flynn standing right behind him. none of that was in keeping with what critics say should have been done in light of the warning about flynn. one democratic senator telling cnn, if there was concern a white house staffer may have been compromised, that staffer should have been quote, firewalled. separated from classified material and kept out of sensitive meetings with foreign officials. instead, the trump administration appears to be focused on getting the president's travel ban through, even firing sally yates after she made it clear she would not defend it. flynn, meanwhile, remained on the job. on february 1st, a week after the warning, general flynn was publicly condemning iran. >> as of today, we are officially putting iran on notice. >> reporter: and hiring more staff. >> the national security adviser, mike flynn, today announced additions to the nsc senior staff. >> reporter: on february 6th, michael flynn joined a briefing at central command. and on february 7th, after a suicide bombing in investigation -- >

because he has only one interest, flynn's lawyer. keep flynn out of jail. it's very tough. it's very uphill. and the only way to do it is not on the merits because he's going to lose on the merits. it's by either making a deal or getting a pardon. >> jeff, what do you think about that? earlier, months and months ago, flynn's lawyer was talking about getting some sort of immunity and hinted that he had a story to tell. >> yeah, i mean, boy, for once i think alan and i are going to switch places. i'm going to be the trump defender here. first of all, it's not clear to me that flynn committed any crime. i mean, false statements on a form is only a crime if you knowingly make a false statement. and you know, it's going to be some challenge to prove that this was an intentional false statement. but putting that aside, what is the evidence that flynn can give up donald trump? give up donald trump for what? it's not clear that flynn has anything to offer the prosecutors here. so i think everybody needs to slow down. this is not -- i don't think any deal's going to need to be made.

we know two new things from general flynn.ijah cummings wrote this letter and say that there were two more trips he didn't disclose, one of which involved a possible $100 billion deal regarding russia and there was seven years of meetings with foreign officials that he would be asked to disclose on his security clearance form. he disclosed none of them. could all of this be oversight? >> it's a little hard to believe. i don't know. these are really serious forms. it's not that you're lying about whether you weigh 120 or 130 pounds at the dmv. this is trying to get security clearance for national security. he didn't list any single trip saying he never had anything that was of any significance. hard to believe. i think the other thing is, it's hard to believe that a $100 billion deal is not something that you would not remember that you would not need to disclose. >> john dean, what do you think his motive could have been if he left all of this off for doing so for general flynn? >> well, give him somebody who has the intellige

flynn, a blackmail risk by russia.uestions with jared kushner have to do with meetings and forms he filled out. in the senate, there are similar questions. earlier tonight, i spoke about all this and other things russia related with senator mark warner, the ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee. senator warner, today it was reported that michael flynn had been inside classified briefings by the director of the cia after cia officials became aware that, perhaps, michael flynn had been compromised. should the cia be accountable for this? >> i'm very concerned. i've seen these press reports, but i think i owe it to cia director pompeo and other officials at the cia to ask them directly about the truth of those reports before i take a position. >> well, didn't you ask him directly what he testified in front of your committee and he would not say whether he knew about the red flags raised about michael flynn? >> we did ask those questions. we'll have a chance to talk to director pompeo in the next couple of

is not about one conversation or notiring flynn investigating flynn.s is about a russian attempt to choose the president of the united states. yes, but alsog, through manipulation of the media, through micro targeting of voters, amplifying, using fake twitter accounts and fake book -- facebook accounts, doing a psychological warfare campaign on millions of american voters, which may have worked. and the president of the united states now not wanting to know anything about it. and wanting to stop people from looking into it. that's unusual. >> that's my question. it struck me the president was concerned about general flynn. he was concerned about getting word out that he personally is not under investigation. he did not care so much about what he called the satellites. when asked, james comey said he was never asked about the underlying problem of russia trying to affect the electn. that dids a lot of dog not work stories in this testimony. the president never asking about the russian activity because he probably knows about it. the attorney general nev

comey testifies that mike flynn -- when president trump said mike flynn is a good guy. mr.omey said yes, he is a good guy. right? >> very interesting read. >> it is not an interesting read. it is accurate read. it is in the testimony. >> it is your reading of what's in the testimony. if you want to talk about context -- >> it's not my reading. it is what is in the testimony. >> the context of it is a communication and dialogue. >> you are talking about context. >> context matters. >> of course it matters. >> you want to bring up what happened in the campaign. >> no, i don't. >> that conversation is a function of the document that james comey prepared because he was worried about the conversation. you are making it sound like it was a good conversation. >> chris -- >> he was so troubled by it. he asked not to be left alone with the president. >> if he was worried, why did he say no one asked him to stop the investigation. come on. >> you are right. he has to answer for that. >> of course he does. >> if he was so concerned he had to put it all in a document and memori memoria

