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sort of tax relief, even if it is only for temporarily up and through 2025 or 2027. a piece just crossing from the washington post looking at the trump legal team. and indications they plan to question michael flynn s credibility. he, of course, the former national security adviser to the president who pleaded guilty to a count that the brought by the special counsel robert mueller here in early december. there s been a lot swirling here about michael flynn. his brother taking to twitter to defend him and ask for a pardon from the president of the united states. we talk about the focus on robert mueller s focus on paul manafort. what s the focus on michael flynn going forward and what do you make of this that we ll see president trump s legal team call what he s had to say into question? so, i think this is, of course, part of this defensive strategy we ve seen from the president s legal team. we saw one of his lawyers
earlier today saying they still expected this to wrap early but there are obvious indications this is going to take a long time to unravel and that s not something the president wants hanging over him. they look at michael flynn who they know is cooperating and they ll want to undermine his credibility like they want to undermine mueller s so that anything he says could be doubted. if not in a court layoff, at least in the court of public ap opinion. up next it s been a trying year in social media. the library of congress has had enough. they ll no longer archive every single public tweet posted. what we re learning about the new guidelines. plus president obama s new interview with prince harry. what he s revealing about the day president trump was signed in and will he be a guest at the upcoming royal wedding?
and according to sworn testimony from james comey, it was the next day after flynn has been ousted that the president cornered comey in the oval office one-on-one and told him, quote, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. this is the key. if the president knew flynn committed a crime when he asked comey not to pursue the investigation against him, well, that looks like a pretty open and shut case for obstruction, which is why his staff flew into damage control mode when the president suggest head did know what flynn had done, tweeting, quote, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. the white house attributed that tweet implausibly to john dowd, the man there on the left, and has since dodged all questions about when the president knew about flynn s criminal lie. that s a noble fact in this building. it s not a legal matter. not for the attorney to say. can you just tell us when the
did you direct mike flynn to discuss sanctions with the russian ambassador? no, i didn t. prior to your no, i didn t. your inauguration. no, i didn t. excuse me. no, i fired him because of what he said to mike pence. very simple. mike was doing his job. he was calling countries and his counterparts. so it certainly would have been okay with me if he did it. i would have directed him to do it if i thought he wasn t doing it. i would have directed him because that s his job. i didn t direct him but i would have directed him but i didn t direct him because i didn t know he was doing it, but i m glad he did it. here is the question. did the president of the united states direct michael flynn to discuss sanctions with the russian ambassador? and when flynn got caught, did the president instruct him to lie to the fbi? that is the line of inquiry special counsel robert mueller now appears to be pursuing which reports mueller is trying piece