white house glued to the russia ahead of the election. when will that story finally go away? >> yeah, i mean, that's a great question. the fact that the obama white house was willing to renew security clearance a couple months before this aeged phone conversation went down really says a lot. as i said earlier, at the end of it we are talking about him making a comment like hey we like to maybe we think that with the incoming president. i think some perspective is really needed when we talk about all of this and the story has gotten blown out of proportion in regards to this with the information we have. the information we have is a system that a good idea and i think her reaction and the way she handled this, her interview yesterday, there's a pretty big discrepancy between the reality of the situation what she was to tell us. >> the other big issue with this leak of classified information. did that become politicized? >> you're exactly right. what's more alarming that the russian official is really the fact that there does seem to be these permitted actors are mistaken there were holdovers from the upon the restoration of the obama white h

, and i thought about you today because when i covered the obama white housethere would be some awful thing going on bill that was flailing or the way that president barack obama was being criticized, maybe for syria, whatever, and -- and the inclination of people was always to blame the communications office. oh, it's jen psaki's fault or josh earnest's fault when in actuality it's the product being sold, not the ad pitch. >> yes, we used to joke we would get t-shirts made that says it's a communications problem. this are times when it is a communications problem and anybody who has ever served in that job say i wish i could have done this better, this differently, but it's almost indicative of a larger problem, and whether that is not having policy to sell or accomplishments on the hill to sell and oftentimes it's a problem with the person at the top, so i hope for them and for america that they take a look at the larger problems in here. i don't know mike dubke, but from looking at the outside, it seems unlikely this is a mike dubke problem. it seems like i

lou: google and its executives were moving in and out of the obama white house almost dately.eneficiaries of the most sophisticated tools known to silicon valley, and at argue any altered the outcome in 2008, but not so much in 2016, and in large measure because of what the trump campaign, you, did in digital meetings. >> these companies have more data than anyone ever. google and facebook have a lot of information about americans. hillary made a lot of statements. some of them accurate, some of them inaccurate. but most of the data and everything we did came from the democratic national committee. it's what they did after 2012 to build up a date base of information so we could target. lou require said to reince priebus, what are you doing to catch up in data mining? what are you doing in targeting data? what are you doing to be ready for 2016? the answer was, they did quite a bit. it turns out ought ground game wasn't nearly as important as i personally journaled it to be two years before that election. because of what you did do with social media. >> there is a data point ou

>>> michael flynn haunts the halls of congress and the trump white house as we learn that at least two people, sally yates and president obama himself warned the white house about promoting flynn. >>> the trump administration's defense of the president's revised travel ban. >>> later, chaos at a south florida airport. violence erupts between passengers and security after spirit airlines canceled flight flights. >> good morning, everyone. it's tuesday, may 9th. i am ayman

this is why we have a source telling us from the obama white house that, in fact, president obama saidwas not just about michael flynn being a critic of his, but they saw him as erratic, a bad manager and should not continue in government. >> woodruff: let's pick up with julie pace. you did reporting going into the weekend about the trump transition team coming to the obama team during the transition last november with questions, and what was the significance of all that? >> right. i think what this shows is just the depths of the concerns about mike flynn. you had people working for the trump transition team after the election who were concerned that mike flynn, who was going to be having a conversation with the russian ambassador that was not unusual, as national security advisor you would be talking to a foreign counterpart, but mike flynn tid not actually understand the motivation of the russian envoy, that he might not understand what ties he had to russian intelligence, to they're seeking a classified c.i.a. biography on the russian ambassador that would give the u.s. intelligenc

we do know that seven obama white house spokes were interviewed as part of the story. so clearly it's not trump folks who are putting it forward, but it's this overall effort of the anonymous sources to go and try to smear the president and tear him down. the question i would put back is what from the story was either illegal or unethical or wrong or breaking protocol, there was just nothing in there. >> you could also make the argument that this actually gives the trump transition team some cover as, you know, here was in guy that was maybe a loose cannon and there were people on the transition concerned about it. >> as i said before, i think you are seeing some people around the president, trying to sort of cauterize the wound that is michael flynn at this point. jason is correct, we have no reason to believe that there was anything illegal done or anything inappropriate done. there is a problem with this investigation so far, and matt and i have been reporting on this too, but so far there has not been any concrete evidence pointing to any actual wrong doing, but th

