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

He is obviously an American hero. John McCain is a vanishing breed. He is an iconoclast, he is in his own mind and often in reality a maverick. And I think, you know, you having spent the time that you spent in the Senate know that this is true.

[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt.

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

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

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