so the white house lets him in. avoiding a handshake with him would have been difficult. but what makes this strange, you see these big smiling photographs. president trump grinning in a huge, friendly way with kislyak in the oval office. it's the timing of this. i mean, one day after president trump fires the fbi director who was in charge of investigating trump campaign contact with russia. so, it's really the sensitivity of this. and that big washington word, the optics. so what the white house might have done is at least, if you feel like you're going to have to take a photo with this guy who's been at the heart of so many issues -- >> the center of the probe! >> yeah, the national security adviser who had met with him prior to the inauguration, he was fired for lying about that meeting with kislyak. the attorney general had to recuse himself from investigations involving russia, because he didn't tell congress during his confirmation hearings that he had been meeting with kislyak. so there's all of this strange

see what happening. >> reporter: if there are any tapes of president trump and james comey at the white houseon him to release them. two top house oversight committees are calling on the white house to turn over copies of any recordings, emails, any communications between president trump and james comey in this matter, so far no comment from the white house on this letter. anderson? >> brian todd, thanks very much. joining me now is history professor, douglas brinkley. obviously there's been taping systems in the white house before, it would be unique to have not only a sitting president tape their fbi director over dinner, but then to kind of, it's already raising the spector of it in a tweet. >> it's said that president trump developed a voice activated system. >> so anywhere oval office -- >> you also hear drinks being stird. and it was that you bick wit to us in the white house. >> winston churchill wrote a multiple volume, maybe i'll do the richard nixon tapes for the world. and ammunition against somebody he didn't like, somebody would say he said something, he would say i have the tran

they go to the white house, they go to the office the white house counsel. this is the white hse counsel, done mcbegan. again, attorney genel, we believe the national security division chief at doj, they rushed to the white house without even waiting for the fbi agents to write up their report on their questioning of mike flynn. they rush to the white house to notify the white house counsel about what they have learned about the national security adviser mike flynn. heading into today, everybody thought this was going to be testimony that would be kind of a letdown, that we already knew everything sally yates was going to say. but right off the bat, she gives you that incredible timeline and that incredible you do about how they went to the white house and how fast. and then she said this. i don't think anybody has any idea what this means exactly. >> so i told them again that there were a number of press accounts of statements that had been made by the vice president and other high ranking white house officials about general flynn's conduct that we knew to b

white house official? so we explained to them, it was a whole lot more than that. we went back over the same concerns that we raised with them the prior day. that the concern first about the underlying conduct itself that he lied to the president and others, the american public had been misled and importantly every time this lie was repeated and the misrepresentation for getting more and more specific as they were coming out, every time that happened, it increased the compromise. to state the obvious, you don't want your national security adviser compromised with the russians. >> were there any take-aways from the first meeting or action items that you left with? >> there was an action item in the second meeting. we talked about several issues -- >> to get the order right, you said earlier there were two meetings and a phone call. >> right. >> was the phone call to phone call to set up the second meeting -- >> there was a third phone call. >> go ahead with the second. >> sorry about that. one of the issues

>> after tuesday night when the narrative came out of the white house that it was -- that white house officials said comey was fired because senior justice department officials concluded he had violated the doj principals and procedures last year in the hillary clinton investigation. what of course we are now hearing is this really had to do with the russia investigation and the idea that comey was not loyal and supportive president trump felt to him. >> sara, do you know why rod rosen stin did not resign? why did he decide not to? >> we don't know that yet. we're working on that. but the white house did sort of back off yesterday and especially into the evening of pushing the narrative that rod rosenstein was the reason behind this and the president just accepted his recommendation. so we know there was a softening of the white house narrative regarding rosen stein. >> cnn along with other media outlets went to rod rosenstein's house. he lives in maryland this morning to try to ask him the questions about this. and if you have a monitor, sara, you can see that he happily jumped into

