Described a main topic of discussion. Reporter with pressure mournting on the white house on monday afternoon, counselor Kellyanne Conway said that the president supported flynn. Flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president. Reporter moments later a different take from the press secretary. President trump refusing to answer questions. About his controversial adviser. We still dont know what the president knew and when he knew it. In a statement, democrat adam schiff accusing the administration of not being forthcoming who was aware with the flynns conversations with the ambassador. Democrats now calling for an immediate classified briefing into the situation. Writing, we in Congress Need to know who authorizes actions, permitted them and continue to let him have access to our most Sensitive National security information despite knowing these risks. The president meets today with new jersey governor and former federal prosecutor Chris Christie as well as his new attorney general jeff sessions. Back to you. All right, joe, thank you very much. So, Michael Flynns departure raises as many questions as it answers. It comes alt a critical moment. The first foreign test for the administration after north koreas launch of a blalistic missile. And the travel ban the president says is needed to protect National Security. Ryan brown live in washington with more. They have to start with a permanent replacement. Reporter thats right, chris. Senior Administration Officials are telling us theres a review under way to see who might take the job. Right now in an acting role, we see retired Lieutenant GeneralKeith Kellogg has stepped up. He was the chief of staff to the nsc. He was there. Kellogg is a longtime retired military officer, he had 36 years in the military. As we said hes the acting National Security adviser currently. He was one of the earliest senior military officials to back trump. Theres a loyalty factor as well. Some other names were hearing, general david petraeus, highest amongst them. Of course, the former cia director, led military officials in iraq and afghanistan, including the famous surge in 2007. He but he comes with some baggage. He resigned after an extramarital affair. Hes currently on probation. Were hearing reports that petraeus could come to the white house as early as this week to discuss the potential positions in the administration. Finally, were hearing the name of retired vice admiral howard, a former navy s. E. A. L. He served on the National Security council during the Bush Administration and served underneath james mattis. He has a very close relationship with one Senior Member of the administration. Back to you guys. Thanks so much for all of that. Lets bring in our panel right now. We have David Gregory, abby phillip and phil mud and criminal defense attorney paige pet. David gregory, a lot has happened while they were sleeping. Why did this reach a head last night. Well, a couple of reasons. This was last stunningly bad judgment by the National Security adviser, general flynn, a controversial figure for months. He was involved in this Campaign Rhetoric of lock up Hillary Clinton. His son spread false and defamatory of Hillary Clinton on the internet and had to beremoved from any position in the white house as a result. General flynn has been controversial. And he has presiding over a fledgling Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration. Its been a disaster. The rollout of the executive order. The fact that the Trump Administration has provided comfort to National Politicians in europe and ongoing questions about this relationship with russia but he also lied to the Vice President. The president was in a position he couldnt have had more turmoil. Hes had plenty of leaks. All of this going on within the white house. You add to all of that, if he was a target for blackmail, if he could have been compromised by russia and cozzying up to Vladimir Putin this becomes a big National Security threat. Well, the last part of that, david, is certainly where we have to going here, abby, the idea that Michael Flynn is the end of the understanding of this, that he lied to mike pence. Is very hard to swallow. The word out of the white house was, after they said he had full confidence yesterday, new information came up. Why wasnt the old information enough . Could it be true that Michael Flynn did this all by himself. The degree to which mike pence is genuinely very angry how this handled. He feels very much blindsided by Michael Flynn and his handling of the situation. On some level theres a concern on pences side. He was misled and he gave flynn the benefit of the doubt and you have to remember in this context, mike flynn is one of the closest advisers of the president. He briefs him every single day. So, the president has given him quite a bit of rope. I think mike pence has done exactly the same thing. And that came back to bite him. This issue came to a head for trump because of the amount of controversial in the headlines. This is a president who looks at the newspaper everything morning and doesnt like to see his staff at the top of the the New York Times and the Washington Post every day. He wanted to find a way to resolve this issue in a way he didnt cat pit lated in the end. A tangled web were trying to make our way through, your old friend sally yates comes back in to play as the main player, she was dismissed by donald trump because he said she couldnt carry out the travel ban. She warned the white house a month ago that Michael Flynn had done this and could be exposed to blackmail. So, talk about sally yates role. Well, alysin, this is another example of sally yates trying to do the right thing. Sally yates not just had the problem for the potential for blackmail but she also identified the possibility that flynn had violated federal law. Theres a law on the books called logan act, it prevents a private citizen having discussions like this with a foreign government. Now its an old law. It hasnt been used to prosecute anyone. Its still on the books and its a felony. As soon as she recognized there was a problem like this inside the white house she did everything she could to let them know about it. It just appears they didnt care. Phil, you have so much experience being in the room and figuring out how the politics meshes with intel. The idea that Michael Flynn was just freelancing and this was a conspiracy of one in terms of who was controlling this dynamic is a little hard to swallow, how could that be possible where despite warnings by the doj, clapper, brennan, that the white house went to flynn and he said its all okay and the analysis ended there . Boy, you got to scratch your head on this one, chris. By the way, happy valentines day. You got to scratch your head on this one. This conversation happened obviously some time ago. Presuming the Russian Ambassadors phone is tapped, the National Security agency is intercepting that phone call and theres a transcript. That transcript can be viewed by people like the attorney general and the fbi director and they can ask for the name of the american