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Electors but what is not -- what were not seeing tonight, not taking the courageous route an saying dont fire robert mueller and not either accounted for the president. thises a moment when a lot of people wavering as to what their future looks like. >> joyce vance, a lot of expectations surrounding mike flynn today because he seems to be one of the most easily charged people in this story. and leading up to all of this. what do you suppose is happening on the flynn side of this case? >> right. ...

If youre john kelly, you certainly knew who he was given that he had run through -- doesnt excuse the behavior. >> how do you see it? >> he was upset about being investigated for obstruction of justice. one of the good rules is if you dont want to be investigated for obstruction of justice. dont obstruct justice. >> im going to write that one down. >> dont fire the fbi director whose been investigating you. dont send your people out to lie about why the fbi director was fired. i mean, this is a ...

Appeasement at all. far from it. im talking about a deal. im talking about some kind of verifiable freeze where the countries in the region, those most directly related, the u.s., china, for example, japan, south korea, say hey, here is what we can do. it might mean u.s. military exercises might be diminished a bit over there. it could be lots of other things, as long as we reach the final goal. and whats the final goal, which is putting a stop to what kim is doing. thats not appeasement. thats ...

He says tonight that he was just joking. its not a laughing matter. and trump supporters warning the president, dont fire jeff sessions. >> that would be your red line? >> thats my red line. . awesome, thank you. thank you. thats... not your car. your cars ready! wrong car... this is not your car? i would love to take it, but no. oh, im so sorry about that. you guys wanna check it out? its someone elses car... this is beautiful. what is this? its the all-new chevy equinox. this feels like a lu...

Have gone? where do you go to sell the last version. maine, alaska? i dont know if he would have been well received there with the kind of message he had. hen you see the medicaid expansion, for example, they wanted to roll back. 40% of addiction treatment and alzheimers in west virginia are being dealt with through medicaid expansion. you are not going to say lets get rid of it. its a tough message. >> a stunning rebuke of the white house and the presidency, not just this vote on the floor, but...

His position on voting rights and other things. but you dont fire someone for following the law. in this case, he simply recused himself from anything dealing with russia because of his past involvement and meetings with the russian ambassador and other issues. and he gave that job to his deputy, as is appropriate, rod rosenstein, who has in fact appointed a special counsel, who was an fbi director under a republican administration, well respected on both sides of the aisle. so that is why you s...

Do this without a confirmation process, put somebody through as a recess appointment, democrats will just prevent the senate from recessing and he wont be allowed to do it that way either. where do you think this is going to go? what do you think will happen with this standoff between the president and his own a.g.? >> well, first of all, senator grassley is expressing the sentiments of a lot of republicans including senator lee just yesterday in the judiciary committee came out strong, even say...

Relationship with an international drug trafficker that he tried to get lenient treatment for in the 1980s. >> in the statement stay away from my money, it seems clear now that robert mueller is not staying away from the money. how close are we headed to a nixon moment where he tried to fire the special prosecutor in that instance back in the 1970s and if donald trump did fire mueller, what do you expect to happen next? >> first of all one would hope that donald trump learns something from histo...

Staying away from the money. how close are we headed to a nixon moment where he tried to fire the special prosecutor in that instance back in the 1970s and if donald trump did fire mueller, what do you expect to happen next? >> first of all one would hope that donald trump learns something from history and the reaction to the firing of arch bald cox was a jie nor mouse outpowering of support for the special prosecutor. it was that that led nixon to appointment a second special prosecutor and tur...

Thats also the reason that theyd likely be brought in to begin with, that these are people who dont mind aggressively going after the presidents adversaries against all of these negative reports and, of course, all of those leakers. liz? elizabeth: all right. of kristin fisher with great reporting at the white house. kristin, thank you so much. leland: a little bit more on this with jenna johnson of "the washington post." jenna, always good to see you, thanks so much. well start where kristin di...