office effective immediately. david from, it was for, according to the letter, exactly the conduct that donald trump, in that video we just saw, praised. no one can believe that. just this morning, kellyanne conway and the head of the social white house media operation were on twitter how they were going to release the video of donald trump s telephone call with hillary clinton on the night of the election, to wound and humiliate. these are not it s not possible they had any kind of consideration. so that is just the very fact of that lie, that obvious lie makes it raises the question there must be some other reason. and none of the other alternatives are good ones and more and more, by the way, republican senators are speaking out. senator flake spoke out in the last ten minutes as the show was getting going. he find this unacceptable. this was the first time we ve seen a crack in the republican ranks. and with senator sass, senator mccain, you re seeing
financial entanglement, hacking, dumping, they ve used paid media trolls. some of these things we know they have used here. can you be specific as to what you know they ve used here? i think it s quite clear from the public record that, obviously, they were deeply involved in hacking democratic institutions. that they were involved in the dumping of these documents through cut-outs like wikileaks, dc leaks. we know they had a very extensive media operation. we re investigating some of the other tactics that the russians have used elsewhere in terms of whether they have the explicit help of u.s. persons, whether they had compromising material, whether they used financial entanglement to get people to, you know, support policies that are favorable to russia. so these are issues that we re properly looking into. there are strategems that the
look at this. this was from rt. this is russia today. it was viewed by the u.s. as a kremlin-controlled media operation and therefore it s something you ve got to report. 45,000 bucks. that s what he s paid to go there and speak for in 2015. so to see the republican chairman of the house oversight committee, jason chaffetz, and elijah cummings saying that a law may have been broken here, is a very impactful and causes real problems for flynn going forward and that s different from seeing the white house press secretary there saying it wasn t really our thing. that s a difficult argument for them to make considering how senior flynn was and it s their responsibility to bring him into the white house. the crux of this would be why would general flynn not disclose
sayisay saying they are the enemy of the u.s. people. we see cnn getting punished by evan s report on this meeting regarding the fbi talking about, you know, with mr. priebus, regarding the investigation, and what have you, we can also look at it as a very savvy media operation in some ways, certainly donald trump is, because he knows the media will chase this shiny object. we have seen since day one of the campaign, is that he has taken to twitter and he had put out statements that would force the narrative to change, from what the narrative is of that day. of course when you upset an entire press corps, from excluding some of their clearings from attending, basically a basic briefing, that does help tend to take your eyes off the ball, it could have been done intentionally, no question.
we ve been reporting on passports in the shadows. an investigation. we found passports and visas allegedly sold through the venezuelaen authorities. and they. reporting got a lot of attention. not everyone wants it to be seen. today all cable providers were ordered to take our sister network off the air immediately. drew griffin joins me with the latest. what led them to do this? anderson, this has been brewing since sunday when venezuelaen president said he wanted people out of the country. today the foreign minister accused cnn of performing what she called an imperialist media