cox subpoenaed those tapes and the white house refused and he brought the white house to court, and the court ruled against nixon and told him to release those tapes and nixon refused. and then what nixon did is he came for archibald cox. he told archibald cox to lay off about these white house tapes and archibald cox looked the president in he eye and would not do that. no, i'm not going to lay off. and so president nixon told the attorney general to fire archibald cox and the attorney general said no and resigned. and so then nixon told the deputy attorney general to fire archibald cox and the deputy attorney general, he, too, said, no, and he resigned. essentially he had to get the solicitor general to fire archibald cox and that became known as the saturday night massacre. but archibald cox, yeah, he did get fired. ultimately, he did get fired but you know what? he got the president fired, too. he is the reason those damning tapes eventually had to be released. and nixon's presidency was over less than three days after those tapes came out. so fire the investigators? sure. nixon

but when i was at the white house tonight, brian, i just kept coming across white house official after white house official, texting, sometimes seeing them in person. they've been saying this has been lingering on the president's mind for a long time. yes, he has these letters from his officials and the justice department, but he has been thinking about comey and getting rid of him for quite some time. >> and, pete williams, it was just another day in cable news. what would a day be without a slow-speed chase out of los angeles? and we had this odd live coverage of the former fbi director's four-car motorcade down the interstate in california and l.a., culminating with this scene. good-byes to the local cops. then comey got on a gulfstream private jet to fly back to washington, an overnight flight landing in the early hours of tomorrow morning. are we expecting to see him or hear anything from the now former fbi director? >> not as of tonight, brian. there is no plan for anybody to say anything tomorrow that we know of. nobody at the justice department is going to be speaking publicly

but we begin tonight with chief white house correspondent john roberts, who joins us at the white house. john, a busy night once again. >> oh, my goodness, martha. let me walk into the genesis of all of this. "the new york times" broke the report about a quarter after five this afternoon, i will keep monitoring my phone for the latest breaking news. about a quarter after five, back in february, the president held in over office meeting with a group of his advisors, the attorney general jeff sessions was there, as was the fbi director. as that meeting wrapped up, the president asked the participants, with the exception of james comey, to leave, and a comey wrote a memo, according to someone who was close to him and "the new york times" reporting, in which he said it that the president said to him that lieutenant general michael flynn, the former national security advisor, had done nothing wrong, suggesting that the fbi should move on past this, thank you james comey, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. you showed us a second to go to the reaction from the white house, b

deja vu here at the white house. the president making his position clear and confirm anything a couple of tweets this morning that white house staff, including the national security advisor last night tried to knock down. let's look at the president's tweets. he said as president i wanted to share with russia in an openly scheduled white house meeting facts pertaining to terrorism and airline safety. plus, i want russia to step up their fight against isis and terrorism. the white house reeling from another crisis. >> the story is false. at no time, at no time were intelligence sources or methods discuss. the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publically known. >> h.r. mcmaster in a carefully worded statement refuting claims that were not in the story first reported by the washington post, while falling short of denying the president revealed classified information to russian diplomats. >> that the white house is playing word games here to that effect to try to blunt the impact of

because if someone in the white house, if a senior member of the white house is subpoenaed, that person will have to cloister themselves to some degree. they will to have get independent legal advice and no longer able to take counsel from the white house counsel, don mcgann. hans nickol is at the white house. i have wendy sherman, and eliana johnson for politico. i want to and you, i know our reporting that handles and i have been working on. what are you pursuing at politico on this? because as senator markee said, this has taken the whole issue of russia into an entirely new category. >> that's absolutely right. i've been sitting in this chair the whole time so i haven't been able to look at what my colleagues are doing. i would put these stories into two different categories. one, the "new york times" story. anybody who followed trump on the campaign would be shocked to know that he said something endiscreet to the russian ambassador and the russian foreign minister in the oval office. so doing it in the oval office takes it to a new level. if bob mueller's investigation shows there

the white house.nwreck" is the term that one unnamed official gave to the former campaign manager and former deputy trump campaign manager possibly coming to work in the white house, one unnamed source said it would only add to the toxicity of the white house. another said, i gagged. axios reports that they have had discussions about the crisis communication war room that president trump wants to set up to go to war with the news media over the russia investigation. david who was the man who filed the successful lawsuit that led to the citizens united supreme court decision was asked on fox news this morning if he's going to join the white house staff. >> so, they've talked to, you know, many people, including me. >> is that a yes. have you been asked? >> no. i'm not going to say that there's -- that something sitting on the table for me to pick. that would be a little -- i think that's -- it's an on going conversation. i think that's a fair way to put it. >> joining us now, josh, former white house p