official says the obama white house was troubled about the handling of classified information. some highly sensitive documents were copied and removed from a secure room in the transition headquarters in washington. because of that officials decided to allow some documents to be at the white house. some interesting details coming out. just what was known ahead of this important testimony on monday by sally yates before the senate judiciary subcommittee. >> thank you. lots to discuss with our panel. cnn political commentator and contributing he heditor to the american spectator jeffrey lord and joining us by phone juliet. is the trump team trying to distance itself with this we warned you message, do you think? >> the standard rule for any administration that has a problem like this is deal with it, which they did. he was fired from his job. their plate is full constantly. you don't need to be dealing with one that has already been resolved. >> juliet, you tweeted the white house had been of two minds about how to deal with flynn keeping him close or say we knew he was fishing.

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, the still obama white house, to talk about and analyze. >> what was the timing of that? when did the trump people find out about that if that is indeed true? didn't they just recently find out about that after these investigations into russia when they talked about the unmasking? they didn't know that back then when they were looking for a back channel. >> i saw it in the press for the first time a few days ago, but they may have felt some of the bad vibrations from that kind of behavior. >> phil, do you want to respond to any of that? >> nonsense. let's be clear about this, and let's talk about context. once you have a nominee of a -- an american political party, you start to receive top secret intelligence briefings. that's going back to last year, the middle of last year. when you become the president-elect, you can have intelligence briefings as often as you want. daily if you want. those presumably include briefings of not only strategic issues like the iranian nuclear program but on something that was deba

so the head of trump's transition national security team asked obama white house officials to provide a classified cia profile of kislyak to give to lieutenant general flynn so that he could read about kislyak before having these conversations with him. the head of trump's transition national security team, marshall billingsley is someone who is known to have had a more skeptical view of russia than flynn did. the key point is that while that was provided to michael flynn it's not clear whether or not he read it before having those conversations with kislyak that later led to his downfall because he discussed the issue of sanctions that had been imposed on russia. interesting details to emerge. one more point that i should make here, a former u.s. official told cnn that the obama white house was troubled regarding the handling, the trump team's handling of classified information. the official said that some highly sensitive documents were copied and removed from a secure room at the transition headquarters in washington d.c. and so some obama officials later decided that certain docum

white house. they're trying to put that forward. they're also trying to say, you know, anything they can show that is different than president obama, that the trump white house is willing to jump into as well. have you two parties trying to redefine the relationship right now. >> cole kel nell jacobs, one thing ayman mentioned is this big formal announcement. it's a $100 billion arms deal with saudi arabia. how will that affect the balance in the region? >> positively from our standpoint. you know, there's been this battle in the region between iran and saudi arabia. it's been going on for a long time. and talking about $100 billion. it's liable to meet many times that if the saudis have their way. $00, maybe $300 billion or more. we're very much concerned that the capital ships the saw dudis have in the region, 25, 30 years old. they're not capable. the iranians have land-based anti-cruise missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles. they tested out their own navy to go down as far as southern africa. they would like to control the choke points at the persian gulf, which would make it extremely difficult for the world economy and for us an

. >> the difference is having worked in the obama white house when he went out and made that statementr jaws all dropped as well. he wouldn't have won a popularity contest in our white house no question. but fbi directors have ten year terms. there's processes in place including investigations that can review whether or not they acted appropriately the only thing that changed here is the russia investigation heated up and donald trump wanted a way to get away from that to take away the person leading the independent investigation. so i don't think it's more complicated than that. he's being used as a pawn right now. i don't think that he knows that. i don't know that for sure. but the fact that we're looking at his memo as if it's justification that takes away from what trump said last year is ludicrous. >> a couple of points. one this will not stop or slow down any investigations going on at the fbi. none of the hundreds or thousands of investigations will slow down one bit. the same thing in the russian investigation that would have happened tomorrow will happen without him. that's g

the former acting attorney general says she warned the white house multiple times about general mike flynn. and we're learning obama himself warned trump. so why didn't the white house listen? >>> plus, jared kushner's sister wooing investors, name dropping the president, touting her brother's access. one former white house official calls it outright bribery. >> who's going to win the political race everyone is watching. let's go "outfront." >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, breaking news. blackmail tarked. sally yates speaking publicly for the first time about general michael flynn's russian connections. it's revealing she warned the white house that flynn had lied repeatedly to vice president mike pence and others about his contacts with russians. these are lies that yates says left flynn exposed to blackmail by the russians. >> we believe that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. logic would tell you that you don't want the national security adviser to be in a position where the russians have leverage over him. >> yates says she warned the white house multiple tim

