and that character, not angela lansbury s character of the scheming wife who is secretly c controlling everything, but the senator, the loud senator with the amazing voice who has the list of communists known to the defense secretary but nevertheless still working at the defense department, whatever else was going on in that movie, that role, the senator, which is not frank sinatra. i don t know why we re showing frank sinatra here. that role, that senator, was very much based in reality. during the decade before manchurian candidate came out, it was real life senator joe mccarthy of wisconsin who really did stuff like that.ow tec that s joe mccarthy there at the microphone. the man sitting next to him in the previous still was a man named roy ccohn. on february 9th, roy cohn on the right.
according to two people familiar with the probe, mueller is trying to determine why flynn remained in his post for 18 days after trump learned of yates warning. he appears to be interested in whether trump directed michael flynn to lie to senior officials including pence or the fbi and if so why. the sources said. on february 9th, the washington post published a report saying that michael flynn haud privately discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador before president trump took office, four days after that donald trump fired michael flynn. joining us now, julia ainsley, national security and justice reporter for nbc news, one of the reporters who broke that story today and jill wine-banks special prosecutor of watergate and contributor. julia, this seems to be a very focused target of robert mueller s, staring at the 18
realized with shock, realized he d been lied to by mike flynn when the washington post reported on february 9th that flynn had in fact talked to russia about sanctions. if that news was literally news to president trump and vice president pence and the white house and if that news was shocking and a clear firing offense for mike flynn, then why did they wait another four days to fire mike flynn? they didn t fire him on february 9th. they fired him four days later, on february 13th. but here s the part that has fallen apart in an even more damning manner. since mike flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with russia, we have since learned that those conversations he had with russia, those were not exactly a personal secret that he was only whisper about to his diary. mike flynn had phone and e-mail conversations with trump transition officials about those calls while they were happening. we know that an e-mail discussing his talks with russia about sanctions was
old one can no longer be operative. i mean, what had been their operative explanation for why flynn was fired is that the white house was shocked, shocked to learn that mike flynn had lied to vice president mike pence about his conversations with the russian government. that s their story, right? did you direct mike flynn to discuss sanctions with the russian ambassador no, i didn t. prior to your inaugurat n inauguration? no, i didn t. and would you have fired him if the information hadn t leaked out? no, i fired him because of what he said to mike pence. very simple. that is how the white house up to and include the president himself have explained the firing of national security adviser mike flynn. fired him because he lied to mike pence. that story has now been disproven. that account cannot be true. first of all, mike pence himself says he realized with shock, shock, on february 9th that he had been lied to by mike flynn about his contacts with russia. the vice p
sally yates conveyed to mcgahn on january 26. michael flynn was fired 18 days later on february 13th. according to two people familiar with the probe, mueller is trying to determine why flynn remained in his post for 18 days after trump learned of yates warning. wh he appears to be interested in whether trump directed michael flynn to lie to senior officials including pence or the fbi and if so why. the sources said. on february 9th, the washington post published a report saying that michael flynn haud privately discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador before president trump took office, four days after that donald trump fired michael flynn. joining us now, julia ainsley, national security and justice reporter for nbc news, one of the reporters who broke that story today and jill wine-banks special prosecutor of watergate