past criticism of u.s. intelligence. i brought mike to odni to fix all the intelligence issues that he had been complaining about. did you have any reservations tapping him? mike had a reputation for being an innovator, somebody who questioned the system, perhaps resort to unconventional ways of getting things done. flynn moved immediately to shake up a sprawling agency with more than 16,000 employees. tell me about your experience with him there. he came in, ready to make changes. jason hauk who served with general flynn in afghanistan, was hired. but not everyone in the agency welcomed flynn s changes. he tried to instill a much
it was really a great ceremony. but i think you could see it in his eyes that he wasn t done. i don t think he left angry. i think he became angry, i m just speculating, i think perhaps he thought about it and it ate at him. coming up, putin, politics lock her up, that s right. and some crazy conspiracies. all 12 democrats voted to impose sharia law at the local and state level. it didn t seem like the mike flynn i knew.
since then? i can t say. i honestly don t know. does it concern you? well, sure it would. but again, i don t i m speculating here, i don t know. more than two weeks after yates warned the white house and one day after the washington post revealed the false statements in a story thank you very much. the president fired flynn. mike flynn is a fine person and i asked for his resignation. he respectfully gave it. still, his departure was not the end of his troubles. on december 1st, flynn pleaded g guilty to repeatedly lying to the fbi about his conversations with kislyak, as part of the special counsel s probe over possible cooperation between the trump campaign and the russian government. flynn is now cooperating with the investigation. sources interviewed by the special counsel tell cnn that flynn was also under scrutiny
muslim partners inside and outside the government. he had soldiers underneath him that were muslim. never saw any bias in any way towards any of them. nothing but total respect for them as human beings. still, flynn would go further on social media, tweeting in february of 2016, fear of muslims is rational. please forward this to others. the truth fears no questions. and in july, the next 24 hours, i dare arab and persian world leaders to step up to the plate and declare their islamic ideology sick and must be healed. general mike flynn. flynn soon became a regular presence at trump rallies. the next president of the united states right here. [ applause ] i think a lot of people were asking why mike would lend his credibility to someone who had such controversial policies. usa, baby! but the people chose trump
flynn facts became one symptom of broader concerns about flynn s leadership at dia. flynn started to manifest some of the more controversial behaviors that ultimately played out on the national stage. doug weiss came to work at the dia in 2014 as the agency s deputy director. inside the dia, flynn was becoming a divisive figure. it was a polarized agency. there was a loyal and hard core cadre of officers that were aligned behind mike flynn. and there was a larger and equally passionate group of leaders and followers who were not aligned 3w450i7b eed behind. when did you first begin to believe it wasn t working? it was a gradual thing. i began to hear things from people in dia and people whose