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Investigation thats going on with the current president, in particular, russia, this is the implication that was in the "wall street journal" story that somehow if anything in that sphere theres a concern of it getting back to the president. would you have a hesitation giving that information to the president? >> absolutely not. your first responsibility is to provide the truth to the president. if you start thinking about how the presidents going to use it, what hes going to do with that inform...

You heard, that people in the intelligence community are withholding critical information from mr. trump because they dont trust him. >> no, its not. in my experience, i have never had intelligence officers who have a responsibility to provide full information to the president and to other leaders in the country ever withhold a piece of intelligence. so its something that certainly hasnt occurred when i was there and i doubt whether its happened this time. >> if you were running the cia and you ...

If he did lie to him, the question is why? >> and malcolm you also have at least the implication that potentially flynn was not honest with the fbi about his conversations with the russian ambassador, although no one really believes that sessions is going to prosecute him. if theres no way to squeeze mike flynn and hes not under pressure and the russians generally do lose him in the ally in the trump administration, what would you speculate happens then? what do the russians do? >> they do have ...

Filled. the implication seems to be the white house cant hire good talent when theyve had good folks, sharp folks and theyll be able to finish this out. but 72 hours may be a little quick to turn this around. >> it may be but nonetheless, this is who the president wanted for this job. our reporting is that one of his reasons was that it was chaotic. senior republican familiar with harwards thinking tells our john king and i quote, let me read it to you, senator, it was a question of clarity rega...

The people involved in this. >> no doubt. this is where i think, i will save us on the record, i think the previous administration with the ben rhodes later tripwires pray they put things out there for things to go off like booby traps. i think that mike flynn was planned by the by the former administration for a long time. remember, they had the anonymous links to nbc saying that intelligence officials saw the transcripts. i dont believe that there is anything of those transcripts that was ille...

Of the senior level to be the people involved in this. >> no doubt. this is where i think, i will save us on the record, i think the previous administration with the ben rhodes later tripwires pray they put things out there for things to go off like booby traps. i think that mike flynn was planned by the by the former administration for a long time. remember, they had the anonymous links to nbc saying that intelligence officials saw the transcripts. i dont believe that there is anything of those...

>> why is it hard for him to answer that question. he was asked at a press conference earlier in the week. he had trouble with that question as well. >> i didnt think he has trouble with it. look, yesterday he just stood next to benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister of israel who said this man is nothing of the sort. basically, disowned his own reporter from israel who suggested he was anti semitic. >> the question wasnt about donald trump being anti semitic. it was about the rise in anti semit...

Information got to the president on january 26th that the justice department was concerned about the phone call that michael flynn had with the russian ambassador and that information did not get to the vice president and at this point the sources are saying listen, we dont want to pass on any kind of implication here that the president and the vice president had friction between these two. this source said that doesnt exist. keep in mind this is the sort of thing that is going to create impress...

Interest in the tax returns in what was going on. theres nothing more sacred than our election and our democratic process. >> jeffrey lord, couldnt donald trump alleviate all of this by saying, you know what? heres all the contacts people in my campaign had, here are the phone conversations, here are the russians that -- >> the yes, maamly cati -- impn is that he was conspiring with russians. >> we dont know what the implication. >>. >> why not come forward and say heres the contacts. >> i dont ...

And go after isis. the clear implication and occasionally more than implication was the united states and russia will have military cooperation against isis. mattis clearly saying that is not going to happen, and on the issue of interference, as we note, donald trump has very often said he doesnt believe it, he thinks the intelligence is bad. these are the same guys who said iraq had nuclear weapons. so youre seeing a white house and an administration with the whole structure, just from the poin...