connection. that is not the issue. i m looking at what ed today less pi sa gillespie said. you can proceed test, you can carry your weapon, but it didn t mean that the message, that the racist and anti-semitic messages of these so-called nationalists have. so it doesn t seem to be a big ask for the political figures up to and including the president to condemn these kind of actions. and if it helps, urge peaceful protests. lynn, please stay with us. i want to go to political commentator watching this all unfold with us. david, we ve seen republicans including the house speaker paul ryan already respond to the
josh josh, when it comes to president trump and russia. at one point, ed he had met russian president vladimir putin and really liked him. then he said he never met the man. what if president trump had business dealings 20, 25 years ago with russia, would it matter today? i don t think you have to go back that far. a period where the height of the financial crisis and donald trump jr. and ivanka trump were making multiple trips to russia to seek buyers for properties that the trump organization had been developing that all going empty and a big liability on the company. right? that is one area that the investigation is likely to look into. dating back to the 90s, you know, again, as lynn said, there is a lot of evidence that, you know, there are relationships with russians. that doesn t necessarily speak to collusion or crimes per se. you know? but the point is that, you know, we won t know what is relevant and what is not relevant until the investigators go through all
committee, the house intelligence committee, just to name a couple. what would an independent commission do that those investigations won t? well, pamela, i think, as lynn said, two give us the big picture. right? the mueller special counsel investigation is looking into specific crimes, and they may, as this proceeds and more e-mails are looked at, find things like inconsistent statements from the trump team to what was in their previous e-mails as we saw over the last several days which could lead to various smaller charges, if not broad collusion or espionage related crimes, whatever those may be. but a commission will look at the big picture of the relationship of russia to our election system, what, if any, meddling took place. i think it is pretty clear that meddling took place. but how it came about. what the united states response could be to that. like lynn said, a 9/11 commission. i do think what pelosi was doing was a political thing, a turning
not the case. the president was evaluating the situation. evaluating michael flynn s future. i heard later in the evening, just a few hours ago, that really, his status was a, quote, gray area. michael, as you know, from observing what happens in washington, once a top administration official gets to that point, when the president cannot express he has full confidence in that individual, it s pretty difficult to walk in a back. and for that person to once again have the confidence of the president. and so, it did become an untenable situation. they re starting to talk about the possible replacement for michael flynn, keith kellogg, the retired general. he had been working in the national security council office. he will be the acting national security adviser. but david petraeus, the retired general, is the front-runner for the job. he was involved in the obama administration. was a top official in the obama administration but resigned from that position because he shared classified se
missile tests, how far is the president willing to go to try to stop them? well, as the president said this week in the roosevelt room, chris, all options are on the table. the iranians would do well to look at the calendar and recognize that we ve got a new president in the oval office. that disastrous nuclear deal that the last administration entered into with iran, as general flynn said, should have encouraged better behavior by the iranians, but instead what we see whether it be their flouting u.n. security council resolutions banning ballistic missile tests or whether it be the way they re arming the houthis in yemen who just last week attacked a saudi arabian ship, what we re seeing here is hostile action, belligerent action being supported or taken by the iranians, and we re just not going to put up with it anymore. chris: the president issued other orders this week basically saying that he s going to revisit the dodd-frank