They re very angry. they wanted those diplomatic compounds backing that president obama took. and they are really upset about these sanctions. congress has passed. there s a lot of talk now about retaliatory steps. we could see the russians for instance kicking out u.s. diplomats, maybe closing american diplomatic compounds. i ll just point out as you recall when barack obama imposed sanctions at the end of last year on the russians as punishment for their interference in the election, mike flynn allegedly told the russian ambassador, don t retaliate. when trump comes into office, we ll make this right. clearly that s not going to happen now. the bottom line is time is running out on this attempted reset that donald trump wants to do. the relationship may be about to get much worse. donald trump may be about to suffer an embarrassment. who knows where it goes from here. it s going to be complicated and potentially dangerous for the u.s.-russia relationship. our relationship with russ
Diplomats, maybe closing american diplomatic compounds. i ll just point out as you recall when barack obama imposed sanctions at the end of last year on the russians as punishment for their interference in the election, mike flynn allegedly told the russian ambassador, don t retaliate. when trump comes into office, we ll make this right. clearly that s not going to happen now. the bottom line is time is running out on this attempted reset that donald trump wants to do. the relationship may be about to get much worse. donald trump may be about to suffer an bears embarrassment. who knows where it goes from here. it s going to be complicate and potentially dangerous for the u.s./russia relationship. our relationship with russia may start to look like our relationship used to be with russia. jill, to the legal question. mr. kushner, if he spends any more time on capitol hill this week, he s going to need his mail forwarded. they have we ve seen the subpoena to man manfort. that has bee
And then the national security adviser serves as an adviser to the president of the united states on national security and foreign policy. hypothetically, i m trying to get the fact, i always have to say this because the facts seem to fluid these days but let s assume that general flynn did speak to the russian ambassador in that december phone call about the sanctions. any problem with that? you know, i don t have a problem with that. i think it would be strange flynn did not apparently have advanced notice of the sanctions, read about them in the newspaper, talked to the russian ambassador. i think it would be i don t see what would be wrong if he simply said, look, don t retaliate, doesn t make sense, it hurts my country, it makes it harder for us as an incoming administration to reconsider russia policy, which is something we said to do. so just hold your fire and let us have a shot at this. i think if flynn had come out, embraced that, explained that that was what he did a
Big deep breath and say the economy is not going to react poorly to a clinton election. the question is then what? unless you have to, right? don t retaliate. if there is a felony or something clear out there, then whether trump wins or clinton wins, of course you have to investigate. please, we don t need four years of nonstop fishing expeditions.
andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. you re in seoul right now traveling with the secretary of state. could you give us an update on sort of how the u.s. state department is thinking about this situation. it obviously seems to be a fluid one. well, first of all, they are saying to kim jong un as secretary kerry did today, don t do it. you are already more provocative than you have a right to be by any global standard. he had a long meeting today with president park, the first woman leader here, the new leader of south korea. and he s basically saying that we will defend japan, we ll defend south korea unconditionally. so we will win this fight against north korea. if they were to attack. the real concern is miscalculation. we talked to a senior official who said this young leader, untested, erratic. we don t know what he will do and what they re trying to do is say to president park, don t retaliate. we ve got your back. and so far, there seems to be a commonality of view betw