THAT IS WHY FLYNN GOT PROSECUTED
BECAUSE THEY HATE HIS GUTS.
ELIZABETH: MORE PROBLEMS WITH
FORMER DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
SALLY YATES’ TESTIMONY.
YATES TESTIFIED THAT THERE WAS
STILL A PROBLEM WITH GENERAL
FLYNN ON JANUARY 4th.
THAT WAS THE DATE THAT THE FBI
DROPPED, WANTED TO DROP ITS
CASE, ITS PROBE INTO GENERAL
MICHAEL FLYNN.
AGAIN, FBI AGENTS RECOMMENDED
DROPPING IT ON JANUARY 4th,
2017.
SO WAS THIS ABOUT CRIMINALIZING
POLICY DIFFERENCES?
LET WELCOME REPUBLICAN BEN KLEIN
FROM VIRGINIA.
ON HOUSE JUDICIARY.
GREAT TO SEE YOU, SIR.
>>> GREAT TO BE BACK.
ELIZABETH: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH
THIS EXCHANGE, SIR?
GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
>> IT APPEARS MISS YATES WAS
ENGAGING IN A LITTLE BIT OF CYA.
SHE CALLED OUT JIM COMEY FOR
CALLING ROGUE.
THAT IS QUITE A STATEMENT COMING
FROM HERE, WHEN YOU HAD COMEY
WHO WAS GOING ABOUT THINGS,
FURTHERING THIS INVESTIGATION,
GOING TO INTERVIEW MICHAEL FLYNN
AGAINST THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF
OTHERS.
SALLY YATES SAYING SHE WOULD NOT
HAVE APPROVED THAT INTERVIEW IF
COMEY HAD COME TO HER
BEFOREHAND.
ELIZABETH: YEAH.
I MEAN, SALLY YATES SEEMED TO
ADMIT FLYNN WAS INVESTIGATED
BECAUSE OF POLICY DIFFERENCES
WITH INCOMING TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION BUT SHE COULDN’T
PROVIDE ANY EVIDENCE OF A CRIME
FLYNN HAD COMMITTED IN TALKING
TO THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS SAID COMEY
SAID FLYNN’S PHONE CALL WITH THE
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR APPEARS
LEGIT.
FLYNN WAS TRYING TO NEUTER,
NEUTER OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA.
GENERAL FLYNN’S PHONE CALL, THE
DOCUMENTS SHOW HE WAS SAYING
DON’T ESCALATE.
DON’T ESCALATE THOSE SANCTIONS.
WE NEED YOU ON ISIS.
THAT IS THE ISSUE TOO.
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION SIR,
FINDS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS
BEENER ON RUSSIA THAN OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION WITH FIVE
ACTIONS.
>> ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
THROUGH THE USE OF SANCTIONS HAS
BEEN TOUGH ON RUSSIA.
THE INVESTIGATION INTO MICHAEL
FLYNN, THEY KNEW THAT FLYNN WAS
COMING IN AS INTELLIGENCE CHIEF
AND HE WAS GOING TO SEE EXACTLY
WHAT THEY WERE UP TO IN THE FISA
WARRANT PROCESS.
YATES TESTIFIED THAT SHE WOULD
NOT HAVE APPROVED THE FISA
WARRANT APPLICATIONS HAD SHE
KNOWN WHAT SHE KNEW NOW.
IT GOES TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE
GOING TO ANY LENGTH TO GET FLYNN
OUT OF THE WAY.
ELIZABETH: WHAT WAS NOT
DISCUSSED, SO SALLY YATES IS
BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS
JANUARY 5th, 2017, MEETING
IN THE OVAL OFFICE WHERE SHE IS
SAYING, WELL, WE REALLY WAS ONLY
ABOUT WHETHER TO SHARE
INFORMATION WITH FLYNN.
SO THAT IS THE ISSUE.
SHE IS SAYING ONLY JUST ABOUT
TALKING TO FLYNN ABOUT WHETHER
OR NOT YOU KNOW, TO TALK ABOUT
SHARING INFORMATION.
WHENS IT REALLY ABOUT, YOU KNOW,
THE LOGAN ACT, BIDEN BRINGS IT
UP AT THE OVAL OFFICE MEETING.
