problematic in and of itself. we were concerned that the american people had been misled about the underlying conduct and what general flynn had done, and additionally, that we weren t the only ones that knew all of this, that the russians also knew about what general flynn had done, and the russians also knew that general flynn had misled the vice president and others. not only did we believe that the russians knew this, but they likely had proof of this information, and that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. david ignatius, she went out and said explicitly yesterday something that had been widely reported, that she approached the white house counsel because she believed sincerely that general flynn could be a target of blackmail given that he had exposed himself that way and he allowed the vice president of the united states to go out and tell untruths which is what brought her to the wh
you know? i don t know. we certainly don t have a smoking gun today. it seems that the story is unfolding only in one direction. every few weeks we get new evidence that suggests that there was more, not less coordination than we previously thought between the trump campaign and the russian government. the new element today is you have a few individuals, michael flynn amongst them, who might be in serious legal trouble. that tends to be when the story comes out, when you have an individual on the inside of something like this, in order to get out of personal legal liability starts to fill in details that weren t previously available. we have some new wrinkles that may get us closer to the truth and we have congressional investigations that didn t exist six months ago or four months ago that also might get closer to the truth. i have a feeling there s a number of additional chapters here that haven t been told. today we don t have that direct clear evidence of collusion between trump
of politics and out of partisanship. she just cited line by line the law under which she acted. she believed the travel ban was unlawful. and correctly cited the provision of the law that was implemented after the section that he talked about. it s also something that head cruz has done more often than not. he has an intellectual contempt. he thinks he s just the smarter person in the room. what s even worse she shows it. it s obvious he has intellectual contempt for everyone in the room. david, the takeaway from yesterday. what s the headline? i think the headline is this is more trouble for the white house even than they expected. in what way? i think that the mystery of why donald trump did not act when he was given warnings about mike flynn s behavior is now a
flynn. he psychologically can t. mike flynn has legal jeopardy, under investigation by the justice department. if you re in that situation that trump is, the last thing you want is someone who is in legal jeopardy suddenly flipping on you. you think we ll find out that nefarious part, if there s a nefarious part, will we find it out? we will if the department of justice has enough evidence to bring charges against mike flynn and they come to his lawyer and say talk or get indicted. chris muhy, should the senate grant immunity to michael flynn, the immunity he s asking for right now? i think it s hard for me to know that without understanding what he may be offering in terms of evidence of collusion with the russian government. so i don t think i can make a call on that. i think one additional thing to think about is we know, as we ve said a couple times, about michael flynn, because of the washington post. i think there is an outstanding question as to whether there are o
michael flynn and his conversations with ambassador kislyak, the fact that he talked about sanctions against russia on the very day when the obama administration was imposing new sanctions, that was troubling. second, this very strong language that the justice department thought there was an urgent danger that flynn could be compromised, that he could be blackmailed, she wanted the white house to act right away because she thought the russians can use this now. i thought it was pretty stunning to hear her say that. let s show that. let s go right to sally yates. we began our meeting telling him there had been press counts of statements from the vice president and others that related conduct that mr. flynn had been involved in that we knew not to be the truth. the underlying conduct that general flynn had engaged in was