law enforcement agency? why was a law enforcement agency aware of that meeting? how did they know what was discussed at that meeting and if that law enforcement agency is right about what was discussed at that secret meeting, what would it mean if kushner and flynn and bannon are lying about it? remember, put that panel back up. yeah. a lot of people are gone from this white house. flynn is gone. bannon is gone. kushner is still there. joining us now is anthony, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for buzzfeed news. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. the way i stacked that up, there is a few things you ve broken that add to reporting. previously undisclosed meeting, a second meeting that seems to involve this flynn nuclear deal, and the question about whether or not these guys are telling the truth about what the content
reported. democrats on the house oversight and foreign affairs committee reported on wednesday morning this week that another thing mike flynn failed to initially disclose was that he was a paid agent working to advance a business proposition to partner with, among other companies, russian nuclear and security companies in order to do this gigantic multi hundreds of millions of dollars project that would build nuclear reactors in the middle east. most of them would be in saudi arabia, which yes, floats on the sea of oil. so question mark about nuclear power anyway, but also in the nation of jordan. so congressional democrats on wednesday released this information they said shows that mike flynn was involved in that project, he was being paid to advance that nuclear project, including taking a trip to the middle east in 2015 to pursue that project. he was doing all that without ever disclosing that trip, without disclosing any of the
is not just mike flynn but steve bannon and jared kushner, who does still work in the white house, buzzfeed reports that the three of them were in on a meeting, a previously undisclosed meeting with the king of jordan during the transition at which they talked about that nuclear deal. again, this is chris mcdaniel and the reporters at buzzfeed. and it s really interesting. they get denials i love the way they source this. they get denials from three individuals, one close to flynn. one close to kushner. and one close to bannon. and each of those three people close to each of those guys denies flynn s nuclear business deal thing was discussed at the secret meeting with king of jordan. now check this out. check out this wording. quote, people close to the three trump advisors say that the nuclear deal was not discussed but a federal official with access to a document created by
get disclosed until after the fact. interesting reporting this week about the crown prince of the united air emirates trumping up in december meeting with flynn same group. same group, kushner, bannon. in that case it appears u.s. intelligence agencies were aware of that meeting in part because they were weirded out that the crown prince from the united arab was in the united states without telling the united states. is there any indication the king of jordan took that meeting? we really would like to know that. okay. we have not been able to figure it out yet and no one will tell us. it s a rather simple question. did you tell our national security apparatus that a foreign head of state was not united states in a bar in lower manhattan. a fairly simple question. we re a little bit weirded out that nobody will answer it or give us a straight shot at it. i can t answer it.
campaign chairman paul manafort might go ahead. what that means for potential liability or money trails leading up to the white house we don t know. manafort is long gone from trump world, he resigned from the campaign a year ago. but even since they ve been in the white house, we realize in trump world the way this works is there ll be a lot of people left behind, a lot of people involved in lots of interesting things who are long gone by the time we realize what exactly they know and what they might have been up to before they left. when it comes to a scandal and a ongoing investigation like this just the fact somebody has resigned or been fired is not necessarily enough to get their smell off of you. the very first guy they shed from the new administration, no didn t even make it four weeks in, mike flynn, he is still ricocheteding around this white house breaking stuff. in this damning and intriguing new report that has come out