that was something that flynn pled guilty to, lying to the government about his conversations with kislyak. it s kind of a mess and we re still trying to untangle it here. kushner s role is still not clear. michael schmidt, robert co costa, thank you both. we ll talk to the former chief of staff at the cia. plus, morning joe spent the weekend pouring over the flynn plea deal. we ll talk about the notable things that are not mentioned in it and what that could mean for the russia probe. we re back in just a moment. let s get the big guy in place. the ford year end sales event is here. i can guide you in. no, thanks , santa. i got this. santa: uh, it looks a little tight. perfect fit. santa needs an f-150.
people to get a meeting with president trump or jared kushner or if they wanted to work with flynn? the special counsel, we re told, is very interested in the process of the process of what gets on the calendar, who controls the calendar and what went on ahead of meetings and after meetings. final thoughts. jared kushner, the name that keeps coming up. certainly has an awful lot since friday. what can you tell us? well, as we saw over the weekend there was a new report about his disclosures on his fs-86, the document he had to put in for his security clearance. questions about his security clearance, his role in this. he has been spoken to. it was only in the context of flynn, as the government was putting together the final touches of the flynn plea agreement. they wanted to speak with him about their interactions with flynn. there were questions about how they were lobbying on israel s behalf before the u.n. voted the end of last year.
intelligence, to drive operations by our special operations forces, just to go night after night against terrori terrorists i have felt looking at flynn for these many months that there is something that happens when people have been in the most secret parts of our government and then come out into this open world. they re not very good at it. when flynn left the dia, management job that he didn t do all that well by most accounts, suddenly he s out and he begins taking on these strange consulting projects. he gets involved with donald trump. he becomes quite intemperate in his public remarks. he sits next to have load mere putin. especially when he comes from this closed, everything is secret world. i m wondering about what jeremy said and where this is going.
investigation came forward. so that he would challenge it that way after he corded law enforcement really tells you i think the fear he feels inside of him. let s bring in our national correspondent peter alexander live at the white house. peter, anything going on there this morning? reporter: yeah. the president will be leaving in a short time. we ll be able to pose questions from him on this topic as we sea him board marine one. he s going to be announcing a decrease in federal protected land. to emphasize why this matters. it s because the tweet deepens suspicions of obstruction of justice an impeachable offense. the president implying he knew flynn lied before he was asked to drop the flynn case. here the president s outside lawyer says he dictated that tweet to an aide telling nbc news he s responsible. the president did not know flynn lied to the fbi when he fired
president obama before that warned incoming president trump, have you a problem. if you brought up flynn, you were pressured, fired or then fired. he seemed to have something he knew about or understood or knew about the discussions with russia. every revelation comes to this point and every time he tweets he tells a different version of this story. such a shocking admission against his own best interest, his own best legal interest. right. we don t know whether mueller is going to be able to prove collusion ultimately. it may be too high of a standard. we do know just by the public record there s one piece of evidence for obstruction of justice after another. and this seems to be exhibit one. and there s two things happening here. one, we ve repeatedly seen the president undermine his own best interests in a number of different fronts on twitter. now we ve seen that he continues