administration was quote blind sided by the news of flynn s plea deal. trump s lawyer ty cobb released a statement saying in part today michael flynn a former national security advisor at the white house for 25 days during the trump administration and a former obama administration official entered a guilty plea to a single count of making a false statement to the fbi. nothing about the guilty plea or charge implicates anyone other than mr. flynn. for the record, you may recall the obama administration fired mike flynn and president obama warned the incoming trump administration about hiring mike flynn. let s get to our lead off panel on a friday night. julia has had a long day. our nbc news national security and justice reporter and matthew miller, former chief spokesman for the justice deputy now and msnbc justice analyst and chuck rosenburg back with us, former federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney that worked on the staffs of robert mueller and james comey at fbi is also msnbc
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you know, is that this is the first, as we all know, michael flynn served in the white house, and this would be the first time this investigation is moving that close to somebody who had served inside the white house. the other key piece here is that we know that the special counsel is not just looking at things that you would expect like did michael flynn lie to the fbi, did he properly disclose his contacts with foreign officials, but also what he did while he was serving those 24 days inside the white house specifically as it relates to his dealings with turkey. and that opens up a whole other avenue that hasn t so much been zplord as some of these other things that we know michael flynn did, such as not registers as a foreign agent when the justice department said he was doing work that would have benefited a foreign government. so we don t know exactly where this is going to go. the reason why we ve worded our story so carefully is because this could go in the direction of charges
tomorrow just for enough time to vote in the virginia gubernatorial election. nbc news also has some new reporting on special counsel robert mueller s investigation. the headline on this one reads, mueller has enough evidence to bring charges in flynn investigation. three sources say mueller is applying renewed pressure on flynn following the indictment on manafort. as mueller s investigation progresses incrementally, it can be easy to lose the forest for the trees. the washington post has put together a big picture look at where we stand to date. and it s all under a headline that certainly gets your attention. at least nine people in trump s orbit had contact with russians during campaign and transition. this examines the contacts from don jr., jared kushner, trump attorney michael cohen, george papadopoulos, jeff sessions, michael flynn and the campaign foreign policy adviser j.d. gordon.
mueller s team has enough information against michael flynn and his son michael to bring charges. if the elder flynn is indicted, he will be the first current or former trump administration official to be formally accused of criminal wrongdoing by the mueller team. also breaking this hour, we can report about new evidence that shows that secretary of commerce wilbur ross is in business with a company that has close ties to vladimir putin. we have our nbc news team of reporters and analysts ready to break all down, we begin with the breaking news about commerce secretary wilbur ross. an nbc news investigation has found previously undisclosed financial links between the president s commerce secretary wilbur ross and a business partly owned by vladimir putin s son-in-law as well as others from his inner circle. the information comes from what has been known as the paradise papers. seven million files leaked from a law firm in bermuda. they showed ross continued to
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