the bijan kian case to other federal prosecutors in the eastern district of virginia. they ultimately brought charges against kian for him acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign power at the time he was working as a trump transition official. as the number two in the trump transition on intelligence matters, mr. kian apparently participated in key hiring decisions for the new administration. things like who would run the nation s intelligence agencies under president donald trump. bijan kian was taking part in those decisions while he was secretly on the payroll of a foreign country, as determined today by a federal jury. and i mean that alone should be kind of a show-stopper, right? for this or any presidency. you played a role in picking the cia director while you were being paid by another country secretly? that s weird. you would think that would be kind of a hmm.
yes, sir. right away, sir. we do kind of have a few other things on our plate today, sir, but i will try to get you your money s worth, foreign country paying me secretly while i work on this campaign. i mean, we still don t know how this is all going to shake out for flynn. even now that his business partner, this other guy from the trump transition, bijan kian, has been convicted an all counts today. but it is worth pausing to just appreciate, just savor this for a second, that the president of the united states, his top campaign foreign policy adviser was literally on the payroll of a foreign country being paid to influence the future president and then even after that was notified to the presidential transition and the trump administration the incoming trump administration, the trump transition knew it, that flynn had been on a foreign government s payroll,