nationalist international, as odd as that -- >> weirdly odd, yeah. >> is not one that is unique to mike flynncreating a populist alliance -- >> spoken at conferences internationally in europe, about this, right? this is as much bannon as it is flynn. but i just wonder how much flynn can, when you've got the national security community and the foreign policy community, even on the republican side, quietly trying to undermine the guy. >> but the nationshtional commu and the foreign policy community very much worked against donald trump's election. i think you're right about, you know, trump always has these feuding power centers under him. but when he thinks someone's a kindred spirit, he is willing to go to bat for that person. >> and it's someone who's been with him since the very beginning. not just a lot of loyalty, but like-mindedness there. >> but if someone is taking too much heat like manafort and corey did, he basically dissolves himself from them. is that enough right now, i think they're aligned. >> this story, there's too much separation from trump himself for it to be a real proble

>> has been out for like ten days or something. >> i'll go back to what i told you about mike flynn. if you follow trump closely, when somebody close to him is getting a little too much press, a little too much controversy, look, i talked to somebody close to him who said he heard all the criticism. i think hue knew that giuliani couldn't get confirmed. number two, he would be too much of a live wire. >> mitt romney still in it? >> they say stow, but it doesn't feel like it, doesn't sound like it. i think that it serves president-elect trump's purposes to have romney's name stay in the mix. >> okay. thank you, chuck. cluck's guest on meet the press this weekend is reince priebus, the man serving as the white house chief of staff to trump. you can see at sunday morning at 10:30 here on nbc 4. >> local homeowners cashing in on short-term rentals, but there are changes coming at one of the busiest times of t >> apple could be close to opening a new flagship store here in washington, c. i'll d.te >>> a bitter cold out there prompting a weather alert day today. >> let's go to doug in stor

and the other thing, mike flynn, mike flynn said what he said because mike flynn was in charge of an intelligence agency that had good intelligence. mike flynn is an intelligent guy, far and beyond many of the people i served with. just to say because he said one thing that you have a fare it's rational. >> i don't know how you can make the argument that banning muslims is somehow going to unify this country. >> flynn didn't say that. >> there's a reason that people are protesting in this country. donald trump could can have say i understand there's people that don't agree with me, i'm going to your president even if you don't agree with me. he still goes out to attack people. he could have said something tonight to the latinos, hey, i'm not going to deport everybody. but instead he stood up there and said i'm going to build a wall. i haven't seen that from him yet. leadership starts at the top and we're not seeing that type of unity from him as our commander in chief. >> just for the record, on the muslim ban he did say tonight, we're talking about a specific group from specific cou

and the other thing, mike flynn, mike flynn said what he said because mike flynn was in charge of an intelligence agency that had good intelligence. mike flynn is an intelligent guy, far and beyond many of the people i served with. just to say because he said one thing that you have a fare it's rational. >> i don't know how you can make the argument that banning muslims is somehow going to unify this country. >> flynn didn't say that. >> there's a reason that people are protesting in this country. donald trump could can have say i understand there's people that don't agree with me, i'm going to your president even if you don't agree with me. he still goes out to attack people. he could have said something tonight to the latinos, hey, i'm not going to deport everybody. but instead he stood up there and said i'm going to build a wall. i haven't seen that from him yet. leadership starts at the top and we're not seeing that type of unity from him as our commander in chief. >> just for the record, on the muslim ban he did say tonight, we're talking about a specific group from specific cou

>> i think this is -- you know, i don't want to speak for lieutenant general mike flynn. the narrative is going to be this war is not over. honestly, if you see what president obama has done the last year -- in a year and a half he called isis as the jv team of terrorism. he is now talking about two years ago, about the war being over, and now talking about a generational struggle. if anyone was reluctant to put troops back in iraq it was president obama but he did it because he realized what a threat isis was. he has frozen the troop withdrawal from afghanistan because taliban is coming back. i think there's a general consensus now this conflict is generationality. a different kind of conflict. not one we can walk away from because we won. the enemy gets -- the military says that and this enemy is fighting. >> can you walk us through the electrons formation of u.s. counterterrorism network and its operational style? the book talks about the partnerships. >> so, those joint task forces -- joint special operations command, under visionary leadership, stanley mcchrystal and

