deputy campaign manager arrested, rick se ts, steve bannon, his a national security advisor arrest, mike flynn, his personal lawyer mike cohen, his long-time political adviser roger stone, and his campaign foreign policy adviser arrested, george ai papadopolous, and his inaugural campaign chairman arrested, that's today, elliott brady, his private company indicted, the trump organization, the chief financial organization of his private company arrested, allen weisselberg. his foundation/charity shut down after a fraud. that's the trump foundation. his, quote, unquote, school shut down after a fraud suit settlement, trump university. and not to mention during his one single term as president, not one, not two, not three, noe four, but five of his cabinet secretaries were referred for federal criminal prosecution, in one term. we just today got the inspector general report on trump congress secretary wilbur ross and all of the details of how that investigation concluded that wilbur ross lied to congress on multiple occasions to cover up what the trump administration mp was trying to do to mess w

mike flynn was also, eventually, pardoned by then president trump. but there was that truly unnerving foreign agent case against flynn's business partner, where prosecutors in point laid out the case that flynn and his business partner had been on the payroll of a foreign country! while trump had been working on things like, oh, i don't, no vetting candidates to be director of the cia. congratulations, trump's first cia director, mike pompeo, two of the guys who helped choose you for that job, were secret agents working for a different country when they picked youiffe nt flynn, of course, was pardoned. his business partner, who was charged in that case will of the foreign agent charges, his case has been banging around in the courts for more than a year now, but we are expecting his case back in february -- back in federal courts, that might shed some for the like there. that but how is it uncanny, how many people were working at the top levels of the last administration in the campaign that created the last administration where, a, where felons, and

. >> carol, you both write former nsa advisor mike flynn's speech before the rally. don't get bent out of shape, he said. there are still avenues. he added, the courts are not going to decide who the next president of the united states is going to be. we, the people, decide. how much was mike flynn in trump's ear in the weeks after the election leading up to january 6th? >> such an important question, because this is what made senior leaders at the pentagon feel like their hair was on fire. the whisperers like mike flynn who were in that conversation in december telling people, hey, maybe we could have martial law. the president could declare martial law and collect all the election ballots. or maybe we could rerun the election. all these things have nothing to do with the law, nothing to do with how our elections are run. these whisperers -- and flynn was key among them -- were telling the president there was a way for him to maintain his grip on power. you see in that statement what michael flynn and others like him, including the proud boys and the oath keepers, p

this is a big thing with mike flynn. mike flynn has told qanon supporters, to run for local office. for school board and get involved in the education of our children. that's a big thing. they are sick of waiting for a plan to happen. they are trying to make it happen themselves. >> i'm glad to be reporting on this, ben, eugene, meghan. thank you all. we mentioned that congressman laura goldberg got pppe for her restaurant and that was incorrect. >>> the people in cuba, taking a stand against their government. >>> president biden answering haiti's call for help. >>> first, cori coffin is standing by with the other big stories we're watching this hour on msnbc. >>> officials in denver have arrested four people on various weapons and drug charges, after receiving a tip from a downtown hotel. several events planned for the upcoming major league baseball all-star game. the fbi says there's no evidence to suggest the all-star game was ever at risk. >>> senate majority leader chuck schumer wants the justice department to investigate the nra for bankruptcy fraud. he says the group abused t

and mike flynn is an interesting example because he was trump's first national security adviser. if there hadn't been an fbi investigation and he had stayed in longer, things could've gone much worse from the very beginning. >> but that's the least of it. he's a qanon guy now. >> trump has admitted in his crazy statements that he only picked general milley to spite jim mattis his former defense secretary which is a remarkable admission. >> mattis and obama didn't like milley. therefore i picked him. >> remember that trump thought that he had picked his guy. and in my reporting i don't think it's in the piece, but one of the things i was struck by was milley saying to others when confronted with this exact thing, somebody said but you were supposed to be trump's guy. he said, well, they got the wrong guy. so it was almost an accident that trump didn't get the loyalist he wanted. >> oh, god. susan, paul, bill, abby, thank you so much. i wish i were going into the weekend feeling better about things. be sure to catch abby this sunday hosting "inside politics" with abby phillip. that

