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Russia issue, ty cobb, will be doing that shortly but a few minutes ago a source close to the white house who advises them on the flynn issue told cnn's jim acosta that this was expected, that michael flynn had demonstrated poor judgment and that he was fired for lying to the vice president and so, of course, he would lie to the fbi. so the source saying that michael flynn's charge of lying to the fbi was expected in part because he had demonstrated a willingness to lie elsewhere, particularly to the vice president, something that the white house with was confronted by and ended up firing him ...

These conversations happened during the transition and he lied about it when he was in his official role. the white house still waiting to hear what they're going to say about that and how they're going to spin it, but this source close to the white house on the flynn issue is saying that they expected it, they thought it was going to be coming. john? >> abby, stand by for us and let us know if we get more from the white house. again, michael flynn expected to plead guilty within minutes inside that federal courthouse where he just entered. bring back our chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin aga...

An administrative way. flynn's case is all the more unusual because he's already out of government, shep. >> shepard: catherine, what is the word from the white house on this if anything? >> the flynn issue came up in the briefing last hour. it was a question about his son and whether he is also under fbi's investigate. >> is mike flynn jr. the subject of an investigation? is the president concerned that someone that served on his team is the superintendent of a federal investigation? >> i would refer you to outside counsel on the matter. >> as you mentioned at the top of the segment, we're wo...

The eastern district of virginia that is handling the federal investigation into trump national security adviser michael flynn and his ties and it would seem according to the "washington post," the same grand jury dealing with the flynn issue is also dealing with the manafort issue. it also now is handling these inquiries into the paul manafort and his foreign business ties as well. now, that's important because that would seem to indicate they're now bringing the cases sort of under one roof. they're consolidating their prosecutorial efforts. now, we had previously reported there might be ind...

The fact that on a series of questions comey was asked in which his version of their meetings, meaning trump's was questioned, comey said, not tru true. for example, who called whom. these are small things, but nonetheless, being called a liar has an effect. comey is diminished by the fact, and he admitted, he used the word "cowardly" to describe his reactions. as you say, from the pressure of the clinton administration, not to use the word investigation which was a way to please, placate, help the clinton campaign. and then the question that everybody is asking, if you are being pressured on ...