>> you know, i don't want to speak for general mike flynn. the narrative is going to be this war is not over. quite i'll see if you see what president obama has done in the last year, a year and half ago he was talking on isis as the jv team of terrorism. he's talking about two years ago about -- he's talking a generational struggle. if anyone was reluctant to put to spec and a rock it is present obama but he did it because you realize what a threat this was. he has frozen the troop withdrawal in a consistent because the taliban is coming back. there's a general consensus to this conflict is generational. it's a different kind of conflict. it's not one you can say we can walk away from because we one. the enemy gets -- this enemy has decided to keep fighting. >> can you walk us through the transformation of u.s. counterterrorism network and its operational style? book talks about the partnerships. >> those joint task forces, joint special operations command under very patient leadership with stanley mcchrystal and now scott miller who is form

if you look at mike flynn, is there, you know, it feels like there is a very strong orientation ta believes these forces in the middle east are very dangerous, out to get us. you know, do you see a common theme there? does it worry you? >> yes, i think there's are all iran haters basically. the important part of the iran nuclear deal is it not just prevents iran for the next 20, 25 years from getting a nuclear weapon but it sets a precedent, the most important nonproliferation ingredient if the world anywhere in the world in the last quarter century and sets us on a difference course. in the same way we came to terms a kind of day at that time with the soviet union, with china with, vietnam, this was trying at the end of 40 years of tensions to try to figure out a way that we could instead of confronting each other figure out common cause, try to defuse tensions whether it's iran,

chief of staff reince priebus and senior adviser steve bannon, national security adviser general mike flynn, and rudy giuliani, who just took himself out of the running for secretary of state. once we leveled off, i asked the president-elect about his new life. army/navy game. in a sense, is this your unofficial debut as commander in chief? >> no, it's just something i've wanted to see. it's beautiful. it's hopefully going to be a good game. but really just something i want to see. it's the armed forces. i love and respected armed

but mike flynn is a retired three-star.was an intelligence staff officer, somebody who might have been on the staff of somebody like general mattis or general kelly. so it will be very interesting to see how those two four-stars deal with that situation and how all three of them may be called upon publicly to defend partisan policies really for the first times in their careers. >> okay. ron, going back to what we just heard donald trump say during the campaign, that these generals don't know nothing from nothing, so what changed? >> yeah. look, donald trump is an executive and he likes executives. i think that's a clear pattern here. we are not only seeing generals being put in these positions, but you are seeing a number of even former business officials. linda mcmahon and wilbur ross. there's a kind of preference for kind of executive experience as opposed necessarily to kind of demonstrated experience in the public sector which is more like -- you are more likely to see from a democrat. certainly generals kelly and matti

we're bringing together with general mike flynn and k.t. mcfarland, with the team that will surround them and advise this president. people who will set into motion, i'm confident, the policies that will make america safe again and at home and abroad. >> two days ago we saw someone with a gun go to common pizza because of this crazy conspiracy theory that michael flynn had put out there, defended afterwards and you guys put in for a security clearance. but i will move on. >> if you're a national security voter or if you're not a national security voter primarily but just a person who cares about national security, what's happening with the president-elect with the incoming administration on this issue, i mean, it's not the great plague of london, not the great fire of london, not the dutch sailing up the river thames andsinking the whole fleet, but it's bad. audacious, scandalous conflicts of interest and a radical form of incompetence and disorganization that outside paid interests are already bragging that they've been able to take advant

