"Flynn Resigned". no wait - "Flynn was told to resign". Wait.....Two TPM reports
what a mess!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ryan-says-trump-asked-flynn-to-resign
Contradicting White House, Ryan Claims Trump Asked For Flynn's Resignation
By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 14, 2017, 10:50 AM EDT
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Tuesday that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was asked to resign from his position by the President, contradicting comments from White House adviser Kellyanne Conway earlier Tuesday morning.
At a press briefing with Republican leadership on Tuesday, Ryan was asked about Flynn’s resignation. The retired general tendered his resignation in a letter on Monday night.
“Let me take a step back for a second. National security is perhaps the most important function or responsibility a president has, and I think the President made the right decision to ask for his resignation,” he said. “You cannot have a national security adviser misleading the Vice President and others.”
“So I think the President was right to ask for his resignation, and I believe it was the right thing to do,” he said again.
NEW: Speaker Ryan: President Trump "made the right decision to ask for" Gen. Flynn's resignation. https://t.co/x2ib0UeeuH pic.twitter.com/IzKGmjYfLO
— ABC News (@ABC) February 14, 2017
But during an interview hours earlier on NBC’s “Today," White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said that Flynn resigned voluntarily.
AND - "That's a Big Problem"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/that-s-a-big-problem
By JOSH MARSHALL Published FEBRUARY 14, 2017, 9:18 AM EDT
An important point to note. Ret. Gen. Michael Flynn just resigned amidst a counter-intelligence investigation into, among other things, his communications with the Russian Ambassador to the United States. But only three or four hours before Flynn resigned, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence), Devin Nunes, said there was no problem and it was just the President's enemies ("the swamp" in his words) making trouble. "It just seems like there's a lot of nothing here," Nunes told Bloomberg's Steven Dennis.
This is only a particularly embarrassing illustration of a larger problem. The Republican Congress has no interest in any oversight of the Trump administration. None. Sure, opposing parties usually scrutinize administrations more aggressively. But it's rare to have this level of complete refusal. Again, only three or four hours before Flynn resigned in disgrace, Nunes put forward an aggressive defense of Flynn and said nothing was wrong at all.
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