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UPDATED, 4:15 PM with White House statement on Flynn: The White House said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s executive grant of clemency granting a full pardon to Michael Flynn came because Flynn “should never have been prosecuted.” Read the full statement below this story. PREVIOUSLY, 1:26 PM: In what is…

John Oliver joined us for another Last Week Tonight from his great white void and kicked off the episode by addressing a non-coronavirus related story — but it was still big news involving the White House and Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Last week, Attorney General William Barr's…

The Justice Department is dropping its case against Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, who was fired after just weeks into the job for lying about the nature of his conversations with the Russian ambassador. The move quickly drew criticism that the Justice Department was working…

EXCLUSIVE: Halt and Catch Fire‘s Scott McNairy has been set to play former US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, William Sadler (When They See Us) will play former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and T. R. Knight (Grey’s Anatomy) will play former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus in the four-hour…

A federal judge has delayed sentencing on Michael Flynn, the Donald Trump White House’s National Security Advisor, after hinting he thought Flynn deserved slammer time for lying to the FBI about his contacts with former Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak The move stunned reporters, who had expected Judge…

After waiting all day with bated breath, cable news network talking heads learned nothing new in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-redacted court fling on President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, which was released Tuesday night. TV news pundits had hoped today’s filing would…

First day of a very slow holiday week, the other shoe dropped on ABC News’ embarrassing Brian Ross situation. Ross announced today he and fellow investigative reporter Rhonda Schwartz are leaving the news operation after a quarter of a century. The news presumably surprised no one. Back in December, ABC News suspended…

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has at least four dozen questions he wants to ask President Donald Trump about his ties to Russia and other matters, The New York Times reports. The newspaper got a list of the unsurprising questions from a source.  The open-ended queries appear to be an attempt to penetrate Trump’s…

President Donald Trump's outside lawyer wants you to know that Trump cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice, because he’s POTUS. John Dowd is still doing damage control after Trump’s Twitter account announced Saturday that POTUS knew his former national security advisor Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI when he…

On Saturday evening, Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets to congratulate ABC News for suspending anchor Brian Ross and to take more jabs at Hillary Clinton in the wake of former national security advisor Michael Flynn’s plea deal. Shortly after he gushed about Melania Trump’s White House holiday decorations on…

UPDATE 5:45 PM PST Dec. 2: Brian Ross has responded to the news of his four-week suspension from ABC News after he gave incorrect information regarding a report on former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Ross took to Twitter hours after the announcement of his suspension saying, “My job is to hold people…

On Saturday, Donald Trump took to Twitter to admit that he fired former national security advisor Michael Flynn for lying to Vice President Mike Pence and the FBI. This comes a day after Flynn pleaded guilty for lying to the FBI about contacts with Russian officials. Prior to his tweet, Trump had said that he…