Negotiating. One of the Republican Leaders in the senate, John Barrasso joins us to discuss Senate Passage of the g. O. P. Tax plan and what comes next. And we will ask president Trumps National security advisor, h. R. Mcmaster, about Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the fbi in the rush of probe. We begin there with correspondent kevin corke live at the white house withheld the president inner circle is handling the news. Reporter a twitter storm early sunday with the president tweeting several tweets about the fbi, calling them inconsistent and unfair in the ongoing worship row. The white house also found itself trying to save yet another selfinflicted twitter wound. Not over the substance, but rather over the style and lack of nuance and social media, which is raising all sorts of serious questions. Speak of the president waited i had to fire general flint because he had lied to the Vice President and the fbi. Hes been guilty look to those lies. Its a shame because his actio
Investigation is still front and center. The white house is now in damage control after a weekend that saw the president weighing in on fridays news that former National Security advisor Michael Flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi. At one moment mr. Trump insisted hes not worried about what flynn might tell investigators. Well, and another tweeting about the reason he fired flynn. He knew flynn lied when he asked director james comey to drop the russia probe. Now they are cleaning it up saying the president wasnt the one who tweeted after all. Reporter the president s outside counsel saying he tweeted this tweet to an aide saturday. I had to fire general flynn because he lied to the fbi and the vicepresident. The president knew his former National Security advisor Michael Flynn lied to the fbi and then asked fbi director james comey to go easy on flynn. Dowd telling nbc news hes responsible and that the president did not know flynn had lied to the fbi when he fired him. Dowd also add
Director and former secretary of defense and former white house chief of staff leon panetta. Before we begin, i want to tell you that we will have questions from the audience at the end of the session, and you can ask them by going to the rndf app, which is www. Rndf2017. Org, twitter is rndf, and we will take some of the questions from there at the end of the session, and we will hear from you. I want to start the questions. I was told i have Carte Blanche to ask anything. [laughter] dir. Pompeo dont forget, you have two italians. [laughter] dir. Pompeo i was also told i can refuse to answer any question. [laughter] bret let me start with this. If you were secretary of state for the trump administration, how would you handle all right. [laughter] dir. Pompeo my former friend, bret bair. [laughter] bret understanding with the president tweeted in, and understanding you serve at the pleasure of the president , have you had talks about another job . Dir. Pompeo i am very focused on doing
Suspect on all of this, was it during his candidacy or was it when he was president elect . Now we know the whole report was very suspect. We know the president instructed with russia while he was president elect. Like we said on friday that is no big deal. Dont you want your president elect making those connections and making sure were doing everything we can from day one when he takes the oval office to be protecting us against the likes of isis . Well have more on this false reporting and why journalists need to be very, very careful before jumping to conclusions. Do you see the effects, sending the stock market down 350. President trump blasting Hillary Clinton for lying to the fbi many, many times, yet, Nothing Happened to her. Meanwhile you have got Michael Flynn, who also lied, and, well he is paying the consequences for that right . So why the double standard . Were on it for you. But first, lets go to adam shapiro, with latest on tax reform. Where are we . Reporter trish, were