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how is this white house dealing with crisis management? >> well, i always said you were great, nicolle. >> couldn't be that good. >> again, they're not doing that well. whether they have to get used to him, he has to get used to them, the fact is, no, actually none of this is being handled well but on the other hand, president trump, i've been defending him for the last five minutes but now i'm saying a lot of these are unforced errors. these are -- can't have mike pence out there saying that comey was dismissed because of the -- >> right. >> -- you know, the a.g.'s memo and then have the president say i was going to fire him, anyway. you have to get a coordinated message. >> right. >> yaw canou can't say one thin day and -- this doesn't go to criminality or improper behavior but makes it very hard for people like yourself and others who served in the white house to actually defend the president. i agree with that. >> thank you so much. i hope we're still friends. thanks for being with us. >> absolutely, you kidding? always. thank you, dol

flynn was under investigation before he came to the white house and the white house denying it.if that is true would vice president pence have known he was under investigation since he was overseeing the transition team? >> it's a good question. the white house is welcome to deny this. they had the opportunity to do that yesterday hours before the story was published and they chose not to comment. today, decided they will comment. i don't know what went on inside that transition. if the warnings they were given were not communicated to vice president pence running that transition, that's another story and a significant problem, too. at what point does this become, you know, a story about an organization that failed to vet properly, didn't take years of investigation to figure out. people were already talking about it in november, that flynn was representing turkey. did nobody do any due diligence here? i think there are serious questions both about the vetting done by the trump transition and why they went forward knowing what they did about general flynn. >> also fascinating, t

the white house. prufrm firing off an apparent threat to the ousted fbi director, trump tweeting james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. trump's warning coming as the president is facing scrutiny for his private conversations with comey before he was fired. today the president is refusing to explain what tapes he was referring to. and whether he's secretly recording conversations in the white house. >> i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest, and i hope he will be, and i'm sure he will be, i hope. >> reporter: as comey was overseeing the investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia, trump says he asked comey repeatedly for reassurances that he wasn't under investigation. >> and did you ask him am i under investigation? >> i said if it's possible, will you let me know am i under investigation, and he said you are not under investigation. >> reporter: those conversations which quickly

house. they are white males. and given that the house bill defunds planned parenthood, given that was the largely the work of white males, it's already been noted that not one of the five female republican senators is in this working group. with a 52-seat majority, the republicans can only afford to lose two votes if they want to pass their health care replacement bill. as to when we will see anything from the senate? well, that seems see anything before the summer recess. there's talk we'll see something by the midterm elections. and because it's washington, as of tonight, it's all just talk. that's our broadcast for this monday night as we start a new week. thank you for being here with us. good night from new york. >>> tonight on "all in". >> ms. yates, what did you tell the white house about mr. flynn? >> sally yates speaks out. >> we believed that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. >> for the first time ever, former acting attorney general on what she told the white house about michae

did you show to it white house counsel and had you seen it at the time you went to the white house? >> no. the fbi had conducted the interview on the 24th west got a readout on the 25th. specific will you from the agents had that conducted the inrview. we did not want to wait for the 302. we felt it was important to get this informati to the white house as quickly as possible. so we had folks from the national security division who spent a lot of time with the agents. not only finding out how the interview went but how this impacted the investigation. >> so did you take summary with you? do you have any document with you that described the fbi interview of general flynn? >> at the time that i was there, i had notes that describe that had interview, as well as the individual that was with me. the senior career official from the national security division had been part of all those discussions with the fbi. >> did you discuss criminal prosecution of mr. flynn? general flynn? >> my recollection is that did not come up much in the first meeting. it did come up in the second meeting when

that's not white house language. the white house is not supposed to accuse the senate of conducting a political witch hunt. the white house has to do business with the senate every day. you can't talk like that. so no one in the nixon white house would allow themselves to actually be caught by name using that phrase then, witch hunt. at 7:52 a.m. today, the president of the united states was awake and tweeting. this is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history. last night, the white house issued a statement written for the president in language that he would clearly never personally use saying, "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. i look forward to this matter concluding quickly." it was a perfectly reasonable presidential-sounding white house statement about a situation like this. but everyone knew that would not be the president's last word about the investigation. everyone

