mike flynn was on the tush kirk government's payroll. right? the mike flynn saga is not over. he's not been sentenced. his case is taking sort of a weird turn in the last few months. he's adopted a new set of lawyers who are fox news fixtures and appears to be aggressively shopping for a pardon from president trump so among other things, he doesn't have to spend any time in prison at all but one of the things mike flynn was invested for when he admit in court to the fact he had been on the payroll of this foreign country was this question if turkey offered a bunch more money to mike flynn, a lot more money, millions of dollars to mike flynn if flynn could use his influence with the government and trump administration to get that rich turkish gold trader guy freed from prison. this turkish guy, he's under arrest for this really terrible set of allegations involving him basically allegedly running an international operation to property up the iranian economy with illegal money that evades sanctions. turkey goes after the prosecutor, turkey goes over the judge and to the best of

we know brennan couldn't stand mike flynn.rennan was a big proponent of the iran deal, mike flynn was against it from the start. they were not friends. brennan had every motivation in the world to be involved in the takedown of flynn. some of the spygate figures involved in targeting trump are also involved in targeting flynn. it's now alleged clapper told a "washington post" reporter, this is the director national intelligence told a reporter allegedly to quote go for the kill shot. this is the director national intelligence. then you have comey who acknowledged publicly. judge jeanine: cardinal comey. >> he said on the record that he sent agents or to the white house knowing it was not standard procedure because he thought he could get one over on the trump administration because they were new. judge jeanine: he was proud of it. they were proud of the fact they circumvented white house rules, regulations and policy, and the constitutional requirement because he was a target of the right to remain silent. they say we just wan

when you think about the people like mike flynn and paul manafort who dare to associate themselves withonald trump because he was going to come in like reckitt wreck-ittralph and that's why ty the price. if mike flynn had gone to retirement and paul manafort would've never come back to politics they would've had the wonderful retirement. they had the audacity to help donald trump and that was unforgivable to the deep state, the swamp, and these disgusting actors in the obama administration. we have to keep saying it, jason. this all happened under barack obama. i believe barack obama knew what exactly the wrong doing or at least new in a broad sense the wrongdoing that took place to try and stop trump as a candidate and is a new president. and this is disgusting. somebody has to pay or it will happen again t to a future republican president. >> jason: i thank you. i wish i could spend the whole hour just talking to the two of you with your wealth of information. any time can weave in wreck-it ralph, you get an a+ to me because i love that movie. the hate trend media is an all out frenzy

mike flynn didn't get a pass but could go to jail. >> it may not be your truth and he's a patriot.e's got -- >> you do not get a passport you do not get a pass play that is garbage. no. you are wrong. take that back. you are wrong. that is garbage. nobody gets a pass from the truth. >> sean: come back. last question. does this, in the end, help trump? yes or no? >> i think that the american people will look at this and say look -- i think yes, it helps president trump ready yes. >> absolutely it helps president trump it america is tired of this garbage. >> sean: to it all right. thank you all. nice fiery debate had when we come back, federal judge reopens the covington high school students case against "the washington post." good. trace gallagher has the details straight ahead. ♪ with the freestyle libre 14 day system just scan the sensor with your reader, iphone or android and manage your diabetes. with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose levels any time, without fingersticks. ask your doctor to write a prescription for the f

if mike flynn had gone to retirement and paul manafort would've never comee back toon politics, they've had the wonderful retirement. they had the audacity to help donald trump, and that was unforgivable to the deep state, to the swamp, and to these disgusting actors in the obama administration. finally, we have to keep saying it, jason. which is: this all happened under barack obama. i believe barack obama knew what exactly the wrong doing or at least in a broad sense, the wrongdoing that took place to try and stop trump as a candidate and is a new president. and this is disgusting. somebody has to pay or it will happen again to a future republican president. d >> jason: matt and tom, i thank you. i wish i could spend thehe whole hour just talking to the two of you with your wealth of information. any time can weave in wreck-it ralph, you get an a+ from me because i love that movie. gentlemen, thank you. the hate-trump media is an all-out frenzy into john durham's investigation. we will play a montage that you do not want to miss. stay with us. ♪ eg! there you are. did you take a pi

