john. >> cnn's manu raju own capitol hill, manu, thank you very much. want to discuss all of these developments with cnn national security and legal analyst susan hennessey. thank you for being with us. help me understand the myriad legal issues that could be at stake from this reported meeting or meetings that michael flynn had with people of turkish interests of somehow removing this turkish cleric from u.s. soil possibly in return for money? >> yeah. there are -- there's a lot of concerning developments here. jessica previously referred to the september meeting that was sort of had been reported by cnn "the wall street journal" and others, that meeting was disturbing enough to former cia director james woolsy but he reportedly tried to contact joe biden through an intermediary. we're talking -- using careful language here about removing him from the country and we're turning him over to turkish officials. what is a private citizen discussing doing that, the legal term we use is ordinarily