do you memory andize someone when there s sitting in your office? no, you do not. do you have to warn them it s a crime to lie to the fbi? absolutely not. this business of challenging them on the grounds of protocol not being followed is nonsense. retiring member of congress, trey gowdy, questioned now the former director of the fbi, james comey, about this exactly. put up a piece of this transcript. mr. gowdy to mr. comey why not advise general flynn of the consequences of making false statements to the fbi? here s mr. comey s response. he was an extraordinarily experienced person and so reasonably should be assumed to understand you can t lie to the fbi. second, it s not protocol. the fbi does not do that in noncustodial interviews. and third, we want to find out what the witness will say to you before you heat up an interview by raising the prospect that the witness might be lying to you. frank pa gluzy, anything in there your former boss said that would surprised you? no, tha
wanted to contest the fbi interview. flynn said, quote, no, your honor. but even when presented with these developments, the white house still doubled down on its apparent claim that flynn was somehow ambushed. are you in a position now or would you like to revisit your comments earlier today that the fbi ambushed sflin. no, the fbi broke protocol in the way they came in and ambushed general flynn, in the way they questioned him and in the way they encouraged him not to have white house counsel s office present. well, perhaps they don t want to let facts get in the way of a good story. for what it s worth today, the former fbi director james comey denied to congress yesterday we re just reading the transcript now that flynn was, quote, ambushed. remember, even flynn admitted to the federal judge today that he lied to the fbi. this was a bad day for michael flynn and bad day for the president. his lawyers and flynn
identify bad conduct while trump was president. the other thing is, of course, you already said flynn supports the narrative of trump that there s a big, bad fbi that tricked me into lying and tricks other people. so it s russia, it s money, and it s real-time acts by this president in office that flynn has in his head, and can give up. if you were mueller, frank, would it make you question your cooperation agreement with flynn? well, there s a couple of things i think mueller is scratching his head about today, which is what s the impact on other people that might cooperate? roger stone, jerome corsi and others. if they think that a judge can actually wedge his way in to our arrangements and our discussions regarding getting off easy if you cooperate. so that s number one. number two, he could turn lemons into lemonade. he could say to flynn, look, this judge isn t going for it, so there s those two things you never told me about, you got to come clean now. so you avoid prison.
been this report that somehow flynn was shopping for a pardon after all of this was done. i think that got shut down today because there s nothing to be pardoned from perhaps yet. obviously, he s got the power if he wanted pardon him for crimes he may commit, but something is fishy here. and i think the judge sniffed it out between trump and flynn. yep. of course. you take the fact the president this morning started the morning by tweeting well wishes to michael flynn, who has cooperated with prosecutors for longer than michael cohen has, yet michael cohen is a rat. we don t know why michael flynn lied. we don t know whether or not he was directed by any members of the administration to include donald trump but there are all of these questions as to why donald trump is treating michael flynn with kid gloves. and the point about the president s retorhetorical atta on the fbi, one glimmer of hope is it s producing diminished returns. there was a poll out this week our poll. t
thinking, well, boy, this makes me want to reinvestigate this. what s fishy to you about about this sort of odd relationship that flynn and the president seem to still have? yeah, there s a calculated decision that flynn made to lie to two fbi agents sitting in front of him, and that is a major decision by the former head of the defense intelligence agency, a former general. so my question is, what is it that caused him to say, well, i could get busted for lying to the fbi or i could give up the truth about my relationships and conversations with russia, i ll choose to possibly get busted for lying to the fbi. that s the mystery that needs to get solved and understand when trump comes out and supports flynn publicly, i think there s two things going on, and one of them is that flynn knows what trump was doing while in office. he s a cooperator who can