brian has the night off. there is cloud hanging over this white house and its contacts with russia. the washington post was first to report tonight that ousted national security adviser michael flynn was warned by top officials from the trump transition team about talking to russia s ambassador, sergey kisly kislyak, transition officials were so concerned that flynn didn t understand the role of rs s ambassador they asked the obama administration for their background information on kislyak. one of the reporters who broke that story is with us. greg thanks for being with us late on a friday night. sure. thank you. it seems like a shocking revelation that the same team that has accused president obama of wiretapping them turned to
within this atmosphere of donald trump whether it s jeff sessions not remembering having, you know, time with the russian ambassador, the u.s. one, sergey kislyak, or the fact that there are certain members of the team, whether it s mike flynn, who was not transparent about being a foreign agent, being paid by turkey during his time advising the president prior to his election. what makes you think that you can really get the truth out of certain people you d like to have go under oath? thomas, when i was a prosecutor, i would tell juries that we actually sometimes learned just as much when we prove that somebody is not telling the truth. when we saw that mike flynn had lied to the vice president and jeff sessions had lied twice under oath about prior contacts, that s a consciousness of guilt. they were asked about important dealings with russia and both of them denied it and then later it was revealed. that actually shows that they were attempting to cover up their prior contacts. a
russia is indeed attacking us through this interference campaign. one month later, carter page, who president trump cites as a foreign policy senior adviser on the campaign, gets permission from the campaign and travels over to moscow. now, it s very interesting that a senior adviser to the trump team would visit moscow at a time it s known across our country that russia is attacking us. you ve also launched a website and a specific page, and i think people that have looked at ancestry.com might get confused by this because it s the links. you give all these different links of the people within trump and his team and the potential connections to whether it s the ambassador to the u.s. sergey kisly kislyak, or vladimir putin, russian business interests, and certain people within the trump orbit that have had contact haven t proven they re all related yet, thomas. we re just working on the personal, political, and business ties. it s a living, working website because as we see, it
break the story. he mentioned the high-profile figures. michael flynn, the russian ambassador to the u.s., sergey kisly kislyak. mike mention, sean spicer. reince prebus, sally yates, john bren b, and james clapper and fbi director, james comey. adam enders talked with cnn s anderson cooper. this came to a head on the obama administration, the last full day obama was in office. there was a depate between the intelligence community, the justice department and the fbi, you had sally yates and the
to the fbi. that raises serious questions possibly about obstruction of justice, if after all the president as has been reported asked former fbi director james comey to get rid of the investigation into michael flynn. further, it also raises questions about the white house s efforts to distance themselves from michael flynn. at first on friday calling hmm a former obama administration official and also making the case that president obama approved of michael flynn s conversations with sergey kisly kislyak, the russian ambassador, to discuss sanctions. the reaction from democrats was swift, including this tweet from adam shift, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, he responded to the president s initial tweet writing, quote, if that is true, mr. president, why did you wait so long to fire flynn? why did you fail to act until his lies were publicly exposed? why did you pressure director