Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told lawmakers Wednesday that neither President Barack Obama nor Vice President Joe Biden attempted to influence the FBI’s investigation of incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn during a January 2017 Oval Office meeting with top national security officials.
Trump has provided no evidence to support the claim, and Yates said under oath that Obama’s only interest in Flynn was to ensure that it was safe to share sensitive national security information with the incoming administration while the FBI was probing concerns that Flynn was attempting to undermine sanctions leveled by Obama in response to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
But the hearing also offered Yates a chance to repeatedly knock down allegations of misconduct and incorrect assertions about the Obama administration’s actions in the closing days of the administration. Yates corrected Graham for incorrectly asserting that the FBI had closed its case on Flynn before it interviewed him on Jan. 24, 2017.
“We need to make sure going forward in the next transition, no matter who wins, that you can talk with foreign leaders without being afraid of going to jail,” Graham said.
Wow! Lock her up!
mflier1 She was one of the first people fired when Trump took office. Why? Because she has integrity!
The only thing you really need to know came out of Trump's mouth & was testified to, under oath. At the mere appointment of Mueller, realDonaldTrump said, 'I'm fucked. That's the end of my presidency.' ElieNYC ProjectLincoln CynthiaAlksne kimwehle thelauracoates DeadlineWH
She’s one of the Obama/Biden soldiers they’re thick as thrives. The entire Democratic Party is criminal the leaders Clinton’s Lynch Obama Biden Comey and others are criminal conspirators. Their quest for power is the reason for the unrest in the country they’re funding ANTIFA
On 01/05/2017, Obama & Biden 'were briefed' on the FBI's plan to interview Flynn about his conversation with Kislyak during the presidential transition period. Why investigate since the FBI had determined Flynn wasn't a Russian agent, & believed he did not deliberately lie?
Lied like a dead possum on the road.
FakeNews try listening to all of the hearing and not just the part you like! Obama didn’t like Flynn undoing his work...not a peaceful transition...
Yeah like anyone believes that 🤣🤣
Words are cheap accusations even cheaper but that's not some proof
What else did she say? THAT IS YOUR HEADLINE?
MiaFarrow Thank you for your service ms Yates.
BS
We need to Reconcile everybody in the admin that wrote a book after they left the office or got Fired plus the family frustrated Psycho. All a bunch of constipated hyped up loosers trying to get to the million dollar club in “ the name of justice” Spare us the Timing loosers.
Just like joe said he knew nothing about it
Yates Obama/Biden didn't try to influence FBI's investigation of Flynn Yates characterizes Comey as having gone 'rogue' when sending agents to interview Flynn Yates-Flynn's lies 2 FBI during their Q of his conversations w/Kislyak 'absolutely material 2 a legitimate investigation'
Sally Yates tell the truth😡😡😡
She was scared..still protecting the brown snake.
Looks like they are all going to betray Comey. Will he tell us the real story or take the 5th and fall on the sword for Obama, Biden, Rice, & Hillary? Can they trust him? He is not Ollie North. People are freaking out. Interesting times.
Corrupt Trump 🆘🆘🆘
False news!
Sally Yates said the investigation was based on lies.
Wow that’s shocking - you mean TrumpLiesEverytimeHeSpeaks tell us something we don’t know
Sally Yates deserves a Cabinet position when Biden’s elected.
Sally Yates isn't the most trustworthy person considering she's been caught in lies numerous times
The gop conspiracy theories were soundly debunked today!
They are reaching soooooooo far up Drumpfhs ass to pull a rabbit out to try & gain votes about President Obama who is secure in his actions while he was in office and loved globally unlike today globally we have zero respect for the current occupier
Nothing. Absolutely nothing is as realDonaldTrump or Bill Barr says it is.
How did Graham think today was supposed to go down?
BellaMax12 The fake president that lied over 20,000 times lied in the past too? Shocked, I'm shocked!
No one believes a word she says!
