after donald trump won the election, president obama reportedly warned him not to hire flynn. flynn was, in fact, tapped, however, as national security adviser on november 17. on december 1, flynn and jared kushner met with the russian ambassador who later told moscow that kushner asked about setting up backchannel for communications between the trump team and the kremlin. later that month, flynn spoke with kislyak, the ambassador more than once, including after obama imposed sanctions on russia for election meddling. flynn was sworn in as national security adviser january 22nd of 2017. by that time, news of his conversations about the russian ambassador had emerged, and vice president mike pence had been asking about them. two days after his swearing in, flynn was interviewed by the fbi. january 26, then-acting attorney general sally yates told the white house about flynn lying
alibi. and detectives had already cleared his sons, though the prosecutor called them as witnesses anyway. during the school week, what time would you normally go to school? it was just after 9:00. on december 1 of 2011, did you work that day, a thursday? yes, i was. and someone else cleared by his alibi, john kenlein, the married teacher, was forced to appear, admitted an affair with chanin. we engaged in a sexual relationship yes. he was not here to be ashamed but to testify about curious messages he received from chanin s phone, messages sent long after the 911 call. again, sir, could you read that? did you stop by, question mark, question mark, question mark. do you want to come over tonight? those messages found on chanin s phone, investigators believe, could only have been
they sent people over and over again to the doj. they finally pieced together was redacted. so they saw semi redacted documents that showed that peter strzok had a very close friendship with judge contreras. laura: not revealed. not disclosed. the doj did not disclose this. we were all left wonders, why did he recuse himself? on december 1, 2017, you know, flynn goes before the judge. he pleads guilty. that s judge contreras. on december 7, 2017, judge contreras recuses himself. now we know that he and peter strzok for a long time had been friends. he also sat laura: crazy. he also sat on the fisa court. so he was in the foreign intelligence surveillance court. he take care of the fisa applications. and peter strzok in charge of counter intelligence and russia
again to the doj. they finally pieced together was redacted. so they saw semi redacted documents that showed that peter strzok had a very close friendship with judge contreras. laura: not revealed. not disclosed. the doj did not disclose this. we were all left wonders, why did he recuse himself? on december 1, 2017, you know, flynn goes before the judge. he pleads guilty. that s judge contreras. on december 7, 2017, judge contreras recuses himself. now we know that he and peter strzok for a long time had been friends. he also sat laura: crazy. he also sat on the fisa court. so he was in the foreign intelligence surveillance court. he take care of the fisa applications. and peter strzok in charge of counter intelligence and russia would go to the fisa court for
again to the doj. they finally pieced together was redacted. so they saw semi redacted documents that showed that peter strzok had a very close friendship with judge contreras. laura: not revealed. not disclosed. the doj did not disclose this. we were all left wonders, why did he recuse himself? on december 1, 2017, you know, flynn goes before the judge. he pleads guilty. that s judge contreras. on december 7, 2017, judge contreras recuses himself. now we know that he and peter strzok for a long time had been friends. he also sat laura: crazy. he also sat on the fisa court. so he was in the foreign intelligence surveillance court. he take care of the fisa applications. and peter strzok in charge of counter intelligence and russia would go to the fisa court for