conviction and pleading guilty by mike flynn the national security adviser for about 28 days. or not he had ever filed foreign agent representation act which is what got mike flynn and others involved in the mueller investigation implicated. so that is an active investigation as well. so we don't know whether giuliani had some involvement here behind the scenes with erdogan, but we do he know that some people with are involved with erdogan before that phone call with the president. i want to also point out that the white house had really come out after william taylor connecting him to their criticism of the democrats, william taylor came back to service at mike pocmpeo's question and he went after yovanovitch was dismissed from her post by pompeo, which is that connection to pompeo. so of course mike pompeo and mike pence to be flanking the president today as th diplomati room there, it raises a lot of other questions as well. they are involved now in the impeachment investigation. >> and when we are talking erdogan, there is nobody on our team that has spipt enough time in tu

it's the militias that are lou: mike flynn's attorney sidney powell says the state department has josephifsud's cell phones. powell says the phones could contain certain information relating to foreign intelligence that has been used against her client as early as 2014. joining us to take this up and more, victoria toensing, and joe digenova. former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, founding partners of the digenova and toensing law firm. let me start with you, victoria. let's start with a couple basic things. where is the server from the dmc. >> that was trump's question. lou: good question. i have got a couple more. >> don't we all. here is what is important for the viewers in case they don't know. the dnc come labored the russians hacked their -- complained that the russians hacked their computers. they should have turned their servers over for analysis to the fbi. but they turned it over to crowdstrike who analyzed them and said the russian did the, but they have never been analyzed by the government. and what's really bad, the fbi says okay. lou: do we believe that? the pr

was the fist person to write a letter and ask questions about the then national security advisor mike flynn. and he used his position on the oversight committee as chairman to try to unaet has much truth as he could. >> and through all of this his gra grace, empathy, and compassion was not just for one side. when you look at all of this drama with trump, how he handled michael cohen and the powerful words that he spoke at the end of it, how he stood by his city and his people, that is something to be republicans and it is something that we should all try to embodiy. >> thank you, joe and mika, i appreciate you guys sticking around, chris, you worked with the congressman several years ago. what is the practical impact of his passing on this impeachment inquiry. where do we go from here given what a force he has been. it is a loss for the democrats and the country as well. being chairman of the oversight committee is one of the hardest jobs. you need to have a prosecutors mentality and a sense of justice, and that when you're investigating others, you have to know they will come after you. he

they savaged mike flynn, question his dumb eye, question his patriotism you can't have it both ways.u wear a uniform doesn't mean you can't be questioned because someone disagrees with you. >> juan: what about the fact that you confirmed what the whistle-blower is saying. >> there is a transcript you don't get it. you don't want to talk about the transcript. >> kennedy: but i have to say, what if he told the whistle-blower what he knew? that is the definition of begging the question. coming up next, why a new version of the classic alphabet song is inferior rating people. right after this. ♪ (bobby) with your hearing, if you start having a little trouble, you're concerned that it's going to cost you money. (ben) to this day, i only paid what i had to pay for the device. when i go back, everything is covered. there's so much you're missing by not having hearing aids. (avo) we'll find you a hearing aid that fits your lifestyle and your budget. at one of our 1,500 locations. get special anniversary savings and your chance to win a seven day hawaiian cruise. call 1-800-miracle to schedul

. >> could be reports of leaks of the transcripts of mike flynn's phone call. although i think transparency is good -- >> we know they lied on the fisa warrant. we do know that. that state department official, kathleen kavalek met with steele, documented his motivations that she said his client was keen to see the anti-trump materials come to light. his claims about the miami whatever -- the miami consulate where they were looking at russian assets. she forwarded that and let the fbi officials know that he wasn't credible before they went to the fisa court. nine days later and signed that there was no question about the credibility of this witness. that is for sure a lie. >> let me finish my thought. >> and also hillary clinton's role is very vague. >> none of us have seen the fisa warrant. we've seen bits and pieces that leaked out. i would love to see it. none of us have seen it. a criminal investigation, my point is, it can mean many things. it can mean big things and small things. i think barr should testify about it because the more information we can hear

. >> jessica: there is so much about joel stein from going to dinner with vladimir putin and mike flynnpened in wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, the way that she ran the campaign that mirrors the accounts that were boosting her. the russian bot accounts favor tulsi gabbard. >> gillian: of hillary clinton wants to bernie sanders or joe biden to win the nomination, why is she hitting back at -- why is she wasting time hitting back on gabbard? >> jessica: it is not about hitting back on tulsi gabbard, it is important for her to tell the story of russian interference and to help -- >> kennedy: because she is not letting -- >> jessica: there are millions of people -- >> lisa: what we are seeing is a deeply divided democrat party, and that was because of the wiki links, we saw that the dnc was not in the tank for hillary clinton, and tulsi gabbard is on the receiving end of criticism because she supported bernie sanders. and she spoke out against that fact. >> kennedy: what about the fact that she was at the dnc and saw what was happening from the inside out and knew that the corrupt organi

