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Dicey. we saw a preview of what the argument is going to be from the president just now in that press gaggle. they re going to say you have no smoking gun. there is no collusion. you re trying to get us on some fighting back. do you think in the defense of establishing that the campaign was working with the russian government to adversely affect the election that they can plausibly go after the president for obstruction. sure they can. that s what they did in watergate. very few of the top people, none were indicted for the break-in. they were all indicted for the cover-up. here i think you ll have proof. the origin confident phrases. exactly. you re going to have proof of the underlying crime and the cover-up because when flynn pled guilty to the lie about sanctions, it related to the coordination between russia and the campaign. so he s got a lot to say. there s this question now about the president talking to mueller and they re sort of circling each other. you heard bob bau ....
Special counsel late last year. a source close to nbc news focusing on memos comey drafted after private meetings with the president. comey testified trump asked him for loyalty and to let go of the fbi s investigation into flynn s contact with russians. the president has denied asking comey to pledge allegiance to him. and last month tweeted that he never asked comey to stop investigating flynn. yesterday the new york times was first to report that attorney general jeff sessions was questioned by the special counsel s office last week. a person familiar with those discussions told the times that the special counsel appeared most interested in asking questions about comey and flynn. yesterday president trump was asked about the special counsel talking to a sitting cabinet member. thank you. ....
Now is cooperating with the government? did he mention flynn at all during your interview? we didn t really get into flynn. sometimes it can be difficult with the president. the president can jump from topic to topic very quickly and as trying to interview him, it can be challenging. he has certain things he seems to return to over and over and over again. the question of jeff sessions that is you canniurking him, he to have gone back down that road again. can you explain his thoughts on that? he sort of repeated who he said on this where he is very disappointed sessions recused himself from the investigation. he believes that was a mistake and blames mueller for the fact that sessions was sorry, he blames sessions for the fact mueller was appointed. he thinks if sessions maintained control and not recused, mueller wouldn t exist and he pins that directly on sessions and there is a long-standing expectation from administration officials ....
When he pulled comey aside that day and said, you know, i think you ought to go easy on general flynn. what did he know at that particular time. and also i might add that it raises questions about why it took so long to fire flynn. i mean it took about three weeks, as we know, and if they knew this information, and they thought that he had misled the fbi, which would mean, by the way, that your own national security advisor would likely have his security credentials revoked, why did it take so long to make this happen and why did it only happen after it was revealed that he lied to the vice president in a piece in the washington post. samantha, you served on the national security council during the obama administration. how do you see it right now? from a national security perspective, if trump knew that flynn lied, he should have been fired immediately for at least ....
Cnn is on the scene for the biggest rollback of federally protected land in u.s. history. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. breaking news tonight. new information on when president trump knew that michael flynn hadn t come clean to the fbi, information that could be crucial to the special counsel s investigation of possible obstruction of justice. cnn has learned that the white house chief lawyer told mr. trump back in january that he believed flynn had misled the bureau and should be fired as national security advisor. that was before the president s february meeting with then fbi direct james comey when comey said he was pressured to back off of his investigation of flynn. tonight, as more questions arise about mr. trump s legal risks, ....