and statements like michael flynn recently made and also statements he made during those final days thaton on edge. you will remember, of course, that mike flynn had said he thought there should be martial law to reclaim all the election machines and re-run, quote, unquote re-run the election, whatever that means. the idea that he mentioned just in passing on television led donald trump to bring him in to the oval to talk about this great idea. you'll also remember from reading our book, phil and i learned in our reporting for "i alone can fix it," that michael flynn was talking about, really, basically declaring war on those who would not agree that donald trump was the rightful president and deserved a second term. this language was really unsettling again to leaders in the pentagon who believed michael flynn represented a part, a fringe part of the trump sort of diaspra that might push democracy off the rails. >> i want to remind you of what former president trump told you in his own words about the mob of insurrectionists that attacked the u.s. capitol on january 6th. you spent two a

story. >> that's awesome. >> reporter: it was in a church that the latest disturbing turn in the michael flynnifle that we thought was appropriate for a general. so we went with an old-school woodland camouflage. >> reporter: in yuba city, california, after flynn was gifted a semiautomatic rifle, he said this. >> maybe i'll find somebody in washington, d.c. [ laughter ] >> reporter: laughs onstage and in the crowd in this clip of the event that surfaced as the retired general jokes about using the gun against someone in the nation's capital. that same capital earlier this year saw the violent insurrection by supporters of donald trump, whom flynn spoke to the night before the riots, spouting lies about a stolen election. >> and the entire world knows. everybody in this country knows who won the election on the 3rd. who won the election on the 3rd? donald trump. >> reporter: flynn riling up the crowd less than 24 hours before the assault on the capitol building. >> tomorrow, we the people are going to be here and we want you to know we will not stand for a lie. >> reporter: flynn was trump's fi

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reason. >> reporter: a furious backlash followed and flynn claimed he wasn't calling for a coup. >> michael flynnter: but it was clear he believed the big lie. >> trump won. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: we tried to reach flynn about these latest troubling comments but were unable to. after what he had said about the myanmar-style coup happening here in the united states, the pentagon said they would not be investigating him. but they are reviewing whether he had approval for money that he's received after retiring from turkish and russian entities with ties to those governments. if not, financial penalties could be imposed. remember, this is a guy who, as a retired three-star general, is still getting taxpayer-funded retirement benefits, don. >> alex, thank you so much, i appreciate that. >>> the chair of donald trump's inaugural committee heckled, called a traitor before pleading not guilty in federal court today. more next. so, are you gonna buy the car? please! if i could just go home, and discuss things with my wife- i've been here all weekend. you can leave anytime you want. no! ahhh

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paul manafort, michael flynn, elliott broidy. brody was engaged with the emirates as well.lor: we appreciate you running here to chat with us as we continue to tie further into these headlines. a story that is not going away anytime soon. we will indeed bring you back. coming up, from real estate to the art market. christie's seeing one of its best first halves in years. we discussed the performance with their ceo next kriti: -- next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ caroline: demand for everything from non-fungible tokens to jewelry seeing record sales. christie's released a key performance take away from the first half of the year. the auction house selling $3.5 billion in art so far this year. 13% higher than pre-pandemic 2019. we've got ceo guillaume cerutti. talk to us about what you are seeing in 2021. people are back and buying all sorts of collectibles. >> there were rebounds, global. last year, strong demand but supply was challenging. this year, strong demand, very resilient from everywhere. especially asia. the two together, we came to this -- what we called -- for christi

better life. >>> former national security adviser michael flynn who twice pleaded guilty to the fbi suggested he would use a gifted ar-15 rifle to shoot someone in washington, d.c. just as the sun rises, mike flynn has to say something crazy. so in a video posted on twitter, verified by nbc news, flynn is seen at an event at the church of glad tidings in yorba, california, seen with a man holding a gun who said, it's one of our top guns. said, maybe i'll find a member in washington, d.c. the audience laughed. it was posted on a facebook page but has since been taken down. nbc news has attempted to reach general flynn for comment. >>> with just over a month to go before the u.s. mission in afghanistan officially ends, president biden announced the end of another long-lasting u.s. mission, this one in iraq. nbc news chief foreign correspondent rushal engel has more. >> reporter: president biden with iraq's prime minister announced the end of an era, that the combat mission in iraq is over -- again. >> it's critical for the stability of the region and our counterterrorism cooperation will contin

