made him on behind change not made him the tom security feshl in the country. which defies reason because here is what trump knew. trump kwhous counsel told trump that tomlin should be fired. at the end of january 2017 told him flynn misled the fib and trump could have known before that because his white house counsel was told of a investigation into flinl earlier that month. trump did not fire flynn until way after all that happened sometime late february. everyone back with me. juliette start with you. president trump trying to rewrite history here. i m curious as to why. the facts don t back him up. why? why still fight? well, i mean, why does donald trump lie? because he does it all the time? i don t think he knows the truth anymore. but laws because in this case it s a bit problematic. he knew remember, president obama also told told donald trump not to hire flynn we don t know the specifics. and sally yates. the most important thing is sally yates tells the white
ask the person who did it, what were you intending to do. why would you think donald trump would tell you the truth? you don t necessarily expect the truth from the person you ask that question of, but there s a whole bunch of other people who might know. who did donald trump talk to, who did he tell he was frustrated about comey, who did he tell he was disappointed in flynn? all the people around him and you worked in the white house. you know there s a lot of people around the president at various times might know the answer to those various questions. bob mueller, to do his due diligence, also has to ask the president. there s a subtext, i think, to these questions, which was why was the president so anxious to fire james comey and why was he so reluctant to fire michael flynn when obama told him flynn was dirty. chris christie told him too. this is my favorite question. what did you mean when you told
that flynn had lied to the fbi and was open, vulnerable to blackmail? right, those are the two key questions. we know that after sally yates had her first meeting with don mcgahn, that don mcgahn went then and briefed the president and a handful of advisers on the contents of that meeting. we also know sally yates told him flynn had been interviewed by the fbi and that mcgahn asked him, how did he do? and she didn t say. the natural thing to do and we spoke with several former federal prosecutor who s said that typically, don mcgahn would then go and ask michael flynn, did you also lie to the fbi. has recently become a big issue because of the president s tweet last weekend where he said he fired flynn because he lied to the fbi and michael pence sorry, vice president pence and so the key question is when did the president learn that michael flynn did lie to the fbi and to
something that the folks in the white house are continuing to wrestle with. well these are box office reports tonight. very little time for paul and for natasha but i do want your thoughts as a prosecutor paul and one who covers business. each of you quickly. give me your assessment of what you ve heard tonight in these two reports, basically the one that seems to be focused on on instruction of j obstruction of justice by the president. tens of thousands of documents subpoenaed, two grand juries impanelled. he s looking at three issues all involving president trump s dishonesty. first, why did he create the false narrative about the donald trump jr. meeting with the russians. second, why did he hang on to flynn when president trump s affiliates told him flynn was
and others. it took trump about a month of being in office before he decided flynn had to go and that he would listen to those voices from people around him that told him flynn was not suited for the job. he learned and moved on. democrats still want him to pay the price. they still want him to say, yeah, but what about michael flynn? in the end, it doesn t go anywhere. unless there s some new revelation, unless there s something else, trump found out about the problems with flynn or came to admit the problems with flynn, and moved on. what about the issue of the leaking? who s gonna take the responsibility for leaking all of this information out into the public? obviously obama holdouts were there and wanting this information to go widespread. oh, sure. the practice of coming up with a packet of information and dumping it into enough desks and laps so there is plausible deniability for any individual who can say, it wasn t me who leaked that out. so if you drag that bait through