all talking about our feelings now, i feel this week we re starting to hear more democrats come out and speak publicly about this. jeh johnson talking about this frustrations. adam schiff in his questions of jeh johnson really dig in, say, come on. why wasn t more done? you saw this? i was going to say that you saw the anger and frustration that was directed at jeh johnson during that, during that hearing. i think it was notable, because democrats are frustrated that the obama administration didn t do didn t do anything, but didn t do enough to address this until it was too late and didn t realize there was it said in the article didn t realize how devastating this actually was until trump actually one pap cold comfort coming out now to democrats. i have to say, one of the things that struck me this morning, listening to interview with alisyn and kellyanne conway. first question asked about this story and the first thing
i don t understand the rationale, respectfully, ambassador, of if i am if it s by law i am supposed to disclose to my employer who i am speaking to i would think it wouldn t matter if my employer gave them to someone else. that would be their problem, not my problem. so it would be incumbent upon me to be honest on my end, rather than worrying about what happens at the next level. that s what i m if you work for the national security adviser and you have a conversation with a russian banker, you ought to report to the national security adviser and say, by the way, he asked to see me and here s what he raised. he didn t do that. i don t know what he did and didn t do, but it seems that is very straightforward. and what we should not do is the sort of thing we did right after 9/11, which is somebody in the government leaks to the press that osama bin laden is using a
former white house counsel, john dean, testify for four days that the president corruptly and illegally led the obstruction of justice. you have nothing comparable. laura: doug, do you agree? i think with the early stages of the russia, trump potential collusion issue, there are lots of questions about what general flynn did or didn t do, who paul manafort was working with. we just don t know. the reason i think the firing of james comey was so unfortunate, we were beginning the investigation. more funds were requested, subpoenas had gone out for general flynn s papers. i think it is a much earlier stage of the investigation than the point woodward was talking about with watergate. time will tell, laura.
former white house counsel, john dean, testify for four days that the president corruptly and illegally led the obstruction of justice. you have nothing comparable. laura: doug, do you agree? i think with the early stages of the russia, trump potential collusion issue, there are lots of questions about what general flynn did or didn t do, who paul manafort was working with. we just don t know. the reason i think the firing of james comey was so unfortunate, we were beginning the investigation. more funds were requested, subpoenas had gone out for general flynn s papers. i think it is a much earlier stage of the investigation than the point woodward was talking about with watergate.
former white house counsel, john dean, testify for four days that the president corruptly and illegally led the obstruction of justice. you have nothing comparable. laura: doug, do you agree? i think with the early stages of the russia, trump potential collusion issue, there are lots of questions about what general flynn did or didn t do, who paul manafort was working with. we just don t know. the reason i think the firing of james comey was so unfortunate, we were beginning the investigation. more funds were requested, subpoenas had gone out for general flynn s papers. i think it is a much earlier stage of the investigation than the point woodward was talking about with watergate. time will tell, laura.