least one fbi representative implanted for political purposes into my campaign for president. it took place very early on and long before the phony russia hoax became a hot fake news story. if true, all time biggest political scandal. there s no evidence to support that claim which the president s own lawyer copped to earlier today. this informant if there is one, first of all, i don t know for sure if there was one. we re told that. by whom. by people for a long time we ve been told there was some kind of infiltration. at one time the president thought it was a wiretap. there s never been any proof he was on a wiretap either. no. no proof. but that s not what matters here. what we know according to the washington post is that the source is, the person who did help the fbi apparently in this criminal investigation is a u.s. citizen who has provided information over the years to the fbi and cia and aided the russia investigation before and after mueller s appointment a ye
thing he mentions flynn. it is the case that donald trump is on twitter this morning yet again defending michael flynn who s a convicted he copped a plea. he took a plea deal, he is an admitted criminal. i can t strikes me as shocking that still these many months later that he is a critic of jim comey not surprising. we know all about that. but the notion he is still defending michael flynn just kind of blows my mind. ben, what is it about the mike flynn relationship that donald trump can t seem to let go, even as the man has copped to a federal crime? well, i feel like the thing about mike flynn that people forget, he is a professional loyalist. before he went down in flames for donald trump, he went down in flames for stanley mcchrystal. and for all his whatever his flaws, he is a guy who is was incredibly loyal. i think trump is somebody who rewards loyalty. he is also in a situation where it is very important that he signal he rewards loyalty. i think it is very important
because i do think it s not just mark halperin we re going to see a number of other figures in the media and otherwise have more and more women come out against them. jesse: you re probably right about that. he released a statement and copped to a lot of misbehavior and rudeness and inappropriateness. so i mean if those allegations are true, i just feel terrible for those women that were suffering that kind of abuse of power. philip, anything else big this week? well i think it s really easy to focus on a lot of fights in congress. we saw a positive story coming out of the white house when president trump was getting serious about the opioid epidemic and he got serious in a great way. he of the didn t say do xy and z and we re going to beat this thing. he went with an all of the above approach. in the most powerful moment he talked about his own brother who he lost to alcoholism. this is so the important. if you are that person in the
i think that s probably going to happen. american culture used to be a culture that celebrated privacy. in the 180s as we re watching celebrities play out on stage, hey, i want to join too. all the world becomes a stage. you start seeing shows like real people or the people s court. the people s court where reality television is taken one step further. what copped did was it took away the script and just brought the camera people and the crews on location to try and catch actual things happening.
about this is susan rice is a well-known cereal prevaricate her. she s been copped in an obvious lie caught in an obvious lie. how is it that reporters aren t going nuts asking her questions about this. why is she lying? why did she lie about this? bret: howard kurtz could do a whole segment on who is covering this. interesting experience with one of our reporters today on capitol hill asking what i think are the obvious questions. given the news in the story yesterday, eli lake, obvious questions to ask. why did she say a squat? how often does she do it? members of the intelligence committee asking these question questions. of the reporters asking questions of the same time were looking at her as if she were crazy. these are serious questions and