if one white house official lies to another white house official. we explained to him it was a lot more than that. and went back over the same concerns that we had raised with them the prior day. that the concern, first, about the underlying conduct itself. that he had lied to the vice president and others, the american public had been misled. and pareimportantly, every times lie was repeated and the disrepresentations were getting more and more specific, as they were coming out, every time that happened, it increased the compromise. >> so, according to her, don mcgahn, why would one white house official be concerned if another lied to another. >> he was looking for the underlying crime or activity or interest of the justice department was, in a poorly phrased question, if that's the way it came in. thought being privy to the conversation, we don't really know. that's her best memory of it, the way the conversation started. and it sounds like he was probing to find out how serious they were, had he lied to the fbi. she didn't get any responses to th

the white house story on tuesday was false., you heard sarah huckabee this morning trying to change the words a little bit. she said well, we asked for feedback from the fbi. that's not true. they asked for a recommendation. two, she said whether the fbi also thought that he'd lost the confidence. not remember the original story was the fbi came to us and said you fire him and we followed that. this is -- as you said, this is not the first time the white house has reversed course. it gets to the essential credibility for the spokes person for the president of the united states. and that is a really problem. >> it's as if he didn't get the spend control memo or he did but got angry and said i'm going to say what i think. we've seen this time and time again where i've had senior administration officials try to explain to me oh, well you see the president goes out and puts the left and right limits of what our new policy is going to be in a tweet or interview and then we roll out the actual policy. but more often it's they find ou

and the white house, as we were saying earlier, the white house has denied this, and the president hast him denying it, but i stand by my story. and i would also add, wolf, that we -- if we were better readers of the tea leaves, in fact, and by that i mean, donald trump's tweets, we should have seen this coming, in a way. because i'm looking at a tweet of donald trump's from may 2nd, which i believe was the day before comey testified. so it was in the lead up to the comey testimony, in which donald trump says, fbi director comey was the best thing that ever happened to hillary clinton, in that he he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds. so the worm was already turning there. and then he watches, you know, you can think about this, and this now is speculation, but you think about this, and he watches the comey testimony, where comey had to dodge questions about collusion and what was directly under investigation by the fbi, because he can't answer those questions in an unclassified setting. and you can get this sense and then the president called the russian investigation a hoax afte

i should note thoot white house is denying this -- >> hold on, pamela. adam schiff, ranking democrat in house intelligence committee just emerged from a briefing. >> -- the president may have asked comey to essentially drop the flynn investigation. if true, this is yet another disturbing allegation that president may have engaged in some -- [ inaudible ] or obstruction of the investigation. i think we know enough now, there's been enough alleged publicly to want to bring the director back to testify ideally in an open session before our committee or judiciary committee. but he should come back to congress and share what he knows in terms of the president's conversations with him on any of the russia investigation. i also think that we ought to ask for the notes that were taken contemporaneously or shortly after those meetings and of course if there are any tapes as the president alleged, those should also be obtained by congress. ifs in i think we should subpoena them but hopefully we can obtain any of these materials voluntarily. but on the heels of an a

white house official? >> to be fair to mr. mcgann. he said his question what is it to the justice department if one white house official is lying to another white house official? why is that something the department of justice would be lying about and we went back through the reasons why it was important to us. >> do you think there was reason to be concerned if one white house official was lying to another official? >> to the extent that you may be talking about 1001 violation that's not something we were alluding to or discussing with mr. mcgann. i think his point when he made that point to me was that he wasn't sure why the department of justice would care about one lying to another, not to be discussing whether that was in fact a crime. >> and the reason you told him was what? >> was that, again, it was a whole lot more than one white house official lying to another. first of all, it was the vice president of the united states and the vice president had then gone out and provided that information to th

white house fighting back.spondent joe johns starts our coverage from washington. good morning to you, joe. >> reporter: good morning. sources telling cnn that president trump asked former fbi director james comey to end his investigation into the administration's first national security adviser michael flynn who was fired. here's the importance of it. if this latest allegation is proven true it's a sign that president trump attempted to exert command influence on the fbi's investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. so this is already being described as a grave turn in the drama surrounding the trump presidency, raising questions of attempted obstruction of justice which in turn raising

>> there will always be white house briefings. as have you seen we have had cabinet secretaries and other administration officials going to going up to the podium. the issues they are working on are actually part of the news of the day. and that's going very effectively as well. not every briefing has to be on camera, either. there are many audio briefings that many press secretaries in the past.

