and i think the white house will be desperate to have that off. he will be, will trump, one of the worst witnesses of all time. these white house lawyers have the most difficult president who has ever had to deal with white house lawyers. let s grant them that. and it may be that some of this babying of donald trump, telling him don t worry, it will be over by thanksgiving, don t worry, it will be over by christmas, as silly as that sounds to us, history might show some time that this was actually incredibly valuable. i began the show with a reference to the greatest danger the trump presidency possesses which is the possibility on a whim of having war with north korea. some of those lawyers who are trying to humor him, calm him down, telling him it will be over by thanksgiving, might have the same worry i do. and they might be treating him in such a way as the secretary of state tries to treat him, you would think, the secretary of state who call himself a moron, that this is what w
wasn t it? mr. president, when you told lester holt that you fired him because of russia, that was the truth, wasn t it? essentially making him cop to obstruction. that s a big part still to come. and i think the white house will be desperate to have that off. he will be, will trump, one of the worst witnesses of all time. these white house lawyers have the most difficult president who has ever had to deal with white house lawyers. let s grant them that. and it may be that some of this babying of donald trump, telling him don t worry, it will be over by thanksgiving, don t worry, it will be over by christmas, as silly as that sounds to us, history might show some time that this was actually incredibly valuable. i began the show with a reference to the greatest danger the trump presidency possesses which is the possibility on a whim of having war with north korea. some of those lawyers who are trying to humor him, calm him down, telling him it will be over by thanksgiving, might have
i don t know. i do know that if you go back to you know, there s a lot about flynn s conduct that s being scrutinized here. the turkish business, the rt payments, but also just go back to what it was that got flynn fired in the first place. those meetings with the conversation with kislyak december 29th, the day obama has imposed sanctions because of the election hacking and flynn tells him don t worry, we re going to revisit this when trump takes office in a few weeks. that was the that was the event. the one question that s never been answered here is what did the president know about that? did he authorize flynn to have that conversation? was he briefed on the conversation afterwards? key questions in this. yeah, and there s a lot that flynn may know that we may want to know, all of us, that s also part of this. michael isikoff, thank you for joining us. thank you.
so there s some precedent here. do you have a theory for what it is about flynn and why the president continues to defend him despite all the things we know and why he hired him in the first place? those are all good questions, but, first of all, if you look at not just corey lewandowski, look at roger stone, trump does have a habit of sticking with guys he likes, guys who he s fond of even after he s fired them there s a habit of that. i don t know. i do know that if you go back to you know, there s a lot about flynn s conduct that s being scrutinized here. the turkish business, the rt payments, but also just go back to what it was that got flynn fired in the first place. those meetings with the conversation with kislyak december 29th, the day obama has imposed sanctions because of the election hacking and flynn tells him don t worry, we re going to revisit this when trump takes office in a few weeks.