saying he was obama s guy. although obama warned them not to hire him. how does he still have credibility as an attorney for the defense here? well, in terms of cobb, look, he s in a very difficult position. he s forced to explain this. they fall back on this argument that it was the obama administration that had given him a security clearance. it was also the obama administration that fired flynn. they got rid of flynn when he was head of dia, the intelligence branch of the pentagon. and as you pointed out, obama says to trump at the white house right after trump s elected, hey, look, national security adviser, big job. you can t give it to a guy like this, he s not sophisticated enough to do this, you really need to go with someone better. he wasn t warning him about the fbi investigation, he was simply warning him about what he thought flynn s capabilities were. well, nbc news reported today, quoted a source close to donald trump, said the developments regarding flynn this tal
former first lady. and his opponent. kimberly: bob, it s your turn. do you have something really good? greg: oh, god, help us. bob: it s great to be back. folks, you know ben carson, the guy who ran for president, the brain surgeon. he was named with no experience the secretary of housing and urban development. big job. a lot of houses, a lot of apartments prayed he addressed his employees and this is what he said. that s what america is about. in land of dreams and opportunities. there were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of the slave ships, worked even harder even longer for less. bob: just a thought, dr. carson. go back to brain surgery. they didn t come here as immigrants. they didn t get paid anything i
really? anybody home over there? the current chair of the democratic party is there temporarily. she is supposed to leave in march. the race is on for who wants to be the head of the democratic party. whoever get that is gets control of the house and senate plus a nearly historic level of republican control in the states. big job. bernie sanders and chuck are for howard dean has also expressed an interest. there is another candidate, more of like a mid range shot baa lot of people will be interested in this other potential bid for democratic party chair. on this show on monday night that person will be here and we will get that person s announcement here live and a first chance to do vetting of any sort of how they would get
it s going to take a week to two to get these airports up to speed and it s a lot of coordination between the united states, foreign governments, foreign airports and their security apparatus, police departments, military, whathave you. it s a big, big job. it s like turning a cruise ship. it takes a long time to get it moving in the right direction. even as the mystery intensifies over exactly what happened on board that flight. tom costello in washington, thanks for that breaking news update. that s going to do it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. we hope you will tune in to msnbc tonight. that of course is special coverage of the first in the south democratic candidates forum. our colleague rachel maddow will go one-on-one with hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o malley. it begins at 8:00 eastern time. msnbc live with thomas roberts is next.
it s a win for the customer and it s a win for california. together, we re building a better california. welcome back to the lead. i m jake tapper. let s stay with our politics lead. today, the establishment lost, that s the message coming from tea party conservatives in the house after congressman kevin mccarthy decided to end his bid for the big job, speaker of the house. it s just the latest example of outsiders throwing a giant wrench into the establishment s plans. we ve watched outsiders such as donald trump and dr. ben carson and carly fiorina dominate the 2016 race. it all makes the republican contest not to mention the speaker s race and as unpredictable as the plot twists on how to get away with murder. joining me now from granite state manufacturing in manchester, new hampshire, the