THIS IS PLAYING OUT IN CRIMINAL COURT ALONGSIDE THE IMPEACHMENT
PROCEEDINGS ON CAPITOL HILL, SO
FAR THINGS ARE NOT GOING WELL IN
COURT.
COURT. THINGS ARE ALSO NOT GOING WELL
IN COURT FOR THE PRESIDENT’S
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR, MIKE
FLYNN.
FLYNN. THIS HAS SUNK INTO THE
BACKGROUND A LITTLE BIT BUT
TRUMP NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
MIKE FLYNN IS STILL AWAITING
SENTENCING FOR HIS CRIMES.
HE’S DUE TO BE SENTENCED NEXT
MONTH.
MONTH. AND AS WE’VE COVERED ON THE SHOW
A FEW TIMES IN RECENT MONTHS
MIKE FLYNN HAS TRADED IN HIS OLD
LAWYERS HE USED TO HAVE AND
INSTEAD HE GOT LAWYERS WHO
DECIDED TO GO FULL FOX NEWS,
DEEP STATE CONSPIRACY, LIKE
STORM THE STATE -- LIKE STORM
THE SCIF WHERE THEY’RE
COMPLAINING MIKE FLYNN DIDN’T
MEAN TO PLEAD GUILTY AFTER ALL,
THAT HE’S TOTALLY INNOCENT, HE
WAS FRAMED.
WAS FRAMED. MIKE FLYNN’S FOX NEWS LAWYER ARE
ARGUING HE DOESN’T NEED TO
RESCIND HIS GUILTY PLEA EVEN
THOUGH THEY’RE NOW CONTENDING
HIS INNOCENCE BECAUSE THE DEEP
STATE LAWYER THEY SHOULD NOT
ONLY THROW OUT THE WHOLE CASE,
THEY SHOULD DISSOLVE THE FBI AND
LOCK UP THE REAL CRIMINALS,
MEANING THE FBI AGENTS AND EVEN
THE PROSECUTORS WHO WERE
INVOLVED IN HIS CASE OR ANY OF
THE RUSSIA CASES AT ALL.
BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE REAL
CRIMINALS.
CRIMINALS. THAT’S THE REAL CONSPIRACY AND
MIKE FLYNN DIDN’T DO ANYTHING
WRONG.
WRONG. THAT’S BEEN THE BASIS OF FLYNN’S
NEW DEFENSE AS HE HEADS TOWARD
SENTENCING.
SENTENCING. TOWARD IN COURT, FLYNN’S NEW
CLAIM THAT EVEN THOUGH HE DID
PLEAD GUILTY AND ADMIT IN COURT
HE LIED TO THE FBI ABOUT HIS
CONTACTS WITH THE RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT, HIS NEW CLAIM IS HE
DIDN’T REALLY MEAN IT, THAT
GUILTY PLEA IS AN ERROR, HE WAS
TRAPPED INTO AND IT AND HE WAS
FRAMED.
FRAMED. HIS NEW FOX LAWYERS HAVE BEEN
CLAIMING HE WAS SETUP EVEN
THOUGH HE PLED GUILTY.
THE FBI LIED ABOUT THE FACTS
THAT FLYNN LIED TO THEM, AND
THAT THEY THEREAFTER SOMEHOW
HYPNOTIZED HIM INTO LYING EVEN
THOUGH HE DIDN’T.
IT’S ALL VERY WEIRD, HONESTLY.
BUT FLYNN’S NEW DEFENSE, PART OF
IT HAS BEEN THAT THE NOTES THE
FBI RELIED ONTO SAY THAT HE
LIED, THAT WAS THE FELONY OF
WHICH HE PLED GUILTY.
THEY’RE SAYING THE FBI NOTES
THAT SHOWED FLYNN LIED WERE
FORGERIES, THAT THEY WEREN’T
REAL NOTES, THEY WERE DOCTORED
TO FRAME HIM AFTER THE FACT.
AND SO FLYNN’S DEFENSE HAS
DEMANDED THAT THE FBI RELEASE
THESE NOTES, RELEASE THE
EVIDENCE THAT WOULD PROVE THIS
HAS ALL BEEN A BIG FRAME-UP JOB.
TODAY THIS IS WHAT THE FBI AND
PROSECUTORS RELEASED AND IT’S
KIND OF AMAZING.
QUOTE, ON JANUARY 29, 2018, THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL’S OFFICE
RECEIVED AN E-MAIL STATING A
MEMBER OF THE MEDIA HAD RECEIVED
INFORMATION THAT BLANK, SOMEBODY
WHOSE NAME IS REDACTED, TOLD THE
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL THAT
FBI DIRECTOR ANDREW McCABE
PRESSURED, BLANKED OUT NAME, TO
CHANGE THE 302 FORM DOCUMENTING
THE INTERVIEW OF MICHAEL FLYNN.
