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Administration handled former national security adviser michael flynns resignation. on february 14th, 2017, just 25 days into trumps presidency, sean spicer stood at the white house podium to announce that flynn had been asked to resign over an erosion of trust. watch this. >> i want to adoctor tess events of last night first and foremost. we have been reviewing and evaluating this issue with respect to general flynn on a daily basis for a few weeks trying to ascertain the truth. the evolving an...

Trump reportedly said say that i ask for his resignation. they compiled a memo laying out his misstatements. >> there is not a legal issue but rather a trust issue. >> he briefed congressional leadership about the counter intelligence investigation he launched into president trump. >> the purpose of the briefing was to let congressional leadership know what we have been doing. a case of this nature -- >> and that no one raised concerns. >> did you tell congress? >> i told congress what we had do...

>> the white house counsel review and determined that there is not an illegal issue but rather a trust issue. >> reporter: the report coming amid headlines that andrew mccabe, who was fired last spring, briefed congressional leadership about the counterintelligence investigation he launched into president trump. >> the purpose was to let our congressional leadership know exactly what we had been doing, opening a case of this nature. not something that an fbi director, not something an acting fbi...

Told what are you really talking about here? because there may be places where everybody can agree, yeah, a wall makes sense there. the problem is hes stilling this as the wall or nothing and were going to keep the government closed. thats not the way we make policy in this country. >> and the problem, kasie hunt, is his style is to lie and bully and not be trusted. whats the thing withle room that democrats would offer in any scenario. i think that would be incredibly risky. he has proven to be...

Strong response already. you just heard from lindsey graham and the former ambassador to saudi arabia. here is marco rubio responding to if they did this, here is what happens to our relationship going forward. senator rubio. >> the bigger issue here becomes the role they play in our middle eastern strategy. the administration wisely had built them as a keelin much pin against iran against their ambitions and expansion in the region. thats in danger now. if they did this it makes it impossible f...

Be an ongoing process for them. >> all right, geoff bennett, michael flynn has flipped. hes cooperating. michael cohen is cooperating. paul manafort is cooperating. matthew brought up the anonymous op-ed. you have the woodward book. is there anybody left the president can trust it. >> apparently not. once against the president is learning that loyalty has its limits. this development with manafort is only compounded by the fact that as you mentioned, its not just manafort. its mike flynn. its mi...

He got to the realm of not true and he tweeted that its the highest unemployment rate for 100 years. not true. in the last 72 years, it happened in 62 quarters. that becomes the quarter. you could be talking about this and rising blue collar employment and declining unemployment and the president gets caught in a pickle of his own making. >> he could be saying 4% gdp and 3.9% and 200,000 new jobs and its a great economy and he is pointing the states where there is senate and governors races and ...

Of those motor psych -- motorcycles to other countries costing american people their jobs but theyre saying im still sticking with him because hes making it better for us. >> i think this is a trust issue in lots of different ways. you have a lot of american workers who voted against their interests in some ways in 2016 and even beforehand because of their frustration, and they were looking for somebody who would shake the system up. look, globalization has really hurt the american worker for a ...

Mountains grow out of molehills, we have to be concerned, they just started with these investigations but there are many more. i have a facebook page someone else put up. taking our social media identity. we have a trust issue and that is the biggest concern and we should be excited about it. we should be concerned about it. you can we trust? no one. >> this debate is not going anywhere. we will have you want to continue it at some point in the near future. doctor cook, mister ryan, thank you ve...

Foxi focusing on the libya model and how thats had a chilling effect on the negotiations. we ought to remember that the u.s. reversal on the iran deal is another hurdle for kim jong-un to get over when he looks at that deal that was -- came out in a blaze of glory and then got pulled out under the feet of the iranians, thats another problem. thats a trust issue. but getting the two in the room is a start. lets hope it happens. >> you know, you said at the top of this that this is -- there are tw...