investigation of national security advisor michael flynn. comey writes that at his private dinner with trump in january 20 2017 the president told a story about flynn, then pointed his fingers at his head and said, the guy has serious judgment issues. comey adds, he did not comment at any time during this topic and there was no mention of any fbi interest or contact with general flynn. comey also describes a white house meeting with then chief of staff reince priebus on february 8, 2017, writing priebus asked comey if this was a private conversation. comey replied that it was. and priebus asked if comey would answer, do you have a fisa order, or in other words, a wiretap on mike flynn? comey said he would answer in this instance but that priebus must later go through established channels. comey s answer is classified in the version released last night. flynn resigned his post a week later on february 13th. president trump tweeted a short time ago, so general michael flynn s life can
as senator corker said, when you go on the campaign trail, people don t want to talk about issues. they want to know are you with trump or are you against trump. the second, it s in terms of ideology, it is similar to the french national front in the sense that it is basically a party of ethnic grievance organized around ideals, sort of cultural ideas, who is and isn t a proper american. what isn t not the right way to express your americanness. it is unprecedented because we don t really do that in in esam. that explains trump and trumpism. but what happens to any memory of men like paul ryan or mitch mcconnell, like what they used to stand for, line 18 months ago? well, turns out president trump is very popular with base voters so it s difficult to sort of stand up to him if you want to win a primary. one of the things he revealed during the campaign is that the economic conservative arguments
donald, i thought you were a gentleman. you can t say i didn t try. that s the president of the united states. and his lawyer. and his new attorney. former new york city mayor rudy giuliani who was a constant companion to the president on the campaign has joined the president s legal team. he warmed up the crowd at 37 trump rallies between august and election day 2016. as far as the new role goes, giuliani told the washington post, quote, i am doing it because i hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country and because i have high regard for the president and for bob mueller. maggie haberman of the new york times reports there s a belief giuliani was like the kool aid man bursting through a wall to join the trump team. four people close to the white house say he resisted joining but trump, wanting a big name who he s comfortable with, pushed for it. trump has also added marty
if this was a private conversation. comey replied that it was and priebus asked if comey would answer if you have a fisa order on mike flynn? comey said he d answer in this instance but that priebus must later go through established channels. comey s answer is classified in the version released last night. flynn resigned his post a week later on february the 13th. nicole, so much in here. we re going to talk about all of it, including the relative quality of russian hookers. as apparently conveyed by vladimir putin to president trump. also the president s obsession with andrew mccabe. some news on him as well. and the president s obsession with the dossier. every conversation that jim comey testified to is proven out by the memos that the republicans trying to prosecute jim comey wanted released. so this is really a case where the republicans were checkmated by the facts. so, john, we had yesterday the story we reported where
options for both slots? they are very different cases because sessions is still propped up and supported by a lot of conservatives on capitol hill, whereas you actually have conservatives on capitol hill laying the groundwork to build a case to remove rosenstein. that s what mark meadows and jim jordan are doing in the house. house freedom caucus members. they re setting the predicate that will build a case for trump to get rid of him. they aren t doing that with sessions. more existential than the daily crisis that is jeff sessions. you hear from conservatives on capitol hill saying he s doing a great job at doj, et cetera, et cetera. you ll never get that with rosenstein. does the release by the doj of these redacted comey memos change the calculus now because the threat from meadows and jordan and congressional republicans was if you don t turn offer these memos, we may hold you in contempt of congress