significant. this is the former national security adviser to the united states of america who has admitted lying to the fbi in connection with this russian investigation and agreed to cooperate fully as a condition of his plea agreement and to share everything that he knows. this is a very significant event. this has now brought this investigation into the white house, into the president s inner circle. this is very, very significant. you know, you have to ask the question, you know, why all of this lying about russia and russian contacts. that s the larger question. but i think this is a very, very important development. it s very sad in many ways that the national security adviser to the president of the united states lied to the fbi during the course of this very important investigation. but i think we re going to hear a lot more and i think this is a very important move because it now is really in the inner circle of the trump administration, a member of the administration, an impo
story line, but doug jones, he s the democrat, he isn t trying to play to the blue base. his latest ad released yesterday tries to pull over republicans or pretty much anybody who doesn t like roy moore. just awful. i just don t trust him. he s too die visive. don t decency and integrity matter anymore. i m a republican but roy moore, no way. i m for doug jones. i m another republican for doug jones. question is, are there enough of those for doug jones. it s a big open question. but the way jones is playing this is smart. he had a fund-raiser scheduled an in-person fund-raiser, $500 a head with cam ma la harris angkorry booker, two well-known senators, canceled it, and he s saying basically to the leadership thank you so much for your money. stay in washington or wherever
makes clear there isn t going to be a rush of other senators that come out. in fact, what they would like to happen is this all go away. one aide told me, it s hard sometimes because of the administration, but this is the hand we ve been dealt. this fight back and forth is simply not helpful to that cause, wolf. how does the loomic legislative battle over the president s proposed tax cuts factor into all of this? look, it s the big open question right now. but the senator has already raised concerns about the tax plan. he s made very clear he is a deficit hawk. he doesn t want the tax proposal to add a lot to the deficit here. so he s already kind of on the edge as they start this process in earnest. the real concern and we saw it in health care where administration officials got crosswise with certain
house. jonathan, you heard what gerald had to say in the statement prepared by his lawyers, that in front of the white house. today what are the biggest unanswered questions? i think that the statement that jared kushner put out yesterday was actually fairly complete. the real question is whether there are things missing from it that we ll find out down the track. that seems to be the big open question. honestly, inside the white house, this is least of their concerns, what happens today. the real concern, the thing that is burden of proofi iburning fo ongoing investigation and whether he veers into their business activities. that is the thing really distressing people inside the administration. it s not what jared kushner will say today. and we saw again this morning donald trump is clearly pushing in this direction of wanting jeff sessions to either resign out of humiliation or who knows, maybe he will actually fire him and appoint someone that he believes would actually fire
the administration, for all the tough talk, are saying that he was unjustly imprisoned, says the secretary of state. the president saying that it was brutal treatment. but they are stopping far short of the term murder. clearly there are three other americans and a canadian still in north korea locked up by them. they would like to bring them home. they don t want to make that situation worse. a lot to contend with. now the question about how the u.s. should take action, if any, against north korea. and the accusation that the trump administration could have been could have done more to help him. joining me now are john kirby, a former state department states person and pentagon press secretary. he was in the obama administration when otto warmbier was captured. also with us, david gergen. admiral, the president at least laid implicit blame at president obama s feet.