Today. Today you can sense the chant coming from the trump people. Listen closely and you can pick up a slightly different rhythm right now of dont lock me up, dont lock me up yesterday it was reported first by the Wall Street Journal that trumps former National Security adviser Michael Flynn, the guy saw there going after hillary, his lauer is looking to get flynn immunity in order to testify about what he knows. According to his lawyer trumps former National Security adviser certainly has a story to tell. This morning President Trump tweeted that mike flynn should ask for immunity in is that this is a witch hunt an excuse for a big election lost by the democrats and the media of historic proportion. At the meeting today Sean Spicer Conexplained the president was trying to convey his desire to see flynn testify. If you actually stop for a second and realize what the president is doing he is saying do whatever to do to go up and make it clear what happened,
take whatever precaution you want or however your Legal Counsel advises you. General flynns Attorney Says he has a story to tell. Is the white house concerned that the white house has damaging information about the president , his aides, his associates, about what occurred during the campaign with respect to russia . Nope. Nope. Well see. Nbc reported today that the Senate Intelligence committee turned down general flynns request for immunity. His lawyer was told it was wildly preliminary to discuss such a thing. Joining me is the Wall Street Journals carol lee who broke the story of the attempted immunity deal, and howard feynman, an msnbc political analyst. Carol, thank you for joining us. What is the king thinking tonight. What is trump worried about for Michael Flynn . What has he got on him . From the white houses perspective, their posture is he doesnt have anything on him. If we step back, we dont know. This is somebody, mike flynn was with the president almost every day during the campaign. Well he says he has a story to tell. Yes. Whats the thats another question, we dont know what the story is. Michael flynn has his time spent with donald trump and the Trump Campaign and the transition into the white house. Mike flynn has another he has had contacts with russia, not just with the ambassador here in washington, but he has been paid Tens Of Thousands of dollars by entities that are arms of the russian government, and he sat at a dinner in December Of 2015 with vladimir putin. And so he there are a number of stories that he could tell. Howard, look at this. Weve been here before. You see a guy not far down the tree from the president. Right there, National Security adviser. He knows a lot. The more he is afraid, the more he is going to talk. The more he is looking at 20 years for not disclosing money he got from the russia. Not being honest when he was under oath when he was talking to an ambassador about russian
sanctions. He says im damn damn not going to prison for this guy, i want to talk. First of all, he wants to talk at time when he would be most useful. The committee wants to learn everything it can about what flynn has to say from people other than flynn so they dont have to give him much, if anything. So they are saying wait a minute, wait a minute b. But if you are the attorney for flynn you want to get him in there right away so he gets credit for whatever he says from them. And also you have another reason, which is you want to give yourself what they call in the trade here in washington an immunity bath. You want to cover yourself with as much immunity as the committee is willing to give you. Not just use, not just what you say, but anything. Anything. In order the make it more difficult for the feds and the fbi and the Justice Department to try to prosecute you. Those are the twin things going on. First of all he filled out Financial Disclosure forms, what he said to the russians, how much he got what he said to the russians. What else . What he said to the Russian Ambassador. He spoke with the fbi. If you look at his track record, there has been two thing he was not forthcoming on, obviously, his the nature of what the conversations with the Russian Ambassador were. Kislyak. Kislyak, and he did not report being an agent of a Foreign Government with some of his work he had done with turkey. Turkey. Those are two examples. Not only that, but going back to when he was a top intelligence official in the government he would have to report certain contacts that he had, there is a whole array. Lets talk human nature. Your paper has been covering chris christie. The other day we saw Chris Christies top person, deputy in a Government Relations person, bridget kelly, the other guy, whats his name . I know he got two years in the slammer ahead of him. Wait a minute, sometimes the guy who work for the guy get in trouble we u. S. A. See it a lot. With scooter libby, dick cheney getting in trouble. They are the ones that swing and the big guys get away. He doesnt want to swain. To get an old refrain from the watergate days the question is what did the president know and when did he know it . When did Candidate Trump Go and when did he know it. Baroni is the name. Bill baroniy. To me, the most vulnerable thing ises that flynn has is not registering as a foreign agent. Thats a serious crime. The lawyer happens to be an expert in that field. They want to protect him on that. He wants that bath . He wants whatever he can get by way of the battle against the prosecution they have got him on. Donald trump and Michael Flynn addressed the issue of immunity in the past lets listen to then candidate trump last september discussing Hillary Clintons associates. Her aides took the fifth amendment, and her ring leaders were given immunity. And if you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity
