. >> one of the things we've been learning is that the admitted felon michael flynn, pardoned felon michaelher, general flynn, was involved in the conversations and part of the delay. let's listen to that. >> the army senior leaders did not think it looked good, would be a good optic. further stated it could incite the crowd. >> do you remember who was mostly talking about optics, the questions that senator peters asked you? >> yes, during the phone call with the district of columbia leaders, deputy mayor, chief sun, deputy rodriguez, who was talking about optics was general flynn and general pyatt. to have uniformed guard members at the capitol during the confirmation. >> the pentagon had said that general flynn was not part of these discusses at all. >> i don't have any reason to believe that charles flynn, acting general within the pentagon was doing anything uncorrect here. we'll find that out. we have independent obligation to put the facts together. just because he's brother of michael flynn, a convicted felon and supporter of donald trump. he does have a honorable background, we've t

. >> one of the things we've been learning is that the admitted felon michael flynn, pardoned felon michaelnn, his brother, general flynn, was actually involved in the conversations and was part of the delay. let's listen to that. >> the army senior leaders did not think that it looked good, that it would be a good optic. they further stated it could incite the crowd. >> do you remember who was mostly talking about the optics, the questions that senator peters asked you? >> yes, during the phone call with the district of columbia leaders, the deputy mayor, chief sund, dr. rodriguez, who was talking about optics was general flynn and general pyatt. and they both said it wouldn't be in their best military advice to have uniformed guard members at the capitol during the election confirmation. >> so, congressman, the pentagon lied about this. they said charles flynn was not involved in these discussions at all. >> we'll piece it together. but i want to make something clear here. i don't have any reason to believe that charles flynn, acting general within the pentagon was doing anything incorrec

and on the ins mary closely tied to general michael flynn it's to do with his time as a national security advisor and the kind of role that he played between the japanese and u.s. governments at the time. flynn was kind of crimes to become this intermediary between the 2 governments and the conspiracy theory kind of goes that there was a diplomatic meeting where you're right there was information supposedly exchanged between flame and shins our way. and that. is resignation actually came in the wake of that meeting after a kind of diplomatic summit between the 2 countries so there is that belief for some of the japanese cumin on community but not necessarily all of it. so i know that there are some distinguishing characteristics in each place but is there a thread that cuts across all of these contexts whether it's a set of conditions a set of vulnerabilities that allows these types of beliefs in general to take hold . chuck i think at its core it's an anti government conspiracy theory an anti-establishment conspiracy theory so there aren't necessarily any specific role of posies other th

alleged that general michael flynn had an encounter with a russian british grad student. ent said that is false. william barnett, an fbi agent, that is wrong but somehow that information was used to go after general flynn. your reaction? >> it was used to go after general flynn. now four years later this graduate student is finally finding out who the source was that was spewing these lies to the fbi. now she knows who it was that was sourcing information to the fbi which was an a complete and utter lie. devin nunez is right, some of the most decorated general in our military being surveiled on by the fbi under false pretenses. that should make every american very earn concerned about the safety and security of our country. fbi and doj weaponized to go after conservatives, go after political targets. very unnerving as a member of congress. all americans should be very concerned about it. elizabeth: at the center of this is abuse of the court, the fisa court meant to catch terrorists. the fbi found to have abused that court. potential perjury charge coming from john durham

michael flynn's brother, to fully understand their side of the story. from what we know right now there are really two answers. either you had a situation of a number of new appointees that had come in the department of defense that were not equip to do their job, and transitions take time. even if they had not, perhaps they didn't know enough about how the department worked, and thus, they made some really bad judgment calls. i think that is being generous. but until we have all the facts that is a plausible scenario. the other scenario, that this was intentional. there was a scenario they were getting it get out of hand because they thought the president wanted thome do that or they were going for the marshal law declaration. it's not clear to me which it is. we need to hear from the people of the department of defense that either made the bad judgment call or were participating in something. >> we need a commission with subpoena power. >> can i just add -- >> sure. >> the real question here is what did they hope to game by delaying? did they think th

