and reassure the president or whether there was a thorough investigation and there was more information they could be obtained. sabrina, the news about natalia veselnitskaya saying she s an informant for the russian government, does it change things? well, it certainly calls into question what the trump campaign knew going into that now infamous meeting at trump tower. based on the e-mails that donald trump jr. was forced to make public, he was explicitly told there was an effort by the rv russian government to aid his father s campaign. so were the high-level officials that included not just trump jr. but also jared kushner and paul manafort aware of the extent of the natalia veselnitskaya s ties to the kremlin? also, when you played that clip of adam schiff discussing her outreach after the election, what was the nature of that conversation from the trump end of it, and was there, in fact, some sort of quid pro quo that was established? certainly this is all the more reason why t
to avert a trump win during the presidential contest. one of the people who was at the center of that never trump campaign was a republican pollster and political strategist named john lerner. despite his never trump history, though. john lerner ended up getting a job in the trump administration. apparently, you can see him here at a white house briefing on thursday. he is seated indus n. ambassador nikki haley over there at the trump end of the table. john lerner as a pollster helps nikki haley get elected governor in south carolina back in 2010. now that nikki haley has moved to the u.n. where she s u.n. ambassador he has gone to the u.n. with her. he s her deputy in that job. the same day as that picture was taken in the situation room we learned that john lerner was also up for a new job. he was up for a second job that he was going to add on to his old one. john lerner, deputy to nikki haley, will lead vice president
he is seated behind u.n. ambassador nikki haley over there at the trump end of the table. john lerner as a pollster helps nikki haley get elected governor in south carolina back in 2010. now that nikki haley has moved to the u.n. where she s u.n. ambassador, he has gone to the u.n. with her. he s her deputy in that job. the same day as that picture was taken in the situation room we learned that john lerner was also up for a new job. he was up for a second job that he was going to add on to his old one. john lerner, deputy to nikki haley, will lead vice president mike pence s foreign policy team and advise him on all national security issues. significantly, mr. lerner will also keep his job working for nikki haley, dividing his time between the two principals and coordinating between the two teams. the two officials will have the same key adviser on national security. the vice president reportedly picked jon lerner for this job, after months of searching.
john if you heard jonathan s report there. you had camera issues. the point remains, if roy moore wants to recount this, wants to call for a recount, he has to pay for it himself. this is a pretty big hit for steve bannon and his wing of the republican party, correct? yeah. this is going to be over in alabama soon. the reverberations in washington and across the country will linger for quite a while. you ve had this civil war going on in the republican party between this bannon populous, trump end wing, if you will, and moore establishment wing that sort of seen through the personification of mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader. clearly a big blow to bannon. he s trying to portray it as the establishment didn t give enough support to roy moore when he was on the ropes. there s no questions there s real issues about candidate selection when you talk about
that would also interested knowledge of ties between the trump campaign and transition team and administration and russian officials. coming back to the michael flynn potential for black mail, michael flynn was a ticking security time bomb in part because of conversations with the rugs. though ties are under investigation and the reason that director clapper couldn t speak more fully or directly to those issues. let me ask you this. everything that you are hearing now on michael flynn, this clearly was a vetting issue on the trump end of things. are you watching all of this and feel as if the justice department should have acted sooner on flynn? the white house should have acted more quickly once it knew about this potential risk of black mail. it wasn t only because of those conversations between flynn and the russians, it was also apparently that flynn may well