somebody like michael flynn would have just done on his own and not mention it to anyone, not run it by anyone in the administration? it s a pretty important sort of conversation to have, you would imagine. yeah, that is a really important distinction we don t know the answer to. i don t know if this was sanctioned by the president or somebody else in the white house but for michael flynn to have that conversation you would think he was acting in what he thought was his job, or he was directed to go out and make contacts with the russians. remember, this action on the part of the previous administration, the obama administration, expelling the russian diplomats, which many of us thought was an overreaction to what happened, and trump was automatically faced with the dilemma with the russians he may have sent mr. flynn to talk to the russians and say calm this down until we get in office and we can figure out how to fix
so there are other pieces of information which have not been introduced to the public. but are very necessary to this investigation, this pending investigation. so it s not just michael flynn that he lied. it s also that there are other aspects to this which have yet to be released to the public which are very important to this discussion and obviously that goes back to russia as far as how many of our senior cabinet officials including the president quite possibly, or have these ties to russia that are not being revealed yet need to be discussed and obviously would shed a different light on how we may proceed this administration. look, i totally understand the play here, and you just saw that. democrats see blood in the water, and they re going to try to catch something, a big fish off of it. i just don t think based on the resignation letter, based on how long flynn even had the confidence of the president
shared classified secrets with his mistress. and another retired admiral, bob harwood, is apparently also under consideration for the title of national security adviser. and this will get sorted out probably not right away. it will probably take several days. what we re hearing from the trump white house is that the president has already moved on from all of this. and that general flynn did not get fired. he resigned. according to senior administration officials. president trump tried to hang in there as long as he could, we re told, but eventually what you saw happen tonight simply became as you said an untenable situation. and jim, i m wondering you know, how much now is going to focus on who knew what and when did they know it? you know, it was interesting that the president just on friday on air force one said he had not heard the reports about michael flynn, but the justice
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reporting the national security adviser michael flynn has resigned. he has been under fire for his contacts with the russian u.s. ambassador before president trump took office. a number of sources say flynn inappropriately discussed u.s. sanctions on moscow imposed by the obama administration. and just recently we learned that the justice department had warned him that flynn may be vulnerable to blackmail by russia. all right, let s go out to our senior white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, i suppose his relationship had been tenable, or growing that way. but was it the potential idea of blackmail that was at issue, or was it because he misled mike pence, the vice president? i think it was that the administration had warned him a month ago, that was certainly a turning point in all of this.