no one urged flynn to call the russian ambassador on the left. i long for the day. bill: it is not illegal. i long for the days if i said something nice about russia sean hannity would call me a commie lover. things are upside down. my point is that that s not the problem. the problem is, if it starts to spread to the president s own party and they start to ask the questions and you are starting to see that. you are starting to see senator blunt. first it started with just mccain and lindsey graham. you are now starting to see other very important senators, particularly on the senate side, gop senators who are starting to ask questions and say and want a deeper investigation. bill: mitch mcconnell will do it in your investigative committee and no independent counsel. thomas friedman writes this in the new york times. ladies
is happening in the west wing. having been there, you know, i would read things in the newspaper about supposedly what was happening that had no relationship to reality. i do think this. i do think there is evidence there is competing power centers in the west wing where people are vying with each other and leaking on each other and dysing each other to the press at an unprecedented level for this early in the administration. second of all, there are there is not a clarity of who is in charge. that s why we got the executive order rolled out on immigration without the secretary of homeland security being able to be in a meeting with the president to say i object to elements of it and why things were rushed on that. it is why they re losing control of the narratives. i would be concerned about flynn. i would be concerned about the leaks. but i would be even more concerned about the fact that this president was elected by people who wanted to have the economy improved, jobs created and
previous administration. that s the day general flynn had a conversation with the russian ambassador, okay? mark that date. now we move into january. a lot of action in january. sean spicer apparently alluded to on the 13th of january inauguration date on the 20th. the first official press conference from the white house when spicer talked about flynn s contacts as well. it was after that date where there was contact on behalf of the f.b.i. where they interviewed general flynn at the white house or some other location. and then on the 26th of january is day the department of justice at that time informed the white house of the information they had regarding general flynn s conversations. now you move to february and this is what we understand. it was the 9th of february where mike pence was brought into the operation and you go to this past monday night when mike flynn exited there in the west wing of the white house. so karl, those are the big events we think right now. what is the ma
bill: new reports today about members of the trump team having contact with russian officials and the investigation leading up to the resignation of the national security advisor mike flynn. those reports based on leaks revealing the wide scope of u.s. intelligence efforts. president trump tweeting earlier today the following, quote, information is being illegally given to the failing new york times and washington post by the intelligence community, nsa and f.b.i. question mark? just like russia. judith miller knows a lot about this. pulitzer prize winning journalist. good morning to you. remind our viewers you went to jail to protect a source. it shows you how difficult it is to find the source ultimately when there are reporters like you who are willing to spend close to a year behind bars. happily i m the last person who went to jail for 85 days to protect a source. but my concern is that there
colluding and fighting the take down the 45th president and his entire administration. it s that serious. impeachment of the president is clearly the end goal for the left. facts, truth, doesn t really matter. mike flynn is a small casualty of the bigger plan. the left is trying to make what happened here into the next watergate. we have to remember that these are the same liberals who fiercely defended hillary clinton. bill: that comment is ripe for debate. the bigger plan to take down the president. good topic for debate. gentlemen, good day to both of you. brad, start. is there something to it or there? there is nothing there. flynn is a personnel problem that was investigated to the satisfaction of the president. the president asked for his resignation, he resigned and that seems to be the end of the story. if the f.b.i. is continuing the investigation, shouldn t we let that run its course? whatever that course may be before the house or the senate