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The president gave sensitive pearl from the russian ambassador to the united states p. how damaging is this for the president right now and how much does this help potential u.s. adversaries like the russians. >> these incriminating events, that we found out about, this happened in an oval office. not somewhere in an office space somewhere outside of d.c. this happened in the oval office. we are hearing about it two consecutive days where the white house is denying and the white house has credib...

Reached a boiling point. now, is it fair to them? probably not. we know a lot of people who work in that white house under really challenging, yunique, kind of never-before-seen circumstances and they are trying to catch their breath and theres a lot of blame that goes around. but when youre the president, its easy to kind of look around and say, its not me. its you, you, you. were getting reaction from members of the congress, how republican leaders specifically are responding to these report...

Obama acting cia director, who said there were leaks coming from inside the intelligence agency. my point is, people are doing this to embarrass the president. instead of going to the white house and saying, hey, this was a problem, we need to deal with it. what they did is go to "the washington post." the story about the deputy attorney general threatening resign, and when they said that former director comey had asked for more resources for the russian investigation, that wasnt true either. th...

Integrity, people are very upset about the way he was treated. >> lets get a wider view now of those comments with my panel now. jay newton small. presidential historian allen liktman and cnn intelligence security analyst robert bear. good to see all of you. you heard clapper say hes very worried about the climate. its very troublesome. not because of comeys representation, but because of the way in which he was fired. during the selection process now is it your view that trump still has a real ...

Spicer saying it was the biggest inauguration day crowd ever. from day one they started out misleading us and lying to us. now i think they are paying for it. in the fact that we are inclined to not believe them when they say a story is wrong or they give us their version of events. why would we? >> michael, go ahead. >> many of the inaccuracies are because the president tells people to say these things. they are not inaccuracies on the part of sean spicer. he was instructed to go out and say fa...

Harold ford and msnbc an lest. thats the question. do they have a credibility problem? do you trust everything the white house says whether it comes from the president or the pokes people? is there a point to those press briefings? >> i think they are trying very hard. the presidents comments certainly dont inspire confidence, not only in his words or their words. if you are sean spicer or miss huckabee sanders, he basically said, look, i am going to send you out there, if i change my mind or ne...

We can see sarah huckabee sanders came out wednesday thing comey lost the confidence of the rank and file and the less than 24 hours acting director mc cabe said not only has he not lost the confidence of the rank and file but brought support from the fbi. as well as the media you see the trump administration who has credibility. david: what do you think of that? >> i think the media has a credibility problem on this because clearly their biases are out there and in terms of what happened with t...

That. unless i have them every two weeks and i do them myself. we dont have them. i think its a good idea. >> the briefings held by the president the best way to get accurate information from this administration? >> keir, i think thats an excellent question, because we saw the white house showing signs of a credibility problem this week when the president contradicted his own vice president and his own communications staff within 48 hours as for the circumstances surrounding the firing of direct...

He tries to obfuscate, destroy, lie, whatever he can to get people off his scent, including firing the head of the fbi. so where were at now is donald trumps worried about what does, i think, lieutenant general mike flynn know, and will flynn do an immunity agreement, or plead guilty to a small misdemeanor. but will he talk, will he say i got marching orders from donald trump to deal with assage. you have to imagine living in donald trumps skin, every day now he is in fear that the bottom may dr...

Today. maeve reston, just to pamelas point, i mean, what do you make of clapper, once again, refuting the presidents words? >> well, i mean, its really -- theres a major credibility problem that the white house has, as we know. and thats been true for several months here. but the discussion of loyalty and trumps demands for loyalty, that goes back a long time. i think the broader conversation that we need to be having here is what a chilling effect this firing has had on, you know, people wantin...