i thought this was akin to that. i thought it was surprising. the two kates, thank you so much. both of you in washington. appreciate it. just ahead here, data collection woes continue to plague facebook. now the academic who gathered the information is firing back after the social media giant branded him a liar. why he tells cnn that facebook is maybing him a scapegoat. any minute now, police in austin, texas, will hold a press conference. we ll bring it to you live. stay with me. when you say you need
we ve all had an experience with the president now for a year. and his behavior is very predictable. so when things get close or when he is criticized, he reacts and he tries to divert the attention and i think that s exactly what he s doing now. sewing essential ly concern and disbelief and maybing people doubt the validity of the investigation. but mueller has a very long reputation and i think he s fulfill iing that reputation in this investigation. but you say they re trying to sew sort of distrust in the investigation. yes. but president trump if you ve noticed, he has largely avoided going after special counsel robert mueller. what do you make of that? i think what he s doing is all about that. and i think the thing that has been different and again, i sit on judiciary, so i ve watched this whole process. in the past, there hasn t been a number of republicans that have stood up and really defended him.
combatant. p certainly when sarah sanders said that, they set the legal world to set the dod general counsel s office off and running. it s not clear the legal authorities would extend that far. now after that afternoon of sound and furry, we fine he s charged in a federal court, in a civilian court, so this is a lot of nothing. it s not clear if the president did plan on maybing this novel or dramatic legal argument or he didn t understand what the words enemy combatant meant and what the ramifications it would mean here. enemy combatant has to be someone found on the battlefield outside of the united states. in this situation it would have to be someone covered by the authorization for the use of military force. so there s questions about isis is covered by the 2001 aumf. there s also questions about whether or not this person who we know that he had he was
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seems to be intentional that this administration is just withdrawing from maybing our case around the world. matt, we ve been speculating this morning as to why the president didn t fire flynn right away, whether it was incompetence, whether it was some kind of loyalty or whether there was something else going on here that we don t yet know. what s your theory as to why this went on for 18 days like that? that s really the central question that s hard to answer. it could be that the president is loyal to mike flynn, he was his buddy on the campaign trail or it could be something more nefarious. it could be mike flynn when he had those conversations wasn t freelancin freelancing. he might have been acting with the authorization of the president-elect. it could be related to the campaign. wouldn t you sum it up as arrogance, incompetence and possibly something nefarious. exactly. that might explain why trump to this day is unwilling to separate himself from mike