- he was at the wecenter of a series of legal crises, including the firing and investigation of mike flynn, the russia investigation. and he's in the middle of when this whistle-blower complaint about ukraine surfaces, he's a lawyer who is in the middle of trying to battle to keep -- prevent congress from getting its hand on that complaint. >> it is fascinating. great reporting, greg. appreciate you joining us tonight. thank you. back with me, samantha and juliette. juliette, as we look at this, there are these different threads in here, and really i would like to focus on bolton and eisenberg. just based on what we learned there from greg, and the fact that he was the person to go to and he took these concerns in and that it's not clear what happens with them. what are we to make of that? >> i think, as greg said, there's still some reporting to do to know essentially what happened once bolton made it clear that he was unhappy with this sort of ukrainian agenda that was being run out of the white house with giuliani. but i think just looking at it overall, what is abundantly clear from gr

mike flynn didn't get a pass but could go to jail. >> it may not be your truth and he's a patriot.t -- >> you do not get a pass. you do not get a pass. that is garbage. no. you are wrong. take that back. you are wrong. that is garbage. nobody gets a pass from the truth. >> sean: come back. last question. does this, in the end, help trump? yes or no? geraldo? >> i think that the american people will look at this and say look -- >> sean: yes or no, we are out of time. >> i think yes, it helps president trump, yes. >> sean: dan? >> absolutely, it helps president trump. america is tired of this garbage. >> sean: all right. thank you all. nice fiery debate. when we come back, federal judge reopens the covington high school students case against "the washington post." good. trace gallagher has the details straight ahead. ♪ people, our sales now apply to only 10 frames. a new low. at visionworks, our sales are good on over 500 frames. why are you so weird? for a limited time, get two complete pairs for $49. really. visionworks. see the difference. billions of problems. sore gums? bleeding

but mike flynn, one of the things he's probably going to do prison time for and facing sentencing is being an unregistered foreign agent of turkey on the campaign. and on the day of election in 2016, the greatest op-ed out of nowhere michael flynn says the u.s. should deport a cleric who's living in the poconos back to turkey because turkey needs it. that turns out to be the other huge foreign policy policy of erdogan to deport this cleric he doesn't like and giuliani was also lobbying the president on that issue? >> yes, and, you know, it's amazing in 2019 we're finding out this through reporting that this is another sort of off-book policy that rudy giuliani was pushing. i think what's more worrisome about this one, chris, is that there is no client for extraditing except for the turkish president. there is no entity seeking this but erdogan, so who is rudy representing and who is he being paid by? >> great reporting. man, that story. thank you very much. >>> still to come, just how far reaching is the ukrainian scandal from the secretary of energy to the acting chief of staff? a l

rudy giuliani and mike flynn. than there is rudy giuliani and don mcgahn. mcgahn ultimately cooperated with the mueller probe, when he had to face uncomfortable choices sort of chose the country, tried to walk that line and still work for the president. rudy giuliani seems to make different choices. >> yeah, decidedly and defiantly different choices, and as you said, nicolle, it seems to me that the main -- the main implication of what you're saying, which strikes me as obviously true, is that michael cohen is in jail and paul manafort is in jail and don mcgahn is not in jail, and if you had to ask me which side of the line rudy giuliani's in danger of being, that's another way in which not just his attitude and his temperament but i think that as this thing expands and deepens, simultaneously, i think the questions surrounding rudy giuliani's criminal exposure are going to become central to this investigation and i'm not predicting where that will end. i'm not saying he will end up in the same place as paul manafort and michael cohen, but i'm saying he's i

written that he'd been asked to take a loyalty oath, that he'd been asked to stop investigating mike flynn, andy mccabe when he was badgered by donald trump about his wife's political ambitions and ultimately for opening the field investigation that included donald trump. they seemed to have risked everything to pull an alarm on donald trump. and it would seem that the alaw is still ringing. what did you find in reporting this out? >> this really goes to the heart of the whole son sent of the deep state. trump has branded anyone, and certainly anyone in law enforcement who stands up to him, not just as just deep state but as a traitor, somebody who might even deserve the death penalty. jim comey told me this on the record for the book he never heard the content deep state. but to him it means, yes, we do have a deep state. and thank god we do. we have a professional bureaucracy in this country who take an oath of allegiance to the constitution of the united states. they work for the people of the united states. they do not work for the white house or the president. and, in fact, we have a