official said that the obama white house became troubled regarding the trump transition's handling offied information. this official said that some highly sensitive documents were copied and removed from a secure room in the transition headquarters in washington. and so, as a result of that, some obama officials decided that some documents would only be allowed to be viewed at the white house. so another interesting tidbit. one thing i should mention in all of this is that we're getting some pushback on this, this narrative, from some former trump transition officials who have said this is revisionist history and, "i'm sure everybody is telling the fbi they warned against it," meaning that they warned flynn against talking to kislyak. so, interesting details emerging in this story. back to you. >> athena jones, thanks for the reporting. scott lucas now joining us from birmingham, england, professor of international politics at the university of birmingham and founder and editor of "ea world view" with perspective this day. good to have you with us. the question, is this inside basebal

the obama white house was krnd about the trump transition teams handling of classified information. they say that some highly sensitive documents were copied and removed from a secure room at the trump transition headquarters in washington. as a result of that some obama officials decided that some documents, from there on out would only be allowed to be viewed at the white house. some interesting details emer emerging about this flynn-russia story. ana? >> joining me now, senior national security correspond for the daily beast, kimberly dozier and columnist for the washington post, josh rogan. if flib was warned, your communications are being recorded, why would he go ahead and discuss sanctions, anyway? does this make sense to you? >> because it's just possible, ana, that he thought this was something he was allowed to do. this is something i've seen happen with some military folks who have spent even time in washington, d.c. but not necessarily time at the white house or on capitol hill. other administrations, it's been reported, have reached out to -- during their transition to

again, this is a story that's pushed by former obama white house people going to the "washington post" to try to get this story out. again, there is nothing untoward or illegal or wrong that's been presented today. it's just the fact that there was a briefing that was given. >> although we don't know the sourcing. we don't know it was obama. it could be trump transition people. >> we do know that seven obama white house folks were interviewed as part of the story. that's what they say in "the washington post" story. clearly it's not trump folks who are putting it forward. >> and also this morning, former trump adviser, carter page, has sharp words for the senate intel committee, telling them to ask the obama administration for his russia communications. this comes after promising to cooperate with officials over his ties to russia. joining me now, ryan nobles, a cnn washington correspondent. this seems to be a shift. earlier this month and last month it seemed as if carter page was going to play ball with the senate intelligence committee, and now maybe not. >> no doubt, victor. carte

it raises a question to me whether the department of justice also briefed the obama white house. a lot of people asked why the obama white house didn't sound a more urgent warning in the days leading up to the campaign. if in fact ty department even know it was a possible collusion was under investigation by the fbi, that might go a long way to explaining that question. >> and jeremy, you get the last word. it's about director clapper. he's seen them come, he's seen them go. by that, i mean politicians, crises, threats. he doesn't scare easily. i don't think anyone has tried to assign him a partisan label. how should he, how will he be remembered in contemporary post-9/11 era american history? >> he lives up to the ultimate intelligence officer's creed. know the truth and the truth shall set you free. he spoke the truth today. >> couldn't end on a better note. gentlemen thank you not only for the live coverage this afternoon but for sticking around and talking with us tonight. i appreciate it. jeremy- matthew miller. we'll get our first break in now. coming up. the president who f

there would be some allowed on security issues, but when it came to the white house, and this is not irrelevant to the obama white house, but if there ever was an investigation around the president and those in the white house, that would be completely, entirely off limits. >> e.j. joining me now as well. e.j., you have watched these administrations, these white houses, republican and democratic and law enforcement as well. have you ever seen anything like the exchanges and the description of the fbi director that the president made to lester holt in this interview today? >> and the answer is, obviously, no. you're absolutely right. when i heard him say he's a showboat, he's a grandstander, i had two thoughts. one is, boy, the president doesn't have much self-awareness, but number two -- >> e.j., i hate to interrupt you, but we need to go to the briefing with sara sanders right now. we'll come right back. >> the president had lost confidence in director comey. after watching comey last week, the president was inclined to remove him. he talked to the deputy attorney general about possibly removing him. the d