the flynn stuff is different. out, asking for him to go easy on a guy, in he did for flynn, including se - delaying his firing for 18 days after discovering he had lied, all of that is suspicious, but it's not unreasonable for him to say, i want to get this behind me. i want you to say i'm not under investigation, so i can move on with what i want to do. >> the ethics of the -- you said this is the equivalent ofs nixon tapes. do you agree? >> no, i think that's a bit overstated. i do understand how one could say this cloud is something the president would like to get behind him so he can move forward with his agenda. the problem is when you move forward a bit in the presentation you'll see on april 11th, he's saying the same thing. what do you do to get rid of this cloud? ultimately you have to remember where this cloud and failure to remove it ends up is with the firing of the fbi director. so there's a growing frustration. again, i look at these things only in legal terms. i leave the politics to david and other

flynn was flying about those things. they had that over mike flynn. they could cohearse and behave in ways that's not good for the united states. after the warning, they remained today of a lot of questions of the white house basically having no response of warnings for several weeks. the white house did not correct the record on any of the things that flynn or the white house had been lying about. they apparently did not limit his access to highly secret and highly sensitive information despite of what they have been told about him. they allowed flynn to sit in on a call between the president and the united states and vladimir putin. this is after the white house had been warned thatt flynn had been compromised by putin. so there is a lot of questions of flynn's ties to russia. 18 days after, the washington post exposed the warning had been delivered to the white house and the white house had not acted on it. 18 days that flynn did finally resigned. it was mid february and then the month after that in march, flynn registered as a foreign agent. he re

flynn?>> no, i specifically did not. i did not. >> you mentioned that from your very first meeting with the president, you decided to write a memo memorializing the conversation. what was it about that very first meeting that made you write a memo when you had not done that with two previous presidents? >> as i said, a combination of things. a gut feeling is an important overlay. but the circumstances that i was alone, the subject matter, and the nature of the person that i was interacting with, and my read of that person. and -- and really just a gut feel, laying on top of all that, that this is going to be important to protect this organization, that i make records of this. >> and finally, did you show copies of your memos to anyone outside of the department of justice? >> yes. >> and to whom did you show copies? >> i asked -- the president tweeted on friday, after i got fired, that i better hope there's not tapes. i woke up in the middle of the night monday night, because it didn't dawn o

flynn had resigned the previous day.president began by saying flynn hadn't done anything wrong in speaking with the russians but he had to let him go because he had misled the vice president. he added that he had other concerns about flynn which he did not then specify. the president then made a long series of comments about the problem with leaks of classified information, a concern i shared and still share. after he had spoken for a few minutes about leaks, reince priebus leaned in through the door by the grandfather clock and i could see a group of people waiting behind them. the president waved at him to close the door and saying that he would be done shortly. the door closed. the president then returned to the topic of mike flynn saying, quote, he is a good guy and he's been through a lot. he repeated that flynn hadn't done anything wrong on his calls with the russians but had misled the vice president. he then said, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope

that led to the serious concerns about flynn. just top line what is your initial reaction to this news? >> a couple things, rachel. first of all, they aren't cia secrets being briefed to the president. they are intelligence community secrets that include information from agencies, not just cia but nsa and national gio intelligence agency. it's the job of the director of national intelligence and the briefer there in the presidents' daily brief to provide this information for the president. mike pompeo the cia director was attending several briefings. i don't know if it was daily but often so we need to be careful. not like he walks in and tells the president here are all the cia secrets. i think your overall point is sound, rachel, which is that if he and the career professionals at the cia's counter intelligence center in congestion with the conversations with the fbi had concerns about the trustworthiness of mike flynn, somebody in the room, they would have talked to the president about it and the ordinary course the cia direct

flynn. would closing out the flynn investigation have impeded the overall russian investigation? irector comey: no. unlikely except to the extent -- there is always a possibility if you have a criminal case against someone and you bring it and squeeze them, you flip them, they give you information about something else. i saw the two as touching each ther but separate. senator king: with regard to your memos, isn't it true in a court case when you're weighing evidence, contemporaneous memos and contemporaneous statements to third parties are considered probative in terms of the va lidity of testimony? -- validity of testimony? senator king: thank you. chairman burr: senator lankford. senator lankford: director comey, good to see you again. we have had multiple opportunities as everyone on this dais has. i appreciate you and your service and what you have done for the nation for a long time. what you continue to do. i told you before in the heat of last year when we had the opportunity to visit personally that i prayed for you and your family because you do carry a tremendous amoun

