About a pending vote in the u. N. General assembly regarding israel. According to the charges, a very Senior Member of the president ial Transition Team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. Nbc news reported today that the very senior official was Jared Kushner, the president s soninlaw. In a Statement Today Michael Flynn said, i recognize that the actions i acknowledged in court today were wrong, and through my faith in god i am working to set things right. My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the Special Counsels office reflect the decision i made in the best wanted of my family and of our country. I accept full responsibility for my actions. There was strong reaction to todays news from democrats on the hill involved in the russia probe. Their message, theres more to come. Inside the white house the
congressman schiff, ranking member of the house intelligence committee, reacted today pointing to the president s past behavior regarding flynn. let s watch. the president, when he was in the process of firing mike flynn, was at the same time very defensive of mike flynn. that s the kind of conduct you would expect if the president was forced to fire mike flynn not because he lied, but because the lie was exposed. and if the president is one of those senior transition officials who was knowing of the contact and perhaps even supporting this contact with the russian ambassador, that would explain both his reluctance to fire flynn, but also why he would be intervening with james comey and urging comey to drop the flynn case. what does everybody carol, what do you make of the fact that the president, when he first came into office, said, i didn t tell good general flynn to talk to the russians but i should have or would have.