It is known for a long time. narrative is crafted to overplay or overcome the actual crime. the actual crime is the unmasking by the obama administration officials, think about it. general flynn reauthorized by the obama administration last year, security clearance reauthorize, then russia on a trip, if they had concerns about him, where were those concerns then, were they incompetent then. the unmasking is a felony, someone has to go to jail. that person won t be a trump official. trump wasn t in the office then. it would be an obama admin official. heather: that s a good point. why wasn t it a concern then? obama administration actually got rid of general flynn and as no, they didn t. they reauthorized security clearance. they took him off that team and general michael flynn under
An investigation. so who knows? there are names that are filly nature who are being dploeted around, whether it s trey goud frid gowdy. it would behoove him to pick a career person, who whose credentials are impeccable vis-a-vis politics. but this is donald trump. even if he picks someone who doesn t have a political profile, the person won t have the stature that jim comey had. this person won t be able to fight back at all. joogd. rod rosenstein had a stellar reputation about 26 hours ago and that had gone out the window over the past 24 hours. the problem for whomever the president appoints is that the president will be appointing them. this is a president under
It s so wrong and it s so obviously wrong that it s just pathetic, ken, that you are trying to defend it. i think that if president trump appoints someone who is above reproach to replace comey, all of these arguments i have been listing to will be brushed aside, as they should be. test is on the president. the burden is on the president at this point. this does nothing to impair any investigations the fbi is conducting right now. it just doesn t. what about that? if some guy or woman with a sterling reputation in law enforcement is picked, what does that say? who is to say that person won t be fired in a couple months, too? look at the body count of people who have been investigating president trump. you have sally yates. you have jim comey. you have barara who was told he had a job but was fired. who is going to believe that he is going to leave whoever this
who s to say that person won t be fired in a couple months too? i mean, look at the body count of people who have been investigating president trump. you know, you have sally yates. you have jim comey. you have preet bharara who was told he had a job but was fired to. who s going to believe that he s going to leave whoever the next person is in place? we re going to bring you the next panel in a moment. we continue to get new information moment by moment. evan perez joins us again. evan, what are you learning? anderson, one of the backdrops of what s happened today is complaints from the white house, from the president and from the attorney general jeff sessions to jim comey, the fbi the now former fbi director, complaining about leaks. while the fbi while the justice department has been working on the russia investigation, the investigation into trump ties, trump associates ties to russia, the complaints from the white house and from the leadership at the
Call when a crisis emerges or occurred during the carter administration, when there was a launch warning at norad suggesting a soviet nuclear strike was inbound. the person won t up immediately was the president s national security adviser, band he had t decide whether to tell president carter to launch american nuclear weapons and start world war iii. now, he understood this was a training exercise, no one at norad understood that. had he made that decision, the results would have been incalculable. now it remains with flynn, and questions remain about his judgment and temperament. it s not just a question of president trump but who he surrounds himself with.