as an attorney in the gulen matter or with the iranian-turkish gold trader he was trying to help. if he s working as a lawyer, when is he exempt from registrati registration? it was a lawyer, he could come within the scope of the exemption for lawyers. but that s confined if he s engaged in other things, like trying to influence u.s. government policy, for example. we want to kick this clearic out of the united states to placate our friend, erdogan. or he wants to can a u.s. ambassador to ukraine because the trump administration doesn t think she s with the program, those things would fall outside the protection of this exemption for legal services. the rudy says i m not representing these people and you re not going to get your hands on them as foreign nationals, how do you make the case? he invited the government to
fbi and doj. they re the ones who have to handle this. it also is pretty typical at the beginning of a new administration that they may ask to re-examine that. but then what i do want to point out is when we talk to former obama administration officials, they say they had in meetings with erdogan himself who would come to the white house and make the case that gulen needed to be extradited. this is something that erdogan saw as such a priority because he sees gulen as his political foe, and he blames him for that coup in july of 2016, that he didn t do this through diplomats. he did this at the highest levels. it would be kind of hard to believe that in the next administration he wouldn t seek that same top level conversation. but, then again, we don t know for sure whether or not that happened at the white house. but if it did, of course that is problematic. another thing i want to point out, apart from what michael flynn eventually disclosed on his fara reports. that took a little wh
accurate in the beginning, as the judge pointed outed today, he still had meetings that didn t have to do with his group. he had two meetings in new york, one in september of 2016, and one in december of 2016. that would be during the transition, and my colleague carol lee and i have reported on that as well, where turkey continued to press for gulen to be leaving the united states at any cost. they even suggested a kidnapping. now, it s not clear how much michael flynn agreed to this, but i do think that these are worthwhile inquiries. i mean, that s why i ve been inquiring about it for such a long time. why did this request come up? and, yes, there was pushback. people in the fbi said, look, turkey sent over boxes and boxes of these materials under the obama administration. we went through everything, and we didn t find anything new. and without new material, we re not going to have a different conclusion. we already reached that conclusion. and with this new request that came at the
foreign government. and in terms of their reporting, we know that what flynn had been paid to do secretly for the government of turkey was try to get this guy gulen, who the turkish government wanted extradited back to their country, the turkish government was paying to get the u.s. government to extradite him. and that s what flynn was working on when he was a paid agent of turkey. well, according to nbc s reporting from november 2017, quote, former senior law enforcement official said that in the weeks after trump s inauguration, the fbi was in fact asked to conduct a new review of turkey s request to extradite gulen. the fbi pushed back on the request because they provided no new information. it s unclear whether the request to investigate gulen came from mike flynn or typical channels at the state department. so just think about that for a
but if it did, of course that is problematic. another thing i want to point out, apart from what michael flynn eventually disclosed on his fara reports. that took a little while. the reports weren t completely accurate in the beginning as the judge pointed outed too, he still had meetings that didn t have to do wiz his group. he had two meeting in new york, one in september of 2016, and one in december of 2016. that would be during the transition, and my colleague carol lee and i have reported on that as well, where turkey continued to press for gulen to be leaving the united states at any cost. they even suggested a kidnapping. now, it s not clear how much michael flynn agreed to this, but i do think that these are worthwhile inquiries. i mean, that s why i ve been inquiring about it for such a long time. why did this request come up? and yes, there was pushback. people in the fbi said look, turkey sent over boxes and boxes of these materials under the obama administration. we went th