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Dinner at the white house. that is when comey says trump asked for his loyalty. february 13th, president trump fires flynn on the same day the washington post reports the white house had known for weeks what was really discussed in the kislyak conversations. february 14th in an oval office meeting trump asked comey to end the investigation of flynn according to comey. msnbc legal analyst nick ackerman joins me now. man, oh, man, whatever happened in the underlying russia question, and this all relates, right? because the lies are about that. sure. this set of facts, that he said in the interview with lester holt i fired him over the russia thing, asking andy mccabe on his day how voted for it, looks like you ve got a plausible case for obstruction. beyond a reasonable doubt. that s very confident of you. i m very confident. what you didn t include in that timeline was the december 28th timeline when president obama ....
House the next day, january 27th, with further questions about flynn. that was a morning meeting. they re talking in the morning. that very same day, around lunchtime so shortly after yates and mcgahn wraup up talking the president out of nowhere invites comey over to the white house for din ker according to comey. he called me at my desk at lunchtime and asked me was i free for dinner that night. and called himself and said can you come over for dinner tonight. i said yes, sir. that evening, january 27th, president trump and comey have dinner at the white house. that is when comey says trump asked for his loyalty. february 13th, president trump fires flynn on the same day the washington post reports the white house had known for weeks what was really discussed in the kislyak conversations. february 14th in an oval office ....
That took place at that time were not in any way related to new u.s. sanctions against russia or the, pulgz of diplomatdiploma expulsion of diplomats. reporter: five days later, trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the united states. pence is sworn in as vice president. on february 9th, a washington post story reveals flynn did, in fact, discuss sanction witness stand kiss lamb. on february 14th, trump fires flynn. three days after that, the president offered his reasoning for flynn s dismissal. he didn t tell the vice president of the united states the facts. and then he didn t remember. and that just wasn t acceptable to me. reporter: so the question here looking back at all of that is how the vice president could ....
President of the united states. pence is sworn in as vice president. on february 9th, a washington post story reveals flynn did, in fact, discuss sanctions with kislyak. on february 14th, trump fires flynn. three days after that, the president offered his reasoning for flynn s dismissal. he didn t tell the vice president of the united states the facts. and then he didn t remember. and that just wasn t acceptable to me. reporter: now the vice president s office still maintains he did not know about any of this. we talked to seven officials at the time and some who still work for him and they said he did not know about this. he was not in on any of those discussions here. but it raises the question of can the vice president maintain his credibility by being in the loop for these conversations and still, you know, answer questions of how he could not have known about any of this. so the reason that this matters ....
Arrange something between them. so now drop this little hand grenade in the middle. kushner potentially right in the middle of this very complex negotiation or incident or whatever. the string, shall we say, between flynn indicted now, and charged, and trump, very, very difficult period for the entire trump administration, particularly it s very high level. it s kind of a path through twil derness if you will. not just to the trump family but or president trump trump administration but the president trump family as well with kushner part of all this and of course don jr. too as been are part of the overall discussion regarding the investigation in h the meeting for example. but laura, the reporting for the last couple months has been kushner s one of the people who pushed trump to fire comey. ....