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who knew what when, including vice president pence. he was head of the transition, and he was asked about michael flynn, and this is what he said in march to fox news. listen to this. let me say, hearing that story today was the first i heard of it, and i fully support the decision that president trump made to ask for general flynn s resignation. you were disappointed by the story? the first i heard of it, and i think it is an affirmation of the president s decision to ask general flynn to resign. and again that was back in march. that was when the story first broke that he had been under investigation, was being paid as a lobbyist for turkey. now with this news timeline today, what does that mean? well, it means one of two things. one is mike pence wasn t entirely telling the truth there, or that mike pence wasn t in the loop, one of those things. now, given the way that we know mike pence has historically
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informed the transition of it? i mean, the fact that they knew he was under investigation at that point and still appointed him as national security adviser, i question the judgment. it also doesn t make the administration look good when it comes to the question of collusion with russia. at that point, they should have held off, appointed somebody else, let flynn finish his investigation, and if he was exonerated, they could have then moved him back into the administration at some point. and it also still begs the question, the underlying intelligence question of what is the collusion, or not the collusion, but the influence that russia had on the elections? and i think we still need an independent investigation or a select committee to look at that question, because it s not clear to me that mueller will be able to get to that. is it under his purview, we will see. but dana, this also draws in, raises questions about what vice president mike pence knew, or
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