to various other people about what he considers a single most important subject there is, our national security. i m not here to say who knew what when because, first of all, that would be divulging information that is highly sensitive and, secondly, i don t know all of the details. immediately after the department of justice notified the white house council of the situation, the white house council briefed the president in a small group of senior advisers. the vice president mike pence was misled by general flynn or general flynn could not completely recall what his conversations had been. but you knew that. but, kellyanne, the white house knew that almost three weeks ago. i think misleading the vice president really was the key here. you re saying that was the straw that broke the cackle s back but the white house knew about that last month when the justice department warned the white house that mr. flynn or general flynn had not been completely honest in characterizing t
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let me ask youhis and the reason hold it. the reason on a special prosecutor is because we know that attorney general sessions was a key adviser all the way through the campaign, gave legal advice a number of times and he may well have been giving legal advice to michael flynn on these issues. so how can he independently investigate it? your colleague chuck schumer today called for jeff sessions to recuse himself for that reason. he was an adviser to the campaign along with general flynn. i want to ask you the same question that i asked mike coffman and that i asked chris murphy. can you have any confidence at this point, as a senator of the united states, that you are getting truthful information from the president of the united states and his staff on any issue given what we ve seen over not just the last 36 hours but the last 24 days of this administration. i have no confidence we re
advice a number of times and he may well have been giving legal advice to michael flynn on these issues. so how can he independently investigate it? your colleague chuck schumer today called for jeff sessions to recuse himself for that reason. he was an adviser to the campaign along with general flynn. i want to ask you the same question that i asked mike coffman and that i asked chris murphy. can you have any confidence at this point, as a senator of the united states, that you are getting truthful information from the president of the united states and his staff on any issue given what we ve seen over not just the last 36 hours but the last 24 days of this administration. i have no confidence we re getting truthful information. that s why we need a criminal investigation here of the criminal activity and i would like to see a 9/11 type commission which we ve already called for dealing with the hacking of the russians, this particular incident and all the election issues that are
good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we are not even one month into the trump administration and already a major scandal exploding in washington, d.c. last night, president trump s national security advisor michael flynn, who even before this scandal was intensely controversial known for his bigoted views of islam and muslims, handed in his resignation after just 24 days on the job. today we got the trump administration s version of events. the president asked flynn to resign not because of what flynn did which the white house says it has no problem with but because he had lied about it to members of the administration. the level of trust between the president and general flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change. the president was very concerned that general flynn had misled the vice president and others. here s what happened. on december 29, then president obama announced sanctions against russia for russia s alleged hacking of democratic e-m