vladamir putin says he won t retaliate against u.s. sanctions. january 20th, 2017, president donald trump is inaugurated. january 24th, flynn lies to fbi investigators about his conversations with the russian ambassador. january 26th, then acting attorney general sally yates warns the trump white house that flynn was lying about calls with kislyak. january 30th. president trump fires yates. february 13th, flynn resigns after misleading vice president pence about his calls with kislyak. now flynn s bombshell guilty plea has thrown the white house into turmoil. despite the president s efforts to make the investigation go away. senator mark warner, the vice chairman of the intelligence committee, saying this today. you ve got this repeated pattern of the president of the united states, who is trying desperately to stop this investigation. cost jim comey his job, because he wouldn t stop the
they ve had their own hides to watch for a while. right. but even more so, the the burning desire and desperation really to get things like tax reform done, which they re going to do in the next stage in the senate tonight, is even more critical according to i talked to one republican senator tonight, because they even more so have to prove that they can get things done. even more so have to have a legislative accomplishment, given the political firestorm going on the russia side of this. jim, flynn s guilty plea is the first charge against a person inside the trump administration, and now cnn is learning that jared kushner was very senior transition member, the one who directed flynn to contact the russian ambassador. what do we know about that? listen, the white house has tried to portray flynn, in these conversations with the russian ambassador during the transition, first they tried to portray them as innocent conversations, you had sean
remember his next status hearing is not until february and sentencing after that largely going to drag out the same way that papadopoulos had his guilty plea and months went by people knew about it, number one, and also who he was corresponding with. i bet he s been cooperating and we ll see who the bigger fish are going to be but he s now bait. if he s cooperating and they want his cooperation, he knows some things that s going to make a lot of people nervous at the very least. and we know president trump asked jim comey the fbi director before he fired him hey go easy on him. why did he do that? there is a lot of why questions that we don t have the benefit of knowing. we are not inside that investigative trail that the special counsel is on. but there is a larger picture here of why were there these contacts. why weren t they truthful about them. when we know there was an attempt by russia to influence the election. and why there was all that
white house. but what s the real issue here is you have this repeated pattern of the president of the united states trying to stop this investigation. cost jim comey the job because he wouldn t stop the investigation. he intervened with senators. intervened with other senior intelligence officials. i think the american people and a lot of us ask why is he so desperate to have this investigation stopped particularly as we see more people either plead guilty or come forward under indictment. and, brooke, mark warner also said he wants to bring back to the senate intelligence committee jared kushner, the president son-in-law, michael cohen, president attorney, and also donald trump junior who has yet to meet with his committee. so still some major witnesses and people who may be knowledgeable about what happened here with michael flynn as well. brooke. manu, great reporting. thank you so much.
white house. but what s the real issue here is you have this repeated pattern of the president of the united states who is trying desperately to stop this investigation. cost jim comey his job because he wouldn t stop the investigation. he intervened with senators and other intelligence officials. i think the american people and a lot of us ask why is he so desperate to have this investigation stopped, particularly as we see more and more people either plead guilty or come forward under indictment. okay. thank you very much. you were listening there to the ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee, senator mark warner, although they have their own investigation into the russian meddling. and laura coats if i could go to you, you have the former federal prosecutor. oftentimes fo oftentimes for the layman it s the lying that folks get caught