lot of people to go do it, even when they don t agree with who s running the shop, they think they can positively effect the outcome, and i think you can entice really good people to do that even though they don t agree with anything, either politically or philosophically that the president of the united states supports. and finally, just on this timeline here, this idea that the justice department had warned the trump administration saying look, flynn may not have en fth coming when he talked about this phone call and exposed himself to blackmail. that apparently being included. white house says look, we needed time to review the situation before taking action. is that an appropriate course of action? i think it s fair enough to say look, what is this all about? i look for a full accounting for the guy involved and expect to get it even if i did get what he said was a full accounting, i need time to review it, i think it s what s really interesting here is that you have a pres
discussing sanctions, he couldn t be certain that the topic never came up. that was a big shift that yes, this was discussed. that set off a feeding frenzy that culminated in yesterday s series of events. in this show yesterday, this same hour, kellyanne conway, counselor to the president, she was on, she said president trump still had full confidence in michael flynn. minutes later, sean spicer, the press secretary says no, the white house is evaluating the situation and then last night came a report in the washington post, hours after that that the justice department had given a warning weeks earlier about flynn perhaps not being forthcoming about his phone conversation. that leaked late last night to the resignation of michael flynn. we wanted to put all of those events, there s a lot of them into context here. that s the timeline, now to talk about this series of events, what happens next, joining me now as i walk over to the set,
and whether it was in fact that the insistence of the candidate for the presidency or if it was something that mr. flynn did on his own. and i think, you know, the transcripts will shed light on that, but i really think that s why you want to get this out there in the open as much as possible. look, this whole russia piece has been an albatross around the administration s neck from the beginning. it s gaining more feathers. it s starting to take flight. and i really think that they need to get in front of this. the double speak is not a way that s going to solve or calm the waters here. and it s not just about republican, democrats being exercised about this, it s also about republicans who are exercised about this. although more politely, but still, you can tell that there s is certain level of tension about where this leads and what it means. david again, the explanation you get from sean spicer today at that press briefing, he said
he got it. members of congress still have questions about flynn s actions, but congressional republicans, many of them at least pushing back against democrats and they re call for a special committee to investigate the issue. joining us now to talk more about all of this, michael steele, former republican national committee chair and msnbc political analyst and david corn, msnbc political analyst. michael steele, i ll go to you first. i m curious one of the charges, one of the suggestions that s out there is that this phone call michael flynn had excuse me that michael flynn had at t end of december when it appears some way the issue was raised, we don t know exactly, but the suspicion is out there, certainly, that trump, the incoming president, wanted him, ordered him to have this phone conversation. it was done with his knowledge. what do you think of that? well, i mean, i think that s what sort of eggs this story on. i mean, we don t know all of the surrounding facts that sort
still lots of questions, a big one is when did vice president mike pence know about all of this? what did he know and questions there. you ve also obviously got the discussion more broadly about why it took so long to take action here, steve. okay. hallie jackson over there at the white house, thank you for that report. both democrats and republicans on capitol hill today saying that flynn s resignation raised more questions than it answered. many joining a growing chos for congressional investigations, take a listen. do you hear that? do you hear the silence? this is a sound of house rooms conducting no oversight of president trump. zero. i think significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the trump administration.