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Flynn let’s the cat out of bag! ‘Trump ordered me to talk to the Russians’, swears to do right by telling ALL to Mueller’s team

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><div class&equals;"alpha">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"js-article-text" class&equals;"article-text wide ">&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;"><strong>Now I&&num;8217&semi;ll tell &lbrack;Bob&rsqb; Mueller everything to &&num;8216&semi;set things right&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8211&semi; disgraced national security adviser&comma; Michael Flynn signals he&&num;8217&semi;s ready to deal<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;"><strong>Former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn admitted GUILT at plea hearing Friday morning in Washington DC <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;"><strong>Special Counsel&&num;8217&semi;s office charged Flynn with making &&num;8216&semi;false&comma; fictitious&comma; and fraudulent statements&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;"><strong>Criminal information says he made false statements to the FBI just four days after Trump took office<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;"><strong>He lied about what he had said to then Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak&comma; the information from the special counsel says  <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;"><strong>Flynn&&num;8217&semi;s listed charges carries a maximum sentence of five years&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s signaled a willingness to testify against Trump&comma; family members&comma; and White House<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">Flynn who was fingerprinted and photographed at FBI field office in Washington has been a focus of special counsel Robert Mueller&&num;8217&semi;s investiga<&sol;span><&sol;strong><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">tion<&sol;span><strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"author-section byline-plain"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-286117" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Michael-Flynn-2&period;png" alt&equals;"Michael Flynn 2&period;png" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"453" &sol;>Former National Security Advisor&comma; Michael Flynn&comma; ready to provide &&num;8216&semi;full cooperation&&num;8217&semi; to Special Counsel&comma; Robert Mueller&comma; in his Russia probe&period; He is seen arriving at court in Washington D&period;C&period; to plead guilty to lying to the FBI&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p>Is this the silver bullet&quest; The Washington political landscape exploded Friday morning with the bombshell that disgraced former Trump National Security Advisor&comma; Michael Flynn will provide &&num;8216&semi;full cooperation&&num;8217&semi; to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his Russia probe after his stunning guilty plea in federal court Friday morning&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the special counsel’s office reflect a decision I made in the best interest of my family and of our country&period; I accept full responsibility for my actions&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Flynn said in a statement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russia&&num;8217&semi;s ambassador to the U&period;S&period;&comma; Sergey Kislyak&comma;  in the latest bombshell development in the Russia investigation mushroom engulfing a widening circle of leading advisors of President Donald Trump&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The curiously &&num;8216&semi;single-charge&&num;8217&semi; plea was accompanied by the political bombshell that<br &sol;>&NewLine;Flynn was prepared to tell ALL to investigators that immediately exploded across the political landscape&period;   It appears to point to the Mueller team acquiring a guided laser to go after much bigger fish in the Russia probe&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Flynn has promised to provide &&num;8216&semi;full cooperation&&num;8217&semi; to Mueller&&num;8217&semi;s team&comma; <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;abcnews&period;go&period;com&sol;Politics&sol;michael-flynn-charged-making-false-statements-fbi-documents&sol;story&quest;id&equals;50849354" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">ABC<&sol;a> News reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-286114" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Mike-Flynn-and-his-wife-Lori-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Mike Flynn and his wife Lori 1&period;png" width&equals;"632" height&equals;"400" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong>Mike Flynn <&sol;strong><strong>accompanied by<&sol;strong><strong> his wife Lori&comma; <&sol;strong><strong>arrived in court in Washington D&period;C&period; for his federal plea deal on Friday&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Informed &&num;8216&semi;speculation&&num;8217&semi; in the capital is that facing five years&comma; Flynn almost certainly has made a deal with the Special Counsel Robert Mueller&comma; which could implicate other players in the Trump world&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;ABC reports an inside source that hinted that Flynn was prepared to testify &&num;8216&semi;against Trump&comma; against members of his family&comma; and others in the White House&period;&&num;8217&semi;The network&&num;8217&semi;s Brian Ross reported on air&comma; that Trump &&num;8216&semi;ordered and directed him to contact the Russians&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Flynn is prepared to testify&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Flynn said in a statement&colon; &&num;8216&semi;After over thirty-three years of military service to our country including five years in combat away from my family and then my decision to continue to serve the United States&comma; it has been extraordinarily painful to endure these many months of false accusations of treason and other outrageous