atlanta, and she got a lot of democrats upset with her. even and including john lewis, who evan perez, our now colleague who back then was working in 2009 for wall street journal did a story he showed me yesterday, that that story said john lewis was trying to block her appointment because he was afraid she was a republican. yes, she was working for the obama administration but obama was the guy who was the president. she had also worked for other administrations technically because of her job as a career justice department official. the other thing about the heads-up. to me, heads-up is hey, mom, put on cnn, i m going to be on brooke s show. not oh, my gosh, there s a matter of national security and your national security adviser could be compromised by the russians. you need to know this. to me, they are very different. i totally agree with david that sean was trying to use the same language he used way back when, when we first learned about this, but still, now that we heard the t
i think she s made, you know, i think it was widely rumored to reply a large role in the justice department if hillary clinton had won. so on a different topic, i have a question about that fired usher, angela reed. it was reported she received a generous severance package. how do you give a substantial severance package to a government employee? i don t know. i would be glad to get back to you on that. aneta? reporter: yesterday we learned sally yates said she learned of the first immigration order, the travel ban, by reading the newspaper. i m wondering why the acting attorney general wasn t privy to that. was that because she was a clinton obama pointee, clinton supporter? why was the acting attorney general not notified? she had just met the same day it was signed. i don t know why she want. again, we don t want to relitigate the first executive order at the time. we talked about all the proper
informed at that time? i know he was informed at the front end of what she had told them and the counsel had informed him they were going to then seek the information that she said was available to them. ha hallie? reporter: i want to follow up on what a couple folks mentioned. you described in this briefing what sally did as a heads-up with don mcgahn. she testified she came to the white house twice in person on the 26th and 27th to do more, she says, than simply offer to provide materials. she says she encouraged the white house to act and expressed real concern about mike flynn being compromised by the russians. on the 28th, saturday, mike flynn sat in on that oval office phone call with president putin. is that the right call? again, i think what you have is somebody who was an obama pointee coming in saying i get it no, no at that moment, sure, you have someone who you have to wonder why they are telling you something to the point where they had to come back a second t
they are doing their job and they are giving you a warning because it is their job to do this, and that sally yates wasn t coming to them out of any partisan irk but she was coming to them to say look, you have a problem here. and she came to them, to use your metaphor of the category 5 hurricane, three times after president obama warned of said hurricane to the incoming president himself. let me move on to, dana, you covered, you all really have, covered capitol hill for years and years, on this whole question about you have essentially these 13 older white gentlemen, essentially you know where i m going with this. essentially tasked to come up with the senate s version of this health care bill which i don t know how much these men know about menopause or maternity issues or obstetrics or you name it but when sean spicer was asked about this, he almost acted like he wasn t even
obama pointee. you haesh some say that s bogus. our white house reporter is reporting that this has been underconsideration for days but one of the final straws was the revelation that his testimony was riddled with unthoouts. there were only a handful. it was wrong. there were serious errors in that testimony. do you buy that at all as a reason? does that make you question whether the fbi director is doing his job? i find it very hard to believe that the reason donald trump fired jim comey is because he was too unfair to an aip dean. there s nothing that holds up that supports the very poor insipid talking points that trump surrogates have been given to spout here. . not credible.