found out that the flynn firing was something they were sort of digging into. it makes sense in a sense given the fact that it involved the justice department, it involved the acting attorney general who went to the white house, provided them with this warning. it also makes sense because there s still a lot we don t know about what happened with flynn. why did it take so long for the white house to fire him? was it really because he had lied to the vice president or because he had come out publicly but this is the first time that i ve seen anything substantial about the fact that mueller is looking into the firing of flynn and the circumstances around that, including the fact that mueller wants to know about flynn s meetings with kislyak and what type of white house documents exist about those interactions. your report that just hit also keeps alive the theory among outside observers that the mueller probe is taking place along two parallel tracks. one looking into the original sin
if there was evidence of collusion, by anyone manafort or kushner anyone in the trump campaign, then that needs to be uncovered. isn t there a charge of negligence when you say here s a presidential candidate who hired, as his campaign manager, someone who is being investigated for being a foreign agent of the russian government and fired flynn against your advice as well. how is that even possible that this person is capable or to be president of the united states. i don t think if he made mistakes in those hirings and certainly in the flynn one, i think it was, that he s the first president who has hired someone not to be a good hire. hired flynn, though, talk about a catastrophic hire. yeah. was mike flynn very involved in the transition when you were the chair of it, or did his involvement was it uptick after he
contours of what we know he is looking at and gives us some insight. and some meat on the bone of understanding what this investigation is all about and the fact that it does involve a lot of things the president was directly had a hand in doing in his time in office. you know, i was surprised to see the flynn firing on the list only because it s one of the things that from the beginning of that period, i guess we understand sally yates went to the white house counsel don mcgann. warned them flynn could be a target for blackmail from the russians. 18 days where he stayed on the job. and jeremy bash and other national security experts, veterans of the cia have said that s a period that an investigator would be interested in. but correct me if i m wrong in seeing your report as the first evidence that that is, indeed, a time period the mueller probe is now interested in learning more about. i was surprised, too, when we
story, i guess we should have felt coming all day, all night. had this not happened, we would have been talking about adam entous story in the washington post, somewhere between january 23rd and january 31st when she was fired, sally yates, the acting attorney general along with other law enforcement intelligence leaders went to the white house general counsel and told them flynn had been talking to the russians and could be compromised as a result. by january 31st at least the white house general counsel knew and i think the chances of the white house general counsel not having told the president or vice president are about as good as me growing a full head of hair by morning. i think this is where our story has to go. first of all, never going to count him out, anyway. mike, you re a loyal republican, yes. this means one of the takeaways from tonight was so if nothing had come up, if this story had never appeared in the washington post, were you just going to not tell anyone
washington post, somewhere between january 23rd and january 31st when she was fired, sally yates, the acting attorney general along with other law enforcement intelligence leaders went to the white house general counsel and told them flynn had been talking to the russians and could be compromised as a result. by january 311st at least the white house general counsel knew and i think the chances of the white house general counsel not having told the president or vice president are about as good as me growing a full head of hair by morning. i think this is where our story has to go. first of all, never going to count him out, anyway. mike, you re a loyal republican, yes. this means one of the takeaways from tonight was so if nothing had come up, if this story had never appeared in the washington post, were you just going to not tell anyone ever? i think it s a great question. i think we have to see right now what type of leader the president is and what type of people he has arou