investigators have asked witnesses, including white house counsel don mcgahn and others, who have worked in the west wing to go through each day that flynn remained as national security advisor and describe in detail what they knew was happening inside the white house as it related to flynn. well, here to talk about it, julia ainsley, coauthor of that report and nbc national security and justice reporter, and jeremy bash, former chief of staff to cia and pentagon. he s also an msnbc national security analyst. julia, first from your colleagues here, terrific work yet again. thank you. my question would be for viewers, especially who don t follow at the molecular level, underscore why these 18 days matter so. yes. i d be happy to. especially in this investigation we need to make sure we kind of zoom out and put all of this in context each time. so, the reason why robert mueller is so focused on these 18 days is he s trying to understand what the president knew about flynn s inter
colleagues here, terrific work yet again. thank you. my question would be for viewers, especially who don t follow at the molecular level, underscore why these 18 days matter so. yes. i d be happy to. especially in this investigation we need to make sure we kind of zoom out and put all of this in context each time. so, the reason why robert mueller is so focused on these 18 days is he s trying to understand what the president knew about flynn s interview with the fbi. on january 26, sally yates who was acting then as attorney general, came to the white house chief counsel don mcgahn and told him that flynn was lying to senior officials at the white house, like pence, based on those press accounts. and he also she also conveyed he had had an interview with the fbi. mcgahn, as you just saw in that testimony, asked sally yates how flynn did, and she wouldn t say how he did. she didn t think that was appropriate. but it is obvious that was of
julia, first from your colleagues here, terrific work yet again. thank you. my question would be for viewers, especially who don t follow at the molecular level, underscore why these 18 days matter so. yes. i d be happy to. especially in this investigation we need to make sure we kind of zoom out and put all of this in context each time. so, the reason why robert mueller is so focused on these 18 days is he s trying to understand what the president knew about flynn s interview with the fbi. on january 26, sally yates who was acting then as attorney general, came to the white house chief counsel don mcgahn and told him that flynn was lying to senior officials at the white house, like pence, based on
and des pondancy about this situation. and i think that s what donald trump has delivered regrettably today. where do you put this peace process for people who don t follow, where in the process are we? unfortunately we jumped entirely to the end. which right now is partitioned between israeli control and palestinian control. by declaring jerusalem the capital of israel there is no reason for israel to negotiate on any of the illegal, pull back or put forth any effort to truly integrate and live in harmony with the palestinians. israel isra israel is probably more insecure. 70% of their population is palestinians who are now upset about this.
i need my panel to weigh in on this one. it s a good one. a.b. stoddard, associate editor and columnist for real clear politics and host of no labels radio on sirius xm. nera tendon, the president and ceo for the center for american process and axios editor and chief, nick johnson. a.b., put this in perspective. for people who don t follow the russia investigation day in and day out. who basically say wake me up when it s big news. is this big news? absolutely. we have to go back to the firing of former fbi director james comey when president trump said to him, can you see can you get to a place where you will just put this flynn thing behind you. legal experts told me that could actually be an impeachable crime. you have to prove intent but it s potentially bribery because he s saying to comey you can keep your job if you just put this flynn matter aside. we know that michael flynn earned money from governments of turkey and russia. we know he has his own separate