to blackmail, as the group in fact in the oval office talked, they mentioned what paul ryan the speaker of the house told reporters which is that mr. trump had asked mr. flynn to resign. it was under excuse me, it was unclear where speaker ryan got that information but president trump seized on mr. ryan s words, that sounds better the president said according to people with knowledge. many trump turned to the white house secretary to break the news media, say that mr. trump ordered. but was that true mr. spicer pressed? say that i asked for his resignation, mr. trump repeated. and after that, sean spicer in fact walked out to brief reporters on mike flynn s leaving the white house the previous night resigning the previous night. he told reporters the president asked for flynn s resignation. apparently that was not true the president did not ask for flynn to resign.
that after being warned it would be illegal to pursue the plan. these trump administration officials have been pursuing this plan along the lines of a business proposal from which some of them would personally financially benefit. joining us now is congressman murphy, democrat on the house oversight committee. thank you for making time for us tonight. much appreciated. thank you, rachel. the whistle bloweri eers bri these concerns to your committee are suggesting this plan was advanced by trump national security advisor mike flynn back in the hot minute when he was in the administration in 2017 but there is also the implication that it didn t die with flynn leaving administration, that it s being pursued today. that s right. even after michael flynn left, some of his deputies along with jared kushner, the president s son-in-law basically took it upon themselves to continue with this plan to basically trade
i needed to discuss with him, that i couldn t talk about it on the phone and that i needed to come see him, and he agreed to meet with me later that afternoon. the first thing we did was to explain to mr. mcgahn that the underlying conduct that general flynn engaged in was problematic in and of itself. not only did we believe the russians knew this but likely had proof of the information and that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security advisor essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. finally, we told them that we were giving them all of this information so that they could take action. the action that they deemed appropriate. that was sally yates, talking about something that happened at the very, very beginning of the trump administration, literally less than a week of the swearing in of the in the president. it s a few days into administration, sally yates is acting attorney general
raja chr raja krishna murphy. thank you very much for joining us. the whistle-blowers bringing these concerns to your committee are suggesting that this plan was advanced by trump national security adviser mike flynn back in the hot minute when he was in the administration, back in 2017. right. but there is also the implication it didn t die with flynn leaving the administration, that it s still being pursued today. that s right. even after michael flynn left, some of his deputies, along with jared kushner, the president s son-in-law, basically took it upon themselves to continue with this plan to basically trade secret nuclear technology from america in return for contracts to build and of race nuclear reactors in saudi arabia. in terms of the potential criminal implications here, right, there is a self-dealing concern in whether or not
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