for . How it all comes around. What Goes Around Comes Around in d. C. Heres that flynn sai on Meet The Press in september. Five people around her have been given immune to include her former chief of staff. When you are given immune that means you have probably committed a crime. He just said he just said if you on the wad immunity you probably committed a crime. There he is talking about Somebody Else. And everybody is hearing him now talking about himself. Now the white houses position as weve seen them do before is well that was then and this is now and this doesnt mean anything now. I have been watching spicer. I think he reached the point of incredibility. Did you watch today . Were you there. Yes. What did you make of it howard. He was just saying things that he was denying all of this. I think hes only performing for an audience of one chris. Hes not performing for glen thrush or carol or any of the reporters in the room. Hes doing his shtick for the
president of the United States. So for sean spicer to get out there and say only only interest is to get to the bottom of this whole thing. Thats why we want him to testify. Thats why we want him to testify. Everybody in the room isnt taking that seriously but donald trump is presumably back there in the oval office watching him and saying the way to give it to them, sean. The better he prosecutes it the more the president likes it. Until the president decides like a kleenex tsh you sean is done, then he will pull out Somebody Else to do it. More like a pez dispenser. Sean spicer is trying to do the bidding of the president. Its tough. Amy klobuchar joins us now. We are chuckling about the irony. Not the tragedy. It is a tragedy. We have a president with people around him who are beginning to rat on him and offering themselves up if they will get protection themselves under the law. A bath of immunity is how he phrased it, he is an attorney,
like yourself, senator. What do you think as a former prosecutor . Whats going on with trump . How dangerous are his waters right now . Okay. I was pretty stunned he did this tweet this morning saying first of all that flynn should get the immunity. Which they themselves said it was an implicati im not saying it is tt a crime was committed. Then saying it was a witch hunt. It is a truth hunt. We have to get to the bottom of what happened here. Now we have a situation where the president s former National Security adviser, literally was just appointed the National Security adviser, lies to the Vice President and then has to step down. We are now talking about immunity. I think as a prosecutor i can tell you you have got to be really careful with this congressional what is called derivative use immunity, what we saw in the case of oliver north who was convicted of three
felony counts but then they were reversed because it was found that during the congressional investigation the witnesses were so tainted that the conviction, the actual conviction didnt stand up. I know that senator warner and the senator burr and the Intelligence Committee in the senate is going to be very careful here. And it is just way too early, as adam schiff said today, to be talking about anything like this. And i i know they wont be doing anything about it without talking to the Justice Department if this is an ongoing investigation, as we believe it is. Senator, lets talk about political irony here. You have not been around here as long as i have, there is an old phrase, what Goes Around Comes Around. Here are the people that were trucking in the business of saying we are going to put people in jail like its south korea or pakistan where if you lose an election we put you away. They were talking like that just a few months ago. Now we are talking immunity. I want to know what you thought of the phrase lock her up when they were throwing that line out
in cleveland. Listen, as a former prosecutor and someone who has had to be very careful before you jump to those conclusions, i cant tell you when i had that job for eight years how many times i would say, we are still looking at the evidence. This is what is out there publicly. This is what is in the complaint. You simply cant jump to conclusions like that as a leader. Sure you can when you are sitting around a bar talking to your friend. Bee when you are a leader and on National Television you have an obligation to be careful with those kinds of words and there is some irony in the fact that they are now coming back to haunt them. What do you make of the long progression of incidences where there was connections between the Trump Campaign, his people, from manafort to carter page, to roger stone, himself, all these people, including flynn, having these regular encounters with russians at the time that we were dealing with the sanctions issue, where the republicans were rewriting their platform, including the plank on how we should deal with ukraine in a