it raises a question to me whether the department of justice also briefed the obama white house. a lot of people asked why the obama white house didn't sound a more urgent warning in the days leading up to the campaign. that might go a long way to explaining that question. >> jeremy, you go at the time last word. it's about director clapper. he's seen them come, he's seen them go. politicians, crises, threats, he doesn't scare easily, i don't think anyone assigned him a partisan label. how should he be remembered in post 9/11 history. >> the intelligence officer's creed, know the truth and the truth shall set you free. he spoke the truth today. >> couldn't end on a better note. gentlemen thank you not only for the live coverage this afternoon but for sticking around and talking with us on the. jeremy bash and matthew miller. >>> we'll get our first break in now. coming up. the president who fired general mike flynn warned donald trump not give him a big job in the white house but he did anyway. tonight on his phone at least the president is reacting to the day's testimony. two rep

if a key factor here is leaked -- you and i spent a lot of time in the obama white house. y major leaks did you see out of the obama white house versus what we've seen in the first, what, 130 days of the trump white house? can they stop these leaks? or what are they going to do about it if they figure out who is doing it? >> well, they're not going to stop all the leaks because they seem to be coming from the hose is leaking in a lot of places here, chris. and i look at -- i was around during clinton's -- bill clinton's white house, and they compartmentalized all the scandal, you call it a war room today, but they had a scandal office. and one of the benefits of that was during the briefings, if there is a question about anything related to this scandal of the day, we have multiple issues to talk about now with trump, the answer would be from mike mccurry, oh, you have to call lanny. he handles this. i'm just here to talk about other things other than that. so, it's also a good tactic to try and deflect the briefings if, indeed, they continue when trump gets back. but your

have you spoken with president obama or anyone from the obama white house about this. >> not today.ke, i just learned the news, i was getting on a plane from chicago to california and learned of the news when i got on the plane, so i haven't spoken to anyone about it, though i'm sure -- i'm sure their reaction is very much like everybody else's reaction, which is that this was a stunning development. you know, my concerns about the president, this administration, policies come and go, but our institutions have to remain strong. our democratic institutions and with the action they took today they put a cloud of suspicion around the justice department, around the fbi. how are you going to appoint someone now who is going to be trusted to lead an investigation of the president who appointed him? and i mean, there are so many issues that flow the this and i think the special prosecutor call is going to grow. i think they greatly miscalculated on this one. >> and jeffrey tuben, president clinton fired william sessions, been accused of improperly using government money to visit relatives,

if you follow former president obama's white house photography you know he like to say troll this is obamas on instagram complete with the caption holding hands. >> social media >> it's amazing we can take one moment and -- just like the picture of the president with the pope today. >> i will say the first time that showed, she did appear to -- >> it did look that way. >> just saying. >> minnesota democrat writing a book about donald trump. the two-term minnesota senator and two-time saturday night live. frank ken has merged as one of the fearsest challengers, i think there's still a very decent chance trump will still be president, quoting al frank en. he's written a couple books. he wrote rush limba, he wrote a book called why not me, which was his fictional account his run for president in 2000 >> speaking of that >> he and i have the same birthday >> a lot of people were speculating, hey are you going to run? will you run and he said no. in the going to do it >> back after this. >> back after this. >>> welcome back, apparently president trump met his match in the handshake steaks.

that, you see that now in that the obama white house went and said use twitter or social the first time, we'll update the computer systems within the government. while to try ok a to get that to work well. i said, comes at us very quickly, what state d.o.t.'s and local d.o.t. are do, figure out how do you analyze that technology to the basic fundamental of safety is met and is that the government saying, these are certain types of line items that you're for?ng probably no, but yet, it is the provide t's role to safety, so for the government to the le to say, these are sort of elements we need from a safety perspective, private perspective, yes, that is a role.y ost: madeline in athens, georgia, good morning. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. fascinated by this subject, advocate for public transit in athens, georgia, for a long time. noticed early on that it ould be offered and made accessible to people only during hours and only really -- people who y this, already had cars, it was used as to excludethose who were vehic vehicle-less from public meetings. an buses would

