world? in some ways it is convenient that they are overseas while this news drops, but sarah sanders will have to confront this when they get back. it is hard to overstate how serious this is. obviously, the manafort indictment was serious for this white house, but that was someone who left the campaign in august. mike flynn is someone who was with the campaign through the end, prominent on the transition and served in this white house over the warnings of people like president obama who told president trump not to hire him. and you have to remember, it was michael flynn who donald trump was defending to james comey and said, hey, can t we find a way to let this go? he went on later to fire james comey, which led to bob mueller getting here in the first place. this flynn case is very, very serious for the white house. even more serious than the manafort case. matthew, let s go a little deeper on that, because this is more than just a news media distinction. flynn does put it closer
serious for the white house. even more serious than the manafort case. matthew, let s go a little deeper on that, because this is more than just a news media distinction. flynn does put it closer to the oval office of a sitting president than anyone else. people may have seen splashy headlines about paul manafort and others, but this would put it in a different category. that s right. at the end of the day, as important as paul manafort was in this campaign, he was the campaign chairman. he was helping to lead a political campaign. what we re seeing with flynn with these allegations is possibly using his government office, his position as the national security adviser to basically do deeds on behalf of a foreign government. it s a question of who in the white house knew about this. we know that flynn allegedly misled the vice president. but having this so close to the oval office, and then again, having the president himself ask the fbi director to back away from this investigation
a special counsel for russia. other democrats saying they support that strategy. here is senator schumer on state of the union today. i think mark warner s idea is a good idea. and i think it will get some broad support in our caucus. the key here, of course, is getting some of our republican colleagues to join us. we re hoping. we re waiting. we understand it s difficult. but i think patriotism and the needs of this country demand it. now, another one of you had the question of the week. this is from ebo lady on twitter who says isn t firing comey an obstruction of justice? now, the short answer is based on the public available evidence right now, no. the firing itself is not obstruction of justice. and that s because the president does have the lawful authority to remove an fbi director. so while the white house story has changed, and we ve been documenting that, trump still has some claims that are potentially valid for the termination, like that comey wasn t doing a good job. b
washington. james. james: indisputably a busy time. thank you. let s go a little deeper on the new president s use of executive orders. republicans insist chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuelle has looked at this. president trump has taken a series of executive actions to start delivering on campaign promises. the president s moves have had an impact on issues ranging from obamacare to energy pipelines to immigration. paul ryan expressed full support, saying mr. trump is quickly changing course from the obama era. we would like to see these things undone and we would like to see power restored to the people in the states, not the federal government. restoring the proper balance and in our opinion, undoing a lot of damage that was done by the last president who exceeded his power. democrats have countered by saying what mr. trump has done
that we re looking at. these are some of the states that you can actually change your vote, e are rinne. but let s go a little deeper. as we said donald trump mentioned wisconsin. but he also mentioned michigan and minnesota. but let s take a look at wisconsin specifically. wisconsin so far, about 458,000 people in wisconsin have already cast their votes. get thin this? that skate you can change your vote up to three times. you have to do it by friday. that is the deadline. in michigan, you have about 65,000 people who have 665,000 people who already their vote. but in michigan you can only get early ballot where you are over 60 or extenuating circumstances where you cannot be at the polls on election day. having said that if you put a ballot in and you want to change your mind.