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Lot of reporting from military people who had served with him who were kind of surprised by the role he took in the campaign, the public role, and things like chanting, lock her up. >> theres a debate, its a continuous and ongoing debate been the military about how much do retired officers or ncos get involved in politics. its one thing to support a candidate or speak highly of a candidate or do programs like some people have done. ive attempted to be apolitical on this program, you know that, b...

Most extraordinary contact between trump and comey. there was a meeting in the oval office, and trump shoed away the vice president, the attorney general, and it was just man-to-man with -- with comey. and what does donald trump say? he says, i want you to go easy on michael flynn. flynns a good guy. leave flynn alone. today we learned maybe why he was doing that. because flynn knows a lot about the misconduct that was going on in the white house. and the fact that he was trying to cover up for ...

Back to our breaking news tonight. former national security adviser michael flynns guilty plea in the russia probe and the resulting fallout. lieutenant general mark hurtling served in the army with michael flynn, and knows him well. he joins me now. general, i want to know what you make of his guilty plea. >> two things. the emotions kind of go back and forth between embarrassed for the army, because this was a guy at the senior ranks. theres only about 20 or so three-star generals, the same ra...

Going to say this, if you get a federal prosecutor who decides he doesnt like you, you got a lot of trouble, and it doesnt matter what the truth is. hell find out you filed -- >> van, is that whats happening here? >> listen, its amazing to me to hear conservatives concerned about prosecutorial abuse and sometimes prosecutors have too much power. weve been screaming about that in the hood for years. hold on a second. i dont want for us to go with this idea that flynns this kind of minor guy. they...

Little differently. i think president trump proved yet again, something hes known for his whole career, in fact hes famous for it. this is -- this guy mike flynn, surprisingly to many people who knew him, maybe not according to obama, but he lied to mike pence, he lied about that, and he was fired for his job. and he lied to the fbi, which even the most basic sort of bureaucrat knows you cant lie to the fbi. so president trump fired the guy within 25 days, realizing he couldnt do the job. its ve...

For a guy who became famous for saying youre fired, he doesnt seem to -- >> the time line, i guess youre right, anderson. were watching a lot of things across the country when people are accused of something, whether its matt lauer or anybody else, and theres generally come getting to the bottom of it. when you fire a national security adviser four weeks into your presidency, thats not a very good optic. but i think he did. and van put his finger on the problem. its a zombie prosecutor who is, i...

Investigates his core mandate of links and coordination between the trump campaign and russia. and the people that are implicated by the lies in this indictment or information and what mueller has to investigate are sessions and kushner and manafort, still for addition lies for flynn junior and for don junior. so there are a whole host of people who the lies of this information implicate in possible criminal wrongdoing. so for all of these people, they have to be wondering one, if they were inte...

Lot, because that law has not been probably abided by and enforced very much. and now a lot of people are looking at the potential to amend those filings. paul manafort, of course, started that for us. but this continues that concern. its kind of an unreported side story, not dealing with the central players here. but a lot of people are looking at in washington, im sure. with respect to todays action in court, look, michael flynn, especially in the transition, was in the middle of things in med...