Guilty for lying to the fbi about his contacts with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. later, when lies were uncovered and then acting attorney general sallyiates went to the white house with a warning to warn that flynn had indeed lied and because he had lied to be vulnerable to russian blackmail. president trump still waited 18 days to fire him. what did trump do? this is what he did. on the same day sally yates had a second meeting an michael flynn, concerned the man has been compromised who is going to be the national security adviser to the u.s., trump set up a private white house dinner with then fbi director james comey in which comey says trump asked for his loyalty and on the day after trump finally fired michael flynn he ushered administration officials out of the oval office so he could speak to comey alone, according to to james comey, trump told him i hope you can see your way clear to letting flynn go.
And potentially being vulnerable to blackmail. february 9, the washington post reveals flynn talked with walter kislyak about sanctions. and on february 13, flynn stepped down. the white house said flynn was fired for misleading pence and other senior officials about his meeting with kislyak. the next day trump brought up flynn with then-fbi director james comey who later made immediate and contemporaneous notes of their conversation. comey was asked about that in a senate here in june 2017. you wrote down the words. there s 28 words and it says, in quotes, i hope this is the president speaking i hope you can see your way clear to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. those are his exact words, is that correct? correct. let s bring in our lead-off
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That s quite a sizeable coven. and robert mueller will divulging more in a court filing. prosecutors are expected to describe how flynn has helped the russia investigation since agreeing to cooperate with the probe a year ago. flynn, of course, was a key trump campaign aide and a former national security adviser inside the white house when he was charged. the special counsel described how flynn had lied about passing messages between members of the trump campaign and the russian ambassador to the united states. it was the flynn investigation, you might remember, that prompted president trump to say to then fbi director james comey, quote, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go, according to comey. president trump denies saying that, but the alleged request and subsequent firing of comey have been key parts of mueller s investigation to whether president trump obstructed justice. now, one of the biggest mysteries in all of this is why? why did flynn li
Question. it seems like whether you re loyal or not. if you have testimony mueller wants, he s going to get it. he is going to get it. it s not simply the disloyalty, though that s really been vivid, but cohen is going to be sentenced december 12th. he has series charges hanging over him. on flynn, it does indicate he s done with him. usually you d keep him around if he might need to testify. but in all of these, we re find with manafort, cohen, et cetera, mueller has belt and suspendered everything. we have the testimony from weisselberg and pecker on what cohen has to say in general. you have a really comprehensive and duplicative investigation by mueller. so i think he thinks he can let flynn go. i cut you off. if you step back and look at the forest end of the trees which is hard in a trump