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Brown. national security advisor michael flynn and the u.s. ambassador did speak about sanctions in at least one phone call. jake tapper reports the details. >> reporter: a bombshell out of washington today. nine current and former government officials told "the washington post" that national security advisor michael flynn discussed u.s. sanctions with russia with russias ambassador before taking office. both flirn and the white house insisting thats not the case. sources tell cnn these meetings...

The russian ambassador. dont overreact to these sanctions. well have time to revisit this later. >> the private conversations between flynn and russias was explicit contradictions to president obamas actions. >> what i can confirm having spoken to him about it is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the united states took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. >> that forceful denial turns out to be false. did the vice preside...

But in this case, we have a guy who is going to be the most senior intelligence official in the country, de facto, at least, go to the russians before the election -- or before the inauguration -- and say were going to lift these sanctions, dont worry about it, dont overreact, help me help you. >> right. right. >> and the fact of the matter is, that is something that is a very bright line, i think. and i think youre going to see the leaks continue because the intelligence community is quite obvi...

Like ted kennedy goes over to russia and talks smack or jimmy carter goes to some third world nation and criticizes the u.s. and makes all of these statements. but in this case, we have a guy who is going to be the most senior intelligence official in the country, de facto, at least, go to the russians before the election -- or before the inauguration -- and say were going to lift these sanctions, dont worry about it, dont overreact, help me help you. >> right. right. >> and the fact of the matt...

For the president-elect, michael flynn, spoke to the russians. you all say he spoke to the russians about the sanctions that were in place. then afterwards he lied about it rememb , he said he didnt, the vice president said he didnt. explain what happened. >> we understand there were multiple conversations. whats crucial, is a crucial conversation a few days after christmas, the day before the obama administration imposed sanctions for the hacking. those sanctions were an open secret at that poi...

Is represent the nba the right way. 14 years, never got into trouble. respect the game, print that. barkley responded to james rant in a radio interview yesterday. >> for one, i have no problem with what lebron said. some of it was true. i did pay my debt, thats not true. i was never late to the all-star game. so that is not true. but i dont overreact, im not going to say anything bad about him or get personal. some of the things he said about me are correct. that does not make my message incorr...

See a successful two-term president with high approval ratings completely in command of himself so bush -- george w. bush, two terms but was at 30% approval ratings. bill clinton, two terms but he was consumed by the impeachment and the pardons at the end, reagan two terms baby the end of his last year he was kind of -- we now know he had begun to have early on set alzheimers disease. so you really have to go back to eisenhower because before that the way you have had a president in his eighth y...

What strategy should donald trump take? >> he should focus instead on the big picture. donald trump has been against getting us in wars. both of them want the lighter footprint. the big difference is in the speech yesterday, president obama emphasizes it is really important to put isis and terrorism in context. it is not an existential threat to the united states. more americans drown in their bathtubs every year than are killed by international terrorists. and so dont overreact. dont shred the ...

>> and in terms of what needs to happen next, just quickly, jim, whats the next move for people like you, the feds? >> stay the course, draw some warrants, dont overreact. no violence has occurred. nobodys hurt. play it smart. dont give them free reign into town for gasoline and provisions. if they come off, you might make an arrest. but nobody wants these crack pots -- theyre demanding half the lands in the united states and probably alaska too. so its really crazy. they need to be arrested. >>...

Get away with this. second of all, his toeftd believe at the time we suffered from the quote unquote vietnam syndrome. i dont think what we did was rational. he had greater regional ambitions. my hunch is he thought he could get away with it. >> thats what history, one take of history is he seemed to give him a wink and a nod it would be okay. there was no way, for example, the u.s. ambassador said were going to send 550,000 americans and were going to do this. theres no way you could threaten i...