of course, he was. he had put over $500,000 into the pocket of trump s first national security adviser, but that guy got fired. so why not start putting money directly into donald trump s pocket through his hotel? that was may 2017. if may 2017 rings a bell for you as an important time, that s probably because just four days before that turkish lobbying conference got under way at trump s hotel, robert mueller was appointed special counsel to look into the russian attack on the 2016 election and any potential involvement by the trump campaign. not to mention all related matters. well, here s what we now know as of today. apparently that turkish businessman, the guy who paid mike flynn to lobby for the turkish government, after robert mueller was appointed, that guy s lawyers contacted mueller. contacted the special counsel s office. they called up mueller and said, hey, our client, who paid the
trump national security adviser to work secretly for the turkish government, our client s going to be in town this weekend for a conference at the trump hotel, would you like to speak with him? robert mueller was just appointed less than a week earlier. he probably hadn t even gotten his nameplate on the office door and didn t have a trash can yet. but this turkish guy s lawyers call him up, hey, our client would love to talk with you just in case you have any questions for him. so the special counsel s office apparently did take that meeting. they did that interview with this turkish businessman literally one week after mueller was appointed and that businessman walked in and, according to federal prosecutors, he told them a bunch of porky pies. he lied to mueller s investigators after having volunteered that he wanted to and in talk to them. yeah, that s as terrible as an idea as you think it is because that guy, the turkish businessman guy, is now under indictment for, among other
may 2017 and a conference on u.s./turkey relations. the 36th annual conference, to be exact, held in washington, d.c., by a turkish business lobbying group. nothing particularly notable about that on its face, international business lobbyists host conferences in d.c. all the time. but here what was notable about this one. first of all, the event was being run by a turkish businessman who had paid trump national security adviser mike flynn over $500,000. so the guy who had trump s first national security adviser on a foreign government s payroll, he was running this conference in d.c. about u.s. relations with that foreign government. he was holding that conference at donald trump s washington, d.c., hotel, of course, because,
happening in missouri right now. this was not part of the state s new abortion ban that was debated by legislators or signed by the governor. this new policy they ve instituted in the past week was instituted on the orders of a specific guy in state government. and it turns out he s a really interesting case here. that story, part two of our special report, is next. this is the ocean. just listen. (vo) there s so much we want to show her. we needed a car that would last long enough to see it all. (avo) subaru outback. ninety eight percent are still on the road after 10 years. come on mom, let s go!
all of these other states across the country. but there is one aspect of the fight going on in missouri that is different, which is the active and very close to successful effort right now by that state government to shut down the last clinic in the state that is still allowed to provide abortions. the last clinic in the entire state of missouri. and it is a crucial thing to understand here. that the state is not using a new law to try to shut down missouri s last abortion provider. this is not part of the abortion ban they just passed that will be tested by the federal courts now. they re not using the legislature to revoke the last license to perform legal abortions. what they re doing, to stop the last place in missouri where a woman can get a legal abortion, what they re doing and employing to try to do that is this guy. drink the cancer water.