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so instead of abandoning that, they have looked to people like michael flynn and michael flynn has saidtop of their forms. this is our next plan, the real plan. we need to instead of waiting around for stuff to happen, we need to take the bull by the horns basically n. some cases, these are working, elections where 1200-something votes can win. they are winning at local officers throughout the country, california, pennsylvania, florida, michigan. they are telling people to run and they are doing it. >> ben, it's kasie hunt. what is the overlap between the qanon people or next ev lux of qanon and extreist white supremacist groups, the proud boys, i remember seeing pike flynn signs and from the tactical planning what is the connection between them, if any? >> reporter: true, there was a moment with proud boys and oath keepers they decided the bigger the tent the better, really anybody who is committed to the search-and-rescue mission of making donald trump the front and center, you know, of their lives, basically, driving that culture war. so qanon people came in a couple years ago and sa

. >> michael flynn pleading guilty. >> michael cohen is now a felon. >> special council indicted on rogernnon, indicted on conspiracy charges on fraud and money laundering. the disgraced ex-president company has been indicted and also charged allen weisselberg. >> tom barrack, the former chair of the former president 2017 inaugural committee arrested today. >> it is 12 and counting and i am joined by ellie for "the nation," this is not normal. it is an ongoing crime spree. is it important that people thee these facts and say oh, it is just another story or another indictment. >> you can take this one of two ways, ari. >> trump has world historical bad taste in friends. his taste in friends is worse than his taste of architecture. that's one possibility. possibility two, he's a criminal. he's the black hole that's pulling all of these flies to his criminal enterprise. tom hagan, trump can't find an outstanding lawyer guy, even. which one do you want to believe? i understand that roughly half the country wants to believe that trump is just some kind of unlucky executive who keeps on being s

that testimony that you just heard, people like michael flynn known who are sponsored before enforcing law. they don't make the law but they enforce the law. and yet you just heard him call for some kind of ideological inquisition into people he doesn't agree with in washington and that is unacceptable and it should make you very nervous. watch him fight this psychological trauma he endured as an excuse for ditching our bill of rights. >> i've been left with psychological trauma and emotional and anxiety of having survived such a horrific event. >> tucker: now not to in any way underplay the crime committed on january 6 and the war crimes committed on generally six but compared to what? what's interesting is michael didn't experience any trauma on the d.c. police force. it was just last summer that writers in washington torched and it took secret service have to take the president to a bunker. and remember that? a blm writer called brendan sermon, and he required surgery to repair his face. what's interesting is what happened next. so when no one called that blm limits take a dangerous

that power to coverup for trump in the mueller investigation and protect donald trump's cronies, michael flynnati was trying to spread at the moment up to and including the big lie. i don't want to let history take hold. he did unprecedented damage to the justice department and i think this book is my effort to set that record straight. >> what an effort it is. it's called "hatchet man how bill barr broke the prosecutor's code and corrupted the justice department." thank you. >> thanks, laura. >>> four years after unite the right rally, the confed relate statutes are finally being removed. stay with us. [♪] looking to repair dry, damaged hair without weighing it down? try pantene daily moisture renewal conditioner. its color-safe formula uses smart conditioners to micro-target damage helping to repair hair without weighing it down. try pantene. i've been telling everyone, the secret to great teeth... is having healthy gums. new crest advanced gum restore... detoxifies below the gum line, and restores by helping heal gums in as little as seven days. crest. the #1 toothpaste brand in america. al

top military guys was lieutenant charles flynn, brother of the pro-martial law, qanon adviser to michael flynn. was he capable of blocking and by who? number four, why were capitol police so unprepared for attack despite numerous warnings in the run-up to january 6th? the capitol police had clear warnings about the january 6th attack, but officers were instwructed by their leaders not to use their most aggressive tactics to hold off the mob. sorry. what? congress needs to investigate this. and number five, perhaps most important of all, what did the president know and when did he know it? when trump tweeted big protest on january 6th, be there, we'll be wild, what did he think would happen? what did he want to happen? since nowadays he's saying stuff openly like this about the rioters. >> certainly what i wanted is what they wanted. >> as propublica had reported, the trump team had been warned with tens of thousands of people potentially overwhelming ill manufacture prepared law enforcement officials. rather than trying to hold the march, trump and allies accompanied itsleaders ochltown day of

