the next president of the united states, right here. reporter: in an interview with cnn s fareed zakaria conducted before the wall street journal story broke and airing sunday on fareed zakaria gps, he denies any deals were made but said that would help him win an extradition. had michael flynn provided you with any assurance it would happen? no, no, no, no one has. we are not dealing with michael flynn. we are dealing with the government of united states. but he was national security adviser. he after that he left. reporter: at this point, it s not known if a deal was reached or whether money was exchanged for this proposed plan of forced extradition. the december meeting follows revelations of related discussions months before and during the campaign. former cia director james woolsy was part of the meeting with
him like a frozen cave man so to speak. and this is a great opportunity to get at his motivation, anyway, and see how he was inspired or even directed. usually they die, but now the nypd can get information. go ahead, eric. he s saying to himself his mission wasn t accomplished because he s still alive. thank you all, i appreciate it. although he go ahead. finish your thought. yep, that was it. he s justot to be thinking to himself that, you know, his mission has not been accomplished. and he s probably feeling terrible about that. and i m glad he s feeling terrible about it. and hopefully we ll be able to get to the bottom of this and find out if anyone else was connected to this attack. appreciate it. when we come back, much more on what officials are calling an act of terror on new york city today. james woolsy will join me next.
you can t let critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams. neil: all right. the drip drip of all of this is beginning to pile on. a lot of folks are saying, even nothing comes of it, does it take away the trump agenda, hurt his foreign trip? james woolsy is here right now. i was reading a couple of your comments in which you said, we re not talking about whether the president has the right here talking at the time about sharing classified information with the russians the question is was it wise. this comes up again and again with this president. not questioning his business ecumin but he s new to this. the distinct pattern is what is worrying you. yes, it is. i think the problem also is
former national security advisor general michael flynn. he of course lost his job for lying about his communications with the russian ambassador. and earlier this morning flynn filed paperwork as a government agent working for turkey. joining me now exclusively ambassador james woolsy and james, the senior writer for the wall street journal who broke the story. the wording is important here. so you attended this meeting. this was late last summer during the campaign. what happened there was disturbing enough for you to inform u.s. officials at the time. so please tell me what happened at this meeting. well, it was disturbing but also confusing. i came late to this function.
his major concern has always been security. that s what the most money is spent on. he is feeling confident right now. everything is in place. one more little thing. when you go up those blue stairs and you see that the plastic is protecting the red curtain that donald trump will walk through, even that walkway has plastic on it. they want to make sure everything is just perfect for friday at noon. chris, there is something called perfecting the walk and talk. you do that so well. you have just perfected the art of walking upstairs and talking, the stare master and talk is how i m going to dub it. chris, thank you so much. reporter: i don t need a gym. on a totally different story, and a much more serious subject, the outgoing cia director defending himself and the intel community densz donald trump who continues to doubt the eyes and ears that keep americans safe. next up, has the relationship reached a point of no return? i ll ask former cia director james woolsy. boost