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this is a big thing with mike flynn. mike flynn has told qanon supporters -- told all his fans but qanon supporters intersected them -- to run for local office, to run for the local school board. they are ready to go take the bull by the corns here. they are sick of waiting for a plan to happen. >> i'm glad you are reporting on this, ben. thank you all. >>> earlier in the show we mentioned lauren boeg ert received ppp loans for her restaurant. that was incorrect and we apologize for the error. >>> president biden answers haiti's call for help sending in a team to assess the political instability that is on the brink of humanitarian crisis. >>> first to cory kaufman who is standing by with the other big stories we're watching this hour at msnbc. >> officials in denver have arrested various people on drugs and weapons charges. close to several events planned for the upcoming major league baseball all-star game. the fbi says there's no evidence to suggest the all-star game was ever at risk. >>> senate majority leader chuck

mike flynn was also eventually pardoned by then-president trump, but there was that truly unnerving foreign agent case against flynn's business partner where prosecutors in court laid out the case that flynn and his business partner had been on the payroll of a foreign country while trump had them working on things like, oh, i don't know, vetting candidates to be director of the cia. yeah, congratulations, trump's first cia director, mike pompeo, two of the guys who helped choose you for that job according to prosecutors were secret foreign agents working for another country when they picked you. flynn, of course, was pardoned. his business partner, who was charged in that case about the foreign agent -- the foreign agent charges, his case has been banging around in the courts for more than a year now, but we are expecting his case back in federal district court soon for a sentencing proceeding. so it may shed some further light there. boy, is it uncanny how many people were working at the top levels of the last administration and the campaign that created the last administration who, a, we

trump's justice department dropped its case against trump national security advisor mike flynn despite flynn having pled guilty twice to lying to the fbi. and, you know, don't forget we're just talking about this just this week, not one, not two, three, but five different cabinet secretaries were referred for criminal prosecution while trump was in office, and in all five cases, in the case of all five of the cabinet secretaries trump's justice department says, nah, seems fine, we'll past. that's just off the top of my head, just a handful of the cases where the trump justice department appeared to intervene in and shut down cases involving trump's friends and allies. those are just the ones that -- it is not even all of the ones we know about, it is literally the ones can riff on. how many cases were slow walked or delayed or quashed, right? are we going to learn about those? how many cases were shut down and not prosecuted at all? how many were slowed down like barrack's? are we ever going to learn about those? you know what? to be honest though there is one silver lining to the as-y

remember, mike flynn makes a call. that starts this whole chain of events.r, then we're at sessions. that guy is like -- he's patience zero for getting russia into the trump administration. >> but explain why, because it's possible we listen to him, right? >> i never understood this. if you're mike flynn and you're claiming to be a big counterintel pro and head of the dia and you make a call from a third country to a russian diplomat on a connection, i don't know why you would do that. of course there's a good chance. if it wasn't intercepted, i don't know what our taxpayers are buying for billions of dollars. i'd be shocked if there wasn't. >> and the russians are listening too, right? >> oh, yeah. >> it's far from a private call. >> yeah. it's literally like -- it reminds in zoolander when he holds up the thing, where's the files in the computer. how do you not know the basics as the head of the dia about how call intercepts work. the second is kislyak obviously makes calls, you know, back to russia after he has every meeting with people in the trump campa

just as the sun rises, mike flynn has to say something crazy. d 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 continue even as we shift to this new phase we're going to be talking about. >> reporter: it's the second time the u.s. has ended combat in iraq after presiden

one of the people they follow is mike flynn.ffice. they have taken that and put that at the top of their qanon forums. and they will say, explicitly by the way, a person said qanon parents you should do this. the top post was "there is no qanon." stop saying qanon. they look to brand them extremists. if you say we're qanon everything we say is viewed as toxic. >> you quoted someone that say if you identify as a qanon people will think you're crazy. but if you say you're passionate about saving children and protecting them from trafficking then you're no longer a crazy cult people. people on the forums, whether or not they call it q or not, understand that and are reframing the way that they talk about some of these issues. i should not say issues, i should say conspiracies. >> that's the thing, too, by the way. these are not real issues. one county in florida a guy went up to the podium a few months ago and said that masks are a boom for child trafficking. if you talk to trafficking organizations that try to stop trafficking the

