and while virginia seems to be a place where this abhorrent culture really thrived, it happens all over the country, and we need to be better, we need to do better, and we need to call to account those who behave in this manner. this is clearly going to be a vetting issue in 2020, and already, annie linskey, your reporting about list welizabeth warren, it turns out she has a texas bar registration card from 1986, defining herself as an american indian. yes, the significance of that card that we turned up is that you re seeing her claim this ethnicity, claim this race in her own handwriting. and that s something that i ve been covering elizabeth warren for a long time, that s just something we haven t seen before. somehow it s quite impactful for people to see that she was truly putting herself out there as a calling herself an american
the whole thing about drinking on the job. think about this, if you were just a regular private practice doctor, your profession would be in jeopardy from these accusations let alone a person who is potentially to be the secretary of one of the most complex and important agencies in the united states government. to be clear, dr. jackson has apparently told republican senators that these things are not true and he never misbehaved on the job. we will see, perhaps, if he gets to a confirmation hearing. this may be less of a dr. jackson story than a white house story. it s a vetting issue right now. they should have known these stories one way or the other. john kelly, his chief-of-staff has a problem with this. there are people inside the white house who are concerned about why he wasn t vetted, why they had to get to this level where people are concerned about it. you have this kind of push/pull between the president and his top aides. it s another one of those inside
destroyi destroying. but for mcgahn, the white house counsel, that is where the vetting of everyone in the white house exists, right? all of this process finds its way through the white house counsel s office. clearly there was a vetting issue with rob porter. and i would imagine that there are going to be questions that the white house counsel has to answer. considering this what did he know, when did he know, i do think if john kelly had information, it will be interesting to know his process and how the president feels about it, about what he chose to share or not share with the president. all right, guys. there s a lot more we re going to have on this story. it s developing right now. we re standing by for the white house briefing as well. we ll see what they have to say about rob porter and more . the briefing room still pretty empty but that will be full pretty soon. the white house set to respond to these very serious new
white house. that s correct, reading the indictment, this isn t about about the president. they are not talking about the trump campaign, this is an activity that started over a decade ago, this is separate from the president. harris: can i ask you a question, i will be more blunt with that, did the campaign have a vetting issue? they were understaffed. the president wasn t out raising a ton of money, he was bringing his message directly to the voters in all these primary states, holding big rallies and bringing people to the cause and he wasn t focused on raising a lot of money for a big huge staff like hillary clinton did and this is one of the problems with having a really small staff. he was also very efficient in getting his message out. harris: one of the other thing sanders was asked about, something you and i talked about over the weekend, you voted no on the budget which would ve halted tax reform and the movement of it the way that it
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