and the election of donald trump. david, what have you learned about the conversations flynn was having during the campaign? let me take one step back. back in february, 2017, when the whole flynn story collapsed that he had lied and that he was under investigation, there was a line in a washington post story saying that the reporters had talked to ambassador kislyak, the russian man in d.c., and that those conversations began before the election, not just during the transition period. and so that was always interesting to me because it was never flushed out. what were they talking about, when were they talking? well, mother jones, we have found two flynn associates who say that they have heard that he has said that during the election, before the election day, before the transition, that he was having conversations with kislyak, can t tell you when, can t tell you how many, that involved these grand policy matters, what to do in syria, what to do in iran, and even the possibility
mother jones, also author of russian roulette, the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. david, what have you learned about the conversations flynn was having during the campaign? let me take one step back. back in february, 2017, when the whole flynn story collapsed that he had lied and that he was under investigation, there was a line in a washington post story saying that the reporters had talked to ambassador kislyak, the russian man in d.c., and that those conversations began before the election, not just during the transition period. and so that was always interesting to me because it was never flushed out. what were they talking about, when were they talking? well, mother jones, we have found two flynn associates who say that they have heard that he has said that during the election, before the election day, before the transition, that he was having conversations with kislyak, can t tell you when, can t tell you how many, that involved th
transition team. ivanka trump also on that transition team. all of these people very much involved you would think in trying to vet folks, in trying to figure out where people should be in the administration. and get the administration up and running in a credible way that doesn t cause problems for the white house going forward. and you have mike pence there who again is in this similar situation. he didn t know. he was told a story and he went out and told essentially a lie about mike flynn initially and then of course about the firing of james comey. so this is a white house that has a credibility problem and we see it over and over again. and the victim is the vice president. a frequent victim of that credibility because it was only a week ago that mike pence, among others, came out and doubled down on this idea that rod rosenstein s report on comey that led to the firing which the president later undermined. we ent kndon t know how to characterize the vice president.
essentially for turkey. your reaction to that? let me say hearing that story we re going to go right to new york now because the press conference beginning on the this incident in times square. have a listen. today here in times square. we re going to provide you with information. i want to emphasize up front this is preliminary information. obviously investigation under way. there s a lot we will learn in the coming hours. but we re going to give you the information we have at this point. i ll start then you ll hear from our police commissioner james o neal and commissioner dan nigro. so far what we know, 23 individuals were injured in this incident. that includes trageically one young woman who has passed away. the perpetrator is in custody. is a united states citizen and a former member of the armed
but also to do it in the context of what we have to do to change the united states laws, to change policies, to provide resources so that we not only can look backward but also forward. this is a threat, this russia threat is not just a history. it s pending for our elections going forward. both investigations are complimentary. let me ask you this, because as i understand it, mueller is the special counsel now decides, for instance, what the fbi shares with you and your committees. i know there have been some frustration early on about how quickly the intelligence committee was sharing relevant documents, et cetera. i know that s no longer the case, but does this mean you re going to be likely your committee will have less access to the latest discoveries in the investigation, et cetera? i don t think there ll be any less access. again, we have to go ahead and ask the agencies to provide us information. they have to comply with their