Down the fort while i was gone and im grateful to have had that time off. Im also happy to be back. Today is august 8th. On this date three years ago, in 2014, a man named Michael Flynn was starting his new life as one of the highest profile firings of the Obama Administration. Mike flynn of course is now famous for having served very very briefly as Trumps National security adviser and also for being in the bulls eye of the ongoing trumprussia investigation ever since. But being Trumps National security advisor was not the first high profile washington job that mike flynn had. He had been hired by the Obama Administration to run the Defense Intelligence agency. Now, it didnt work out. It didnt go well. In the end he was perceived to have been a failure at that job. And by this week, in the summer of 2014, three years ago, he was gone. This was actually his first day after being fired three years ago today. Forced out well in advance of how long he had been expected to stay. In that br
In 2014, a man named Michael Flynn was starting his new life. As one of the highest profile firings of the Obama Administration. Mike flynn, of course, is now famous for having served very, very briefly as Trumps National security adviser and also for being in the bullseye of the ongoing trumprussia investigation ever since. Being Trumps National security adviser was not the first highprofile washington job that mike flynn had. He had been hired by the Obama Administration to run the Defense Intelligence agency. Now, it didnt work out, it didnt go well. In the end, he was perceived to have been a failure at that job. And by this week, in the summer of 2014, three years ago, he was gone. This is actually his first day after being fired three years ago today. Forced out well in advance of how long he had been expected to stay. In that brief period, though, when Michael Flynn was running the Defense Intelligence agency during the Obama Administration, that agency did make really big news.
Affairs secretary and promoting the white house doctor in a tweet. Much more on that in a minute. But the breaking news first tonight. The New York Times is reporting trumps now former lawyer john dowd discussed the prospect that the president could pardon two of his former top advisers. Michael flynn and Paul Manafort. Those discussions last summer with the attorneys representing flynn and manafort came as the special counsel was building cases against both men. They raised questions whether the lawyer john dowd was offering pardons to influence their decisions whether to cooperate in the investigation and plead guilty. Times adds that the talks suggest mr. Trumps lawyers were concerned about what mr. Flynn and mr. Manafort might reveal were they to cut a deal with the special counsel. It is not clear whether the president directed dowd to discuss the possibility of a pardon or whether he knew about the conversations at all. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders addressed that que
He has a novel take on whats going on with these tapes. Adam schiff was here already to talk about what Rudy Giulianis been saying about the president possibly cooperating or not with the mueller investigation. Well get his take on what his read of this tape is as both a former prosecutor and member of congress. But rachel, i think this is this is the night that the president has been preparing his followers for. Just today saying dont believe what you see, dont believe what you read. He knew this was coming because Rudy Giuliani had been working all day on the response to the public release of this because cnn told them that they had the tape and it was coming. And it remains an open question as to why we learned about the existence of the tape when we first got word that this tape existed. To my eye, my sort of practiced eye watching these guys, it feels to me like this was leaked from the trump side to sort of get out ahead of this story and put their own spin on it before the tape
Possibly cooperating or not with the mueller investigation. Well get his take on what his read of this tape is as both a former prosecutor and member of congress. But rachel, i think this is this is the night that the president has been preparing his followers for. Just today saying dont believe what you see, dont believe what you read. He knew this was coming because Rudy Giuliani had been working all day on the response to the public release of this because cnn told them that they had the tape and it was coming. And it remains an open question as to why we learned about the existence of the tape when we first got word that this tape existed. To my eye, my sort of practiced eye watching these guys, it feels to me like this was leaked from the trump side to sort of get out ahead of this story and put their own spin on it before the tape inevitably came out. Now that the tape is out, certainly the interpretation of what actually happens on that tape is one thing. As you say, this is tap