15 Feb 2017

He thought he was above the rules: Former colleague of Flynn

From Morning Report, 8:16 am on 15 February 2017

An ex-colleague of the now former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, says he was incapable of doing the job in the first place.

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Mr Flynn resigned yesterday after coming under fire for his potential illegal contacts with the Russian government- and misleading senior officials including the vice president.

Sarah Chayes is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace- and worked with Mr Flynn in Afghanistan in 2009.

She says she wasn't the least surprised he did not last in the job.