news organization rt and sat at the table with vladimir putin. so what investigators are looking at are these business dealings and whether and what flynn junior s involvement in them was. and flynn junior was not without controversy himself. remember he was one of the main people who pushed that pizza gate story. josh, talking about your scoop today. this deal that he was involved with, it also had russia as one of the deal makers, right? right. there was a consortium of folks in the united states who wanted to build these nuclear plans. it was going to be a united states and russia joint venture, or at least one idea for them. michael flynn was heavily involved in it, even traveled overseas trying to, you know, find out how to do it and how to push it. and then when he joined the transition he worked behind the scenes on a marshal plan to make this thing happen while talking to former officials he d worked with and paid him without disclosing it. so there was this consortium of
in, not too early. it s a constant cycle. out of curiousty, what s that commotion at the capitol? reporter: i apologize. i assume they re hosting a banquet because they have to roll the tables down the marble hallway. causes a lot of noise. we have breaking news to get to on the russia probe. fired national security adviser michael flynn s son, michael g. flynn, is under federal investigation. nbc s national political reporter carol lee joins me now with this exclusive reporting. carol, what more what more do we know at this point? what we know is from four current and former officials that michael flynn jr. is being looked at as part of the russia investigation. particularly what investigators are interested in, at least, is his work that he did with his father s lobbying firm, flynn intel group. you know, michael flynn jr. was very close to his father, still is very close to his father.
reporters in that room, including our own peter al alexander and kristen welker both covered president obama and know what they re talking about when it comes to that. thank you for going through the headlines with us. we appreciate it. sure. we ve got breaking news in the investigation into the alleged russian interference in last year s election. current and former government officials tell nbc news that fired national security adviser michael flynn s son, michael g. flynn, is now a subject of the federal investigation. this comes as we get new evidence that the elder flynn, the national security adviser formerly, may have mixed his personal business dealings with his work on the trump transition team. politico reports that he pushed a private sector plan to build dozens of nuclear reactors across the middle east and talked about it with other transition officials. and that the plan backers paid him at least $25,000.
joining us now to talk about this former washington newsroom nbc news national political reporter carol lee and political white house reporter josh dosy who wrote about flynn s business dealings. carol, first to you, what do we know about the investigation into flynn s son? we know that investigators are particularly interested in flynn s son s work, flynn intel group, which was flynn senior s lobbying firm which was involved in a number of different activities. and we also know that flynn senior investigators have looked at his dealings with foreign governments including russia, including turkey. and flynn junior was essentially, you know, his father s right hand man. he served as chief of staff, he worked very closely with him, he traveled to moscow with him when general flynn gave that speech before the russian sponsored
nuclear folks who wanted these done overseas and michael flynn was pushing it and, you know, working with them and working inside the transition to make it happen. and what do you think this means for the scope of the russia investigation, josh? well, we re certainly seeing mueller as nbc reported today on michael flynn jr. and flynn s work during the transition and in the 24 days he was in the white house. looking at other payments. the flynn intel group had with companies and, you know, what ties they had in the transition and doing. this work during the transition and the white house is really becoming a key focus of the investigation. and thank you both. sorry it was truncated. and sarah huckabee sanders and bernie both squeezed us today. and next, hillary clinton placing some of the fault in james comey s lap in her loss in