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Between them and the way that pences talked about flynn since the investigation has broken over whether that is well understood or whether theres more to learn there. >> i dont think it is well understood. i mean, i certainly didnt realize until i did this reporting that basically there was a red flag that was being thrown when -- around flynn by christie when he ran the transition and that when pence took over what happened was actually it was -- ivanka trump turned to mike flynn in a meeting a...

Trump, i think, was acting out of loyalty, loyalty because flynn had been loyal to her father and pence, whose job it was to vet somebody of that -- that incredible importance to americas security, it was just a fundamental role of running the transition, is to make sure that these people are, you know, reliable, even. and not crooks. and people i talked to felt he failed that very basic job and that was kind of a beginning of some of this whole, you know, investigation. >> and the beginning of ...

That rally between pence and gillespie as only half filled. organizers expected around 1,200 people to show up but only about 600 people did. trump administration right now is being sued over stopping obamacare subsidies. theyre being sued over daca. theyre facing international pressure for disavowing the iran nuclear deal and for their handling of nuclear threats from north korea. in addition to all that stuff the trump campaign is under investigation from three congressional committees and the...

Associate trump likes to let pence know whos boss. a staff member from trumps campaign recalls him mocking mike pences religiosity. he said when people met with trump after stopping by pences office trump would ask them, hey, did mike make you pray?" quote, "during a meeting with a legal scholar trump belittled mike pences determination to overturn roe versus wade. the legal scholar had said that if the supreme court did so many states would likely legalize abortion on their own. you see, trump ...

Indiana, people having "fire pence" signs on their front lawns, having alienated all his allies, not just seen as super conservative but seen as essentially in some important ways very incompetent as an indiana governor, a state that has economic trouble before and beyond the additional economic harm that that sort of built in. >> he was incredibly unpopular. and it was almost a fluke that he was chosen. but yet it tees him up to make him potentially a president of the united states. you have ne...

Jane mayer has a gonzo new profile of mike pence in "the new yorker" which includes this remarkable reporting. "before pence took over the transition team chris christie had warned trump not to give a high-level job to retired general michael flynn whose financial ties to foreign interests triggered the russia investigation. when pence replaced christie, though, the door of the white house was opened to flynn. theres no indication that pence raised any objections about flynn to trump, even after...

For any specific corrections. also, no specific denial on the bubbles thing. joining us now is jane mayer, staff writer for the "new yorker" magazine. ms. mayer, it is great to have you here tonight. thank you so much for being here. >> thanks so much for having me. >> let me give you a chance >> let me give you a chance tonight first to respond to the statement from the vice presidents office. he said your piece is filled with unsubstantiated unsourced claims that are filled with untruth and --...

Officials and trump campaign figures whove had to hire expensive lawyers to help them in the russia investigation, everybody not named donald trump, junior or senior, has to pay their legal fees themselves. the president and his son are using other peoples money to pay their lawyers. but everybody else, hey, if your kids got a college fund -- vice president mike pence is famously not wealthy. jane mayers new profile of pence includes the fact that president trump was initially reluctant to bring...