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The two leaders. obviously that choir plane crash was tragic and we know the trump team loves to say merry christmas but how many times can you call and text the same russian ambassador? joining me now msnbc terrorism analyst malcolm nantz and matt taibbi author of the book insane clown president. let me start with you matt and then go to you, malcolm. here s an example of the kind of thing we re dealing with. the facts are unclear and in dispute, they seem to move back and forth. there is at one level a totally innocent explanation. there s some business that has to happen between an incoming transition and the russian ambassador but then there s some weird documents around it. and you wrote this piece yesterday saying some line about how we going to get something more important than what we re flying through right now? there are two completely different narratives. there s one where basically the russians let s just say i mean the people that i talked to have a high degree of ....
reporter: on the 29th, the same day the u.s. expelled russian democrats and then a day later vladimir putin said he wouldn t push out american diplomats in russia. did general flynn have any conversations to indicate to the russian ambassador that the u.s. trump administration would either ease or roll back sanctions? the only conversation general flynn had was, one, to wish him merry christmas, two, to express his sympathies for the loss of life during the plane crash and to commit to establishing a call after the inauguration between the two leaders. obviously that choir plane crash was tragic and we know the trump team loves to say merry christmas but how many times can you call and text the same russian ambassador? joining me now msnbc terrorism analyst malcolm nantz and matt taibbi author of the book insane clown president. let me start with you matt and ....