turkey, mueller is also, according to nbc news, investigating whether flynn was shopping another plan, as well. a plan to spring a guy who was facing federal charges in new york, but who turkey desperately wants freed. now, the guy who s facing charges is in federal custody. he s charged in federal district court in new york. he s being prosecuted by the u.s. attorney s office in the southern district of new york. and the charges are related to potential violations of sanctions on iran. this turkish guy, who s facing these charges, though, he s very rich, he s very well-connected, including to the turkish government, and even to the turkish president s direct family, and turkey really doesn t want that guy on trial. turkey has been trying everything they can to get the charges against that guy dropped and to get him freed. they have attacked the new york judge and the prosecutors in his case. they hired rudy giuliani and the george w. bush era former attorney general, michael mukasey,
out with. if he wants to plead guilty, we can do something for him on sentencing where he doesn t need to spend as much time in jail. the other thing is, we can get him out of jail now. he s still in federal custody, but not at mcc in lower manhattan. so, that s those are some of the kind of the benefits that he has to immediately cooperating. there will be a written agreement. he s pled not guilty in this case. at some point, we ll get a notice that there ll be a change of plea. that will become public. and then he will go before the judge and say, yoern, this is what i did, and i ve agreed to cooperate with the government. we won t necessarily know right away what he has agreed to cooperate on, and some things might be saled and some things we might never know, but to go back to your point, in michael flynn was a gardner, if he never existed in the trump orbit, to have this guy come forward and say, i ll cooperate with the government, just because of what he knows about iranian m
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basically to try to negotiate between turkey and the united states, to get the charges dropped against this guy. turkey has also reportedly raised this guy s case repeatedly with the u.s. government as a bone of contention between our two nations. did turkey also, in addition to all of that, did they also hatch a plan with mike flynn to find some way to use mike flynn/trump campaign magic to try to make the charges go away against this guy? we absolutely do not know whether that is the case, but nbc news reports that robert mueller is investigating whether that kind of deal was attempted or flynn would somehow get these charges dropped in exchange for the turkish government paying him a lot of money. well, now here s the kicker. because today, we ve just learned that the dude in question, the guy who turkey really, really wants freed, the guy who they really don t want to go on trial, he s up on these
and i think it s a situation where, look, if the senate the senate chose, for instance, in this case, if they did, to look into franken and conduct before he was elected to the u.s. senate, or for that matter, if roy moore were to get elected and republicans were to convene the ethics committee, as mitch mcconnell has suggested they might, and they were to look into his conduct years ago, before he was elected, i think that s something that would have to be tested in the courts. if a roy moore or if an al franken or if any senator whose behavior came under the microscope like that wanted to test it in the courts. i don t think that s something that s been established. to the extent you have some sort of guidance in the past in the courts, i think the most famous case was adam clayton powell, member of the house back in the 1960s. and this was the house that was refusing to seat him and basically the guidance that came from the courts at that point was, well, you have to seat him and