we have these different threads and probes. that s the perfect explanation. peter, michael, thank you so much. let s move on. we have more news involving now fired national security adviser michael flynn. we ll discuss that. also, a tragic accident this afternoon in the heart of times square here in manhattan. at least one person has died. a dozen more injured after a car just plowed into a crowd of people. we ll take you to times square, live.
a red flag coming from flynn himself. the knew yor the new york times telling the trump transition team that the fbi was investigating him for his work as a paid lobbyist as turkey and it s the third time the president or his white house counsel was warned about general flynn before he was forced to resign on february 13th. back in november, president obama personally talked to trump about the retired general, advising him against it, in late january. then acting attorney general sally yates informed the white house counsel that flynn was vulnerable to blackmail by the russians. so all of these warnings. as you know, it was flynn s misleading the president about his conversation with a russian ambassador that led to his exit, according to the white house. back with me is barbara starr and bob baer, a former cia
turkish companies. it was a process of slow accrual. they figured out what flynn was about, working for the russian media. going back to the sneech moscow t. dawned on the obama administration very late that he shouldn t have a security clearance. you can park a security clearance but when you become national security adviser, you re raised to a new level. you see intelligence that most people don t see. in fact, you see it all. you re right next to the president. and i think sally yates at justice department said this guy should not be in the white house, should not be in the oval office and the fbi, i m sure, said the same thing. and at this point, the trump administration simply ignored it and took the risk that it could get away with this and i think it s simply because inexperience that donald trump doesn t understand national security nor does sean spicer and right now they are learning the hard way. barbara starr, final thought from you. well, let s remember, you
not legitimate. didn t say that, but that s basically what a witch hunt means. that s the definition of the term. so, look, i think it s very clear that this is a president who does not and we ve seen this time and time again and this is in many ways how he s gotten into some of these messes, he doesn t like to be challenged. he doesn t like to be questioned and the fact that this is kind of the ultimate when it comes to a presidency in being questioned and challenged and investigated in as much as there s a special prosecutor, even he couldn t, i would say, hold his tongue or hold his thumbs. clearly he couldn t this morning. what about the vice president? we know that news came out today that in fact the trump transition team knew that flynn was under federal investigation for making money as a lobbyist working for turkey and we know that the vice president was the head of the trump transition
and the obama administration did its duty by going to the white house and saying, watch out for this guy, you ve got to clear some stuff up, he probably shouldn t have a security clearance. but recklessly, the trump administration said we know what we re doing, we trust him, he s an honorable man and forget the money, which you can t do in washington. when you have a top secret security clearance, you cannot be in the pay of a foreign government, ends of story. you remember we talked about it s all blurring together but during a white house press briefing and sean spicer was throwing shade on the obama administration and their vetting process to allow flynn through. my question to you is if the transition team knew, as per the report that the fbi was investigating flynn, what does that then do to the white house blaming the obama administration for giving flynn the security clearance in the first place? well, i mean, you know, look, this information developed because flynn was wo