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 times about flynn. and that news comes as we're learning about

in the bush white house.edly been misrepresenting facts to the public. just last week he said that russia had nothing to do with the comey firing. his staff took that position. he was hiding in the bushes. it's ridiculous. and then the president said exactly the opposite. the position taken by the white house press office. and again and again, the white house press office has been misrepresenting facts. it's a very, very embarrassing situation. so i really don't listen to anything he has to say anymore. it doesn't have any credibility. >> and neera, you imagine that when this all started, hard to believe, but it was a week ago today when reportedly those top two officials at doj were talking to the president and then the next day wrote this memo to advise on the firing of james comey. do you think they would have expected by this coming thursday they would be briefing the entire senate? it doesn't seem like that went according to plan. >> it doesn't seem like much went according to plan last week. but i would

according to the "times'" reporting, and the white house does not dispute it, the official white house record of the president hosting the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador in the oval office last week, the official white house record not disputed by the white house includes direct quotes from the president telling these russian officials that thank god the pressure on him about russia is lifted now because he fired the fbi director. quote, i just fired the head of the fbi. i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. lots of subsequent headlines about this story and discussion about this story today have been focusing on the fact that the president is also quoted in this official white house account of that meeting calling fired fbi director james comey, quote, crazy, a real nut job. you know what, though? when one of your work colleagues is somebody the president calls sleepy eyes, when he says senator mccain is no war hero, and senator cruz is lyin' ted, i think best maybe not to get too caught up in what names and epithets this particular president

soil, back in the white house.t not about those successes, largely, he has been tweeting about his relationship with the media and calling it fake news, et cetera. i mean, is this setting back the white house, particularly when the president you know said that he just came off a successful trip? >> yeah, i mean, it was interesting to note, fred, that while the president was on this foreign trip that he considers very successful he was not tweeting in the usual provocative ways. there was a message that the white house in a concerted way tried to put out every day. and some days, especially early on in the trip in saudi arabia and israel there was some success there. i mean, this was relatively for this white house, a disciplined operation. and now you know he is coming back. and to alice's good point, the white house, so much of their day, day-to-day is dealt with keeping up with president trump's tweets and the distraction that they create from the legislative agenda that they're trying to push. that president tru

the white house said give us the white house, we will govern, pass tax reform, get the economy going,rnment involvement in things like health care, education, where is the republican governing? >> i think they probably can advance an agenda without the them. what they're concerned about is that trump is is just going to show up and throw a monkey wrench into everything. members who are basically in his districts essentially and that can really complicate things, so they're trying to get ahead of that by working with the white house a little bit more. trying to hold their hand as they walk here. because they don't want any sort of 11th hour surprises. the difficulty for trump always with policy is that policy doesn't always give you an enemy. and trump kind of always needs someone to push up against. and that's what these, what these tweets are about this morning. the russia investigation is. it is something he can fight back on. and it's been so hard for him and his white house to focus on policy. because it just doesn't give them that same kind of you know, person on the other side o

from what i could tell, the white house to double, mr. mcgann took it seriously and 18 days the guy is fired. i learned there was an unmasking and member of congress during the 2016 election, the first time i ever heard of that. bottom line i thought sally yates did the right thing in terms of her role in this. >> senator whitehouse, 18 days seems long since he learned. you have to factor into it and i don't know who knew this and when. there was something squirrely, my turn, about general michael flynn's relationship with turkey, even that weird meeting, i don't know forever you know about it, former cia director woolsey said he walked in some meeting where flynn in october was trying to figure out some way to help turkey get a dissident out of the united states bypassi ining extraditio. there were weird things. 18 days seems long to me. what about you? >> one of the things we learned, there was a second meeting with white house counsel and those two meetings allowed attorney yates to hammer home to white house this was an ongoing nation

