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rucker, white house reporter for the associated press jonathan le mere and two attorneys are with us tonight. a 25-year veteran federal prosecutor, joyce vance, who spent almost eight years as a u.s. attorney, among the first five u.s. attorneys appointed by president obama. and jeremy bash is back with us, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. former chief counsel to the house intelligence committee. phillip, i ll begin with you largely because of the work again tonight of your newspaper on this eventful, emotional day. your paper prints this game changer story and i m guessing you find the president s personal attorney s reaction notable as well. and you hit the nail on the head when you said the white house and actually not the white house, the legal team, the president s legal team is not actually denying the details of this story. rather there s an attack on the leaks, and i received in the last hour a very detailed list of talking points that have been produced by the
involved in elections and on the minds of fellow democrats potentially helping to lay ground work for another presidential bid in 2020. jonathan le mere, eli stokels have rejoined us. so much to talk about. first of all, eli, what hillary clinton just said about the state of the party she inherited. what do you say? every time people put her on the couch and ask her this is not the first time we heard from her about the election. every time they put her on the couch and ask her to talk about what went wrong, whether it s authentic, honest, whether it s accurate or not, it sounds like someone who just hasn t moved on. i don t know that it s good for the party. i can tell you people in the west wing given all they are dealing with anytime hillary clinton is in the news rehashing the 2016 election that is a good moment for this white house. the president got on twitter tonight like we are in the middle of the campaign kind of calling her crooked hillary. relitigated the campaign all
requested those documents from flynn back in a letter dated april 8th, but flynn did not comply. a senate historian tells nbc news this is the first time the senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed documents since the 1970s also on the flynn front, the daily beast citing two sources tonight reports that white house lawyers have repeatedly had to warn the president against reaching out to mike flynn since flynn was fired in mid-february. having said all that, let s bring in tonight s opening panel. chief white house correspondent for the associated press julie pace is back with us. fellow white house reporter from the ap, jonathan le mere is back with us. and senior correspondent for politico, michael crowley returns as well. julie, we ll start with you. give us your best reporting as to tonight 11:05 eastern time. why was comey fired and why now? well, our reporting shows
orbit as well that there has been almost a niaivety that he didn t understand what motivations might have been and that perhaps the white house didn t fully understand the risks, the security risk and intelligence risks of bringing in a russian photographer who has direct ties to the government. unbelievable. jonathan, the white house also didn t fully understand by all accounts the reaction to the firing of james comey. the reports from the white house grounds last night of sean spicer briefing in the bushes in the dark as they were trying to collect themselves after this are unbelievable. they were really scrambling. the president kept this decision pretty close to the vest, just a handful of tight advisers. and then yesterday it was sort of forced foisted upon sean spicer and the communications director just an hour or so