well, if you recall, the e-mail that was sent between rob gold stone who is the film producer and he messaged basically donald trump jr. about some very sensitive information that he wanted to give the trump campaign during the 2016 election, that is something that they re pinning on, because she was actually mentioned in that e-mail as possibly the vehicle in which they would, you know, transmit this information. so rona who has been a long time secretary of donald trump before he was president, this obviously could mean big implications. i don t think this will be a really big deal in terms of what she knew, but of course, the house intelligence committee figuring this whole thing out and getting those answers is very important. i want to talk a little bit more about this investigation. we certainly see a change in strategy or a very profound strategy from both the white house and republicans and it is
here. throughout the crises he called himself throughout the campaign, he won. and so i think there s a concern to, you know, are we going to run away from and then the base is going to hate us in addition to the issues that we have with independents and democrats. just on your point, tom, do you think that is waiting a little too late? i think the republicans are not doing themselves any service by being completely unable to disagree with some of the outrageous steps the president has taken. now, the bigger question to me is, are they going to stand up for the constitution whether the issue is fbi leadership or russia investigation or careless handling of intelligence. that s what they should be focusing on for the sake of the country but i agree, as much as i understand the republican leadership, until they start to
unpredictability. if they knew that donald trump was going to talk about, let s say, spying and the wall every single day from now until next november, congressional republicans would be able to position with that or against it. the problem is, they have no idea what is coming neck. the downward spiral? yes. and the oem person who knows what he s going to do next is donald trump and that puts them very much on edge and they pick up their phone and look at it what s coming. that s key. it s telling about the mentality which context matters
information came from but the idea that what he said might be more specific that the russians doing counterintelligence, trying to figure out where it comes from, that will enable them to figure it out. we should note, some of the information that the president said in this meeting with russian officials is information that we and the media know about the laptop computer crisis but that we didn t report because we were told not to report it, it will put people s lives at risk. right. right. we knew that in march, in fact. what do you think of the fact that they moved up that briefing several hours earlier. it wasn t sean spicer handling the questions. it was the national security adviser. how much of the message is for the press versus republicans and democra
house reached the conclusion there was no legal issue. it wasn t from my discussion with them. do you think michael flynn should have been fired? i think it was a serious situation and he lied to the vice president of the united states. whether he s fired or not is a decision for the president of the united states to make but doesn t seem like that s a person who should be sitting in the national security adviser position. mike flynn was let go after the washington post reported a story. some republicans have accused you of leaking it. did you leak it? absolutely not. i did not and i would not leak classified information. have you ever leaked information? no. the president seems to suggest that you were behind this washington post article. the morning before you tweeted he said, ask sally yates if she knows how the information got out after she explained it to