white house in crisis. after a devastating week for the trump administration, tonight a new borage of breaking news in the russia investigation unfolding within the last few hours. >> as the president begins his first overseas trip, cnn is learning his legal team is starting to prepare for the possibility of impeachment. >> here's what we know. breaking just a short while ago, exclusive new cnn reporting on security adviser mike flynn and his russia kegzs. officials bragged in the campaign that they cultivated such a strong relationship with flynn, they could use him to influence mr. trump and his team. alsobreaking, james comey agreed to testify in an open public session of the senate intelligence committee after memorial day. it will be the first time we heard directly from comey since his ouster. this as the "new york times" reports told mr. trump that two officials in the oval office that comey was a real nut job and letting him go eased the pressure he faced because of the russia probe. with the gravit

also contradicting the white house by saying this is a highly significant investigation even as the white house spokesperson sarah huckabee sanders said this is not a high priority for the fbi. at the same time, mccabe strongly pushing back of the white house assertion saying the rank and file deeply support mr. comey. >> i can tell you that director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi. and still does to this day. i can confidently tell you that the majority of the fbi employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to director comey. >> reporter: this comes as comey was invited to testify on tuesday before the senate intelligence committee. no word if he has confirmed that appearance. this would be a classified closed session and that means it would be off limits to the public. we do know that other people in the administration plan to talk about some senators. rod rosenstein at the center of the comey firing invited to the briefing next week to discuss the comey firing. this issue not going away anytime soon. christine and dave. >> manu, thank you. rod rosenstein denying reports

may 8th will be the first time the former acting attorney general will publicly speak about that white house meeting. a source familiar with the situation said yates will be limited on what she can tell the committee because many details involving flynn remain classified. yates previously scheduled appearance in front of the house intelligence committee you may remember was cancelled by chairman nunez, sparking outcry from democrats who believed he was trying to shield the white house from damaging new revelations. >>> thank you, jim. hillary clinton meanwhile said she would have won the election if it were held on october 27th. speaking to cnn's christiane amanpour, the former candidate said she didn't let up on fbi director james comey. >> i was on the way to winning until a combination of jim comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. >> interviewed by christiane amanpour at a women for women international event in new york, secretary clinton did take what she called absolute personal respo

this is going to get so much worse for the white house, there is going to be so much pressure on white house staff when they start getting called into the grand jury, when their e-mails and documents start getting subpoenaed by a special prosecutor. the pressure that can put on staffers and the pressure that it puts when they start wondering, you know, is one of my colleagues cooperating? is one of my colleagues telling them about something i did? takes what is already by any accounts not a very functional white house and is going to add layer upon layer of dysfunction on top of it. >> and you have a president who didn't seem to care about the optics of meeting with the russian ambassador. he personally defended it the day after he fired comey. and lester holt also asked the president about that, so, let me play it. >> did you worry at all when you made the decision to fire comey when you did, the day before lavrov was here in the white house and the russian ambassador, did you think through the optics of a way this would look? >> i never thought about it. it was set up awhile ago. and

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he calling on the white house, he says -- >> the white house should make the transcript of the meeting available immediately to the congressional intelligence committees. and if the president has nothing to hide, he should direct that the transcript of the meeting be made available. >> this is now, hearing from chuck schumer the call from congress, congressional democrats of the white house to provide the transcript of the meaning. one republican member is echoing this call as well. ned price, we heard senator chris coons earlier this hour reiterate the need. that members want to see what was said inside the meeting. >> it's an interesting question. the "washington post," in the middle of its story, included another interesting detail. that is that the white house went back to the memorandum of that meeting and actually white-washed it, actually deleted the more sensitive excerpts that would have betrayed this key intelligence source at the center of this story. so it's an interesting question as to whether the memorandum for the record would actually reflect this part of the discussio

every day that goes by, this white house is making this mid-term. easier for the democrats to make significant gains in the house and to at least hold their own in the senate where two months ago, everyone was talking about the democrats losing significant numbers of seats in the senate. >> we'll get back to you a little later in the hour. i didn't get to circle back to you in this block. but steve, appreciate it. michael and anita, we're just getting started in this hour. next, we'll talk to members of congress with reaction to today's new round of breaking news. this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you ♪ are making the move to nissan. because of rogue, the best selling suv in america. titan, with america's

