james comey bragged about how he would do something he would never do in the obama administration or the bush administration. he is boasting about setting up a man who served this country for 33 years and put his life on the line in wartime. he said, we took full advantage of the chaos. we told them not to get a lawyer. they had already unmasked him and illegally leaked raw intelligence and knew what was said in the conversation. set a perjury trap from the get go. look at this. you look at this white house now and the two fbi agency in the same room. how does that happen? i sent them. [laughing]. something i probably would have gotten away with in a more
we went in a different direction. everything we have been reporting up to now has been proven true. that brings us to other breaking news from mueller s top target. michael flynn. he is in the sentencing phase of his guilty plea. he is trying to fire his legal team and a federal judge blocked that request. it s a sign the retired war hero is preparing to withdraw his guilty plea. flynn s plea was the result of a perjury trap. it was laid by comey and mccabe and mueller. during his initial interview with the fbi at the white house, he called the deputy director of the fbi and said do i need a lawyer? mccabe said no. it s not like that at all.
we didn t go with the 99.9% of the mob and everything we have been reporting up to now has been proven true. that brings us to other breaking news from mueller s top target. michael flynn. he is in the sentencing phase of his guilty plea. in lieutenant general is desperately trying to fire his legal team and a federal judge blocked that request. only on a procedural grounds measure, butetir it s a sign the retired war hero is preparing to withdraw his guilty plea. keep in mind this. flynn s plea was the result of a perjury trap. it was laid by comey and mccabe and mueller. remember, during his initial interview with theel fbi at the white hou, he called the deputy director of the fbi and said do i need a lawyer? mccabe said no. don t need a lawyer. it s not like that at all. james comey bragged about how he
would do something he would never do in the obama administration or the bush administration. he is boasting about setting up ba man who served this country for 33 years and put his life on the line in wartime. he said, we took full advantage of the chaos. we told them not to get a lawyer.. they had already unmasked him and illegally leaked raw intelligence and knew what was said in the conversation. set a perjury trap from the get go. if, in fact attorney general flynn didn t say the exact same thing expected. look at this. you look at this white house now and the two fbi agency in the same room. how does that happen? i sent them. [laughing]. something i probably would have gotten away with in a more organized administration in the
the white house day in, day out? i m kind of surprised that the president s attorney would say something like this on a voice mail message. it doesn t seem the wisest lawyering. yeah, floating the possibility of a pardon, i mean, he he denies that. but that s effectively what the effect is there. to do that on a voice mail is stunning. beyond the notion of floating a pardon, also you re hearing the president s attorney here saying if you re going to implicate the president in a crime, which why is a lawyer for the president, would you be implicates the president? this takes me back to those days we re talking about the perjury trap the president could face that somehow if you sat down with mueller, the president was going to implicate himself in a crime or lie to investigators about matters they were looking into and, therefore, face criminal charges or be violating the law at least. and michael flynn still awaiting to be sentenced. and we just learned today that