you have paul manafort, rick gates, rudy giuliani, even mike flynn.atement from a barrack spokesman, it says that mr. barrack has made himself voluntarily available to investigators from the outset, he is not guilty and he will be pleading not guilty. now on tuesday, a judge ordered barrack to remain behind bars at least until monday so that they can have another hearing on this question of bail. prosecutors have suggested that barrack is indeed a flight risk. laura, julia. >> thank you for that. it used to be the justice department never brought charges like this, but clearly they are ramping it up and making it a priority. really interesting to see how this plays out. >>> it was perhaps the best performance of his career. 50 points for giannis to end milwaukee's 50 year championship drought. the "bleacher report" is next. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins? heartburn happens when stomach acid refluxes into the esophagus. prilosec otc uses a unique delayed-release formula that helps it pass through the tough stomac

then on inauguration day donald trump's incoming national security adviser mike flynn was texting withormer business partners about a hugely controversial private sector plan that would 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 day, we have 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 we'll 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 chairman of the national committee was helping spearhead a secret campaign to influence the white house and congress for the crown princes of saudi arabia and the uae, god, that keeps popping up again and again. he was later charged with conspiring to charge -- mr. broidy was a very busy man apparently and on the day before donald trump left office, he pardoned broidy. now we have the indict

mike flynn, rudy giuliani also investigated for possibly workingben haof foreign countries.context of that world it appears it really did not. the prosecutors say it was actually the former president is the one who's truly betrayed here by barrack. >> and what is his lawyer saying? >> his spokesman released a statement saying he's been making himself voluntarily available to investigators from the beginning. he has been ordered to remain behind bars until monday where they'll have another bail hearing. again, another person in the trump world in the federal criminal justice system. >> so they think he's a flight risk? >> there are concerns he is a flight risk. this is a guy who has extensive contacts, enormous network particularly in the middle east, all this work he's done. and he has almost unlimited financial resources. so there's absolutely a concern that he's a flight risk. i mean, the nature of these charges don't necessarily make you a threat to society or someone who should remain bars, but there is a concern he's a flight risk. and there's already at least one perso

you will remember, of course, that mike flynn had said he thought there should be martial law to reclaimuote 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 and a half hours interviewing the former president. listen to this. >> it was a loving crowd, too, by the way. there was a lot of love. i heard that from everybody. m

you saw people connected to mike flynn, one person convicted of lobbying for turkey and barrack workinghat 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 him for using that against his own country. let's play some video of morris from january 6th. i do want to warn viewers this contains disturbing images and language. >> take a look around. back up. we're going to take our capitol back. >> way to go. >> the message that the judge is sending is clear, right? you don't take

. >> there was a meeting at the white house where it was donald trump, mike flynn, the former national security adviser who has since become apparently some adherent of a qanon cult. and who also has been -- was talking quite publicly about declaring some sort of martial law of the national guard going in and re -- having another election in states that went for biden. where the lies were taking hold. and i don't know what happened in that meeting. as a former prosecutor, if you were given subpoena power, if you were put on this committee, what would you want to know? what would you look at? i'd be thrilled to know there's no executive privilege for my justice employees including jeffrey rosen and the likes who can tell me what was known. why was the ability to have some elements or foresight? what was the chatter going on? who knew what, when, and why was nothing done about it? that's why i did. >> to explain, the attorney general today said they were waiving executive privilege declarations for anybody at the justice department during that time. we interpret it to be jeffrey rosen, t

it was like mike flynn, mattis, all these people and what was striking about it was almost all thoseople were gone when the pandemic came. the first health secretary lasted like a year. i don't even know if they were paying attention during the briefing but so many people who the obama administration and try to help work on either beginning of year 4 when this pandemic happened. so they never really even had the playbook. they never even had the background conversation to know the questions to ask and who to call. >> that reminds me of kelly and and her office had this amazing photo everyone taking the pledge oninauguration day . and literally as you would go in her officeand you would see each person was whited out . she would like say, no longer in the white house so it was this last man standing of jared and kellyanne. this was from rjagain . the republican party has tried to use doctor fauci as a bogeyman to motivate voters . how much damage does thisdo to the coronavirus response ? >> i think it does a lot of damage . these are presidents the medical advisor. he's still out on t

it was amazing, it was like mike flynn, you know, mattis, all of these people, mick mulvaney and whattriking about it was almost all of those people were gone when the pandemic came. so many -- you know, tom price, the first health secretary lasted like a year. like so many of the people -- i don't even know if they were paying attention to the briefing but some of the people that obama administration had try today help and bring up to speed were gone by the beginning of of year 4 when the pandemic happened. they almost -- they never everyone had the playbook even the trump folks threw out the playbook. they never had the background conversation to know the questions to ask or who to call if such a thing were happen. >> that reminds me of kellyanne and her office had amazing photo of everyone getting sworn in taking the pledge on inauguration day and literally as you would go in her office and you would see each person whited out. she didn't literally white it out, no longer in the white house. bannon no longer in the white house. the last man standing of jared and kellyanne. this is