far more lean yen manner than ever before, when money was being passed to flynn and people like that. What do you make of the connection . Does it look like a twoway connection or just a oneway connection . You know, i think this is getting seedier and seedier and seedier. I read that intelligence report, the 17 Intelligence Agencies, the one that was public. And i thought to myself, this is our United StatesIntelligence Agencies saying that this is actually going on and having been in ukraine with john mccain and lindsey graham, having seen the influence of russia and with a theyve done, the invasions, the killings of 10,000 people, this isnt just games and some kind of fun little thing of cloak and dagger. This is actually something happening. When you go from manafort, the campaign chair, to the National Security adviser, to the fact that he talked to the Russian Ambassador on the exact same day that president obama announced expanded sanction. And then you have the Attorney General of the United States having met with that same
ambassador only three days after president obama and putin met and president obama made clear he wasnt taking away the sanctions its just one person in power after another. And thats why not only is this intelligence investigation important. Its why we have to have an independent commission. And thats something that on january 4th i called for with ben cardin and Elijah Cummings and adam schiff. The four of us stood together stood together and said yes go on with your investigation but lets hav an independent commission. You cant have a bipartisan investigation, can you. I called for his recusal. But i do think we want to allow the senate process to continue. Both warner and burr did a good job this week. There is no reason at the same time you can have an independent commission. They would be looking at it from a different angle, thats a
panel of experts just like after 9 11 that would be coming forward with ways to prevent this from happening again. This is not just an assault on one candidate, one election, one country, it is really an assault on all democracys. We have had problems in our history, joe mccarthy back in the 50s, republicans put him away. In watergate it was democrats and republicans putting him away. When we are bipartisan and work together, this country is so much better off. Thank you senator for coming on tonight. There has been a theme by the way in sean spicers briefing today, at least on questions on russia, flynn, and devin nunes. See if you can pick up on it, watch . I dont know what he knows. Do you know if that is the case . I dont, if i start commenting on every one of these stories, i cant thats not our practice. I dont know the answer to that. I dont know the answer to that question. I dont know the answer to that. Some of it i dont know. I dont know. You should im not aware of that. If you could just find out. You can call the fbi. Do you have any new information about how the chairman did get onto the campus . As i said the last two days im not going to discuss that. Will you release any respectfully, the counsels office is working with them. I dont want to get in front of how they go back and forth and make a decision. The White House Counsels Office sent that letter. They are the uns ones its not my decision, major. I dont know what they will or wont do Going Forward and i dont want to prejudge that. Reminds me of hogans heros. I dont know. The lovable sherman. Its his job. I dont know nothing. Nunes goes there the next day, picks up a pile of christmas presents. The next day goes to the president , here are some presents, i dont know where i t the from, he got them from his crowd the night before. It is a mask raid. There are times when sean spicer said he does know, on this very issue, it doesnt make
sense that nunes would come here and go back and then come back here. Doesnt pass the smell test. He keeps getting tripped up on this. It used to be Press Secretaries would say ill take the question and get back to you. He comes the question and said who let him in the door. And then the next day he says i agreed the take the question, i didnt agree to give you an answer. What they are trying is trying to shift the question from what russia did to who leaked what about this. I know, it is a sideshow. And sean spicer today was desperately trying to quote change the narrative. Thats the favorite word in the Briefing Room its narrative. Its not answering questions. Its who can construct the narrative. He can do it. He is trying. Trying to impress the boss but he is not able to do it. The History Books will be written with the word russia in them. Its not going to be nunes, who is going to be forgotten, carol lee great reporting. Congrats. Thank you. Always good to get the scoop on the front page. Howard feynman. Coming up, devin nunes attempted a caper to keep secrets from the white house. His sly attempts to take the heat off President Trump all seem to be unraveling. Dont you think . A member of the house Intelligence Committee is going to join us after the break with more. Apart from College Basketball there is real march madness at the white house. Everything trump warned us about when he warned us about Hillary Clinton becoming president is pretty much what is going on right now. The worst case scenario. Plus joe biden is back. And he has words for donald trump. Heres a hint, its advice on the president s tweeting habits. Let me finish tonight with trump watch. You wont like it. This is hard ball. Flonase Allergy Relief delivers more complete relief. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause all your symptoms, including Nasal Congestion and itchy, watery eyes. Flonase is an allergy nasal spray
