they ve already fired him. from a political perspective they should cut bait. that s the right thing to do. if he lied to them, and lied on his forms, they should not be up there defending him and should not be taking political water on on his behalf. it is sort of shocking they allowed this to happen because we all knew about flynn s connections to rt and the russians. to not ask those questions and look at those forms before he submitted them, it s a shocking level of incompetence there. do you think there is political water he s taking on or is this the president is taking on? yeah. is this actually affecting the white house or is this something the media follows and people who hate trump follow but generally speaking this has no effect? or does it have an effect? as david pointed out, chaffetz doesn t normally say things like this. no. but chaffetz is leaving his position and going back to utah, potentially running for governor. so it doesn t hurt to look like you re doin
ethics reform while you re trying to run for a bigger, higher executive office. at the same time i would say i agree with your first point that i think for most americans, they re not sitting around going i wonder what happened to that michael flynn. he s not part of the white house team right now. it s not a good story when you re still talking about the fact that somebody that you brought on either lied to you or to the other more damning point that you were not as an organization xhent enough to find this out before you brought him on. i think most people are much more concerned with what is the current national security adviser doing than what the former national security adviser who was there for 15 minutes let s talk about national security. let s talk about the sanctuary city ruling that the judge handed down from the eighth circuit. ninth circuit. ninth circuit. i m sorry. makes a difference. you re right. indeed it does. so what do you make of all this? i think a
tapper for a primetime edition of the lead. president trump said we re going to win so much, you re going to be sick and tired of winning. then federal courts said, not so fast there, donald trump. the lead starts right now. breaking news. another judge dealing president trump a major setback. this time regarding a crucial executive order on sanctuary cities. senator cory booker will be here to react in minutes. also breaking tonight, the house oversight committee saying that the president s former national security adviser, michael flynn, may have broken the law regarding a russian payday. plus, a candid conversation with facebook s sheryl sandberg. how she and her children are coping with the immense pain of shockingly losing her husband. good everyone, everyone. welcome to a special prime time edition of the lead in which
it s the art of the distraction. today the press day was, his daughter ivanka hitting hissed and booed in germany. his wall hit a wall. michael flynn is in deep hot water. and so, you know, let s start a confrontation. a trade confrantation with canada. so now america, in addition to having to hoard your tequila and avocados, you ll also have to hoard your maple syrup and canadian whiskey. there s something i want to do before we continue talking about this which is commend stephen moore. if we were in the same city i d give him a kiss on the forehead. night after night we come on tv and hear trump supporters who are incapable of finding any fault with him, even when we know that in principle they disagree with him. what stephen moore said is i m a trump supporter but at my koerks my principles i m not compromising that in order to excuse or justify what he s doing. for that, i commend you and hope
sally yates, as gloria said was fired by president trump for being insubordinate. but she very much was a key figure and michael flynn s firing himself but she was the one, as gloria pointed out to say look, i looked at the transcripts and he could be subjected to blackmail by the russians and she s someone who wants to talk. she s been under radar. she s been laying low since being fired by president trump. and this is an opportunity to not only talk about the flynn situation but other issues related to the russia investigation. insubordination or just doing her job? you think her testimony is going to be a good thing but you have some concerns. why? i think probably the most compelling thing we re going to get out of her testimony will be