right? well, in this case you can. this has been one of the unexplained things, one of the things that makes no sense about the mike flynn story. before they named him national security advisor there were all these reports about him being paid to work on behalf of a foreign government. we also know that on november 18th the trump transition received a letter from congress alerting them to the fact that he was being paid to work on behalf of a foreign government. we also know that twice flynn s own lawyers contacted the trump transition about the fact that he was being paid to work for a foreign government and they told him he might need to register as a foreign agent. this is all a matter of record. there were multiple high profile open source reports, news reports on mike flynn being paid to work for a foreign government. that was reported in the right wing news, reported in the
i mean, you can t be known to be on the payroll of a foreign country and get named national security advisor. right? well, in this case you can. this has been one of the unexplained things, one of the things that makes no sense about the mike flynn story. before they named him national security advisor there were all these reports about him being paid to work on behalf of a foreign government. we also know that on november 18th the trump transition received a letter from congress alerting them to the fact that mike flynn was being paid to work on behalf of a foreign government. we also know that twice flynn s own lawyers contacted the trump transition about the fact that he was being paid to work for a foreign government and they told the trump transition that he might need to register as a foreign agent. this is all a matter of record. there were multiple high profile open source reports, news reports on mike flynn being paid
high-profile, open source reports, news reports on mike flynn being paid to work for a foreign government. that was reported in the right wing news, that was reported in the middle of the road news, it was reported in the beltway news, it was even reported on dumb old cable tv news. it was widely publicly reported that mike flynn was being paid to work for a foreign government. null we also now know that the transition in addition to all that news about it, we also now know that congress was notified about it. also now know the transition was notified in private by flynn s lawyers about that fact. so the transition knew this thing about mike flynn working for a foreign government. but for some reason, the head of the trump transition denies he ever heard of it. michael flynn has filed with the department of justice as a foreign agent for making more than $500,000 as a lobbyist essentially for turkey. your reaction to that,
further. they ll clarify some situations, some information. they may talk about a variety of different aspects of the case that there is differing news reports on. the difficulty about this is that there is so much information in such a high visibility of this event that there is a whole host of different theories and ideas that sometimes are taken as fact. obviously until we see the investigation go full bore and we have some time to actually assess what is out there it s very hard to jump to conclusions as to motivation, as to what training or no training, control and no control, all those very, very pertinent questions. megyn: michael, in terms of the apprehension which is something that i know you ve spoken with sources in the know about specifically. now this is of course just crossing the wires and we ve heard reporting on it earlier. indeed he was on board this dubai-bound flight and it was quote taxing away from the gate at kennedy when it was stopped by f.b.i. agents and nypd.
18th the trump transition received a letter from congress alerting them to the fact that he was being paid to work on behalf of a foreign government. we also know that twice flynn s own lawyers contacted the trump transition about the fact that he was being paid to work for a foreign government and they told him he might need to register as a foreign agent. this is all a matter of record. there were multiple high profile open source reports, news reports on mike flynn being paid to work for a foreign government. that was reported in the right wing news, reported in the middle of the road news, it was reported in the beltway news. reported even on dumb old cable tv news. it was it was widely publicly reported that mike flynn was being paid to work for a foreign government. we also now know that the transition was in addition to all that news about it we alts also now know the transition was notified in private by flynn s lawyers about that fact. so the transition knew this