>> yeah, to ask of me because that means that you really have not studied mike flynn. >> smith: well, you to address it. >> no, no, it's a, it's a, it's really... that was really a dumb question. >> smith: okay. smith: flynn eventually got so upset with my questions that he got up and walked off. >> this is why ap... see ap won't this, so because of this interview, because of this interview, i will never talk to ap again. that was dumb. >> why don't we go into another area? >> that was dumb. i'll never speak to ap again because of this interview. >> smith: okay. >> that's, that's it. i'm, i'm done, i'm don >> smith (voiceor): i've continued to correspond with flynn but he doesn't really answer my questions. ♪ ♪ after the insurrection, flynn moved to florida. he made it the base of operations for a well-financed network of organizations. i've tracked these groups through campaign finance records and corporate and charity filings. some of them are non-profits. some of them we don't know what they are. those include america's future, resilient patriot, tower 1 llc, there is also digital

the next day don mcghan comes down to see me and he says do you realize the fbi just interviewed mike flynn, they set up their own appointment without security clearances, they came in and interviewed flynn. and that leaked. not to mention the drama of the next few weeks. then the leaks about everything else. jared met with a guy who was a banker from russia. don, jr. met with a guy who happened to be a russian. we had this drama day in and day out every single day in the white house for the first year. it was insane and it was all phoney. brian: it hurt the country. they spent a million dollars to try to get the dossier verified and christopher steele said no, i can't. we needed a three-hour show to go over all of this. but the republicans seem on in a real strong spot. thanks so much. how are the trump candidates making up ahead of the mid-terms. bill hemmer breaks it down. it's been a sticker shock for americans all over the country. we get the pulse of the shoppers trying t has not been reported. . brian: "one nation" went out to a new jersey grocery store to see how middle class famili

mike flynn did not respond to a request from reuters for comment. jason zappe. he shares a byline on this reporting. john heilemann's still here. first of all, what a triumph of journalism in specifically unpacking the assault on elections and democracy. take me through the reporting. >> nicolle, thank you. we, our political investigations team examines the america project, as you mentioned, you know, this was co-founded by mike flynn and as you've documented on your show many times, he was a prominent voice in the stop the steal movement to overturn the 2020 election. we found that the america project was involved in something akin to a covert intelligence-gathering operation in eight battleground states where they met with and interviewed more than 260 election officials. we spoke with 45 of those officials. in nearly every case they said they felt like they'd been deceived. the people who conducted the interviews never made clear that they were from the america project. they described themselves as non-partisan people, grassroots people who just

how is it that the pentagon justifies allowing mike flynn to keep not only his rank but his pension,y after all the treasonous act he has committed in trying to overthrow our democratic process? i have looked high and low, everywhere. i can't find a sensible reason why this man hasn't been brought up on charges. can you explain that, please? thank you. guest: i think i can and those are great questions. as you recall, mike flynn pled lt to lying to the fbi about his relationship with russian officials when he was the nationals dirty advisor for president trump and president trump pardoned him of that crime . it isn't that you can just go in and take his pension. in our reporting on retired u.s. generals and admirals working for governments, one aspect of the case that people forget about is that he actually got in trouble for going to moscow to have dinner with vladimir putin and other russian officials at an anniversary program for "russia today," their propaganda tv channel. this is one of those cases where he didn't apply for permission to take money from a foreign government. was

process changes, the one of the things the fbi goes in interview someone, when they interviewed mike flynndid a 302 and write things down and prosecuting michael flynn we think those interviews so should be an audiotape of that so we can get the fax of what took place because they know they would set up michael flynn in the early days of the trump administration. maybe we need to do with their funding certainly we need to make changes to the pfizer reauthorize which will come up in the next congress those are key things we need to look at. then also the impeachment question, the committee will look at that'll be a decision for the entire conference under then speaker mccarthy. maria: the republican national committee is also saying that google suppressed 22 million plus gop e-mails sent september i spoke with ronna mcdaniel the other day she says all of your e-mails that get out the vote e-mails are going to spam and it's because of an algorithm google created, what is the media's role here? >> it certainly does not surprise me i was one of four members of congress who twitter shadow band

