of obstruction of justice. if you re serious about doing an investigation, you don t want to just take the mueller team s word for it. you want to see the evidence itself. that s what the democrats in congress are trying to do. clearly the president s now trying to distance himself from michael flynn. he tweeted why didn t people warn me about this guy. which is a, wrong. people did try to warn him and that included president obama, sally yates, chris christie who played a big part in the president s campaign. there were several people who did try to warn the president. this guy is not on the up and up. what s interesting about the president s tweet saying why didn t anyone tell me sooner is when the president found out about some of things michael flynn had been doing, he took a long time before they pushed him out of the white house and that was after it was public he lied to the vice president which is what they said at the time but also with this voice mail you see that the pre
that s not accurate. less than one week he was sworn into office sally yates told the white house that flynn lied to the vice president. a falsehood that could make the national security adviser vulnerable to blackmail. those lies were cited as the reason the president fired flynn. we wanted to tell the white house as quickly as possible. to state the obvious, you don t want your national security adviser compromised with the russians. reporter: the president also knew there were long standing concerns about flynn. former president barack obama warned mr. trump about flynn in the oval office just days after the 2016 election. something the white house conceded to reporters. is it true president obama made it known that he wasn t exactly fan of general flynn s which shouldn t come as a surprise given that general flynn worked for president obama with an outspoken critic of president obama s shortcomings. reporter: the white house denied there were any concerns about what flynn w
obviously this could have happened very easily, we re willing to buy into all of the explanations. i think that s been a noticeable shift from republicans. jeremy, let me give you the remaining time. just really quickly, but then after the president comes into office sally yates goes to the white house counsel and says that the russians are able to blackmail the national security adviser, mike flynn. now are we to believe that jared kushner was not involved in the conversations about whether to retain mike flynn and what about the firing of comey? is jared kushner involved in those discussions? i think there are a lot more questions to be answered than merely what were the four instances he met a russian in 2016. a lot more ground to be plowed here. do you think he ll be questioned in conjunction with the special counsel by looking