mueller s, his jurisdiction, but i think even within it, we have to look at whether it was a part of a collusion. julia, your superb reporting has given us another figure with a difficult to pronounce name among other things. can you describe his relationship to flynn and just put it on the grid of overall importance, especially to mr. mueller. i think the easiest comparison here is to look at how rick gates was to paul manafort. kian is a similar person regarding mike flynn. just like paul gates, paul manafort, he was a part of an intelligence group. he was a front man setting up a lot of the meetings. a lot of people over 2016 said they didn t even meet mike flynn, himself, but they met kian. he was the one setting up meekts like the one with dana rohrbacker and his connection has sort of permeated through a