“Trump and his allies” makes them sound nefarious & suspicious. That’s why you used it .🤨🤨
Sally Yates had no idea what was going on in her own department! Why would we believe she knew what Obama and comey were doing❓🤔
Trump traffics almost exclusively in grandiose lies, and false accusations. Even Barr knows this, but wants to be in power, so he goes along with Trump. Yates is a highly competent, brave, straight shooter. Trump and his minions are not worthy of being in the same room with her.
I was Repub, all Fox all day. Started when I saw so much taken out of my check, got tired of people w. no ambition, no work ethic take my money. Realized that's least of our worries. Repub corruption takes 1000x more. Fox lies. Sally/Obama/Biden show why Dems have better morals.
Truth matters, honesty matters, trust matters, respect matters, temperament matters, compassion matters, knowledge matters, experience matters this is why I am voting for Joe Biden.
Lets face it the Bible is coming to life and Jesus's return is close at hand. The world has turned a corner and we are seeing 1Cor 6:9 and 1Tim 3:1-4 at the door. You know the Bible is real when it predicts future events with 100% accuracy.
LoL. Durham just added another indictment to the list.
Weird that Trump and Barr have forbidden anyone in his administration to testify under oath...
What a complete fail for GOP! They picked wrong witness! Except now we know Flynn was in Oval Office while he was on phone with Putin after news given to Trump about Flynn being compromised!
I know they didn't. The Republicans are just muddying the waters.
LOL gtfoh
She lied. Crossfire hurricane was an egregious violation
EXACTLY what dud they expect her to say. DNC = deny deny deny
But we already have proof they did so...
realDonaldTrump OutnumberedFNC MelissaAFrancis GillianHTurner kilmeade PeteHegseth AliVelshi DanaBashCNN GloriaBorger MaddowBlog OANN ChrisCuomo donlemon evanperez davidspunt 11thHour Well we can just go back and see if her COMMUNICATIONS confirm her 'CLAIMS'.
LOL She said that Comey 'went rogue' in trying to frame Flynn--you're ridiculous-
That’s because she is honorable and speaks the truth, unlike her vile inquisitors.
That's gotta be our next AG, right there.
Laugh Out Loud!
The Democrats are going down and we will be all dancing in the streets (that's 'peaceful' dancing btw)
realDonaldTrump
SallyQYates a victim my as$ you are a lying rat
Obama and Biden knee because they were in attendance at the Jan 2017 meeting in the oval. Wake up.
TRUMP IS GASLIGHTING AGAIN! He is a ruthless troll!
It's not necessary to 'unmask' the subject/target of surveillance. They know who they're surveilling, FFS. Duh. The RUSSIAN that Flynn was talking to--and lied to cover up--was the target. Two 'scandals' GOP is OUTRAGED about, evaporate. Kudos, Sally Yates MuellerReport
She literally got caught lying about the FISA applications
Joe says....Give her The Finger!
Bwhahaha Total bullshit from Sally
Also counter to Strzok's notes.
So she lied under oath. Flynn was under surveillance before 2017.
LOL. 'Insinuations' Please stop the ridiculous mealy-mouthed niceties and call the tRump accusations LIES! Cause that is what all the words & accusations the idiot makes are. LiarInChief
Ha ha ha ha.
Yes, well the notes have been declassified, so we know what they wanted to accomplish....get Flynn to lie or get him fired. Hope Yates gets brought up on charges of perjury.
You spelled 'DEBUNKS' wrong!!!
Another example of trump & the GOP digging dirt where there is no dirt to be found. If you think like the GOP everybody is dirty because everyone in the GOP is! You cannot have a president like Donald Trump at his level of corruption & not have someone constantly covering it up!
LIE
Now let's get realDonaldTrump to testify under oath
our next AG please!!
She lied her ass off as usual. You can see that the plan is to make Comey the fall guy for Obama. Corrupt Comey better work a plea deal quick and start talking if he hasn’t already.