the second scenario is that flynn did know and he was given these briefings any away in flynn's presencend that is equally troubling. so i don't think we're looking at a scenario where our intelligence community comes off as terribly functional. >> let's talk about jared kushner. he is so rich in possibilities. he has the president's love, apparently, he is the son-in-law, the president pushed like mad to give him a role in the west wing. and he's now given him a portfolio to solve the middle east problem. he has the biggest portfolio, the biggest freedom to say anything. he doesn't say much to us. but he has a lot of power. he was able to talk with kislyak, all of that and he's one person the president wouldn't throw under the bus which makes him very interesting. how do you see his security and how he should be treated by us? >> i've asked today, as a matter of fact wrgs two of my colleagues. and on the house side. crank cummings, that his security clearance be reviewed. first of all, among others, that he had these clandestine conversations with the head of the major bank in russia wh

only to stop the investigation of flynn because he felt sorry for flynn. flynn's a good guy.t's very much like what bush -- sorry -- >> we don't know what the president actually -- we don't know -- we know -- we noah correspondeding to comey the president said the reason is flynn is a good guy. we have no idea if that is the reason or if there is some knowledge shared between michael flynn and the president of the united states. we don't know that. >> we don't know, and we don't know why president bush who was widely admired, made the decision on the eve of trial to pardon casper wine berger. the reason for that he may have pointed his finger at the oval office. nobody suggested -- >> maybe that's the reason here. you know, we don't know any of this and as long as you're speculating -- >> let's not go down that -- >> yeah. i would just add one thing. >> okay, very quickly. >> donald trump was asked directly in may whether he asked comey to drop the flynn investigation at a press conference and he said, no, no. >> we played that. he said he did not do that and that seems to be

flynn? >> i don't think i can talk about that in open setting either. >> are you aware of any meetings between the trump administration officials and russian officials during the campaign that have not been acknowledged by those officials in the white house? >> that's not -- even if i remember clearly, that's not a question i can answer in an open setting. >> do you believe trump colluded with russia? >> it's a question i don't think i should answer in an open setting. >> i want to know. [ laughs ] only one way to find o. what we saw today was the open session, obviously. the public hearing which we were all allowed to watch. but after the public session ended up at 2:00 p.m. today, that same small group of senators, they got to question the fired fbi director again, except in the afternoon session we weren't there. it was the closed session, classified, and presumably he was able to give them answers to all those questions he said he couldn't answer in the open session we got to see on tv.

and flynn would testify ainst the president that he had some conversation with flynn in terms of dealing with the russians affirmatively. and if that's not the case, where's the there there. if it isn't manafort because he wants to throw him under the bus where is the concern that trump has that has put him on defense for these months. >> kelly o'donnell over at the white house, the president shortly before noon, before that, he was reportedly sitting and watching the coverage. >> well, we don't have a straight answer on that, brian, we had what we call a gaggle which is a journalism form of art for an off-camera briefing with sarah huckabee sanders while sean spicer traveled with the president to the speech. i asked about the president watching it. she gave a number of things the president was doing during the hours of the hearing, dealing with north korea and qatar and saudi arabia. and meeting with secretary of state rex tillerson. i asked more than once if the president was watching she could not say. at the same time, brian, you know the hallways, tvs ever on above everyone's desk.

flynn? >> no america needs more like you and we really appreciate it. yesterday i got and everybody got the seven pages of your direct testimony that's now a part of the record here. and the first -- i read it, then i read it again. and all i could think was number one, how much i hated the class of legal writing when i was in law school. you're the guy that probably got the a after reading this. so i find it clear, i find it concise. and having been a prosecutor for a number of years and handling hundred, maybe thousands of cases and read police reports, investigative reports, this is as good as it gets. and i really appreciate that. not only the conciseness and the clearness of it, but also the fact that you have things that were written down contemporaneously when they happened and you actually put them in quotes. so we know exactly what happened and we're not getting some rendition of it that it's your mind. >> thank you. >> you're to be complimented. >> i had great parents and great tea

