so there s some precedent here. do you have a theory for what it is about flynn and why the president continues to defend him despite all the things we know and why he hired him in the first place? those are all good questions, but, first of all, if you look at not just corey lewandowski, look at roger stone, trump does have a habit of sticking with guys he likes, guys who he s fond of even after he s fired them there s a habit of that. i don t know. i do know that if you go back to you know, there s a lot about flynn s conduct that s being scrutinized here. the turkish business, the rt payments, but also just go back to what it was that got flynn fired in the first place. those meetings with the conversation with kislyak december 29th, the day obama has imposed sanctions because of the election hacking and flynn tells him don t worry, we re going to revisit this when trump takes office in a few weeks.
director james comey was based on the recommendation of the deputy attorney general, only to have the president contradict him saying he had already made up his mind for the recommendation. and then there was the time that pence insisted, again on camera on the record, that michael flynn had not discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador. press reports later revealed that to be untrue. so either pence is consistently out of the loop or he s got a very, very serious credibility issue. i m joined by mckay coppins and betsy woodruff, political reporter for the daily beast. betsy, let me start with you. i think pence has managed to convince people that he s out of the loop on all this, but at a certain point there s only so out of the loop that you can be before people start asking questions. in pence s defense, of course, he s not the only senior white house staffer that seems to be wildly unaware of what the president is doing. just about everybody in the white house was pushing
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criminal defense says to her client, should the heck up. but when the client is the president of the united states, especially this president, chris, i think that s a very difficult order for the client to follow. all right, clint watts and paul butler, thank you, gentlemen. thank you. great to be here. up next, a new report that president trump ignored lawyers advice and contacted his fired national security advisor. what does michael flynn know, and why, why is the president going to such great lengths to keep him in the trump camp? i ll ask michael isikoff in two minutes. will you be ready when the moment turns romantic? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury,
conversations between general flynn and figures from that country, were on the up and up, that there was no collusion and that this effort to find out there was is a witch hunt. well, look, the flight plan for air force one may now be for saudi arabia, israel and then italy, but it sounds like the president himself remains in home detention somewhere deep in the land of alternative facts. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in does anybody have any questions? the president cries witch hunt. i respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. donald trump directly contradicts his fired fbi director. did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape or form to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn? and also no. no. next question. tonight, as the president changes his story again, rod rosenstein briefs the senate and