certain kinds of behavior. number two this is something he sed said publicly, he said this to lester holt so this is not outside of the realm that we know he thinks this. we know he doesn t like the russia investigation. i think put those two things together and it s a believable this doesn t seem outside the realm of the things the president would think and do. the ignorance of the pres presidency is not a defense. hold those thoughts. we re going to have much more to come. stay with us. we re going to talk about all of this with congressman eric swalwell, he s standing by in california. and later tonight stay tuned foreheadliners, michael flynn that s tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. but first we ll dig into a watershed week for sexual harassment claims on capitol hill. and tox reform. with former senator kelly a iot, she ll stop by. and as we go to break, one of
throw mueller off the trail and it didn t work. i can make one point here? i think what a lot of people are saying is maybe the trump campaign didn t know the rules of the road. these are political amateurs who didn t understand we ve been hearing that for a long time. but someone like michael flynn is not an amateur. i mean, he does know what s appropriate and what s not appropriate in dealing with other foreign powers. i mean, you can make a case that maybe jared kushner didn t know what was going on or maybe donald trump jr. didn t know how to handle conversations with operatives from russia. it would be farfetched to think that a guy who spent his career in intelligence would not know that this is a strange thing to be zblog although he was somebody who the obama administration recommended not be rehired, if i that s very true. ands a guy who s been reckless and who s temperament has been called into question. people are fix atd on this question of how did he not know t
everybody laughing that numbers are phony under obama and the same kind of numbers are fine under trump is that we are going to normalize and institutionalize lying and i think we re going to have to fight lies every day. but we cannot let go of this charge that trump made until he says something, until the administration says something. the report in the washington post breaking tonight about attorneys for michael flynn saying that they had informed white house legal counsel during the transition that flynn might have to register with the government as a foreign agent and that phone call seemed to have raised no alarms within trump s team despite the unusual vicious of having a top national security post filled by someone whose work may have benefitted a foreign government. so, katherine, the report in the washington post indicating tonight that trump world was on notice about this.
jobs president that god ever created. remember that. reporter: back then, he discredit ld government job figures. don t leave those phony numbers when you hear 4.9% and 5% unemployment. reporter: suddenly friday, those same labor department statistics had new found credibility when president trump s first month in office showed a drop in unemployment. press secretary sean spicer revelled in the contradiction. i talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly. they may have been phony in the past, but it s very real now. reporter: a dose of good humor sorely needed in the trump white house after new disclosures about michael flynn. last fall flynn worked several months for a foreign-owned turkish company. his consulting firm paid more than $500,000. the press secretary acknowledged flynn had provided some
that cost hillary clinton the presidency. he really should come forward now and tell us what happened. but i m kind of glad he s not doing it for this reason. if he did and trump fired him, then we wouldn t have anybody preventing the fbi from being totally politicized by his replacement. strangely enough, i hope comey stays, especially now that they ve fired all the u.s. everyone tos. he s got michael flynn to prosecute. talk about lock her up, he could get locked up for this. and there s some very good news, though, on the turkish front that i want to put out there because nobody has thought about this. if flynn had stayed in his job, the u.s. would have extradited a cleric living in pennsylvania who the turkish government blames for the coupe attempt and that man would have been executed in turkey. because of what happened to michael flynn that, man will live.