acts&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Such false accusations are contrary to everything I’ve ever done and stood for&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Flynn said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;But I recognize that the actions I acknowledged in court today were wrong&period; Through my faith in God I am working to set things right&period; My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the special counsel’s office reflect a decision I made in the best interest of my family and of our country&period; I accept full responsibility for my actions&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he continued&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Flynn reportedly&comma; is facing extraordinary legal and &&num;8216&semi;serious financial problems&&num;8217&semi; and wanted to do the &&num;8216&semi;right thing for his country&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mueller&&num;8217&semi;s office charged Flynn with lying to the FBI about Russia as well as efforts to derail a UN Security Council resolution&comma; in the second major legal action against a top Trump campaign or White House official&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286116" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Michael-Flynn-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Michael Flynn 1" width&equals;"662" height&equals;"428" &sol;><strong>Flynn faces serious charges in Russia probe&period; He pled guilty to lying to the FBI&comma; an offense carrying up to five years in prison on Friday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>In response&comma; the White House&comma; through counsel Ty Cobb issued a blistering statement calling Flynn  a &&num;8216&semi;former Obama administration official&period;  Former defense intelligence official&comma; Flynn was fired by President Obama&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Today&comma; Michael Flynn&comma; a former National Security Advisor at the White House for 25 days during the Trump Administration&comma; and a former Obama administration official&comma; entered a guilty plea to a single count of making a false statement to the FBI&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Cobb&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;The false statements involved mirror the false statements to White House officials which resulted in his resignation in February of this year&period; Nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than Mr&period; Flynn&period;&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Cobb said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;The conclusion of this phase of the Special Counsel&&num;8217&semi;s work demonstrates again that the Special Counsel is moving with all deliberate speed and clears the way for a prompt and reasonable conclusion&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286125" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Donald-Trump-Michael-Flynn-and-Steve-Bannon-in-the-Oval-office-&period;png" alt&equals;"Donald Trump&comma; Michael Flynn&comma; and Steve Bannon in the Oval office &period;png" width&equals;"641" height&equals;"408" &sol;>l&colon; <strong>Mike Flynn photographed in the Oval Office with president Trump and chief strategist Steve Bannon&period; Feds say  he&&num;8217&semi;d  lied to the FBI just four days earlier&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The last president is on record as having warned Trump against appointing Mike Flynn as National Security Advisor&period; The same opinion cost New Jersey Gov Chris Christy his position as head of the transition committee&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to a statement of the offense released by Mueller&&num;8217&semi;s office&comma; Flynn on December 29 called a member of Trump&&num;8217&semi;s presidential transition team&comma; who was with other senior transition members at Mar-a-Lago&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Flynn and the officials discussed U&period;S&period; sanctions on Russia&comma; as well as &&num;8216&semi;the potential impact of those sanctions on the incoming administration’s foreign policy goals’ and that members of the transition &OpenCurlyQuote;did not want Russia to escalate the situation&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;Immediately after the call&comma; according to the statement of offense&comma; Flynn called Russian ambassador to the U&period;S&period; Sergei Kislyak and requested that Russia &&num;8216&semi;not escalate the situation&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286115" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Mike-Flynn-and-his-wife-Lori-2&period;png" alt&equals;"Mike Flynn and his wife Lori 2&period;png" width&equals;"667" height&equals;"426" &sol;><strong>Retired three-star general  and former defense intelligence chief&comma; albeit briefly&comma; in the Obama administration Mike Flynn with <&sol;strong><strong>wife Lori at his side arrives in court in Washington&comma; D&period;C&period;&comma; on Friday for his plea hearing<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>On December 30&comma; just days later&comma; Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement stating Russia would not take retaliatory action – the preference Flynn heard about from Mar-a-Lago&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A judge accepted Flynn&&num;8217&semi;s guilty plea Friday morning&comma; CNN reported&period; The maximum sentence is five years&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Yes&comma; sir&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Flynn&comma; a retired three-star general said when the judge asked about his guilty plea&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Federal Judge Rudolph Contreras accepted the plea and was quoted as saying&colon; &&num;8216&semi;There will be no trial and there will be probably no appeal&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">According to an information released by Mueller&&num;8217&semi;s office&comma; Flynn willfully made &&num;8216&semi;false&comma; fictitious&comma; and fraudulent statements in a matter within the jurisdiction&&num;8217&semi; of