keep in mind that michael flynn was also a floor foreign agent at the time of the transition, for the turkish government. it was like of foreign policy for [inaudible] in the early years. it's a little bit scary. we have to see that thomas barrack pleaded not guilty to this, but if the charge are proven it is pretty scary that you could have for a few billion dollars, which is what it looks like the uae put into his accounts, a abrupt shift in policy, the ending of alliances with qatar, and suddenly a presidential administration taking a different approach in middle eastern affairs with limited insight into why or what the actual endgame will be. and all because of money. >> someday we may get the answer as to why the trump administration didn't seem that concerned over the murder of one of ashley's colleagues at the post, mr. khashoggi at the hands of the saudis. but these are questions i guess for another time. barbara, back to your legal expertise. back to the document, does it read to you as indictments go, like there is more to come? >> well, it does, only in that it names by lab

. >>> and this is from michael flynn, the trump ally who riled up a crowd less than 24 hours before thealled for martial law. now flynn, in a church no less, is given a semi-automatic rifle and jokes about taking it to washington, d.c. >> this is, uh, one of our top quality guns. >> maybe i'll find somebody in washington, d.c. [ cheers and applause ] >> i mean, and people laughed and cheered. you know what? tell that to the brave police officers who are testifying tomorrow. those american heroes who risked their lives to defend lawmakers ane

the justice department dropped its case against michael flynn, despite flynn having pled guilty twice to lying to the fbi. and don't forget, we are just forgetting talking about this just this week. five trump cabinet secretaries were referred to the justice department for potential prosecution, while trump was an office. and in all five cases, in the case of all five of those secretaries, the justice department said no, it seems fine, we will pass. that is just off the top of my head. that's just a handful. where the trump justice department appeared to intervene in cases involving trump's allies. that's not even all the ones we know about, those are just the ones i can refine. how many cases were slow walked? or delayed? or quashed? this right? are we going to learn about those? how many cases were shut down in not prosecuted at all? how many were slow down, like barrack derek who? to be honest though, there is one silver lining to the as yet unexplained delay in bringing the charges against derek. and it is actually illustrated by the chapter in the final chapter of the bond story.

police officer michael flynn wed to conduct immediate investigations into political views including memberscongress and their staff. >> that's what i'm looking for investigation into those actions and activities which may have resulted in the events of january 6th. also whether or not there was collaboration between those members, their staff and these terrorists. >> tucker: you're looking for the real threat from january 6th? that happened after the fact. it's statements like that, claims like that, changes in policies like that. it's the depoliticize nation of law enforcement that has become normal after january 6th and that just proves that right there. that testimony that you just heard, people like michael fanone are responsible for enforcing the law, that's it, they don't make the law, they enforce the law and yet you just heard him call for some sort of ideological inquisition into people he doesn't agree with in washington and that is unacceptable and that should make you very nervous. watch fanone cite the psychological trauma he as an excuse for ditching our bill of rights. >> i'v

we know michael flynn and other military advisers were asking him to declare martial law.own the chaos he had unleashed in the congress. >> when you think about what the question -- what the areas of knowns are and unknowns. i am watching this video and have a whole bunch of questions that occur. things i feel i have a pretty good sense of and things i don't understand. what are the areas you feel like you don't understand, you really want this commission to get into? >> well, my focus as an impeachment manager, our team is focused on incitement. we think we overwhelmingly documented the president's incitement of an insurrection but to say he incited it leaves open the question of who organized it, who mobilized it and who financed it? what were the structures of power that were in place that allowed for it to actually happen? what were the interactions between the white house, the trump team, roger stone and the 3 percenters, the oath keepers, the proud boys and so on? that's something that never became clear before. there were reports in the middle of our trial about how

michael flynn and paul manafort had their failure to register or lies on their application and documentation. you have this circling around president trump but no connection directly as far as we yet know about this issue. but i want to underscore, you go back to the underlying reason we have this law in the first place. this entire premise, although it has not been admittedly enforced in terms of criminal prosecutions very often over the course of, say, 50 years, it still is a lot to try to insulate institutions from having corrupt or otherwise foreign influence, having transparency here. so this is something that even in recent times we know has been prosecuted. so the willfulness aspect of it. it may not be prosecuted is no excuse for not following and abiding by this particular law. so if there were statements made and a failure to register, remember, it is not a very onerous proceeding. it is a couple hundred dollars for filing on this very issue. so why would you want to conceal it if that's the allegation here? why not have the transparency? that's why you have other additional allega

