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new york post columnist and joe simonson and democratic strategists michael starr hopkins.ded country, who is to blame? >> the press had it bad for the president since day one before he moved in, they made up their minds, they want him out for impeachment hearing. >> a sad time to be a republican. donald trump is making a mockery of the presidency, and the republican party. said to see speaker ryan and other republicans not stand up and say something. >> reporter: donald trump is making a mockery or democrats because they insist on something there is no evidence for yet. even comey himself when he testified said, i have the quote here, not in my experience, no one has asked him to stop the investigation -- >> donald trump being investigated by a republican house, republican senate and special prosecutor was named. 3 investigations going on. >> comey did not do that. it would be a big deal to tell the fbi to stop doing something without appropriate purpose from comey himself. >> a supporter of the president. there is an inconvenient fact many democrats and people in the medi

general manager michael lehman told cnn gregg was at peace with his family by his side as he died on saturday. social media were flooded with condolences with fans and cher and ringo starrir. a life now immortalized in lirics. ♪ >> reporter: pablo sandoval, cnn, atlanta. >>> his long time manager and friend michael lehman is with us now. michael, i'm so sorry. please know we are sending our condolences and our thoughts to his family. >> thank you so much. >> of course. we can tell by that piece on gregg that this was a man who was an overcomer. where did he find that spirit? >> i think he found that from his mother. his mother was a very strong woman. she passed away about two years ago and he always would refer to her as the one that gave him the inner strength when he was younger and his backbone. and i think that is really what propelled him on from an early childhood. gregg lost his dad when he was 2 2. and was raised by his mother and older brother duane. >> he was doing something, as i understand it, the night before, that fans will appreciate. as i understand, up until he died he was working on the solo album, "southern blood." what can we expect from that? >> so

barbara starr has breaking news coming in on michael flynn. barbara, what do you have? >> reporter: well, good morning, kate. what we are learning here is that when michael flynn was working for the trump white house and he was talking to the obama administration officials during the transition, the obama administration discussed with flynn a couple of matters about syria, about the plan to fight isis. what they talked about was this plan that the obama administration had to retake raqqah, the capital of isis, which is one of the key goals in the fight against that organization. flynn pretty much, according to sources we're talking to, put that plan on hold. now, why did he put it on hold? that's going to wind up being a key question. did he put it on hold because he had also had business dealings with the turks, personal business dealings, and the turks didn't want to see the u.s. necessarily move against raqqah? or did he put it on hold because the trump administration was going to do this big review of the isis strategy going forward and they weren't ready to commit

barbara starr at the pentagon, i want to go to you because there's new news about michael flynn, first reported by the mcclatchy news syndicate. tell us what you know. >> jake, i think it under scores what everybody is talking about here, what were michael flynn's precise actions and what he did. we know he was paid by company with business interests in turkey. at the time this was going on and the time the president was taking office, the turks were very opposed to u.s. military policy regarding syria. they did not want the u.s. to arm the kurds. the turks are very much against that. they believe some of these kurdish elements are terrorists. they were also against -- at least the obama administration's plan to retake the city of raqqa in syria. the turks didn't want that to happen as it was laid out. now, neither of these things happened actually in -- in sort of a final form until the trump administration came into office. the reporting is that flynn put the halt on the administration plan to retake raqqa. not exactly true because the military campaign did continue on. the decision

starr. i have led some kind of life, he wrote in his 2012 memoir. pablo sandoval, cnn, atlanta. >>> next hour, we are talking to michael lehman, his long time manageright before he died and it's going to be pretty interesting, in doubt about it. >>> kushner discussed a plan after election day to set up a secret communication channel for the white house to communicate with the kremlin. >> the president has answered little to no questions from reporters. >> mr. president, did jared try to set up a back channel to the russians? >> establishing a war room inside the west wing that is able to quickly respond. >> we are not going to comment on jared.

starr into the monica lewinsky scandal. >> we have the response directly as it was dictated from the president to the senior staffers in the white house. i quote, michael smerconish, as i have stated many times, a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know. there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. he says i look forward to this matter concluding quickly. in the meantime, i will never stop fighting for the people and matters most importantly to the future of our country. is that something he should say? >> with regard to president trump, i thought it was a sober analysis from him. i'm more surprised, brooke, by the lack of tweeting which is in his best interest to treat this in a different manner than he treated any of this thus far. can i float the idea that perhaps this was rosenstein's reven revenge? the lack of head's up to the white house was proper. i cannot help but wonder if this is rod rosenstein getting back at the white house for having thrown him out there and that two and a half page memo on may 9th and allowing the president to say it is because of the rosenstein memo that i fired comey. that is not

starr investigation. the oversight power went back to the justice department. gayle? >> thank you very much. reuters report this morning michaellynn and other campaign advisers had at least 18 previously disclosed contacts with its officials. >> and we learn that it happened weeks before the inauguration. "the new york times" said he was under investigation. he did secret work as a paid lobbyist for turkey. despite that, flynn was sworn in on january 22nd. he was 13th. major garrett has more. good morning. >> good morning. filling the fbi director vacancy has become a conspicuous challenge after two with drew their name. it showed it was not stalled. it brought in new candidates. among them, al gore's rinning mate joe lieberman. there was a firestorm over the dismissal of fbi director james comey. adding to that, national security adviser michael flynn. he told don that he was under federal investigation. it shows the trump transition team knew about the investigation than previously reported. the white house is still dealing with the oval office discloser with russian russian president vladimir putin joked about the episode a

starr that led to impeachment activity. prepare ak is to would be submitted to rod rosenstein to decide what to do with it. there are other individuals who could be charged criminally. michaele and the scope of the investigation. there could be other individuals charged as part of the mueller investigation, but if it reached high crimes and misdemeanors, that would be turned over to rod rosenstein to decide what to do with it, which could include turning it over to the house of representatives to begin impeachment proceedings. david: i want to ask you to appetite onhere is capitol hill to have mr. comey testify. likely he will testify while this investigation is going on? or more likely that mr. mueller was say please hold off. i would like to talk to you first? >> that would be a likely strategy and request by robert mueller. this case was already being investigated. we have read that subpoenas have knowissued, so i don't this changes anything other than the public perception of independence, but nonetheless, every time a witness talks about these rings, it could potentially compromise investigating other individuals imagineents, so i can man i that robert mueller would pr