life as well when he held on to documents contain something of the nation s most sensitive national security secrets and then stonewalled efforts by the government to retrieve those documents. we ll start with the trump organization going on trial. jury selection began in the case brought by the manhattan d.a. against the trump family business alleging a 15-year scheme in which top executives were compensated off the books in order to avoid paying taxes. as the new york times reports the trial marks a reversal of fortune for the ex-president s business. the business that was the basis for the image trump peddled to voters as a businessman and deal maker, even if that image was smoke and mirrors. from the reporting the dawn of donald trump s presidency his family business appeared poised for a windfall. it unveiled new hotel lines, held ribbon cuttings around the world and attracted major tournaments to his golf clubs enough for eric trump who ran the company while his fathe
Thinking isnt a guns situation. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One week after we learned Robert Mueller had brought indictments against two top trump officials, announced a guilty plea for a third, all eyes on a former highranking official in the Trump Administration itself, Michael Flynn. A man who spent 24 days in the white house as the president S National Security adviser. Nbc news exclusively reporting that shmueler now has enough evidence to file charges in the investigation into flynn and his son Michael Flynn jr. , according to multiple sources familiar with muellers investigation. To be clear nbc news is not reporting who might be charged, only that there is sufficient evidence to file charges in that investigation. Three sources tell nbc news that investigators plan to soon speak with multiple witnesses to gather more information about flynns lobbying work, including whether he laundered money or lied to federal agents about his
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the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those sates and basically rerun an election in each of those states. that s not even true. but again, this is a game. and it s about talking this ugly obnoxious talk of insurrection and opening people s minds to the possibility that follow. so, what does this mean? andrew mccabe led the fbi s investigation into flynn in 2017. welcome back to primetime . i hope you had a meaningful weekend for you and the family. what do you make of this? thanks, chris. chris, i mean, maybe the better question would be, why are we surprised? mike flynn has a history of saying things that are provably false, things that contradict his own statements that have been recorded 2017, mike flynn lied to two fbi agents about his conversations with the russians only an hour after telling me on
met with trump about imposing martial law and said this he could order the within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those sates and basically rerun an election in each of those states. that s not even true. but again, this is a game. and it s about talking this ugly obnoxious talk of insurrection and opening people s minds to the possibility that follow. so, what does this mean? andrew mccabe led the fbi s investigation into flynn in 2017. welcome back to primetime . i hope you had a meaningful weekend for you and the family. what do you make of this? thanks, chris. chris, i mean, maybe the better question would be, why are we surprised? mike flynn has a history of saying things that are provably
against mike flynn and the investigation into flynn. well, now as of today, that inspector general report is out. if you were the judge in mike flynn s case, it s easy to imagine you might be annoyed at this point if you delayed the sentencing because of what you believed were good faith assertions by mike flynn s lawyers that this new report was going to change everything. it was going to make the case against mike flynn fall apart. it was going to expose the dastardly fbi for only having pursued flynn because of some flit cal vendetta against flynn or against donald trump. whatever else they thought this would give them, you might imagine that the judge today now having had the opportunity to see this report might be annoyed because the inspector general report that is out today does discuss the fbi opening up their investigation into mike flynn. and they conclude that it was no problem. i.g. took a hard look at it. seems pretty kosher is pretty much the conclusion. definitely nothin