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
knew it was an unenforced law? eli, everybody on this, my hunch about this cover-up is that flynn was so unaware that this law was never forced, the logan act, against anybody not in the government to be negotiating with a foreign power, he thought it was unenforceable. i think when you play that clip of the president trump at the press conference basically kind of offering a incoherent answer, talking about both guys, that if he did do it, no big deal. but he didn t do it. i mean, it s basically creating spalts for him on both sides. and maybe that s just the usual trump answer to everything, rhetorically he s back and forth and kind of spinning you into knots. but it also, as susan said this could also be a president who is aware of things that happened because the tweet that the president sent out right after, when putin did not respond, when he did what flynn asked him to do and trump tweets, putin, very smart not to respond, i knew i mean, you look at that, then you have to