we know president obama told him that flynn, that he ought to reconsider flynn.he acting attorney general came to the white house to report that flynn had lied and that the vice president had repeated that lie. and it took 18 days for the white house to act, or even apparently tell the vice president why, and now this meeting with flynn where he clears out the room, and obviously it's highly improper to clear the room out of the attorney general and others, and have this conversation, what is it about mike flynn that causes trump to behave in this fashion? what is it that -- is it personal loyalty? it could be personal loyalty, but we've seen that he's not terribly loyal to most of the other people around him. so i think this raises a lot of flashing lights. and ultimately, we know that he got -- he did pursue the investigation of flynn. and he was fired. so you put all of these things together, and i think this is a very, very ripe thing for both the congress and the investigators to look at. >> i have to ask you this, having the dinner alone, as ana said that i

flynn. the democrats will try to show obstruction of justice. they may make comparisons to watergate. you may hear the word impeachment. it is unlikely james comey will provide evidence for it. legal experts generally agree poor judgment on the part of the president but he did not break the law. he is running the government like he ran his business, that is giving him politicalç troub. stand by for drama. stay there, please. watch history unfold because this is "varney & company." with us gregg jarrett. elizabeth macdonald, former u.s. attorney matt whitaker, let's not forget liz peek sitting next to me here in new york. liz to you, is there any bombshell you could see coming at that hearing, they're about to start, any bombshell that you can forehe see would hurt the market? because our viewers are interested in the market. liz: if james comey said, i lost my job, that is obstruction of justice, yes, i felt threatened by the president. stuart: that is it? >> he can't say that, tell you wha

this was after flynn was fired.he confirmed what you were just reading, the loyalty request, although it's something we hear the president has asked almost everybody he's hired. on the other hand, he did confirm with the president said which was that call comey saidn three occasions donald trump was not under investigation. we've seen a brief statement from the president's lawyer saying he feels completely and totally vindicated. my guess is tomorrow what you're going to see is democrat saying that comey has just given them solid evidence of obstruction and republicans saying this makes us feel a lot better. we think it can be explained. >> bret: the president talk to lester holt, laid out the different meetings, said he'd been told he wasn't under investigation. then we have a series of stories from anonymous sources saying that comey was not going to say that and it was not true. but comey does say that in this prepared testimony. >> and a sense, comey is the most helpful to trump's case. we have had so many anony

he was focused on flynn.y who offered to the president that he was not under investigation. >> harris: okay. >> reporter: he said he did that willingly and that he spoke with others within the fbi as to whether that might be appropriate during one of their first meetings. >> harris: catherine, thank you very much. you mentioned robert mueller. puts us right on to the next thing. we'll bring you back. the former director of the national intelligence claims clapper has been making some pretty bold statements concerning allegations that the president colluded with russians. watch a bit. >> i have to say though that i think you compare the two that watergate pales really in my view compared to what we're confronting now. >> harris: and yet we are confronting no evidence to date. the nation's top intel officials today, as catherine was just telling us about, testified before that senate panel. they never felt pressured by the president regarding the russia investigation. there seems to be a theme today with that.

flynn? >> no, i specifically did not. i did not. >> okay. you mentioned that from your very first meeting with the president you decided to write a memo memorializing the conversation. what was it about that very first meeting that made you write a memo when you had not done that with two previous presidents? >> as i said a combination of things. a gut feeling is an important overlay, but the circumstances that i was alone. the subject matter and the nature of the person that i was interacting with and my read of that person. and -- yeah. and really just a gut feel laying on top of that, that this going to be important to protect this organization that i make records of this. >> and finally, did you show copies of your memos to anyone outside of the department of justice? >> yes. >> and to whom did you show copies? >> i asked -- the president tweeted on friday after i got fired that i better hope there's not tapes. i woke up in the middle of the night on monday night, because it didn't dawn

flynn? >> correct. >> thank you for your service. america needs more like you, and we really appreciate it. yesterday, i got and everybody got the seven pages of your direct testimony that's now part of the record here, and first i read it. then i read it again, and all i could think was number one, how much i hated the class of legal writing when i was in law school. you were probably the guy who got the "a" after reading this. so i find it clear. i find it concise, and having been a prosecutor for a number of years, handling hundreds and probably thousands of cases and reports, this is as good as it gets, and i really appreciate that. not only the conciseness and the clearness of it, but also the fact that you have things that were written down contemporaneously when they happened, and you put them in quotes so we know exactly what happened, and we're not getting some rendition of it that's in your mind. >> thank you. >> you're to be complimented. >> i had great parts and great teachers wh

