his son was his partner, worked with him when he was lobbying and as he was national security adviser so he has the same information, the father would. and so we re thinking here that muler is trying to apply pressure to flynn to get him to cooperate to give him the details he needs to flush out the narrative putting pressure on both him and his son. it s a very smart prosecutorial move if you think about it trying to get a witness to cooperate. the other key piece of this, of course, is whether or not flynn used his position as national security adviser to push for the removal of gulen. that s gulen, the muslim cleric, opponent of turkish president erdogan. that, of course, would be a huge breach and completely illegal to allow another country to bribe, we understand that he may have been offered millions of dollars, to allow another country to bribe someone in a
are speaking to multiple witnesses in coming days to gain more information surrounding flynn s lobbying work including whether he laundered money or lied to federal agents about his overseas contacts according to three sources familiar with the investigation. mueller s team is also examining whether flynn attempted to orchestrate the removal of a chief rival of turkish president erdogan from the u.s. to turkey in exchange for millions of dollars. nbc news reported two months ago that michael flynn s son michael g. flynn who is irritatingly enough not a junior, michael g. flynn, he is also subject to robert mueller s investigation. quote, the inquiry into the younger flynn is focused at least in part on his work with his father s lobbying firm, flynn intel group. both traveled to russia in december 2015 when general flynn
direct criticism of federal law enforcement in that clip certainly doesn t help him. but, you know, these people are professionals. they re not going out of mike flynn out of a grudge or revenge play but because he broke the law and probably multiple laws and he knew he had done it when he was giving that speech and that s really unbelievably offensive and i hope that when he is on house arrest after he s arrested and he doesn t make bail they make him watch that clip over and over and over again in his living room while he s awaiting the meeting out of justice here. such a good point, ron. i want to remind the audience of that, too. when you see the clips of michael flynn with the lock her up, he knew, he knew that as he stood there that night saying those things he himself was in violation of federal law. he absolutely knew that. julia, gene, ron, thank you all very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. thanks, lawrence. thanks. thank you. new revelations about
erdogan from the u.s. to turkey in exchange for millions of dollars. nbc news reported two months ago that michael flynn s son michael g. flynn who is irritatingly enough not a junior, michael g. flynn, he is also subject to robert mueller s investigation. quote, the inquiry into the younger flynn is focused at least in part on his work with his father s lobbying firm, flynn intel group. both traveled to russia in december 2015 when general flynn gave a paid speech to the propaganda network and had din we are vladimir putin. three sources familiar with the investigation tell nbc news mueller s applying renewed pressure on flynn following his indictment of trump campaign chairman paul manafort in june. former fbi director james comey testified under oath that president trump directed him to drop what was then the fbi s investigation into michael flynn.
security adviser michael flynn not among the first three publicly announced people to be indicted by special prosecutor robert mueller, one of whom pleaded guilty because michael flynn obviously broke the law. there s absolutely no doubt about that. he did not register as a foreign agent working on behalf of the turkish government in the trump campaign in 2016 and that is a felony. punishment can include prison time. the government doesn t you believely prosecute these cases when it seems to have just been an oversight. government can be kind of understanding about that. but when prosecutors are playing tough as robert mueller is, this is the kind of thing that can and will get you indicted as it did for paul manafort and his junior partner richard gates. count ten of the indictment of paul manafort and richard gates says the defendants knowingly and willfully without registering with the attorney general as required by law, acted as agents of a foreign