Thats quite a sizeable coven. And Robert Mueller will divulging more in a court filing. Prosecutors are expected to describe how flynn has helped the russia investigation since agreeing to cooperate with the probe a year ago. Flynn, of course, was a key Trump Campaign aide and a former National Security adviser inside the white house when he was charged. The special counsel described how flynn had lied about passing messages between members of the Trump Campaign and the Russian Ambassador to the United States. It was the flynn investigation, you might remember, that prompted President Trump to say to then fbi director james comey, quote, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go, according to comey. President trump denies saying that, but the alleged request and subsequent firing of comey have been key parts of muellers investigation to whether President Trump obstructed justice. Now, one of the biggest mysteries in all of this is why . Why did flynn lie
The works. So whats that about, kim jongun no longer being a Nuclear Threat . Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead and the phrase likely hanging over a few people in washington right now, substantial assistance to the government. Thats how special Counsel Robert Mueller described the information that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, President Trumps former National Security adviser, has provided to his team over 19 separate interviews over the course of the last year. 19. Think about how few people in your world you have met with 19 times in the last 12 months. Much of the information provided is so sensitive, the sixpage document contained 65 lines of text that are partially or fully redacted. But attempting to read between the redacted lines, it is clear there is still a lot more mueller knows that we do not. The document revealing that flynn has helped the special counsel with an unknown criminal investigation, the details of which are completely red
reviewing currently. reporter: voters like aubrey atkinson say mccrae dallas showed up at his door to help him fill in his absentee ballot. i had to get them to spell it out to me because i can t read and write. reporter: he can t remember who he voted for. laci allison had help, too. he remembers voting for sheriff, but not for congress. what about the congressional race, a guy named harris and a guy named mccreaty? i don t remember which one, but i remember there were two names. reporter: jake, mark harris, the republican candidate who won this race, denies any knowledge of illegal behavior done on his behalf. but it turns out he may have at least indirectly paid for some of that behavior. mark harris campaign paid a that group hired this fella named mccrae dallas. as for dallas, he continues to ignore our calls for comment. jake? all right, drew griffin,
republican candidate. well, come after the election, we start getting and seeing these affidavits from voters saying, hey, what happened to my absentee ballot? why is my absentee ballot in question? i never voted. people like laci allison, a voter we talked to today, who says she was approached by one of these people, and jake, has no idea what happened to his vote. take a listen. so you filled out an application for an absentee ballot? no. she filled it out. she said she was going to bring it back for me to sign and i never saw her again. reporter: people who say they witnessed you filling this ballot out and signing it and sealing it, jessica dallas, sandra dallas, you don t recognize those names. no. reporter: and yet those names, jake, are all over these absentee ballots. there are 161 of them being questioned by the state. some of them witnessed by the same person, 40 different times, 40 different ballots witnessed. we have seen that over and over