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>> after donald trump won the election, president obama reportedly warned him not to hire flynn. flynn was, in fact, tapped, however, as national security adviser on november 17. on december 1, flynn and jared kushner met with the russian ambassador who later told moscow that kushner asked about setting up backchannel for communications between the trump team and the kremlin. later that month, flynn spoke with kislyak, the ambassador more than once, including after obama imposed sanctions on rus...

That! >> after donald trump won the election, president obama reportedly warned him not to hire flynn. flynn was in fact tapped, however, as national security adviser on november 17. on december 1 flynn and jared kushner met with the russian ambassador who later told moscow that kushner asked about setting up backchannel for communications between the trump team and the kremlin. later that month, flynn spoke with kislyak, the ambassador more than once, including after obama imposed sanctions on ...

Along with judge jeanine pirros book and gregg jarrett book. the three of them are all worth a great read.t alan dershowitz. good to see you both. let me begin with you, andy mccarthy, on your piece. if the lawyer gives them 30 hours, the white house counsel, the president goes in. remember, george papadopoulos, h lieutenant general flynn lying and the fbi didnt think that flynn was lying. papadopoulos is basically a nonplayer kid in all of this. why would the president think anything but a perj...

The -- he found out about it in the summer. he took him off the case. he should have been more transparent about it and made it public but on balance i dont think this really reflects badly on the entire f.b.i. or on the entire investigation. i have problems with the investigation independent of that. but i think comey ultimately i think -- mueller did the right thing. >> bill: a bit of a connection issue here hearing me. i apologize for walking over you that last point there. you are good. i kn...

Special counsel wants to indict somebody and make him into a cooperateor the last thing they want to do is indict him for lying. it makes it clear you cant trust this guy. if he had anything better, he would have indicted him for a conspiracy that involved other people the way nixon, for example, people were indicted and named as an unindicted co-conspirator. if they had anything beyond flynn lying -- why he lied we dont know. he lied about something that was entirely lawful. it doesnt show stre...

What the president knew? >> its really a bizarre story, fred, because if an attorney was going to get involved in sending out a tweet, he would be hyper sensitive to the fact that an inaccuracy about what went on with the president and comey and flynn and what the president knew about flynn lying is the subject of ongoing congressional and the mueller investigation. so the lawyer would be super careful about it and here you have a tweet that arguably incriminates the president by saying that he ...

Or something or -- >> loyalty. he demanded loyalty. >> yeah. intrinsic values that you would want out of everybody youre associated with. that has nothing to do with alleging a crime or anything like that. >> well, but it goes a little past that, right, because we have james comey saying the president explicitly told him to lay off an investigation into michael flynn, an investigation that had been precipitated by flynn lying in a conversation with fbi agents, which looks on its face a contraven...

Mcgahn about flynn lying and saying that could potentially compromise him. february 8, flynn denies discussing the sanctions with russian officials in "the washington post" piece. he has to say he has no recollection of discussing it. february 13, flynn resigns from his national security advisor post. that is where we are. long hearing today. steve hayes, editor-in-chief of "the weekly standard," mercedes schlapp, anna palmer, and charles krauthammer. steve, thoughts on the day. what we need mos...

Senate inquiry. she came to attention this january when she was dramatically removed as acting ag after refusing to defend trumps travel ban in new york. >> to the growing fallout from president trumps immigration order. after the president had fired the nations acting attorney general, a holdover from the obama administration, for refusing to defend that order. >> the travel ban was not the only tense issue with yates time as a.g. thats a typical role, we should mention, where an official runs ...

I would say that what we have been very successful at is we have people that continue to come forward to provide us information and we want that to continue. >> we are back with our panel. david, devin nunes admits there are politics on both sides of this. >> i expect him to say, who knew that intelligence oversight could be so complicated. i mean everybody on the committee that i have spoken to, the democrats all think the hearing was canceled because trump just took a thumping from the hearing...