confessed to you. so sometimes the plea agreement will say what those things are and sometimes simply say the government will bring no further charges related to general flynn s conduct as of the date of this agreement. that phrase, those clauses are missing from this agreemth and i m watching chuck nod. it s really change it s not there because he s not protected from being prosecuted from are the other stuff they ve investigated him for. it s very possible there s nothing else there. the government feels special counsel feels there s nothing else. along those lines and i guess the 1,001. lying to the government, to the fbi. it was a tool back in when i served as u.s. attorney that we used. not freak wbtly but always a good resource to have, often times when you can t make a full
but how independent are they? who could fire it fbi director, the fbi deputy director? who could influence decisions in the fbi from outside? i think they are truly independent. you can fire the director and keep going down the line but with 35,000 employees at some point the buck is going to stop. i work would fbi agents for more than 20 years and they are it most professional, dedicated people i ve ever met. that s why i find this attack on the fbi to be so harmful. in self interest, president trump is trying to undermine the credibility of the fbi for this case. but the effect is to undermine credibility in every case. agents are going to say i have thick skin. i can take it. but in terms of bank robbery cases, white collar crime cases, the jury is hearing the president of the united states say the fbi is a disgrace. what does that do to their
no, it wouldn t come to the president. and as you were probably going in this direction. the fbi is 35,000 plus strong. one of the strengths of the fbi is that its political layer is so remarkably thin. by that i mean how many of those 35,000 employees are political appointees. the answer is only one. every other man and woman is a career civil servient. so it s will you describe for our audience your role that fbi in the past. i had the privilege off working for two directors. bob mueller as counsel to director and from 19 2013 to 2015. i m not that old. i worked for jim comey as chief of staff. they re extraordinary. i can t prove to you here that the fbi is not in tatters. i can tell you they re not. i know they re not. but to barb s point i have a
upon the security warnings with regard to flynn? so this is about the 18 days between the warning from acting attorney general sally yates, 18 days that elapsed before the white house apparently acted on that warning and asked for his resignation. i m wondering specifically about his security clearance. if you are under fbi investigation, criminal investigation, aren t they supposed to yank your security clearance. once the white house was noti notified he was under investigation shouldn t more than pulled that. hate to be lawyer here. it depends on what he s under investigation for and what the justish department conveyed to the white house. so the answer is perhaps. not automatically, perhaps. and there are remedies in between. letting him keep his clearance and pulling it.
ukraine. so in that sense, it s like other special counsel prosecution where they were looking at crimes specific to the person they were going after like web hubble as a way of turning the defendant into a cooperator and into someone who would fess up and give the information he knows against the bigger fish. you both taught us a lot. three highlights that come out to me is number one, you execute this raid because you want something other than the notes. number, two you want to surprise the individual so there is some fbi belief the individual might be engaged in a flownous cover-up or obstruction. and number three, you re looking at money from a guy who didn t take money from the donald trump campaign which during the campaign was always odd. he said he was doing it as a matter of service and belief. now obvious lit fbi might be looking at other reasons. nick and harry, thank you both for teaching us so much tonight. thank you. thank you. now, the other story, of course, als