michael flynn, was part of telling this big lie and a part of the stop the steal effort. and, three, this is, you know, really all the more reason that we need to increase the intelligence that we have around major national security events at the capitol and it's just frustrating to hear that we had to wait so long and it could have been much worse. >> at heart of this, who is to blame for this delay? >> well, donald trump. right? i mean, he incited, enflamed, assembled the mob. we can't lose sight of that. law enforcement officers risk their lives every day. >> and failures in delay in getting help? >> i think d.o.d. certainly has to own up to the three-hour-plus delay. they are to blame. capitol police, their leadership were not prepared at all. so there has to continue to be accountability for that, but brianna, here we are. you alluded in your opening, qanon believes donald trump is going to become president tomorrow. it's frustrating to have a security fortress around the capitol, these types of threats that qanon continues to inspire impede us from doing the work we

about how the fbi basically made stuff up based on informants wrong information about general michael flynnen to this. >> when you go through that it is frightening, imagine beingpi spied upon by your own government and that spy makes up a bunch of lies about everybody they framed general flynn this is evidence that should be brought when i was chairman of the house intelligence committee in nearly four years ago we should've seen what they were doing and how they were running the spies in their campaign. elizabeth: congressman what this is in reference to is cambridge university professor a paid fbi informant elijah michael flynn had an encounter with a british russian grad student, that grad student said that is false william barnett and fbi agent says that is wrong but somehow that information was used to go after general flynn, your reaction. >> it was used to go after general flynn and four years later the graduate student is finding out who that source was that was spewing these lies to thee fbi. now she knows who it was that was sourcg iinmaor toon the the fbi wfbchfb was a c aeteete

michael flynn, as we just learned today in the news, is affiliated himself with qanon.ave been anywhere close to this decision. a failure at all levels of the department of defense. >> you mentioned senator johnson, who was frankly in the news for more than one thing related to misinformation. we covered this. but you're in the congress that was attacked. i want to play for viewers that may not have seen it, senator johnson's comments about january 6th and blm. >> on january 6th i never felt thetenned because i didn't. i know those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so i wasn't concerned. had the tables been turned, joe, this could mean trouble. had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been a little concerned. >> congressman, your response? >> hard to believe we are in the same building, ari. we have seen hundreds of arrests from violent officials. i have spoken with the officers beaten and spit on and

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other totally bogus stories designed to her trump the media got away with, the wikileaks email, michael flynn's russian relationship, us intel agencies, scaramucci and the direct investment fund and directions to live. it doesn't seem to be an isolated incident and they all seem to, these errors or anonymous stories, seem to fall in one direction. >> that is a key piece of this because if it was evenly distributed with story that made big mistakes in favor of donald trump and big mistakes against him that would be one thing, people make errors, we are all human and journalism isn't perfect but when you see the sort of zeal among almost all the press corps who hated the former president, corners were cut of the goal was to help take him down and there was a huge appetite for that, a huge incentive among the press corps especially the elite press corps to taken down a peg and that is why you see the direction of almost all the mistakes, dominoes falling, the cascade in one direction so this is the latest one, black eye for the washington post and the many other news organizations who ran the exac

quote, the defense department's internal watchdog has concluded a long delayed investigation into michael flynn, focuses on accepting money from russian and turkish interests before joining the trump administration, a potential violation of the constitution's emoluments clause. prohibited from accepting money or gifts from foreign governments. opened in april 2017, put on hold amid a broader scandal that included a criminal investigation by the justice department. flynn was pardoned last november by trump. after the pardon, justice department gave approval for the inspector general's office to resume its flynn investigation. watchdog's office closed its investigation one week after the biden administration took office and forded findings to the u.s. army. so this has never been reported before tonight, but mike flynn, hero of the far right, allegedly working as secret foreign agent and taking secret payments from foreign adversary, not something retired generals are supposed to do, findings of the pentagon review put on ice in 2017, thawed out and started up in november when trump pardoned the

