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Investigation into mike flynn. there is the president himself firing the fbi director. and later, making statements both to a news organization, nbc news, and to russian officials in the oval office that the reason he did so, the reason he fired comey was because of the pressure he felt over the russia investigation. there is also what appear to be potentially knowingly false statements by multiple justice department officials and white house officials including the vice president himself about ...

And those are usually a pretex or can be a pretext to action so you have a climate across europe where people are very concerned, a president who doesnt seem to really understand that and who is noncommittal when it comes to defending nato allies. and, you know, another -- i had another conversation today and they said, you know, it is a difficult position to be in having to communicate to these folks, you know, european defense folks and say, just buckle up and bear with us, its going to be a b...

But family, friends telling cnn that it was actually the father who wanted to get him out of a sort of troubling situation related to gangs in manchester and to get him out of the country to get him over to libya, and then he then sort of made up a pretext to his family about going to pilgrimage in saudi arabia to get back to the uk. so, not clear whether he went to libya to get any sort of terror training or anything like that. a lot of unknowns at this point. >> the relative sophistication, th...

Theres enough to believe that this is not really about national security. that this is a pretext for anti-muslim discrimination. >> yep. steve, thank you so much, one of our cnn legal experts. the timing here is interesting. john kelly just said today that the u.s. is watching, quote, very sophisticated and advanced threats right now. he said these threats could affect, quote, every airport in the world. chris, former fbi assistant director, what is your take? >> well, we know that as safe haven...

Talk show host, charlie sykes. team team team. i should read clarkes response to the "milwaukee journal sentinel" about the plagiarism charge saying only someone with a political agenda would say this is plagiarism in e-mail from the paper. the plagiarism was alleged by the aclu. >> this may be the pretext this administration should not make this appointment that would be reckless and bizarre since flint. you have the deaths in the jail and threats against private citizens and somebody who propo...

Testimony is going to be very important. it will be thoughtful. hes got his notes from the memo that are contemporaneous with his conversation and distrust of donald trump and remember, notwithstanding what ben says the bottom line is the trump administration, the doj has appointed a special prosecutor to look into this, because theyre incapable of doing it, because rod rosenstein became a witness not only in the termination of comey but a witness in regard to a memo that was the pretext that as...

Counsel may be looking into the circumstances surrounding the termination and/or whether the writing of the memo was appropriate and so he did not want to step on that jurisdictional area until the special counsel had had an opportunity to weigh in. >> special counsel robert mueller, the former fbi director. that sounds logical, right? that sounds like a good excuse. >> i think that if youre in a classified briefing and theres an opportunity to layout some facts concerning a potentially troublin...

Break in took place in june of 72. so there was a whole year before cox was actually apointed. so this does not happen in a short time. this is going to take some time, theres no question about it. >> its interesting when i hear young people saying this is crazy, this is crazy, i cant believe this is happening. and i remember when i was a kid our president having to leave the house on a helicopter, like waving good-bye. that is crazy. >> exactly, totally. >> do you think looking at the evidence ...

And we should never allow those groups to manipulate the religious structure and the ethnic structure of the region making terrorism as a pretext or an excuse. those who are willing to turn and see iraq, yemen and libya are found to lose eventually. they will never be able to turn that chaos in that part of the world into an opportunity and the terrorist organizations with blood in their hands are bound to fail. and as i have previously done so, i have been very frankly

And we should never allow those groups to manipulate the religious structure and ethics structure of the region making terrorism as a pretext or excus excuse. those who are willing to turn the chaos in syria, yemen, and libya are bound to lose eventually. they will never be able to turn that chaos in that part of the world into an opportunity and the terrorist organizations will have blood in their hands and are bound to fail. and as i have previously done so, i have been very frankly