that said whenever you re actually talking about the legal issue of perjury both the question and the answer have to be absolutely unambiguous, something like the question and answers that michael flynn provided to the fbi. she probably has enough wiggle room, at least based on what we ve seen in public, to say she is not in sort of legal jeopardy. that said, this certainly could be a profound issue for her confirmation to her post as ambassador. it also raises questions about sort of the general lack of candor and truthfulness on the part of the trump team and about sort of russia issues specifically. it seems pretty clear from reporting at this point that the k.t. mcfarland was aware, you know, in substantial detail about these conversations that flynn had with sergey kislyak. all right. finally peter strzok, was the one-time counter intelligence official in the fbi, dismissed by robert mueller because he wrote politically charged texts during the campaign that came to light. seems
clinton investigation politicized. this fbi agent, peter struck, is a very senior counter intelligence official. these texts seem to show a sort of negative view of the president during the campaign and were sort of pro-hillary. we don t know the nature of the texts. there was enough concern that when this information was brought to bob mueller he said we need to remove him and send him back to headquarters. this guy has been sitting in the human resources pretty much doing nothing. a senior counter intelligence official. significant enough they had to remove him. joining us our legal analyst and national security analyst former fbi special agent so we ll get to some of this, you know, drama within the fbi, the president saying the fbi is in tatters in a moment, let s get to the president s tweet on his account, whether it was john dowd who wrote the tweet, it came out on the president s account, and it said that the president had to fire flynn
said can you help us withdraw this act if your father gets elected president. cnn has not confirmed his claim. president trump said his previously undisclosed hour long conversation with vladimir putin earlier this month was also about russian adoptions. for putin, this is his single largest priority, to get rid of these sanctions. he is set to appear before the senate judiciary committee thursday. today they heard from the fbi s top counter intelligence official about the extent foreign adversaries are spying on the u.s. and attempting to meddle in elections. our country is under relentless assault by hostile state actors and their proxies. they use people from across their governments and from all walks of life in pursuit of their desire to gain strategic advantage over the united states in whatever ways they can. the hearing was noteworthy
reporter and msnbc contributor as well, jeremy peters. ashley parker, you wrote earlier this week about the hurricane hitting the white house. and now there is more of a hurricane. they re ramping up the legal team with the admission of ty cob as another expert, experienced washington lawyer. how do you deal with the fact that don junior didn t tell anybody there was this russian operative, former former counter intelligence official, also at that meeting? well, i think that s incredibly problematic. and that s one thing the white house has been grappling with, is that they don t seem to have the full scope of information, and they re sort of handling it in this drip, drip, drip. oftentimes, as it s presented to them by the news media, which is how you don t want to handle sort of crisis communications. and another problem is that this white house already had a lot of factions even in terms of just pr people. there s the press shop and people who sort of handle pr for the president
transparency in this matter, it s beyond disingenuous. the only reason we know about this meeting is because my colleagues at the new york times disclosed it. the only reason we have the e-mails is because the new york times was about ready to disclose them before donald junior tweeted them. and the only reason we know about this counter intelligence official was because of ken delaney of nbc. just for something refreshing, a palate cleanser, take a look at some former presidents. this is w. and bill clinton on the presidency in dallas yesterday. i think it s really important to know what you don t know and listen to people who do know what you don t know. if you want to be president, realize, it s about the people, not about you. and when it s over, and that s what a lot of these people who are really arrogant in office, they forget. time passes. and it passes more quickly than you know. and if we want to talk about