and general flynn, general mike flynn doing a sentence because he was doing some things in which he was getting paid by foreign governments as well and not admitting to it. from what you heard giuliani was doing, does he face the same kind of legal jeopardy mr. flynn and mr. manafort have faced? >> he certainly faces the possibility, the strong possibility of that kind of jeopardy. we've talked about this before in the context of mueller. criminal cases which require prosecutors to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt are built on bricks. and each different piece of evidence is a brick. this $500,000 payment to giuliani from these ukrainian americans is clearly a big piece of evidence. evidence of what? we don't know yet and he's right we shouldn't speculate but we're starting to see some of the dots connecting. we know these men were being paid to influence american foreign policy. they were trying to get inukrainian ambassador out. who wanted them out besides just them, who in ukraine wanted them out? and was giuliani being paid in part or in whole to help with that? we don't kno

creepy crescendo at the 2016 republican convention, when trump advisers like chris christie and mike flynn led the crowd in chants of "lock her up, lock her up." and what did they want to lock her up for? for her e-mails. >> as a former federal prosecutor, i welcome the opportunity to hold hillary rodham clinton accountable for her performance and her character. [ cheers and applause ] [ crowd chanting: lock her up ] >> lock her up! that's right. yes, that's right. lock her up! i'm going to tell you what. it's unbelievable. >> this didn't come from the democratic primary. but all through the general election, right, candidate trump would get as much mileage as possible out of the ongoing, not just conservative, but especially the media obsession hillary clinton's e-mails. >> this is bigger than watergate. we have only seen the tip of the iceberg. she should be in prison. let me tell you. she deleted the e-mails. she has to go to jail. she shouldn't be allowed to run. [ crowd chanting: lock her up ] >> she was allowed to run. sorry. but the state department investigation into hillary clinto

just ask george papadopoulos, mike flynn, and paul manafort. garrett haake on capitol hill, neal katyal, thank you, both. >>> when we come back, a new warning from anonymous. the administration insider behind the now-famous resistance op-ped is back and ready to tell all in a new book. we can only imagine how this news is going to go over with an already cranky president. >>> also, donald trump today compared his impeachment in congress to a lynching drawing condemnation from across the political divide at a time when public support for his impeachment and removal from office is at an all-time high in two brand-new polls. >>> also ahead, donald trump hands vladimir putin another win in turkey. while blockbuster new reporting reveals donald trump to be the puppet after all. we'll bring you those stories next. i'm still going for my best... even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'll go for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke ri

it's important to remember while we don't know if these two stories are linked we do know that mike flynnonfessed to lying to the feds about this very issue with turkey. the news about rudy giuliani continues to pile up and we have more on that just ahead. we have more on that just ahead. steven could only imaginem 24hr to trenjoying a spicy taco.burn, now, his world explodes with flavor. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day all-night protection. can you imagine 24-hours without heartburn? pain happens. saturdays happen. aleve it. aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. do your asthma symptoms ever hold you back? about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. fasenra is an add-on injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. fasenra is not a rescue medicine or for other eosinophilic conditions. fasenra is proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, improve br

when president trump's first national security adviser mike flynn was indicted for lying to investigatorsat he lied to them about was his secret conversations with the russian government about u.s. sanctions on russia. the obama administration instituted sanctions against russia. flynn was telling them not to be worry about it, now that trump was getting in. soon after trump arrived in washington, michael isakoff was first to report the first order of business for the trump landing team at the state department was also to try to come up with a way to unilaterally relieve u.s. sanctions on russia. now it emerges that what president trump has been trying to do in ukraine is not only to get that country to help him with his 2020 re-election effort, but he's been trying to undo the u.s. government's conclusion that russia attacked us in the 2016 election, something for which we sanctioned russia. he is also reportedly been trying to pressure ukraine into settling with russia over russia's ongoing war and occupation in that country. "the new york times" reporting this weekend that trump has qu

. >> they had mike flynn on the payroll? >> i want to bring in laura hancock with cleveland.com. laura, president trump won in places like ohio because he promised to make people's lives better. that was brought up again last night. take a listen. >> here in ohio, in the latest job data, ohio is losing jobs under donald trump. he has broken his promises to ohio and the industrial midwest. >> i ride my own chevy. it's a chevy cruze, used to be built right in lordstown, which is now one more symbol of the broken promises that this president has made to workers. >> do you think that people of ohio are ready for a different option? >> i think it just depends. i think suburban voters for the most part, even though they are trending more blue, i think that economically, if they're not suffering, i don't know if they're willing to go for a democratic candidate, especially if the person is seen as too liberal, too progressive. and yes, it is true that farmers are suffering under the tariffs, especially soybean farmers and also people who worked in auto and manufacturing, auto jobs, they