briefing and confirmed that, indeed, then president elect trump sat down with president obama here at the white house in the oval office, just a couple of days after the election that president obama did warn the incoming president, hey, you shouldn't go about hiring michael flynn and days after that president trump hired flynn. that shouldn't be any surprise because as we know, then president obama who was not a fan of flynn. watch. >> president obama made it known that he wasn't exactly a fan of general flynn which shouldn't come to a surprise given that general flynn had worked for president obama with an outspoken critic of president obama'ortcomings specifically related to lack of strategy confronting isis and other threats around that were facing america. so the question that you have to ask yourself really is was president obama truly concerned why didn't he suspend the security clearance which they had approved months earlier. blake: during the briefing i asked spicer if there were specific reasons given by then president obama to then president-elect trump why not hire michael flynn and spic

white house account there. their explanation it was up to the obama administration in effect to clear flynn, not up to the trump white house. >> you can be the national security adviser to the united states. you need the best most thorough security clearance. >> and vetting. >> we learned that president obama personally warned president-elect trump against making michael flynn his national security adviser. let's go to jim acosta. what are you learning, jim? >> the white house isn't denying that president obama warned president trump he should stay way from michael flynn but aides to trump are chalking up the former president's feelings as quote bad blood. >> well, i just had the opportunity to have an excellent conversation with tle president-elect trump. >> it seemed like a cordial meeting in the oval office two days after a bitter election. >> the meeting lasted for almost an hour and half. as far as i am concerned, it could have gone on longer. >> former obama officials tell cnn president bam. offered then president-elect trump a clear warning, don't hire retired general michael flynn as national security a

obama. how much power does she have in terms of being a spokesperson, advocate for education now that she's left the white house a lot of insurance and a lot of power. there is no other more popular political figure out there, besides her husband, than michelle obama. andleaving the white house that their initiatives, what they care about wasn't going to end in the white house. it is great she's using her influence to continue to speak on important issues, like education, which is near and close to her heart. >> then what is your take on the criticism that both mrs. obama and barack obama are getting for receiving speaking fees? while she might not be taking a fee today, it's said she'll probably fetch up to $200,000, which is what george bush did, and president obama, we know he is giving a speech for fitzgerald for $400,000. what is your critique? >> they're giving $2 million to help underprivileged kids in chicago. if they're going to take some money from rich people on wall street and give the money to poor kids who need opportunities, i am fine with that. >> do they need to be more selective about who and

white house. photograph president frank underwood as he made the rounds in d.c. earlier today, who is pete, you ask? he's the man behind the lens from the obama white house and he was a staff photographer for ronald reagan as well. a week from tomorrow is the new season. >>> now to biggest mysteries. a little girl who we haven't seen since she was 8. >> this is never before seen video showing relisha rudd one month before she disappeared in 2014. relisha was one of several children film led ed for a video. now she should be 11, but no one knows where she is. tomorrow, you're going to hear part of my conversation with her mother, shamika young. >> i have been humiliated. i've been treated like a suspect. and because i am relisha's mother, and relisha is my daughter, we are both a victim. it's not like she was taken from me. >> in our special assignment unit report, where is relisha, find out who is responsible for her disappearance. that's form night. >> begin. tomorrow morning, these things are going to hit capitol hill. president trump's budget plan. here are some of the key points. tax cuts for the wealthy, more military spending and change

white house. president trump just as of this morning was tweeting that michael flynn was vetted by the obama white house essentially saying it's the obama administration's fault. that is something that we heard from sean spicer during a briefing here a couple of weeks ago. but the problem all of that is now you have this revelation that president obama on november 10th, two days after donald trump was elected president of the united states, was warning president-elect trump that he should stay away from michael flynn and i suppose this is just one of those stories. what we're hearing beginning of this now, if we were to get behind the scenes of the meeting the president-elect had at that time, the details from that conversation would be fascinating. >> you're right. every time we learn something in this story is takes us a new wrinkle. let's bring it inside the room. we're going to get to the testimony in a minute, but the idea that president obama leaned over during his private meeting with the president-elect and said look, don't hire this guy. we don't know how specific he was. we know that he

