if it was true, would you be asking your fbi director who may not be on your team to please look into it more? he first demanded loyalty from him. i didn t see demand. i skimmed this. to me, what s newsworthy about this is that we ve learned at least i ve learned for the first time that the president did have worries and concerns about mike flynn. you see that again and again in these notes and yet despite these worries and concerns about flynn, he says to the fbi director, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he s a good guy. i hope you can let this go. so paul two, three, four times. you re not going to make your case on that. hold on. it s not that he thinks he s a good guy. one at a time. so here s what i want to say about this, look, i m not a lawyer so i can t speak to, you know, the legalese of this. he emptied the oval office and told comey to end the flynn investigation. he asked the vice president to go out. he a
those conversations was questioning the judgment of michael flynn. and here is what according to comey the president said. quote, the president pointed his fingers at his head and said, quote, the guy has serious judgment issues. now, as you recall, this is perhaps in relation to the president s conversations concerning the investigation of michael flynn. one of those where he said, and as this has been reported and as comey has testified to letting flynn go. comey wroiites in the memo thate then returned to the topic of mike flynn in one of their conversations saying that flynn is a good guy and has been through a lot. he misled the vice president, but he didn t do anything wrong in the call. and this is in reference to the phone call with the russian ambassador. he then said i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. then comey says i replied by
gone over before and at the heart of the notion trump was trying to wave comey away and obstruct justice in doing that, it really sounds in a not particularly subtle way he s saying let s just let this go. mike flynn is an okay guy, we don t have to dig into this as deeply as you want to, people make mistakes. it s a very humanly recognizable moment with one goal, which is to ask james comey to turn the other way, be blind to this and move on. i think he said, frank, that he asked people four times four times to be left alone with comey in the room so that they can have this conversation. yeah, which we talked about before is completely inappropriate. and james comey said it made him uncomfortable these moves were being made. and we know there was an incident jeff sessions couldn t want to leave the room because he too knew it was
issues with michael flynn and the rumors about trump s visit to moscow in 2013 really got under his skin. at least according to comey. in one of the unclassified memos, it includes a famous conversation where trump allegedly told comey quote i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. to letting flynn go. there is new information, including a claim, that president trump told comey at a dinner at the white house in 2017 that he had quote serious reservations about michael flynn s judgment and reince priebus asked comey if flynn was under surveillance days before flynn was fired. and lawmakers jumped on the news. nancy pelosi tweeting the release of the comey memos are further proof of trump s contempt for the rule of law. republicans say the memos are more indicative of what the memos don t say. they don t say and former
joe, so let me ask you this, frank. talking about flynn, he says he then starts talking about all the women who falsely accused him of grabbing is this the right quote that i have? no, sorry, here it is. he then returned to the topic of mike flynn saying flynn is good guy and he s been through a lot. he misled the vice president but he didn t do anything wrong in the call. he said i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he s a good guy. i hope you can let this go. i replied by saying i agree he s a good guy but no more. it supports what comey has been saying, what was reported earlier and now what he s been saying in this press tour. no, and it s stark now to see it in the memo itself in black and white. and that exchange which we ve