Told that National Security adviser Michael Flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia. That warning was issued by acting Attorney General sally yates, who told White House Counsel Don Mcgahn that flynn was vulnerable because he misled the Vice President and others about the nature of his conversation with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. Despite her warning, President Trump chose to keep flynn on the job as top National Security post for 18 more days, according to the report. Muellers goal in part is to determine whether there was a deliberate effort to cover up the information that yates had provided the white house. As nbc reports, multiple sources say that during interviews, muellers investigators have asked witnesses, including White House Counsel Don Mcgahn himself and others who have worked in the west wing to go through each day that flynn remained as National Security adviser and describe in detail what they knew was happening inside the white house as it related to
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as quickly as we can but i actually really believe that the cuban people are fed up. if the federal government would should show and do their job. joe biden show up and do something on this. when that happens. i think the castro regime is done. pete: i hope you are right. when you shoot at the king you better hit. and the longer you wait. the worse it gets. another topic, senator, remember that former anonymous trump official wrote an op-ed, wrote a book about it his name is miles taylor. we know who he is now. he went on tv and made this crazy comparison. listen to this. i m a national security guy. i worked in national security against isis and al qaeda and russia and the number one national security threat i have ever seen in my life to this country s democracy is the party that i m in, the republican party. it is the number one national security threat to the united states of america. pete: is he a national security guy. what do you say to that?
with the government. here s the important line. it will be important flynn also cooperate with our committee and testify. so, david corn, it looks like michael flynn has a long career ahead of him as a witness. i hope so, because it goes back do this point that we ve talked about before. robert mueller is not in charge of telling us the whole story of what happened. he s in charge of bringing criminal cases that he thinks he can reasonably prosecute. michael flynn, i have associates of his. i reported this last week. who say he had meetings with kislyak before the election. kislyak once told the washington post he had meetings with flynn before the election. not the things he got into trouble with the fbi interview later. so we in the public don t know for sure if these meetings happened and what was discussed, and did these happen while the kremlin was attack the the united states? was trump s national security guy talking in friendly terms, even cutting prospective deals with the a
ahead of him as a witness. i hope so, because it goes back do this point that we ve talked about before. robert mueller is not in charge of telling us the whole story of what happened. he s in charge of bringing criminal cases that he thinks he can reasonably prosecute. michael flynn, i have associates of his. i reported this last week. who say he had meetings with kislyak before the election. kislyak once told the washington post he had meetings with flynn before the election. not the things he got into trouble with the fbi interview later. so we in the public don t know for sure if these meetings happened and what was discussed, and did these happen while the kremlin was attack the the united states? was trump s national security guy talking in friendly terms, even cutting prospective deals with the ambassador from moscow? i mean, those are the type of questions that the house intelligence committee should have taken up, which they didn t under the republicans, which i hope adam sc
population. i think he will. what he laid out is serious. we look at the democrats willing to cause pain for the american people shutting down the government. if they don t step up and say let s look at negotiation because he has a willingness to protect the population, then they have a big problem with their base and d.r.e.a.m.ers because it shows they re not seriously. if you would get down there and cut deals we wouldn t be dealing with this brinksmanship. would you back a deal for d.r.e.a.m.ers? i understand it is broader than this daca population. i m a national security guy. we ll see. i ll see what comes out of this thing. what is not conservative or contrary to american security interests to have a pathway to citizenship for people who have been here their whole lives and in many cases contributed more to their country than i have? well, as i said, i m on the record for this daca population which, yeah, i think there are folks who have been here since they were 2 or 5 a