. $5.7 million linked to individuals who promote the big lie including michael flynn, sydney powell androup was paid by the arizona senate. >>> the fight against a looming recall election in arizona. >> we've seen trump republicans across the country attacking election results and the right to vote. now they're coming to grab power in california. >> that's the massachusetts senator, elizabeth warren, former president candidate, linking to restrictive voting against the country including the former president. thank you for joining us. we'll see you back here tomorrow. ana cabrera picks up right now. >>> thanks for being us. we are entering a new era in the pandemic fight in the u.s. vaccine requirements. soon president biden is expected to say all federal employees will have to prove they're vaccinated or face strict routine testing. corporate america already going there. facebook, google, netflix and more now requiring or mandating shots. the resounding message here, get vaccinated or get a new job. >>> all as the delta variant is fuelin

here bill barr staefd donald trump, roger stone, michael flynn. four ags, republican and democrat that i ever served under did. >> sounds like bill barr is on a rehab tour. he refers to donald trump's lies as b.s.. let's remind viewers of the voter fraud lies he peddled. >> there are several states that only have mail in voting including -- >> this is playing with fire. we're very closely divided country here and if people have to have confidence in the results of the election and legitimacy of the government, and people trying to change the rules to this methodology which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud and coercion is reckless and dangerous and people are playing with fire. >> what do you make of this attempt to rehab. sounds like he has gone to the same crisis counselling -- >> and others. bill barr said, sitting in this chair and gave that lie to wolf blitzer. look how assertive he is there's a huge risk of election fraud. he did that while attorney general. one of the most powerful people in the united states. what's backed is the

people around him risk and do jail time for this most disloyal of bosses, weisselberg, manafort, michael flynnfor donald trump, people willing to give up their own independence. ellen weisselberg is a psychological subsidiary of donald trump's criminal mind. if you work for donald in any high-level position, you have to commit criminal offenses. they've committed many over the years. so, it would be difficult to get weisselberg to flip in any circumstance. there is no minimum prison sentence in the indictment that he now faces. he could get in theory 15 years. he's a first time offender, in his seventies. probably would get probation or at worst home confinement. that's probably not enough to get him to flip. on the other hand, if they were to charges sun, we would know a lot about their family dynamics. >> absolutely. quick question before we run out of time, i have to ask you and i have had this discussion many times before, my friend. donald trump is organization may go down for some sort of tax payment corruption crimes. there are much bigger crimes he should be prosecuted for, right? >> y

while not get paul manafort, michael flynn. get the whole band back together. not know anyone else beside the people in this crime world. they are not that good. it's not like trump won. he lost the popular vote twice. there's no electoal claej to save you in florida. you have to win the most votes. it's sad but not unexpected. >> not unexpected. what do you make of this? the scary thing about all this that i don't want to make light of is he is under investigation of sex trafficking. some of these accusations are with under age girls. while he's out here making it rain on his fellow florida men, you have to wonder how can the gop kind of align themselves with him? >> i'm in the surprised he's doing this. he's been one of the most vocal defenders of trump throughout the administration. i'm afraid there are some hard numbers to back up exactly what dean is saying. they posted their fund raising numbers and gaetz is one of the top three republicans in the house who raised over a million dollars, almost $2 million. a lot of it largely from small donors. something

barr directing the doj to drop a case against michael flynn shortly after trump said he should do so.pitol, a very unusual move by nancy pelosi, rejecting serve on the house select committee to investigate the attack on capitol police and the capitol. pelosi in a written statement said representative of jim jordan and jim banks of indiana were not suitable to help run the investigation because they themselves supported the big lie that trump had won the election. the man who picked jordan and banks house minority leader kevin mccarthy was incredulous. >> speaker pelosi has taken the unprecedented step of denying the minority party's picks. this represents something that has not happened in the house before for a select committee. it's an egregious abuse of power. >> senate republicans reject ad deadline for the first vote on infrastructure. as we've discussed the nature is behind. democrats want to take the first procedural vote without a way to pay for it. biden back from ohio where he pushed for the infrastructure bill. he'll meet with business leaders. first lady in tokyo. you can

