information that flynn would be potentially blackmailed by the russia. the reason being flynn had spoken to russia about sanctions but denied meetings about it. she said the second time they met was the next day when megan had several questions including whether flynn could be criminally prosecuted. and there was third conversation about allowing white house officials to see the underlying of flynn s behavior. now, her account, the chain of events undermined sean spicer s claim that she merely gave a vague heads up about the situation. don. so, listen oh, i m sorry. it s critical we get this information to the white house. in part because the vice president was unknowingly making false statements to the public. and because we believe general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. so pamela, the key question about collusion came up. what did we learn today about that?
ten days now. november 10 obama warns trump about flynn. and then january 30 ag yates directs doj lawyers not to make legal arguments defending trump s executive order on immigration and refugees on travel ban. february 13, report flynn may be vulnerable to blackmail. and february 1 gts, flynn resigns as national security advisor. in those ten days, she warned the white house about lieutenant general flynn, told the department of justice not to enforce the president s immigration order. is there a bigger thorn in the president s side than sally yates right now? yeah, probably not at that time and probably not today. one thing i think in addition to
out? i don t think they is see it that way. because if you look at trump s twitter time line today, in all of the tweets today mike flynn s name was not brought up. when the majority of the meeting was supposed to be about what michael flynn knew and didn t know. so i think we walk away with this just knowing that supporters are focus on different stuff here. the hearings started out about flen, those centers tried to change it to the executive orders on travel. president trump couldn t mention general flynn in those tweets because general flynn underscores all of this smoke about russia. he wanted to go away from it and distract from it. and again, whether believe yates or not, she was unflappable in the face of these attack
she gave a forceful warning about former general flynn. i think first of all it s very important to dismiss this idea it was just a little heads up like at a cocktail party or a hey at an inaugural parade. this is where she had two former meetings with other staff there and went through her reasoning he had been compmized and disclosed to them in detail the discussions he had had with the russian ambassador. and theb it was obvious, i would say, he d been lying at the time based on what he said to the vice president and others. and two days later they have him there with the president of the united states and vladimir putin for an hour and allowing to stay for 18 days. so having said what you just said, sally yates had two
it was asked nafgt by the chairman on the udishiary committee and both witnesses answered. that also included another tweet where he basically blamed president obama for all of this. because flynn had once worked for president obama. he seemed to forget that president obama had actually fired general flynn. and from the news reports we see today, had also warned president trump about not hiring general flynn. so it s just one thing after another where they receive these warnings and then just decided nope, we re going to keep him in because he was loyal to the president. and i think when you re dealing with such an important job like this and you re dealing with russia where director clapper made clear they were going to do this again, they were successful, and they were emboldened, you don t put that person in as your national security advisor. it has been said that maybe