that led to the serious concerns about flynn. just top line what is your initial reaction to this news? >> a couple things, rachel. first of all, they aren't cia secrets being briefed to the president. they are intelligence community secrets that include information from agencies, not just cia but nsa and national gio intelligence agency. it's the job of the director of national intelligence and the briefer there in the presidents' daily brief to provide this information for the president. mike pompeo the cia director was attending several briefings. i don't know if it was daily but often so we need to be careful. not like he walks in and tells the president here are all the cia secrets. i think your overall point is sound, rachel, which is that if he and the career professionals at the cia's counter intelligence center in congestion with the conversations with the fbi had concerns about the trustworthiness of mike flynn, somebody in the room, they would have talked to the president about it and the ordinary course the cia direct

flynn? >> no america needs more like you and we really appreciate it. yesterday i got and everybody got the seven pages of your direct testimony that's now a part of the record here. and the first -- i read it, then i read it again. and all i could think was number one, how much i hated the class of legal writing when i was in law school. you're the guy that probably got the a after reading this. so i find it clear, i find it concise. and having been a prosecutor for a number of years and handling hundred, maybe thousands of cases and read police reports, investigative reports, this is as good as it gets. and i really appreciate that. not only the conciseness and the clearness of it, but also the fact that you have things that were written down contemporaneously when they happened and you actually put them in quotes. so we know exactly what happened and we're not getting some rendition of it that it's your mind. >> thank you. >> you're to be complimented. >> i had great parents and great tea

flynn is gone. but other individuals with contacts with the russians are still in extremely important positions of power. should the american people have the same sense of urgency now with respect to them? mr. comey: all i can say, counsel the special positive investigation is very important to understanding what efforts there were or are by the russian government to influence our government is a critical part of the fbi's mission. you have the right person to lead it. it is a very important piece of work. >> vice president pence w the head of the transition. to your knowledge, was he aware of the concerns about michael flynn prior to or during general flynn's tenure as national security adviser? mr. comey: including up to the time that flynn was forced to resign? was.derstanding is that he i think from acting attorney general yates. >> former acting attorney general yates testified concerns about general flynn were discussed with the intelligence community. would that have included anyone or dan co

flynn?no america needs more like you and we really appreciate it. yesterday i got and everybody got the seven pages of your direct testimony that's now a part of the record here. and the first -- i read it, then i read it again. and all i could think was number one, how much i hated the class of legal writing when i was in law school. you're the guy that probably got the a after reading this. so i find it clear, i find it concise. and having been a prosecutor for a number of years and handling hundred, maybe thousands of cases and read police reports, investigative reports, this is as good as it gets. and i really appreciate that. not only the conciseness and the clearness of it, but also the fact that you have things that were writt contemporaneously when they happened and you actually put them in quotes. so we know exactly what happened and we're not getting some rendition of it that it's your mind. >> thank you. >> you're to be complimented. >> i had great parents and great teachers who b

flynn. what was your impression of that type of action? have you ever seen anything like that before? >> no. my impression was something big is about to happen. i need to remember every single word that is spoken, and again, i could be wrong, i'm 56 years old, i've been, seen a few things, my sense was the attorney general knew he shouldn't be leaving which was why he was leaving and i don't know where kushner well but i think he picked up on the same thing so i knew something was about to happen that i needed to pay very close attention to. >> i found it very interesting that, that in the memo that you wrote after this february 14th pull-aside, you made clear that you wrote that memo in a way that was unclassified. if you affirmatively made the decision to write a memo that was unclassified, was that because you felt at some point, the facts of that meeting would have to come clean and come clear, and actually be able to be cleared in a way that could be shared with the american people? >>

what was said about loyalty and was at about flynn. those of the three main things of the story line. the story is going to continue and this is not going away anytime soon. >> bill: we've only heard james comey's side of the story. the >> that's why i'm saying the white house and cannot answer that one question. >> bill: here's richard burr and mark warner to his left. >> it also enabled the american people to understand the massive amounts of stories that have been out there and to sort through those and to have an individual that can lay some factual context to it. this is nowhere near the end of our investigation. i think it's safe to say that next week we hope to work with special counsel mueller, to work out clear pathways for both investigations, his and ours to continue, to work on d conflict and of witnesses and potential testimony, but we are more confident today that we can, through this process, work through a very bipartisan and thorough investigation. at the end of it, it will answer many of the questions the american peo

