express concern that the former national security adviser michael flynn was helping to spear head this plan to send nuclear power technology to saudi arabia. flynn was an adviser to a company called ip3 that was developing a proposal to build nuclear power plants in saudi arabia. the whistle-blowers also say that flynn failed to disclose on his security clearance renewal application a trip that he took to saudi arabia in june of 2015 on behalf of ip3 which we point out has several retired generals on its board. one senior political official stated the proposal was not a business plan but rathe

flynn and that they concluded there were no legal issues surrounding mr. flynn's conduct.ou know some of the innerworkings with the kwhies. the scene that this is my story. what did you make of that? >> any careful press operative wouldn't want to be on the record putting themselves in personal legal jeopardy. sean spicer had a flagrant disregard for the truth during his tenure as press secretary but during this instance he was taking pains, which is clearly a huge problem for the white house and mr. spicer. >> i think we still have michael schmidt on the phone with us. in terms of this piece with it. the fact high went so much further, per your reporting, what is it that prompted that? >> with well, you have to sort of look at it through the frame of what was going on. this was february 14th. mike flynn had just been fired. this is the first time the administration was confronting the russia investigation publicly. they were concerned that spicer would go out and not give an accurate portrait and questions about why did it take the white house so long to deal with the fly

you will recall flynn resigned after reports surfaced because of his conflicts with kiss llya. mr. trump reportedly liked the version of the story better so he ordered sean spicer to use that version in his briefings. >> and the report also says that he asked cory lewandowski to pressure jeff sessions into resignin resigning. aides dodged the orders to secure his resignation. >>> and mccabe because asked if he still believes president trump could be a russian asset. >> i think it is possible. i think that is why we started our investigation. and i'm really anxious to see where director mueller concludes that. >> that comment by mccabe coming just days after he revealed the president's own words and actions led to the counter intelligence and obstruction investigations that were opened. mccabe also telling cnn he briefed top congressional leaders about president trump being under investigation. he says no one in that group of congressional leaders objected. >>> roger stone has been ordered to appear at a court hearing tomorrow after an instragram post that seemed to threaten the jud

continued to push it and said he was talking to flynn after flynn left office. finally, h.r. mcmaster put a stop to it and said, we're not going to work on it anymore. h.r. mcmaster is gone and this plan is back on the table and they fear this is back on the table. >> to give nuclear technology to a regime that takes a bone saw to a "washington post" columnist because he, the leader, doesn't like the words written by the "washington post" columnist, dismembers him, tortures and dismembers him and after carving up the body, buries it all over turkey. speaking of turkey, flynn also writes an op-ed the day of the election day. the day of the election, doing the bidding offer erdogan, somey trying to kidnap somebody residing in america. flynn may have been a part of that, too. >> not only is this idea about middle east marshal plans still on the table, jared is going on a tour to discuss the economics with others including saudi arabia. and tom barrack. >> my god. >> he has had long time ties with the middle east through business. he spoke in rhyme time at the repub

michael flynn. >>> and a new hearing for another trump ally, roger stone. the judge just this morning has some big questions about something he posted on instagram. >>> plus, no objections. frequent trump target and former acting head of the fbi andrew mccabe just made a bold new claim to our savannah guthrie. the stunning reaction from republican leaders in congress when he told them about the counterintelligence investigation into the president. >>> and 2020 shakeup. bernie sanders is in. joining the growing democratic 2020 field. but will he be able to pull the same support this time that he had in 2016? >>> an awful lot to get to, but we start with the breaking news. a new investigation into one of president trump's first supporters on the campaign trail and first advisors in the white house, michael flynn. the house oversight committee will investigate his role in a plan to transfer nuclear technology to saudi arabia. something that may have broken laws. but investigators fear trump may still be considering it. flynn has already pleaded guilty to lying

this is then white house sean spicer talking about the firing of michael flynn. this is is february 2017. >> the president was informed of this. he asked the white house counsel to review the situation. the first matter was whether there was a legal issue. we had to review whether there was a legal issue which they concluded there was not. >> what's the cig nsignificance this press conference? >> that's few things going on here. we wrote about this in the story, that as spicer was about to be prepped for that briefing there were a bunch of officials in the oval office. he had just joined throughout the house speaker had praised a president for demanding flynn's resignation. the president said say i asked for his resignation. spicer went out and had been briefed about areas to be careful about. they took issue with misstatements they said spicer had made. it was into the circumstances surrounding flynn. the record was never corrected. the white house press was never -- you have spicer there saying something that is, you know, is in question as to a, whether the pr

we don't know what mike flynn has told robert mueller.em worked in a sense, the career people came forward, blew the whistle. h.r. mcmaster when he was national security adviser put a stop to this. house investigators think this is still on the table at the trump administration. just last week the president was talking to the saudis about nuclear technology and they're concerned that this is still an active proposal. >> there's nothing fundamentally wrong with saudi arabia having a civil nuclear program for energy. and that's been in the works for some time. they want 30 or so reactors by such and such a year. but here's the problem. they refuse, so far, to agree to an arrangement under which they would buy uranium and reprocess you' uranium by someone else. they want to do it themselves. as soon as they do it themselves then they have the potential to enrich that uranium to a weapons grade level. that's the problem. it's not that they can't have nuclear programs. >> they won't agree to the protocols other countries have agreed to to make

