Timeline: Michael Flynn's rise, fall and pardon

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He admitted lying to the FBI, then Donald Trump pardoned him.  Here's how national security adviser Michael Flynn went from suspect in the Russia probe to pardoned civilian.

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00:00General Flynn who's a phenomenal man. Do we all love General Flynn?

00:04General Flynn is a fine person and I ask for his resignation.

00:10What they've done to General Flynn and to other people is a disgrace. It's a disgrace.

01:00Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! That's right.

01:21This is something that had to have been directed at the highest levels of the Russian government.

02:00I talked to General Flynn. They did not discuss anything having to do with the United States

02:20decision to expel diplomats.

02:30General Flynn is a fine person and I ask for his resignation.

03:00He respectfully gave it. There was a certain amount of information given to Vice President Pence who's with us today.

03:07And I was not happy with the way that information was given.

03:14The Russians also knew that General Flynn had misled the Vice President and others.

03:31And that created a compromise situation. A situation where the National Security Advisor

03:37essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians.

03:44Lock him up! Lock him up!

04:07The FBI broke standard protocol in the way that they came in and ambushed General Flynn,

04:21and in the way that they questioned him, and in the way that they encouraged him not to have White House Counsel's Office present.

04:38What happened to the President in the 2016 election and throughout the first two years of his administration was abhorrent.

04:46It was a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in American history.

04:53What happened to the president in the 2016 election and throughout the first two years

05:04of his administration was abhorrent.

05:07It was a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in American history.

05:13The law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of this country were involved in advancing

05:19a false and utterly baseless Russian collusion narrative against the president.

05:41Obamagate.

05:42It's been going on for a long time.

05:44It's been going on from before I even got elected and it's a disgrace that it happened

05:49and if you look at what's gone on and if you look at now, all of this information that's

05:53being released and from what I understand, that's only the beginning.

05:59Are you going to pardon Michael Flynn?

06:01Well, he's got a case going on right now and I don't have a decision to make until I find

06:06out what's going to happen, but I think he was persecuted.

06:10He didn't lie.

06:11Turned out he didn't lie.

06:12The FBI said he didn't lie.

06:14The FBI said he didn't lie.

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