career, war hero, decorated intelligence officer, turned the tide of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, who entered the political sphere and surprised a lot of his former brothers and sisters in arms and that s why we call this the mystery of mike flynn. have a listen. inside the intelligence agencies, some grew concern flynn s position sometimes contradicted the facts and intelligence. flynn facts they called them. people talked about flynn facts. i was hearing from more than one source about what became flynn facts. that concerned me. can you give me an example? i think he was convinced that the iranians were behind the benghazi attack which they weren t, at least we had no evidence of that, but he insisted that we find evidence to back up that proposition.
effort by the russians to reach out to officials affiliated with the russian campaign to give them dirt abohillary clinton th would be helpful to mr. trump. at the end of the day the americans deserve the truth. can you clarify what if any contact your committee has had with general flynn or his son? listen, we ve had contacts with virtually all of the key individuals. we have a parallel path separate from special prosecutor mueller but it s been our policy not to update or where we stand with individual witnesses. do you have a sense of or i m wondering what is your take on the speed with which mueller is moving? what s your sense of the speed of this investigation from special counsel?
generally speaking, do you believe the flynn family is right to be concerned? well, remember, general flynn was fired as national security adviser for not, you know, being forthcoming on his contacts with russians. subsequent to that there have been plenty of reports about his failure to reveal work on behalf of turkish interests. against i m not going to comment on specifics but general flynn and his son have had a lot of stories written about them in the press. the obvious question is whether the special counsel is trying to put pressure on general flynn to cooperate by investigating his son. if that is the tactic do you have a problem with that tactic? the prosecutors have a different standard. our committee is try to find out whether there was collusion and make career to the american
foreign registration act, that requires those who do business that act as agents for foreign countries or governments, they have to disclose those relationships as well as any financial compensation for work. flynn junior, to be clear was in his father s business. he served as chief of staff, top aid in their lobbying work at their firm known as the flynn intel group. and that includes joining his father on overseas trip like the one he made in moscow in 2015. where flynn dined with vladimir putin in a black tie gala hosted by rt, the television network. flynn also under scrutiny by legal team during the campaign on behalf of the turkish government and the alleged anticipation about the idea of forcibly removing a turkish cleric has denied that such
of his son. yeah, i saw your earlier piece here tonight. look, i know mike flynn, and we don t agree on a whole bunch of things but mike flynn s an american hero. he did wondrous things in the pursuit of al qaeda with stan mcchrystal in iraq and afghanistan and i look on this as a great sadness and i hope mike and his family can get beyond this as quickly as possible. appreciate your time. thank you. coming up, new reporting tonight in the rv investigation involving former national security adviser michael flynn. and his son. jim sciutto joins us with what general hayden was referring to with the latest after a quick break. when you have a cold stuff happens.