the facts are, so that when donald trump finally decides to either speak to the special counsel or not speak to the special counsel, they will have a base line of truth that he will, of course, invariably lie over. yeah. let s set up david cay johnston, let s go let s show this picture again. we showed it in our last hour. this was the oval office meeting with sergey lavrov and sergey kislyak. and you ll recall that sergey kislyak was the russian ambassador to the u.s. who so many people got into trouble for lying about talking to. multiple members of the trump administration, trump campaign spoke to this guy, including michael flynn, and lied to the fbi about talking to him. and that s him on the right of your screen. sergey lavrov is the russian foreign minister. in light of what this was about, the new york times headline says that trump told the russians in that meeting, where no u.s. press were allowed to attend, the picture, the readout seemed to come from russia that fir
you know, it s just the cascading of these things that is making it very lard for hhar to get out. it would be good for the president to think about how much jet fuel he has added to turn this into a runaway rocket. there s so much instances in the last one that we though about is this strange conversation with the russians. kislyak, who was in the room, is a russian spy master at the center of this whole story. he was the guy who flynn was con sorting with according to some. trump is bragging to him or unloading in front of him about how he fired this nut job comey to get the russian take the heat off of the russia investigation. unthinkable. the first rule of politics is if you want to get out of a hole, stop digging. the president has been digging
how he fired this nut job comey to get the russian take the heat off of the russia investigation. unthinkable. the first rule of politics is if you want to get out of a hole, stop digging. the president has been digging furiously for some time here. admiral, as someone who worked in administrations, what do you do to turn the corner on something like this? as senator santorum and others say, this could be an opportunity. this special counsel could be an opportunity for the president to say, look, that conversation is done. we support the investigation. it s ongoing. i m talking about jobs. i m talking about illegal immigration, whatever it is. yeah. i think that s right. i wish he would take that opportunity. this is the time to stop talking about this stuff. you have the special counsel, which we wouldn t have had had he not fired james comey. let s remember that. now we are where we are. that s a good excuse now for them to say, look, we re going to let the special counsel hand
stories tonight. the story about michael flynn, conversations with the russians and concerns the administration had about it. the story about comey will testify. before all that happened, this happened. a piece hitting the new york times home page with seismic impact. the headline is, trump told russians that firing nut job comey eased pressure from investigation. they write, president trump told russian officials in the oval office this month that firing the fbi director james comey had relieved pressure on him according to a document summarizing the meeting. the piece quotes the president as telling the russians, i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy, a real nut job. the president reported as saying, i face great pressure because of russia. that s taken off. remember, that meeting featured the president sharing code word classified information on isis gathered by israel that must have put lives at risk. maggie haberman joins us. explain what we know about this meeting, wha