The vp only learned the truth five days ago. Which raises the question what was trump and flynn talking all the this time. After he called russian was trump in co hoops with flynn, was he open up this all by himself. Sean spicer confirmed reports that the acting general told white house does not believe flynn did anything that constituted a legal violation. Lets watch. The acting attorney general informed white House Counsel that they wanted to give heads up to us in comments he had sent to the Vice President in particular. The white House Counsel involved the president immediately. President asked him to conduct a review whetherhere was legal situation. That was determined it wasnt. The president believe at the time what he had been told. He was proved to be correct. It came down to matter of trust. Thats not a problem that general flynn discussed sanctions with russia. I cannot say clearly enough theres nothing in what general flynn of connecting himself was an issue it was his misle
Attorney general Rod Rosenstein, the point man at the Justice Department of the Mueller Probe and as we learned this week, the senior Justice Department official who signed off on that search warrant for cohen is telling confidants that he is prepared to be fired. Nbc news reporting, quote, one source who spoke to rosenstein said he seemed fully aware that he may soon lose his job and was at peace with the possibility, confident that he had done his job with integrity. If rosenstein is fired and that always remains a big if with this president , one of his enduring legacies will be the appointment of bob mueller. The other, the authorization of the search warrant that may have unearthed the dark under belly of Donald Trumps personal and professional life. Lawyers for donald trump were in court today arguing that President Trump has an acute interest in the proceedings surrounding the cohen raid. And asking a judge for first access to the materials seized. The Washington Post with a goo
a video clip from the president s past gets new attention for what was said. how did the media react and is it fair game? spanish channel univision gets high marks for covering fast and furious scandal. and weather channel heats up controversy about winter storms. jon: on the panel this week, writer fox news contributor, judy miller. also richard grenell. jing pinkerton and talk radio news bureau chief ellen ratner. i m jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. jon: wouldn t you love the thought bubbles would say. that was the scene at the end of the debate. this is some of the coverage that followed. it was a lot like the president obama we are used to hearing. i don t think he had the spark or energy or precision tonight that governor romney had. the president tonight was disappointing when he allowed mitt romney to that buck $716 billion in medicare. the president did not come out and explain it. it appeared that an energetic mitt romney appeared before a nation
0 mention that. he didn ting on the five trillion dollar attack. he did nothing to come back at him. i have watched all these debates since clinton s first debate, i was in shock. loan why he didn t bring it up, it wasn t on the teleprompt. i agree what ellen was saying people said look after four years of press coverage he is not ready for tough questions or tough opportunity. it was just an attitude by obama of aloof disdain. it was supposed to be a strategy of not overly aggression but it felt terrible. jon: ellen had her theory about why the president came off why he did. on msnbc, michael dison claimed in his opinion that the president was overly deferential to mitt romney because he was concerned that he would come across as an angry black man. michael moore, he blamed his effort on the coaching or the debate sparring that he got from john kerry. al gore, this is my favorite, being from denver he said that obama s poor performance could be blamed on denver s altitude. the
democrats? well, there s a lot of democrats, tamron as you know very well that come from swing districts places where the nra has a lot of influence especially in rural areas but also in sort of suburban slightly rural areas. the nra is the most powerful special interest group in this country. and there s a lot of democrats from swing districts that do not get on the wrong side of the nra and will be forced to hold eric holder in contempt tomorrow afternoon. this is something we ve heard numbers from 25 to 35. the reason why is because darrell issa has this theory that the reason why the white house has been slow to act on the fast and furious was that there was going to be a national swell, if you will, for gun control perhaps bring back the assault weapons ban because of what was going on between the mexican and american border about the gun flow there. that perhaps if enough stories got out about dead agents there would be a call for an assault been. there is no eviden