Part VI: Back Channels

Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath

Lawfare

Trump, News & Politics, January 6, Politics, Lawfare, Insurrection

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s December 29, 2016. The Obama administration announces that it’s imposing sanctions on Russia, as punishment for election interference. Michael Flynn has been tapped to become Trump’s national security advisor when the new administration takes office in January, but it’s still the transition period. Flynn is taking a few days vacation at the beach, when he sees the news. He grabs his phone and texts the transition team at Mar a Lago. He writes “Tit for tat with Russia not good” and says that the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak is reaching out to him today. Flynn calls Kislyak and asks that Russia not escalate in response to the sanctions. Apparently, it works. The next day, in a surprise move, Putin says that Russia won’t retaliate. Trump tweets, “Great move on delay (by V. Putin). I always knew he was very smart.”

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	previously on the report.
0:03.4	The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission,
0:07.0	is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere
0:10.8	in the 2016 presidential election.
0:13.5	Trump announces with some fanfare his team.
0:16.6	It includes George Poppodopoulos, Carter Page.
0:20.3	Putin said Donald Trump is brilliant.
0:22.2	And I said, you think I'm going to disavow that statement?
0:24.5	Are you crazy?
0:26.2	I went into a plea with my eyes closed.
0:29.3	This is a crisis for Manafort.
0:31.0	He's so over leveraged.
0:33.2	I don't understand how, on four different occasions,
0:36.2	a Pfizer warrant was issued against an American citizen.
0:39.2	Word that Manafort has resigned from the Trump campaign.
0:42.8	He is stepping down.
0:50.8	It's December 29, 2016.
0:54.0	The Obama administration announces
0:55.7	that it's imposing sanctions on Russia
0:58.0	as a punishment for election interference.
1:01.3	Michael Flynn has been tapped to become
1:03.3	Trump's national security adviser
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lawfare, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lawfare and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.