Word. Joy reid sitting in for lawrence. Amen. We need to regain our power to be shocked. I am joy reid sitting in for Lawrence Odonnell. Big breaking news tonight. General Michael Flynn who served as Donald Trumps National Security adviser for less than a month before being fired for lying about his contacts with russia is reportedly trying to cut a deal, offering to talk to investigators about the Trump Campaign and russia in exchange for im from prosecution. For the trump white house, things just got real. The wall street journal is now reporting former trump National Security adviser general Michael Flynn general flynn is a wonderful man offering to testify in exchange for immunity, when you are given immunity, it means you have probably committed a crime. I think its very, very unfair whats happened to general flynn. Now that we know that its his own staffers who were briefing devin nunes. It now raises more questions about whether the white house is actively interfering in this in
The wall street journal is now reporting former Trump National security adviser general Michael Flynn general flynn is a wonderful man offering to testify in exchange for immunity, when you are given immunity, it means you have probably committed a crime. I think its very, very unfair whats happened to general flynn. Now that we know that its his own staffers who were briefing devin nunes. It now raises more questions about whether the white house is actively interfering in this investigation. If i start going down the path of confirming and denying one thing, were going down a very slippery slope. Thats why you have press conference, buddy, to answer questions. Every day in this investigation you wake up and think its going to be one kind of day and it turns out to be quite a different kind of day. There is a big bombshell that dropped tonight in the Ongoing Investigation into the trump campaigns alleged collusion with russia in its interference with the 2016 election. The wall street
Signed a 10 million a Year Contract starting in 2006 to, quote, influence politics, business dealings and News Coverage inside the United States to benefit putins government, it was oleg deraposkov the man who paidau manafort for that work starting in 2008. And ending who knows when. After that ap story came out, oleg took out an add in the Washington Post and the wall street journal. He took out the same quarter page ad in both papers saying i demand that any and all further dissemination of these allegations by the ap or any other media outlet must cease immediately. He demanded spoiler alert, that didnt work. He is now suing the ap over that story. He and Paul Manafort deny there was anything proputin about the work they did. Oleg deripaska says that work ended in 2009 and hes upset by any indication that his payments to manafort had something to do with the Trump Campaign. The ap says it stands by its reporting. This russian aluminum oligarch paid millions to manafort who would lat
He demanded spoiler alert, that didnt work. He is now suing the ap over that story. He and Paul Manafort deny there was anything proputin about the work they did. Oleg deripaska says that work ended in 2009 and hes upset by any indication that his payments to manafort had something to do with the Trump Campaign. The ap says it stands by its reporting. This russian aluminum oligarch paid millions to manafort who would later go on to chair Donald Trumps campaign. Bank accounts that raised repeated red flags for Money Laundering investigations and were quickly closed when those investigators stopped making inquiries. Started making inquiries. So Oleg Deripaska is one of the names we know. Another name in the trump russia investigation. And here is why hes really important to this story. In that ad, he took out in march, objecting to the ap reporting of his past dealings with manafort, deripaska said he was ready to take part in any hearings conducted in the u. S. Congress on this subject