optics were so concerns, and the people that were speaking about this, one of the people was michael flynn'standing in front of the white house whipping people up, was he in a decision making position to decide when the troops got deployed? >> he was on a key phone call. they are discussing the question about whether or not they should approve the tending of troops. so he is involved in this and we previously reported that he was on that call. for the time he tried to keep that under wraps. you know and look. by the time that the pentagon is getting this call and asking for emergency help. the first battle was already lost. they're calling because there was already breaches. a lot of the lawmakers kept trying to turn the conversation back to what hatched in the days leading up because there was a reluctance based on the experiences of what happened. there was weariness on a confrontation on live tv and they got to the capitol. >> what about hearing from the acting secretary at the time, why are we not hearing from the officials at the top quite yet? >> that was frustrating to members of the

well, speaking of optics, that will be lieutenant general charles flynn, the brother of michael flynn. michael flynn at the time was a leading proponent of overturning the results of the election. >> the arm senior leaders did not think that it looked good, it would be a good optic. they further stated it could incite the crowd. during the phone call with the district of columbia leaders, the deputy mayor, the chief, doctor rodriguez, who was talking about optics, were general flynn and general payett. they both said it wouldn't be in their best military advice to advise the secretary of army to have uniformed guards members at the capitol during the election confirmation. >> hit pause on everything you think you know and remember this. back in january, "the washington post" reported that mike flynn's brother charles flynn was involved in discussions around troop deployment for that day, did you flynn said he couldn't remember whether he actually said anything on the call or not. quote -- i do not recall saying anything in the conference, but i may have, and i just don't recall saying

. >> and, malcolm, when he says general flynn, he doesn't mean michael flynn, he means his brother, charles flynn, who initially the army denyed that he was on that call. turns out he was on that call. what do you make of that? his brother was one of the people encouraging donald trump to use martial law to retain power. >> right. and all throughout the month of december at a period, former general mike flynn had been visiting the white house and explicitly calling for martial law, for the use of the armed forces. now his brother is on a call. he knows that this is a high-profile protest, being carried out by president trump's most ardent supporters. it is that very makeup, the demographic of that target audience that leads him to believe he doesn't want to upset the apple cart for anyone in the national security apparatus and also his brother is involved in this, in some way. let me tell you something, this is now an issue for general -- i'm sorry, secretary of defense lloyd austin. these two commanding officers, one of whom general flynn, i understand, has been moved to another command ou

former national security adviser michael flynn, tens of thousand dollars in penalties against his militarya watchdog report on his dealings with russia and other foreign entities. the report was put on hold in 2017 amid criminal allegations against flynn. in florida, assistant principal and her daughter arrested and are now facing felony charges for allegedly hacking into student accounts to catch fraudulent votes for homecoming queen. republican sound the alarm over hr one, a massive billing that giving the federal government more control on how states run their election. lawmakers in stacy rooms's home state georgia trying to suppress the vote. >> it is a redux of jim crow in a suit and tie. instead of celebrating better access and more tarsus a patient, their response to eliminate. >> let's bring in democratic strategists kevin walling and horace cooper. welcome back to both of you. let me read something the atlanta journal-constitution says about the difference in measures state gop lawmakers are working on, a review 40 republican sponsor election bills show most address voting concern

wikileaks emails, michael flynn's russian relationship, u.s. intel agencies agree. anthony scaramucci and the investment fund and trump direction to lie. it doesn't seem to be an isolated incident and they seem these errors or anonymous stories that are change later, they seem to fall in one direction. >> that i think is a key piece because if it was evenly distributed with stories that made big mistakes in favor of president trump and big mistakes against him, that would be one thing. people make errors. we are all human and journalism isn't perfect when you see this zeal among almost all the press corps who hated the former president, i think corners were cut if the goal was to help take them down. there was a huge appetite for that, huge incentive among the press corps especially the elite press corps to take him down a peg or more and that's why you see the direction of almost all the mistakes, the dominoes falling, the cascade in one direction. this is the latest one. it is a black eye for "the washington post" and the many other news organizations who ran the