people like mike flynn who was of course the former national security adviser of the former president. he remained a strong ally of the former president and a key part of the effort to try to get the overturn of the election and to push these fraud claims. people like roger stone, steven bannon, rudy giuliani and jeffrey clark and john eastman. these are two key architects and allies of the former president as he was trying to find desperate ways to remain in power in those days after the election, wolf. >> but the key question remains, will the committee actually get the former president's testimony. >> well that remains to be seen. we don't think that the former president is of course going to just turn over everything. he has hired a lawyer to help litigate some of this. he has a number of options. one is that he could cooperate and turn over those documents and come in for a deposition. he has said at least on his social media platform that he's prepared to come in and do a live interview with the committee. of course the committee is not prepared to do it that way. the other opti

through people like roger stone, mike flynn, these top political operatives who are potentially servingaries. because we know that people like stone were talking to the proud boys and the oath keepers. in, fact on january six, the oath keepers where the personal security detail for roger stone. so, because of these connections, i think the january six committee is sitting there and in this report a wants to make this connection. i do know though that the committee doesn't have anything concrete that links stone directly to the january 6th attack. but i think what they're going to show is there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that stone was deeply involved in one way or the other. >> the committee chair bennie thompson has promised at least one more hearing before the midterms. i want your assessment is of what that's going to mean for republicans on the campaign trail. >> this is sunday but they've been wanting to stay away from. they don't want to answer questions about january 6th, they don't want to answer questions about whether or not they think the 2020 election was a free inte

the oath keeper who protected mike flynn in mid to late december and his ties. the ties between trump's most senior insurrection advisors and the extremists, many of whom are on trial, some for seditious conspiracy. they also played this inner circle pleading the fifth. talk about the importance of closing with that. >> you know, i heard the fifth so many times in these interviews, nicole, i almost woke up my wife thinking she's yelling the fifth amendment at me. crazy to see that. when you talk about the oath keepers and proud boys, right-wing extremist groups, there's a lot of stuff going to be, nicole. why was an oath keeper texting andrew giuliani? why was that happening? why was that going back and forth? why did we have rally planners with specific links to rhodes and tario? why did we have the white house with outgoing calls to riders on the day off? what you see the committee doing is looking at roger stone's videos. he seems to be a pivot point in all of this. we knew this. the evidence is there. the data links are there. we have him on video. we have h

we have seen, you know, mike flynn, john eastman, jeffrey clark go in and plead the fifth.their goal. there's going to be a legal dance. there's going to be negotiating that's probably not negotiating. there may be some legal maneuvering. but it's all to buy time. they know the committee has an end date. and they're going to try to run out the clock. >> you know, on the subject of january 6 and the committee, paul, a federal judge is ordering the release of emails from john eastman, one of trump's former lawyers to the january 6th committee. and the judge said that these materials could be released because they fit into the so-called crime fraud exception. how high is the bar for that? >> well, it is a high bar, john. the crime fraud exception really pierces what is considered to be one of the most sacred things in the practice of law and that is the attorney/client privilege. you sit down with your lawyer, you community with your lawyer. that's always considered confco confi confidential. but there's one exception if the lawyer and client are conspireing to commit a crime

trump national security adviser mike flynn was there. roger stone was there.mer president trump's son eric was there. at one point he got up on stage and put his father on the phone from the stage to try to get the crowd all hyped up. at one point, they really did pray from the stage for a holy ghost virus to infect all the computers and destroy the computers so no computers will function until after the election is over. they also didn't just pray for donald trump to come back as president. they said that trump is coming back right away before the end of the year. one. leaders of this group said we'll go dark and when the lights come organization worldwide celebrations are coming. we will see the return this year. 45 comes back. not by his will but by god's will. god's will that trump will come back this year. the same guy kind of led the event then prayed for the angel of death to visit all of trump's enemies by the end of this year, too. they put all the enemies up on a banner to pray for their death. that's some of how the election is going right now. that

