i appreciate you making time to be here. my pleasure. there is told an espionage prosecutor who is taking a lead on this probe of michael flynn s business dealings. this has all been reported in the press in terms of how that investigation is going on. i wondered if you could tell us what it means for somebody to be called an espionage prosecutor, and what that tells us than case? at the justice department, there is a division called the national security division. and within that division, there is a section called the counterintelligence and export control section. that is the group who are the experts in counterintelligence investigations. and counterintelligence just means plain defense against foreign spice. and in terms of there being somebody at main justice who does that, we re told that this this effort around michael flynn is not being run out of main justice. it s being run out of a u.s. attorney s office, in his case in the eastern district of virginia.
what is an espionage prosecutor really? as of tonight we have solid reporting that three top trump advisers are subjects or persons of interest in criminal inquiries. there s the unnamed senior white house adviser close to the president described by the washington post tonight as person of interest in the collusion inquiry. there s the former campaign chair paul manafort, and there s the former national security adviser michael flynn. what does it mean there s an espionage prosecutor working his part of this? does that mean it s way more serious? does this mean it s qualitatively different? i m going to ask somebody who knows next. y mutual stood with e when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night. hold on dad. liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn t have that. don t worry - i know what a lug wrench is, dad.
prosecuting cases involving terrorism financing and also foreign agents. just the person we need to talk to. former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade joins us tonight on a friday night. thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate you making time to to be here. my pleasure. there is, we are told, an espionage prosecutor taking the lead on this probe of michael flynn s business dealings. this has all been reported in the press in terms of how that investigation is going on. i wondered if you could tell us what it means for somebody to be called an espionage prosecutor and what it tells us about that? there s the national security division and there s a section called the counterintelligence and export control section. that s the group who are the experts in counterinteence investigations and counterintelligence just means playing defense against foreign spies. in terms of their being somebody at main justice who does that, we re told that this
businessman who paid for his foreign interests while he was working for the trump campaign. here s my question. what is an espionage prosecutor really? as of tonight we have solid reporting that three top trump advisere subctsr persons of interest in criminal inquiries. there s the unnamed senior white house adviser close to the president described by the washington post tonight as person of interest in the collusion inquiry. there s the former campaign chair paul manafort, and there s the former national security adviser michael flynn. what does it mean there s an espionage prosecutor working his part of this? does that mean it s way more serious? does this mean it s qualitatively different? i m going to ask somebody who knows next. nice man cave! nacho? [ train whistle blows ] what?! -stop it! -mm-hmm. we ve been saving a lot of money ever since we switched to progressive.
prosecuting cases involving terrorism financing and also foreign agents. just the person we need to talk to. former u.s. attorney barbara mcconveyed joins us tonight on a friday night. ius. i really appreciate you making time to be here. my pleasure. there is told an espionage prosecutor who is taking a lead on this probe of michael flynn s business dealings. this has all been reported in the press in terms of how that investigation is going on. i wondered if you could tell us what it means for somebody to be called an espionage prosecutor, and what that tells us than case? at the justice department, there is a division called the national security division. and within that division, there is a section called the counterintelligence and export control section. that is the group who are the experts in counterintelligence investigations. and counterintelligence just means plain defense against foreign spice. and in terms of there being somebody at main justice who does that, we r