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jon: fox news alert, what a daily white house press briefing it is expected to be especially after the testimony yesterday of former acting attorney general sally yates and director of national intelligence james clapper. a lot of questions on that short to come up. we will have that for you when it begins. jenna: new weekly standard hitting the stands with a cover story on the growing influence of president trump s son-in-law jared kushner. senior advisor to the president, also married to the president s daughter ivanka but our next guest argues they have more in common than simply a family connection. that gives kushner unfettered access to the president. the article is titled the voice in his ear, jared kushner s access to power, and it michael warren writes this. know when within the orbit would deny that trump trust jared kushner above all. he is trump s respectable avatar, the better angel of the
number one concern. the russians can use compromised material information in a variety of ways. sometimes overtly, sometimes subtly. again, our concern was that you have a very sensitive position like the national security advisor, and you do not want that person to be in the position where again the russians have leverage over them. but i will also say that another motivating factor is that we felt like the vice president was entitled to know that the information he had been given and that he was red relating to the american public was not tru true. jenna: politics editor for national journal, question today as we take in catherine herridge s reporting and testimony yesterday from sally yates. what are you watching for next? that was scintillating testimony from former acting attorney general sally yates it raises the question of what president trump knew and what he was aware of with michael flynn s conversations with russia. we know from her testimony that
it yesterday, senator lindsey graham and senator chuck grassley were questioning them yesterday in front of the senate. listen. did either of you ever request the unmasking of mr. trump, his associates or any member of congress? yes. and in one case i did. did either of you ever review classified documents in which mr. trump, his associates or members of congress had been unmasked? well, yes. you have. can you give us details here? no, i can t. ms. yates, have you. yes, i have and no, i can t give you details. how did the conversation between the russian ambassador and mr. flynn make it to the the washington post ? i don t know the answer to that. no. nor do i know the answer to that. steve: well, we kind of know what happened though. we know that the names were some names were unmasked. and then as we learned in the front pages of the new york times, in the final days of the obama administration, the
that it may not be real news that they re reading. all right, so, let s get to pierre thomas live at the capitol tonight. yates also testifying, pierre, that the white house counsel asked during one of those meetings whether flynn should be fired, they asked her? reporter: david, yates said she offered no recommendation, saying it was a white house call, not hers. and we learned one more thing today. from obama administration officials who said the former president warned trump in the oval office about flynn two days after the election. david? the president warned them, as well. all right, pierre thomas leading us off, thank you. sally yates not only making news over her warnings involving retired general michael flynn, as you ll remember, she was fired after she refused to enforce president trump s travel ban. she believed the ban was unconstitutional. she was pressed on that today. listen to this. who appointed you to the united states supreme court? i was that determin