michael flynn. the army reviewing a report on his dealings with russia and other foreign entities.t on hold in 2017 amid criminal allegations against flynn. an assistant principal and her daughter arrested and are now facing felony charges for allegedly hacking into student accounts to cast fraudulent votes for homecoming queen. as republicans sound the alarm over h.r. 1, a massive guilt and -- massive bill. stacey abrams says lawmakers who are trying to pass legislation to beef up security requirements are trying to suppress the vote. >> it's racist, a redux of jim crow in suit and tie. instead of celebrating better access and more per dissipation their response to try to eliminate access. >> shannon: let's bring in kevin walling and cochair of project 21, horace cooper. welcome back to both of you. i want to read something."the aa journal-constitution." the measures that state g.o.p. lawmakers working on. "a review of bills show most address voting fraud and security concerns raised in the failed lawsuits. among other things those bills would eliminate no excuse absentee voting a

second, there's no reason that general michael flynn's brother should have been in that chain of commandhis brother was a part of this big lie. his brother had attended stop the steal rallies in the past. and third, as somebody who had their work impeded for hours to think that over three hours we waited in that secure location to return to the capitol was so unnecessary and could have been signed off immediately. thank god that the national guard was able to come, grateful for their service, but it was a failure in leadership across law enforcement and the department of defense that day. >> congressman eric walwell, thank you very much. >> i appreciate it. >> neera tanden withdrawing her name for omb director. who might replace her is coming up next. visible is wireless that doesn't play games. no surprise fees, legit unlimited data for as little as $25 a month. and the best part, it's powered by verizon. but it gets crazier. bring a friend every month and get every month for $5. which is why i brought them. two $5-a-months right here. hey. hey. plus the players of my squad. hey. what's

with general charles flynn, the brother of michael flynn, advising against deploying troops.ral investigators are looking into communication between gop lawmakers and rioters. as the investigation explores whether any lawmakers help ed the insurrectionists. joining us right now is president and ceo of the southern poverty law center, margaret wang. margaret, thank you so much for being with us and good morning to you. can you explain the significance of this latest update that officials are looking into any communication, whether that exists? and do you have any insight on what they might find? >> good morning, lindsey. there's no question that there are many connections between the gop and many of the extremist groups, that led to the incidences on january 6th. what we have been seeing is an erosion between the soft barriers that, previously, used to exist. so, now, we have post-trump republicans in office. folks, like marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert, as well as people who have aligned themselves with some of the anti-democratic organizations that led the january-6

to target the incoming trump administration and to target the incoming nationalsecurity adviser michael flynn , a meeting that is discussed at length in the horowitz report, the executive summary which judge garland said he has read. his response was i do not know the facts of the situation you described as i stated at the hearing. as a nominee i should not comment about justice department officials prior decisions or hypothetical situations. mister chairman to pause to think about the two things he says he won't comment about. anything prior department of justice has done he won't comment on that. you won't comment on hypothetical situations. not sure what remains if you won't comment about actual situations or hypothetical situations . what remains is essentially a novel set. he refused to tell this committee whether he would reinstate the politicized decision-makingof the eric holder and loretta lynch department of justice and refused to entertain any hypotheticals whatsoever . when asked about operation chokepoint he said he wasn't familiar with it. questions for the record asked now that

after all, general flip's brother, michael flynn, suggested that's the way president trump could stayises so many questions. and i go back to what michael steele said, it's really hard for the hearing, the congressional apparatus, to get at the truth. we need an independent commission with subpoena authority to dig into all of this. and we saw with the news reports out today, maybe the criminal investigation will lead us to that. it's not entire will he clear if everything that they did incorrectly was actually criminal, but if they did krosh that criminal threshold, hopefully that investigation will show who among trump's orbit needs to be held accountable for the lack of preparation for january 6th and the various responses to january 6th. >> adrienne, elizabeth, michael, thank you very much for the chat on these big topics today. >>> we're going to go now back to capitol hill. i understand chuck schumer is speaking. let's take a listen to what he has to say about the passage of this covid relief bill. >> and sometimes it takes some discussion, and sometimes it takes some work, but

