turkey, mueller is also, according to nbc news, investigating whether flynn was shopping another plan, as well. a plan to spring a guy who was facing federal charges in new york, but who turkey desperately wants freed. now, the guy who s facing charges is in federal custody. he s charged in federal district court in new york. he s being prosecuted by the u.s. attorney s office in the southern district of new york. and the charges are related to potential violations of sanctions on iran. this turkish guy, who s facing these charges, though, he s very rich, he s very well-connected, including to the turkish government, and even to the turkish president s direct family, and turkey really doesn t want that guy on trial. turkey has been trying everything they can to get the charges against that guy dropped and to get him freed. they have attacked the new york judge and the prosecutors in his case. they hired rudy giuliani and the george w. bush era former attorney general, michael mukasey,
tonight. nbc previously reported on november 10th last week that when it came to that december meeting during the transition, the one at the 21 club, where they supposedly discussed the specifics of the kidnap plot with the private jet and the prison island and the $15 million and all of that, nbc news reported last week that mueller s investigation was looking into not just whether flynn was shopping the idea of kidnapping that guy in pennsylvania and flying him to turkey, moore is also, according to northboubc news, investigati whether flynn was shopping another plan as well. a plan to spring a guy who was facing federal charges in new york, but who turkey desperately wants freed. now, the guy who s facing charges is in federal custody. he s charged federal district court in new york. he s being prosecuted by the u.s. attorney s office in the southern district of new york. and the charges are related to potential violations of sanctions on iran. this turkish guy, who s facing
now, we don t know whether or not mike flynn, national security adviser who d secretly been on the turkish government s payroll, we don t know if he s the one who put in that request early on in the trump administration to reconsider extraditing that turkish guy. but we do now know thanks to nbc news that robert mueller is investigating that. mueller s team is also examining whether flynn s excuse me. whether flynn attempted to orchestrate the removal of this turkish cleric from the united states to turkey in exchange for millions of dollars. oh. the headline from that nbc story is they ve got enough evidence to indict somebody in the flynn investigation, but this detail about what mueller s looking at is potentially a very big deal, right? it s one thing to secretly be a foreign agent on the payroll of a foreign government while you re serving as the national security adviser to a president-elect, right? it s another thing to promise that in exchange for that foreign government
transition team we don t know. but the new york times is reporting that he had. so let s not forget circle back to mike pence, the vice president, who has avoided a lot of attention. but he in fact was the head of donald trump s transition team. so if he truly didn t know about this at the time, that also raises big question marks i think for everyone. so let s not forget that. ken, i want to get your interpretation of this white house denial about michael flynn telling the then future white house counsel that he was under investigation. he said they deny that he said he that he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for turkey during the campaign. does that leave it open to you, the possibility that flynn said something about a federal investigation but didn t specify that it was about being a lobbyist for turkey? sure. i mean, that is the issue. i want to add something owhat indira just said which is a great summation of his work on behalf of
i mean, that is the issue. i want to add somethi owhat indira just said which is a great summation of his wk on behalf of this dutch company owned by a turkish guy. we actually reported it didn t get a ton of attention at the time but this turkish guy that owns this company that paid michael flynn more than $500,000 to lobby for him actually has deep ties to vladimir putin. that was revealed in a 2009 lawsuit. so there is a lot more there than just the very fine way the white house issued that denial. i would agree with you it certainly leaves a lot of wiggle room, and it s consistent with some of their denials that they have put forth on some of these other thing, only to be undercut in many cases by donald trump himself coming out and saying something contrary to it, or in other cases by other people in the administration or subsequent media reporting revealing that their denial, while it may have seemed very ardent and categorical in fact was not quite. so that there was some wi