a report based on testimony from anonymous whistleblowers former national security advisor michael flynn and the g secretary rick perry or amongst those named a strong advocates of the nuclear mike hanna joins us now from washington d.c. i would say the dust has settled as this report has been issued and shown to the public but it certainly has a very alarming findings might well it does indeed it is absolutely breathtaking in its detail the detail that has been provided by what are called were sold blowers they provide names dates correspondence between the interested parties and certainly what it does reveal is a breathtaking expanse of corruption within the administration and associates this is what the whistleblowers say that they were concerned about is the degree to which those within the administration were attempting to circumvent congress with the sole intention of personal profit this is absolutely huge in terms of the degree of corruption that the report indicates naming as well very recognizable names within us society and once again becoming another major problem for the tru

flynn had a sentencing date.efense had both filed submissions with the court giving judge advice on what mike flynn's sentence should be. the appointed sentencing date arrived. mike flynn put on a suit, got in an suv, turned up in court. all the lawyers were there on both sides. it was time for us all to figure out in open court that day how much time mike flynn was going to serve in prison if he was going to get any prison time at all.

flynn had a sentencing date.se had both filed submissions with the court giving judge advice on what mike flynn's sentence should be. the appointed sentencing date arrived. mike flynn put on a suit, got in an suv, turned up in court. all the lawyers were there on both sides. it was time for us all to figure out in open court that day how much time mike flynn was going to serve in prison if he was going to get any prison time at all.

flynn had previously advised an ip-3 subsidiary.ans on the house intelligence committee where harvey is a staffer called the report is ridiculous conspiracy theory. flynn has not responded to a request for comment. >>> actor jussie smollett has a history of providing false information to law enforcement. in 2007 the "empire" star pleaded no contest to charges in a dui stop. police in l.a. say he gave them a false name, he gave them his brother's name. he was sentenced to two years probation and paid a fine. >>> u.s. postal inspectors are helping with this threatening letter sent to smollett. smollett claimed that he was attacked by two people yelling racial and homophobic slurs, but his story has not so far been corroborated. chicago detectives still want to speak to him again though it's not clear when or if that may happen. >>> teachers in west virginia set to strike for a second day even after the house of delegates shelved an education bill that prompted the walk off in the first place. teachers cheered when they found out the n

i told the president for six months before he was elected, stay away from mike flynn, he's trouble.t's one perform. some of -- that's one example. some of the people in the cabinet, tom price at hhs, rick silver at the state department. these are things that set the president back. he could have even a greater record, but he didn't have the people -- and a lot of empty desks too. gerry: and you're critical of the immediate focus on trying to repeal obamacare, for example, the immediate attempt to ban people from certain muslim-majority cups from coming into the cup. what effect did that have -- country. >> first off, on the muslim ban issue, we listened to him during the campaign, the transition team, is and we had an executive order that had been reviewed by former justice department lawyers and white house counsel members who said they had something that was legally defensible. that was thrown out, and steve bannon and steven miller wrote with the ban on a back of an envelope, and it did not withstand legal scrutiny. that's a failure, and it makes the president look bad. on the ob

brought in by flynn, worked on the proposal despite warnings against it.. part of a statement from republicans on house and, reading, "the attack on mr. harvey is a redo goes conspiracy theory floated by media partisans in the house shamefully. championed by democrats and members of congress to defame staff members for political purposes will be reported to the ethics committee." this is convoluted and weird. what do you think of it? >> marie: it depends on if democrats have the receipts they claim to have. the information that mike flynn and derek harvey, after being told to stand out on this, continued working on it for months. we have seen mike flynn has not always conducted himself in the most ethical way, so the reports we are seeing certainly raised a lot of really serious questions and it is absolutely congress' oversight role to get these her here. >> kennedy: michael flynn doesn't even work -- >> marie: derek harvey is still a staffer. >> kennedy: but you can't single-handedly give stuff to saudi arabia. they started billing it based on our techno

before joining trump's white house, flynn worked for the company behind the nuclear plan. top advisers warned that the export of nuclear technology could be considered illegal if used as part of a weapons program. the plan could also be in violation of a nuclear non-proliferation act. according to a report by the congressional committee, the white house may still be discussing the plan. we will have more on the story with congressmember ro khanna after headlines. teachers in west virginia celebrated a major victory tuesday when a conontested educatioion reform bilill was blocked by house delegegates jut hours into a statewide strike protesting the legislation. the bill would have legalized charter schools, which are currently not allowed in west virginia. teachers' unions say they were not consulted in the drafting of the legislation and that it was retaliation for last year's historic strike, which was credited with launching a wave of teacher walkouts in other red states. teachers are set to continue their strike for now. a report by "the new york times" details a number