michael flynn was talking to the russians about which he s since pled guilty to lying to special counsel mueller about it, nunes said he was in daily contact, sometimes more frequently than daily, with michael flynn. so the democratic response is correct. all you have to do is go through the litany of things that didn t happen in that committee. don junior shows up and exerts executive privilege between himself and his dad. neither of them is a lawyer, but because there was a lawyer in the room that entitles them to claim attorney/client privilege they think. and hope hicks came in and said we re only going to answer these questions, or these questions. hope hicks, corey lewandowski and others. michael, you tweeted today about the house intelligence report, wikileaks released dnc e-mails
he is busy and engaged and trying to confins people approximate everything i did was normal and right and even on the russian collusion vchlgz i have a deal of respect for ron upon i never met him personal lebut watched him talk about issues but he and i differ at this point. james comey loyalty is to his wallet. his straj is designed around making sure that his book cells and he can get vergence for what hurt feelings he has about the president. what bothers me and why i feel the way i do. if you electric at left friday. exerts and things coming out about this book perform the report come out and inside seven
invite a debate for something that you re involved in that does not relate even if it is a subtle message, we re going to jump on it. this is also something else we would be doing the night before, trying to pick up exerts of the speech that we could release early. then you would try to get 20 or 30 seconds on the nightly news. but you don t think that nightly news will they will, but tonight it is a there is so much other news it may not lead the news the way it has in the past, you re probably right. let me ask about the state of the union response. it is never easy. look, people people only remember it when you screw it up. has there been a good one? i m trying to remember. jim webb gets some credit because his resonated at a time when you were but you were not popular at the time, so
it. there was no legal basis for jeff sessions not answering those questions. but my guess is robert mueller isn t going to tolerate that and is going to go through and get the information that he needs to have, unless the president exerts executive privilege, in which case, we will eventually know it. but that exchange that you saw, there was just that s why i kept saying what s the legal basis and you heard none enunciated. let me change gears here while i have you and ask about what was the biggest topic in washington before about a few hours ago, the shutdown that played out over the last few days. you were one of those senators on friday night just before midnight who voted against that house bill from the republicans, their version of the funding bill. there is now this process apparently in place to try to reach some kind of deal on daca before the next government funding deadline of february 8th. if there is no deal on daca before that next deadline comes, are you ready to
truth to power. nicholas, we have a few exerts of what senator flake plans to say. let me read it for everyone. it s a testament to the condition of our democracy our own president uses words infamously spoken by joseph stalin to describe his enemies. it bears noting so fraught with malice that with malice was the phrase enemy of the people, that even khrushchev forbad its use. telling the soviet communist party that the phrase the purpose or annihilating such individuals who disagreed with the supreme leader. it suggests there is no comparison. we re allowed to have this conversation. we re criticizing the president, et cetera. that s right. and so that level there s just no comparison. but i am very glad that senator flake is bringing up this issue of freedom of the press.