but -- but mike flynn jr. is no long longer associated with general flynn's efforts or with the transition team and we're focused eyes forward. >> you're downplaying his role. you must be aware that the transition team put in for security clearance for michael g. flynn, the son of lieutenant general flynn. >> i am aware in talking to general flynn that his son was helping with scheduling, jake. >> but you put in for a security clearance for him. >> he was helping his dad arrange for meetings and provide meetings but that's no longer the case. >> do you need security clearance to do scheduling? >> i think that's the appropriate decision for us to move forward, avoid further d distraction. i'm confident as we continue to build the team. tonight you'll see the president-elect formally announce general mattis as the new secretary of the department of defense that the earn people will be impressed with the way that the president-elect is bringing together men and women that are -- that will make make safe again. >>

why not. >> so, carl, can i ask you about mike flynn? actually mike flynn jr., mike g. flynn, the son. did he get fired from the trump transition? we know he was doing work from the trump transition, doing some scheduling and whatnot. today we're told he's not working for them. did he get fired over his tweeting and comments about the pizza gate thing? >> i don't know if he got fired. i know he has been deeply involved with flynn sr., his consulting firm, for quite some time. he was a very trusted at vacate of mike flynn sr. this is something that's been kind of beaten down in the media a little bit. i don't know if he got fired. i'm not privy to that information. >> he's gone. >> yes, he's gone. >> he is gone. do you think -- i mean, do you think he's a problem for his dad now? >> i don't think so. i mean, look, people have their twitter accounts, let them do what they want. >> it's not having your twitter account though, if your father is national security adviser and he's dealing with intelligence and what is a priority and should be a priority for the president of th

specifically concerns about mike flynn's twitter feed, a site that includes posts propagating conspiracyd so-called fake news as well. i'm joined now by the retired military man with some harsh feedback, retired general mccaffrey, military analyst, of course. what's your chief gripe here? >> let me say, bthe way, i was somewhat reassured last night to get a long e-mail from general flynn. what we may have here is a case of real inexperience on dealing with social media as these people move from this savage campaign mode into governance. twitter feed may be better for teenage intrigue than policy formulation. when they're retweeting these on nonsense fantasy stories, i'm not sure they understood they seem to be endorsing them. >> i do want to remind folks here because in addition to those inflammatory tweets about muslims days before the election, flynn tweeted an article from a conspiracy site that said evidence showed that clinton was tied to this sex crimes and minors, child exploitation stuff in dc. you said originally it bordered on, quote, being demented and now this e-mail from gen

they stress the fact he is meeting with his national security adviser mike flynn today. he's also getting a presidential daily briefing. he's actually got be fewer of those daily briefings than you would typically expect of a president-elect. comes as flynn is coming under renewed scrutiny because he met with a far right group in austr austria. chris murphy weighed in on this. >> does it trouble you general flynn met with him and we only learned from a facebook posting of the afd? >> this is an incredibly disturbing meeting. it's not really surprising. flynn is a very dangerous character inside the white house. this is someone who regularly trades in conspiracy theories and is going to be sometimes the first and last person that president trump sees when he gets up and leaves the oval office at night. >> this all comes as president-elect trump continues to have meetings related to his transition. we were told today the real focus is going to be on national security. mike flynn continues to be a controversial figure. >> i want to bring in democratic congressman brad sherma

he did not ask any questions and that mike flynn was aggressive and chris christie had to counsel mikenn to be quiet. all of the stories came out. ,f you are the president-elect you have to wonder, where did these stories come from? only one place, the intelligence community. you wonder about the political nature of the intelligence community. togethere puts that and he sees cia as a political organization with a political agenda. that could not be further from the truth. .t is directly the opposite central intelligence agency, is tical,tical -- apolo nonpartisan, egos, the strongest tenant in the place is called him like you see them no matter its impact on politics or policy. charlie: you know the following the nominee ton, be the national security advisor to the president of the united states has been considered a very good intelligence official within the military. working for the joint chiefs and working for stan mcchrystal in afghanistan. he has written about the politicization of the cia and he is the person who was in donald trump's ear as candidate and as president-elect. mich

