About a pending vote in the u. N. General assembly regarding israel. According to the charges, a very Senior Member of the president ial Transition Team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. Nbc news reported today that the very senior official was Jared Kushner, the president s soninlaw. In a Statement Today Michael Flynn said, i recognize that the actions i acknowledged in court today were wrong, and through my faith in god i am working to set things right. My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the Special Counsels office reflect the decision i made in the best wanted of my family and of our country. I accept full responsibility for my actions. There was strong reaction to todays news from democrats on the hill involved in the russia probe. Their message, theres more to come. Inside the white house the
i think this is going to end it. i just laughed. i said mr. trump, it s unfortunate i have teal you this, but having done this myself for a living, we re going to be talking about this on valentine s day, february 18. they laughed out loud. jared told me i was crazy. congresswoman, how could the president be stuck on fly paper, because he is. he can t get off of it, and he s the fly, from not knowing from day one he was involved. how can a guy believe he s so incent i innocent or that all he had to do was fire flynn and he would be free? because that s how he s dealt with business problems in his career. you either sue someone, get rid of someone, and that sort of takes care of it. he runs the presidency like he s part of an organized syndicate. and i think that he thought that would do it. you know, it s really palpable when the fbi director comey before our intel committee, one of the few open hearings we had,
mueller s team were in agreement he did not deserve prison due to his extensive cooperation with the russia investigation. but the judge strongly suggested that he was prepared to send flynn to prison based on the seriousness of his offenses, which in addition to lying to the fbi also included seeing retially acting as a paid foreign agent while he was advising mr. trump. said the judge, arguably, you sold your country out. that s exactly how the judge put it to mr. flynn. now, he offered flynn a chance to delay the sentencing and perhaps continuing operating with investigators, and guess what, flynn took that deal and quickly. all of that happened as the president threw his support behind flynn sort of in a head-scratching way. despite publicly saying just a year ago he had to fire flynn because of the fbi, but after flynn gave the president some perceived ammo to go after the fbi, the president seemed to soften flynn s crimes and that s not something we ve gotten a full answer to.
once the washington post broke the news of how the justice department had issued this warning to the white house, once they broke the news about what flynn was suspected of doing and what the national security emergency was about flynn, once the washington post went public with it and flynn therefore finally had to step down, why then did president trump ask james comey, the director of the fbi at the time, to please go easy on flynn. hope you can let this go. why did he do that? it s also been reported that the president additionally asked the national the director of national intelligence, dan coats, if he too could please intercede with the fbi to somehow make them go easy on mike flynn, not go after mike flynn. why did the president intercede to do that on flynn s behalf, given what we had all just learned about flynn? why did the president initially say that mike flynn was fired because he had lied to mike pence about his contacts with russia, but then later the president ch
hope you can let this go. why did he do that? it s also been reported that the president additionally asked the national the director of national intelligence dan coats if he too could please intercede with the fbi to somehow make them go easy on mike flynn, not go after mike flynn. why did the president intercede to do that on flynn s behalf, given what we had all just learned about flynn? why did the president initially say that mike flynn was fired because he had lied to mike pence about his contacts with russia, but then later the president changed his story to say he had to fire flynn because actually, flynn lied to the fbi. frankly, why did mike flynn lie at all about his contacts with the russian government about sanctions. all right? he is the incoming national security adviser. it wouldn t be that weird for flynn to be talking to a foreign government about an expected change in policy under the trump administration when it came to