Did you even watch? She in fact Perjured herself
Long story short. He asked for help on live national television. He got what he wanted but was caught in the process and instead of calling it off or not accepting the role, he chose to stay and asked the senate to sign an oath of support. They followed through and here we are.
'Her testimony counters repeated insinuations by Trump and his allies.' So wishy-washy. Try this: 'She proved they were spouting bullshit and gaslighting the nation.'
Well Sally Yates through james Comey under the bus.Comey she said he was acting roles and then inform her of his goings-on against the Trump administration realDonaldTrump JoeBiden
Well that’s certainly not what GOP wanted to hear!!!! LOL
enough said
GOP Plan: throw as much ridiculous [actual 'fake news'] S**T on the wall about ur opponents whose polls cont. 2 rise & see how much stink remains for your sick, unemployed, unhappy, 90 days behind-on-car payments cult 2 believe 2 hang on 2 GOP power that is a mf'n DISASTER.
What else would she say? Ridiculous.
It's Trump attempt to hide his dealing with Putin and Michael Cohen Rudy Giuliani know something. Trump is hiding something 🤔
Believes no one.
Just watch relecently expunged evidence emerge to the contrary. Sally will have committed perjury.
Former Deputy AG Sally Yates LIES before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And does it badly.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙃 Sure, Jan Sally. Was SallyYatesUnderOath at the SallyYatesHearing ? POTUS DonaldJTrumpJr inquiring minds want to know.
I.. I just... how can the reasons for interviewing Flynn be a 'sham' when he pleaded guilty and was convicted for lying Does that not prove that there was absolutely cause to question him?
This shit is going to backfire on the stupid gop
Graham: Are you comfortable with the portion of the Mueller report that found there was not sufficient evidence to suggest collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign? Yates: I accept that conclusion.
Graham: Wasn't Papadopoulos being taped? Yates: I know that now, I did not know that at the time.
Yates:The Obama administration was not surveiling the Trump campaign Sen Cruz: So a FISA isn't spying?
Sen. Kennedy: Isn't it a fact that the steele dossier is junk? Yates: I think there is evidence now but not then that calls into question many aspects of it. .... Kennedy: You're investigating a President of the United States and you didn't check to see if it was accurate?
Pergury is a serious offense.
🧐😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
RadioFreeTom Sally Yates is the bomb.
Her testimony counters repeated bullshit by Trump and his allies. - FTFY
It’s amazing how many resources get directed to follow up Trump’s crazy allegations only to hit the reality of the facts
Flynn took huge 💰 from Turkey, neglected to register as the foreign agent he was and then tried his hardest to circumvent our laws and get a critic of Erdogan's back to Turkey where he would have been Khashoggied upon arrival. Biden2020Landslide
And MarshaBlackburn states the exact opposite. Somebody’s lying and Marsha isn’t under oath.
Duh. We know that. Graham etal are all lying for Trump.
Oh wow what did you expect her to say .
Like she’s going to admit it if she did.....(I don’t for one second believe it but since Flynn lied (as even Trump said), who cares?
lying fraud coverup! She's going to prison just like the rest of them.
YATES PURGERS HERSELF TODAY.
RadioFreeTom Just smoke and mirrors from Trump and his goons to cast seeds of doubt.
So she saying that Obama and Biden sat in a meeting and said nothing?
sallyyates is lying since released emails say otherwise as notes of investigators she is 1 of the ones that kneels to the liars to blow since why was obama biden wanting to get trump on the logan act when kerry is actually guilty due to his son in laws DIRECT IRAN connect?
What are the chances she is lying again?
I wonder if she knows that BillClintonisapedo
ROTFLMAO... And you expect readers to believe that?
of course
It counters Peter Strzok, you meant to say. 'Honest' mistake, I'm sure.
Which usually means she's lying.