. -- t with mike flynn during before the inauguration, we laid everything out. kilometers t 30 north of raqqa. are we estion was how going to do raqqa? and we paused. nd president obama passed that decision over to trump. because there were three ways -- four ways to do it. russians do it. we could do it on our own, which is going to be very costly. could arm the ypg, a decision that had not been made yet, develop a plan with turkey which had been developed in the obama administration, which would have require tens of thousands of american troops and a hodgepodge of opposition so ps and turkish military we looked at that whole thing and paused for almost 4 1/2 massive d did a strategic review and we sent our best military planners to turkey the operation with the turks. we literally, we literally, every stone was unturned. at one point, a senior military official went to a parade ground we're going to see the turkish opposition force that was going to work with us to take raqqa, and nobody was there. because the cleric that these guys answer to have determined t

then he asks us to close the investigation into mike flynn. that for me personally was a bit of a rubicon that we had crossed. up until that point i'm never quite sure, are these odd interactions and requests just the act of someone who doesn't really understand the intricacies and the sensitivity of the white house/fbi relationship? but with the request to close the flynn investigation, it became clear to us that he does not like the fact that we are investigating russian involvement in that campaign. and then, of course, in may, president trump fires director comey. and after he fired -- the day before that's made final, he asks the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein to write a memo justifying the firing. he asks the deputy attorney general to please put russia in your memo. the deputy attorney general says, i don't think that's a good idea. and he says, i understand you feel that way but i'm asking you to do it anyway. after he fires the director, he tells lester holt on the news that when he fired the drishgt, he was thinking about ru

it now -- this allegation has surfaced that the form they used to document the interview of mike flynna dedicated american patriot chosen by donald trump to be the national security advisor, right? a military hero, is being investigated and interviewed for a crime that isn't even real. the logan act is the unconstitutional mess that has never been prosecuted successfully in the history of the united states. so he is being interviewed for essentially a fake crime. he gives an interview where the fbi acknowledges he is in no way deceptive about a conversation he had with the russian ambassador which is perfectly ethical. he is then sent to jail for lying when the fbi said he didn't lie and now there is some evidence surfacing that they manipulated evidence to get this american patriot locked up. this is a cosmic level disgrace, ladies and gentlemen, that even the left should be asking questions about. but they won't. because the tier ran any streak is strong with them. ed: dan, it's happening in a broader context. disgrace if this was the only incident. it's happening in a case where may

. >> and you made a really good point because mike pence vanishes into the draperies whenever anything goes wrong. on the michael flynnituation he supposedly had no idea it was going on, was lied to and this is why flynn -- so he keeps on -- he's the excuse that he's just sort of the pristine figure, but not only is he involved in everything to your very point, the start of this conspiracy theory that donald trump seems to really believe in that really russia did nothing wrong, that the reality is that the evil ukranians, they're the ones who went after him, but started by going after manafort. and so the conspiracy theory is this. this is in the yiems. there is an idea promoted by rudy giuliani that ukraine's government sabotaged mr. trump's 2016 campaign. a lawyer looked into the finances of paul manafort and spoke with the embassy officials. now, this is meaning that ukraine actually caught manafort from taking the pro-russian president. manafort then gets in trouble and goes to prison. who -- who picked mike pence to be the vice president of the united states? who brought mike pence to the table? paul manafort. he

if you look at jill stein she would hang out with mike flynn and vladimir putin. >> martha: she wants the middle east. is that true message that tulsi gabbard has put out. >> that helps vladimir putin and helps russia. it threatens israel. threatens stability in the world and it releases isis into attack. it should concern all of us. >> martha: prior things in the prior administration as well. >> her position is very similar to donald trump's. >> martha: thank you, guys. good to see you tonight. >> thank you. >> martha: karl rove in texas and robert zimmerman next to me. thank you. has the violence really stopped i and where are we going. >> without a tough love -- you know what t without a little tough love, they would have never made this deal. ♪ ♪ k & lobster is back. oh no, it's gone. phew, it's back with lobster mac & cheese. it's gone again. oh, it's back with shrimp now! steak & lobster starting at only $15.99. hurry in before these three are gone again. outback steakhouse. i need all the breaks as athat i can get.or, at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. libert