son for exactly the same thing that mike flynn himself did. >> i'm not sure that mike flynn himself there's an interesting question, who is really running the e-mail, sorry, the twitter request t account of the elder general flynn. and it could be that the son was doing the tweeting for both. every shooting takes place where someone goes. a lot of people in the washington, d.c. area have been to that place. this is an insane conspiracy theory. it's just part of what has been happening and part of the, sort of the disorienting quality for many of us in washington about this new administration. >> josh, twitter accounts now are basically like press releases. and the idea that someone else releases my press releases is actually true. no politician has actually composed and released their own press releases, the idea that they don't compose and release their own tweets is unusual. they are however, 100% responsible for them as they are their press releases. >> they are, but this is not disqualifying in the trump administration. he rose to political power twittering about an insane conspi

donald trump has already made his choice, it's retired general mike flynn. a loyalist and before he retired he was a defense officer who ran the defensive agency. but he has come under fire for tweets about muslims, and along with his son, sharing fake news stories. it got msnbc news analyst barry mccaffery extraordinarily nervous. >> i'm now extremely uneasy about some of these tweets which don't sound so much as if they're political skullduggery, but instead border on being demented. i think we need to aggressively examine what was going on with skwen fly general flynn and his son dealing with these transparent, nearly demented tweets that were going out. i think it needs closer scrutiny. >> mccaffery is somebody who i've noticed chooses his words very carefully. we're going to dig into this, next. and the new wild-caught lobster & shrimp trio, with a lobster mac-and-cheese topped lobster tail. come treat yourself to feast fit for the season before it ends. ♪ go paperless, don't stress, girl ♪ ♪ i got the discounts that you need ♪ ♪ safe driver ♪ accident-

you could end up with mike flynn as national security adviser.sumably petraeus at state and now general mattis at defense. that's a lot of generals. >> it is general-heavy. it is a marine-heavy group, if you add in dunford. we know donald trump says we want to win again. we want winners. i like people who know how to win. petraeus is the brand name for winning after the surge in iraq. he has that going for him. general kelly, i don't know. it's hard to speculate. general flynn is a fascinating example. he's become very close to trump. he's going to be the national security adviser who magnified personal access to the president. i fear we could have collisions between an nsc that works closely with a president and a state department that will have a strong figure that i think there will be clashes. >> well, remains to be seen. we have bob gates meeting with trump today. maybe there are lessons to be learned from someone experienced as bob gates. >> he's the best counsel we could find. >> speaking of the master, david. >> thank you very much. >> co

amy: on the issue of mike flynn, he was fired by obama as head of the dia.n 2010, he, what, shared classified information in afghanistan without authorization, but was not brought up on any charges around that. his some recently was involved with a fake news scandal, putting out -- and his son, mike flynn, was his chief of staff of transition, putting out information a pizzeria was the child sex ring and washington, d.c., soy man when it with a gun to deal with this fake news. he was fired. your thoughts further on mike flynn and what he means to head up national security? >> my sense is the way presidential politics works, the politics of the inner circle, is that when a new president takes office, taking office initiates a competition. it initiates competition among his senior appointees to determine who is really going to have the ear of the president. for example, george w. bush. we had cheney as vice president, colin powell as secretary of state -- another general -- and donald rumsfeld. rather quickly, particularly after 9/11, it became clear that chen

. >> mike flynn was a -- right. mike flynn was a very close adviser.s fired essentially from his previous position. so that is not -- the other problem is that he probably is temperamentally unsuited to be the national security adviser. the job is to bring people together who disagree. mike has very strong views on things. it's going to be tough. particularly on the secretary of state to have a national security adviser that's as strong minded as mike flynn. >> all right. good to see you both. thank you so much, as always. >> thank you. >> that's going to do it for me this hour. thanks for watching. the latest on our top story, the climbing death toll in the tragic california warehouse fire. [burke] hot dog. seen it. covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two.

