flynn resigns his position in the west wing of the white house. that is lightning speed. he served less than 24 days in that job. that s true. and in some ways that works to the advantage of the white house. he was not only a short termer but he was shown the door by the trump administration for this reason. so they can certainly cite to that. but there is also aspects that they will have to deal with. we don t know if part of this plea agreement involves deliverables, whether flynn was able to knock down a number of counts in return for giving information against other people, whether it s president trump or adam kushner, we simply don t noe. it is rare for prosecutors to give a good deal to a matinee defendant like flynn without getting deliverables. no angle in it for them unless the case was difficult to prove.
the doj comes up with. now is the political fallout. bill: william reporting there in l.a. sandra: president trump reacting strongly to the verdict in the steinle case, one he highlighted often from the campaign trail. kevin corke is live from the north lawn. if you had an opportunity to check out fox & friends this morning, you did. for the folks at home who may have missed it kellyanne conway said the white house was shocked and saddened. as you pointed out earlier on this broadcast the president didn t take long for him to weigh in on what many are calling a miscarriage of justice. the president tweeting often about this particular case. he said the kate steinle killer came back and back over the weakly protected obama border always committing crimes and being violent and this info was not used in court. his exoneration is a travesty of justice, build the wall.
is on or about december 22, 2016 flynn did not ask the russian ambassador to defeat a u.n. security resolution and the ambassador never described to flynn russia s response to his request. i would say it s we want to see what happens at the hearing but i believe it s the same scenario, flynn made a number of representations to the f.b.i. about that conversation on december 22nd, but it is undercut by other evidence likely in this case a phone intercept of some type or email. bill: i know we re doing a lot of this on the fly. bear with us a moment here. do you recall where general flynn was on vacation overseas at that time? boy, i don t want to have a brain cramp here. i want to say i think it was the dominican republic. he was somewhere in the caribbean i recall. he was outside the united states at that time. bill: we were talking with