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night last week we were talking on the show about the siberian energy group on the right and we accidentally showed the website of the siberian energy group on the left. i m sorry about that. you can understand why we might mix those up. the live siberian energy group versus the dead siberian energy group. interesting. the reason we even know we made that mistake and put up the website is this article on politico.com concerning the murky origins of half a million dollars paid to former security advisor mike flynn. the siberian group is the only publicly traded gas and exploration company in the u.s. that has 100% of its assets in russia. siberian energy group. part of what politico talked about last week and we told you on the show, there is a link between the ceo of that now defunct siberian energy group and the guy who paid mike flynn more than half a million dollars mike flynn did not disclose on his security clearance application in washington. this is the money that ....
most cases, it would be a grand jury, but here in minneapolis, the county prosecutor has decided he alone will review evidence and determine whether to pursue charges. david? alex perez leading us off tonight. alex, thank you. there is also a state of emergency playing out tonight. 43 major fires burning. one in particular forcing nearly 5,000 from their homes as the fire now gets closer. and tonight, it is moving in on yosemite national park. smoke so thick in the park, you cannot see what makes it most famous. abc s kenneth moton on the fire lines from california. reporter: tonight, the detwiler fire, exploding in size to more than 70 square miles. firefighters calling it the most powerful of their careers. talking to firefighters, it s been over ten years since we ve seen fire and fire growth like this. reporter: 2,200 firefighters trying to keep up in grueling conditions on the ground. these firefighters are the first line and pretty much the only defense watch over ....
own new program which will air 6:00 p.m. weekdays. we ll announce the start date eventually. but you can mark your calendar in a rough way if you want. a big breaking news night. so i m happy to hear what rachel maddow has in store for us. you re giving us a calendar alert that could exist in the age of digital calendars. you re telling us to pencil this in in general but i can t give you a start date. write a macro so at some point that stakicks in and it starts. that s all i was allowed to say. a very laurie approawyerly a tonight i had an a block all set and ready to go. we worked on it this weekend. all this breaking news stuff this evening and then this happened this evening and we had all of this crazy stuff happening with the legal teams that are trying to defend or senator rand paul from kentucky said he wouldn t vote for it because repealing obamacare was still too much like obamacare. whatever. for whatever reasons the two of them said they wouldn t vote it. ....
with the russian story and found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. nice. that s trump in tweet. joining me now are three national security reporters, charlie savage, adam entous and shane harris. shane, you ve got the story which follows up on what we had last night, that the special counsel is looking at the president for obstruction of justice. my question is how do you have to add to that? what you have now is you have the president both trying to convince director rogers of the nsa to come out and shoot down these issues of collusion, but also privately still continuing to doubt the very intelligence that the nsa collected that led to the conclusion that russia interfered in the election. we ve seen trump publicly talk about the fact he thinks they re nothing to russia, but to know that he s now saying this privately and continuing to argue with one of his intelligence chiefs about that, i think really reveals the degree to which this ....
of experts to explore this further. in london, a geopolitical analyst and author. he serves as the cofounder of economic partners. and in beirut today but actually based in london at the school of economics. an expert on terrorism and the co-author of isis: the state of terr terror. and peter bergen joins us from washington. he is a vice president at new america. peter, let me ask you, does this strike you as terrorists adapting yet again? because what is interesting about this to me is it s in many ways very low tech. a van going into crowds, people brandishing knives and using them as weapons. of course, guns are very hard to get in britain. maybe i m just trying to look for a silver lining here. all of that means they re finding it hard to do big bombs at symbolic locations and that kind of thing, and what they are reduced to is driving vans and using knives, which is, of course, terrible and tragic, but you can only kill so many people, particularly if the police respond ....