the U&period;S&period; government&comma; including the FBI&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The largely obfuscated nature of the charge which did not come from a federal grand jury&comma; immediately raised the possibility of a guilty plea that would involve cooperation with Mueller&&num;8217&semi;s expansive probe&period; It looked it was designed not to send pointers to other possible targets of the probe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"splitRight">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286127" 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&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Former Trump National Security<&sol;strong><strong> advisor Michael Flynn charged with lying to the FBI<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"mol-54e6a7c0-d6b0-11e7-918b-bd8eccba6e9c" class&equals;"art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news" data-version&equals;"2">&NewLine;Mueller&&num;8217&semi;s team has been investigating Russian interference in the U&period;S&period; elections&comma; as well as possible obstruction of justice and other issues&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the federal prosecutors&comma; Flynn stated that on December 29 he &&num;8216&semi;did not ask the Government of Russia&&num;8217&semi;s Ambassador to the United States to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed against Russia that same day&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;That relates to the sanctions President Obama slapped on Russia shortly before leaving office for election interference&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Flynn reportedly&comma; also stated that he &&num;8216&semi;did not recall the Russian Ambassador subsequently telling him that Russia had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his request&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286136" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Sergey-Kislyak-1-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Sergey Kislyak 1&period;png" width&equals;"682" height&equals;"441" &sol;><strong>Russia&&num;8217&semi;s then ambassador Sergey Kislyak&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; spoke with Flynn before Trump&&num;8217&semi;s inauguration&period; Four days later Flynn lied to the FBI about the nature of his conversation with Kislyak<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Russia ultimately chose that course of action&comma; failing to retaliate even after Obama confiscated diplomatic compounds that Trump would later return&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Flynn&&num;8217&semi;s contacts with Russia took place while the exiting Obama administration was already in place – and Trump and his team did not yet have formal governing power&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Flynn also stated that in an additional instance&comma; on December 22&comma; 2016&comma; he &&num;8216&semi;did not ask the Russian Ambassador to delay the vote on or defeat a pending United National Security Council resolution&semi; and that the Russian Ambassador subsequently never described to Flynn Russia&&num;8217&semi;s response to his request&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Security Council resolution condemned Israel for new settlement activity&period; In a rare diplomatic break from a key ally&comma; the Obama administration abstained from the resolution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286120" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Russia-president-Vladimir-Putin-andTurkey-president-Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-right&period;png" alt&equals;"Russia president Vladimir Putin andTurkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan &lbrack;right&rsqb;" width&equals;"832" height&equals;"452" &sol;>Russian president Vladimir Putin &lbrack;left&rsqb; and <strong>Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan are two foreign leaders caught in the Russia collusion probe<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">According to a report in <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;foreignpolicy&period;com&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;17&sol;logan-trump-israel-flynn-pressured-u-n-on-israel-vote-before-taking-office&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Foreign Policy<&sol;a>&comma; Trump&&num;8217&semi;s transition team vigorously tried to lobby against the resolution&comma; breaking with tradition that the U&period;S&period; government speak with one diplomatic voice&period; Flynn himself called foreign ambassadors of security council members&comma; including Uruguay and Malaysia&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Feds say  Flynn made his false statements to the FBI on January 24 of this year&comma; four days after Trump took office&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the statement of offense&comma; a &&num;8216&semi;very senior&&num;8217&semi; member of the transition &&num;8216&semi;directed&&num;8217&semi; Flynn to reach out to foreign leaders about the UN resolution – &&num;8216&semi;including Russia&&num;8217&semi; – to find out where the leaders stood&period; which goes to buttress a statement in March by Flynn&&num;8217&semi;s attorney&comma; Robert Kellner&comma; that &&num;8216&semi;General Flynn certainly has a story to tell&comma; and he very much wants to tell it&comma; should the circumstances permit&comma;&&num;8217&semi; implying a willingness to cooperate&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Kellner told a congressional committee probing Russian interference<br &sol;>&NewLine;Investigators early on focused not only on Flynn&comma; but on his son&comma; Michael Flynn&comma; Jr&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;CNN reported last month that Flynn was concerned about legal exposure born by his son&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"moduleFull mol-video"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"container-3zJLP vertical-2XJd5"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&NewLine;<p 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