Page 19 - Transition Process News Today

Having a little bit of a hard time explaining why that didnt become more of a part of a vetting process and the more senior national security positions in our government. he had access to a lot of classified information throughout that process. its so unclear why they didnt take more of that information into consideration throughout this entire campaign and transition process. >> all right. so moving that forward a little bit david gregory a top house democrat on the oversite committee said this...

The fact we missed this one, it was overlooked and thats what sean should have done today. >> bakari? >> thats not true because the white house did know about it and the vice president sefkally knew about it. elijah cummings sent a letter directly to the vice president of the united states during the transition process letting him know that there were relationships between michael flynn and turkey. and so when were talking about what the white house knew and when they knew it, which is a famous ...

Court order report and certainly there is nothing so far that weve heard that substantiate what is president trump said about his predecessor. >> michael flynn, the former very briefly serving national security adviser. the type of thing that maybe should have come um during the vetting process that he was working as a foreign agent for turkey and getting paid a lot for it during the campaign? >> look, i think youre right, it should have come um in the vetting process and particularly today duri...

Wrong as vice president pence recently said, that it simply reaffirms donald trumps decision to get rid of michael flynn. so i think that, you know, definitely is a bad mark on the transition process. you saw the same outrageous behavior with petreaus. he was a wonderful general, wonderful cia director and he gichz classified to his lever and lies to the fbi and still covering up. he was on tv about a month ago and he was asked about lying to the fbi and he said, i didnt think at the time that w...

Now, and something well talk about in the future. >> the vice president never got that specifically and that letter by the way was sent the day he was hired. so it never made it into the vice presidents -- >> the fact that the vice president during a transition period never got a letter that informed him from a ranking member of a house committee that there were nefarious relationships or at least relationships he should be aware of just shows the flaws in the transition process. i think thats a...

Transition process. i think thats all im saying. im saying that this transition process did not live up to the standards and for anyone to say what the white house didnt know about it is willful ignorance at best. >> i want to talk about another series of data points that we got over the last 48 hours people are looking at and going, hmm, thats odd. faraj from great britain who is friends with donald trump and was pushing the brexit met with julian assange of wikileaks, walked into the ecuadoria...

To that. my inclination, i believe the white house didnt know about this. i believe they didnt know he was considering registering as a foreign agent but i think it was overlooked in the transition process. my father always said if you have to eat crow, eat crow now. the southern way of saying it sometimes you have to own up to the fact we missed this one, it was overlooked and thats what sean should have done today. >> bakari? >> thats not true because the white house did know about it and spec...

>> speaking of that, spicer says that the president didnt know but certainly members of his inner circle did. what does that say to you, if anything, about their judgment? >> well, it says that certainly during the transition, which i think was mainly under chris christi who dont a very good job, they were not performing as they should have. they absolutely should have made sure that donald trump knew about this, this was unacceptable, this should have been full disclosure and it was wrong as vi...

Of in washington getting paid $500,000 by turkey, a hostile -- gwyn again, the past four, five, six years, a hostile player as it pertains to syria. only becoming more helpful over the past year or two. i mean, isis used turkey to get into syria for the better part of the civil war. and this guiel is getting paid and is a foreign agent of turkey. >> so staggering. i cant process it. >> hold on onto it for a a second, halpern. they have made a joke of the entire transition process and this presid...

Said in his statements weve got to make sure we protect people through this transition process, but this is the first time as readdress the medicaid portion of this, this is probably the first time weve really addressed an entitlement aspect in something in almost 30 years, we have got to let this piece work its way through house. one of the things that happened through medicaid expansion, the goal has always been to help people disabled, poor or met a specific number of criteria, for the first ...