Significance of todays news. The charges against somebody first in the white house. It was for a crime that occurred while he was annoyed in the Trump White House as a National Security adviser. Flynn is now the fourth member of the team connected to trump on the Trump Campaign to be charged as part of the special counsel investigation. And these questions loom large after todays news. Why did flynn lie to the fbi . What was the then National Security adviser so afraid of our own federal investigators finding out that would be worth such a risk of lying to them . With so many serious consequences. What was flynn hiding . Cnns jim sciutto and even perez have some breaking news on this story. And, jim, let me start with you. Flynn is specifically charged with lying to the fbi about conversations he had with the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Youre finding out more about one of those conversations and how flynn may have been acting on the orders of Jared Kushner, although kushner is n
Nightmare and led to a revolution. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. President trump this afternoon capping off a wild tweet storm by reacting to newly unsealed mueller evidence that showed that his former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, aided the Mueller Investigation into potential obstruction of justice, offering evidence that members of the trump team and Congress Reached out to flynn in a way that mueller asserts could have affected both flynns willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation. Potential witness tampering. Flynn even sharing a voice mail with the mueller team of a possible attempt to interfere with the probe. Now, the president tweeted today, quote, it now seems that general flynn was under investigation long before it was common knowledge. It would have been impossible for me to know this, but if that was the case, and the me being one of two people who would become president , why was i not told so th