EdanClay Believe a lying administration that refuses to testify or tell truths Over someone taking the stand to tell the truth. I don’t think so TrumpIsALaughingStock TrumpIsANationalDisgrace LiarInChief
Graham’s disgusting rude BS behavior towards Sally Yates is truly unreal. He has done more harm to the R party then anyone ever has with exception to Trump.I hope he loses his race as we cannot have people who violate the oath they take when elected.I will send $ to his opponent.
So much for that BS trump-lie.
mehdirhasan
JFC! It’s Benghazi all over again. How many ‘investigations’ do the corrupt republicans need to run to prove that the Obama administration did nothing illegal. Their typical game plan. GOP GOPComplicitTraitors
Yates lied and was caught. She lied again in the hearing today
meaning she lies
She doesn't have an issue with lying either.
mehdirhasan She’s making them look stupid
Here’s a witch hunt
mehdirhasan Thank god for POLITICO all over the really important things....lmao.....
A witch hunt looking to discredit Biden. Trump , when he’s losing instead of getting smarter,just doubles down.
Trump is a liar, everything out of his mouth is a damn lie! Go Sally Yates!
TRUMP WAS AND STILL IS PRESSING STATES SAYING ' LIBERATE LIBERATE OPEN UP'. CALLING THE VIRUS A HOAX!!! LISTENING TO HIM HAS RUINED AMERICA & AMERICANS CAUSING DIVISION, KAOS NOW ULTIMATELY 4.8 MILLION COVID CASES WITH 158,000 DEATHS & RISING!!! LYING TO KIDS AS WELL All ADULTS!
Since no one in the Obama administration gets charged with perjury, she's safe.
I ♥️ SallyQYates
What would you expect her to say? I’m a criminal? Which is exactly what she is. 😂😂😂
Shes a liar
How would she know Comey and Obama were working behind her back and didn't tell her anything about spying on Trump?
Who can trust Sally Yates. She was trying to get Flynn fired based on the Logan Act which knew was absurd. No one has ever been prosecuted due to the Logan Act. She knew what she was doing. The law is unconstitutional and she knows that.
IBelieveSallyYates
No. She lied her ass off.
She's a known liar
Is anybody surprised she lies? These trials are a sham because under oath means protect your Democrat party. Cause otherwise they will go under forcakk the lies and crooked dealings. How rich is she?
Politico...obviously you are trying to create a narrative. If the agents said there is nothing there then Comey meets with Executive and immediately goes after Flynn? Your conclusion is to say “Her testimony counters repeated insinuations by Trump” 😂😂😂 Silly media.
Politici’s problem is all of the allegations about Flynn, Obama & Biden are on the written notes of Peter Strzok . Based on the dates of other notes, Sally Yates is lying. Who do you believe, certainly would not believe someone that risks criminal issues.
An honest woman vs. a bunch of pathological liars.
truth is unchanging, while lawyers seek to sustain another legal version highly unethical
It also contradicts Written evidence..........🤦
What are senate republicans trying to accomplish here? Proving again and again that they don’t know what the fuck is going on? GOPTraitors support Russian bounties on our troops and standing down in the face of the pandemic and unidentified fed goons interfering with states.
EamonnKingsbur1 SALLY LIES
Believe Yates. She was there and the only one, it seems, in her right head.
Sure. Whatever she says.
Hmmm...do I believe a “liar in chief” and his stooge Graham, or Sally Yates? Yeah, I think I’ll go with Sally.
lol and she's the gospel? Hahahaha
I trust her word over any Republican in Washington.
Sally Yates has been caught in lie after lie, and the media’s record (that’s you) is even worse. So go pound sand!!
I believe Sally! truth
The beauty of this is that moron tedcruz opened the door by asking that question. Never ask a question you don't know the answer to.
midwest55912 Kennedy, Cruz, Hawley & Miss Lindsey are an embarassment to Congress. I believe Sally Yates.
Yates’ testimony today counters part of Trump’s claim that he’s the victim of an unspecified crime that he dubbed “Obamagate.” Trump has provided no evidence to support the claim.
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