u.s./russia relations, even sanctions specifically. it would be a little awkward. questions would be raised, but it wouldn t be that weird. nevertheless, he lied about it publicly and he lied about it to the fbi, and that honestly makes no sense if they were innocent policy discussions about sanctions and he is the incoming adviser who is going to be working on that stuff. you wouldn t need to keep that stuff secret. you wouldn t even need to try to keep it secret, unless perhaps those sanctions discussions were maybe linked to something that really truly couldn t get out and had to be kept secret. and it certainly couldn t be disclosed to the fbi. the reason i raise that possibility and the reason i think this is important on as we head into the sentencing portion of mike flynn s life is that it wasn t just mike flynn who lied about those sanctions discussions. it s troubling and interesting and intriguing enough that flynn was lying about those discussions with russia, but it
the reason i raise that possibility and the reason i think this is important, as we head into the sentencing portion of mike flynn s life is that it wasn t just mike flynn who lied about those sanctions discussions. it s troubling and interesting and intriguing enough that flynn was lying about those discussions with russia, but it wasn t just him. as flynn is about to be sentenced, i think maybe this is the most important part. this time last year, the new york times reported on e-mails that were circulated among senior trump transition staff at the time flynn was making those contacts with the russian government. these e-mails showed that in fact multiple senior officials knew at the time that flynn was talking to the russian government about sanctions. e-mails about his conversations with russia, about his sanctions conversations with russia were reportedly circulating among
everyone has noted that. he was shot down over the pacific, but it was a whole generation that did that. it wasn t just him. my mom volunteered for the navy after pearl harbor, and it was a remarkable generation that didn t make much of a second thought. we were attacked, you went, you volunteered. it was a different time in that sense. but, you know, to pick up on what you said, john, we just got into it before, is this guy who took on his party s base, he took on the europeans around unification of germany. he stood against those who wanted to gloat over the fall of the soviet union. he raised taxes when the country needed it, but his party didn t want it. there was a lot of steel in this guy, and it is precisely that willingness to do big, hard things against public opinion, against the base of your own party that also is really of a bygone era. you know, jamie, so much of this memorial service, the state
thing was mishandled. it wasn t just him. you had jared kushner who had restricted clearance. you had to go back to the president s son-in-law who was there because of nepotism and dial back his clearance. this thing is a mess. he s chief of staff at a time when you have a president setting new marks for how how erratic he can be. it doesn t make his sense of control look any better. maybe this is an area where he wanted to clear things up. gloria made notice of the turmoil going on in the white house right now. we ll talk about that and a lot more right after the quick break. i can lock in moisture. and keep us protected. we ve got to have each other s backs. and fronts. cerave. what your skin craves.
it s how empowered you are, it s who you are, it s whether people believe you. this is really key, how far we go with harvey weinstein. sexual predators are like roaches. you don t just fine one. it s like jarred with subway. it wasn t just him. it was somebody else on staff. the key lesson is not stopping with harvey weinstein but going down the list of men and sometimes women who are complicit in this behavior. above and beyond the abuse of women we also have to look at these larger questions about the abuse of young people in general. when i think of corey feldman coming out and saying, hey, i ve been talking about this for 30 years. there s an entire culture here that says women and children s voices are not to be heard if they re being sexually abused. i hope that s a part of the future narrative. we re in a week where we just