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You know, they call it deconflicting. it's certainly known that the russians who are backing assad would have alerted the syrians to this and allowed the syrians to get out of place before these airstrikes happened. so while you can on the one hand say yes, president trump did send a strong message. at the same time it's a message where the consequences for the russians and the syrians were reduced. that's for sure. >> yeah, and david corn, they used weapons that won't harm the runways of that airfield. they know exactly how much they're limiting the damage to the airfield. you could go on and...

As soon as this person lost the president's trust, the president asked for resignation and that was the right thing to do. i won't prejudge until we have the information. >> should there be a broader bipartisan independent investigation into the administration's ties to russia? >> i think that situation has taken care of itself. >> is your committee going to take any action on this? >> well, when we get into sources and methods, it really is the per view of the intelligence committee. it's not something an oversight committee can look at. >> i'd like to know did he just do this as a rogue gene...

About it, we're going to get into office soon, don't overreact. you're okay with that? >> you and the press -- >> that's undercutting -- >> you're writing words into the mouth -- you're writing words into the mouth of general flynn. we don't have a dratranscript a don't have an allegation that we shade don't worry about it, we have a presumption that he said don't worry about it. we don't know how general it might have been or how specific is might have been. it's important to learn first, how did these leaks come about, who are the people that are responsible? charges should be brought agains...

Evaluated, his role. stunning. >> it's pretty stunning, and to go back to the point that you and david were discussing. just imagine a circumstance where essentially the incoming national security adviser, michael flynn is confronting this issue of russian sanctions, the obama administration put sanctions on. what is the chance that he would freelance on that and reach out to a foreign above the agovernme contact and promises about sanctions without checking with the president-elect? >> it seems hard to imagine. >> it is hard to imagine that that would be a circumstance. so the crucial questio...

General flynn? did he just decide to call the russians up one day and say, you know, we're going to have a different, you know, sanctions don't worry about it or did it come from somebody else in the white house. if general flynn was directed by somebody to contact the russians, don't overreact here, we may change policy, that's not a crime. i think that's bad form. it's probably inappropriate, violates the president tradition but there's no use lying about it. i mean, what will get you in trouble when you begin to mislead people about what you actually did. >> so lindsey graham was hard to he...