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On national television, in no uncertain terms that the two of those, the ambassador and flynn had not discussed the sanctions. >> i think general flynn's statement speaks for itself. >> that was a clip of the conversation we just had with kellyanne conway. for more, hugh hewitt, msnbc political analyst, host of the hugh hewitt show, and jeff weaver, former campaign manager for bernie sanders. thanks to both of you for joining us. hugh, let me start with you, we have a piece of news out of kellyanne conway, she said affirmative that general flynn enjoys the full confident of president trump. we...

This is what he said. >> yes, general flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president and -- >> she says that president trump has full confidence in his national security advisor. what's your reaction to that? >> well, let's revisit what's happened here. we know russia attacked our free election system, shortly thereafter, the president, president obama imposed sanctions against russia. general flynn then contacted the russian ambassador. and talked somewhat about the sanctions. we don't know the exact -- what was done. he then perhaps misled the vice president-elect. i think it's a pret...

About it at mar-a-lago or more specifically, japanese prime minister shinzo abe who had been at this sort of what the white house calls the winter white house over the weekend came out and delivered a statements followed by what was a notably short and notably muted response from president trump. a response that some folks, i spoke with a couple republicans over on capitol hill this morning who were pleased that the president took that more muted stance on north korea, but there are questions now, what happens next? is the u.s. -- what is the u.s. going to do? how will the u.s. respond? these ...

>> the vice president's reaction, anything that's been made public, you can see for yourself. other than, i will not reveal what the vice president thinks or feels about anything. anymore that i would reveal what steve kornacki thinks or feels about anything. >> do you consider it -- if it is true that he had discussions, and again, the concern here in terms of federal law, the concern here is the idea of a private citizen engaging in diplomatic conversations. this is again before donald trump became president. if there were discussions involving the sanctions before donald trump became presid...

The russian ambassador, but quote, couldn't be 100% certain. are you saying that is good enough for president trump to consider the matter settled? you had the vice president say on national television in no uncertain terms that the two of those, the ambassador and flynn had had not discussed the sanctions. >> i think general flynn's statement speaks for itself. >> has he discussed this with the president? >> i can't reveal what he has discussed with the president. >> but have they had a discussion since these revelations come out? >> they discussed many things. they routinely discuss any numb...