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In the presidents brain. >> taunting. >> guys, thank you all very much. we appreciate it following all this breaking news and the presidents tweets on it this morning. now to a cnn exclusive former acting attorney general sally yates giving her first television interview to anderson cooper, warning she gave white house directly about national security adviser michael flynn and possible collusion with russia. here is a look. >> the underlying conduct itself was potentially a fireable offense. >> ...

This is obviously since being fired by president trump and more importantly since giving that important testimony. the full interview is going to air tonight on ac 360. yates answers tough questions from coop about former national security adviser michael flynn, about the chain of events, about her tone and intentions and how the white house took her message. so all of this is relevant especially now. here is a preview. >> the underlying conduct itself was potentially a fireable offense. >> i ca...

>> the underlying conduct itself was potentially a fireable offense. >> i cant speak to a fireable offense. it was up to the president to make that decision about what he was going to do. but we certainly felt like they needed to act. >> he asked you at that first meeting whether or not you thought that the national security advisor should be fired. what did you say? >> i told him it wasnt our call. >> was the underlying conduct illegal? was illegality involved. >> there was a criminl statute im...

With kat, but im going to fix on her point she made. heres the real truth. what he did was a fireable offense, and he got a pass. and both sides, we hated him for what he did. when he testiffed, and your boss is watching you testified and you are basically saying you are sick to your stomach at the results of your actions that you think determined who our president is, you say that and youre now taking him back to what you did back then, hes going to fire you. >> wait -- >> you brought it back. ...

With kat, but im going to fix on her point she made. heres the real truth. what he did was a fireable offense, and he got a pass. and both sides, we hated him for what he did. when he testiffed, and your boss is watching you testified and you are basically saying you are sick to your stomach at the results of your actions that you think determined who our president is, you say that and youre now taking him back to what you did back then, hes going to fire you. >> wait -- >> you brought it back. ...

With kat, but im going to fix on her point she made. heres the real truth. what he did was a fireable offense, and he got a pass. and both sides, we hated him for what he did. when he testiffed, and your boss is watching you testified and you are basically saying you are sick to your stomach at the results of your actions that you think determined who our president is, you say that and youre now taking him back to what you did back then, hes going to fire you. >> wait -- >> you brought it back. ...

>> and then he fired him. >> he fired him not because of that coinformation. because he lied to the vice president about it. what were talking about wasnt even really the fireable offense though the timeline is exactly right. the fireable offense was he lied to the vice president. >> and maybe flynn didnt have a lot of other friends at that point. >> everybody stand by. jim, chris, gloria, were going to have a lot more coming up, including special live coverage of todays senate hearing about rus...

But all white houses have leaks. some sanctioned, some are not. but if they are found to be leaking things, particularly national security secrets, that is a fireable offense. >> jeff zeleny, thank you very much. we used to work in the white house. will this work? >> no. it will drive you crazy. the first weeks and months of the clinton administration, there was tons of leaks and it was frustrating. it took a while and we got our act together. for their take, i hope the trump folks do, too. but ...

Translate trump for you. here is more of what he said at k cpac. >> im against the people that make up stories and make up sources. they shouldnt be allowed to use sources unless they use somebodys name. let their name be put out there. let their name be put out. >> translation, trump is incensed by reporting from the times, cnn, washington post and other newsrooms report whog ings the anonymous source. faking a source is a fireable offense. they vet the source and get approvalable from their bo...

And try to lessen the tensions between his white house and the press corps and to defend the kind of journalism he seas he suppo -- says he supports. lately hes been saying "nobody loves the first amendment more than me." for him to not to attend, its in line with his media attacks but its a missed opportunity for the president to say his usual things about the president. >> yesterday he appeared to mock the first amendment, he accused reporters of making up sources, which he had no evidence of....