investigation into the payment that the former national security adviser michael flynn received prior to becoming the national security adviser from rt, russia today, which is an entity of the russian government. what s your reaction to that first of all? i think that s appropriate if they think that there s wrongdoing, then the department s inspector general should look into that. are you satisfied with the vetting that was done of general flynn by the transition team before he came on board as the national security adviser? so that s a great question. i appreciate you bringing it up. let s walk through that for a second. general flynn was a career military officer who maintained a high level security clearance throughout his career in the military. his clearance was last reissued by the obama administration in 2016 with full knowledge of his activities that occurred in 2015 as you point out. so the issue is, you know, he was issued a security clearance under the obama administr
up for michael flynn. i don t get it. after the president fired him for lying. so the president fired him for lying about his communications with the russian ambassador and should be bending over backwards to help us. it does not make any sense and makes the american people think the white house has something to hide. flynn s lawyer saying he disagrees with congressman cummings characterization from the dia and that the pentagon was, quote, fully aware of flynn s trip to wurussia. when the white house press secretary sean spicer was asked about the vetting process, he put the blame on the obama administration. are you satisfied with the vetting that was done of general flynn by the transition team before he came on board as the national security adviser? so that s a great question. i appreciate you bringing it up. let s walk through that for a second. general flynn was a career
that they launched an investigation into payments that form a security advisor michael flynn received prior to becoming the national security advisor. what s your reaction to that? press secretary spicer: that s appropriate. if there is wrongdoing, then the inspector general should look at that. reporter: are you satisfied with the vetting that was done by the transition team before he came on board as the national security advisor? press secretary spicer: that s a great question, i appreciate you bringing that up. let s walk through that for a second. general flynn was a career military officer who maintained a high level security clearance throughout his career in the military. his clearance was last reissued by the obama administration in 2016 with full knowledge of his activities that occurred in 2015, as you point out. the issue is, he was issued a security clearance under the obama administration in the spring of 2016.
visit. so here s how sean spicer tried to explain the fact flynn had clearance and didn t need a new one. general flynn was a career military officer who maintained a high level security clearance throughout his time in the military. his clearance was last reissued by the obama administration 2016 with full knowledge of his activities that occurred in 2015, as you point out. so the issue, he was issued a security clearance under the obama administration in the spring of 2016. the trip and transaction that s you re referring to occurred in december of 20 he 15 from what i understand. so you pointed out they re looking into it. we welcome that. but all of that clearance was made during the obama administration. and so sean spicer says that this was the bureaucratic procedure that was done under
the payment that the former national security adviser michael flynn received prior to becoming the national security adviser from rt, russia today, which is an entity of the russian government. what s your reaction to that first of all? i think that s appropriate if they think that there s wrong doing then the department s inspector general should look into that. are you satisfied with the vetting that was done of general flynn by the transition team before he came on board as the national security adviser? so, that s a great question. i appreciate you bringing it up. let s walk through that for a second. general flynnas a career military officer who maintained a high level security clearance throughout his career in the military. his clearance was last reissued by the obama administration in 2016 with full knowledge of his activities that occurred in 2015 as you point out. so, the issue is, you know, he was issued a security clearance under the obama administration in the spring