the fbi who come to his office to basically depose him about this phone call and he lies to them two days after he gets this job. it is an astounding action to take. yeah. it s astoundingly stupid action to take. dumb thing for him to do, knowing that there would have been u.s. intercepts that would have heard his call. but the other part about this is, so after he lies to the fbi and sally yates comes over two days later and gives the warning to dawn mcgahn, the question has been, why didn t the white house do something about this? because the white house was in on that lie. that s exactly right. we don t know whether they knew that he was lying to the fbi or not but the lie that he told the fbi is the same lie the white house had been telling since sean spicer said it in the clip you played on through the vice president himself saying it on the sunday shows in january. this was a lie that was being told from the top on down. malcolm, what do you say to people today who react
it is an astounding action to take. yeah. it s astoundingly stupid action to take. dumb thing for him to do, knowing that there would have been u.s. intercepts that would have heard his call. but the other part about this is, so after he lies to the fbi and sally yates comes over two days later and gives the warning to dawn mcgahn, the question has been, why didn t the white house do something about this? because the white house was in on that lie. that s exactly right. we don t know whether they knew that he was lying to the fbi or not but the lie that he told the fbi is the same lie the white house had been telling since sean spicer said it in the clip you played on through the vice president himself saying it on the sunday shows in january. this was a lie that was being told from the top on down. malcolm, what do you say to people today who react to the news and say they got him for lying to the fbi. the thing he lied about isn t collusion. no one gets prosecuted for the log
major pressing issues right now that are facing the nation, whether it s our national security, whether it s talks about changing some of our big domestic tax reform and health care, what is going on with these issues? can i just say, i m prepared to blame the trump administration and the trump white house for everything. this is not on trump. this is not on the white house. this is on the intelligence agencies. you know, they re the one who is should release this. and they re the one who is are coming up with what are very likely, i think, bogus explanations about why things can t be released. they re the ones who had the deadline long before donald trump was hosting the apprentice. so i just think it s their fault. they are slow walking this, obviously. and the question is why, right? time-out. time-out. so if there s somebody who revealed information secretly 50 years ago, we should dime them out today over the u.s. government gave them an oath they wouldn t do that? why did
questions as well. that would then indicate he was he wrote the letter and made the decision to terminate james comey s tenure at the fbi before rod rosenstein and jeff sessions wrote their own memo on why comey was unfit to lead. i asked if that letter was not problematic, why didn t the white house decide to send to james comey directly, why did they instead send to the doj. his response was are you on drugs. have you read anything else about this. he would not then explain what he thought was inaccurate about my reporting and would not answer my questions any further. first he had a rather, you know, matter of fact, eloquent statement to you about the whole issue, and that it had been revealed, but then the conversation became a bit more co combative, or perhaps he was
he s got a bill on his desk as early as today, as you pointed out earlier. he hasn t signed it. where is the outrage for what the russians have done? this is inexplicable. here is a bill, 98-2 passed by the senate, 98-2, i believe the vote was, and yet the president lets it languish on his desk. they say he will sign it, presumably he has a few days left. we ll see how that goes. richard, thanks for coming. thank you. just ahead, more on the president s newly revealed role in the son s misleading russia statement. why didn t the white house come clean to begin with? plus a dramatic change in the tone towards north korea. are president trump and the secretary of state on the same page? we are not your enemy. we are not your threat, but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us. and we have to respond. tion.