. >> joe, and i -- what i find even more amazing than mike flynn's consistently just insane comments,the u.s. military for 33 years and got rapidly promoted. he was stanley mcchrystal's right-hand man for years. he was promoted to the head of the defense intelligence agency by president obama. he managed to thrive within the military and no one noticed that he was a raging lunatic who, you know, seems to harbor some ideas of violence against his own countrymen and women. maybe that's an evolution in recent years but it's very, very disturbing that he was within the system and thrived for so long. >> was in the system, thrived for so long and had generals come on the show talking about how, in his time, he was very good at what he did. he got radicalized during the middle of the obama administration, especially when it comes to muslims and continues to become more and more radicalized, fired by barack obama, fired by donald trump. donald trump said he had no choice but to fire this man, because he lied to the fbi and he lied, of course, to vice president mike pence, and then, of course

you had mike flynn and other channels from the uae that were investigated for illegal lobbying and were> ben, mr. barrack invited senior emerati officials to give them a wish list of foreign policy moves they wanted washington to take the first 100 days, first year and by the end of mr. trump's term. talk us through what would happen in a normal environment where there was not a nexus of criminality. if someone came with a wish list, what would ordinarily be the response? >> well, i think, first of all, the normal thing would be to pursue that kind of wish list through established channels. that's why there are ambassadors who meet with sitting u.s. public officials and advocate for their country's interests and try to persuade the government, the u.s. government, that it's in our best interests to work with them. i think what's so, i think, dangerous about this is clearly they were not going through official channels. you have someone like barrack who based on the reports was making an enormous amount of money for his advocacy for the emirates, kind of back channeling in this wish list

it all has an echo to mike flynn and his conversations he lied about, was prosecuted for, pled guilty ex-president. he, too, was picked up communicating with the russian ambassador and with his experience had to have known there was a chance the united states government listened to him. what is the missing piece here for you, frank? what questions do you have? >> because of the source of this, which is tucker carlson, i have to tell you, i have great -- to even buy into this. i don't know what the truth is when it comes to tucker carlson's assertions. but, yes, look, if he's talking to people who have a governmental function or act on behalf of foreign adversary government officials like vladimir putin, it is possible -- i don't want to get into the highly classified details, but it's possible he was talking with targets in some way, shape or form. whether they were here on u.s. soil or whether it was something that had to be approved by a fisa court or even perhaps u.s. persons who are representing vladimir putin or the russian government is really not relevant to me as long as the r

i said lieutenant general mike flynn. it was lieutenant general charles flynn. i wanted to correct that. there were people in the room with me on that call that heard what they heard. sen. klobuchar: we will have to follow up with more questions. i appreciate your testimony. thank you. >> ranking member portman, your recognize for your question. sen. portman: thank you and thanks to our witnesses. can you continue to talk about your recollection, if you don't mind -- this morning, you testified you received this letter from former secretary mccarthy on january 5, the day before the attack on the capital. in that letter, did secretary mccarthy prohibit you from employing the national guard without his authorization? maj. gen. walker: i have the letter in front of me. his letter does not but it is the secretary of defense says i have to use it as a last resort. the secretary of the army told me --i have a letter. i could not use the quick reaction force. he would i will just read it. --i will hold authority to -- approve employment of the quick reaction force and

they used it against me and mike flynn and george papadopoulos.e able to take where the he recourse, the reconciliation is usually a civil retroactively filing that you can do but many of us involved in the mueller probe they used it to criminalize and to target and that's exactly what they're trying to use it for tom. if you think about it, maria, this is -- every president has outside advisors. all of these people that had the president's ear. what type of issues were they talking about. vernon jordan represented many foreign countries. the idea that tom was selected and targeted based on using an obscure law from many years ago is another tactic the prosecutors are able to use within the framework of the law because the law is ambiguous and it's a broken system and this is why they're going after tom because it's an easy one to get him on. maria: really a sad state of you affairs. we watched this over and over again, the politicization of all of our government agencies and here we have it right starkly in front of us. rick, it doesn't feel like