in that call. That name is general flynn. Over the period people should have known that there was a conversation and that conversation included presumably talk about sanctions. The timing here to me is key here. Lastly, chris, i cant understand how if youre general flynn with the history of National Security you can go to the Vice President and say, i dont remember having that conversation. Its written down in the transcript. What happened here . David, help us understand that. To chris point, unless mike flynn went rogue and decided to do this on his own that means that the Vice President didnt know what he was doing and the president didnt know what he was doing . Or he was acting with the permission of somebody else . Well, its a serious question. Lets reremember the broader context, pence is so mad about this. He goes out and vouches for flynn in national interviews. He said, they didnt talk about sanctions based on a conversation he had with flynn. So, he was lied to. You dont do that to your Vice President. Give the Vice President credit, hes not going to let the president be sold out like that. From all the agencies from state, to defense, to intelligence, in bringing that information into the white house to coordinate how the president makes the decision. We know that President Trump has been cozzying up to Vladimir Putin from the campaign. Dismissive of the information that he tried to interfere with the election. Theres going to be a lot more questions about this. Let me add, i dont think the Trump Administration can blame this on the dishonest media, can they . This is actually a senior official lying to the media. Lets stick with the facts on this. Because even the conclusion, abby, that the Vice President was lied to, how do we know that in the context of this wasnt like parallel agendas that were going on where flynn was cozying up to the edadministration. Denial about the hacks. Sheltering russia from any responsibility of be nefarious. The president saying he wasnt sure of russias involvement of separates in ukraine. How comfortable are we reporting as fact, yes, flynn lied to everyone, they didnt know what was happening . Well, i think this is where we need to sort of make a distinction between, you know, what was potentially illegal and what was maybe not the smartest thing to do. I think that theres to your point a broader ethose in this edadministration of wanting to t closer to russia. Without question, Michael Flynn as the National Security adviser was prosecuting that objective leading up to the inauguration. The question is, did he go across the line and did he do something to sort of interfere with National Security in specific conversations . Its pretty clear that the topic of the sanctions was front and center. The question is, how far did he go . And was he up front with other officials in the white house about how far he went . Its conceivable that the white house officials knew that he was communicating with the Russian Ambassador. Its also conceivable that Vice President pence did not know the degree to which that conversation had veered into a very concrete discussion about how russia should respond to u. S. Sanctions at the time and thats where the dishonesty or the misleading of the Vice President becomes the main issue and i think that pence was genuinely surprised and has been as far as everything i have heard from aides this week. Hes very angry about this. Panel, thank you very much for all of that insight. Obviously, much more on where the white house goes from here coming right up. And where they came from. Yesterday, in the afternoon, full confidence flynn had. Kellyanne said that. And then sean spicer said something different. Two more members of trumps cabinet have been confirmed. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin in the Oval Office Last night. Saying, everything mnuchin touches turns to gold. Condemning north koreas weekend Ballistic Missile launch. 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All right, President Donald Trump facing criticism after turning a dinner table into an open air situation room at his maralago estate. Photos show the dx and japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe reviewing news after north korea fired a Ballistic Missile came to us. Lets diss cuss. We got David Gregory and abby phillip and matt lewis. Brother gregory, you have covered white houses in the past the protocols, the intentionality, and this, how do you make sense of it . I think its amateurish. I think they should be discreet. Youre at a public place. He owns the country club for crying out loud. Any number of places they can go to have some serious conversations to review documents, to have phone calls as necessary. You know, phil mudd was saying when this first came to light in talking about it yesterday, you dont want to create a crisis atmosphere. But youre the president of the United States. Youre the Prime Minister of japan. Use some discretion here. Anyone else would be the subject of Donald Trumps criticism for being a disaster as he might said for doing all of this out in the open. Matt, these pictures are incredible. Theyre just incredible. To look at. If you have never seen what goes on inside a situation room this image the flurry of activity captured here. Using cell phones to illuminate to the messages. Diners sitting around, concerned, this beehive of activity. What is happening . Why didnt they excuse themselves and go elsewhere . I think donald trump likes being around people. He likes theed a ration, the buzz of being around people. A couple of layers, a National Security liability here. Meaning if swin overheard them . Or thats a problem. Thats the big problem. Theres also a matter of deco m decorum. And is maralago is being used to parade around governmental officials and World Leaders to perform for guests. Those are the optics. If you paid 200,000 a year to belong to maralago you could have a seat where the action is. You know, we do know that the president went to a wedding reception reportedly after this moment. So he stayed on campus there and moved around. Abby, lets flip it 180 degrees. Who cares where he does the business of the state if this was secure enough to the secret Service People around him and abes handlers its good enough for us. Just to be clear, the secret service is concerned about the physical safety about the president and their guests. This is the prerogative of the aides and the advisers around the president. None of whom said to him, hey, mr. President , i think we should move into another room and do this in private. Which tells you where they are about delivering that straight news to their boss. You know, the general public may or may not care. I think a lot of people look at these images and theyre surprised they think that National Security decisions should be dealt with in private. I think thats actually a monsense feeling about this. Of course Donald Trumps supporters are going to say, whats the big deal . People are looking at these pictures and thinking, wow, i cant believe thats happening . They wouldnt have private conv