it is doubled in the last eight years of the obama white house, but now it will double over the next eight years. how you slow down the growth of debt? guest:guest: most of our spending and our country, close to 65 or 3% of our federal budget -- 63% of the federal budget goes to mandatory spending programs. that is part of the pie that continues to grow. we will have to take a look at entitlements within the next few years to figure out what we can do to try to get those costs under control. the real number is growth. when you look at these trillions of dollars of debt, if you have 1.5% growth gdp, i don't see how you can possibly keep that debt under control. that's why it's important growth to 2.5% or 3% or even 4%. once you string together several years of plus 3% growth, it becomes manageable. host: is there a political appetite to do that? guest: i don't think there is the appetite unless you have growth. once we have growth in the economy and people are feeling better about themselves and their job and family jobs, you have a chance to go in and say how do we rethink this progr

and a key official expected to testify today that she warned the white house about contacts with russia, high drama on capitol hill. >>> obama for the first time. the former president speaks since the house vote to repeal his signature health care bill. it takes little courage to aid those who were already powerful. >>> and the dramatic election that could tell us where politics are headed around the world and all the way to the oval office. good morning everyone. hope you had a great weekend. >> so what did the white house staff kno

alexander and kristen welker have reported, the trump white house has pushed back in saying, well, if michael flynn was so problematic, why didn't the obamahis security clearance? they're trying to push back on that. still, a tough story for the trump white house. >> all right, mark. big implications for capitol hill on the fallout over health care reform. there's a six-figure ad buy that gets under way today, targeting house republicans who voted in favor of the bill to repeal and replace obamacare. it's by an advocacy group, save my care. they're launching the tv and digital ads against 24 republicans. joining the conversation, caitlin owens, health care reporter for axiose. mark murray is still with us. let's start with the numbers. because you're so good at that. democrats would need to gain 24 seats to take back the house, and the new york times is reporting democrats think the best way to do that is to target 23 republican districts hillary clinton won and dozens more where trump is now deeply unpopular. tell us a little more about this strategy. >> yeah, chris. normally, a midterm environment is where the party that's out of power

you never had within the bush white house and obama white house the william to do what is necessary toieve victory. isis is really in many way a deriff schiff like a retro vie lit virus that you got ways out of al qaeda, that obama administration setback and i think almost encouraged its craig of purposes, so, what you have seen is a policy failure, we're not inning lou, it is not because of the great men and women in the military, note because we don't have intelligence officer, it's because policies in place above military did not perry mitt to achiever victory, what happens, our until we decide as a nation effectry is the ultimate growth of our military efforts and then to figure out a way to bring stability to the region, you will continue to see what we're gig here, i would lime to think that president trump has that idea to bring people into place. to give them political guidance to allow them to do that. >> president said those who do this in name of read radical islam. he said that in the heart of islam, plainly and straight forward, there are still some whoeferred he useword r

white house. >> testifying before the committee, former obama white house, sally yates. the former acting attorney general testified she met twice in person and met with don mcgann because mike flynn did not discuss sanctions with russia, when the transcripts show the opposite. >> not only that the russians knew this, but they likely had proof of this information and that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security advisors could essentially be black mailed by the russians. >> yates who would later lose her job for failing to back the trump travel ban felt the situation was serious. >> we told them we were giving them all of this information so that they could take action. >> and pressed on whether president obama warned president-elect trump not to hire flynn. >> president obama made known he wasn't a fan of general flynn which shouldn't come as a surprise and general flynn worked for president obama and was an outspoken critic of president obama. >> and flynn had the highest security clearance. if anybody, what should they do, why not if the

now administration officials from the obama days, we gave you head's up on this guy. all of this, very key white house testimony is coming up from past and present players. and this situation gets deeper and deeper and more involved. former bush 43 spokesperson mercedes schlapp. is this latest distinction, mercedes from the obama administration, president obama himself purportedly he had given the new president to be a heads up on general flynn a game changer? how would you describe it? >> i don't see this comment from these obama administration officials to be necessarily a game-changer in any way. i think that president trump at the time did have faith in michael flynn. i do believe that following what we have seen in these events that happened in the months, in january, february, where flynn had to resign, flynn continues to be that reoccurring nightmare that does not to away for the trump administration. we're all anticipating see what happens with the sally yates testimony which i think will be very telling in terms of these warnings that were given to the trump administration. but i just don't s

finger back at former president obama when it was obama who warned him in the first place. >> i wanted to ask jeremy bash about sally yates. the white house is trying to put out these allegations that she's political, that she was an obama appointee. let's talk about her background because from my experience, from my, she was appointed first as a prosecutor down in georgia in 1989 when president bush 41 was president. >> that's right. she was a career federal prosecut prosecutor, a nonpartisan law enforcement professional, who worked her way up in the ranks of the u.s. attorney's office down in georgia. she was then made united states attorney in the northern district of georgia and came to the justice department and oversaw the investigation of russian meddling in the 2016 election from her position as deputy attorney general. she is not a political operative, as some people now claim. she did her job. and her job when she became the holdover acting attorney general was to tell the white house on january 26th at this investigation was a criminal investigation, it was a counterintelligence investigation. it reached the highest levels of t

