SLIPPERY FLYNN
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Thom speaks with Paul S. Ryan, Vice President of Policy & Litigation at Common Cause, on the erosion of our justice department and recent orders to drop charges against Michael Flynn before sentencing.
Bill Barr is covering up for Donald Trump. Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump. In any other time, a national security adviser who who acted this way, would be considered a traitor.But not in Bill Barr’s America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:22.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:24.8 | Tom Harbin here with you broadcasting live from shelter in place, my home office in |
| 0:29.2 | Portland, and on the line with us is the good Paul Ryan, Paul S Ryan, the Vice President for Policy and |
| 0:35.8 | Litigation at common cause, common cause.org, the Paul S Ryan is his Twitter handle. |
| 0:42.1 | Paul, welcome back to the program |
| 0:43.7 | and thank you for joining us today. |
| 0:45.2 | I want to talk to you about Mike Flynn and Bill Barr. |
| 0:48.4 | Can you start out by giving us a sketch of exactly |
| 0:51.8 | what were the crimes that Michael Flynn committed as a starting point? |
| 0:57.0 | Michael Flynn lied to the FBI when being questioned by the FBI and he admitted this. So there's no dispute |
| 1:06.4 | about that fact. He lied, he admitted it, he pleaded guilty and now DOJ has proposed letting him off the hook anyway. |
| 1:16.8 | My understanding is that he lied to the FBI about two things. |
| 1:20.1 | Number one, that he was in the employ employ that he'd taken a half million |
| 1:23.1 | knowledge from the government of Turkey from Mr. Erdogan to make sure |
| 1:26.9 | that Turkey's interests were well taken care of. |
| 1:29.5 | And the other was that he met with Sergei Kislaak, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, while President |
| 1:36.2 | Obama was still president after Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for meddling in the |
| 1:41.1 | election and told Kislaak, |
| 1:43.0 | don't worry, you know, when Trump comes in, |
| 1:46.0 | we got this under control. |
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