until it was unfolding in the last three days. i feel like i don t think it was fully answered. it doesn t really matter to me exactly because i think that asking for the resignation was probably the right thing to do and he s moved on and there will be a new national security advisor. kimberly: eric, what do you make of this? there is the chronology, the timeline issue. statement by the commander-in-chief saying mike flynn did nothing wrong as it relates to doing his job and the specifics about russia. but should have communicated honestly to the vice president. eric: that s it. that s what i ve been saying. the reason the resignation was requested was because he allowed vice president pence to go out there, after general flynn was saying i didn t have this discussion. and then pence saying i him. he didn t have any. he had phone calls, may be didn t speak about sanctions. you put the vice president in a
this piece saying, watch to see if david wildstein has anything to say if he s granted immunity in this case. thank you for being the huge neon arrow pointing and blinking at david wildstein before the story broke today. you re welcome. in terms of what he actually said, mr. wildstein s letter is the first time any of governor christie s aides or allies have challenged the governor s statements on this issue. do we know enough yet to know whether this is an important turning point? i don t think we know if this is the turning point of the story, certainly it s a sign that this timeline issue that has been really lingering in this story is not going to go away very easily. the last time the governor spoke about when he learned this was happening, which is a legitimate question only because you d expect he would take some action hearing about how disruptive it was. the story shifted somewhat from in december saying he had learned of this when the pat foye angry e-mail was published
ma made that jam happen said today there is in his words evidence that governor christie knew about that whole thing as it was under way. the governor is denying it. joining us, ted mann of the wall street germjournal publi this piece saying, watch to see if david wildstein has anything to say if he s granted immunity in this case. thank you for being the huge neon arrow pointing and blinking at david wildstein before the story broke today. you re welcome. in terms of what he actually said, mr. wildstein s letter is the first time any of governor christie s aides or allies have challenged the governor s statements on this issue. do we know enough yet to know whether this is an important turning point? i don t think we know if this is the turning point of the story, certainly it s a sign that this timeline issue that has been really lingering in this story is not going to go away very easily. the last time the governor spoke
was no political targeting. this was simply an effort, there was a huge increase in the number of applications for tax-exempt status. in effect he said it is a bookkeeping mistake. i don t know that that is going to, first of all, i don t think it has been, has flown with this committee very much and i think it won t fly with the american people the idea that the single abouting out of groups with tea party, with patriot, with constitution, with bill of rights in their name was simply a way to try to, you know, lump together a group with no partisan application to it at all, simply so you could organize the piles of applications. he also was asked, you know, why didn t you tell us when you found out the fact there was targeting going on? well i just answered the questions as they were asked. again i don t think that will fly with the committee. martha: yeah. i want to play a bit of sound here, chris, from representative kevin brady from texas. we re waiting on that. we ll get that in a
400,000 threshold. something the president offered. what does this do about taxes on inherited estates? currently, an estate worth $5 million or more gets taxed at a 35% rate. will that stay or change at all? and all of the automatic budget cuts we ve deputy talking about for a year. nothing that would suggest that something will come up, later perhaps by march when they talk about the debt ceiling. he s talking about later in march, talking about a small deal being done now, which means we have to be back doing this all over again. yeah, the only thing on the table at this point are the tax rates extending bush tax cuts and a whole suite of things that were part of the fiscal cliff that aren t going to be touched. we ll have the debt ceiling rehash, all of these things come back in the first couple of weeks. we have a timeline issue here, we just a few days