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early warning to him and the bureau that this relationship with this white house was going to be different than it was under president obama. this is something they tried to involve the justice department in, to make sure shufs there was distance teen him and the white house. you could see with president trump he wouldn't like that, wouldn't like the idea of such an independent person underneath him leading such an investigation. it's clear that he prides loyalty and folks that he is familiar with. i don't think comey was comfort being one of those people to this president. >> a lot of this has to do with atmospherics. a lot of talk today that it had been five days that we hadn't seen the president. there was no public events. it was getting very odd. then of course this dropped late today. do you think there is any association? >> i'm not sure of any direct association yet between the president's quiet period and this of course loud decision today on director comey. but when i was at the white house tonight, brian, i kept coming across the white house official after white house texting, sometimes seeing them in person and

we got rid of that echo chamber in the white house and ag's was on the with eric holder, loretta lynch and former president barack obamaho were the maestros in the anti-cop sentiment. liz: tucker carlson was fighting with a profess or who was slamming white house for demon rising and scapegoating the ms13 street game, they behead and hack their victims to death, often with machetes, they have attacked and killed teens, they sell women into prostitution, trump is somehow scapegoating the ms13 according to this professor. >> he accused them of being in a cartel, they were not doing that. >> hol holds -- hold on, a cartel does not just refer to drug it could be any group of people who come together for an illegal purpose this is the definition. >> that is not the way to generally use it. that was my issue with him. are they -- >> this gang, later on he says that trump administration is demonizing and scapegoating the gang, it looks like the professor was not quite defending mcircumstanc ms13 could he was trying to make a point that escaped the viewers. >> you know, typical of a university professor, i know many university

we all get annoyed, most white houses, obama's white house, and the bush white house to a degree, they're disciplined and they're kind of dull at times, but there's a reason they do it. because if you don't, you just create problems for yourself, and you take away from your fall job which is having to govern the country. >> there was talk 24 hours ago about you could look at the appointment of a special counsel as almost an opportunity for this president to say, you know what? that's the investigation, it's ongoing, i'm focussing on the agenda, and here we are. >> it was an opportunity for him to do that, because things move so fast these days, that actually he could have done that, but actually he can't stop talking about it. when he feels aggrieved, he fix ates on things, and it becomes cyclical and he literally can't stop talking about this. >> reaction from cnn's sarah murray at the white house. the president left for an eight-day trip just as this story broke, is any information coming out at all from air force one? >> reporter: as matt pointed out, we would all like to know what's h

>> you know, this would never have happened in the obama white house or the bush white house, becauseould not have been given preferential treatment over the white house press pool. but how could they not have imagined this would have happened? this is just a small example of why we do need an investigation into any potential collusion with the trump campaign and russia, just because it was -- they were almost approaching this as just complete innocence, letting the russian delegation bring in their own photographers without screening or considering the potential after effects. i can only imagine how the secret service had to be having constant palpitations over this white house not being careful enough about basic security protocol. >> and senator grassley, i understand has just tweeted that cancelling the white house briefings would be wrong. you're hearing from a senator, the chairman of the judiciary committee saying the senate follows the briefings. everyone in this town as well as around the world follows what is said from that podium. thanks to you, josh, and elise. two people

investigation. >>> president trump is spending the weekend away from the white house savoring his first success in the repeal of obamaare. the house managed to pass a bill to replace the affordable care act this week by a margin of just four votes. >> but the bill's future is in doubt as senate republicans are crafting their own version of the measure, errol barnett is traveling with the president in new jersey. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, president trump is continuing a long weekend at his bedminst bedminster, new jersey, golf property after finally scoring a legislative win. the house passage on thursday now gives the administration an achievement it can point to, even though the effort to fully repeal and replace obamacare is far from >> on thursday, the house voted to repeal one of the worst job-killing laws of all. it's called obamacare. perhaps you've heard of it. >> the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> reporter: the celebration was sweet but short for the president and gop house members who passed the american health care act. after a ro

