we went through this. there is nothing there. so it did influence our policy. you could at the very least, it s a waste of time on the part of fbi and doj investigators who take these jobs very seriously, but at worst, it shows that there was a foreign government influencing our policy here. so if mike flynn, according to prosecutors, he and his firm were being had a $600,000 contract with the government of turkey. one of the expected deliverables of that contract according to prosecutors today was that they were expected to produce a criminal referral related to gulen. if flynn was being paid to do that and he tried to do that, how is it that flynn is not being charged here? that s a good question. i mean, you look at all of this. it s not that flynn was duped, right? he is supposed to be top intelligence official, one of the great intelligence national security minds who can say he was chosen to do that, chosen by this job for the trump administration. he wasn t duped by thes
would this potentially hurt him for his sentencing tomorrow since, of course, it is a vivid reminder that mike flynn wasn t just an otherwise totally awesome dude who never did anything wrong until that one day he hiccupped in the middle of his fbi interview, and, oops, they mistook it for a lie, which is what his defense has been claiming to the judge. the scheme laid out in today s indictment shows that flynn really thought he could be national security adviser, the national security adviser in the white house, and a secret foreign agent at the same time. and he was willing to try it if you give him enough money, including lying about it to federal investigators before finally he stopped lying about it to federal investigators and he flipped on the other people involved in the scheme. so, we will find out tomorrow at mike flynn s sentencing whether or not this new indictment, newly unsealed today, cuts for him or against him, or potentially whether the judge decides to compartmentali
since, of course, it is a vivid reminder that mike flynn wasn t just an otherwise totally awesome dude who never did anything wrong until that one day he hiccupped in the middle of his fbi interview and oops, they mistook it for a look, which is what his defense has been claiming to the judge. the scheme laid out in today s indictment shows that flynn really thought he could be national security adviser, the national security adviser in the white house and a secret foreign agent at the same time. and he was willing to try it if you give him enough money, including lying about it to federal investigators before finally he stopped lying about it to federal investigators and he flipped on the other people involved in the scheme. so we will find out tomorrow at mike flynn s sentencing whether this new indictment, newly unsealed today cuts for him or against him, or potentially whether the judge decides to compartmentalize this and they see it as a totally separate and unrelated matter. we
his main job in the financial group was to set up appointments, make travel arrangements. he would have been there for everything including the trip to russia, and the bank that his father was involved in, but the operation that ken is referring to, the extradition was more like a black bag plan. this was going to be like a private effort to take this cleric and put him on a plane and send him back to turkey, not like a formal extradition. that s crazy stuff if it s true, especially for guys of their rank. flynn junior on top of that was incredibly intemperate. he was practically daring the special counsel to come after him. he was scoffing at the investigation. you know, in terms of twitter feeds that have done damage to the administration, i would say trump first, the president s first, and mike flynn jr. is second. he s in a lot of jeopardy, cakae
collusion. certainly mike flynn would likely be in a position to know that or whether this goes deeper into the white house. so this is a very significant development and we ll have to understand i m assuming as a former prosecutor that special counsel mueller would not have made this cooperation agreement with flynn because could have charged him with other things, there that there must be some information that he s interested in. you, yourself, made a decision when you were running your own re-election campaign that ended up being a difficult one as, of course, the president was swept into office, but democrats won congressional you re congressional race. what is your advice to the republican party right now on how to deal with this president? do you think that enough of them are being are they being aggressive enough in criticizing him or would you advise hem based on your experience to step back farther than they are? you know, i would tell them to be themselves and i wou