time to try to get away with it. he says, this just in response to your story in fact, it s time for the administration to take immediate action to enhance our deterrent posture in europe and protect our allies. he is outraged by this, what steps could the administration take if it wanted to? well, i mean, first off, the first step they have to take is fill some of these positions in the administration. they don t have a deputy secretary of state, they don t have a policy undersecretary in the defense department. they don t have a national security advisor, really. so they need to have a team that can begin to craft a strategy. the first thing they need to do is political. go to south korea and get them to act in concert. because all of these countries are the nations that would be potentially targets of this
this is what she said. both were true. the president is very loyal, he s a very loyal person, and by night s end, mike flynn decided it was best to resign. he d become a lightning rod and he made that decision. so kellyanne conway this morning saying the president flynn s choice to resign. then a few hours ago, sean spicer, he made it clear in his statement, at least, that the president forced the resignation of michael flynn and again, saying that the president over apparently a period of weeks had lost confidence in michael flynn. so some contradictory messages there coming out of the white house. hallie jackson joins me now from that white house. we got a version of events here today that raised as many questions as it answered. you had that report last night that suggested the administration was warned by the justice department about flynn weeks ago, and of course that raised one question about why
general flynn said to the russian ambassador and what he later conveyed to vice president trump. i think mr. spicer said this was a matter of trust more than anything else. and general flynn asserted the pleasure of the president and he no longer pleased the president obviously and that s why he resigned. it s a good thing he stepped aside. i think the broader issue for all of us is what is the administration s policy on russia? i have been concerned about the administration s policy. i felt they ve often conciliatory to the putin regime, vooush not benign. russia is trying to break up nato, unravel the european union undermined western democratic institutions, and most of all, diminish american power and influence throughout the world. i think we have to get this policy right in addition to figuring out what actually happened here with general flynn and what he actually said or didn t say. you re talking about the american foreign policy toward russia, even some of your republican c
with the russian ambassador was wrong or illegal, but spicer saying it ultimately was flynn s communication with the administration that marked his down fall. this was an act of trust. whether or not he actually misled the vice president was the issue. and that was ultimately what led to the president asking for and accepting the resignation of general flynn. that s it, pure and simple. it was a matter of trust. spicer would not commit to declassifying or releasing the transcripts from those phone calls. also inassisting whatever discussion about the russian sanctions that took place between flynn and the ambassador was not done he said at the behest of donald trump. also denying flynn had contacts with the russian government before the election, and of course, shadowing overshadowing all of this, the conflicting messages came from the white house. now it started yesterday on this program in this hour, counselor
to the president. we asked her point blank if the president still had confidence in his national security advisor. this is what she said. basic question here, does the nationalecurity advisor right now enjoyhe full confidence of president trump? yes, general flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president. so that was the message 24 hours ago, again, coming from the white house. that the president had full confidence in michael flynn, but then, minutes after we went off the air, sean spicer, the white house press secretary talked to reporters and he said that the white house, the administration was evaluating the situation with flynn. not exactly a ringing endorsement there, then hours after that, flynn resigned. he offered his resignation as the national security advisor. this morning, kellyanne conway, counselor to the president then appeared on the today show and was asked about that apparent cross-examination, saying he the confidence the president and then flynn resi