So Flynn is fall guy, Trump gets away with it?

[Norbert9]

I have no doubt this was from the top.

[OnDoutside]

1. Very early to be saying something like that.

If you stand back and look at it, the Republicans would be more than happy if Trump was forced out, as that would leave their own nutjob to take over. IMO, a far worse scenario.

Perhaps we might see Republicans leak against Trump....there's plenty of mileage in this.

I would love to see Democrats, when interviewed, posing the question, "How sure are we that Mike Pence DIDN'T know about what Flynn was up to ?"

You can be sure there are Republican sympathizers within the Intelligence community who would be briefing their own.

[Solly Mack]

2. We'll see.

Democratic reaction has been that his resignation is not the end of the story.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-flynns-resignation-as-national-security-adviser-democrats-react/

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/319370-dems-react-to-flynns-resignation-this-isnt-the-end-of-the-story

I'm sure Trump and the GOP will push that since Flynn has resigned, case closed.

I agree, Trump not only knew, he encouraged.

[brooklynite]

3. Morning news summaries seem to be "Trump had to know"

[Norbert9]

4. Either drumpf is lying or was lied to

Not good either way for the orange ogre

[Ilsa]

5. Chris Collins R-NY, is getting grilled and

Talked down to by Chris Cuomo on New Day, cnn, because the WH won't take questions again today. Collins says he thinks it's over with Flynn, Cuomo says there is no way WH didn't know because they were told and did nothing to protect US from compromised adviser.

[Hortensis]

6. Watergate "began" in summer 1972, Nixon was reelected

during the attempted coverups, but the investigations continued through all of 1973 with things like the hearings on TV, Saturday Night Massacre, Nixon's "I am not a crook speech," and two years after the break-in hit was reported, impeachment hearings began.

A drawn-out national trauma. Some new evidence or action of corruption revealed seemingly every week. That's how I remember it, though likely there were periods of quiet when people assumed they'd get away with it, especially in 72, when Nixon was reelected before the pot finally got to a boil.

Even if something so dramatic happened that Donald Trump resigned tomorrow, even if the DoJ tried to quash the investigation--as in the '70s, this would be far from over. Collusion with a hostile foreign government to place sympathetic people in office, including by our own FBI, makes it even bigger than Watergate. Every week some new evidence or action suggesting deep corruption is revealed, some new name of person or company or event joins the web of stories.

[Vinca]

7. We might be seeing the beginning of the impeachment.

This is way worse than Watergate.