that s right. no, no, that s hold on. no, no, before you let me before you accuse the vice president of certain things. he said he was not aware of the filing, just so we re clear, and he wasn t. just in terms of the larger question here. forget about filling out forms and the legalisms here. wh does thisay the transition team s judgment about still appointing him as national security adviser when you had knowledge of this information? no, no, but you re asking me, forget about the legalisms. that s what we ask people to do, is follow the law. you can t forget about the legalisms. glenn, take it away. look, i wasn t asking about the paperwork. eli gentleman cummings, ranking oversight committee at that time informed soon-to-be vice president mike pence that this was an issue that flynn was doing work with the turkish government. they had full knowledge of this. i wasn t asking about filling out forms. i was asking about the judgment of the president, the vice presid
with the mexican president and australian prime minister, the president himself was wiretapped? the stories were printed out with the same kind of substance driving the rest of these rumors. i put that into the mix with at least that much validity. where did it come from? this is what i m confident in, that the conversation that general flynn had with the ambassador of from russia to the united states was leaked out into the press if that turns out to be anything other than a madeup story, someone violated federal law and violated our antiespionage laws and they re facing potentially a felony that could face ten years in a punish. in order to get a fisa wiretap of mike flynn or anybody, you would need to have probable cause they re working on behalf of a foreign government. if there was a fisa warrant
to the white house press briefing. sean spicer talking about general mike flynn, fired national security adviser, registering retro actively as a foreign agent working on behalf of turkey. his group lobbying for turkey while he was working on the campaign. sean spicer was asked whether or not the administration knew about this. and if they did and didn t act on it or weren t aware of it or concerned by it, what does it say about the judgment of this administration? sean spicer said this was essentially a person matter for mike flynn. that he spoke to lawyers about this and the lawyers dealt with it. they have people who fill out applications and if they find out later on the applications are not entirely truth or more information they needed they took care of it, dismissing mike flynn. do you believe that is enough?
i think we spoke very clearly about what we would like to happen last sunday. i m going to reiterate it. we believe the house and senate intelligence committee have the appropriate forum and process and staff to look into this matter and report back. sean, can you see what the president was informed at all about this arrangement no. to register as a foreign agent? no. and did he just to be clear, general flynn filed with the department of justice two days ago. how would anyone know that s sort of like the need to file? that s up to his personal lawyer. each person that goes through the process in government seeks counsel regarding the assets they own and activities they conducted as to what they have to do. this is like asking someone if they have a client, whether they have to file a lobbying disclosure form.
he said, well, we ask them to fill out the necessary paperwork and we take them at their word. but this goes to a broader issue about this administration right now. that s not just about the issue between michael flynn and turkey, but more broadly about the investigation into russia s interference into this election right now because the question has been, were there conceivably individuals, associates of then-candidate trump president trump, in contact with russia during the course of the campaign? sean spicer says i can t tell you for sure. that demonstrates the position they re in right now where there s been a lack of sufficient vetting even from an administration that claims they want extreme vetting with this new travel ban. it comes as it is house intelligence committee has now sent a letter to the department of justice, the assistant attorney general, to james comey asking for any new information about russian interference. so, these all sort of, i think, intersect in some form