making fun of the handicap reporter like this? no! donald i m not here for any of that. so who are you, jacob marley? you ve got a lot of chains on. no, i m michael flynn, the ghost of witness flipped. special counselor robert mueller has declined to make any comment about the russian probe but they ve offered to lay out a picture of the investigation. in the past two months, mueller and his team have received private debriefs from two dozen current and former trump adviser s. once inside the special counsel office, witnesses are reportedly seated in a windowless conference room where two and three-person teams of fbi agents and prosecutors press them for answers. among the topics that have been of keen interest to investigators, how foreign government officials and their
they were afraid this would start this cycle where russia would retaliate and it would stop whatever momentum the incoming trump transition team was going to have with russia to build a new relationship. they thought that russia could unlock all of these problems that they knew they were going to have, with syria, with north korea and such. they were very concentrated on stopping russia from doing anything more in response to obama. you know, nick, the argument now that trump will make after michael flynn admitted to lying to the fbi, well, it s no big deal. we should have talked to kislyak and the russian at this point. but if it wasn t a big deal, if this is what transition men will say this is what you re supposed to do, why did every single one of them lie about their contacts with russia? why did they not put them on
comey, he knew a felony had been committed. he knew that flynn had lied to the fbi and the president, in effect, said i fired comey not just because i was worried that flynn was a good guy and i want to say loyal to him but i knew a felony had been committed and want to stop that investigation. jeremy bash, thank you. controversial tweet about michael flynn s firing over the weekend, senator richard blumenthal said obstruction of justice in the oval office was unfolding before our eyes. member of the senate judiciary committee will join the table this morning. now within striking distance of a tax reform bill that may help the rich more than the middle class, two senior gop senators may have had their own let them eat cake moments.
cash payments behind it. i can t imagine what happened with general flynn that he was switched this way. as a young lieutenant he was well known, as a colonel out in the army and well respected. i don t know what happened between then and now. national security analyst jeremy bash is a former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense. so, jeremy, what are the chances at this point that flynn has nothing to say? zero. i think the only reason he got a light charge, as joe noted, is because he is fully cooperating. often times what happens with that other litany of offenses that joe laid out in his piece is that they will come into play in sentencing. mueller has biforcated the process. michael flynn is now a convicted felon. at sentencing they will come forward. and if they want to write up that sentencing, they will write a sentencing memo where they
this tweet from john doubter reminds me of the o.j. simps back if i did it . he s not saying i didn t do it, but if i did, it s not a problem. look, the antipathy to comey was totally clear. they were clearly trying from the go to try to stop this investigation, stuff it and get it punched down. and to say that to the russians in an oval office meeting has the connotation that the russians are on our side on this, or are right. or kind of aligned with us on this. which, by the way u.s. reporters were banned from that meeting but russian reporters were allowed in that meeting. let s talk for people not watching last hour. let s talk about what michael flynn was charged with and what he doesn t charged with. he was only charged with the