this has been a damaging week for the white house. the credibility of the white house has been really shattered as a result of the changing stories, or certainly seemingly changing stories. i think out in the country, people are still evaluating, but that's the norm in cases like this. these things take on a life of their own inside washington, and depending on where the investigation goes, the country will catch up with that. robert: are there going to be legal challenges to president trump, he makes these calls and has conversations with director comey, what kind of hot water, if any, is the president in for talking to the head of the f.b.i., the then-head of the f.b.i.? pete: certainly the question, am i under investigation, is according to every legal scholar i've talked to not a problem. the question would be, is the firing of the fib director in the middle of the investigation -- of the f.b.i. director in the middle of the information an obstruction of justice. the question is what would be the legal -- there would be legal cons

the white house saying flynn deserved a full review. >> did the white house put any security restrictions, was he limited in terms of access to class night information, national secrets or anything in any way? >> i'm not aware of any. the decision that we made was the right one. the president made a decision. he stands by it. >> white house chief of staff reince priebus said president trump found out shortly after the warning on january 26th, but on february 10th, three days before flynn owes dismissal, trump told reporters he wasn't aware. >> i don't know about it. int seen it. what report is that? >> reporter: 18 days after yates' warning, the white house continued to defend him. >> general flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president. >> reporter: flynn resigned a few hours later. south carolina senator lindsey graham tells cnn the 1-day gap could be explained by the president's loyalty. >> i think the white house really didn't know exactly what to do. trump was very loyal to flynn and it took a while for everybody to convince the president that flynn had been compromised. >>

. >> it was ready january 30th. >> you wanted the white house to act. >> we expected the white house >> did you expect them to react quickly. >> yes. >> there was urgency to the situation. >> yes i called monday morning to let mr. mccann know it was ready. that was another issue he raised in the second meeting was whether they could look at the under lying evidence that established general flynn's conduct, this is really unusual for us or for the fbi to allow this. >> because there was an ungoing investigation. >> but this was real important we gave a good bit of detail not just a conclusion we walked through in a fair amount of detail what general flynn had done. >> had you also given the white house what general flynn said in his irnlt interviewed. >> no. >> did done mccann want to know how he did in his fbi interview. >> he did i declined to answer that. >> why? >> because it really impacted our investigation. it wasn't information the white house needed to know to make a national security assessment. >> if flynn had not been credible in his answers to the investigators while that

the white house blasting those leaks. "the washington post" reporting that a current white house official has been identified as a person of interest in the investigation into russian meddling into the presidential election. the "post" citing unnamed sources. this is the latest effort by the left to destroy the trump presidency to take over the got. all coming after president trump was safely on board air force one and on his way to -- to saudi arain yeah. john roberts is in riyadh with our report. reporter: on the president telling lavrov firing coachy re-diewlsd the pressure on him and calling comey a snut job. the prime minister said the president has always emphasized making deals with russia for the benefit and safety of the american people. by grand standing and politicizing his actions comey inhibited our ability to negotiate with russia. spicer said quote as the president has stated before, a thorough investigation will con flirm was no collusion between the -- confirm there was no collusion between the campaign a

who on this white house staff has this kind of white house sprns in the past that will allow him or her say that. >> let me just say lloyd cutler, look it up, thank you very much. >> indeed, everyone should google immediately, lloyd cutler. >> thank you so much. >> thank you andrea. >> exclusive interview with president trump has finished at the white house. we'll have the first exchanges from that wide ranking interview. we'll have more and we'll be right back. a pain. he also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions... or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs a

white houses torned by struggles. -- torn. the reagan white house, jim baker really faced, you know, he was under attack from the so-called true believers and hard right idealogs in that administration. he had family. nancy reagan was famously the personnel director. michael deagar the deputy chief was practically family. baker was savvy enough to form a allianc alliances with nancy and mike beaver. when the hard right came after him, she was fine and able to be dealt with. it is not as if this is mission impossible in trump white house necessarily. it might be. but there are not a lot of jimp bakers or leon pineta or jack watsons around who can walk into a white house and make it work. >> no matter how skillful the white house chief of staff is all of that goes for nothing if the president does not empower the person to do the job. if the president is not going to listen, if the president is going to change his mind every time someone new comes into the room and makes a new argument, if there is not as chris was saying a mome

