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What do you think flynns guilty plea really means big picture? >> its a huge, huge development. here you have someone who is way inside the trump inner circle, both in the campaign and in the first weeks of the administration. you know, i think that one of the fundamental questions is who is he talking to and who instructed him to go. the implication is he was instructed to have these conversations and so we get to that question that we used to hear back in the 70s during the watergate investiga...

Backs. chris: we have about a minute left and i want to you to equally share that when you asked the white house, the trump doctrine is america first, what are we getting in return for that, general? >> i dont believe it is america first. its never been america first with the implication with the america alone. the visit to the middle east and the visit to europe is making certain that those alliances are there, that the united states is indispensable partner in that. i think that for america fi...

Both senator grassley, our chairman, and myself, we have sent a letter asking for information. he has agreed to give it. i think thats very important. and we will see what happened. i think there is no question but that he is a principal in this. i dont make any allegations because i dont know, but i think his testimony would be very important. >> there is a campaign ad thats running a lot in california and some on cable by somebody who may be an opponent of yours in a senate race, a man by the ...

In the white house in washington. and we heard you get the questions before president trump before he went to new york. what is he saying about the news yesterday and how unexpected was the tweet this morning. >> well, entirely unexpected. he was doing it between the motorcade in new york city. and the implication, david, is president trump knew that general flynn lied to the fbi when he fired him h remember, the official line is that the president fired flynn for lying to the vice president. bu...

Then fine. then why, you know, why not tell the truth? >> let me just -- why in terms of just for context, what is the implication? why does it matter if the president did know about all of this, evan? >> one of the things that the president has been very out there about is sort of saying that this is a witch-hunt. so the question that i think we know that as part of this investigation mueller has been looking at is the question of obstruction and whether or not there was an attempt by the presi...

Theres nothing wrong with it, then fine. then why, you know, why not tell the truth? >> let me just -- why in terms of just for context, what is the implication? why does it matter if the president did know about all of this, evan? >> one of the things that the president has been very out there about is sort of saying that this is a witch-hunt. so the question that i think we know that as part of this investigation mueller has been looking at is the question of obstruction and whether or not the...

Memory. if there is an indication that comeys people did not believe he was evasive when he given information, that would obviously change. whats interesting about this deal is its a pretty good deal. >> melissa: the implication of that is that hes giving them something in return and ed was said that he was directed to reach out by a senior official in the trunk transition team. there were reports earlier from abc that they sort of walked back after the market that he was willing to testify agai...

Of what requirements are of government and security. both of those i think were failures in this case. >> lieutenant general mark hert ling. >> another story with big implication force every american. the senate votes innive if afavf some of the biggest changes to the tax code. some scripabled into the margins of the bill at the last mine last night. more details on whats in that bill that was passed in the senate.

And i think mike would do whatever he could to preclude his son from legal jeopardy or even jail time. so i think thats, you know, and it is in a sense with respect to mike kind of a tragedy in a way, given the service, long and distinguished service he rendered in the alabama. over 30 years. lots and lots of deployed time to iraq and afghanistan. you have to acknowledge that. i think the overarching implication for me, the first thing that came to mind is that, at least right now, the rule of l...

Committee, which is congress own committee, saying that its going to cost over $1 trillion. it turns out it looks like they were never even asked to do an analysis. so its not that we havent seen it, its that we dont think it exists. >> they didnt want to find out? or thats the implication? >> right, or if youre going to make the claim that the facts are on your side, well, present the evidence. but apparently they didnt even attempt to look for the evidence. >> what do you think, norm about the...