a conservative one and a wrong one. the new york times piece notes that the traditional media focused on what led to flynn s downfall. misleading mike pence about russian transmissions. the more right-leaning outlets focused on the leaks from washington that had put pressure on flynn to step aside and whether these leaks were intended to damage president trump. what do you think? depending on where you get your news, flynn was either held accountable or he was a victim. on a certain fair and balanced network, you heard talk of the illegal leaks. the long knives were out for flynn almost at the moment that he was announced. i think this really was a death by 1,000 leaks. tom: the mainstream media, the leakers were brave. a writer at the new yorker tweeted that the story was a reminder of a big truth.
the story broke a month ago. it was out there, intercepted russian communication, part of inquiry into trump associates. that story back then, a washington post story said that they didn t find anything nefarious. it didn t find connection between the communications. they just found that there was phone calls and contact that they were concerned about. sally yates brought that to the attention of the white house, as well. i want to remind everyone of this moment with president obama a wild back. watch this. after my election, i have more questions. martha: after the election, we might be able to talk about that issue that is bothering you. is that essentially what we think general flynn may have said? i think that is basically the idea. the only difference being that president obama was in the middle of an election cycle and flynn a said edge after the
that s a slippery slope, there s a thin line between nobility and just leaking for political motives. i think flynn has to go, he lied to vice president pence. but i think we also need to expose who leaks this, because of their no consequence is for leakers, everyone in the government will think they can just leaking national secrets with no consequent this. what s a national secret, this is not a national secret. this is a phone call. the point is if there are no consequent as for leaking, other people who do have national secrets will think tom: we went all through this with the wiretapping, everyone up in arms over it, this is one of those peep piece they were tapping the phones, but there was an american citizen on the other side. who should have known it was being attached. you should have known that people were listening to the tap at the time, the man is incompetent and shouldn t be in the job. donald trump calling him a great man, unfortunately this
rhodes is the center of the iran deal and the benghazi terrorist attacks is the main driver of the leaks. there is no further comments from him tonight. writing on twitter earlier this week, he said, when campaign chairman and national security advisor both resigned over russia ties, there is more. paul manafort and flynn had nothing in common, except russia end of term. a government source confirmed that the fbi investigation does go beyond flynn. it also includes contacts between the trump campaign tweets and russian officials leading up to the election. we are told that the fbi does not see evidence that any laws were broken, martha. just be one that is one of the highlights. thank you very much. my next guest has big news can share to share concerning general michael flynn. utah congressman jason chaffetz. chairman of the house oversight committee. good to have you here this evening. a lot buzzing this evening about investigations. what can you tell us? what we are going to do
your fellow democrats had it in for flynn from the very beginning. admit it. no. tom: thank you. i do think that it s odd that flynn who was supposedly this experts didn t realize that the ambassador to russia s conversation will be heard by people in the justice department. that s incompetence, and i think quite frankly that donald trump fired him for being incompetent. tom: first of all, he can talk to the russians. that s what you do. he can t violate the logan act tom: that logan act it s ridiculous. don t lie about it when you know there s a tape. he had to know there was a tape, or if he didn t know he shouldn t have been in the job he had. either way, the guy can t be there anymore. tom: you don t have to raise your hand, i was going to come to you next. i don t know what the logan act is, is that based on the new wolverine sequel?