nsa rules were relaxed so that they could distribute those names, that information as widely as possible to keep it as part of the public record. you know, within the permanent government. ultimately though, was it just to destroy the opening months of the trump administration? there are many who would say obviously they were trying to sandbag the new president and so far they have done a pretty good job. ainsley: the president agrees with that. the president tweeted yesterday. latest tweet was biggest story today between clapper and yates is on surveillance. why doesn t the media report on this? #fake news. brian: it s choice news. not so much fake news. in that people are making a choice when they stack their news shows about what s going to be covered and what s not going to be covered. as far as the president goes, this going to drive him crazy. forget about it. don t even watch this. there is no collusion. if there was, democrats would have come running with it al franken would be
conduct, compromised and could be blackmailed by russia. team trump was warned about flynn. by president obama in a meeting with the president elect and by acting attorney general sally yates because she knew michael flynn lied to the vice president. brian: for president obama not to get along with a general, that is not unusual for eight years he seemed to clash with almost every general. number two is, just keep in mind, all these things look bad for lieutenant general michael flynn. we have not heard from lieutenant general michael flynn to. meet him one-on-one is extremely impressive. you look at his back ground. it is extremely impressive. i look forward to the day where he gets a chance to defend himself. ainsley: he served our country. brian: he has been vilified everywhere. ainsley: general, amazing manual. in december, when he met with the ambassador of russia, why he lied about what they talked about is beyond me. they talked about sanctions. and he lied about it that was t
january 30th, the very day she was fired for refusing to enforce president trump s travel ban. i don t know whether that ever happened, whether they ever looked at that evidence or not. reporter: democrats today asking why flynn was allowed to stay in his job for 18 days after the warning, even participating in an oval office phone call between president trump and russian leader vladimir putin. but some republicans were focusing on how classified information about flynn ended up in the press. have either of you ever been an anonymous source in a news report about matters relating to mr. trump, his associates, or russia s attempt to meddle in the election? no. absolutely not. reporter: and yates with a final warning to the american people about russian meddling. i think they re coming back, senator. and i think that we have to do a whole lot more, both to harden our election systems, our state election systems, to ensure that folks out there know when they re looking at ne
democrats should be paying attention. because now you have a republican in the white house. if you don t like the fact that maybe if you don t believe that there is credibility that president obama had this access and abused it, are you going to feel differently now that president trump is in office now and now you might be targeted. steve: noble can abuse it the whole idea is not to abuse it. ainsley: brian is right. he said choice news. different media outlets are choosing to report it in different ways. the headline really is there is still no evidence of collusion between russia and president trump. brian: no there there. ainsley: that s fact. listen, we are a news organization. we re going to report it. if that ever comes to be, if we ever find evidence of that we are going to tell you about it. so far there is no evidence. yesterday we did learn that yates and clapper both said they did not release the information to the the washington post. period, paragraph. that s the stor
so why he lied about that i m not sure of. but he did lie about it the vice president was caught on tv saying they didn t talk about sanctions. it turns out they did. so president trump fired him about two weeks later. 18 days later after the story broke. steve: right. exactly. all we heard from sally yates yesterday was that something about his conduct was problematic. it was problematic. but we don t know what. and so he was fired despite the evidence that he had conveyed any come pro-compromising information. we don t know what it was. thanks, the washington post, we know it was regarding sanctions. going back to the only crime committed that we know of so far. there was no collusion or anything else we know of was the surveillance. and the unmasking. and lindsey graham made it very clear why everybody should be worried about that. listen. it s important to know about the unmasking of the conversation between the ambassador and general flynn. somebody took that information and