the big news from here in washington tonight fired acting attorney general sally yates testifying he warned the white house that michael flynn was compromised that he could be blackmailed by the russians she was questioned by a panel of senators including senator blummen that you will saying there has to be a investigation about the truth of the russian interfering. you said ms. yates we re not going to prosecutor our way out of the russian continued attack on this country. but putting americans in prison if they cooperate, collude, aid and abet, or otherwise assist in that illegallity might send a strong deterrent message correct. i expect it would, yes.
and special prosecutor is the only way to have an independent impartial objective prosecutor to holed people accountable. have you heard any evidence of what the trump white house was doing in the 18 ao days after being informed. it s pretty damning to have the the to have sally yates go to the white house and say look your national security adviser is the subject of potential blackmail and yet michael flynn is allowed to sit in on meetings even a phone call with vladimir put sfwloon allowed to sit in on meetings, allowed to lie to the vice president, to be in national security briefings where he is party to very important classified information. at the same time vulnerable to blackmail. is there any evidence what the white house did in the 18 days whether they were investigating this. that will be the next step in the investigation to determine what they did during the 18 days because sally yates was fired several days after she warned the white house counsel about it. and o
calculus. as a pr prosecutor toentsen don t you make appropriatings you may not personally believe in doept you argue cases you may not think you can win but you think there is technically a legal basis for you to make those arguments. sabtly anderson. and people routinely do that. that is the burden and the honor of being on behalf of the united states of america high pressure. however you don t make arguments you not only personally disagree but the constitution actually says is not a good argument to make. remember at the time that first travel ban did include references to aspects that were violates of the constitution of the the second one i agree with jeffrey it s a harder case to not defend because that s a different travel ban a little bit more neutral facially. laura coats ken, jeff as well. president trump s son-in-law and senior jared kushner is facing heat over what his sister told chinese investors did she cross an ethical line?
5 hurricane was happening about the fact that that flynn was trying to overkourn turn the sanctions that the president president obama had put in place. there are tent kals here and this could be prosecuted if indeed there is something more than more deeper although ryan there is plenty of people on the panel ted cruz among them who believe she is being partisan. he brought in some extranz issues such as hillary clinton s emails. i don t know it didn t like like a partisan democrat at that table. this is someone hired by bob bahr in anyone hired in the 1990 ban bahr is one of the more conservatives at the time she a representation reputations a prosecutor who put away a lot of democrats in georgia. i didn t see a a partisan person. i mean eric holder lorta liverpool maybe slightly more partisan. people at the head of the osh justice department. sally yates that was not her