trump party, and pattern that began early in his presidency. 2013, almost a year ago now, the national security adviser michael flynn resigns admitting that he lied about conversations with sergei kis lee yak. then he meets with james comey who takes me s notes of the mee and he writes that he hopes that you can find your way to let this go, and comey does not. and then three months later, trump fires comey and by u trump s own admission the reason for firing comey was the handling of the russian investigation. regardless of the recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing that there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to do it, i said to myself, you know o, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story and it is an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have
might you be thinking? i think if you are attorney general sessions, you take that as a slight shot across the bow again from the president who is, as you say, still smarting from the fact that sessions early on recused himself. but the comparison to holder is almost funny. he didn t have meetings with kiss lee yak prior to coming in and then the russia investigation. so holder was never in this situation. the obama administration had their share of investigations. but there was never this issue where the actions of holder were in direct conflict with what the president s inner circle was being investigated about as there is with attorney general sessions and president trump in this case. also i think president trump still sort of doesn t grasp or doesn t want to grasp this idea that other political figures, other figures in his cabinet have their own you power centers and responsibilities. the attorney general is not the
fbi about discussing sanctions with the russian ambassador. in that case, flynn and consist lee yak were specifically talking about the new sanctions that were meant to punish russia for interfering on donald trump s behalf. that turns out was not flynn s only conversation about the the future of russian sanctions. according to a whistle blower. flynn told a former business associate, get this, on inauguration day that sanctions against russia would be, quote, ripped up as one much his first orders of business inside the white house. flynn had been boricing on plan to build nuclear power plants in the middle east in partnership with russian interests. and according to to the whistle blower whose account is laid out in a letter to congressional democrats, former business associate said he just got this text message from flynn, saying the project was good to go. and directing the associate to contact their business colleagues to let them know to put things in place. now flynn allegedly s
staff. and there s a lot they want to ask him. what are some of the questions we expect lawmakers will be asking? obviously that june 2016 trump tower meeting is going to be a big topic. but there s another meeting in may 2016 with a russian connected to vladimir putin with ties to organized crime. congressional investigators want to find out what that is. this is a guy who told the campaign he wanted to convey a message. nbc news is also confirming. that s right. it was a brief meeting with mr. kushner about some of the things they re learning having to do with mike flynn. former national security adviser. they were together at a meeting with consist lee yak. we don t know exactly what mueller was asking kushner about. all right.
special agent aaron rouse will provide those, that information associated with that. okay? and then subsequently i will return to the podium, assist with some q&a and then commissioner sis lee yak is available if you have any questions of the commissioner. and then obviously we have senator hiller who wished to address the audience also. so president trump, i think he was in town today. yes, he was in town. and the reason why i bring up president trump is nothing to do in fact with president trump but to do with the police department. there was some concern because of his visit that investigations associated with this case would be delayed or hindered. and i m here to assure you that none of that occurred. there was a situation of personnel associated with first