and it would mean that he knew this when he asked comey, the former fbi director, to drop the investigation into flynn. here is the president s tweet in full. i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he has pled guilty to those lies, it is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. there was nothing to hide. these are the first public comments from the president since the plea in court yesterday. the president s shocking words are suddenly overshadowing his victory lap he s been taking around new york city following the passage of his tax plan. boris sanchez in new york. he said he fired flynn for lying to the vice president but never said he knew flynn lied to the fbi any more from the administration? reporter: not yet, but it certainly is a revelation, as you put it, it is some what
saying that guy is a showboat. this comey thing really seems to have got bad legs. this is by far the most consequential of the firings. this led bob mueller to be hired explain that triggering mechanism why did rod rosenstein the deputy attorney general and russian why did he have to what was the reason he gave then for we need a special council. the comey me mow came out at that point where we learned that the president had tried to one on one pressure comey to back off the investigation of flynn. so rosenstein was put in an impossible situation. he had no choice but to appoint that special prosecutor given this raised real questions explain that a little
anyway, what about this thing? this comey thing seems to have really god bad legs for this president. this is by far the most consequential of all the firings. and the reason why, this is what triggered the appointment of bob mueller to lead, you know, as a special counsel to lead explain that triggering mechanism. why did rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, the acting attorney general, in the case of anything to do with russia, because the other guy, because sessions has recused himself, why did he have to what was the reason he gave then for, we need a special counsel the moemo. the comey memo came out at that point where we learned that the president had tried to one on one, pressure comey to back off the investigation of flynn. and so, rosenstein was put in an impossible situation. he had no choice but to appoint that special prosecutor. given that given this raised real questions about explain that a little further. because the president wasn t trustworthy
this comey thing has bad legs for this president. most kwenconsequenctial of a firings. explain that triggering mechanism. why did the deputy attorney general, the acting attorney general in the case of anything to do with russia because the other guy because sessions recused himself. what was the reason he gave for we need a special counsel? the memo. the comey memo came out at that point where we learned that the president had tried to one-on-one pressure comey to back off the investigation of flynn, and so rosenstein was put in an impossible situation. he had no choice but to appoint that special prosecutor given this raised real questions about objects construction of justice. explain that further. the president wasn t trustworthy. he was going to be the target of this further investigation. but why didn t they just name a
decide, i think, whether it amounts to obstruction of justice, that s why we re glad we have him there. let s talk about president trump s other tweets today in which he said that he does not possess and he did not make any recordings of his conversations with james comey, although that is not the same thing as saying there are not any tapes. i m still not he didn t personally make them. so gus might have made them. i assume you ll subpoena gus. yeah. the one thing i want to ask is, a source told bloomberg in trying to explain why he made that claim that apparently was based on nothing in terms of he better hope there are no tapes was not to intimidate and not to be blustery, but he did it, quote, in a strategic fashion to ensure that comey told the truth. that s what a source familiar with this told bloomberg news. he was trying to pressure comey to try to adhere as closely to the tapes as possible. that was the explanation from the source familiar with, to bloomberg news,