we consider the appointment of mike flynn. and the interest of all that we are try to promote. >> i'm going to try to articulate this as best as i can. a lot of people are saying she is tweeting, but he is a media guy, so he is just messaging. he is trying to keep people a little confused perhaps intentionally as part of his personality and tactics. i do not know if it's because he ran a reality show, and i don't mean that in a disparaging way. the problem is that he is the president-elect. what he is messaging has an impact on young people's lives. these are children who are confused and concerned in fear for their parents and families. perhaps president-elect trump thinks he is playing a messaging game and he is trying to sort of create away of communicating, and perhaps that's a tactic politically that he is using. it is our job to call out that tactic and say, you know what? there are vulnerable people affected by that. these are young children. they are americans, many of these students, and everything minus the certifica

that he didn't ask any questions, that mike flynn was aggressive and chris christie had to counsel mike flynn to be quiet, all these stories came out. and if you are if you're the president lech you have to wonder where did these stories come from. they could have only come from one place, right, the intelligence community. so you wonder about the political nature of the tin gel against-- intelligence community. so i think he kind of puts all d he sees cia as a political organization with a political agenda. and that could not be further from the truth, charlie. it is directly the opposite. central intelligence agency as you know is apolitical, it's nonpartisan, it's verietteos. the t is the strongest tenet in the place is call it like you see it no matter its impact on politics, no matter its impact on policy. >> but you also know the following. michael flynn who is a nominee to be at the national security advisor to the president of the united states has been considered a very good intelligence official within the military, working for the joint chiefs and also working for stan mcchry

mike flynn was in line for a security clearance. in an interview with jake tapper, pence downplayed his removal. >> mike flynn jr. is no longer associated with general flynn's efforts or the transition team and we're focused eyes forward. >> now, donald trump is going to be making his way here but i am told his plane had to land in raleigh, north carolina. more than an hour from here because of bad weather here in fayette ville. he will be coming this arena and this is the third time that donald trump will have addressed this crowd in this exact arena. of course, the first time as president-elect. part of his victory tour, he'll be continuing on this week with stops in iowa, michigan and beyond. >> yes, he will indeed. thank you for that report. jeff zeleny. >> congressman, thank you very much. can the president-elect really take credit for this japanese investment? because there have been reports that it was in the works long before he was elected president of the united states. >> none of us long that until a little later but it c

i mentioned mike flynn, general flynn.eneral flynn was talking in 2014, early 2014 about the fact that isis was a growing threat. he was talking on a daily basis to the white house, he was ignored. liz: and he got in trouble for it. >> he got in trouble for it. he pretty much was told by jim clapper, a guy named brennan and a guy named vickers to just leave because you're not part of the team. you're not just kind of sitting down and being quiet. so let's be very clear here. he was let go because he was trying to tell the truth to the president and the american people. and it is much worse, it's severe, it's a dereliction of duty to not have done your job as the president to listen to the intelligence community. you just went through a series of highly qualified officers, general joe dunford, my goodness sake, the chairman of the joint chiefs, he is one of the most honest men i've ever met, talking about the fact that what the president's saying is completely false. so i think we have to accept the fact that if you're the

if rex tillerson is to be the secretary of state, we now have a complete team in place with mike flynn, with mattis. what do you make of the team that is now advising donald trump? >> well, it's striking because you have so many people hope have never been involved in policy making before. the military officials have been involved in indicating policy and rex tillerson as head of exxon has been someone who has been actually acting sometimes as a challenger to american principles whether it's on human rights or transparency. has engaged in arrangements partnerships with corrupt governments with horrendous human rights records whether it's russia, angola, equatorial guinea. this is a time where you see the idea of profit often overcoming principle. it reminds me of donald trump in 1989 during when president bush, the first president bush was trying to make an arms deal with the soviet union. donald trump then the best selling author of the "art of the deal" wanted to be the man to negotiate with the soviet union. this is uncharted territory for a lot of these people who have enormous res

