Chief spokesman for the justice department. And jeremy bash, spokesman at the Defense Department. Kristen, get us up to speed with this reporting of yours and the white houses reaction to what weve learned that president obama then warned president elect donald trump not to hire mike flynn. Reporter thats right. According to our reporting, based on conversations with three former Top Obama Administration officials, former president obama did warn then president elect trump against hiring mike flynn during that 90minute meeting they had in the oval office and talked about mismanagement as well as potential judgment issues. But of course, President Trump decided to hire him any way. Now, we asked the white house about this. I spoke to a number of officials here, and theyre down playing that conversation, but not denying it, katie. One top official here making the point that the president elect wasnt particularly surprised, given the fact that mike flynn had been out campaigning and on tv
As topics today. What are you listening for . Reporter thats right, brooke. Aside from the president s tweets yesterday, this will really be our first time to pose questions to the white house about what happened in that hearing on capitol hill yesterday with sally yates and the revelation that she offered some pretty stern warnings about Michael Flynn, about his contacts with the russians and misleading the Vice President about them. One of the questions this white house still has not answered is why President Trump kept Michael Flynn on as National Security adviser for 18 days after this administration was warned that he could be compromised and blackmailed by the russians. Of course, we are also expecting there could be questions about health care, where this looms next on capitol hill now that its in the senate. In addition to that, where the president s head stands on sending additional troops into afghanistan. We are expecting his top National Security advisers to recommend he se
James comey. He will be speaking at the Antidefamation League summit here in washington. We left heard from director comey when he spoke and testified before the Senate Judiciary committee the other day. The committees next hearing begins next hour. The former director of National Intelligence James Clapper will testify along with the former acting attorney general sally yates. Yates is expected to layout exactly what kind of warning she gave the white house about their choice for National Security adviser, the fired Michael Flynn. Bring in jim acosta. Sally yates wasnt the only one who warned the Trump Administration about hiring Michael Flynn as the president s top National Security adviser. You have breaking news on this. What are your sources telling you . Thats right, wolf. As a matter of fact, it was president obama who warned then president elect trump on november 10th. Youll remember that 90 minute Oval Office Meeting that they had here at the white house two days after Preside
Entities, attempts to influence the United States election. And thats one investigation. I think the second, this false narrative that we continue to fight every day, that has been debunked by intelligence individuals, members of congress who have been briefed over and over again. Thats where i think hes growingly concerned, as well as a number of American People, who are growingly concerned that there is this perpetuated false narrative out there. Thats, i think, the nut of this. When you talk to a former fbi official today who said the president s tweet, the implicit threat to former fbi director james comey indicates that the president , in his words, is simply out of control. I would like to get you to respond to that. Is he . I thats, franks ly, offensive. John . Thank you, sean. Two questions about the fbi directors selection process. You said the names are coming from the Justice Department right now. Is the president consulting with Democratic Congressional leaders as well or r
Despite that, despite 40 million, 18 trump haters including people that worked for Hillary Clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. The president s blistering condemnation of mueller comes as more democrats push for his impeachment. So far, nancy pelosi still resisting. John roberts now from the north lawn. John, i should say within moments were expecting to see the president at falcon stadium. Hes giving the commencement speech. Well let you take it away with mueller. The president is running an hour late, so that will happen 1 15 or so. Certainly Robert Mueller yesterday injected new political momentum into this whole idea of whether or not the president committed any kind of obstruction in the russia investigation and giving more fuel to democrats that might want to go down the road for impeachment. Thats why the president came out swinging so hard as he was on his way out the door of the white house, saying there was no evidence of collusion between th