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Told friends at lunch last month, i just got a msage from the president to stay strong. ken vogel and indira lakshmanan are back with us. and ken, if there is a single rule to live by in life when you know someone is under investigation by the fbi, you just wait. you wait. you do not communicate with that person. you dont e-mail, you dont call, dont meet them for coffee. just wait until thats over. the notion that the president of the united states might be reaching out to and communicating dire...

Consequences coming. they are afraid of the structural problems that trump is going to bring them in 2018. mike pence feels like a safety blanket. he feels like a soft landing for a lot of these guys. i dont think it would be that easy politically if pence gets caught up in the stipulate stream. i dont know all the information yet. we dont know how involved pence was hiring flynn as the head of the transition team. these things are really complicated right now for mike pence going forward. but t...

So this begs a question why are they not going through the front channels? why are they not going through the state department, and what is it theyre trying to hide with all of this? >> and steve clemens, why does the president in general just favor russia so much? and the back channel issue is so fascinating. k would ha loved to have a back channel to nikita khrushchev during the cuban missile crisis. they tried to figure out how to get in cleaner communication and be understood. and so thats w...

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 presidents last word about the investigati...

But the entire thing has been a witch hunt. and there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign. but i can only speak for myselves and the russians, zero. i think it divides the country. i think we have a very divided country because of that and many other things. so i can tell you that we want to bring this great country of ours together. >> the president, if he becomes a witness under oath for a special prosecutor will not be the first president who became a witness for a specia...

>> he can take care of himself. >> we look forward to getting this whole situation behind us. >> did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey to back down the investigation into michael flynn? and also, as you -- >> no, no. next question. >> the administration knew he was under criminal investigation when they hired him. >> and he is up for the most sensitive job in the white house? that should have stopped it right there. >> i mean, come on, now, this is not rocket scientist stuff. ...