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mentioned in the documents given to Chairman Nunes . Nothing. Can you tell us anything if there were any corroboration with russian officials by the Obama Administration . I have no idea. Can you tell us anything, any information about the current investigation going on by Chairman Nunes . Nothing to say. Can you give us any information, sir . Couple more guys that dont know nothg. Congressman mike quickly is a democratroilliis sits on the Intelligence Committee. And greg miller correspondent from the Washington Post. Gentlemen, welcome. Im thinking im trump, i woke up on a saturday and i tweeted that the former president wiretapped me during the Trump Campaign at trump tower. Then i realized i made a mistake and i consult my advisors and we
go what do we have and who can we feed it to . They say we have got cohen and ellis who used to work for nunes. Put this thing together. Congressman, it looks like it was an alleyoop play. I like to use that phrase. Dick cheney used to do it. Give it to Somebody Else to deliver. And then you can say, as i was saying. They have got this guy, nunes, pegged. They used him. They fed him stuff out of the white house. One night. The next morning he came back and announced it with the president with alarming he had just gotten from the president s people the night before. How do you see it yourself . Im listening to The Three Stooges theme in the background unfortunately. Its extraordinarily troubling and frustrating. And at this point in time, the only thing we have is the opportunity to go forward. Im not giving up on the house investigation. Theres a lot of good people over there. Clearly, we have had an extraordinarily tough week. And you know, you know that there have been calls for mr. Nunes to step aside. Thats not going to happen, unfortunately. So we are going to work together, hopefully, and pivot and go back to regular order this week. Do you trust him . I think hes made it difficult for the investigation to go forward, but given that there are very few options, i dont have any choice. Ill tell you this. He was a very fair chairman under the Obama Administration. Its been difficult this last week or so, especially since obviously President Trump took office. At this point in time, i wish i could say more. We have no choice. The speaker isnt going to knock him off. Hes not going to recuse himself in the final analysis we are going to be reading the same documents. And we have been. We are going to be interviewing the same witnesses. I do believe we are going to have that open hearing. And i do believe we are going back to meetings with Admiral Rogers and mr. Comey to find out
exactly what took place. Greg, it seems to me that when this thing is fully aired by the press and by the committee to some extent but more by the press we are going to see the materials give to mr. Nunes on tuesday night last week are basically the ones they are going to be giving out. But when they gave them to him in a special bay, almost like giving an exclusive to a reporter, build it up and make it seem alarming and exculpatory for the president , make the president look good on his dawn patrol tweets. I get the feeling its not going to be that useful once it comes out in a normal fashion. What do you make of it . Whats there . I think thats true, the more weve learned about the documents, and we are still a long way from Learning Everything about them, it sounds less and less alarming, right . You peel back where nunes started, which was very uncomfortable, boy, the American Public wouldnt like to see this stuff. Then he has a conversation with adam schiff, and schiff says boy based on what nunes told me when i press him on this issue is
this was sort of Standard Operating Procedure for Intelligence Agencies. I mean there is a legitimate issue here on the unmasking of american officials who show up in the surveillance of Foreign Governments. But its just so odd how the white house in this case has sort of used nunes and damaged his credibility over such a seemingly minuscule matter, this tweet. You just sort of Wonder Whether Nunes is such an important ally for the administration, whether they might have wanted to preserve his credibility for more important developments later on in this russia story. Mr. Quickly, a couple i think there is three cases in the last week where the white houses people basically told us the story. First of all sean spicer whose job is to speak for the president saying it doesnt pass as the smell test if he got the stuff at the white house one night and shows up the next day to bring it back. Then this congressman from florida, works for the president. Said quigley, one of the members
of your Intelligence Committee works for the president. What do you make about the claims, about the constitution, they seem to admit i said they sound like their own worst witnesses. At this point, mr. Spicer is channelling his inner ron ziegler. I think there is something beyond this thats more troubling. How this information was passed back and forth. Unfortunately, whats taking place here besides the distraction is the very real possibility that there are going to be investigations of whats happened during the investigation. And is that a distraction to the American Public . It absolutely is. Theres a lot of serious work to do on this. Not the least of which is how do we prevent this sort of russian involvement again. But were not going to get there if we are playing these sort of crazy games. Do you think nunes wants to find out the trump role in cooperating with the russians,
