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
Told that National Security adviser Michael Flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia. That warning was issued by acting Attorney General sally yates, who told White House Counsel Don Mcgahn that flynn was vulnerable because he misled the Vice President and others about the nature of his conversation with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. Despite her warning, President Trump chose to keep flynn on the job as top National Security post for 18 more days, according to the report. Muellers goal in part is to determine whether there was a deliberate effort to cover up the information that yates had provided the white house. As nbc reports, multiple sources say that during interviews, muellers investigators have asked witnesses, including White House Counsel Don Mcgahn himself and others who have worked in the west wing to go through each day that flynn remained as National Security adviser and describe in detail what they knew was happening inside the white house as it related to
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asked whether something like the coup in myanmar could happen in the u.s. i want to play again what former president trump s former national security adviser said in dallas on sunday. i want to know why what happened in myanmar can t happen here. no reason, i mean, it should happen. to reason. that s right. no reason. i mean, it should happen here, no reason. that s right. he said. flynn, who is also a retired lieutenant general in the u.s. army is now trying to walk back that comment. a message posted to a parler account used by flynn yesterday now says, quote, there is no reason whatsoever for any coup in america. context here. flynn made the initial comment with qanon supporters. for months the forums have been filled with comments supporting the deadly coup in myanmar and
fbi is doing its job or being political and ears deep embedded corruption. who knows how many more lisa pages and peter stzroks are at the fbi? shannon: a brief comment on what happens with flynn yesterday. a decision on his sentencing delay james comey defending the way he was questioned by the fbi. and that just shows there was bias there. for james comey to bring in michael flynn, he is an expert person and should have known he could ask for a lawyer and having 9 lawyers present with hillary clinton shows he was treating people differently whether there was a d or are after their name. we should not tolerate that as the american public and i am thankful congress is providing oversight and trying to hold the fbi accountable for their actions.
trump campaign trail, even famously leading that anti hillary clinton chant at the gop convention. if i did a tenth a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today. but his stint as white house national security adviser lasted less than a month after he was caught lying to senior members of the trump administration. i talked to general flynn yesterday. and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u.s. sanctions against russia or the expulsion of diplomats. he didn t tell the vice president of the united states the facts. and then he didn t remember. and that just wasn t acceptable to me. ultimately, flynn lied to federal investigators, too, about his conversations with then russian ambassador sergey kislyak regarding russian sanctions. he struck a plea deal and has spent more than a year cooperating with investigators. that early cooperation likely affected the decisions of related firsthand witnesses to