MSNBC’s Nance: Flynn Was ‘Possibly ... an Unwitting Asset of Moscow Intelligence’
RUSH EXCERPT:
REID: "Let’s go to Malcolm on this. We all know the cast of characters who are involved in the allege Russia collusion with the Trump campaign. Michael Flynn. If you go back to — travel back to when Jim Comey testified in front of a congressional committee and released the memo which showed that, in his view, trump was asking him to end the Flynn investigation, go easy on Michael Flynn. We have the stories of trump reaching out to Michael Flynn saying stay strong. Mav Malcolm, having lived this situation for a year S Michael Flynn the person who most likely has the answer on whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia or is his real problem that he was making money on the side?"
NANCE: "He has four issues that will come down on him. One, taking money from Russia while holding a top secret security clearance, not saying anything about it. That could lead him to charges of being an unwitting intelligence asset. Two, taking money from the Turks in order to extradite illegally in a U.S. Resident to Turkey which is kidnapping, federal conspiracy charges. That’s bad. Three, then there’s making that phone call to Moscow in December of last year. That is significant because that could implicate Mike Pence and Donald Trump as having ordered him do that. He may have lied about it. And finally, he may have been the executive officer of all the dirty tricks campaigns to get the Wikileaks information, the information from the Russian lawyer, and the information from the podesta leaks and the rest to find Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, which means he’s neck deep in all of them. The question is which are the easy ones Mueller is going for? I think he’s going for the Turkey and Russia payments, that’s documentary. He can get that. Finally, it was Jay sakalow who dropped a hint about the security clearance of Flynn, saying Obama cleared him. So that leads me to believe it’s more the Moscow phone call and him being an unwitting asset of Moscow intelligence."
