creates the problem for the president in any way. that is not a problem that general flynn discussed sanctions with russia s. i can t state clearly enough, there was nothing in what general flynn did in terms of conducting himself that was an issue. what came down to plain and simple was him misleading the vice president and others and not having a firm grasp on his recollection of that. that s it. question number two. lawmakers on capitol hill and both sides of the aisle would like to investigate and probe or ask more questions about this. does the president hope to cooperate with those investigations. would he instruct members of his staff who work for him here and in the administration to cooperate with those investigations? well, we re zog comply with the law. i think the president feels very confident the review that was conducted by white house counsel was very thorough and concluded very conclusively as he had
then that became a separate set of issues that were the fbi has transcripts of these intercepts, which i assume were done by the nsa, the court order. was there any communication between the white house counsel s office and the fbi? did those transcripts ever enter there was obviously communication between the department of justice and the white house counsel s office. i m not going to get into the specific nature of that. i think it would be inappropriate because of the nature of the information that was being discussed. why not dismiss the general on january 27th? why if the question was of trust and immediately, you know, if you have january 15th, he is on face the nation saying that vice president pence is on face the nation saying that this is what general flynn told me, and january 26th, you hear that the opposite. why not immediately act? why wait another two and a half weeks? i don t understand how that s a due process. what the attorney general didn t come in and
intentional he may have just forgotten, but at some point the conversation that s the point, jim, at some point that trust erode today a point where the president did not feel comfortable with him serving in that position and asked for his resignation. last night general flynn s resignation letter he said he inadvertently briefed others. considering his role in advising the president on national security matters is the white house concerned that he briefed the vice president elect on other matters of national security? when you look at the team it s not one in isolation, you have several. he s got an entire national security staff and apparatus that briefs him director pompeo at the cia and others from the
milestone for thousands of workers at boeing. the number one exporter in the millions of american workers involved in aerospace. this trip has been months in the making, and we re thrilled to celebrating the roll-out of this amazing plane. back in january the president said that nobody in his campaign had been in touch with the russians. now today can you still say definitively that nobody on the trump campaign, not even general flynn, says had any contact with the russians before the election. my understanding is that what general flynn has now expressed is that during the transition period, well, we were very clear that during the transition period he did speak with the ambassador. i m talking about during the campaign. i don t have any there s nothing that would are bring me to conclude that anything different. how was he identified 17 days ago that he had misled other officials here and that he was a potential threat to blackmail by the russians.
trust as a result of this situation in a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for general flynn s resignation. immediately after the department of justice notified the white house counsel of the situation, the white house counsel briefed the president in a small group of his senior advisors. during this process it is important to note that the president did not have his attorney general, jeff sessions, who he trusts immensely, approved by the senate. when the president heard the information is presented by white house counsel, he instinctively thought that general flynn did not do anything wrong and the white house counsel s review corroborated that. he spoke with over 30 of his counters parts throughout the transition. as charles said last night, it is perfectly reasonable for him