SO THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S OFFICE
GETS NOTICE THAT A MEMBER OF THE
MEDIA HAD RECEIVED INFORMATION
THAT McCABE HAD PRESSURED
SOMEBODY TO CHANGE THE FBI
INTERVIEW NOTES DOCUMENTING
MICHAEL FLYNN LYING TO THE FBI.
QUOTE, AFTER BEING ADVISED OF
THE IDENTITY OF THE INTERVIEWING
AGENT AND THE NATURE OF THE
INTERVIEW, BLANKED OUT NAME,
PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION.
INFORMATION. NUMBER ONE, ANDREW McCABE DID
NOT PRESSURE THIS PERSON TO
CHANGE THE INTERVIEW.
NUMBER TWO, NO ONE AT THE FBI
PRESSURED TO CHANGE THE 302.
ALSO THIS PERSON HAS NO
INFORMATION ON ANY PRESSURE TO
CHANGE THE 302.
FINALLY THIS PERSON BELIEVES ALL
THE INFORMATION IN THE 302 IS
ACCURATE.
ACCURATE. THIS GOVERNMENT LAWYER IS
RESPONDING TODAY TO MIKE FLYNN’S
CONSPIRACY THEORY SAYING, NOPE.
THERE’S BEEN A THEORY ADVANCED
IN THE RIGHT WING MEDIA THAT ALL
OF THE DOCUMENTATION ABOUT MIKE
FLYNN’S FELONIES, IT WAS ALL
MADE UP AND THE FBI KNOWS AND
THEY JUST HAVE TO COME CLEAN
ABOUT IT.
ABOUT IT. THIS IS THE FBI NOW SAYING WE’VE
GONE THROUGH THIS, WE’VE GONE
AHEAD AND LOOKED BACK AT IT
BECAUSE OF THESE ALLEGATIONS AND
IT TURNS OUT, NO, MIKE FLYNN
DEFINITELY LIED ABOUT HIS
CONVERSATIONWISE THE GOVERNMENT
WHICH IS WHAT HE PLED GUILTY TO.
AND NO MATTER WHAT YOU HEARD
ABOUT THIS, YOU’VE PLUGGED INTO
THE MACHINE TO GIVE YOU THE
SIGNALS, IN THE COURT YOU STILL
ACTUALLY HAVE TO PROVE STUFF.
BECAUSE OF THE GROWING INSANITY
OF THE MIKE FLYNN DEFENSE, MORE
THAN EVER I THINK IT’S
REASONABLE TO BE ON PARDON WATCH
WHEN THE COMES TO MIKE FLYNN
BECAUSE CLEARLY FLYNN AND HIS
LAWYERS ARE NOT PLAYING HIS CASE
TO TRY TO WIN IN COURT NOW.
THE COURT FILINGS THEY’RE MAKING
NOW ARE BONKERS.
AND SO THEY ARE PLAYING THIS NOW
NOT TO WIN WITH A JUDGE BUT TO
WIN INSTEAD ON FOX NEWS WITH
EYE TOWARD WINNERINGING WITH THE
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. THEY’RE PLAYING TO GET MIKE
FLYNN A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON.
AND THERE IS EVIDENCE IN FACT
THEY’VE GOT THE PRESIDENT’S
ATTENTION WITH FOX NEWS COVERAGE
OF THIS INKEESCREASINGLY INSANE
FLYNN DEFENSE THEORY.
HERE’S SOMETHING YOU WANT YOU TO
KEEP AN EYE ON, THOUGH.
THE VERY FIRST TIME, WE THE
PUBLIC HAD ANY INKLING MIKE
FLYNN WAS GOING TO BE IN
TROUBLE, WELL BEFORE THE CHARGES
AGAINST HIM WERE BROUGHT, THE
VERY FIRST TIME WE HAD ANY SIGN
THERE WAS GOING TO BE TROUBLE
WITH TRUMP’S NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISOR WAS ACTUALLY A COLUMN IN
"THE WASHINGTON POST" BY A VERY
CONNECTED VERY WELL SOURCED
COLUMNIST NAMED DAVID IGNACEOUS.
WHEN I FIRST READ THAT COLUMN
BACK IN JANUARY 2017 THERE WAS
KIND OF A BOLT FROM THE BLUE.
HE SAID, QUOTE, RETIRED GENERAL
MICHAEL T. FLYNN CULTIVATES
CLOSE RUSSIAN CONTACTS.
HE HAS APPEARED ON RUSSIA TODAY
AND RECEIVED A SPEAKING FEE FROM
THE CABLE NETWORK WHICH WAS
DESCRIBED IN LAST WEEK’S
UNCLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE
UNCLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING AS THE KREMLIN’S
PROPAGANDA OUTLET.
PROPAGANDA OUTLET. QUOTE, ACCORDING TO A SENIOR
U.S. OFFICIAL FLYNN PHONED
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR SERGEY
KISLYAK SEVERAL TIMES THE DAY
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
ANNOUNCED THE EXPULSION OF 35
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS.
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS. WHAT DID FLYNN SAY AND DID IT
UNDERCUT THE SANCTIONS?
