what about that comparison? to put it in perspective. we re 70 days in and we have a former national security adviser asking for immunity. you re right, your presidential memoirs, this is not the way you want to leave. your national security adviser asking for immunity before you hit day 100. the one who was fired. the one who was fired, yeah. i will say this. people were privately saying, both republicans and democrats in the transition, that while they were more impressed than they expected to be by trump s appointments, flynn was an exception to that. i suspect david heard a lot of this, too. former republican cabinet members, former democratic cabinet members were all a little anxious about general flynn. and so i think that, you know, historical analogies here would be iran contra, president nixon, vice president nixon at the
president trump weighing in moments ago on a request from his fired national security vice other michael flynn who is seeking immunity for testimony before congress. mike flynn should ask for immunity in this is a witch hunt. excuse for big election loss by media and dems of historic proportion. let s bring in analyst david gregory and reporter abby phillip and julia icahn. the president of the united states weighing in on someone involved in the investigation. seeking immunity. i m not sure i have seen anything like that. there is a lot we have not seen like predonald trump who ss to take this is as a joke and proceeded by members of the white house staff who had no
reporter: a bizarre development considering nunes went back to the white house the next day to brief president trump on material he allegedly got from the president s own staff. was this an attempt to find post facto justification? we don t have answers because as usual, the white house doesn t answer questions about this. reporter: nunes s previous statements contradicting the report. by holding the meeting on the white house grounds makes it appear someone in the administration was coordinating the release of the information to you. is that not the case? no, that s not the case. reporter: the new york times and washington post reporting one of the individuals who let nunes into the white house was brought on by former national security adviser michael flynn. both papers reporting that general mcmaster wanted to fire the staffer, but jared kushner
people at the lowest level. and build up your evidentiary case. you may give immunity to the lower level people so you can go after the big fish. michael flynn is a big fish. had e s up here with the former national security adviser. we ve never had a national security adviser accused of anything like this since john poindexter in the reagan years. usually they want a bigger fish. exactly. who s bigger than ham? that s right. one of them is the president of the united states that you would think of. i think they re going to build their case more carefully, and over time. and they may eventually give him immunity. but i think it s early. david is giving us perspective here. if i can go to my historian here, john. because, you know, you ve dealt with watergate. with ekeep bringing up watergate. no one has been prosecuted. no information has been found. but it is huge that he s asking for immunity. all the president s men, right?
i found that e-mail interesting. it is interesting. his letter suggests he wants vindication, not only from the witch hunt he s expecting, but one he believes he was a victim to. would he fall on the sword for the entire trump administration? i would not be shocked. a lot of people nowadays seem willing to lose their credibility for the administration. would the fbi allow that if they know that going into it? no. the reason is, because first of all, i have to believe you as the fbi and the prosecutor that what you re trying to do is assist the investigation. not simply save your tail. what you have to give me must be useful. remember, if they can prosecute everyone, why would they exclude one. unless that person has information i can get nowhere else. i got it. david gergen, this is what general flynn told meet the press last september about the issues. the very last thing that john podesta said is no individual too big to jail. that should include people like hillary c