team had been involved in retweeting some fake news stories, this one was retweeted by the son of mike flynn, he's now been selected to serve as national security adviser. so his son, not flynn, his son, tweeted about the pizza-gate conspiracy theories, that is not connected to what this man does, but there have been some questions about retweeting fake news stories. >> there's been so much about the threat of fake news, in terms of keeping the public informed, but in this case, physical threat. >> very scary. >>> coming up, she's back, aunt barbara is here with tupperware tips that are going to make you smile. my cancer started as ovarian cancer and it kept coming back in different places. we went from everything being fine to everything not being fine. i really needed someone who could think outside the box. we did the genomic testing pretty early in christine's course. with our treatments we've had great success for her. there's an atmosphere of hope. i want to be around just to be a grandma. the evolution of cancer care is here. learn more at cancercenter.com/philadelphia ? ? >>> the hol

good for the washington post to point out there is a difference that mike flynn the national security adviser was not promoting pizza gate. his son should not have done it. >> he also, general flynn has promoted conspiracy theorys in the past. nypd blows whistle on new hillary e-mails. must read, so he wasn't -- according to the washington post, and you, it wasn't this particular one, he is still national security adviser to be the national security adviser and he's still promoting conspiracy theorys. >>s athe washington post said he was not promoting, this is a quote from them, a full blown conspiracy theory, he was asking questions that sources like the new york post were asking. i think there's a difference when you ask questions that newspapers were asking. then floating a baseless conspiracy theory. like the 9/11 truther theory, which i would love for peter bineart -- to disown from his wing >> i've never had any connection in my life in anyway to the 9/11 -- >> you're a leftist, so yeah, if you want to implicate the right with this. >> no, kayleigh this is a bizarre red herring.

appointed the generals, he will listen more individually to them, and it is yet to be seen what mike flynn's role really will be. >> that's a great point. >> however, given the fact that they fired his son, hopefully somebody's looking more carefully at what general flynn believes now and what he's actually promoted. through his tweets. >> thanks for your time tonight. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >>> still to come, charges of swiftboating in the race for dnc chair. ahead we'll lay out the facts and tell you how the congressman took a big step today to silence his critics. >>> we're going to repeal and replace obamacare. we have no choice. we have no choice. we have absolutely no choice. >> the stakes in the coming fight over obamacare are becoming increasingly urgently clear. the study out today found that repealing the law without a clear replacement risks making 30 million people uninsured. and the hospital industry warned that repealing it could cost hospitals $165 billion by the next decade and trigger an unprecedented health crisis. republicans soon will have the republican president

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flynn intel group. on "morning joe" today, mike pence said the younger flynn has no involvement in the transition processokesman later said the younger mikel flynn was helping his father early on in the transition, but is no longer involved. in fact, he was getting so involved, they were trying to get a security clearance, but it's since been checked out. let's bring in the panel. "usa today's" washington bureau chief and ran esh from the national review. >> when i say fake news, our friends on social media say, that's you people in the msn. but let's be realistic, this is conspiracy theories that are made to look like a news story that almost cost somebody their life. >> and it seems not just false, but ridiculous, absurd, to allege that hillary clinton is running a child sex ring out of a pizza joint in northwest d.c., but this guy believed it. and it shows how dangerous it is. someone could have been killed. >> affirmation, not information. there's so much of that. there's a joke in reporting, we call it too good to check. that's like, i heard this, and then you check it out and it's not true. it's mo

so i think that's what happens when mike flynn's son does that, that all of a sudden, i'm not sayingmp campaign is responsible for this in any way. i'm saying, now that mike flynn's son does that, somebody needs to say, this is totally false. >> does someone from the trump need to say so? >> i think so. i think without a doubt. this is the incoming national security adviser, general michael flynn, who has experience in the world of gathering intelligence. you had ali suppan on this program earlier on. he personally interrogated people who felt that the zionists and the jews were responsible for 9/11 and not osama bin laden. people died because of this crap that's out there all over the world and they can hurt americans. americans can die. people have a responsibility, including the incoming president of the united states to say, there's the truth-based world and other parts of the world. we better get right here if we want our democracy to keep moving forward. >> matt, is it a concern? >> absolutely. the spider-man line, with great power comes great responsibility. >> was it spider-m

