threads here or the possibility of firing him because of russia, and the tweet that he said you know lied to the fbi, he s not disavowed that tweet. it s an official record even though his lawyer tried to say that he had written it. the tweet in and of itself is marginally helpful. it sheds some light perhaps on what the president knew and when he knew it. but the statement to lester holt i think is more compelling. because in the president s own words, says that he fired comey because of the russia thing. again, here s where that timeline comes into play. the dinner between former director comey and president trump happened a day after sally yates went to the white house and alerted them to what she thought, what she knew were general flynn s false statements. so that s precisely why you construct these time lines as i mentioned, the more you pour
so it makes perfect sense that this is what they re doing. i imagine they are indeed asking everybody who was in the white house and at these meetings what they recall and the more, as i said, the more stuff they pour into it, the clearer the picture becomes. and it all goes back also to sally yates testimony critical testimony at the russia hearing in may. let s watch. she was being questioned by lindsey graham. would you tell the white house. so i told them again that there were a number of press accounts of staps made by the vice president and other high ranking white house officials about general flynn s conduct that we knew to be untrue. we also told the white house counsel that general flynn had been interviewed by the fbi. mr. mcgahn asked me how i did and i declined to give him an answer to that. i remember mr. mcgahn asked me whether or not general flynn should be fired. i told him that really wasn t our call. that was up to them but that we were giving them this inform