consulting business on the side, why wouldn t president trump turn on him? he is no stranger to changing his views on people. i agree with that. look, if it turns out that flynn was doing all sorts of things that were not authorized, that were contrary to u.s. policy, u.s. interests, u.s. law, then he absolutely was properly fired. and i think the key points here, stephanie, is if it turns out that flynn in fact was doing things he shouldn t do, was he freelancing? we ve seen his reputation in washington can be somewhat of a loose cannon at times and it wouldn t surprise me at all if it turns out he was doing things he shouldn t that he was doing so without authorization and essentially acting on his own. midwin, we know that as part of the russia investigation now some bitz associates of michael flynn have been pumed in. we also know that robert mueller, who has been on somewhat of a hiring frenzy and hiring some pretty high-level people, has brought in andrew weissmann, a veteran
options and taking the advice of counsel and deciding not to talk, which a lot of us are surprised about because we re so used to so many people talking involved in this matter. i think it begs the question as to what does michael flynn know and why is donald trump so interested in having everybody back away from michael flynn. remember, donald trump hired michael flynn to work in his administration despite the fact that michael flynn had been fired by the obama administration, and had been warned to stay away from michael flynn. and so at the end of the day, what does michael flynn know? and i think time will bear that out. tom, midwin s right. president trump was warned, it had been reported jared and ivanka turned a blind eye to some of the more negative things they had heard about mike flynn because of his loyalty to president trump. kellyanne conway has said time and again, president trump values loyalty, loyalty, loya y loyalty. if more comes out michael flynn didn t share info
today talks about a dinner that was held on the evening of april 25th. this was a pretty tough day for michael flynn. that s the day that jason chaffetz and elijah cummings both came out and said they had reviewed classified pentagon documents and saw that flynn had not disclosed his foreign work for foreign payments from russia and turkey while getting a renewal of his security clearance. right. and they both said they saw no indication that he had complied with the law. so flynn has assembled a group of old friends, loyalists, dinner in a restaurant in northern virginia and afterwards everybody was looking for what was flynn s thinking about trump? you know, was he sticking by him? not only was he sticking by him, he tells some of those there as the dinner is breaking up, yes, i just got a message from the president and he told me to stay
draw comey in, extract pledges of loyalty, kind of put him under his umbrella and comey recystir resisti resisting. what does that say to you? i think it s because he saw comey as a threat. he knew these investigations were going, we know that now. prior to the inauguration, the trump team knew that flynn was under investigation. there s one versionf the story that says he asked flynn to the next national security advisor. so he was aware of these things. and he probably saw comey as a threat from the outside. and so in typical trump fashion from everything he s done in his life, i m going to try and saddle up to this person and make him under my umbrella, and i think it completely backfired on him. paul, i m going to talk to michael isikoff in a moment who has a pretty amazing story about the president reaching out to flynn. from a legal perspective, what kind of advice would you give to a client who says i want to reach out to him and talk to him. what would you tell him? i d t
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