news organization rt and sat at the table with vladimir putin. so what investigators are looking at are these business dealings and whether and what flynn junior s involvement in them was. and flynn junior was not without controversy himself. remember he was one of the main people who pushed that pizza gate story. josh, talking about your scoop today. this deal that he was involved with, it also had russia as one of the deal makers, right? right. there was a consortium of folks in the united states who wanted to build these nuclear plans. it was going to be a united states and russia joint venture, or at least one idea for them. michael flynn was heavily involved in it, even traveled overseas trying to, you know, find out how to do it and how to push it. and then when he joined the transition he worked behind the scenes on a marshal plan to make this thing happen while talking to former officials he d worked with and paid him without disclosing it. so there was this consortium of
joining us now to talk about this former washington newsroom nbc news national political reporter carol lee and political white house reporter josh dosy who wrote about flynn s business dealings. carol, first to you, what do we know about the investigation into flynn s son? we know that investigators are particularly interested in flynn s son s work, flynn intel group, which was flynn senior s lobbying firm which was involved in a number of different activities. and we also know that flynn senior investigators have looked at his dealings with foreign governments including russia, including turkey. and flynn junior was essentially, you know, his father s right hand man. he served as chief of staff, he worked very closely with him, he traveled to moscow with him when general flynn gave that speech before the russian sponsored
nuclear folks who wanted these done overseas and michael flynn was pushing it and, you know, working with them and working inside the transition to make it happen. and what do you think this means for the scope of the russia investigation, josh? well, we re certainly seeing mueller as nbc reported today on michael flynn jr. and flynn s work during the transition and in the 24 days he was in the white house. looking at other payments. the flynn intel group had with companies and, you know, what ties they had in the transition and doing. this work during the transition and the white house is really becoming a key focus of the investigation. and thank you both. sorry it was truncated. and sarah huckabee sanders and bernie both squeezed us today. and next, hillary clinton placing some of the fault in james comey s lap in her loss in
comcast, building america s largest gig-speed network. epa chief scott pruitt tangled p tangled up. pruitt reached out to top donors if there was a job for his wife. let s talk to one of the reporters who broke this story, the washington post josh dosy. yet another one. walk us through this one. scott pruitt had one of his top epa aides along with a donor work for several months to try to find his wife a paid position in washington. eventually she was given a job as a conservat judicial crisis network which is a