so they had that over mike flynn. they could conceivably coercion him to behave in ways they wanted that would not be good for the united states. now, after that warning, there remain even today a lot of questions about the white house basically having no response to that warning for several weeks. the white house did not, for example, correct the record on any of the things that flynn or the white house had been lying about. they apparently did not limit his access to highly secret and highly sensitive information, despite what they had just been told about him. they even allowed flynn to sit in on a call between the president of the united states and vladimir putin. this is after the white house had been warned that flynn had been compromised by putin's government. you want to sit in on our call? you know him, right? so there remain a lot of questions about how the white house dealt with mike flynn after the warning they got and the evidence that they got about his foreign ties, particularly related to russia. but u

flynn via an intermediary. in advance of this report tonight, ben wittes was tick, tick, ticking like you can't believe, for days. and you know, conservative media and republicans really did start to proactively say that colluding with the russian attack, maybe that's not such a big deal. in the last few days, conservative media, supporters of mr. trump have started to say if anybody did collude with the russians in this attack, that's okay. that's not a big deal. we're not going to be upset about that if we learn that. here's what appears to be the first concrete evidence of an attempt by americans to collude with the russians in their attack. boom. joining us now, shane harris, national security senior writer for "the wall street journal." mr. harris, congratulations on this tonight. i really appreciate you making time to help us through it. >> thanks, rachel. glad to be here. >> let me ask if i got anything wrong in the way i explained that? >> no, you got it right. >> okay. i have to ask you first about a s

the day after flynn is fired is the day that the president asked comey to drop the flynn investigation. those are not coincidences in my view. the fact that the president effectively cleared the room of other people when he had these conversations i think goes to the president's intent, but we also node to get answered those questions that were asked of rogers and coats today because they provide some of the other context, and that is did the president go to other people to ask them to intervene with director comey because he wasn't having enough success in getting homey to drop the flynn case? >> jeffrey toobin, as you know, a former federal prosecutor. you're also a former federal prosecutor. jeffrey believes it to be obstruction of justice. how high is that bar from your vantage point to go forward with a charge of obstruction of justice? >> well, you know, it's a high bar here because we're not really talking about whether you can bring a criminal charge against the president, whether you could prove beyond a reasonable doubt to the jury. the burden is in many ways much higher beca

flynn had resigned the previous day. the president began by saying "flynn hadn't done anything wrong in speaking with the russians, but he had to let him go because he had misled the vice president." comey say the president told him -- "he is a good guy and has been through a lot." "he repeated that flynn hadn't done anything wrong on his calls with the russians," he then said, "i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go." i replied only that "he is a good guy." comey continues, saying, "i did not understand the president to be talking about the broader investigation into russia or possible links to his campaign. i could be wrong. regardless, it was very concerning, given the fbi's role as an independent investigative agency." the president has denied asking asking comey to drop the flynn investigation. >> did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape or form to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn

in your estimation, was general flynn, at that time, in serious legal jeopardy and was general flynn,r just seek for a way for mike flynn to save face given that he had already been fired? he was in legaljeopardy there was an open fbi criminal investigation with his statements with the russian be contacts and the contacts themselves. that was my assessment at the time. i don‘t think it‘s for me to say whether the conversation i had with the president was an effort to obstruct. i took it as a very disturbing thing. very concerning, but that‘s a conclusion i‘m sure the special council will work towards to understand what the intention was there and whether that is an offence. is it possible as part of this fbi investigation the fbi could find evidence of criminality in a is n tied to the 2016 elections, possible collusion or co—ordination with russians in sure. so there could be something thatjust fits a criminal aspect to this that doesn‘t have anything to do with the 2016 election cycle? correct. in any complex investigation, when you start turning over rocks, sometimes you find thing

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it's totally wrong. >> mike flynn -- >> hang on, anthony, let jen finish. >> mike flynn is the one person he seems willing to -- he's very worried about what mike flynn has to say and he to this day -- >> hang on, jen. go ahead, anthony. >> mike flynn is an american patriot, one of the best intelligence officers we have of his generation. mike flynn was also extremely helpful to the president during the process leading into the nomination and into the transition. would have made a great national security adviser. >> if he hadn't broken the law or been under criminal investigation. >> hold on a second. let that story unfold as well. this is a judge and a jury here i understand because it's television. >> didn't the president judge him by firing him? >> mike flynn is an innocent man until proven guilty. why don't we let this thing unfold then make that decision? >> why didn't the president let it unfold? >> what are you talking about? mike flynn admitted he misspoke to the vice president. result of which they let him go. he's an honorable guy and an american patriot and served the country i