we've seen john eastman, jeffrey clark, mike flynn come in and take the fifth.trump says publicly he would love to testify, that is classic donald trump. that works until it's time to testify. so i think what we're going to see is the subpoena come out tomorrow and then these lawyers, they know the committee has an end date and they're going to try to run out the clock. >> that's going to be significant. andrew, we're learning that trump's lawyers are considering whether to allow federal investigators, including the fbi, to go back and search mar-a-lago once again. do you expect the investigators would agree to another supervised search? >> if i had to be highly unlikely. now it's not impossible. frequently, law enforcement will engage in what we refer to consent searches of a property. when the owner is willing to allow us in to look for that evidence that we believe is inside. it's possible they could come to an agreement in this case to do that sort of work, but it would absolutely be at doj's assistance. that no part of the property would be off limits. it's

hired the same firm that represented a number of committee witnesses, including disgraced general mike flynn so, it certainly seems -- that's why we haven't seen a subpoena. by the way, for more let's turn to congresswoman zoloft minh. she serves with the january six committee. congresswoman, welcome, why haven't we seen the subpoena yet? >> well, as you pointed out we did need to find out which attorney to serve this on and i think we are just tying up solutions. it will be very soon. it's not a big issue. >> i suspect >> as of this morning, we got the name of the lawyer. >> so you have the lawyer? now you think it'll happen relatively eminent imminently. there's not some decision you have made that this doesn't make sense? >> right. >> i suspect that you are going to have to prepare the subpoena and prepare the committee to fight a legal battle here. and i'm curious about how you are thinking about that legal battle because i think it's almost certain that there will be some kind of filing from the presidents attorneys about why they don't have to listen to this. >> well, we looked at prio

you have people like former trump national security adviser mike flynn who said last week at a public fund-raiser in arizona. take a listen. >> states rights. do you know that a governor can declare war? governor can declare war. okay. we are probably going to see that. >> two things there. you can fact check the governor and then you can talk to me just about how dangerous that rhetoric is, coming from someone who has this type of platform? >> yeah, it's particularly disappointing for me. i knew general flynn, he was colonel flynn back then, and just to hear that type of talk is very upsetting. superbly, governors don't have the right to declare war. and this entire notion that each state would go to war with each other's just nonsensical. i think the danger in that is general flynn knows it's nonsensical. i actually don't think he believes in a lot of it, but that rhetoric is belief, and it is believed in the online environment. groups like qanon. i think a year ago qanon was mostly dead, but part of them embrace these politicians, donald trump being one, general flynn being another

politico also reports today that trump has hired a separate law firm that also represents mike flynnth the subpoena. now, over at one of the justice department investigations into the president, this one being the mar-a-lago documents fiasco, most sources close to trump tells cnn that the former president is considering a more cooperative approach in that matter. by allowing federal agents to search us property again. this reportedly because the justice department thinks there might still be some government records at his palm beach club. once the trump has refused to hand over. but if past is prologue, we know what happens after these reports of trump willing to cooperate. we know how they and. don't hold your breath. ld your breath trying to control my asthma felt anything but normal. ♪ ♪ enough was enough. i talked to an asthma specialist and found out my severe asthma is driven by eosinophils, a type of asthma nucala can help control. now, fewer asthma attacks and less oral steroids that's my nunormal with nucala. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic

