national security adviser, but white house counselor kellyanne conway says the president has full confidence in flynn. a former national security adviser to vice president joe biden says flynn s tenure will depend on how close he really is to trump at this point. here i think you are caught between two tendencies that the president tends to have. one is he really hates people who make him look bad. there is all the ridicule of the administration coming out of this. on the other hand, he doesn t like to look weak. he doesn t like to look like he was forced to do something because of outside criticism. reporter: flynn had originally denied he discussed sanctions with russia to vice president mike pence, who went on national television to vouch for the national security adviser. i talked to general flynn yesterday. the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u.s.
that. but the president s lawyers are afraid that he becomes easily distracted. he will go on tangents, talk about other things, bring up other matters, and the president can get very angry. so how would the president respond to these questions that are really skeptical questions about these crucial decisions he made to fire flynn, to fire comey, how he has dealt with jeff sessions, his own ties to russia, the meeting that his son had in 2016 with russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. these are questions that have loomed over the presidency for more than a year now and have really dogged him. and the president s lawyers were really afraid of how he would react in such an intense situation under questioning. to our viewers, we re sharing the screen intentionally with these questions on a rolling basis. again, there are 49 of them, but some of the instant analysis along with the writing in the new york times this evening leads us to believe the actual
he then goes to transfer to his client, the president. you have to come back to the president, though, on this. the president believes he s his best spokesman, his best strategist, and his best lawyer, and that he can explain anything to anyone and talk his way out of things. and the president believes that he can go into mueller and do that. but the president s lawyers are afraid that he becomes easily distracted. he will go on tangents, talk about other things, bring up other matters, and the president can get very angry. so how would the president respond to these questions that are really skeptical questions about these crucial decisions he made to fire flynn, to fire comey, how he has dealt with jeff sessions, his own ties to russia, the meeting that his son had in 2016 with russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. these are questions that have loomed over the presidency for more than a year now and have really dogged him. and the president s lawyers were
that the special counsel hopes the president hopes he gets he s right. leaking is always a problem. the question is it s a problem for whom? and it s very clear while the president complains about the leakers, it may have been his leakers who want to hurt someone else. that s why there s a lot of stuff in the president s tweet that s entirely not true. let s run through the one in which he says no collusion, no questions about collusion. first up, former national security adviser mike flynn is a subject of the questions. special counsel wants to know what the president knew about flynn s phone calls with then russian ambassador sergey kiss lak and whether or not they discussed sanctions during the transition. that would be collusion if that was the case. the decision to fire flynn was never fully explained by the white house if fired for lying, why did it take him two weeks to oust flynn. and the alleged offer of a pardon by former trump lawyer john doud to mike flynn.
he will go on tangents, talk about other things, bring up other matters, and the president can get very angry. so, how would the president respond to these questions that are really skeptical questions about these crucial decisions he made to fire flynn, to fire comey, how he has dealt with jeff sessions, his own ties to russia, the meeting that his son had in 2016 with russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. these are questions that have loomed over the presidency for more than a year now and have really dogged him. and the president s lawyers were really afraid of how he would react in such an intense situation under questioning. to our viewers, we re sharing the screen intentionally with these questions on a rolling basis. again, there are 49 of them, but some of the instant analysis along with the writing in the new york times this evening leads us to believe the actual list of questions in a sit-down