that power to coverup for trump in the mueller investigation and protect donald trump's cronies, michael flynnnarrative he was trying to spread at the moment up to and including the big lie. i don't want to let history take hold. he did unprecedented damage to the justice department and i think this book is my effort to set that record straight. >> what an effort it is. it's called "hatchet man how bill barr broke the prosecutor's code and corrupted the justice department." thank you. >> thanks, laura. >>> four years after unite the right rally, the confederate statutes are finally being removed. stay with us. water? why?! ahhhh! incoming! ahhhahh! i'm saved! water tastes like, water. so we fixed it. mio. don't you just love the look on the kids' faces... yea, that look of pure terror... ...no, no, the smile... ...and that second right before the first tear comes... ...what?! pizza on a bagel-we can all agree with that. do you want a hug? oh! don't burn down the duplex. terminix. when you think of an airline, you think of the big things. and for the last year we've all been dealing with the bi

we were not that far from trump actually succeeding and accomplishing that, and we know that michael flynner military advisers were pushing him to declare martial law, and that probably would've been the next step if they succeeded in winning and continual election. they would've called marshall la to put down the chaos that he unleashed in the capital. >> when you think about the areas of known and unknown's, ian and watching this video and have a bunch of questions. there are things i feel like i have a good sense of and think that i still don't understand. what are the areas that you feel like you don't understand, that you really want this commission to get to? my >> focus as an impeachment manager is incitements and we documented the presidents incitement of violent insurrection but they say that he incited it leaves open the question of who organized it, who mobilized it and who financed it? what were the structures of power that were in place to allow for it to actually happen. over the interactions between four white house the trump team, roger stone, the oath keepers, the proud bo

michael cohen who pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud, there's michael flynn, trump's first national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators and was also pardoned by trump. rick gates, former trump campaign deputy chairman and inaugural official who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements. there is of course donald trump himself, whose business is now facing tax evasion who were brought by the district attorney. truly a remarkable situation when you add it all up, rebecca davis o'brien is a reporter where she covers white-collar law enforcement and she joins me now. rebecca, first talk about what is alleged in this indictment? what laws did barrack violate? >> thanks for having me. federal prosecution in brooklyn accused him of working -- i guess they're two main groups of charges. the first that he worked alongside former employees and an emerati businessman to violate law requiring agents to register for the attorney general. acting as a conduit for promoting emerati, political wishes to the trump campaign and then to the administra

you see in that statement what michael flynn and others like him, including the proud boys and the oath keepers, people like him were saying, we've got to take this by force, we've got to take this action into our own hands about who the president will be. well, that is about as close to a coup as you can get. >>> coming up next, breaking news. the cdc is expected to reverse guidance of masks for vaccinated people living in covid hot spots. get ready to pull those masks back out, people. >>> also, an avalanche of new vaccine mandates from states, cities and federal agencies. dr. emanuel, who's argued for a vaccine mandate for health care workers joins us after the break. ate for health care workers joins us after the break. their only friend? the open road. i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends. can you help me out here? no matter why you ride, progressive has you covered with protection starting at $79 a year. well, we're new friends.

flynn jr., instead of his f father, michael flynn. "ac 360" begins now. >>> good evening. the blue origin launch site in the west texas desert. in a moment, my conversation with jeff and mark bezos after their flight into space, which began on that launch pad behind me about three miles from here. they followed the path that allen shepherd took 60 years ago this may and they along with two other history-making companions flew a spacecraft bearing his name. >> t minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, commander start. >> two, one. >> liftoff . >> it was a picture-perfect liftoff for blue origin's "new she she shepard". on board, jeff bezos. wally funk was turned away from nasa in the '60s. today she added oldest person many space to her remarkable aviation rÉsumÉ, eclipsing john glenn. an 1-year-old, oliver damon, which is now the youngest for two and a half minutes they felt the pressure of 2gs on their bodies, and then there was this. >> there is miko, main engine cutoff. a beautiful shot. down the "new shepard" rocket. look at that view. unreal. >> a few seconds layer, after booster

