flynn in this document, which is quite interesting, regarding what he has been up to dlately. michael flynn, until president elect trump, was fully briefed on all cia covert actions that were at the behest of the current president, barack obama at the time, that donald trump would be inheriting as his covert actions on inauguration day. michael flynn got that brief from the cia along with vice president pence becoack on decer 7th of 2020. trump didn t. it wasn t until several weeks into his administration that trump got briefed on all of the covert actions that he was now responsible for. it was quite a revelation. you mean when flynn was briefed in 2016? is that what you meant, to be clear? yes, 2016, not 2020. i wanted to be 2020, michael flynn was in a different circumstance. that would have been a headline. so he actually didn t get trump didn t get a briefing in the last month of the presidency. that s how it appears.
what we can see from this chapter is trump was not doing that nearly as much as previous presidents. the person who was was vice president mike pence. he was kind of receiving these briefings more like a president than even president trump was, it seems. right on. there s a couple of people, other than president trump in the administration, who get some attention in this new material. one of them is vice president pence, who we didn t have much of a window on from the reporting during the administration regarding how he took intelligence. there was an assumption that he was getting the president s daily preebrief and taking the information seriously. frankly, the vice president doesn t have as much to do as the president. and perhaps he d have to step into the president s shoes, perhaps more likely with this president than any other, given the two impeachments. pence should have been doing this, and the material shows he was. he was taking briefings quite regularly and engaging heavi
ahead and stop raising rates for a bit, you could see the market rally at least in the short term. guess what? the fed has a dual mandate. and no part of that mandate is to have the stock market go higher and higher. right. that s their job. and you re not seeing inflation. i would argue also if you saw the fed signal that maybe it is going to slow down next year and pause, that could also send a worsened signal to the market that, oh, wait, things are worse than we thought. they need the ammunition in their coffers. ten years ago, central banks rushed out there and saved economies. and now the economy is strong, and they have got to raise interest rates. right? they have to do it. it is how they do it and how tricky it is. the president is pointing at the fed this morning. and it gives him leeway in the next fall to be able to do something to it, to address that fall. i don t want to treat you as
for others involved in the whole russian investigation believe is what did michael flynn and the president discuss in all those months? what did michael flynn tell the president about what was going on with russians or what might the president disclose to michael flynn? we don t know what these things are, but it would seem to be, and to the lawyers who have studied this that are represents other departments before mueller, that the focus is on the president of the united states, his family, his campaign manager and those in the campaign and in the transition who might have acted in the interests of a foreign power, russia. here is the thing. when tim and i are really interested in the polling of this and what it shows in terms of the american people standing by the president, there is this new poll out this morning. 46% of people say the guilty pleas are convictions of those around the president
it would seem, that mueller is going to produce. it certainly will show evidence from all indications of obstruction of justice engineered by the president of the united states, as well as suggestions we don t know definitively yet of real collusion, whether whiting, unwitting, half whiting by the president perhaps, by members of his family, certainly by one of his sons, at least, who invited the russians to bring information about hillary clinton to the table in that trump tower meeting. we also have michael cohen who was told about that meeting before it happened, despite donald trump s denial of that. so he is boxed in. he s also boxed in by the way he has conducted himself. we ve never seen a president of the united states who actually acts more in some ways like a common grifter, and i looked up