Counterintelligence Emergency News Today

Evening. And the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. You. Just lived my nightmare. I know. This was going to come out while i was live on the air. Your staff had a betting pool on it. We did. Whoever won the betting pool was supposed to get tacos. You got tacos anyway. We got tacos for everybody at 8 00 anyway. I couldnt wait any more. It worked, because i got it. We brought the tacos, we did not bring your staff any tacos, well make that up to you tomorrow. Usually when i start this show at 9 ...

By january 26th, the justice department, hair on fire, is up at the white house with the acting attorney general in person meeting with the white house counsel, saying, your national security adviser is compromised by the russians. this is a counterintelligence emergency. you need to do something. part of the basis for that warning was the fact that the fbi had come in and interviewed mike flynn about his contacts with the russian government. the u.s. government, law enforcement, intelligence ag...

Kind of emergency. with this thing happened with flynn, we had to make new alarm bell, wait for them to cool and then start ringing them because nothing like that had ever happened before in our country. and one of the first mysteries about the mike flynn counterintelligence emergency in the white house was the response to that warning they got about him, or the lack thereof. after the white house received that incredibly disturbing absolutely unprecedented emergency warning about the national s...

Its a bad thing. you have to answer for that at the end of the day, but lying isnt necessarily a counterintelligence emergency for the country. the reason why mike flynn was a counterintelligence emergency for the country right at the start of the trump administration was because he wasnt just lying about his contacts with russia in the abstract. he was lying about those contacts. he was denying those contacts while russia knew the truth. i mean, the russian government knew exactly what he had b...

Hard, cold, incontrovertible evidence that the top national security official in the administration was compromised by a hostile foreign power, i mean, thats like -- bee boo, bee boo, flashing red lights and bells and whistles. as a country, we dont even have premade alarm bells for that kind of emergency. with this thing that happened with flynn, we had to make new alarm bells, wait for them to cool and then start ringing them because nothing like that had ever happened before in our country. a...

Office, they came to the white house to warn the brand-new trump administration that the highest ranking official in the trump administration was compromised by the russian government. what sally yates brought to the white house in those first few days when trump was in office was just remarkable news. that the new national security adviser had secretly been in contact with the russian government about u.s. sanctions against russia, and he was lying about those contacts publicly, and he appeared...

By january 26th, the justice department, hair on fire, is up at the white house with the acting attorney general in person meeting with the white house counsel saying your national security adviser is compromised by the russians. this is a counterintelligence emergency. you need to do something. part of the basis for that warning was the fact that the fbi had come in and interviewed mike flynn about his contacts with the russian government. the u.s. government, law enforcement, intelligence agen...

Russia and we know at the time, he was secretly negotiating with russia for a very large real estate deal in moscow that would be financed by a sanctioned state run russian bank. as a presidential candidate, we know that donald trump was compromised by russia. he was secretly negotiating with russia and secretly negotiating with kremlin officials, and he was concealing it from the american people and for good reason, right? that would have put a spin on the fact that he was arguing against russi...

To. flynn lies about both of those conversations to the fbi. if the fbi is worried about russia having compromised flynn, once they get these false statements from him, not only is he committing another crime by lying to them about it, this is a counterintelligence emergency, he has been lying and russia knows it. having leverage like that over a national security adviser, thats a catastrophe. in addition the defendant made false statements to the fbi about his prior interactions with the russia...

Memory of a conversation in which russia had aseeded due to flynns request. in other words, flynn said dont respond to these obama sanctions, dont worry, were going to be different. he has a subsequent conversation with the russian ambassador, we didnt respond to those sanctions booze you told us not to. flynn lies about both of those conversations to the fbi. if the fbi is worried about russia having compromised flynn, once they get these false statements from him, not only is he committing ano...