development considering the fact that flynn had sort of been on the same side as trump. but there was a real break here, and they were no longer going to be working together. there is a kind of unexplained loyalty or interest the president has in flynn s case going back to obviously talking to comey, right? taking extraordinary step to appear to intervene in an ongoing investigation. so flynn was fired on february 13th. and the following day is when comey s in the oval office and trump asks him to end the investigation. so this was clearly something on the president s mind and clearly something that concerned him. you know, it s sort of hard to believe why would the president go to such great lengths to interfere in an investigation. the other thing that is interesting is flynn was interviewed at the white house in the first week of the presidency, and it was that friday that the president had comey over to the white house and asked him to pledge his loyalty to him. so there are th
the president was once again derisively referring to senator elizabeth warren who has cited her oklahoma family lore to claim partial native american ancestry, even though investigations have never turned up definitive proof one way or the other on the matter. nor has it ever been proven she gained anything professionally from those ancestral claims. but that has not stopped the president from obsessively attacking her. senator warren responded earlier on msnbc. it is deeply unfortunate that the president of the united states cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a racial slur. and just in case you thought this was just trump alone, a short time later sarah huckabee sanders made it clear the official position of the white house is one of nastiness and cheap shots. at the event that the president just did with the navajo code talkers, he referred to pocahantas being in the senate. why did he feel the need to say something that i
turkish hands. flynn s lawyer denied that report. but according to former cia director james woolsey, a trump campaign adviser who sat on the board of trump s consulting firm, quote, it became clear to me they were seriously considering a kidnapping operation. and i told them then it was a bad idea. it was illegal. just this past weekend, that same man, former cia director james woolsey was spotted in the dining room at none other than mar-a-lago having a lengthy conversation with the president. michael schmidt is a washington correspondent for the new york times, one of the reporters who broke the story on flynn s possible cooperation with mueller. what has changed in the legal posture of michael flynn? well, his lawyers had been cooperating with trump, sharing different types of information. but the day before thanksgiving, his lawyers called up trump s lawyers and said we can no longer do that we can no longer talk about the special counsel s investigation. for legal experts, th
a conflict of interest, which would certainly be the case if flynn moved to testify against his old boss. flynn is arguably the most central figure in the russia investigation. a close campaign adviser to the president who once led calls to prosecute hillary clinton. that s right, lock her up! if i, a guy who knows this business, if i did a tenth, a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today. flynn s deception about his russia ties cost him a job at the white house just three weeks into the administration. an incident that was in many ways the first domino to fall in the ongoing russia related revelations. he is recalled to have talked on the phone during the trump transition with the russian ambassador. that s that man there, sergey kislyak. at the same time that the obama administration, still in power at the moment, was announcing new sanctions against russia for interfering in the 2016 election. flynn denied discussing the sanctions with kislyak in his
i took it as this is what he wants me eto do. i didn t obey that. but that s the way i took it. when it comes to flynn s potential legal exposure, we re only scratching the surface. we know he has been under scrutiny according to the wall street journal playing a possible role to obtain hillary clinton s e-mails from russian hackers. we know flynn initially failed to disclose payments received in connection with a 2015 trip to moscow where he dined at the elbow of vladimir putin. well also know he failed to disclose his involvement in a nuclear project in the middle east with partnership in a russian. there and then there is flynn s interest as a paid interest. according to the wall street journal, flynn and his son were at one point offered $15 million to kidnap a turkish cleric living legally in the u.s. whose a political foe of the turkish president and deliver him into turkish hands. flynn s lawyer denied that report. but according to former cia director james woolsey, a trum