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Before being forced out for misrepresenting details about a key conversation with Russia's ambassador to vice president Mike Pence and others.

others. So we learned last night that Flynn is apparently looking for immunity with congressional

investigations and also maybe the FBI. We got a statement from his lawyer which says this

is just about Flynn protecting himself. The statement says quote, no reasonable person

would submit to questions in such a highly politicized witch hunt environment without

assurances against unfair prosecution. But shortly after this happened, Flynn critics

immediately dug this clip up from last fall when Flynn was on meet the press on NBC,

criticizing Hillary Clinton and that FBI investigation into her email server.

People like Hillary Clinton, I mean five people around her have had given immunity to

include her former chief of staff. When you are given immunity, that means that you've

probably committed a crime. And then Friday morning, Donald Trump tweeted

about this. Danielle or Scott would either of you like the honor of reading the Donald

Trump tweet. I would be happy to. So Trump tweeted a 7am on Friday. He tweeted quote, Mike

Flynn should ask for immunity and that this is a witch hunt parentheses excuse for big

election loss close parentheses by media and dems of historic proportion exclamation point.

Boyle, Boyle, toil and trouble. We've got both the White House and Flynn's attorney

now talking about a witch hunt. I feel like it is worth saying that when you read a Trump

tweet on the radio, you have to make choices about how much of the punctuation you put into

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