there was process. if the fbi wanted to send agents into the white house itself to interview a senior official you would work through the white house counsel and there would be discussions and approvals. and i thought it s early enough, let s just send a couple guys over. judge jeanine: cardinal comey, you are so proud of yourself. are you proud that you violated white house protocol as well as flynn s constitutional rights, telling him he didn t need a lawyer? flynn, a man who spent 30 years defending this country. even though fbi agents themselves didn t think flynn was intentionally misstating the facts. i long said that bill barr is a serious guy. he s a no nonsense straight shooter who could give a dam about what people say or think about him. he s not looking to be famous for his next advancement.
there was process. if the fbi wanted to send agents into the white house itself to interview a senior official you would work through the white house counsel and there would be discussions and approvals. and i thought it s early enough, let s just send a couple guys over. judge jeanine: cardinal comey, you are so proud of yourself. are you proud that you violated white house protocol as well as flynn s constitutional rights, telling him he didn t need a lawyer? flynn, a man who spent 30 years defending this country. even though fbi agents themselves didn t think flynn was intentionally misstating the facts. i long said that bill barr is a serious guy. he s a no nonsense straight shooter who could give a dam about what people say or think about him. he s not looking to be famous for his next advancement.
in both those administration there was process. if the fbi wanted to send agents into the white house itself to interview a senior official you would work through the white house counsel and there would be discussions and approvals. and i thought it s early enough, let s just send a couple guys over. judge jeanine: cardinal comey, you are so proud of yourself. are you proud that you violated white house protocol as well as flynn s constitutional rights, telling him he didn t need a lawyer? flynn, a man who spent 30 years defending this country. even though fbi agents themselves didn t think flynn was intentionally misstating the facts. i long said that bill barr is a serious guy. he s a no nonsense straight shooter who could give a dam about what people say or think about him. he s not looking to be famous for his next advancement.
team says flynn chose to lie weeks before the fbi interviewed him by claiming he did not discuss sanctions with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. mueller s team noted that the fbi gave him multiple opportunities in the interview to correct his false statements and he only did so once the fbi used the exact language that he had used with kislyak from that phone call. now, while the filing notes that the fbi didn t think flynn was being intentionally deceptive at the time, it does say he should know better that lying to the fbi was a crime and he shouldn t have to be barned about it. and what also stuck out to me that the documents said flynn told before the fbi interview that mccabe probably knew what was said in his conversation with kislyak. so it s unclear why flynn would proceed to make false statements in his fbi interview and he thought they did know the truth. pamela brown, cnn, washington. and perhaps no one caught up
conversation. now while it notes the fbi didn t think flynn was being intentionally deceptive at the time, it did say he should know better that lying to the fbi is a crime, and he shouldn t have to be warned. just to be clear, general flynn knew the fbi knew what he had told sergey kislyak, correct? yeah, so at the last page of this filing, it s pretty remarkable there were notes from andy mccabe, the then deputy director and mccabe said flynn told him during the phone conversation that mccabe was probably aware of what the fbi of what was said in that conversation with kislyak. he said to mccabe, well, you probably know what we talked about. so this was before he was interviewed by the fbi. so it s unclear and puzzling, frankly, why flynn would proceed to make false statements in his fbi interview if he thought the fbi knew the truth. knew what they had discussed. puzzling indeed.