walker also said that military leaders including the brother of ex-trump national security adviser michael flynn advised at one point during the afternoon that deploying troops would not bring good optics. let's bring in yamichal sindhor and joining me is joyce vance, good morning to both of you. joyce, let me start with the civil suit. i was speaking to eric swalwell's lawyer last night. this is the second civil suit, something that mitch mcconnell said at the end of the impeachment was that no one is above the law including the former president and there are ways in which he can be held to account. so i assume these civil suits are ways that trump and others can be held to account. what is the likelihood of them succeeding and what is the difference between that, a normal trial and what happened in the white house -- in the senate, i'm sorry. >> yeah. sure. so these civil cases are a very interesting aspect of the search for accountability. we've seen the flawed impeachment procedure despite evidence. we're looking at the criminal process and criminal investigations ongoing too early to conclu

. >> lieutenant general michael flynn. he was in charge of operations for the army. the director of the army staff was on the phone -- was on the call, lieutenant general pyatt, other senior civilian leaders from the united states army and other high-ranking general officers were on the call as well. >> okay. do you remember who was mostly talking about the optics, the questions that senator peters asked you and their concern about that? >> yes. during the phone call with the district of columbia leaders, the deputy mayor, chief sund, dr. rodriguez, who was talking about optics were general flynn and general pyatt. they both said it wouldn't be in their best military advice to advise the secretary of the army to have uniformed guards members at the capitol during the election confirmation. >> thank you. mr. salesses, could you explain why they would say such a thing? i know you were not on the call, and you were the one they sent here on behalf of the defense department. you were not on the call. so do you have any idea why this delay occurred when, as senator peters

>> so lieutenant general michael flynn, the chief of operations for the army, the director of the armystaff was on the call, lieutenant general piat. other senior civilian leaders are and high ranking general officers on the call as well. >> do you remember who was talking about the optics? the questions that senator peters asked you? >> yeah, during the phone call with the district of columbia leaders, the deputy mayor, chief sun, dr. rodriguez, and who was talking about optics was general philip and general piat. they said it would not be best to have uniformed guards members at the capitol during the confer ration. >> thank you, mr. salais. i know you were not on the call and you were the one they sent here on behalf of the defense department, but you were not on the call, do you have any idea why the delay occurred when senator peters has pointed out it didn't happen on other times. >> in preparation i have had the opportunity to talk to general walker. i had the opportunity to talk to general piat and other officers on the army staff. i also had the opportunity to speak to secreta

walker: lieutenant general michael flynn. he was in charge of operations for the army.he director of the army staff was on the call, there were other senior civilian leaders from the united states army and other high-ranking general officers as well. chairwoman klobuchar: do you remember who was mostly talking about the optics, the question senator peters ask you? gen. walker: during the phone call, the district of columbia leaders, general flynn and another general. they both said it would not be in their best military advice to advise the secretary of army to have uniformed guard numbers at the capital during the election confirmation. chairwoman klobuchar: thank you. could you explain why they would say such a thing? i know you are not on the call. you are the one they sent from the defense department, but you were not on the call. do you have any idea why this delay occurred when as senator peters has well pointed out, it did not occur in other incidences? >> as you point out i was not on any of the calls. chairwoman klobuchar: we know that. >> in preparation for th

charles flynn, deputy chief of staff in the army and brother of former national security adviser michael flynn. according to the washington most, flynn previously rejected the notion that his relationship with his brother, retired lieutenant general suggested that they should rerun the election and declare martial law was a factor in his spot. senator peters has not set a date for the next hearing but tells nbc news he wants to hear from the former acting secretary of defense and former secretary of the army, both repeatedly mentioned in testimony. >> if reverend al, the pentagon didn't move. when we were all watching in horror these events unfold, when we were watching trump terrorists bash the brains in of police officers with american flags, hold them down, beat up police officers, shove police officers' heads into doors and try to kill them, we were all saying the same thing. when colin powell was watching, he said he was standing up in front of his television set saying where the hell are reinforcements? we saw this unfold. and you had general flynn and others in trump's pentagon saying t