of people including people like the oath keepers, the proud boys, some of his former allies like mike flynn, rudy giuliani. and of course the committee goes through the list of the allegations against the former president, some of which they say are supported by people in his administration, people inside his own white house. they say, you were at the center of the first and only by a u.s. president to overturn an election and obstruct the peaceful transition of power. and what the president is also being asked to do is to appear for a deposition on november 14th. this would be behind closed doors, he would be taking questions from the committee staff, from committee members. the committee in their letter to the former president point out that there are some of them who are former prosecutors who will be doing these questions. and as you pointed out, the former president's legal team says they are going to review the subpoena. we don't anticipate, erin, that there's going to be a lot of cooperation if the past is prologue. >> right, if. and of course you look at this 14-page rant that he wr

like mike flynn, roger, stone and all those individuals.lel with all of this violent language. you have all of this oh i just don't know how this communication intelligence breakdown could happen this way. you also have the g.a.o. they were talking about this since 2017 there were a lot of issues. a lot of things the united states capitol police could do to improve their posture for security around the capitol. i think of a couple of administrations, political pointy's. a lot of people going through these breakdowns. i think the best report you could generate, which nancy pelosi dictated him to do, which is pretty simple case it's a scathing report about what needs to be done to protect the capital. it is going to bother me for sometime it's a person who is an intelligence who said this would happen, there's certainly enough evidence to say that there is massive breakdowns, but i want to say this quickly to your audience. there were no conspiracy theories. this was a breakdown of communications and intelligence that i just believe that inte

politico also reports today that trump has hired a separate law form that also represents mike flynnally deal with the subpoena. now, over at one of the justice department investigations into the president, this one being the mar-a-lago documents fiasco, most sources close to trump tells cnn that the former president is considering a more cooperative approach in that matter. by allowing federal agents to search us property again. this reportedly because the justice department thinks there might still be some government records at his palm beach club. once the trump has refused to hand over. but if past is prologue, we know what happens after these reports of trump willing to cooperate. we know how they and. don't hold your breath. stories of bipolar depression. i just couldn't find my way out of it. the lows of bipolar depression can take you to a dark place. latuda could make a real difference in your symptoms. latuda was proven to significantly reduce bipolar depression symptoms. and in clinical studies, had no substantial impact on weight. this is where i want to be. call your doc

we've seen links between the oath keepers and proud boys and roger stone and mike flynn but we're not the plot. so i'm looking for. that also it is reported that we will hear more about the secret service messages that we're missing but now have been restored and over a million of them returned, turned over to the committee. you know, now they've had a chance to shift through those and share with us the highlights i will be curious to hear what is in them. remember we had cassidy hutchison tell the story about donald trump was quite insistent to go to the hospital, on january 6th. it seems like we've seen sort of shades about a plan, of a second rally, near the capitol, maybe on the steps of the supreme court, maybe they can shed some light on what was going on there. because that could tie donald trump to the activities at the capitol. so those are some things i will be looking for. >> certainly i will be looking as well. i know the secret service has asked for the agent's personal phones as well. they've been seized. we'll find out if any of that information shows up tomorrow during

clear that he's not quite ready to pull the trigger on this proposed government intervention that mike flynn, the former national security advisor, is telling him he should do. he sees seizing the voting cracks like in a fascist regime in italy. yes. using executive orders to do so, he suddenly seizes on january six and throws all of his energy into it. and i would put that as an example. why do you think so little stick it to him? why is he the ultimate teflon president? i think a couple of things. i think the fact that he was part of the popcorn fabric for so long and part of this does relate to the apprentice, which you mentioned, not entirely, but what became clear in 16 was that voters felt very his voters felt very bonded to him in ways that they really didn't with previous candidates. there was this huge desire to win, and voters were willing to overlook a lot. and then they got in the habit of overlooking all kinds of things and i just think that the partizan divide is so hardened that there was half the country is now not interested in forgiving him much if he's the nominee again. i

