Fbi before he fired him last february. Setting off a new round of questions about whether the president s actions amount to Obstruction Of Justice. Well, if you take the president s own statement, his tweet that he knew Michael Flynn was lying to the fbi when he fired him, which means that he knew Michael Flynn had committed a felony when he asked comey to stop the investigation. And when he fired comey when he refused to do so and when he fired sally yates and when he called Michael Flynn in april to tell him to stay strong. All of these acts are to impede and obstruct justice. A source close to the white house acknowledging the severity of the misstep to the Washington Post which writes a person close to the white house involved in the case turned the saturday tweet a screw up of historic proportions that has caused enormous consternation in
to in legal circles about whether or not a lawyer would have sent a tweet or even dictated a tweet like the one that came from the president s f
fbi before he fired him last february. setting off a new round of questions about whether the president s actions amount to obstruction of justice. well, if you take the president s own statement, his tweet that he knew michael flynn was lying to the fbi when he fired him, which means that he knew michael flynn had committed a felony when he asked comey to stop the investigation. and when he fired comey when he refused to do so and when he fired sally yates and when he called michael flynn in april to tell him to stay strong. all of these acts are to impede and obstruct justice. a source close to the white house acknowledging the severity of the misstep to the washington post which writes a person close to the white house involved in the case turned the saturday tweet a screw up of historic proportions that has caused enormous consternation in
people who have spent time in modern russia, china or venezuela can tell you. the attacks on institution that check his power continue. amy, what do we do? oh, i don t have that answer for you, but i can tell you this. i think, obviously, in the campaign, his own supporters knew he had authoritarian impulses and voted for him anyway. he won this election by 77,000 votes against a very flawed candidate who i think skirted the law herself. and here we are. but he continues to speak to a third of the country with a very passionate authoritarian style. and the courts, the congress, the constitution be damned if it s the wrong day for any of those. i will say that i can only imagine the republican lawmakers that i have covered all these years and know well, michael, how loudly they would be screaming if barack obama went after the fbi and eric holder
for the president. no russian collusion. well, we don t know that. and the big whopper of a lie that we do know about was about russian collusion. it may have been bungled but it was about that meeting in trump tower. the big whopper of a lie told by the president and the only known unknown is who else was aware of the fact they were telling a lie. and not that it s a crime to lie to the press but this was sort of the ease with which and you re talking about all of them now john dowd his lawyers is involved in the lie about who sent out the tweet. how many white house aides could be incriminated just in the false statements about russia which could lead mueller to the doorstep of russian collusion. there was nothing exculpatory about what happened last week. all we know is there was one time that michael flynn lied, that he admitted to. we don t know all the other times he may have lied. we don t know who else may have
the latest in a string of high-level witnesses to enter the secretive nerve center of special counsel robert s. mueller s investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. 20 hours later, mueller and his team emerged into public view to rattle washington with a dramatic announcement that former national security adviser michael flynn would plead guilty to lying to the fbi. mb g mcgann was scheduled to return friday but they postponed it to allow mcgann to help the white house manage the response to flynn s plea. as ken and matt have suggested, bob mueller knows exactly what don mcgahn told donald trump unless, i guess it s always possible he s exerted some sort of privilege suggesting his conversation is with the president, his client would be privileged. but it is likely that with mueller getting closer and closer to the president himself, we will find out in pretty short order what if the president s