president-elect pence is somebody who signed agreements, a code of ethical conduct that stated before he takes any security briefings or get classified information that he agrees to abide by certain ethical standards, which would seem to contra convenient the idea he was lobbying for a foreign power without disclosing it to the campaign. you know, sean spicer tried to redirect the entire question to whether or not the lawyers involved told michael flynn when to fill out forms. that really isn t the point. the point is you re vetting someone to be national security adviser and feel you have no responsibility to vet them at all. eli, jump in. we know the transition did very minimal vetting with a lot of these appointees. that s why some appointees didn t make it. that s why flynn had to resign after 4 days. they trusted flynn. they loved their people. it s a very insue lar group. we don t have to answer questions. the loyalists, trump loyalists. he had this conduct with turkish
of who it is ultimately that s advising this president and how well they ve been vetted. we trust people, is what sean spicer said. david, a whole lot of smoke, every day a little more smoke. they keep getting caught in these circumstances where some might say they re lying, others might be a little more friendly and say they re defying the truth. what are we seeing here? weave jeff sessions, who is not being entirely truthful. we have michael flynn who wasn t being entirely truthful. we have an administration that says they weren t aware of the lobbying, even though it was in news reports at the time, even though representative elijah cumming sent a letter to vp pence saying vp-elect at the time, raising these issues. what do you make of this? well, we have a pattern, as you just summarized, of people making incomplete statements, evade i evading questions that would be normal questions for vetting any senior official.