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The legislative branch theres executive actions and then legislation, and it is imperative an important that my party who overwhelmingly sent across the nation in power, i think we have the high ground here to deal with this but should deal with it in a methodical deliberate way thats responsible and not passing a bill thats 2,000 pages in the middle of tonight. i understand theres not a plan in place and theres discussion within our conference, thats a good thing and people should care about it...

Part of the game in the democratic presidency and perhaps we should be upset about both of them. >> your excusing current behavior a little bit but part of this is what happens and what should happen. i see it objectively. i dont know how you can be look at these questions if you certainly would if you flipped parties. >> im with you on that. >> what i am say as good that it does strike many on the right and its a trust issue with the media. it does strike many. why are we pretending theyre bran...

♪ heather: good morning to you, you are watching "fox & friends first", a beautiful morning once the sunshines comes up. abby: good morning, im abby huntsman. this is where we begin this morning. demanding some answers, congress calling for investigation into the mishandling of classified information. heather: the president is blasting the leaks that forced his national security advise the other resign as criminal acts. abby: gary live with us in washington with the latest. >> the white house ...

I dont know about it. i havent seen that. what report is that? >> they are reporting he talked to the ambassador of russian before you were inaugurated about sanctions. >> immediately after we were notified the white house council briefed the president in a small group of senior advisers. the white house counsel reviewed and determined not a legal issue but rather a trust issue. >> he said i dont know about it. ill look into that. was he being truthful? >> no. when he was asked specifically was ...

Had lost the presidents trust. >> we have been reviewing and evaluating this issue, with respect to general plan on a daily basis for a few weeks. trying to ascertain the truth. we got to a point, not based on a legal issue, but based on a trust issue, where the level of trust between the president and general flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change. >> intelligent makes about the flynn phone calls with the russian ambassador are problematic because there are special ...

The cover story doesnt add up, this whole story and this relationship doesnt. heres the distinction. this is not just a matter of a scandal of somebody having an affair or something like that. this goes fundamentally to the foreign policy of the country. and i think that republicans on capitol hill need to look at this and ask themselves, do they actually want to investigate this, or do they want to appear that, in fact, they are slow walking and covering up something that may have fundamental s...

And a small group of senior advisers. the white house counsel reviewed and determined that there is not a legal issue but rather a trust issue. >> eli, theyre trying to make it sound as if even though they were warned by the then acting attorney general, by intelligence officials week ago about flynn, that somehow a breakdown in trust happened in what, the last 24 hours? it doesnt really make a lot of sense. >> it only makes sense when you figure out what else happened in the last 24 hours and t...

Turn the story into one of a rogue operator than general flynn who went off on his own. this is sean spicer trying to sort of make the white house account align with reality today at the press briefing. >> immediately after the department of justice notified the white house counsel of situation, the white house counsel briefed the president and a small group of senior advisers. the white house counsel reviewed and determined that there is not a legal issue but rather a trust issue. >> eli, theyr...

>> that it was a trust issue is what theyre trying to make this out to be. i was speaking tonight with a senior white house source, and i asked that person why the world vice president pence wasnt told about this sooner. and the source said it was attorney-client privilege. don mcgann only told the president because thats who he is sworn to, and the president didnt tell vp pence because this was a very close hold, because they were still investigating exactly what happened. there are a lot of qu...

Change. he was concerned he had misled the vice president and the president and others. the president must have complete and unwavering trust for the person in that position. the evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation in a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for general flynns resignation. immediately after the department of justice notified the white house counsel of the situation the white house counsel briefed the president in a s...