comfortable enough with him, so much so that he wanted to make him his national security advis adviser. but it is quite amazing that they are saying that this is no big deal. i think it s a very big deal, and what we know now is that president obama tried to spare donald trump these endless negative headlines that keep coming up around general flynn. donald trump wasn t didn t have any pause, sean spicer says, liz, that obama warned him about general flynn. after all, general flynn had been going after secretary of state hillary clinton during the campaign quite hard, saying lock her up at the republican national convention and repeating it during campaign rallies. he also was no fan of president obama, whose administration he was dismissed under in 2014 as dni. they re making this political. shocker. look, they re doing everything in their power to try to delegimize this investigation,
republicans during the presidential campaign saying that hillary clinton would end up in jail, saying lock her up. obviously, that did not come to pass. for weeks and months they were saying it would or could. it s a little bit early to know. congressman castro said based on the information he s seen, the public information and the private, classified information, he thinks some people, not just one person, will wind up in jail. that doesn t help if you want to have a bipartisan investigation. he s entitled to his own opinion but people are trying to lower the decibel level and not increase it. to jump to these kind of conclusions at this point, i think is a bit of a tease and really is a little early. you wanted to weigh in david. i agree with that. he s a great friend of mine. i have a lot of respect for him. it s probably best for all involved in this investigation to keep speculation at a minimum
nights together traveling on the campaign trail. this seems impossible. the fact that that man was a foreign agent of turkey, who has been hostile towards u.s. interests for a good part of the syrian civil war and was getting paid at the same time he was delivering a speech trashing hillary clinton at the republican national committee. saying lock her up. yeah. saying he was an agent of a foreign country of turkey throughout the inphases of the campaign, and even when donald trump got elected. it s shocking. i guess it shouldn t be shocking. this is the sort of thing that would not happen in past administrations, but there are apparently, everything goes ethically. by the way, i would like some clarification from the white
they are not part of the swamp whether using that term or not. and i think this is what president-elect trump has committed to do. these are the types of people. of course there s going to be people with washington experience in the cabinet in the top levels of government. we certainly expect him not to clean house totally, but these are people who really exemplify the direction he s going. talking about the direction going forward. i want to ask you, are there campaign promises that you feel like he s already softening? let s say the ban on muslims. when he was he would go to rallies and say lock her up, but then of course when it came down to i think it was 60 minute interview and said i don t want to hurt the clintons. i don t want to hurt their family. is he softening on issues that voters really voted for? the left can t criticize him for saying lock her up and then when he doesn t use terms like that when he s the president-elect, they can t have it both ways. but he s not
remember during the convention lock her up. lock her up, lock her up. and he kind of tried to quiet it a little at the convention because he was in presidential mode. now this was a primary campaign debate to me tonight and what he was doing was rallying the base by saying lock her up effectively, which he did also, calling her a liar multiple times and the devil. multiple times. and saying he d put her in jail. and he said she had hate in her heart. i don t think that s going to play very well with voters. i think what happened was he said i m throwing out the playbook and i m going with, as you point out, i m going with the material that s worked for me when i go out there and speak to these rallies. this line of prosecuting hillary clinton is something he s used in his rallies. this is not a new idea. he just raised it to the level of a debate point here. and my guess is it will resonate well with his base and it will antagonize the people he needs