flynn's son was the top aide for his father, retired lieutenant general mike flynn. >>> syrian rebelsaleppo calling for a five-day humanitarian cease-fire. they are hoping to evacuate civilians to safer areas. this push comes as government forces have taken three quarters of east aleppo from those rebels. >>> a 6.5 magnitude earthquake rocks indonesia. this struck as morning prayers got under way. houses, shops and mosques under rubble. >>> a louisiana man is now facing manslaughter charges days after the road rage shooting of nfl player joe mcknight. authorities say they needed time to iron out legal concerns. the suspect claims he acted in self-defense. he was initially released with no charges. >> oh, my gosh. for more on the five things to know, go to cnn.com for all the latest. >>> so, president obama is planning to hand off the war on terror to donald trump. he has a warning for his successor. what is it and will it be heated? next. lend him a helping hand. ♪ ♪ put a little love in your heart. ♪ ♪ take a good look around... ♪ ...and if you're lookin' down, ♪ ♪ put a little love

could it be that he's relying more on mike flynn than on the cia? >> i think honestly what this is, i don't think it's reliance at this point on mike flynn. i think this is a president with thin enough skin where not everything for him is against him. can't abide the idea that the russians may have helped his campaign, so he has to castigate the cia and say they don't get anything right. and unfortunately i think we'll see a lot more of this. these are not qualities you want in a commander in chief. i've been hoping, i believe as much of the country was hoping that this was a man who would grow into the job. the signs are not encouraging. he is not growing into the job and there's not many weeks left before he assumes the most important office in the land and that's gravely concerning. >> thank you, congressman. >>> coming up, turkey and egypt reeling after weekend terror attacks in both places. the latest right here on "andrea mitchell reports." world ugly and messy. they are the natural born enemy of the way things are. yes, ideas are scary, and m

. >> we don't know what mike flynn is telling him. know the classified briefings would be -- >> we -- >> -- around the world from the very u.s. intelligence officials who are on the ground there. >> we in the media don't know a lot. what we do know though are those who know far more than that assure that donald trump is taking national security very seriously. >> -- getting security. >> sure. >> donald trump is not doing it every day. we don't know if he did it at all today. again, i'm not questioning mike flynn's security credentials. a decorated general. james mattis. although i don't think he's briefing the president every day. but he's a filter between the people who are getting the information directly and the president elect. don't you want to on days of extreme importance like today remove that filter? >> i wouldn't prefer he remove the filter. but i'm not worried. he's getting it a couple, two, three times a week. he's surrounded himself. he's not president yet as we've noted. he's surrounding himself with people like general

because mike flynn said he saw a sign in arabic. let's look at the facts.icle points out hezbollah has in fact aided the drug traffic across the border. congressman desantos came out and pointed to multiple reports that say terrorists have crossed the border. that was rated mostly true by --. the idea that there may be some arabic signs somewhere along the boarder and mike flynn pointed that out and said he saw a picture of it. it is not beyond the realm of possibility that it exists. this is a three star general. the guy on the obama administration who said isis is a big deal. that is highly qualified person and i think people are being too dismissive of him. >> phil, what about that? >> the argument that it's not beyond the realm of possibility that something happened, that is the foundation for which we make a national security judgment? he alleged there was a factual argument to say that there was signs on the border about terrorists been directed by a foreign power. presumably he's been referred to iran. that is not a supposition. it is a statement. by

