ryan zinke resigns as secretary of department of the interior for being investigated for using his office for public gain. there s a lot of them. now there s another one, labor secretary andrew acosta is facing a massive scandal there are two big developments in that story tonight. that s next. stay with us. cestrydna was able to tell me where my father s family came from in columbia. they pinpointed the columbian and ecuador region and then there s a whole new andean region. that was incredibly exciting because i really didn t know that. we never spoke about that in my family. it just brings it home how deep my roots are and it connects me to them, and to their spirit, and to their history. 20 million members have connected to a deeper family story. order your kit at ancestry.com. to a deeper family story. let s see, aleve is than tylenol extra strength. and last longer with fewer pills. so why am i still thinking about this? i ll take aleve.
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evidence that that meeting in the seychelle islands was a secret effort to set up back channel communication between the incoming trump administration and the kremlin. why did they need a secret back channel of communication? that remains unanswered this far into this scandal. erik prince has denied that s what that meeting is for. he has said that meeting in the seychelle islands between him and the russian investment fund guy, that was just a business meeting and not an important one at that. he said it had nothing to do with the trump campaign or the trump administration at all. but if that same russian investment fund guy who met with erik prince, if that same guy was not just in contact with erik prince, but he was also in contact with the incoming trump national security adviser mike flynn, well, first, that would be something new we never heard about before concerning an alleged high-level contact between the trump campaign and the kremlin. but also, it would make it much harder
polk award for this reporting. julia, thank you for this reporting. thank you for your time tonight. thanks. we have seen a lot of skedaddle and departures and scandal from the trump administration and even from the trump cabinet. it remains astonishing to me. that in this case, with alex acosta as labor secretary, literally a federal judge ruled that he broke the law when leading that prosecutor s office into doing this deal with epstein. the law was broken by acosta in his last federal job before the one he s on now. and yet he remains as a cabinet secretary, as labor secretary in this administration. the president as recently as this week gave support to him. despite him breaking the law in order to give a child sex offender a sweet deal that his victims were never allowed to know about. we ll be right back. right back. mini was born to do the only thing we ever wanted to do.
planning on using against their client. that includes, in this case, information about the key witness against their client who is mike flynn. and as we reported last night, the back and forth in that bijan kian case ahead of this trial that s due to start in july, it now includes a provocative new assertion from bijan kian s defense team. they are asserting in court documents that after the 2016 election, mike flynn had contact with the head of a russian investment fund. the same head of a russia investment fund who met with erik prince in the seychelle islands right before trump was sworn in. the washington post has reported that the special counsel s office has obtained evidence that that meeting in the seychelle islands was a secret effort to set up back channel communication between the incoming trump administration and the kremlin. why did they need a secret back channel of communication? that remains unanswered this far into this scandal. erik prince has denied that s what tha