clearly the white house council is concerned about, is a white house official, in this case, general flynn, going to be embarrassed bay criminal prosecution later on? i'm sure they had going into president trump and say, this is not just about whether or not somebody lied. this is about getting wrapped up in a criminal investigation. at this point, you have to say, how does this guy still have clearance sh. >> something that stuck out to me, i would like to hear what you all think, sally yates said he was interviewed by the fbi at the white house and not represented. he didn't have council with him according to sally yates. which just strikes me as remarkable. you would think if white house council don mcgahn was aware that the fbi was going to interview national security adviser, he would make sure he has representation. >> hold on a moment, what is really significant, is if he told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, in that interview with the fbi. because if he didn't, he has major problems. right now as we all know. coming up, much more on breaking news. former

for the white house despite the fact in the past the white house has handled this.ached out to sherry dylan. now, she's a partner at the law firm morgan lewis who has been trump's tax lawyer since 2005. you'll probably remember she spoke about trump's businesses and conflicts of interest at a press conference back in january. so we asked whether president trump had filed his tax returns this year or perhaps if he'd filed for an extension. a spokesperson for morgan lewis applied, we have no comment. okay. so both the white house and trump's personal tax lawyers are refusing to say whether the president filed his tax returns this year, which leaves open the possibility that he simply has not, or maybe he requested an extension, or maybe not. but for some reason, the people who should know are refusing to answer. and the cutting board. we removed the added nitrates and nitrites, by-products, and artificial preservatives in all of our meat. every. single. one. why? for the love of hot dogs. he's a nascar champion who's she's a world-class swimmer who's stared down the b

the next day, sally yates called the white house counsel, yes, she decided that the white house counsel could come to the justice department to see the underlying evidence in thelynn case. she doesn't know if the white house counsel ever did that, because that same night she was fired by the president for refusing to try to defend the president's unconstitutional travel ban in federal court. the president's executive order on banning entrance to the united states buzz blocked by federal judges from boston to seattle and was clearly so desperately unconstitutional that the president eventually completely with drew it. while the president was trying and failing to get his travel ban enforced, he took no action to ban michael flynn from access to highly classified material, even though the white house had been warned that michael flynn could, quote, be blackmailed by the russians. >> general flynn continued to hire key senior staff on the national security council, announce new sanctions on iran's ballistic missile program, met with japanese prime minister shinzo abe along with president t

for now the white house denies it. the president accusing the media of treating him worse than any other politician. now one democratic politician is calling for impeachment. other democrats are saying not so fast. and vladimir putin offering to clear up the controversy over whether president trump shared highly classified information with the russians. putin comparing american politics to a mental illness. let's get to it. first from the fox news deck this afternoon, the michael flynn investigation has taken a dramatic turn on capitol hill. some of the most power fful politicians are demanding comey to testify and in public. one of the highest profile republicans of them all is comparing the controversy to watergate. here's what the armed services committee chairman john mccain said last night. >> the only thing i can say is, i think we've seen this movie before. i think it's reaching the point where it's of watergate size and scale and a couple other scandals that we've seen. it's a centipede that the shoe continues

care if one white house lies to another white house dolph. we walked through that it was really a whole lot more than just one white house official lying to other another. >> this is the vice president being lied to, who toll the american people. >> exactly. and we explained the compromise this created again. we walked back through all of those things. that's why the department of justice was involved. it was a national security threat? >> absolutely. >> the seriousness of her warning isn't the only significant discrepancy between yates and the white house. she says she made the evidence, investigators gathered on flynn, available to the white house, january 30th. that's not what the white house daze. >> the white house didn't get k access until the 22nd. >> you wanted the white house to act? >> yes. we expected the white house to act. >> did you expect them to act quickly? >> yes. >> there was urgency to the information? >> we had made arrangements over the weekend. that was one of the issues he had raised. whether that they could look at th