flynn, the interaction with donald trump, what did you make of what you saw today? i think it s really notable there still is not an answer why it took 18 more days for the trump white house to dismiss mike flynn. also, confusion about why exactly they did so. you have sally yates coming and talking to don in three separate conversations, two in person and 18 days later, there is a news report and a couple series of news reports that outline those conversations, and then the donald trump white house dismisses mike flynn. initially they said he resigned. the next day they came out and said, no, actually he was fired. then, donald trump is tweeting how mike flynn is a great guy and he didn t do anything wrong and this was all essentially, i m paraphrasing a witch-hunt by the media. in those 18 day, was there an
wleefg that in this country. so sally yates goes to the white house and says you have a problem. what did we learn beyond that? the tension at the heart of the query. was this an outside in issue of russia in the united states? or people in the united states or the united states government, flynn being a key individual, who were somehow either trying to assist the russians. so number one, that sally quinn was compromised to the degree that they wanted to intercede. something we heard before but never on the record from her. that flynn lied to officials. and number three, she declined to say, and this is the only sliver of good news for the ump whi house i whawas i think a difficult hearing for them. she declined toay whether he
american public. that is a point that sometimes gets lost in the coverage of this how large an issue this is. lying is not just a matter of what is going on in the white house, what the american public deserves to know and whether or not this transition was trying to supersede the white house in power at the time. the one president at a time rule this country has observed for decades. katy tur, thank you and thank you for being part of our coverage. the trump white house, difficult to anticipate how they will react to what they saw today. as witness goes, how do you think yates did clinically? clinically, i truly thought she was excellent. she was very clear how she chose her words, what she would not speak to, what was covered and governed by the rules and she did not have a dramatic opening and it was preftory.
not sense the hearing wrapped up in the last couple minutes. we are reaching out to see what they have to say. i imagine it will be along the lines of what we heard prior to this. an attempt on pry to politicize sally yates. paint her as an obama administration appointee. work the question her credibility. i cannot imagine has changed. here s what has changed. the line of questioning that they are getting toward pepper sean spicer with tomorrow. specifically around the questions. why did sean spicer describe what sally yates came and did at the white house as a heads up, she discovers it as two in-person meetings. the urgency to take action. and an invitation to come view the under lying evidence at the fbi about why they have these
you for coming on. what did you hear that interested you the most from sally yates and part two of that question, what do you want to hear from sally yates? good evening, brian. this is a picture coming more and more into focus. from sally yates we heard just how hard she tried to tell the white house that they had a member at its highest level who may have been compromised by the russians. former dni clapper talking about more details of russia s interference campaign. something that bothered me, the gravity of this attack is also becoming clearer. the republicans on the committee who wanted to talk about anything but russian meddling was very concerning to me. i really hope that we find a way for both republicans and democrats to care about this and make sure we re never in a position like this again. you re part of the overall investigation, democrats in the