ISHNACEOUS CONCLUDED, QUOTE, WE
OUGHT TO KNOW THE FACTS.
THAT WAS THE FIRST WE LEARNED
ABOUT MIKE FLYNN HAVING SECRET
COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT ABOUT SANCTIONS.
AND EVENTUALLY WE WOULD KNOW THE
FACTS.
FACTS. IT WOULD TAKE A WHILE FOR IT TO
COME OUT, THOUGH.
THAT COLUMN WAS PUBBISHEDLISHED
FULL WEEK BEFORE TRUMP WAS
INAUGURATED, BEFORE ANY NEWS
OUTLETS WOULD PUBLISH ON THE
NATURE OF FLYNN’S CONTACTS, WHAT
LED TO HIS GUILTY PLEA.
AND THAT WAS A GREAT SCOOP FOR
DAVID IGNACEOUS.
DAVID IGNACEOUS. BUT IT WAS INTERESTING.
IT WAS IN A COLUMN.
"THE WASHINGTON POST" AS YOU
WOULD EXPECT HAS A CLEAR DIVIDE
BETWEEN THE NEWS PAGES AND
EDITORIAL PAGES.
EDITORIAL PAGES. BUT THEY ALSO HAVE FREQUENTLY
HAVE COLUMNISTS AND EVEN THE
PAPERS OWN EDITORIALS BREAK
NEWS.
NEWS. AND IT WAS THAT OWN DAVID
IGNACEOUS COLUMN BEFORE TRUMP
WAS EVEN SWORN IN THAT FIRST
BROKE THE NEWS ABOUT FLYNN’S
SECRET CONVERSATIONS.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS. AND JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO "THE
POST" DID IT AGAIN.
IT WAS SEPTEMBER 5th, AN
EDITORIAL IN "THE WASHINGTON
POST," AGAIN, NOT A NEWS STORY
BUT AN EDITORIAL WHICH BROKE THE
NEWS OF THE SCANDAL THAT WOULD
EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE CURRENT
IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
PRESIDENT TRUMP. THIS WAS THE FIRST REPORT.
SEPTEMBER 5th, THIS YEAR,
EDITORIAL PAGE, "THE WASHINGTON
POST."
POST." YOU SEE THE ED LINE.
TRUMP TRIES TO FORCE UKRAINE TO
MEDDLE IN THE 2020 ELECTION.
IT’S AN EDITORIAL BUT THEY JUST
NAILED IT NEWS WISE.
QUOTE, UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT
VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY HAS RE-- SOME
SUSPECT MR. TRUMP IS ONCE AGAIN
CATERING TO MR. PUTIN WHO’S
DEDICATED TO UNDERMINING
UKRAINIAN DEMOCRACY AND
INDEPENDENCE.
INDEPENDENCE. BUT "THE POST" SAYS, WE’RE
RELIABLY TOLD THAT THE PRESIDENT
HAS A SECOND AND MORE VENAL
AGENDA.
AGENDA. HE’S ATTEMPTING TO FORCE
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY TO INTERVENE
IN THE 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION BY LAUNCHING AN
INVESTIGATION OF THE LEADING
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE, JOE BIDEN.
MR. TRUMP IS NOT JUST SOLICITING
UKRAINE’S HELP, HE’S USING U.S.
MILITARY AID THE COUNTRY
DESPERATELY NEEDS IN AN ATTEMPT
TO EXTORT IT.
AND THE "THE POST" WENT ONTO
NOTE THAT THE CASE AGAINST BIDEN
TRUMP WANTED INVESTIGATED WAS,
QUOTE, BOGUS ON ITS FACE AND HAD
UNCONVINCING EXPLANATIONS FOR
ITS RETICENCE THUS FAR.
BUT THEY THEN CONCLUDED WITH
THIS.
THIS. IF IT HAS A RATIONALE OTHER THAN
SEEKING A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TO
AID HIS ELECTION, THE PRESIDENT
HAS YET TO REVEAL IT.
THAT’S BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT THAT
WAS EXACTLY WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP
WAS DOING.
WAS DOING. IN FACT, PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS
TRYING TO COMPEL THAT FOREIGN
GOVERNMENT TO AID HIS
RE-ELECTION BY EXTORTING THEM TO
FORM INVESTIGATIONS.
FORM INVESTIGATIONS. NOT A NEWS STORY BUT "THE POST"
NAILED IT.
NAILED IT. THAT’S EXACTLY HOW IT PLAYED OUT
IN THIS IMPEACHMENT
INVESTIGATION.
INVESTIGATION. AND NOW, TODAY, AFTER THEY
NAILED THE FLYNN SCANDAL ON THE
EDITORIAL PAGE IN THAT COLUMN BY
DAVID ISHNACEOUS BACK IN THE DAY
AND THEN THEY NAILED THE CORE OF
THE IMPEACHMENT SCANDAL ON THE
EDITORIAL PAGE SEVERAL WEEKS
AGO, NOW TODAY I THINK THEY’VE