throw mueller off the trail and it didn t work. i can make one point here? i think what a lot of people are saying is maybe the trump campaign didn t know the rules of the road. these are political amateurs who didn t understand we ve been hearing that for a long time. but someone like michael flynn is not an amateur. i mean, he does know what s appropriate and what s not appropriate in dealing with other foreign powers. i mean, you can make a case that maybe jared kushner didn t know what was going on or maybe donald trump jr. didn t know how to handle conversations with operatives from russia. it would be farfetched to think that a guy who spent his career in intelligence would not know that this is a strange thing to be zblog although he was somebody who the obama administration recommended not be rehired, if i that s very true. ands a guy who s been reckless and who s temperament has been called into question. people are fix atd on this question of how did he not know t
but still stunning to watch talk about the impact of what we witnessed today. we got a lot more than we thought we might get from this. they did not have to give us a statement of offense and give all the details they did. they could have simply said he was pleading guilty to this one charge of lying to the nib and left it at that. these documents are clearly a warning shot to the trump administration, because they re naming senior and very senior transition officials that worked with jared kushner. this is a warning shot to them now, they have flynn who s willing to cooperate and turn on these people he worked with, to explain exactly who directed him to make these calls. we know that kushner was definitely behind the december 22nd call that flynn made to kislyak about the u.n. resolution.
why would george papadopoulos lie to the nib? you ve worked with mueller, why anybody s watched a cop show and knows well, they haven t been watching mat lock. i think he thought i m reading into his mind, which i m not very good at. i think he thought he could get away with it or thought he was protective of the institution he worked for and may want to work for, it makes no sense objectively, why would you lie when the fbi asks you a question. . he had to have some rational for it. usually it s because they think they ll get away with it. he was a small fish in a big pond. one of the interesting aspects of jared kushner angle, they
bravery, i want to thank the nib, their work in this case, as in all terrorism matters we work with them on has been extraordinary. i want to thank you the nypd represented here today by first deputy commissioner benjamin tucker and john miller. their leadership and that of commissioner oneil has kept our citizens safe. and has kept our citizens reassured and continuing to live our lives. finally i want to thank the terrorism prosecutors and investigators in my office who jumped on this immediately and haven t gotten any sleep since, andrew beady, amanda hole,
investigation under robert mueller, the special council started in may. we know there is a raid on his storage facility before robert mueller took over, then you have that raid this past july it s unclear if those stemmed from any of the intelligence that was gathered under the face is a warrant, it s clear that investigators are still very interested into paul manafort, under the direction of robert mueller, erin. a couple questions here, manafort for some time with all of this focus has been careful in what he says and how he communicates. what is the significance that they were able to get this crucial face is a warrant to do it. we don t know exactly when the time line of this surveillance whether it has ended, whether it s continuing to this day, the fact that they were able to get a face is a warrant is a big deal. this has to get approval from the highest levels of the justice department and the nib