IT WAS PRESIDENT OBAMA SAYING TO
JAMES COMEY AND SALLY YATES, PUT
RIGHT AGENTS ON IT.
THE RIGHT FBI AGENTS TO GO AFTER
MICHAEL FLYNN.
SEEMS THERE WAS A LOT OF DODGING
QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED
YESTERDAY.
YOUR TAKE ON THAT.
>> I’M SO GLAD THAT SENATOR
GRAHAM, CHAIRMAN OF THE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HELD THE
HEARINGS.
WE NEED MORE PEOPLE UNDER OATH
AND MORE PEOPLE HELD TO ACCOUNT
WHAT WAS DONE IN THE MONTHS
BEFORE TRUMP TOOK OFFICE AND THE
TIME BETWEEN THE ELECTION AND
WHEN TRUMP TOOK THE OATH OF
OFFICE, INCLUDING THAT MEETING
IN THE OVAL OFFICE WITH
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN WHO DID
RECOMMEND A LOGAN ACT.
RARELY YOU GET A SENATE
JUDICIARY HEARING MORE EXCITING
THAN THE HOUSE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE HEARING.
I’M USED TO THE HOUSE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE HEARINGS FULL OF
BOMBAST BUT THIS ROSE TO THAT
LEVEL.
ELIZABETH: LET ME BACK UP.
SALLY YATES DIDN’T ADDRESS
ALLEGED ABUSES BY THE FBI WE’RE
FINDING IN DECLASSIFIED
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.
THAT THE FBI USED PRETEXT AFTER
REGULAR DEBRIEFING OF GENERAL
FLYNN TO SPY ON HIM.
TALKED ABOUT NOT READING HIM
MIRANDA RIGHTS.
TALKED ABOUT PUTTING HIM IN
PERJURY TRAP.
COMEY SAID THE PHONE CALL WITH
THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR APPEARED
LEGIT.
WHEN THE FBI WANTED TO DROP THE
CASE AGAINST GENERAL FLYNN.
COMEY SAID WE’LL USE THE CHAOS,
WE’LL USE THE CHAOS OF INCOMING
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO
BASICALLY GO AFTER FLYNN.
ALSO THE OPPOSITION RESEARCH,
STEELE DOSSIER PAID FOR BY
DEMOCRATS.
THAT SEEMED TO BE NOT ADDRESSED
BY SALLY YATES YESTERDAY.
YOUR REACTION?
>> COMEY HAS ADMITTED AS MUCH,
THAT HE DID GO ROGUE.
HE WANTED TO USE THE CHAOS IN
BETWEEN ADMINISTRATIONS TO TRY
TO GET GENERAL FLYNN IN THAT
INTERVIEW.
YOU HAVE PETER STRZOK’S NOTES.
ARE WE TRYING TO GET HIM TO TELL
THE TRUTH?
ARE WE TRYING TO TRAP HIM AND
CHARGE HIM?
THE NOTES THAT WERE TAKEN REVEAL
EXACTLY WHAT THEIR STRATEGY WAS
WITH GENERAL FLYNN.
THEY KNEW HE WAS GOING TO FIND
OUT EXACTLY WHAT ABUSES WERE
COMMITTED WITH THE FISA PROCESS
AND THE STEELE DOSSIER AND HE
WAS GOING TO HOLD THEM TO
ACCOUNT.
INSTEAD THEY DECIDED TO GO AFTER
GENERAL FLYNN AND THEY WERE
TRYING TO COVER IT UP BEFORE
TRUMP CAME IN.
BUT ALL COMING OUT NOW THANKS TO
MR. GRENELL AND OTHERS WHO ARE
ACTUALLY DECLASSIFYING THESE
DOCUMENTS AND NOW THAT WE’RE
HAVING HEARINGS IN THE SENATE,
HOPEFULLY THE DEPARTMENT WILL
TAKE SOME ACTION NOW THAT THE
DURHAM REPORT WILL BE COMING OUT
VERY, VERY SOON.
ELIZABETH: SIR, GREAT TO HAVE
YOU ON.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING
