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Michael Flynn Worried About His Son’s Potential ‘Legal Exposure’ in Mueller Probe, CNN Reports

Recent reporting revealed that Robert Mueller‘s investigation is looking into not just Michael Flynn, but his son Michael Flynn Jr. as well. NBC News reported this week that Mueller has “enough evidence” to bring charges against both Flynns:

Flynn’s son, Michael G. Flynn, who worked closely with his father, accompanied him during the campaign and briefly worked on the presidential transition, could be indicted separately or at the same time as his father, according to three sources familiar with the investigation.

If the elder Flynn is willing to cooperate with investigators in order to help his son, two of the sources said, it could also change his own fate, potentially limiting any legal consequences.

Well, per a new CNN report tonight, the elder Flynn is in fact worried about “the potential legal exposure of his son.”

And while CNN’s reporting says it’s not clear either Flynn will face charges, both of them are indeed subjects of the investigation:

Interviews conducted by special counsel investigators have included questions about the business dealings of Flynn and his son such as their firm’s reporting of income from work overseas, two witnesses interviewed by the team told CNN. The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires people acting as agents of foreign entities to publicly disclose their relationship with foreign countries or businesses and financial compensation for such work.

Flynn Jr., who served as his father’s chief of staff and top aide, was actively involved in his father’s consulting and lobbying work at their firm, Flynn Intel Group. That included joining his father on overseas trips, such as Moscow in December 2015. During that trip, Flynn dined with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a black-tie gala for the RT television network, which US intelligence views as a Russian propaganda outlet.

GOP Congressman Calls for Mueller’s Resignation or Firing in House Speech

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) got up in front of the House of Representatives on Wednesday and delivered an impassioned speech against Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation. This comes after Gaetz called for a resolution declaring Mueller to be compromised, arguing that he cannot be impartial since he was FBI Director at the time of the Uranium One deal, where a Russian company was allowed to buy another company that controlled a significant share of the U.S. uranium industry.

“We are at risk of a coup d’état in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected President of the United States,” Gaetz said, “and I would offer that is precisely what is happening right now with the indisputable conflicts of interest that are present with Mr. Mueller and others at the Department of Justice.”

Due to this, Gaetz said he is “calling for Mr. Mueller’s resignation or his firing.”

Gaetz went on to say that there should be a special counsel to look into the Clinton Foundation, the Fusion GPS dossier, and the Uranium One deal. That deal took place under President Barack Obama, while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. The deal was approved by several federal agencies, including the State Department. Republicans have alleged that the State Department approved the deal because the Russian company gave a hefty donation to the Clinton Foundation.

NYT: Papadopoulos Told Stephen Miller About His Russia Contacts

George Papadopoulos told his Trump campaign colleague Stephen Miller, now a top White House official, about his efforts to coordinate a meeting between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times reported Friday.

According to the Times, Miller is the unnamed “senior policy adviser” described in emails that were included in the recently unsealed charges against Papadopoulos.

In one April email, Papadopoulos emailed that “senior policy adviser” to inform him that “the Russian government has an open invitation by Putin for Mr. Trump to meet him when he is ready.”

Two days later, after a London-based professor with ties to the Russian government told Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, he followed up with another message saying he had “some interesting messages coming in from Moscow about a trip when the time is right.”

The Times report marks the first time that Miller has been identified as one of the campaign staffers who was in regular contact with Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with Russia-linked foreign nationals.

Miller also attended a March 2016 meeting of the campaign’s foreign policy team in which Papadopoulos told Trump directly that he could set up a meeting with him and Putin.

Neither Miller or his lawyer responded to the Times’ request for comment.

The senior White House adviser was interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team late last week. CNN reported that the discussion focused in part on Miller’s role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, who was overseeing the investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election.

Miller helped Trump draft an initial memo he planned to send outlining the reasons Comey should be fired. Other White House officials stepped in to keep that memo from going out over concerns that some of its arguments were problematic.

The special counsel’s team reportedly has a copy of the initial draft letter.