Kiss lea kislyak after the election but before taking office. Flynn says he contacted russianss at the urging of two top officials in the trump transition team. He was part of trumps traveling inner circle from the campaign to the transition and into the early days of the administration. No other no one other than Michael Flynn is named in the indictment. The swift plea means theyre reaches right into the heart of President Trumps inner circle including his soninlaw Jared Kushner. Joining me now, paul butler, and former fbi doubling act. Rosa brooks, former pentagon official and justice security analyst matt. And a wheat in newsweek is out today. Michael flynn lied to the fbi about russia but should have known better. Why should he have known better . Because he spent 30plus years as a member of the intelligence committee. Those that dont know, when youre entrusted with secrets, the code you take is just to tell the truth, and it sounds quaint and might sound simple, but when Michael F
Lined up behind him any way. Theres a reason why theyve been perfectly calm, even zen about trump since, even given questions about his grip on reality. I know that two different people from the white house or at least saying they are from the white house and turned out to be a white house number called somebody i know in the last several weeks to say we are deeply concerned about his Mental Health. Listen, what happens to a person whos under the pressure and threat he is and i believe what accounts for that is flynns imminent flip or apparent flip, willingness to tell the story. None of that matters to republicans on capitol hill. Not trumps insults against them, not his racist retweets, not his overall erratic behavior which outgoing senator bob corker, the only republican to vote against the tax bill overnight has described as turning the white house into an adult day care center. Theres a reason that republicans dont seem to care whether trump got into office with the help of a for
The truth. The president of the United States is lying to us over and over and over and over again. Weve all seen it with our very own eyes and heard it with our own ears. He relies on our airwaves to play the lies to you and use it is airwaves of other networkings to amp fie those lies and pile more and more on them. He uses twitter to tweet them out to you. Undermining our nations traditions and norms in realtime. But, what weve seen and heard from the president in the past five days may be the biggest lie of all. Repeatedly and with that facts to make him up, making the outrageous claim that the socalled deep state spied on his campaign, he did it again today. When they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a lot of bad things happen. I hope its not so, because if it is its never been anything like it in the history of our country. I hope, if you look at clapper, he sort of admitted they had spies in the campaign yesterday inadvertently. But, i hope its not true but