he didn t meet the standard for staying on the list and he came off. we are still learning facts about yesterday s killer. unlike these others, we may learn more because he was apprehended alive and authorities had an opportunity to question him. that will continue. here s what we know. he was expelled from school for behavior that the administrators thought was dangerous. from press accounts, both teachers and students did not act surprised that he was the assailant. in fact, many had said there was a running joke obviously not a joke anymore that he would one day do something like this. we know the media and others have discovered social media posts which are, in hindsight, deeply disturbing. they point to the glorification of gun violence and murder and animal cruelty, apparently. we sell reports of a post on youtube a year ago where he posted that he wanted to be a school shooter. this was alerted to the fbi.
gop in general to support the president rather than institutions. well, that is certainly the appearance here with this vote. and particularly in light of the refusal to allow the democratic memo. they voted that down, not to allow that to be disseminated. i don t know what other conclusion you could draw other than this is about protecting the president. don, can i just try to parse this out? yeah. look, we re both out of government. we don t go back for briefings, we ve not seen these documents. but based upon press accounts, i mean, this is being given the importance of the zimmerman telegram or something. what this appears to be is a fisa renewal request against carter page again, knowing what i read in the newspapers and approved by rod rosenstein. if he did that, i m guessing the evidentiary trail inside of it, how do you prove probable cause to the court is number one.
vulnerable because he misled the vice-president and others about the nature of his conversation with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. would you tell the white house? so, i told them, again, there were a number of press accounts, of statements that had by made by the vice-president and other high-ranking white house officials about general flynn s conduct that we knew to be untrue. we also told the white house counsel that general flynn had been interviewed by the fbi. mr. mcgahn asked me how he did. and i declined to give him an answer to that. i remember that mr. mcgahn asked me whether or not general flynn should be fired, and i told him that that really wasn t our call, that was up to them, but that he with were giving them this information so that they could take action. even with that warning, the president kept flynn on as national security advisor until he was fired 18 days later on february 13. again, from nbc news reporting, quote, multiple sources say during interview
special counsel robert mueller is trying to piece together what happened inside the white house over a critical 18-day period that began when senior officials were told that national security advisor michael filibuster was susceptible to blackmail by russia. that warning, you ll recall, came from acting attorney general sally yates who testified before congress under oath that she told the white house counsel don mcgahn on january 26th that mike flynn was vulnerable because he misled the vice-president and others about the nature of his conversation with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. would you tell the white house? ur so, i told them, again, there were a number of press accounts, of statements that had by made by the vice-president and other high-ranking white house officials about general flynn s conduct that we knew to be untrue. we also told the white house counsel that general flynn had been interviewed by the fbi. mr. mcgahn asked me how he did. and i declined to give him
on january 26, sally yates who was acting then as attorney general, came to the white house chief counsel don mcgahn and told him that flynn was lying to senior officials at the white house, like pence, based on those press accounts. and he also she also conveyed he had had an interview with the fbi. mcgahn, as you just saw in that testimony, asked sally yates how flynn did, and she wouldn t say how he did. she didn t think that was appropriate. but it is obvious that was of interest to the white house, and most lawyers would tell you that mcgahn likely then went to flynn and said, so, did you lie to the fbi? that is key, if mcgahn and then trump knew that flynn had lied to the fbi, especially at the time that president trump then pressured jim comey to drop the