but keep in mind michael flynn was also a foreign agent at the time of the transition paid for by the turkish government. it was almost like a foreign policy for purchase early in the trump years. and it is a little scary as a proposition. we have to concede tom barrack is pleading not guilty to this so the charges have not been proven. but if they are proven the proposition here is pretty scary that you could have for a few billion dollars which it looks like uae put into his accounts an abrupt shift in middle eastern policy and ending of alliances with qatar and then, suddenly, presidential and an administration taking a completely different approach in middle eastern affairs with limited insight into why or what the actual end game will be. all because of money. some day we may get the answer to why the trump administration didn't seem that concerned over the murder of one of ashley's colleagues at "the post" mr. khashoggi at the hands of the saudis. these are questions i guess for another time. barbara, back to your legal expertise, back to the document, does it read to you as ind

sometimes in indictments like this when we saw one for an assistant to michael flynn, for example, or there was a payment to that firm of $750,000. here there's no discussion of explicit payment but there is an allusion to it being sort of shall we say helpful for the investment atmosphere of the firm and the firm's future investment prospects to make these kinds of efforts on behalf of uae. >> talk about the difference or perhaps similarity between tom barrack's case and the cases of paul manafort and rick gates that we mentioned before. we mentioned that they were prosecuted for violating fara, the foreign agents registration act. how are these different? >> they're very closely related. foreign agents registration act is primarily a disclosure statute. the idea is that if people are lobbying for foreign governments in the u.s. they should be registering with the u.s. government. i think the big difference here is what we were just discussing, josh, the issue of what is the quid pro quo here exactly. it's very clear that in the case of manafort and gates they were being paid million

the pro-martial law pro-qanon national security adviser to donald trump trum lieutenant general michael flynn, so was the guard blocked from deploying, and if so by whom? we need to know. number four. why were capitol police so unprepared for the attack despite numerous warnings in the run up to january the 6th in the capitol police had clear advance warnings about the january 6th attack according to a report by their own inspector general, but overs were instructed by their leaders not to use their most aggressive tactics to hold off the mob. sorry, what? congress needs to investigate this. and number five, perhaps most important of all, what did the president know and when did he know it? when trump tweeted big protest in d.c. on january the 6th. be there. will be wild. what did he think would happen? what did he want to happened? since nowadays he's openly saying stuff like this about the rioters. >> what i wanted is what they wanted. >> as pro-publica has reported, the trump team had been warned the january 6th owe vents could turn chaotic with tens of thousand of people potentially overw

there's michael flynn who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators and was also pardoned by trump. rick gates, former trump campaign deputy official who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements. there is donald trump himself whose business is facing tax evasion charges that are brought by the manhattan district attorney. truthfully a remarkable situation when you add it all up. rebecca davis o'brien, reporter at the wall street journal where she covers white collar law enforcement and she joins me now. rebecca, talk us through what is alleged in this indictment. what law did barrack violate? >> sure. federal prosecutors in brooklyn accused tom barbarrack -- two m groups of charges. first, he worked alongside a former employee and an emeratie businessman. basically acting as a conduit for promoting the united arab emirates political wishes to the trump campaign and the administration. secondly, mr. barrack faces five charges that are considered obstruction charges. obstruction of justice count and four counts of lying to the fbi in a june 2019 interview wi

to kill a federal judge, who heard the criminal case involving the national security adviser, michael flynn. today a 38 year old man from tampa florida, became the first defendants to be sentence for his role in the attack on the capital of january 6th. federal prosecutors had asked for 18 months in prison in his case. his defense team said he should only get probation, heated up getting eight months in prison. today also the first hearing was set and the house select committee that is going to investigate the january 6th attack. this is a committee hearing that we had known was scheduled for next week, july 27th. today we found out what is going to happen during that hearing. they will hear from multiple police officers, who were attacked, and in some cases injured by the trump mob that day. a republican are finally today, announced their selection for the five members of congress, they want to serve on that committee. nancy pelosi has the right to say yes or no, to any of them. but in terms of who the republicans have nominated, it is this rainbow course of, this bennett an ad. this rainb

