wouldn t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation. more organized administration. the fbi wanted to send agents into the white house itself to interview a senior official. you would work through the white house counsel and there would be discussions and approvals and it would be there, and i thought it s early enough, let s just send a couple guys over. that was jim comey talking about mike flynn who was donald trump s first national security adviser. mike flynn please e pleaded gui lying. but the problem was flynn wasn t just that he lied about his contacts with russians and got caught doing it, it was that he was a potential target for blackmail by the rush yasians because they could leverage those lies over him. i asked jim comey if donald trump didn t pose the same threat? sally yates testified before congress that she had to come over and tell the white house
hold on. well it seems like you re saying this is par for the course and okay. it s not okay. it s par for the course. you think other countries don t try to influence what we do in elections. i think according to president obama went to great britain and told they will they were going to the back of the line passing brexit. you have to be realisting about this. people try to do it but i think this system is very difficult the influence from the outside. it s open, transparent, tens of millions of people. well, there was a widespread disinformation campaign and use know, congressman, on many fronts, social media, et cetera. something that was so concerning to the u.s. intelligence community that it sparked that january 6th intelligence report from a year ago i know you read, as well. that does not i have. doesn t seem like par for the course. well, look. there are new techniques but if you again, the rush yasians
meeting with people about the russia situation. meet with russians who say they will help your father-in-law win the election and hurt hillary. he knows all this going into the meeting. now he says, i don t know what it is about. all this is a fact. what he said in his statement was that he is supposed to be in the campaign you said russia he said it was this is about russians putting a you believe it was about russia i don t think he he might have. i don t know. it says private and confidential. rush yasians we russians were supposed to help us. why did he show up? when the boss s son says show up, you show up. facts he can t deny, show up at the meeting. what he deny says this aspect. like when i filled out the forls,forl forms, i didn t admit all the