MICHAEL FLYNN IS IN HOT WATER.
THE FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ADVISOR TO THE
PRESIDENT, WHO WAS FIRED...
RESIGNED?
I THINK IS THE TERM.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS APPEARED TO ANNOUNCE THE DOCUMENTS THAT
HE IS RELEASING, THAT INCRIMINATE MICHAEL FLYNN.
I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE TODAY THAT I AM RELEASING THREE
NEW DOCUMENTS.
FIRST, I'M RELEASING A LETTER THAT WAS SENT DIRECTLY TO
GENERAL FLYNN, FROM THE OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL AT THE
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, HIS FORMER AGENCY.
THIS LETTER EXPLICITLY WARNED GENERAL FLYNN AS HE ENTERED
RETIREMENT, THAT THE CONSTITUTION PROHIBITED HIM FROM
ACCEPTING ANY FOREIGN GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS WITHOUT ADVANCE
PERMISSION.
SECOND, I'M RELEASING A NOW UNCLASSIFIED AND REDACTED
VERSION OF A LETTER THAT THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
ORIGINALLY SENT TO OUR COMMITTEE, AND CLASSIFIED FORM,
ON APRIL 7, 2017.
THIS NEW DIA LETTER COUNTERS THE SUGGESTION MADE BY GENERAL
FLYNN'S ATTORNEY ON TUESDAY, THAT GENERAL FLYNN FOLLOWED
THE APPROPRIATE PROCEDURES.
BUT WE QUOTE IT DIRECTLY.
" DIA DID NOT LOCATE ANY RECORDS, REFERRING OR RELATING
TO LIEUTENANT GENERAL FLYNN'S RECEIPT OF MONEY FROM A FOREIGN
SOURCE."
".
I DO NOT CARE WHAT HIS LAWYER SAYS, THERE IS NO SUCH
DOCUMENT SHOWING THAT HE REQUESTED PERMISSION TO GET
THE MONEY, OR A DOCUMENT SHOWING THAT HE RECEIVED IT.
IT ALSO SAYS THIS, AND I QUOTE: "DIA DID NOT LOCATE ANY RECORDS
OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL FLYNN SEEKING PERMISSION OR APPROVAL
FOR RECEIPT OF MONEY FROM A FOREIGN SOURCE."
".
3RD AND FINALLY, NOW ñ TODAY I'M RELEASING A LETTER THAT WE
RECEIVED FROM THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE, ANNOUNCING THAT THEY TOO ARE NOW LAUNCHING THEIR OWN
INVESTIGATION OF GENERAL FLYNN.
THERE IS SPECULATION, ALSO FOLKS ARE BRINGING UP THE IDEA THAT
THE WHITE HOUSE DOES OR SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO SOME OF THESE
DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD INCRIMINATE FLYNN, WHO FACES UP TO FIVE
YEARS IN PRISON FOR FELONY CHARGES.
HERE IS NED PRICE, THE FORMER SENIOR ADVISOR OF THE
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNSELOR.
SEAN SPICER SAYS, HEY LOOK, THE ñ THIS IS SOMEONE WHO HAD DOZENS
OF CONVERSATIONS ON ANY GIVEN DAY WITH FOREIGN OFFICIALS, THAT
WAS PART OF HIS RESPONSIBILITIES, IT IS NOT
REALISTIC TO EXPECT OFFICIALS WITHIN THE WHITE HOUSE TO
TRY TO SIFT THROUGH THE VARIOUS CONVERSATIONS AND
COMMUNICATIONS HE MAY HAVE HAD.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT PART OF THEIR ARGUMENT?
I ACTUALLY DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT ELEMENT OF IT, BUT I
THINK THAT IS THE RED HERRING.
I THINK WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE COULD EASILY PRODUCE IS THE
INFORMATION THAT MICHAEL FLYNN TALKED TO, OR AS IT MAY BE,
DID NOT ADMIT TO, WHEN HE WAS SUBMITTING HIS FETCHING
PAPERWORK TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR.
IT'S A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION, DID MICHAEL FLYNN ADMIT ON THAT
PAPERWORK THAT HE ACCEPTED MONEY FROM THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT?
IF HE DID NOT, WAS IT WILLFUL?
AND IF THAT'S THE CASE, IT SOUNDS LIKE HE IS SUBJECT
TO A FELONY, A FELONY THAT, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, COULD LAND
HIM UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON.
THERE YOU GO MIKE.
FLYNN.
THANKS.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
LISTEN, THE REPUBLICANS ALREADY, IN THEIR RIDICULOUS WAYS, ARE
COMING AFTER ñ OVERSIGHT FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THAT
IS THEIR FAULT, BECAUSE THEY WERE PRIVY TO THE SAME
INFORMATION.
THEY DIDN'T ELEVATE HIM.
THEY FIRED HIM.
RIGHT.
THEY GOT RID OF HIM BECAUSE HE WOULD DO STUFF LIKE THIS.
HE WAS THE ONE WHO WOULD DO THINGS, HE WOULD GO AROUND
THE CHAIN OF COMMAND, AND SAY UP YOURS I'M GOING TO DO WHAT
I WANT TO DO.