they are using michael flynn's rally crying to take over the school boards. run for school board. run for public office. we need to get involved in tegs of our children. right now on top of the biggest qanon message board, that's what you'll see. you'll see the quote from mike anyone saying run for school board. >> the through line here is to say that white america's children are being polluted, their mind, bodies by the woke mob. by the left. by the multicultural party and it's a threat. it sounds like the reconstruction era like the black and tan republicans were a threat because they were polluting the minds of white women and children. it's very 1860s. there's this other headline that we have now that fbi actually managed to, i guess sort of infiltrate this bible study group that became a cover for violent malitia plans. this northern virginia lee is accused of building up explosives he and other held bible studies where they discussed firearms and other training. the fbi infiltrated after he interacted with undercover police on january 6th and several guns and materials to ma

bannon, his strategist and paul manafort his campaign chair, rick gates, deputy campaign chair, michael flynnity adviser and many more were all charged a in the point. what's especially notable is so many of these people sold their patriotism so cheaply. paul manafort, indicted for lobbying for the ukraine. you saw people connected to mike flynn, one person convicted of lobbying for turkey and barrack working for the uae. it's that they were doing it at the behest of a foreign nation and doing so very close to the president of the united states. >> taking sides against the family, right? >> this is the founders really feared and it's extraordinary to see the pattern we just laid out. >> yeah. speaking of that, i mean, let's talk about something we're seeing with one of the alleged insurrectionists. this is robert morris, an ex-army ranger, who he's now going to be detained pre-trial. he's not going to get out because the judge said it's too dangerous and the judge criticized him for using his army training and not just any army training, this is a special operations unit of the army, slammed

about a possible coup because there were suggestions being made by the former lieutenant general michael flynnhe election. and, as i mentioned earlier a short time ago, that's why ten former secretaries of defense all signed a letter addressing the pentagon saying, under no circumstances should you ever allow the military to become involved in suppressing, overturning the election, stay out of politics. and we were worried about it because of the talk that was emanating. some of it in the white house itself having been reported coming out of the white house. so i think that they were wise to be concerned about it. and i think he has made it very clear that the one institution that the former president has been unable to date to politicize has been the military. he tried to do it with general milley, obviously. he's tried to do it with james mattis, jim mattis. he tried to do it i think with general kelly. i think he also tried to do it with general mcmaster. >> he tried to do it every step of the way. and you're not only the former defense secretary, you're also a former republican senator. >>

we remember general michael flynn who was a general and was a defense intelligence agency. you think he'd know not to lie to the fbi. i guess my last question here, is what we're looking at here, because we know we talked a lot about russia and their attempts to gain influence over the trump campaign and potentially over the administration and attempts to do that by talking with various officials, are we talking about here that foreign governments are trying to buy influence? is that really what this boils down to? >> i think that's exactly right, joy. foreign governments want influence with the president, with the new administration, with the new senior officials. and again, if you disclose it, it's okay. if you don't disclose it, it's a violation of federal law. every time "the washington post" writes a story about amazon, they note in the newspaper that jeff bezos, the founder of amazon, owns "the washington post." it's good for the newspaper, it's good for the reporter and it's good for the reader. everybody knows what the relationships are. so that's all we're asking w

it is actually attributed to michael flynn, the insurrectionist former president's former national securityisor whose become something of a hero to qanon adherence. new reporting from benecolins says the far right group of conspiracy pushers is now planning to run candidates for school boards and local offices to spread the gospel of q. in a normal world, this would officially be the scariest thing happening in america right now, but we don't live in a normal world. voting rights are under ak at that. republicans in states across america are actively trying to overturn a legitimately won presidential election. far-right militias are infiltrating small towns. a guy that sells foam pillows on tv claims that the former president will be reinstated into the white house on august the 13th of this year. no sooner and no later. and the twice-impeached former president himself is holding rallies and press conferences, essentially calling revenge, calling for revenge for his election loss. in recent appearances over the last month, donald trump has said the election was, quote, the crime of the cent

at that point he probably would have followed the advice of michael flynn and imposed martial law and a state of siege. this would have been the reichstag moment, basically declaring, look, the democrats can't control all of the chaos and insurrection that trump unleashed against us. so the way i see it, chris, is january 6th was not the end of something, unfortunately. it was the beginning of something, and we have to get very serious about domestic violent extremism and their friends in the republican party. >> i don't want to skate what past what you just said because you have articulated precisely the alternate history that i find most awful to contemplation, and i almost don't say it out loud because i don't want to call it into being or plant the head into anyone's head, but since you said it, there's no -- if pence had gotten up there that day and say, i'm rejecting them, there's no recourse. they would just steal it. i mean that's the craziest thing, and i don't want to give michael pence, who has, you know, debased himself in too many ways too much credit here, but, like, tha

