it just strains krecredulity th he did not know and in fact ordered this operation. there are leaks coming from u.s. intelligence to suggest he did in fact order this operation. the leaks talk about a kidnapping operation, so it s unclear whether he also ordered the murder. but the fact that you had this 15-man team, the fact that you had a pathologist with a bone saw, i mean who comes to a fight with a bone saw? that indicates to you that this was fairly nefarious intent here, and this attempt to whitewash the crown prince s involvement is just ridiculous. it s absurd, and it s truly unbelievable that, you know, donald trump is somebody who does not believe that barack obama was born in this country, but he believes this cock and bull saudi story? i mean can you explain that? i can t. olivia, i m not sure if you can explain it. but seriously, i think the real question is who on earth would expect anybody to believe this story? it sounds like a guy sitting around going, yeah, i know
turkish hands. flynn s lawyer denied that report. but according to former cia director james woolsey, a trump campaign adviser who sat on the board of trump s consulting firm, quote, it became clear to me they were seriously considering a kidnapping operation. and i told them then it was a bad idea. it was illegal. just this past weekend, that same man, former cia director james woolsey was spotted in the dining room at none other than mar-a-lago having a lengthy conversation with the president. michael schmidt is a washington correspondent for the new york times, one of the reporters who broke the story on flynn s possible cooperation with mueller. what has changed in the legal posture of michael flynn? well, his lawyers had been cooperating with trump, sharing different types of information. but the day before thanksgiving, his lawyers called up trump s lawyers and said we can no longer do that we can no longer talk about the special counsel s investigation. for legal experts, th
i took it as this is what he wants me eto do. i didn t obey that. but that s the way i took it. when it comes to flynn s potential legal exposure, we re only scratching the surface. we know he has been under scrutiny according to the wall street journal playing a possible role to obtain hillary clinton s e-mails from russian hackers. we know flynn initially failed to disclose payments received in connection with a 2015 trip to moscow where he dined at the elbow of vladimir putin. well also know he failed to disclose his involvement in a nuclear project in the middle east with partnership in a russian. there and then there is flynn s interest as a paid interest. according to the wall street journal, flynn and his son were at one point offered $15 million to kidnap a turkish cleric living legally in the u.s. whose a political foe of the turkish president and deliver him into turkish hands. flynn s lawyer denied that report. but according to former cia director james woolsey, a trum
2016 meeting at the 21 club in new york. that is an upscale restaurant just blocks away from the trump tower where flynn was serving on the presidential transition team. we understand from sources who are familiar with this meeting that they allegedly talked about a $15 million bribe that they would try to give flynn once he was national security adviser if he could see that fi tul la len. in order to remove him, that could have been through a kidnapping operation, or through extradition. we also know that the fbi had re-upped their investigation, they were asked to re-up their investigation into gulen at the beginning of the trump administration when flynn served as national security adviser. this was after they had already dismissed the investigation under obama. we re looking at a number of pieces. what mueller is trying to drill
team. we understand from sources who are familiar with this meeting that they allegedly talked about a $15 million bribe that they would try to give flynn once he was national security adviser if he could see that tgulen was removed from the united states. gulen is a turkish president to erdogan living in the pocanos. in order to remove him, that could have been through a kidnapping operation or through extradition. we also know that the fbi had re-upped their investigation, they were asked to re-up the investigation into gulen at the beginning of the trump administration when flynn was national security adviser. this was after they dismissed this investigation under obama. so we are looking at a number of pieces, but what mueller is trying to drill-down on here is whether or not michael flynn, trump s first national security adviser was exploited to use his position in the u.s. government in order to serve the interest