john yates never quit serving. all he looked for was the ability to serve in the next mission he was called for. and on december 11 this year, john yates went on to his next mission in heaven. we're going to miss john yates. the state of georgia is going to miss john yates, but i stand here today, mr. speaker, to honor one of those true american patriots who stood in the face of battle and faced the enemy face to face, and when he came home he followed that desire to continue to serve and he served until he passed away just a few days ago. mr. speaker, i would also like to just take a moment and recognize another anniversary. six months ago today on a baseball field just a few miles from here, i and several of my colleagues found ourselves in a combat zone of our own. doesn't seem like it's been six whole months since a crazed gun man walked onto our field and started shooting at us, but the reason i want to bring that up today is because every person on that field that day that was shot at is still in this house t

speaker, i rise today to remember the life of former georgia state representative john yates who passed away on december 11 at the age of 96. representing griffin, georgia, just south of atlanta, he was first elected to the general assembly in 1988 and over time became one of the most aspiring officials in the state. when he retired from government, representative yates was the only world war ii veteran serving in the georgia general assembly. he was drafted into the army in 1942, and flew a piper cub airplane, a small plane with a top speed of less than 100 miles per hour. he flew 200 missions, adjusting artillery fire on the enemy, including at the battle at the bulge, earning six air medals and four battle stars. he went back to school to earn his college degree and worked with ford motor company, eventually becoming a depot manager. representative yates served the state of georgia with the most humble at feud and went to great lengths to help georgia veterans. anyone who was lucky enough to know representative yates can learn from his attitude, knowledge and experience. mr. speaker,

john dowd saying acting attorney general sally yates who told the white house back in january that flynn lied to the fbi. dowd says yates told the white house counsel that flynn had, quote, given the agents the same story he gave the vice president. and as you'll recall, trump actually fired flynn for lying to the vice president. but dowd's account is at odds with what yates said during his testimony in may. >> we also told white house counsel that general flynn had been interviewed by the fbi on february 24th. mr. mcgahn asked me how he did and i declined to give him an answer to that. >> now, during her testimony, she appeared to confuse the day the flynn's testimony. it was january 24th, not february. "the washington post" also reports today that, quote, people familiar with yates' account say she never discussed any part of the fbi investigation with the white house. for more, barry mccaffrey joins us, tim carney and danny, msnbc legal analyst. does dowd need to go? is he doing the president any favors here? have you seen a lawyer who basically acknowledges that maybe he just -- mayb

yates. the white house counsel, don mcgahn and the president's personal lawyer john doud.using but ultimately all goes to whether or not the president was aware that his national security advisor was in criminal trouble. was he a person who had given false, misleading information to the fbi and sally yates has testified that she didn't describe this problem that mr. flynn might have as a result of his interview with the fbi agents. mr. mcgahn according to a person familiar with his account has said he surely thought that the account that flynn had given the fbi was not complete and inaccurate based on what the acting attorney general told him, and mr. doud has said that the president knew from his lawyer, mr. mcgahn that it was likely that mr. flynn had given an inaccurate account, sorry, inaccurate account. >> an inaccurate account, got it. well, so it depends on the credibility of each of these poem who are telling each of these stories, i suppose and their credibility or assessment cob informed with how much they might be on the hook or in trouble if they are not tellin

was in awe of sally yates the day she was fired for refuses to defend president trump's controversial travel ban which has since been upheld by the supreme court. joining me now, johnhow partisan was peter struck? >> there was no limit to what he was willing to do to ben the law in the direction he wanted it to go. he is the where's waldo of the whole investigation, the fbi agent who played a major role investigation of hillary clinton's e-mail, he interviewed hillary clinton, allowed cheryl mills, hillary clinton's lawyer and suspect. to sit in on interview, then he changed language to comey used to describ describe hillary clie of e-mail. and fox news report that peter struck was involved in the huma abedin investigation when they found all those e-mails in last week of campaign, on anthony weiner's computer. comey issued a last minute mia culpa, said i should not have looked into it, everywhere we look there is peter schrok. he has been let go of russia investigation for political bias. he is lowest -- low lois lernerf the fbi. violating civil liberty, i think that peter schrok will be bureaucrat who was always there putting his thumb on the scale of justice. li

the deputy director of the fbi and sally yates who was once the acting director of the fbi who resigned as well. errol, back to you and this from cia director johnnnen weighing in. he made a donation to the fbi agents situation and comey tweeted out a link and a way to do that as well. at what point does this eel road moral with the rank and foil? are we seeing that is in the white house says this is about the political leadership, but to what degree does this erode that confidence in the leadership there at doj, because they aren't stepping up and defending the men and women who work there? and really erode just the morale of the team? >> well, i know some of but not a lot of people that work in the justice department. reality is they put up with a lot worse than political attacks. right? these are people who put their lives on the line and they physician down drug dealers and mobsters and trest s and terro. they are not rattled by a couple of tweets even from the top of the chain of command. the reality is mr. mccabe is a civil servant and can't easily be touched by the president. as long as we have the rule of law and people play by the rules

president's personal attorney, john dowd with his alleged involvement in the president's tweet is also now somebody that they may have to talk to. i think it is not as if sally yatesthere and who was the acting attorney general at the time. it's not like she said he's lying. this is something and we have been told this specifically. she did not characterize how she interpreted what flynn was doing. mcgahn drew his own conclusions as they should have and they were probably right. which was he had been lying to the fbi and the fbi had the intercepts. >> they are called to remove themselves as the private attorney forever the president? >> they had a conflict of interest going on there. remember this would be another instance of a self inflicted wound in the d main station. a lot of what happened so far including the mueller probe, et cetera are based on self inflicted wounds. if you have the attorneys stepping into this and weighing in in a way that jeopardizes the client's ability to now be truthful or expose him to lab . liabilities. now you are in greater jeopardy. it wouldn't are priored. >> he separates himself. he is not the president's lawyer. he is the peopl