new, more reliable equipment for your home. and a new culture built around customer service. it all adds up to our most reliable network ever. one that keeps you connected to what matters most. it was three days after the presidential election last year, it was november 11th, that we first talked on this show about trump national security adviser mike flynn and the possibility that he was being paid to represent the interests of another country other than the united states. november 11th, three days after the election, that was the day that we learned that flynn had been on the payroll of the nation of turkey. and that presumably is what explained why mike flynn on election day published a weird op-ed praising turkey s government. that all happened right after the election. but it wasn t until four months
year, not even a month into the new administration. less than four days later mike flynn was out. late last night in the middle of the night the national security adviser to the president resigned, was fired, resigned, resigned, was fired, we don t know. but he s out. national security adviser michael flynn. we now that the justice department, including sally yates, she went to the white house at the end of january and they informed she and another sean your career justice official informed the white house counsel that mike flynn had had contacts with the russian government that were not only undermining u.s. government sanctions against russia, these were contacts that he lied about and they told the white house that he had done it. and we know that the white house knew about that for weeks and they took no action. why did they take no action?
if the president had no access to that public information we know the white house is confirming even if they still saying the president didn t know, they are confirming that the transition knew. the transition team was informed at the highest levels that mike flynn maybe needed to register as a foreign agent. even if the president somehow was completely immune to this information, the white house confirms the transition knew. that the head of the transition inform informed. who is the head of the transiti transition. mike pence. michael flynn has filed with the department of justice as a foreign agent for making more than $500,000 as a lobbyist for turkey. your reaction to that considering that doesn t that mean, mr. vice president, even if he didn t lie to you about what the russian ambassador said or didn t say, you would have had to fire him any way?
charge. since mike flynn left the white house he and his businesses and business associates have reportedly been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating collusion between the trump campaign and russia. mike flynn is a focus of robert mueller s investigation which is reportedly looking into not only flynn s russian contacts but also his work lobbying for turkey. mike flynn s activities during the press den campaign, during the transition, his very brief tenure in the white house itself, those are turned out to be right at the center of the ongoing investigations into this new administration and the russian attack on us last year. and those ongoing investigations have ended up putting a spotlight on one particular member of the trump administration and the specific question of whether or not he knew what mike flynn was up to. that spotlight is now on a very high ranking currently serving member of the administration. one who never got a fist chance to make a first impression. an
intervene with the fbi to try to stop the trump-russia investigation. the new reporting from the washington post just out in the last hour concerns not james comey but the director of national intelligence, appointed by president trump. former senate dan coats. tonight we have this brand-new reporting from the the new york times about cia director mike pompeo and trump national security adviser mike flynn. it concerns the question of what happened in the 18 days between the time when the acting attorney general, sally yates, warned the white house that mike flynn was vulnerable to russian blackmail. what happened in the 18 days between when yates gave that warning and when the white house finally fired him. this is your life, america. this is what your life has been like since december.