After the resignation of Flynn, everyone is wondering how high this will go

The resignation of Michael Flynn as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has all of Washington wondering, how high will this go?

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During the campaign, President Trump repeatedly led chants of “Lock Her Up” to hammer Hillary Clinton over her unsecured emails and the Benghazi attack.

Well, now it appears Democrats like Congressman Elijah Cummings are now eager to return the favor.

“Our committee held three to four — emergency hearings — on Hillary Clinton in a matter of a week or two,” the congressman said. “And if there was any emergency at this moment in the history of this country, this is the moment.”

The big question seems to be: was Michael Flynn really acting on his own when he made not one, but as it turns out two calls to the Russian Ambassador, just before President Obama expelled Russian diplomats as punishment for the hack of the Democratic National Committee?

CBS’s Jeff Pegues says the FBI began investigating Flynn within days of President Trump taking the oath.

And there’s another wrinkle now. Remember that 35-page dossier by the former British spy intended to blackmail Trump? The one that was finally dismissed as a complete and outrageous fabrication?

“Sources familiar with the investigation say while some of the details may never be confirmed, there is increasing confidence that some aspects of the dossier are true,” Pegues reports.

Now the question is just how high does this go? During yesterday’s White House briefing, CBS’s Major Garrett asked Press Secretary Sean Spicer if Flynn was simply following orders because the president knew about Flynn’s calls back in January.

“Did the president instruct him to talk about sanctions with …”

Spicer was quick to cut Major Garrett off.

“No, absolutely not. No, no. And there’s – no, that’s never …”

All this has the Democrats rubbing their hands. But, of course, they don’t control Congress.

On Fox, Republican Trey Gowdy, who led one of the Benghazi investigations, saw a certain irony in Democrats being so interested in holding emergency hearings:

“So all that energy you saw today at their press conference, that’s because they went on an eight-year-long vacation from doing oversight of the executive branch,” Gowdy said.

And here we thought the election would change something.

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