was unaware. how could they have known and pence did not is a mystery hanging over the trump administration. on december 20th, pence holds a national security meeting at the transition offices in washington. the day president on obama approved new sanctions against russia for meddling in the 2016 election, president-elect trump said this. what do you think generally about sanctions? i think we ought to get on with our lives. flynn calls k.t. mcfarland at mar-a-lago with other transition officials to discuss russian sanctions. flynn calls kislyak. 16 days later, january 14th, pence calls flynn to personally ask about his calls with kislyak. pence goes on television. i talked to general flynn yesterday, and the conversations
implicate? as nbc news reported today flynn discussed the nature of his calls with the russia ambassador with jared kushner and k.t. mcfarlane. court documents show flynn discussed those conversations with other unnamed officials on the trump transition. flynn spoke with senior members of the presidential transition team about flynn s conversations with the russian ambassador regarding u.s. sanctions. that means multiple people were aware vice president mike pence was not telling the truth when he said this in january. did mike flynn ever discuss lifting sanctions in any of those conversations? do you know? 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. furthermore, nbc news confirms that the purpose of one of flynn s conversations with the ambassador was to reassure the kremlin that the incoming
sergey kislyak about the explosion of russian diplomats. let s listen here. didn t mike flynn ever discussed lifting sanctions in any of those conversations? do you know? i talked to general flynn yesterday. and the conversations took place at that time were not in any way related to the sanctions. against russia or the expulsion of diplomats. we found out a short time later that they conversations that he was having with sergey kislyak did both of those things. flynn was asking sergey kislyak if the russians could moderate their response to the position of sanctions and to the explosion of diplomats, and sergey kislyak apparently said yes, we do that, but he neglected to tell the president about that, and that is when he made the false statements. it now, in terms of how this fits in with the overall russian investigation, we don t know yet. and when all of the information
it s time to shut it down, turn the tables and lock her up. that s what i said. i actually said it. lock her up. the president has been publicly pressing sessions to investigate clinton, tweeting everybody is asking why the justice department, fbi, isn t looking to do all the dishonesty going on with crooked hillary and the dems. and at some point, the justice department, fbi, must do what is right and proper. yesterday, the doj replied to letters from congressional republicans on that very matter, saying, the attorney general has directed senior federal prosecutors to evaluate certain issues, raised in your letters. and then advise sessions about whether a special counsel was needed. today, sessions battled members of his own party, over whether appointing a prosecutor to investigate the president s chief political rival, based on right wing conspiracy theories, was a good idea. what s it going to take to actually get a special counsel? it would take a factual basis, that meets
nothing could be further from the truth. all of us have you know, have had concerns about wikileaks over the years. nothing could be further from the truth. that obviously turned out not to be true. in fact, according to the atlantic on september 20th, 2016, the day trump jr. first received a message from wikileaks, quote, he e-mailed other senior officials of the trump campaign, including steve bannon, ankle ann conway and jared kushner, telling them wikileaks had made contact. kushner forwarded the e-mail to campaign communication staffer hope hicks. we re supposed to believe that pence was kept in the dark and no one tried to correct him. it is amazing how many times pence has been sent out to make categorical denials later proven to be untrue. did mike flynn ever discuss lifting sanctions in any of those conversations? do you know? i talked to general flynn yesterday. and the conversations that took place at that time were not in