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the conclusion of all of our intelligence community that the russians in an effort directed by vladimir putin engaged in interference in our campaign with the express purpose of helping donald trump and hurting hillary clinton, and any number of trump officials who have lied about or forgotten to tell or reveal their dealings with the russians. so, you know, you have to remember the context of all of this, and you ask the question why. what are they hiding? what is this relationship with russia? when did it begin? what did the president know about it? what did he have to do with it? of course, most importantly, was there some relationship between the trump organization and the russians during the course of the campaign? one of the things we learned today was that there were members of the trump transition team that were aware of michael flynn s call with ambassador kislyak and the fact that sanctions were discussed. but listen to how vice president pence responded to the first report
then fine. then why, you know, why not tell the truth? let me just why in terms of just for context, what is the implication? why does it matter if the president did know about all of this, evan? one of the things that the president has been very out there about is sort of saying that this is a witch-hunt. so the question that i think we know that as part of this investigation mueller has been looking at is the question of obstruction and whether or not there was an attempt by the president, by anybody around him to sort of obstruct the fbi s investigation into trying to get to the bottom of what happened in the 2016 election, whether or not there was any coordination, illegal coordination between the russians and the campaign. so, look, i think that s a big open question here, and that is why it is important to know what the president knew and when did he know it. we do know that is a focus of robert mueller s investigation, do we not? yes, we know there s a group inside the
we re joined with our panel of reporters here who have been covering this story very closely from the beginning. pam, you ve been covering this story from the beginning as well. really a momentous day in this investigation and for this administration as well. that s right, because michael flynn is the first official that was in the white house to be charged in the investigation, and so what happened today really brings the focus on the others in the white house, too, how this might impact them. gloria borger, the big question, how does this deal threaten president trump? we don t know the answer to that yet, but what i can say is, first of all, we know that flynn has flipped. so this takes mueller into the oval office, into somebody who was in the west wing, and he has cooperation from somebody in the west wing. the white house has always said that it was misled by flynn about his russian contacts. so now we have to ask the question, is that true? were they misled? of course it giv
intelligence community that the russians in an effort directed by vladimir putin engaged in interference in our campaign with the express purpose of helping donald trump and hurting hillary clinton, and any number of trump officials who have lied about or forgotten to tell or reveal their dealings with the russians. so, you know, you have to remember the context of all of this, and you ask the question why. what are they hiding? what is this relationship with russia? when did it begin? what did the president know about it? what did he have to do with it? of course, most importantly, was there some relationship between the trump organization and the russians during the course of the campaign? one of the things we learned today was that there were members of the trump transition team that were aware of michael flynn s call with ambassador kislyak and the fact that sanctions were discussed. but listen to how vice president pence responded to the first reports that flynn spoke to kislyak