flynn wasn't taking concerns seriously so much so that one of them asked the obama white house for a copy of the cia classified profile and gave it to flynn to look through before that meeting. current and former officials told ap that it's not clear whether or not flynn actually reviewed the documents but despite the warning he ultimately did meet with russian embassador a month later and had a series of conversations with hymn as well in which sanctions against russia were discussed. those conversations were picked up by u.s. intelligence agencies which is how the administration found out that flynn had lied to the vice president about discussion and prompted deputy yates to warn the white house that could make him vulnerable to blackmail by russia and flynn was force today step down and that's something the senate investigators are playing and asking yates about monday and scheduled to testify before the senate judiciary committee. eric: that should be fascinating. james clapper has to testify let's see if he adds to the saying that there was no collusion or evidence of that so fa

to the public without a plan, not having worked out -- it's boring we all get annoyed most white houses obama's white house and the bush white house to a degree they're disciplined and kind of dull at times. but there is a reign dishneau dsh there is a reason they do it it's because if you don't you just crate problems for yourself. and you take away from the -- your actual job having to govern the country. >> remember there was talk -- what was it 24 hours ago about this -- you know the -- you could look at the appointment of special counsel as almost an opportunity for this president to like say you know what that's the investigation it's ongoing. focusing on my agenda but here we are. >> anderson it was an opportunity for him to do that especially because things moved so fast these days he could have done it that but he can't stop talking about it because as you know when he field personally aggrieved he fakes 80s on something obsesses about it and per sever 80s on it it becomes cyclely and can't stop bach if incredible reporting thanks very much reaction from cnn sahr are murray at the whit

. >> it was striking that it was allowed to happen and in the discipline of an obama white house that would not have been allowed to take place in the c n context of everything going on and having scheduled the meeting it was a closed press event. none of the traditional stuff inside the white house where the white house click a lot of pictures. yet the russians had their official photographer and the russian official photographer was part of the state-run media in russia and immediately printed pick tuesday of a beaming president trump shaking hands with the president and kislyak. you have the spectacle of these photos racing across twitter putting him in the middle of this whole exploding controversy. it was quite strange. >> charlie, if i may quickly say there's one on the record, under oath declaration by james clapper the director of national intelligence that oversees cia, nsa and fbi on the matters and testified in january will was no evidence of collusion. think it through for a moment. how would anyone the fbi or senate intelligence committee or reporters establish there was

one of those officials was so concerned that he asked the obama white house for a copy of the characteristics's class thified profile on russia's ambassador for flynn to look at before going through with their meeting. flynn was repeatedly warned that the cam bass tore was under surveillance by the f.b.i. and the cia. currents and form officials told the a.p. it's not clear if flynn looked through documents. but he did ultimately meet with the russian ambassador a mow later and had a series of conversations as well. those conversations and flynn misleading the white house and the vice president about them is what led to his dismissal. there were other warnings from deputy attorney general sally yates told the white house she was concerned that flynn's flying could make him vulnerable to blackmail by russia. julie: thank you very much. gregg? gregg: authorities say a significant amount of data has surfaced online after the campaign of centrist candidate macron was hacked. gregg palkot live in pair trils where the sun has finally set. gregg, gives an update on this. >> sounds like something out

in the discipline of the obama white house, that never would have been allowed to take place. then you have this weird situation where the white house clearly, having scheduled the meeting, did not want any press or photos. it was a closed press event. the russians had their official photographer, just like the white house has their own official photographer, and the russian official photographer was part of the state run media and russia -- in russia and tweeted out pictures of a beaming president trump shaking hands with sergey lavrov, but also surrogate kids act, the russian ambassador, who has been at the heart of this whole thing for months now. you had this spectacle, these photos racing across twitter, putting this scene of him and the russians in the middle of this exploding controversy. charlie: thank you. it's a pleasure to have you here. fran: thanks, charlie. charlie: we will be right back. stay with us. ♪ charlie: james a very here. the actor is known for bringing life to dark and instructive characters. his films include "pretty in pink" and "crash." he won three