much. let s have a big discussion on everything we have talked about. i have malia henderson standing by. michael morse, a former u.s. attorney general who knows sally yates and mia mckinney and gloria borger. great to have all of you on. nia, let s step back on the sally yates story and just do the 30,000 foot view. i think we just need to remind everyone who she is, why she is a key player, having come from the obama administration as a holdover, acting a.g. why is she important? why does her testimony matter? her testimony matters, because she is the person in her role as acting attorney general who alerted the white house that michael flynn, his private sort of testimony or private interactions with the russian ambassador, sergei kiss llyov w
staffer but an intelligence official. why is that intelligence official in the white house? is he detailed to a white house office? is he simply working in the white house in an office space there? these are all questions that could help explain these issues and could tell us whether or not devin nunes needs to recuse himself or not. sandra: if we could finish with the sally yates story. the washington post saying the trump administration tried to block her from testifying on russia. we just heard sean spicer and the white house saying that is not the case. yeah. i mean, look. the washington post article seems to leave a little more than what the evidence suggests. there s not enough information. again, this is a recurring theme here, whether or not the doj s letter to sally yates attorney. there s no evidence that that s the case. there s no evidence that chairman nunes cancelled the
here, at least at the very least with the perception that he s sort of blurring the separation of powers between congress and the white house. that s something that i think the white house could do a lot to clear up. sandra: you ve got top democrats like chuck shumer who are saying he shouldn t just recuse himself. he should step down altogether. as we heard nunes on the o reilly factor last night, he said, why should i? what s the answer we re hearing to that? well, we shouldn t be surprised that democrats are trying to take political advantage of this. that seems to actually be the story for pretty much all of the parties involved in this, which is you sort of take your own reality and say, well, this clearly indicates that the tpablgt facts that i would like to be true are true and tell this narrative. the problem is we just don t have enough facts for, for instance, who was nunes source in the white house? he told eli lake, a journalist, that it s not a white house
things. that whole healthcare, gop debacle is behind us. feels like there s a concerted effort now to focus on tax cuts, tax reform, things that have an immediate impact on the economy. people are feeling a sigh of relief sandra: the failure of the healthcare bill was bad for markets, but now we re moving on. the disarray was bad for markets. sandra: ford is a huge story today. this $9 billion u.s. investment saying they re going to create or retain 8500 jobs as part of its 2015uaw contract. they re going to spend $850 million upgrading its michigan assembly plant, securing 3600 jobs there alone, inves millions of dollar. charles, what does this all mean? they cut a deal with the uaw a couple years ago. from what we are seeing from them, they re saying, we re big corporations. we don t do things on a whim. we have things on the drawing board. but now, now we ve got the
russian connection. i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is at some point report the facts. facts are that every sinle person who has been briefed on this subject has come to the same conclusion. i m sorry that disgusts you. you re shaking your head. sandra: salad dressing made its appearance today. john roberts live at the white house. john, every day is different when it comes to that press briefing. what did we say today? reporter: i have to admit that s probably one of the better lines sean spicer has used. there was talk about sally yates. you mentioned this at the top. story was this morning that the white house was trying to block sally yates from testifying before the house intelligence committee and revealing some privileged information. that would be information that went back and forth between the white house, specifically information about deliberations. well, when you take a look at