we didn t find anything new. and without new material, we re not going to have a different conclusion. we already reached that conclusion. and with this new request that came at the beginning of the trump administration, they weren t providing new information. so the result was going to be the same. so and to be clear, when the prosecutor today asserted in court that his work, flynn s work for turkey ended in mid-november, that does match what flynn filed in terms of saying that his contract ended as this contract for which he was previously foreign unregistered agent. it ended in mid-november. but as you point out, after he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of turkey and passed when he said that contract was over, we at least know during the transition in mid-december, he was still taking meetings with turkey, talking about trying to deliver to them the thing that they had been paying him to deliver, including as you mentioned, the possibility that they m
agent of turkey after the inauguration when he was sworn in as national security adviser. prosecutors said in court today that flynn stopped doing that work right after the election in mid-november, 2016. and that is in fact when flynn filed paperwork with the government saying that his contract with turkey ended. but, you know what? it s possible that the judge was right the first time before he walked that back, at least if some nbc news reporting on this subject is accurate. in november, 2017, nbc news reported on something that happened in the trump administration while flynn was still national security adviser before he was forced out, before he retroactively registered for having been a paid agent of that foreign government. and in terms of their reporting, we know that what flynn had been paid to do secretly for the government of turkey was try to get this guy gulen, who the turkish government wanted extradited back to their
foreign government. and in terms of their reporting, we know that what flynn had been paid to do secretly for the government of turkey was try to get this guy gulen, who the turkish government wanted extradited back to their country, the turkish government was paying to get the u.s. government to extradite him. and that s what flynn was working on when he was a paid agent of turkey. well, according to nbc s reporting from november 2017, quote, former senior law enforcement official said that in the weeks after trump s inauguration, the fbi was in fact asked to conduct a new review of turkey s request to extradite gulen. the fbi pushed back on the request because they provided no new information. it s unclear whether the request to investigate gulen came from mike flynn or typical channels at the state department. so just think about that for a
country, the turkish government was paying to get the u.s. government to extradite him. and that s what flynn was working on when he was a paid agent of turkey. well, according to nbc s reporting from november, 2017, quote, former senior law enforcement official said that in the weeks after trump s inauguration, the fbi was in fact asked to conduct a new review of turkey s request to extradite gulen. the fbi pushed back on the request because they provided no new information. it s unclear whether the request to investigate gulen came from mike flynn or typical channels at the state department. so, just think about that for a second. in court today, the judge apologized for suggesting that mike flynn might still have been acting as a paid agent of turkey while he was serving as national security adviser. what he was paid to do was to get the u.s. to extradite this guy gulen back to turkey. and in fact, while flynn was still serving as national
second. in court today, the judge apologized for suggesting that mike flynn might still have been acting as a paid agent of turkey while he was serving as national security adviser. what he was paid to do was to get the u.s. to extradite this guy gulen back to turkey. and in fact, while flynn was still serving as national security adviser, somebody in the trump administration asked the justice department to please look into doing that, leeson look into extraditing that guy. and so i don t know if the judge needed to apologize today, but bottom line in february 2017, before mike flynn was fired, somebody in the trump administration tried to deliver on what mike flynn had secretly been paid to deliver as an agent of the turkish government. joining us now is one of the reporters who first uncovered that, who has been chasing that ever since. julia ainsley, nbc national reporter and justice reporter back with us tonight. julia, thank you. thank you. let me just ask if the way i