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What rod rosenstein wrote in that memo. however, as your last guest just said, john thune, the timing is what the administration needs to answer for. the timing here is anything. you can imagine any number of circumstances where john jim comey being relieved of his duties might encounter less skepticism. if the russian investigation had already been closed and they declined to pursue anything, he would be on solid ground. if they had allowed the internal watchdog investigation to go forward and then took action, they would be on firmer ground. it s the fact that we are in the middle of an investigation and jim comey was leading it that makes this investigation. what kind wait for that cover of an investigation that would say, there s cause for this? keep in mind the outcry now is from the same people who are mad that president trump didn t immediately follow what the distinguished career democrat told him to do, which is fire flynn, and he hesitated look, obviously politics a ....
The books, we don t need new laws which involve criminality and potential criminal prosecution for those acts, correct? yes, that s right. reporter: and senator richard blumenthal joins us now. president donald trump tweeted out that nothing new buwas leard today it was all old news, what was learned today? it was learned that president trump waited weeks before president trump took action to fire flynn. there was clearly a leak in the washington post report and it was after that that he was fired. and that is a very important point. michael flynn might still be there but for the washington post report that in effect shamed them into getting rid of him. and while he was there for 2 1/2 weeks, he presented a real national security threat. the other takeaway, is the need ....
there s an opportunity. we talk about the 45% all the time. we have panels with them and trump people and understanding trump and why trump won. stephen colbert is speaking to them. and kimmel, this health care law is unpopular. bill, brian, thank you very much. thanks to our international viewers for watching. for our u.s. viewers up next, did it take why did it take president trump 18 days to fire flynn. we believe general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. vulnerable to blackmail. we told them this information so they could take action. ....
That fly into some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. let s get to it! first from fox news desk, the white house defending its handling of the former national security adviser general michael flynn. this comes a day after sally yates told lawmakers she warned the white house that flynn could be blackmailed by russia. yates testified that less than a week into the trump presidency, she told white house officials that flynn lied to vice president pence about his russian contacts. also, that the russians knew that he had lied and that they could use that information to black male him. the president did not fire flynn for another 18 days. last night president trump tweeted, sally yates make the fake media unhappy today. she said nothing but old news. today sean spicer said the white house made the right call about flynn when it fired him. ....
If you listen to president trump, he blames obama for having even put him in that post in the beginning, although that was years before his team came on. and then, you know, you could go in to argue, well, how about the vetting process and the ability to vet their officials by the trump administration? but that, again, you know, is part of the blame game and it s a bunch of opinions and speculation right now. so, i think people are starting to get tired with the flynn story, to an extent. and certainly, the blame game, as you point out, it is important to point out that the former president did fire flynn. civ silvia borelli, thank you for being with us from london at 10:26 in the morning. stay with us here on cnn newsroom. the venezuelan political and economic crisis is getting worse. coming up on the program, how the trump administration is ....