don't forget, mike flynn at nsa, right? he was a general.hen you go into some people -- remember, you have got someone under consideration, navy admiral mike rogers to go to cia, david petraeus, secretary of state. mike pompeii, went to steve point. steve bannon was a former naval officer. >> oh, my god. >> wait a secretary. >> he is digging deep. >> former navy experience? >> i'm just telling you -- >> too militarized. tr >> trump has no military experience. >> what experience did obama have? >> be careful. >> i will say this -- >> trump went to military academy. be careful. >> the point is civilian control is so key to who we are as an american people. i think it's very important. >> can i throw in here i'm excited about this cabinet so far. it's a very, very conservative cabinet. look back and you look over the years, even beyond ronald reagan, this is more conservative. you have generals. pruitt will roll back the epa. business titans heading up the economic development team. if you are a conservative, you love this cabinet. >> saying yo

general mike flynn, himself under fire tonight. a 2010 investigation showed that he inappropriately shared information, his claim was that he had permission. and flynn was never disciplined. not invited here today, a representative from donald trump's favorite megaphone, twitter, that clashed with trump's team during the campaign over its refusal to create an emeteorologyi for krookt hillary. a transition official tells us tonight there was simply only so much face. >>> thank you. still ahead, uber uproar, our exclusive with a former employee accusing workers by tracking everyone in their exs to celebrities. also a look back at the life and career of a beloved tv father . >>> back now with an nbc news exclusive. uber is now facing sharp criticism after a lawsuit by a former employee accuses uber of allowing workers to access private information to spy on customers. tonight he's speaking out in a tv exclusive with northbound's jo ling kent. >> reporter: uber has become a nearly $70 billion business by offering a convenient way to or

. >> and the president-elect taking time to get a briefing from his security adviceer mike flynn. and donald trump who is been criticized from not taking the briefing every day and suggesting it is only necessarily if a change in the posture arrives. >> the treasury department announcing sank sanctione -- and we hope they see thes withdom and the pressure on russia. >> today they released it's schedule of the inaugural events including a parade and three balls. >> cuts with the cops and an opportunity to get a hair cut and awesome learn about jobs and law enforce. , and we are tracking the next rain it is whiching as we move into bay -- coming as we move into bay area. caught in the act and a thief makes off with hundreds of thousands of jewelry. and now we are learning police may have been inside that store when it happened. >> the object possible hid while it -- subject possibly hid inside the store while it closed. . >> all of those tail lights you see that it the commute direction the headlights are heading into the san francisco and pretty heavy looks like a morning commute r

mike flynn does, and his son needs to stop. needs to just stop. >> that's for sure. ing here this morning, he has a calming effect on things. you can see, he must have a calming effect on donald trump. and he must have a calming effect on those who have some apprehension about the incoming trump administration. >> that's true. >> i like how mika has a calming effect on us. >> something like that. >> very calm. just like a brzezinski. >> i do have a calming effect on you. if you're not quiet, you know what happens. >> still ahead this morning -- >> quiet now. >> still ahead this morning -- >> the mason jars. they're around my office. >> it's not only partisan politics driving the surge of fake news. there's also big money involved. >> have you seen "aviator laets lately? it's a great movie. >> it's kind of disappointing that it took president trump for actual news outlets to kind of focus on this sort of phenomenon. >> you said disappointed. did you vote? >> of course. >> who did you vote for? >> hillary. >> your biggest clicker, fbi agent suspected in hillary leaks fo

you look at others, that is about necessarily the model this president would have in store for mike flynnt him to be a bomb thrower. he may say mike, i don't want you to bring all this together. i'm going to get jim mattis do that. for example. what i want you to do is poke holes in all of these good ideas. because you can speak to menessly, you are a provocative guy and i want you to kick this stuff around before it gets to me. >> if he had that kind of strategy i would feel a tiny bit better. i don't think he puts that kind of thought into the people he has around him. and that is why this is so freakin' scary. because this is the guy who will have donald trump ears ear. donald trump has proven he acts out a lot of times based on who the last person he had in his ear was. and the fact that this guy, michael flynn and himself tweeted and retweeted flagrant outright conspiracy theories and lies about hillary clinton, about the obamas. is this someone who can't tell truth from a lie? or is he ideology that whacko that he actually believe this is stuff. either way it is very terrifying. >>