Appointments Quote by Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— John Heilemann

[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.

— 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

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

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

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

[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

Mike Flynn is a fine person. I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it.

— Donald Trump