it also goes to a political point i want to floag. donald trump ran on saying he was really good at firing people, his reality show and his brand promise were supposedly matched. we ve seen he struggles to get the ondone. we know he doesn t hold loyalty for everyone but when it came to mike flynn the actual firing was hard for him. when it comes to jeff sessions if he lost confidence the president does have the authority so he could remove him and when it came to the most controversial example jim comey the president didn t stand up and say i know how to do this, you re fired. he pulled the justice department into that odd letter that hasn t stood the test of time, so this seems to be a problem for the president when he doesn t like how someone s doing, he doesn t actually know how to pull the trigger cleanly and appropriately. in this case what he would have to do in order to get rid of a lot of people presume the ultimate goal here in a sense is to push and i ll go to paul butler
i don t subscribe to that philosophy. i m fly my flag right side up. too many people have fought and died for that symbol our freedoms i would not do that. brian: you were over in the middle east and you saw the difference what america has to deal with and the rest of the world. i travel all the time. brian: australia. australia is not the middle east. the truth of the matter is we have such great freedoms here people don t get it get out there and travel and go to places where you don t have those freedoms. you have the freedom to fly it upside down. steve: people fought for that freedom. i would fight for that freedom. i don t appreciate you would do that but i have the right to voice my opinion. ainsley: i remember when i did something wrong at church and mad because my mom scolded me. i didn t stand up to sing one of the hymns. don t take your anger out on god. stand up.
investigation into hillary in a way that helped her campaign that he didn t he knew was wrong but did it anyway. if you thought this was obstruction of justice when trump was asking you to drop the flynn thing, why didn t you resign? why didn t you bring it up with the president or anybody i justice? i don t know if cowardly is the right word but he sure has post-fecteau integrity. bret: he used those words, cowardly, didn t stand up. the line of questioning was not just republicans. senator dianne feinstein asked, why didn t you step up? why didn t you say this is not appropriate? he didn t have an answer. this is the exchange with the idaho republican. did not direct you to let it go. not in his words.
oliver north, who was actually convicted of three felony counts, but then they were reversed because it was found that during that congressional investigation, the witnesses were so tainted that, in fact, the conviction, the actual conviction didn t stand up. so i know that senator warner and senator burr and the intelligence committee in the senate is going to be very careful here. and it is just way too early as adam schiff said today to be talking about anything like this. and i know they won t be doing anything about it without talking to the justice department if this is an ongoing investigation as we believe it is. senator, let s talk about political irony here. you ve not been around here as long as i have, but i got to tell you this. an old phrase. what goes around comes around. here are these people that were trucking in the business of saying we re going to put people in jail like in south korea or somewhere. they were talking like that just a few months ago. and now we re
felony counts but then they were reversed because it was found that during the congressional investigation the witnesses were so tainted that the conviction, the actual conviction didn t stand up. i know that senator warner and the senator burr and the intelligence committee in the senate is going to be very careful here. and it is just way too early, as adam schiff said today, to be talking about anything like this. and i i know they won t be doing anything about it without talking to the justice department if this is an ongoing investigation, as we believe it is. senator, let s talk about political irony here. you have not been around here as long as i have, there is an old phrase, what goes around comes around. here are the people that were trucking in the business of saying we are going to put people in jail like it s south korea or pakistan where if you lose an election we put you away. they were talking like that just a few months ago. now we are talking immunity. i want to k