Figures Quote by John Heilemann

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

One more point I'll just make about [Michael] Flynn is that we're already seeing, and we've seen Democrats come forward and start to express…

— Kristen Welker

[Michael Flynn is] someone who has advocated for a much tighter ties with Russia and had raised some eyebrows in terms of some of…

— John Heilemann

[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of…

— John Heilemann

[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that,…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

There's a - kind of an undercurrent of the stories we read during the campaign of, [Michael Flynn] was a guy we thought we…

— John Heilemann

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Steve Hadley, that's an outlier, for sure. But he's very experienced. He may be national security adviser, but think that would be a hard…

— George Stephanopoulos

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

— John Heilemann

[Donald Trump] has also promised an intelligence surge [in Syria]. Mike Flynn knows a lot about that. Tactically, Mike Flynn has been fantastic with…

— Martha Raddatz

“(Flynn was “a colonel in a general’s uniform,” according to one senior intelligence figure.)”

— Michael Wolff