everyone, is i had been told that there was going to be a lot of there there about the whole probe, and now i ve got the memo, and it s only about one person that everyone used to agree was very peripheral. i turn now to a man at the center of the controversy engulfing the united states tonight. that s not hyperbole. michael isikoff, why are you in the memo. does it suggest, as viewers have been told, that you did something wrong? or that your sources did something wrong in dealing with you? i was as surprised as anybody to see my story cited in the memo as having been extensively cited to the fisa court. number one, everything in the story that i broke in yahoo news in september of 2016 was information that was already known to the fbi.
this. but can i say, to me, the most significant piece of new information in the memo is something you referred to but i don t think people quite understood. there were three renewals of this fisa application, which they had to make new representations to the court about why they were getting the extension. it says here, i have to ask you this, you may not answer this. it alleges you got your information leaked by steel himself to you, do you have any comment on that? christopher steel has said in a court filing, that yahoo news which i worked for was among the news organizations that he briefed in september 2016. understood. michael isikoff stay with me. this is a fascinating story. the only other journalist cited in this unusual memo, in this
successfully criminally prosecuted under that law, so you know, whether or not michael flynn could have been prosecuted for violations of the logan act is extremely problematic. certainly it raised, we know it raised a lot of questions among officials within the obama administration saying, what are they doing? they re not in office yet. they re contacting firestone governments and keling them to go against what we are trying to to do on the foreign policy front. that s not something you see every day of the week or every seven years. mike isikoff has been all over this story from the start. thank you for being a part of our special coverage t. flynn guilty plea puts him at the inner circle, which leads to the big question who is next? this admission of guilty by
and here s why. you had trump with secret service protection from november 2015. so they had access to the building. his personal security protection and the records of who is coming in and out. any meeting with a foreign national, the first thing somebody should think of on a campaign is let me let someone know, why is this meeting happening? you don t think, oh, let me invite the campaign chairman and several other people in charge of the operation and bring them into this potentially compromising situation with foreign intelligence officials. this is idea. if this is an intelligence operation by a foreign adversary, they re going to exploit any of these loopholes of an amateur operation. so it is the responsibility if you are trying to run for the highest office of the land. protect national security. it is your responsibility to take notice and make some effort to keep track of how people are coming in and out of your office space. and in particular, taking advantage of your family
i think from a standpoint, many people would have taken that meeting. i ve had many people call up and say we have information on this person or this factor, frankly, hillary. that s the standard in politics of politics is not the nicest business in the world but it is very standard. where they have information and you take the information. a week of revelations, a week of spin. what does it all add up to? jonathan swan is the national reporter for axios. jonathan, let me start with you. our guest michael isikoff had some reporting that the lawyers are in the white house, knew about this e-mail. knew about this e-mail that was sent to donald trump from goldstone. they knew about it several weeks ago. so everything that has caused them all this political trauma this week. potentially legal trauma. they knew weeks ago. you know the winner workings of this white house well. is there a way to square the fact they knew this was out there and they knew it could out there with all the evo