sanctions against russia. reporter: the two men were seen in an icy handshake after flynn s turn-about became public. an aide close to flynn says the nsc adviser can no longer rule out that he spoke to the russian ambassador about lifting sanctions imposed by the obama administration after the u.s. intelligence community determined the russians interfered in the u.s. election. flynn, the aide said, has no recollection of discussing sanctions, but added that the national security adviser couldn t be certain that the topic never came up. the kremlin denied the two men talked about sanctions. the reason flynn is in such trouble right now and the reason why the trump administration doesn t just label this as fake news is they know that if there is a transcript, if there are recordings, that can t be dismissed. reporter: offafter the obama administration imposed sanctions were were surprised russia did
national security adviser, mike flynn. within the past half hour or so we get a statement from sean spicer, the white house press secretary, the president is evaluating the situation. no repeat of full confidence. now word from sara murray, our white house correspondent, an administration official says the latest statement about evaluating the situation, no word of full confidence, an administration official says the statement is a product of a meeting just concluded between president trump, reince priebus, the white house chief of staff, and the press secretary, sean spicer. so this is the sentiment, evaluating the situation, clearly coming from the president of the united states. basically withdrawing the kellyanne conway statement that the president has full confidence in national security adviser michael flynn. that s an interesting piece of information, wolf. it is youinsuggests that the pr learned a new piece of information that maybe shifted
within the past hour the counselor to the president, kellyanne conway, says the president has full confidence in michael flynn. and then, within an hour, the white house press secretary comes out once again with this statement saying the president is evaluating the situation. those are two very different statements. what does that say to you? probably the same thing it says to you. i am not privy to the conversations. it s not my role to advise and consent on this particular position so i ll leave it up to the president. he will get to the bottom of it and make his determination. as the chairman of the homeland security committee and a member of the foreign relations committee, i assume this is a subject of interest. well, what i am primarily concerned is the actual substance of, for example, what north korea is doing, the slaughter in syria, russian aggression in ukraine. i am more concerned about that as opposed to the palace intrigues occurring right now in the trump administr
full confidence. certainly hasn t tweeted his support for general flynn. he is now acting as a politician here, allowing his aides to step in front and take the arrows. to gloria s point, it shows you the dysfunctionality within the white house, certainly within the west wing, of trying to please the president, always trying to get out in front of what he wants best. to gloria s point he said, go out and say something, kellyanne and then there is a question. there is the question of loyalty. we always say donald trump is loyal and wouldn t fire michael flynn. how about being loyal to the vice president who feels he was wronged. another issue at play here is the people at the white house are reluctant to start firing people because it looks like they re disorganized and they re having a shakeup really early, three weeks in. and they re reluctant to do that. they may have no choice right now. everybody stand by. we ll get back to this important conversation.
adviser, michael flynn? wolf, the president, according to kellyanne conway, may still have full confidence in flynn, but people i am talking to say that does not mean that the ice under his feet is not growing thin. national security adviser michael flynn in the front row of today s press conference with president trump and the canadian prime minister. an appearance of business as usual even as questions swirl around whether flynn will stay on the job. revelations last week that u.s. intelligence intercepts show flynn had discussed sanctions with russia s ambassador on the very day president obama imposed new ones. one u.s. official tells cnn there is a transcript of the discussion after the call was intercepted. but it does not show flynn making any promises. a source close to the president says trump himself is irritated by the latest reports about his