need to understand his state of mind during certain actions and episodes for the obstruction probe. if that s what the special counsel wants, it is the kind of questioning that really needs to be in person. you have to look at the person who is giving the answers. you have to assess them. you have to see if it works together. you want to test patterns. very tough to do in writing. this news comes as the special counsel fired back at general flynn today, showing our best example yet of how mueller will deal with lying. even though the special counsel has requested minimal punishment for the general, the special counsel went out of his way to say the man lied and that no one set him up. one of the quotes was his decision to make false statements was voluntarily and intentional. and he went out of his way to say as a former head of an intelligence agency, he should have known better.
i ve never i ve never seen his son present for any of those meetings. but you re the head of the transition team. so you know what you put in security clearances for. well, general flynn did inform me his son was helping on administrative matters. my last question, and i m sorry, you re not answering the question. were you aware the security team had put in for a security clearance? this is a young man who had a social media profile that had all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories and links and retweets with white supremacists. were you aware that the transition put in for a security clearance for him? what i can do, in talking to general flynn today, he made me aware that his son was assisting him in scheduling. and that you d put in for a security clearance. can somebody please remove my power cord, move me over to a corner and turn me around. pop me in the closet maybe or up onto a high shelf. pence needs to power down now. do not want to answer questions about this now
of crazy conspiracy theories and links and retweets with white supremacists. were you aware that the transition put in a security clearance for him? what i can do, in talking to general flynn today, he made me aware that his son was assisting him in scheduling. and that you d put in for a security clearance. can somebody please remove my power cord, move me over to a corner and turn me around. pop me in the closet maybe or up on to a high shelf. pence needs to power down now. do not want to answer questions about this now. the cover story for what happened to mike flynn and why he finally got pushed out of the trump administration after an utterly implausible public facing series of events was that it was somehow a great problem in the trump administration that mike flynn had lied to vice president mike pence. and as strange as that seems, it is probably now a more important question to figure out why vice president pence has told so many public lies about mike flynn.
him sentenced. the second piece could be i think you re right that the probe is coming to a close soon. that could mean months. it doesn t mean tomorrow, but it could be that they just didn t want this information out there, particularly because it does relate to the russian piece of the investigation. they might just not have wanted it out there six months ago when they were still continuing to interview witnesses and make their case. yeah. really hard to know. as everything, until the documents come out, read something into it and read nothing. harry, you have flynn today. then you have a sentencing memo on michael cohen this week and prosecuted laying out on friday what they believe paul manafort has lied about to them since he had reached the plea deal with them. of those, which do you think will be the most significant? potentially today, just in the sense that as anne says, it s a mystery, but it could detail so much going back toward higher ups. but i think manafort beca
about his sbrkzs with one of our adversaries, that being russia. this is part of a broader pattern in which the administration officials lied about their contacts with russians. it s breathtaking. we are also right in listening to that white house statement where they say these are the lies he told the white house. actually if you read his statement, flynn today acknowledges he told officials about this. those people all became part of that white house. it s not going to be that easy for the white house to say nothing to see here. not only did he keep them informed with one of the calls, but he was directed by someone in the campaign. par. the white house argument has been he was free lansing here and acting alone. you are doing your own