mid-level associate back channel for the kennedy administration. jimmy carter as president-elect send a letter and that conversation was written up and it s in the wilson center. december 1st, 1976, when gerald ford was still president, ronald reagan used michael ladine as a back channel to iran. and defending this process in the huffington post reveals that william miller, a senate select intelligence committee staffer served senator obama as nominee as a back channel to iran. governor grand hoholm. these are unbelievable facts of serial facts of covering up. i mean, this is why we need an independent commission and in fact you even called for an independent commission to look at the full scope of things. but this is not about jared
he s the exception that proves the rule. and the rule is that in order to get things done, you ve got to be a good colleague. obviously you ve been asked to ask this question and said you re not interested in running for president for 2020. right. obviously that s come up a lot. it s flattering. it s flattering. ask me if i m going to run. well, how about i know what you ll say. but if there was a rule that only people who had worked at nbc could run, would you consider it? boy, that s whew. i don t know. i mean, there s never going to be a rule like that. i m not running. you re not running? for re-election in 2020. no doubt about it. no. senator franken, the book is giant of the senate . thank you. appreciate it. before the break, i want to show you live pictures from
you have a quote from the back cover and i hate to do that because it seems like i didn t read the book. sure. you wrote, here s the thing you have to understand about ted cruz. i like ted cruz than most of my other colleagues like ted cruz and i hate ted cruz. he s sort of the exception that proves the rule, he s kind of a toxic dying in office, the guy who microwaves fish, you know, and he just smells up the office? yeah. and to get things done in the senate you ve got to be living in a town of 100 people and cruz more than most of our colleagues values comedy. it s kind of a comedy fan. really? yeah. and i remember i describe in
contained in the dos area described and jim acosta joins us now with all of the developments in a very, very busy day. what can you tell us about michael flynn. reporter: that s right. he was saying not too long ago that he was not going to be commenting and not testifying or pro i had vooi providing information to the senate intelligence committee of holding flynn in contempt of congress and lo and behold, a source close to the national security adviser is telling cnn that, yes, michael flynn will be providing some documents of the senate intelligence committee by june the 6th, about a week or so from now. we should point out, that s not the only activity today. former special assistant to the president confirmed to cnn through a source that he also has been requested by intelligence committee investigators to provide information to congress as well
i don t know if this is a big deal, no deal or just a deal right now. i think that when we put it into the context of all of the things we ve looked at the last several months, this could be entirely innocent. it could just be somebody who did a lot of questionable things. jared kushner didn t know what he was doing. i do think that the fact that it s russia, you know, mitt romney was right. they are a political thug. none of this is happening in a vacuum. obviously it was russia and at that point the u.s. intelligence committee had been very opened about their belief that russia had attempted to influence the election. so all of these meetings are taking place with that as a backdrop. it doesn t seem like that was being brought up a lot or even now that that is brought up a lot between the u.s. and russia. i just think this is overblown. by my account, president kennedy had his brother talking to a