national security adviser michael flynn was fired from the white house. flynn is now a cooperating witness and apparently useful for the prosecution. joining me is natasha ber frand from the atlantic and mieke eoyang, a former staff director of the house intelligence committee. ike, apparently we re doing nothing to punish the russians for what they did. and we re not doing anything to stop them this time in 2018 or 2020. the past, present and future are off scot-free for whatever they wanted to do, did do and will do, scot-free in terms of this administration. that s right. normally when you would be attacked by a foreign add ser vary, you would take spec responses to let them know that s not acceptable. you would impose sanctions. you would work with allies on
investigations. and most of them do a lot to keep americans safe. well, director wray also said he s encouraged employees to ignore what they hear about the fbi on tv and specifically denied allegations of bias. senator, there s no shortage of opinions about our agency just like every other agency up here. i encourage our folks not to get too hung up what i consider to be the noise on tv and social media. so you haven t seen any evidence of some sort of inherent political bias in the agency? no. you know, let me go back to natasha. it seems trump has a strategy to trash anybody that will get the goods on him, trash the media, anybody that might bring facts forward. you want to do this? go for it. right, the fbi right now is investigating him for potential obstruction of justice. so they re the bad guys. he s framing them in a way that could undermine their
is empowered. when you have a problem of this magnitude that can be solved on a law enforcement front that needs to be fronned through military alliances, confronted flu diplomacy, you would expect coordination to happen at the white house through an interagency process led by the president. usually the president kicks butt and says let s get the job done. or empowers the vice president. but you don t see pence leading meetings. for fear of offending his guy that made him. that s right. without clear direction, nobody is doing anything. it s one day it was all under oath by public servants inclu including christopher wray appointed by the president and the national director of intelligence dan coats. these are good people doing their job and the president did not look good today. he was up against truth terls. natasha and meekka, thank both of you. up next, do kras have a message beyond just being anti-trump? and if so, what was that message? joe kennedy delivered the state