where -- did anyone take it upon themselves, any questions about michael flynn, i'm asking the spokespersonors. on what authority do you do that? >> the governor -- your opposing the hypothetical assuming they will keep churches shutdown. steve: compare that to jen psaki or anybody else, it was arms combat, she was armed with research, data, and facts. she's talking about it with a preview. >> the lectern for the time you were press secretary was phil in the blank. >> great question, i would say disparate, unfair in the sense that as i said this to my staff often, democrat woman standing at the podium would never be a playboy reporter shouting at her as she left nor should a democrat woman ever have to face that. >> at 11:00 today. >> during the trump administration reporters, they have an agenda, they want to make the administration look as bad as possible. they would posit a question. a gotcha question but whatever the answer was your asking a person a question and whatever kaylee or sarah, they would argue with them, or get an answer. they wanted to make the administration look bad. duri

investigation into rudy giuliani because he is the president's lawyer or to stop a case against a michael flynneed something more. something that threatens to take away your law license. when it copcomes to the rule ofw saying i was following orders isn't enough. >> yep. tom rogers, jonathan is here with us. he has a question for you. >> tom, good to see you. president biden has made clear that he wants to do things differently in terms of his relationship with the department of justice. he wants it to be an independent entity. it's being put to the test by, of course, the case surrounding hunter biden who is under federal investigation. now president biden said he wouldn't be involved in any way, shape or form. let me get your assessment so far in terms of not just that case but just on the whole, it's still early in the biden administration, but do you feel like he has taken the appropriate hands off approach? what grade would you give him in reversing what his predecessor had done? >> the hunter biden case will be watched closely because, obviously, if there's any political interference ther

then he could have michael flynn's advice and declare martial law.t: that is rick in gulf breeze, florida. waiting for this house to do subcommittee to convene, a hearing being held today on the issue of discrimination and violence against asian americans. photographers gathering therefore that hearing. one of the reporters in the room there. plenty of members of congress speaking out about the issue of violence and the rise of violence against asian americans, especially in the past year in the wake of the pandemic. we will take you there when it starts. we will take your calls until then. charlie in dover, arkansas. you are next. caller: hello. ok. host: go ahead, charlie. caller: your drug war, what did it give you? the war on drugs gives you drugs. drugs all over the united states now. now they have a hate law. all it does is create hate. you are going to have a lot of hate. caller: i am blown away by the absence of historical context. asian americans and black americans both came to the united states as free labor. it took hundreds of years of l

cnn all had to issue corrections, when it came to the trump administration, you think about -- michael flynn to hold news organizations accountable that they don't do this kind of stuff anymore, people legitimately should resign when they put out incredible -- pieces that are false from top to bottom. >> you are completely dead-on, the fact is there is not any the iodine of ramifications looking inward of analysis on the part of media organizations they are perfectly happy to give each over awards, slap each other's back have plaudits that type of thing thrown at pieces that ultimately crumble upon further inspection we never really so he that reconsideration at any point, even after story after story turned out to not be true or not be the full thing, and you even saw this level of irresponsible where it will would be news sources confirming the other anom mouse sources i think led to degradation of any trust in media people should understand is widespread not just on the right it is case you also have these promising people on left certain things were going to happen then turned out not he

michael steele, let me start with you. christopher wray is such an interesting figure. he came in after donald trump fired jim comey for not seeing to it to let mike flynn christopher wray has to duck and weave to survive, and ron johnson put a whole lot of pressure on him to politicize the fbi and the investigation into hunter biden. he managed to keep his head down just enough to still be there but this is the second time he's testified about the threat of white supremacy and violent domestic extremism. do you think this testimony changes anything? >> i think it does in this administration, and you know, it's about time that folks started listening to what he has to say in this space, because what he's laying out there is truth and what he's laying out there are facts that are, you know, girded by what we've seen not just on january 6th but leading up to january 6th, so there's -- he's speaking to a pattern of behavior. he's speaking to a pattern of coverage that they're doing inside the fbi to sort of keep a tab on what's going on out there, and elected officials who have the responsibility, nicole, to protect the common good, to protect the democrac