the decision that president trump made to ask for general flynn s resignation. you re disappointed by the story. it s the first i heard of it, and i think it is it is an affirmation of the president s decision to ask general flynn to resign. first of all, bret baier at fox i think asks the question perfectly, right? he lays it out, lays it out accurately. let me get your reaction to this, basically saying is this not a significant scandal involving general flynn? how does mike pence respond to that? play that bit again. well, let me say hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. that was not actually the question you were asked. but nobody asked when you heard of it. but twice without being asked when he first heard of this, twice mike pence volunteers that this is all news to him. never heard this before. you re disappointed by the story. it s the first i heard of it. it is impossible that this is
legal fees but he could if he want to. the mike flynn story, the mike flynn story is unprecedented in american history. it s incredible. it also is the vice president s story now. unlike mike flynn, mike pence, is still in office. watch this space.
president didn t know, they re confirming that the transition knew. the transition team was informed at the highest levels that mike flynn maybe needed to register as a foreign agent. even if you don t if the president somehow was completely immune to this information, the white house confirms the transition knew. the head of the transition was informed. who was the head of the transition? an incredibly honest-looking gentleman named mike pence. michael flynn has filed with the department of justice as a foreign agent for making more than $500,000 as a lobbyist essentially for turkey. your reaction to that considering that doesn t that mean, mr. vice president, that even if he didn t lie to you about what the russian ambassador said or didn t say, that you would have had to fire him anyway? well, let me say hearing that story today was the first i heard of it, and i fully support the decision that president
generation s story of the bizarre russian hacking of our election, that story was at least starting to emerge in the weeks before the election. but at the same time, you know, as usual, as normal, there was a super contentious fascinating presidential campaign going on. and that was very engrossing at the time. and it was not until after the election that the extent of the russian involvement in our presidential election really came to light, and that started with a startling report from the washington post that came out the evening of friday, december 9th. a report that kind of blew all other news right out of the water. so we had a whole show planned tonight that had honestly nothing to do with this topic. but then the washington post just dropped this astonishing bombshell. if you haven t seen this yet i m going to put the headline on the screen so you can see it. i m going to quote the lead directly. the cia has concluded that russia intervened in the 2016
the first time mike pence has heard of it. it s impossible. mike pence was the head of the transition. while all of those news stories about mike flynn being on the turkish government s payroll were breaking, he was the head of the transition. when mike flynn was being vetted for the national security advisor job. he was the head of the transition when congress formally notified the head of the transition that mike flynn appears to be on a foreign government s payroll. he was the head of the transition when mike flynn s personal lawyers came and told the head of the transition that mike flynn maybe needed to register as a foreign agent. and now mike pence s explanation for this whole story inexplicably is he s never heard any of this. well, let me say hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. that cannot be true. that cannot be true. that cannot be true. the mike flynn scandal in this white house, the inexplicable hiring of flynn, the secret foreign ties of flynn, the