we have seen the national-security adviser, michael flynn, same thing. both of those guys, lying.he had lied to fbi agents and now, the same with tom barrack. so, the question is, was foreign policy for sale throughout the -- the trump administration? and a bigger question. how much of -- of this did trump understand was happening? were people being paid by foreign powers to do this? was barrack being paid by a foreign power do this? and how much did the president know that, with a wink and a nod, my buddies are getting paid and i'm willing to -- to do this for the highest bidder. we don't know. we'll find out. >> barb, i have -- barb, i have to ask you before we go, barrack is going to be back in court monday. what can we expect from that? >> monday, he will appear in brooklyn where the case is actually pending. he had been arrested in this bond set in los angeles, where he is living. and so, at that time, there will be a review of the bond situation. the judge in new york doesn't have to go along with this. but, you know, if he shows up, that is the best argument that he can mak

then on inauguration day donald trump's incoming national security advisor, michael flynn, was textingners about a hugely controversial private sector plan that would reportedly be funded by the gulf states, including uae to bring nuclear energy to the middle east. in fact flynn was texting about this plan literally ten minutes after donald trump was sworn in as he watched on the dais. we've got a deal, what's going to happen? seven days into his presidency, donald trump, you might remember, signed an executive order known as the muslim ban, which, well, left out the uae while including other middle eastern countries like syria, yemen and iraq. during trump's first year in office, the deputy finance chair of the republican national committee, elliott broidy, was helping spearhead a secret campaign to influence the white house and congress for the crown princes of saudi arabia and the uae. that keeps popping up again and again. broidy was later charged with conspiring to act as a foreign agent on behalf of other interests, malaysian and chinese interests, and on the day before donald tr

we have michael cohen, paul manafort, roger stone, michael flynn, steve bannon, on down the line, and you add allen weisselberg to that list. it is really remarkable to see how many people around donald trump have taken falls, yet he has not yet. >> i mean, abby, that's why people think donald trump has been teflon, he has been able to insulate himself. how closely do you think that people on capitol hill are watching what is going on right now in this courtroom in new york? >> you know, first of all i think on the democratic side there's been a longstanding interest in trump's tax returns, in understanding where his money is coming from, who he owes debts to. democrats are particularly interested in that. on the republican side though, i do have to wonder, alisyn, how many of them really care about any of this. i think they have really turned a blind eye to all of the controversy surrounding trump including anything that has to do with his businesses. i have a lot of questions about whether most, you know, die-hard republicans, which in the house is probably more than two-thirds of t

former national security advisor, michael flynn, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and whoraw his plea and was ultimately pardoned suggested earlier this month that he would use a gifted ar-15 rifle to shoot someone in washington d.c. in a video posted on twitter and verified by nbc news, flynn is seen at an event at the church of glad tidings in california receiving a rifle as a gift from a man who says, quote, it's one of our top quality guns. flynn responded, quote, maybe i'll find somebody in washington d.c. some members of the audience laughed at the remark. the video was initially posted on the church's facebook page but has since been taken down. nbc news has attempted to reach general flynn for comment. it was only last month that flynn suggested, during a memorial day weekend conference, organized by adherence of the qanon conspiracy theory that the u.s. needed a myanmar-style coup. when asked by an audience member, quote, i want to know why what happened in myanmar can't happen here, referring to myanmar's overthrow and brutal crack down, which some qanon supporte

national security advisor michael flynn. i mean on and on and on.resident could plausibly say that he wasn't aware of some of this wrongdoing? it just seems like there's too many people who had to be in close contact with him sharing information with him for him to not at some point be found guilty or at least a khouw conspirator in some of the behaviors? >> speaking specifically today's indictment, i think one of the things interesting in some ways is the united states here is the victim here, the charges are the united states of america versus thomas bar rack and other people charged here. but in some ways the trump administration is a victim as well. if, in fact, they did not know what thomas bar rack was up to, and there's no indication at least from the court papers they were, then, yes, they were victimized by somebody trying to push them in specific policy directions totally without their knowledge while they're working on behalf of a foreign government. that's very serious. so time will tell whether or not there's more to this story. you can