if there was one . Does he want to know what hand they played in encouraging the russians to hack the Democratic National committee, podesta and palmieri and all the rhett of that that seemed to droi Hillary Clintons campaign . Do you think nunes wants to find out the truth of trumps role in all of that . I would think every american would like to fine out the truth how far the russian involvement what took place, who played a role in that, who if anyone was helping on side of the United States. How far did this go . How do we prevent it in the future . And what about these leaks . Thats the four levels of this investigation i have to assume that they are going to work in good faith. Obviously, my doubts have been raised. We are going to keep a good eye on it and alert the American Public. We have got a job to do. I cant let them succeed on the distractions. Otherwise we are rewarding bad behavior. I have to make this investigation work. Well said. Ank u u. Congressman mike quigley of illinois and greg miller. Up next, Talk About March Madness for the Trump Administration. We will tell you why this has not ban good month for this president. Has hard ball, where the action is. Allergies with Nasal Congestion . Find fast relief behind the counter with claritind. [ upbeat music ] strut past that aisle for the Allergy Relief that starts working in as little as 30 minutes and contains the best oral decongestant. Live claritin clear, with claritind. Had not. Sessions recused himself from the investigation into collusion a day later. Then on the 4th of the month, trump dropped his explosive tweets falsely accusing the Prior Administration of wiretapping him during the campaign. On march 6th, republicans unveiled the American Health care act but one week later the cbo said T Bill Would Cost would cause 24 million americans to lose coverage. Two days later on the 159 a federal judge blocked the president s second travel ban. On march 20th, fbi director james comey publicly confirmed that the bureau is investigating alleged ties between the Trump Campaign and russia. Two days later devin nunes said he had seen reports showing intelligence on surveillance of the Trump Transition Team who was provided by the white house. The president ignites a war within his party against the Freedom Caucus. On the 25th he promotes a segment on fox news that calls for House Speaker paul ryan to step down. On the 29dth of this month a judge in hawaii extended the block of the president s travel ban. Just yesterday, three white house officials are outed for showing intelligence reports to Chairman Nunes. Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn asks for legal immunity from investigators in exchange for his testimony. Today the president tweets his support for flynn and its revealed the senate has turned down that request for immunity. Well discuss President Trumps bad month with the Hard Ball Panel coming up here next. You are watching hard ball. Mom gets breakfast in bed. You get to do the dishes. Bring em on. Dawn ultra has 3 times more greasecleaning power. A drop of dawn and grease is gone. Hey, ready foyeah. Big meeting . Uh, hello . A meeting . Its a big one. Too bad. We are double booked diarrhea and Abdominal Pain. Why dont you start without me . Oh. Yeah. If youre living with frequent, unpredictable diarrhea and Abdominal Pain, you may have irritable bowel syndrome
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jonathan cape hard, Opinion Writer for the Washington Post. Ruth, and how is he doing . Lets get perspective. Remember the first term of the clintons, first 100 days. Disaster, hillary care. People getting ousted. People thought he would never get reelected. He was reelected. Im thinking about the last couple of weeks and im perplexed why we are not talking about the real scandal. Was there a misuse of Government Surveillance . Were there raw intelligence reports that made it into the hounds of white house senior officials . My thing is i want to get to the bottom this, i think talk to republicans who say lets get to the bottom, Lets Have Flynn and everybody in front of the committees but also letsursue what actually happened. Ruth, thats a legitimate newe hear it from sean spicer every day, the line, that
the real story here is leaks. Its been my experience for a long time that people in power tend to care about leaks and nobody else does. Well, the real story here is a bunch of different stories. The real story here is what Director Comey told us he was investigate, right . What did russia to do influence the election and was there any improper coordination, collusion, between members of the Trump Campaign and you know, associates, and the russians to influence the election . Thats the main story. There are also totally legitimate pieces to that story. Were there improper leaks . How did these leaks occur . It seems to me that the Trump Campaign the Trump Administration has sort of created its own circular reality here. That doesnt mean that there might not have been improper unmasking. But the fundamental issue is the fundamental issue, which is the
