Adviser Quote by Lawrence O'Donnell

Michael Flynn was one of Trump's top national security advisors throughout the campaign.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I think General [Mike] Flynn is probably the top contender for that job [of national security adviser].

— George Stephanopoulos

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

Michael Flynn is the national security adviser working next to the president, so in his time that he was the national security adviser, he…

— James Lankford

[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

[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

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

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

— Michael Wolff

General [Michael] Flynn has been in touch with diplomatic leaders, security leaders in some 30 countries. That's exactly what the incoming national security advisor…

— Mike Pence

General Mike Flynn obviously was dealing with Russia. So that's one person. But he was dealing, as he should have been.

— Donald Trump

The extraordinary thing that we saw here is the incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, basically having a text messages back and forth with…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

As Director of National Intelligence, I am entrusted with access to more intelligence than any member of the U.S. government other than the president.…

— John Ratcliffe