mike: phil flynn, thanks so much for your time and analysis. >> thanks, mike.ick a federal -- mike: a federal judge ordering the deposition of dr. anthony fauci and other officials like former white house press secretary jen psaki as part of a lawsuit by two republican attorneys general who have accused the administration of colluding with social media companies to, quote, censor free speech. charles watson is live with more. hi, charles. >> reporter: yeah, hey, good afternoon, mike. this order makes way for biden administration officials to be deposed in a lawsuit brought by the attorney generals of louisiana and missouri. the suit alleges that administration officials colluded with social media companies to censor the free speech of everyday or americans who posted about controversial topics including covid-19. now, this new order comes from trump-appointed u.s. district judge terry dody who said the plaintiffs satisfied the burden of proof to to get the testimony of top white house officials including former press secretary jen psaki and white house adviser,

ordered her boss, the day before, her boss, chief of staff mark meadows to call roger stone and mike flynnepers. potential line of communication from the trump white house to far right extremist groups that would be responsible for much of the brutal violence that day. this that is of profound importance and in all we learned this week in the conspiracy trial, the founders of the oath keepers to gather evidence and testimony combined to illustrate just how far that group is willing to go. they have prepared for violence it was in order to stop the peaceful transfer of power on january 6th on behalf of donald trump. well, one witness said in the aftermath of the election, "it sounded like we were going to war against the united states government." group chats read allowed in court suggested members envisioned january 6th like "1776 all over again." stewart rhodes himself insisted at the time that trump should, quote, use the insurrection act, using phrases like bloody civil war and revolution. of chief concern, a bombshell from the courtroom yesterday. a former oath keeper testified that he

i understand the response from a lot of people like mike flynn and people around that space has beenlay that to their bases. donald trump's base is different than the people who like to plead the fifth and laugh in the face of the law. he likes to do it more active than that. if he can make a primetime special out of it, he might do that. >> before we wrap up here, your takeaways? they are taking about potentially obstruction of justice and other actions. as we have been reporting, this committee most likely will go out of business with the end of the year. >> yeah. hindsight is 20/20. there might be monday morning quarterbacking on whether or not it was a good idea to wait this long to issue that subpoena to donald trump. frankly, the easiest way to get someone with donald trump who you might generously say has a tough relationship with the truth and you might not so generously say is a habitual liar, the easier way to get limb would have been to put him in front of the committee and have him testify under oath. what he probably would do is probably not tell the truth. just based on

she was up on the stage with likes of mike lindell, michael flynn, all of those folks.lenn youngkin is campaigning with her on wednesday. she can talk about water. she talks about inflation. she introduced a policy measure to take back the grocery tax in arizona. >> she has no fact in immigration. >> this is the issue here is that she is presenting policies not only through campaign television advertisements, through her rallies as well, that suddenly it's easy to forget what she believes when it comes to election denialism. she doesn't walk back from any of these claims, and she just said a week ago when donald trump was in town at the rally for anybody that thinks she's going to step away from trump, they need to pick up the crack pipe belonging to someone in the biden family. she has called for perp walks for people to be arrested. at the same time the folks of arizona are being presented a more polished, someone backed by the likes of these establishment republican figures in the state. >> i guess it speaks to the rot on the right. it's like "the truman show." it to

alex jones, mike lindell, steve bannon, marjorie greene, michael flynn, roger stone. the whole gang might be on soon. >> oh, yeah. i would assume pretty soon that will happen. he talked today about establishing a council to go through why people were -- why people were booted off that are allowed back in. then he said later on, if you were kicked off for frivolous reasons, we'll let you back on. what's a frivolous reason to elon musk? i really don't know. part of the reason, the issue is this guy doesn't understand space or he's willfully ignorant to the space. the reason that, for example, instances of the n word were up hundreds of percentage points today on twitter is because that was pushed from 4chan and a bunch of challenges on the far right spaces to see what you could get away with, to see if it wasn't just the anti-trans stuff that was allowed again. if you could say everything else, every other hate. they have largely gotten away with it over the course of the day. i don't know what the site is going to look like. day one is not pretty. but it's either what