yahoo news and cnn analyst and senior columnist at the daily beast, matt lewis. the president tweeted today. i had to fire flynn because he lied to the president, he pled guilty to those lies. it was a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. there was nothing to hide. the president writes that flynn s actions were lawful and the only crime was lie. did the president admits he knew when he asked james comey to drop the investigation. question number one, you know you were talking earlier about this thing of logan act which was passed in the 1700 in the united states. it is really, it is never been enforced. there is only been two cases in history. both were dropped. so it is kind of a dead law.
and dishonorable discharge for this is a person who pled guilty to deserting his fellow men and women in uniform on a battlefield faced by hostile enemies. i am afraid that this is one of those cases that calls for a very strong measures of justice, because men and women in the field on the young men and women in the field have to be able to depend on their fellow brothers and sisters next to them, and they cannot be worrying and the back of the mind that someone will wander off base and dessert. also you take into account that our military expended a great deal of time and took casualties trying to find him, because they assumed that bowe bergdahl had been kidnapped rather than deserted. shannon: and we heard from families and men whose lives were changed forever because they were out there searching for him and suffered grave harm in the process. the president tweeted today, the decision on bowe bergdahl is a
neil sen will be the new homeland security choice. they re all standing so it looks like this might begin at any moment and we ll have to go to it. but she ll come in having to deal with some pretty serious issues. the top of the list is puerto rico and what s going on down there. the president tweeted today, ke cannot keep fema, the military and first responders who have been amazing under the most difficult circumstances in puerto rico forever. about 90% of the country still does not have electricity, the epa put out a statement that they re getting reports that people who don t have access to clean drinking water are going to super fund sites, hazardous waste sites where the wells are not full of clean water looking for something to drink. yes, maybe all those people
reporter: the failing new york times set little bob corker up by recording his conversation, the president tweeted today. was made to sound a fool, and that s what i am dealing with. but we re now learning it was, in fact, corker who asked the new york times to record the interview. and tonight, two republican senators, the only two so far, have come forward to criticize corker and defend the president. david, both of those senators are up for re-election. jon karl live in washington. jon, thank you. and there is still much more ahead on this special edition of world news tonight. the deadly shooting on an american campus. the university officer killed. the student allegedly opening fire inside the police station, and the urgent hunt that followed. also ahead tonight, the airport bomb plot. the explosive device discovered near the terminal, and authorities tonight with what they say the suspect said. and the nfl s new statement tonight. will there be a new rule now ab
allies, we are doing things, these ten gentle things including threatening a trade war with china. threatening a trade war with south korea. these are the countries that we need to incircle north korea and to bring that overwhelming economic pressure on them. and you can see here where the president s party is breaking with him because it makes no sense at this time where north korea is feeling so emboldened right now. they re seeing these frayed relations with our allies and they re feeling empowered by it, not just by what is going on with russia and china but threatening a trade war against our allies. you know you have the trump administration at once saying we stand with south korea. we re going to sell them more weapons as he said in the call yesterday that he had with our president, again, tweeted today. so, if you re going to stand with them, then you re also going to pull out of trade. like it doesn t, it doesn t quite work. and i think that that s a complication where you h