MADDOW: Adam, you also at the end of your piece tonight have a very provocative description about contacts between this same informant and General Mike Flynn, who went on to be Trump's national security adviser and is now awaiting sentencing after having pled guilty in the /1
MADDOW: special counsel's investigation. In 2014, you say this informant had met with Mike Flynn when Flynn run the defense intelligence agency at the time.
Flynn attended the [Cambridge Seminar]. According to people familiar with Flynn's visit to the seminar the source was /2
Flynn attended the [Cambridge Seminar]. According to people familiar with Flynn's visit to the seminar the source was /2
MADDOW: armed by General Flynn's apparent closeness with a Russian woman who was also in attendance. The concern was strong enough that it prompted another person to pass on a warning to American authorities that Flynn could be compromised by Russian intelligence. What can you /3
MADDOW: tell us about that incident and what that meant for Flynn going forward in terms of the attention on him from the FBI?
GOLDMAN: Well, from the informant's standpoint that was certainly a moment he took note of. It's not clear if that information that went to the /4
GOLDMAN: Well, from the informant's standpoint that was certainly a moment he took note of. It's not clear if that information that went to the /4
GOLDMAN: American authorities actually triggered a counterintelligence investigation, but it certainly would have been logged by authorities.
MADDOW: “New York Times” reporter Adam Goldman, congratulations on this late-breaking news.
Congratulations. /5
MADDOW: “New York Times” reporter Adam Goldman, congratulations on this late-breaking news.
Congratulations. /5
MADDOW: I will say Flynn is – if this anecdote about Michael Flynn from 2014, sources alarmed by his closeness with a Russian woman at an intelligence
seminar, reporting it back to U.S. intelligence authorities about whether or not he's compromised, over the course of the /6
seminar, reporting it back to U.S. intelligence authorities about whether or not he's compromised, over the course of the /6
MADDOW: Mueller investigation, we've also got Rick Gates and Paul Manafort, the chairman and deputy chairman of the Trump campaign, both also in contact with someone who the FBI believed to be a Russian intelligence asset. We've got Carter Page who is believed to be involved /7
MADDOW: with Russian intelligence and potentially reporting home to Moscow about his contacts with the FBI and this country. And we've got George Papadopoulos also involved in the Trump campaign, also appearing to be in contact with Russian intelligence. /8
MADDOW: That's a lot for one campaign. Have you ever heard in any presidential campaign ever of even a single person being known by the FBI to have ties to Russian intelligence? Ever even one?" /9