russians, and what trump did or didnt do with them. I think the big story is what you said, the Symbiotic Partnership to it. The most aggressive Print Press Coverage ive seen since watergate. The Washington Post, the New York Times fighting it out with a huge contingency of reporters, Incredible Enterprise all over the front page, two or three stories a day. Ive never seen such aggressiveness. I think thats the other en of leaks. They are getting the story out faster than trumps people are, thats for sure. When youve got the Media Environment thats so rapid fire, once you got up to speed on the story that broke at 1 00 there is a new one at 1 30. Michael flynn is going to go for immunity, it blew Everything Else out of the saddle around 7 00 last night. Its also because it is a target rich environment. You have an administration that raises more questions every time they attempt to either answer
one or on few skate answering another question. D you know, the longer the president and his senior advisors continue to get around answering questions saying i dont know, i dont know, i dont know as you said earlier the more this story is going to along. In washington we have seen this happen, an administration that refuses to just own up to whatever it is they no. The longer the story goes on, and the more damage it cause. Let me ask you, do you think this travel the Travel Office story was a pain in the butt that the clintons they wanted to give their cousin a job in the Travel Office. It handled Travel Office for the press, not the travel for the country. Can you figure out who is in the white house with the president . Here we are 70 days. Im trying to fig you out who is sitting next to him. I thinks lonely guy, personally, doesnt have a lot of buds. Jared kushner, and his wife, the
praezs daughter, he identifies this guy, cohen, the head of intelligence at nsc, he hooks up with this guy, ellis, who hooks up with nunes, nunes heads over in the middle of the night. You are laughing. It is a mickey mouse operation. It is all come to light their plan to skip this thing around and get it laundered at the white house and have a republican chairman of the Committee Say this is damage alarming information. It was their own information. It is a beginning to look mickey mouse, im sorry. Its funny that nunes a week ago was lauded by the press by Calling Out Trump on his tweets. Calling him out on his tweets. Thats what they reacted to. I think nunes got heat for that. Again, i will go back to ultimately at the ends of the day the conversation i dont think there will be any evidence. We have seen brennan, clapper, others saying there is no proof, there is no information that
shows collusion with russia. What does Michael Flynn want immunity for . What does he want to get what is the story he wants to tl . His lawyers thinking he has a story to tell. In a witch hundred. There is no witch if you listen to the narrative you could have sworn there were russians agents in Voting Booths in wisconsin. Heres a good way to disrupt the narrative, have the president come out and tell everything. Im going to agree with you. On this i dont think the white house has been as good at driving the narrative. I think they could be better. I think there will be a hard look at what took place over these weeks. I dont believe in witches. I believe in witchhunts. But i look at a picture and i see the guy that was going to be National Security adviser to the president sitting at dinner with putin and getting paid 30,000. Three weeks. I know, whats it say . What carter page over to russia all the time. Whats that back and forth
about . Meetings kislyak. All these meetings with flynn covered up. If there was nothing wrong with the meeting, why did they deny them. Jonathan, you havent said anything. I just had an outburse. [ Overlapping Speakers ] if the white house driving, not doing a good job driving the narrative, they are like the democrats best friend. They started with the tweet, and then they keep Digging Deeper and deeper. You talked about the first 100 days of the clinton administration. I was a White House Reporter during that. Tell me what bill clintons numbers were after his first 100 days and you would swap them for donald trumps. 4 in. They committed some of the mistakes because they didnt have experienced people around them. Let me ask you about learning curves. All the different Points Of View here, Opinion Writers you are allowed to have them, of course you have an opinion. What have you seen of a Lerveing Curve from trump . Where has he shown week by week the pick up on people who to
trust, ways of doing things. You are getting quiet on me. I dont see it either. Show me some learning where has he improved. 18 months ago people thought this guy is is a joke. Quick study. He is the president of the United States. I think he let sebody else drive his agenda. I think he is goio learn from that. Who is that . Paul ryan on hill. I think there were mistakes in how the agenda and the agenda calendar has run out. Do you think paul ryan has talent. He has some talent but not as much talent as speakers in the past. Learning term in terms of monitoring policies, more extreme policies have turned out to be more moderate but not on president ial behavior like tweeting. I think the president ial cabinet there are interesting people on the cabinet, better than him. I look to them to protect this
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