AND HE WOULD SAY THINGS LIKE, BRING ME INFORMATION
CONFIRMING MY EXISTING DAISES, I DON'T CARE WHAT THE FACTS ARE.
HE IS ñ A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT HIS PASSION DURING THE
ELECTION WAS OUT OF VINDICTIVENESS TOWARDS THE
DEMOCRATS WHO DID THAT TO HIM, AND THEY DID THAT TO HIM
BECAUSE THEY FOUND THE STUFF OUT ABOUT THEM.
ALL THE STUFF HE DID ñ
DID COME HE TELLS THE STORY COME HE WENT AROUND THEIR BACKS.
WE ALL, EXCEPT FOR BRETT, WE WERE ALL IN CLEVELAND FOR THE
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
I WASN'T THERE.
VERY LUCKY THAT YOU WEREN'T.
HE WAS THE FIRST PERSON, IF I REMEMBER, WHO SAID LOCK HER UP.
I DIDN'T HEAR IT ANYWHERE ELSE UNTIL HE SAID IT, AND THE
IRONY IS, WHO MIGHT BE LOCKED UP?
THERE IS IRONY THERE.
SO, LOOK, THE LOBBYING WORK THAT HE DID ON BEHALF OF TURKEY,
THAT'S VERY CLEARLY POLITICAL, THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
YOU ARE RECEIVING MONEY FROM A FOREIGN COUNTRY TO DO WORK
FOR THEM.
THE RT STUFF THOUGH, IS A LITTLE MORE ñ I'M NOT SAYING I'M
GIVING HIM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, I'M PLAYING DOUBLE
ADVOCATE ON THE SHOW JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THIS CONVERSATION.
I THINK THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS A LITTLE MURKIER, BECAUSE I
USED TO DO SEGMENTS ON RT YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS AGO, FOR
EVEN KNOWING THAT RT WOULD BECOME THIS MEDICAL ISSUE, AND
-- WHO IS AN EXCELLENT REPORTER HAD A SHOW AT THAT TIME, AND I
WAS ONE OF HER CORRESPONDENCE, AND WE WOULD TALK ABOUT ALL
KINDS OF THINGS, THE POLICIES AMERICA, REGULATIONS,
THINGS WE TALK ABOUT ON TYT.
I WAS A REGULAR, AND AS A RESULT THEY STARTED TO PAY ME.
IT WAS A SMALL BEANS, AND I'M SURE IT WAS NOTHING
COMPARED TO WHAT MICHAEL FLYNN MADE.
HIT WAS MORE BEANS THAN WHAT THE RUSSIANS GOT.
WHICH WERE ACTUAL BEANS.
I'M JUST BRINGING THIS UP BECAUSE IF I WERE ABLE TO RUN ñ
IF I WERE EVER TO RUN FOR OFFICE, OR DO SOME YOU WOULD
MAKE ME ELECTED OFFICIAL, I WOULDN'T EVEN LIST THIS AS
GETTING MONEY FROM A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT, BECAUSE I
WOULDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT.
YOU KNOW I'M SAYING?
I WOULD THINK ABOUT IT.
RIGHT, BUT NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR IS DIFFERENT FROM
RUNNING FOR CONGRESS, OR ASSEMBLY, OR PRESIDENT.
IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU HAVE TO DISCLOSE.
IF COURSE IF YOU RAN FOR PRESIDENT, THAT WOULD COME UP.
THIS WOULD COME UP?
ME WORKING FOR RT IN 2009?
IT WOULD BE SPECIFICALLY, KREMLIN BACKED RT NETWORK.
TO ME IT'S AS EGREGIOUS AS ALL OF IT, BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT
HE HAD TO DISCLOSE IT.
AND HE DID IT.
EXACTLY, IN 2014 HE WAS TOLD, YOU ARE NOT TO RECEIVE THIS
FOREIGN MONEY, AND HE WENT AHEAD AND DID IT ANYWAY, WHICH IS WHY
ñ SHE'S WRONG, AND I WANT ANYONE TO THINK I'M GIVING HIM THE
BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
I THINK IN SOME CASES, IF YOU WORK IN GOVERNMENT OR YOU
ARE A PUBLIC FIGURE, YOU ASKED TO DO SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
AND GET PAID FOR IT, RIGHT?
SO I CAN SEE HOW SOMEONE MIGHT GET PAID BY RT, AND NOT
EVEN REALIZE THAT THAT WOULD BE PROBLEMATIC IN THE FUTURE,
IF THEY ARE PART OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
I'M JUST TRYING TO BE FAIR.
I THINK YOU ARE BEING FAIR, BUT THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH, AND
HE DIDN'T DISCLOSE THIS.
AND THEN LATER HE WANTED TO REGISTER AS A FOREIGN
AGENT, RIGHT?
I MEAN, THAT'S A PROBLEMATIC THING, SO THIS GUY HAS A
CONSISTENT RECORD OF OMITTING WHEN HE KNEW HE HAD TO DO IT,
AND THEN COMING IN AND TRYING TO CLEAN
IT UP AFTERWARDS.
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