Chris Wallace: Flynn FBI Interview Was Not Entrapment, He Lied

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WALLACE: "No, we don’t. I certainly agree with what you’re suggesting and also with what the Special Counsel is suggesting in his statement. This was not just some casual conversation and not a one-off. The fact is that Michael Flynn had weeks to a variety of people in the press and the transition, including the incoming Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, had lied about what he discussed with Sergey Kislyak. Pence came on “ox News Sunday just before the inauguration and spoke about that and told the cover story that there had been no discussion about sanctions in his conversation, Michael Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak. So he was continuing to tell this cover story, which he was telling simply as a victim because he had been lied to by Michael Flynn. So this idea that this was just a casual conversation and just one-off and a couple of FBI agents show up and hey, Mike, how are you. Oh, maybe I made this mistake here. No, this was a concerted effort by Michael Flynn about the purpose of his phone call with Kislyak. It went up to and including talking to the FBI after he had told a lie to the Vice President. So there’s a pattern here. You know, it’s interesting. We’ve been talking about our sister publication, The Wall Street Journal, which had a big editorial today and I usually agree with The Wall Street Journal, that this was some kind of entrapment by the FBI. Entrapment usually means the FBI comes in, let's say, to a crooked congressman and they say, here’s a million dollars. You know, they were never planning to do anything. Here's a million dollars if you do us a favor. You can argue if they hadn’t come in and offered the million dollars, they wouldn’t have done the favor. So maybe you can argue that is entrapment. But to come in and say, what did you talk to Sergey Kislyak about and then you lie about it, that isn’t entrapment. That's a lie."