questions, mainly if president trump knew flynn was lying about his russian contacts, why didn t he do something about it earlier. this president has been obsessed with this investigation, always saying there is nothing there. but each week another shoe drops where we see more evidence of continuing outreach from russians and some response from the trump campaign or trump individuals. in the case of flynn, you have somebody who is top security adviser, then is national security adviser. have a series of contacts with russian officials beginning in early december with the president s son-in-law asking for back channel connections to russia. then efforts to try to intervene in american politics before they take over in terms of backing russia off from a u.n. vote over israel, then trying to get russia to back off in terms of response to president obama s sanctions. and now the president somehow saying he didn t he fired
harris: president trump is defending jared kushner in the aftermath of reports he tried to set up a private line of communication with russia. the president told the new york times he has total confidence in his son-in-law. a source tells fox news it was the russians who brought up the idea of using a secure line, not jared kushner. either way, kellyanne conway says these types of back channel connections are normal. jared kushner has said that he s willing to go and share any information he has with congress. as you heard, they are not concerned. back channels like this are a regular course of business. harris: charles krauthammer echoing that sentiment as well. we ve had the adversaries back channel for years.
you know it s a problem, why would you want to have these connections, these back channel connections with did russians and think that it wouldn t look funny or something wouldn t pass the smell test? it seems to me that you wouldn t want to do something like that. again i don t want to keep sounding like a broken record but i think we deserve nothing less than an independent commission that can sblook this and so many things that have come out already and that will come out in the future. i have to ask with you who were in the obama administration, were there ever discussions about creating secure communications or did they let you know this was happening? were you involved at all in these discussions? not to my recollection. certainly there s a lot we have learned since this period of time that nobody knew in the administration that i worked with. i also was there working for president obama during the transition in 2008 and no we did