>> reporter: president trump defending the former adviser michael flynn despite being fired this week. at the news conference with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the president slammed the leakers and talked about flynn. here is what the president had to say at the conference. >> general flynn is a wonderful man. i think he has been treated very unfairly by the media. as i call it the fake media in many cases. from intelligence, mpapers are leaked. things are leaked. it is criminal action. criminal act. it has been going on for a long time. before me. now it is really going on. people are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the democrats had under hillary clinton. >> reporter: the president declined to answer questions from cnn about reports that trump advisers were in contact with the russians during the