have no choice. and this has been obvious for a long time. this is just part one of a two-step process. and i think they re kind of foolish to be giving away the game before this thing is locked up. but i m glad to hear them saying these things. but i knew it was coming. that s a great point that bruce is making. the deficits are the point. because what the deficits do is if you cut taxes like george w. bush did twice in his first term, like they re doing now, you then create a pressure you can use against a possible democratic successor if they want to do anything on the spending side. i just think this idea that deficits are going to be a winning argument or argument that republicans needs to do something kind of mental gymnastics around in order to prop them up as a way to cut entitlements, i think those days
so we know how to cover almost anything. even a red-hot mascot. [mascot] hey-oooo! whoop, whoop! [crowd 1] hey, you re on fire! [mascot] you bet i am! [crowd 2] dude, you re on fire! [mascot] oh, yeah! [crowd 3] no, you re on fire! look behind you. [mascot] i m cool. i m cool. [burke] that s one way to fire up the crowd. but we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing or two. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum the white house claims since february that michael flynn lied to everyone about his call to the russian ambassador. we know that s not true. now we know even reince priebus knew about it from the start. before and after that call with the russian ambassador, flynn spoke with a senior member of
control after michael flynn was let go in february. and the story about flynn, remember, the trump administration settled on at the time was oh, flynn was some rogue operator. no one knew that he talked to the russian ambassador about sanctions. and then the gall of the guy, he lied to everyone, including the vice president about that call. the story was flynn was fired for those lies, and here is reince priebus in february calling flynn a liar. it was the fact that he wasn t straight or honest. and i just found it hard to believe that you would have a conversation with the russian ambassador and not remember it. but what if reince priebus wasn t being straight or honest? that s thing 2 in 60 seconds. [burke] at farmers, we ve seen almost everything
vice president about that call. the story was flynn was fired for those lies, and here is reince priebus in february calling flynn a liar. it was the fact that he wasn t straight or honest. and i just found it hard to believe that you would have a conversation with the russian ambassador and not remember it. but what if reince priebus wasn t being straight or honest? that s thing 2 in 60 seconds.
is this standard operating procedure? we re talking about almost an unprecedented situation right now. it s hard to characterize this as standard procedure. what i think is being described here makes sense, which is that you ll have teams or cells of agents assigned for a particular target. you might have some team working flint. some team working another target and they will come in and ask the same witness different types of questions. so when the witness thinks that they are done for the time being, they don t necessarily realize that there is another team of agebnts outside the doo because they will come at it from a different approach. what has this done to the folks that experienced it based on your reporting. one thing we ve been told by people that have been through the room is agents, prosecutors are extraordinary confident and methodical and calm to a degree that some people have found unnerving. they have even been friendly and