ties between trump campaign associates and russia. in fact, they were issued just in the recent weeks, just in the last couple weeks we re told by sources by the u.s. attorney s office in alexandria, virginia. they were received by associates who worked with michael flynn on contracts after he was forced out as director of the defense intelligence agency in 2014. now, robert kellner, an attorney for flynn, declined to comment as did the justice department, the fbi and the u.s. attorney s office. we should say we were working on this story, anderson, before we found out, learned about the news that james comey had been fired from his post as the director of the fbi, anderson. is it known what investigators are look at with regard to flynn? what we do know from talking to sourcesize investigators have been looking into the possible wrongdoing and how michael flynn handled disclosures about payments from clients tied to foreign governments including russia and turkey. as we reported f
inexplicably has caught them flat-footed tonight pd. jeff, is there any talk or any word at the white house about who they may be looking at for to be the next director of the fbi? not that we have heard. i asked several officials that exact thing, and they said that look, this is something that is about a week or so in the works. the president has been sort of thinking about this for at least a week. the deputy attorney general has been looking at this since he came into office, since he was confirmed two weeks ago. so they definitely have people in mind. they re not sharing any of those people at this point. but boy, that is a sensitive thing going forward. you can almost not imagine them appointing someone who was in the michael flynn type situation, who was deeply involved in helping send him to the white house here, deeply
is if you are targeting the russia investigation, a name we ve heard here already, dana bente, who has a spectacular reputation in the law enforcement in the community in the department of justice, who has been given extraordinary responsibilities by president trump in these first few months of his administration, and who headed the national security division, which is obviously a point of focus, and that appointment was just named as well, those would be the people where you would see so you don t think the firing of comey has any impact on a russia investigation? no. of course not. absolutely not. evan perez. i ve got to say i think whether or not it s going to affect the investigation, there s career people, there s career agents at fbi, there are career people at the justice department that are actually running this investigation. right. the problem that is created by what happened tonight is the perception. and perception matters. that is not you re the first
justice department has been about leaks and getting the fbi to put more priority in hunting down those leaks. the fbi has responded by tightening its media policy. we know they ve restricted who can talk to the media in the last couple of weeks. that s one of the things they ve taken action on. and we also know that they have been pursuing some of these leak investigations. but at the same time the activity in the russia investigation has not ceased. as you noticed from the fact that we ve reported tonight that these grand jury subpoenas have been issued by the u.s. attorney s office in the eastern district of virginia. so it goes to show that there s a lot of complaints that certainly the fbi director was hearing both from the white house and across the street from the justice department headquarters that there wasn t enough being done thount down these leaks because in the eyes of the attorney general and in the eyes of the president leaks were the most important part of what is happ
next and who he pinpoints pap what basis of the confidence is he is going to appoint swb a sterling representation to the fbi which don t see any basis of him doing that. when you don t judge the original act, the firing of the fbi director at the time of a major investigation into potentially him and his administration, his own attorney general saw fit to recuse himself but you don t have a problem with that that s really surprising. well that s of course bs we do have evidence and the most important appointment he has made as president was neil gorsuch an absolutely unimpeachable choice. the burden as i said earlier on the president on the next selection. i would agree on two process points stepping aside from the substance for a moment. dana said earlier this isn t the which you handle this with somebody like james comey. i agree completelily it was terribly mishandled i would secondarily agree that it was completely mismanaged within the white house that s on reince priebus prima