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Lie of the year. he won for a series of lies during the 2016 campaign. very good. somebody should send him an award. it s like winning the cy young twice. joyce, everybody is laughing about what he said to lester holt, but as this investigation moves down, it s going to be harder to prove collusion. it s going to be a lot harder to prove collusion. on the obstruction question, though, you look at what he said to lester holt where he talked about getting rid of comey to end the investigation. what sarah huckabee sanders said around the same time that he wanted the investigation to end. what he said to the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states, where he said we got rid of that nut job comey, and the tweet where he said yes, i had to fire flynn, because he lied to the ....
26 and february 13th, and whether the president may have obstructed justice. january 26 is when acting attorney general sally yates warned senior white house officials that national security advisers mike flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia. 18 days later, flynn was fired. why did the president satake so long to fire flynn and when did he learn flynn lied to the fbi? joining meese, mike quigley, democrat of illinois, who sits on the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you very much for joining us. thank you, katy. a simple question to start. is your committee investigating whether or not the president obstructed justice? well, i think it s become a prong of the investigation. it s not the original floor we are looking into but in a necessity de facto it is, although i m not sure the ....
Clinton investigation politicized. this fbi agent, peter struck, is a very senior counter intelligence official. these texts seem to show a sort of negative view of the president during the campaign and were sort of pro-hillary. we don t know the nature of the texts. there was enough concern that when this information was brought to bob mueller he said we need to remove him and send him back to headquarters. this guy has been sitting in the human resources pretty much doing nothing. a senior counter intelligence official. significant enough they had to remove him. joining us our legal analyst and national security analyst former fbi special agent so we ll get to some of this, you know, drama within the fbi, the president saying the fbi is in tatters in a moment, let s get to the president s tweet on his account, whether it was john dowd who wrote the tweet, it came out on the president s account, and it said that the president had to fire flynn ....
The day or two following his testimony before the fbi. this raises it s important and raises a lot of questions about what the president knew when he asked comb tow stay back and then asked him to kind of ease up on general flynn. did he know what was going on and it raises questions about why it took so long for the white house to fire flynn. a few weeks. what was going on at that point if you have an indication that flynn, for example, wouldn t be able to get or keep his security clearance. as a national security national security adviser. that raises a lot of questions about what the president knew and questions about what was going on inside the white house at the top levels at that time. they knew what was going on, but it wasn t until after the washington post reported all that information publicly that ....
In the first place, trump will be looking for another attorney. adam schiff described his concerns about all this and this is how he put it. the best way to explain the president s reaction when is he did fire flynn and the fact that he was not upset with flynn and he waited so long to fire him in the first place and he was really upset with the press exposing the lie would suggest i think the president was knowing of exactly what flynn did and the question i think for bob mueller and us in congress is was this directed by the president. if so, what are the consequences? if michael flynn testified that the cocontacts were directed by the president, what would that tell you? we know they have contact with foreign officials all the time. that would tell me that one of the reasons she was intervening with the president is he knew this would come to ....