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Every time i think he's about to do such and such, he distracts. now they still support him. they would still vote for him against hillary clinton. that's not even a close call. >> right. >> but, mika, that just underlines what we say for a long time. this election was not about donald trump. it was all about hillary and bill clinton. all about america's reaction -- >> that, we saw coming. >> -- to hillary and bill clinton. this election was not about donald trump. >> yeah. >> he was a bit player. >> my brain went like 100 miles an hour when those access hollywood tapes came out i thought this...

And security adviser michael flynn. >> that was baghdad moment saying paul manafort was a bit player. >> we'll start with that among our guests this morning former director of the cia and nsa retired general michael hayden. ranking member of senate intelligence committee will be joining us. welcome to "morning joe." it's tuesday march 21st. we're on capitol hill. we have david ignatius, executive producer and co-host of the circus, showtime and analyst for cnbc news mark halperin. msnbc political analyst and former chair of the republican national committee michael steele and reporter for "the...

Nomination, make sure he got all the delegates. this was the indispensable player. >> the closer. >> that's what trump's people told us, indispensable player that would make donald trump nominee. >> closed it with russians. >> now they are suggesting he's a bit player. >> in the moment paul manafort was pushed out of the campaign with reporting about his questionable contacts, to put it mildly, in ukraine, you knew something big was beginning. you know, we didn't give it as much attention as we might have before the election. >> something was off. >> we now know back in july fbi began a counte...

Forward in the cyber world is where does congress sit with white house in ensuring the that the candidates have protection to prevent this? you have a follow-on question which is how do we interfere with the russians themselves? we don't want to play the same game. do we start getting into kremlin and putin computers? i don't know. we can't descend to this level. you can't play at putin's level. if you do, he'll win. >> they don't have free and fair elections. >> at the sean spicer briefing today, the white house refusing to accept any of this. they're saying nothing has changed. paul manafort...

Did, he should resign. having said that, the real story here, i think, has more to do with who was dealing with the russians, what statements did they make to them, did the russians actually hack into our system, did they use cyber attacks in order to alter or attempt to article the outcome of the united states presidential election. that's the real story here. you know, it's almost like the attorney general's a bit player to it. although we don't know exactly what his conversations with the ambassador were. once we're able to find that, i think it's fundamentally important that an independent...