a former-top adviser to donald trump, facing backlash for his comments at an event in texas, where he appeared to endorse a coup in the u.s. cnn s donie o sullivan with the details. i want to know why, what happened in myanmar can t happen here. no reason. i mean, it should happen. no reason. reporter: a former-u.s. army lieutenant general and former national security adviser, appearing to endorse a military coup, here, in the united states. trump won. he won the popular vote here, and the won the electoral-college vote. reporter: michael flynn spent memorial weekend at a conference in dallas, attended by qanon supporters. so, too, did sydney powell, who was part of the former president s election legal team. powell, who has represented flynn, said manipulated that the media had grossly distorted flynn s comments. but she didn t explain what flynn had meant.
protrump forms and qanon forms online and speaking to trump supporters and i will say of all the conspiracy theories we hear and all the different ideas, this talk from americans about a coup cheering on a coup and hoping for a coup in the united states is one of the most chilling things i hear on the road. anderson? appreciate it. joining me is elaine vice chair of the house armed services coal mitt committee. thanks for joining us. thank you for your service on memorial day weekend and all weekends. as a former service member, to hear michael flynn, again, retired three-star army general, former national security advisor appearing to suggest that myanmar style coup should and could happen here in the united states is stunning. to you, as someone who swore an oath to the constitution, how do
he won the popular vote and he won the electoral college vote. reporter: michael flynn september memorial weekend at a conference so too did sydney powell part of the legal team. powell who represented flynn said the media grossly distorted flynn s comments and denied flynn encouraged violence or a military insurrection but didn t explain what flynn meant. powell herself spoke of removing biden from office over the weekend. we re definitely in uncharted territory. there are cases where elections have been overturned, but there is never one at the presidential level, which everybody will jump to point out. that doesn t mean that it can t be done but should be that he can be reinstated and a new inauguration day to set. and biden is told to move out of
time they will restore the republic with trump. what is going on in myanmar? that could happen here, possibly. would you like to see it happen? absolutely. yes. you know why? the election was stolen from us. so michael flynn appears to have made additional comments about this controversy, what is he now saying? that s right, anderson. he s saying his word haves been twisted somehow and he s not actually calling for a coup but look, i mean, you heard the copper comments in that piece and this qanon conference was devoted to overturning the results of the election. you heard sydney powell talking about a potentially new inauguration day and this talk of a coup is something that has been circulating for months now in the qanon conspiracy theory world that both powell and flynn live in and, you know, we spend a lot of time, i spend a lot of time reading a lot of these
thing we hear out there. what flynn said is trump won t electoral college vote and popular vote. two lies. as you know well, it s not fringe. you have a good percentage that say biden is not the legitimate president. it s remarkably broad. tony, thanks so much. absolutely. go ahead. no. what i was going to add to that is the big lie that trump is peddling. it enables all of this. yeah. your reporting on this is so important for the better part of the last year to show people exactly what is happening. and how it makes people believe in the big lie and the dangers that can cause. so thank you very much. several members of the oath keepers are expected back in court today. it comes as new court documents show leaders wanted an insurrection months before the attack happened on the capitol.