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>> i know that you have written about how the gop's tax plan is being overshadowed by flynn's plea deal. isn't the president largely to blame? he is contributing because he began the tweet storm. >> i think that is always a problem with president trump. this week not even just limited to the flynn probe. you remember he took focus away from an end of the year spending deal when his tweets caused chuck and nancy to cancel. he was accusing msnbc people of unspeakable things. he was throwing around a lot of tweets that distracted. the flynn stuff aside they had a victory on the tax bill. they won...

About his contact with the former ambassador. the plea is just hype, they call it a sack of smoke. >> the white house is distancing itself though from michael flynn as it talks up tax reform. >> joining us now, white house correspondent and we've seen the president's tweet about tax reform, nothing at least yet about flynn although if the president follows his pattern it is a saturday morning. he will be mawaking up and sayi something probably against all the attorneys in the white house. >> so far it's been pretty disciplined from the president on social media and that's partly because on the...

Understandable light given the crazy circumstance we are in. >> david axelrod, what do you make of trump calling this situation a cloud. didn't he bring that on himself? >> there's no question about it. even this week, not just on this investigation, but in other ways, he keeps digging holes for himself. but i agree with van in that, you know, he seems obsessed with the salacious element of this report, but i think that if you're told by the fbi director and you want to interpret it more broadly than he means it, that you're not under investigation and the impression is that you are, you know,...

It's a challenge. it's going to be a big challenge for him if he wants reporters to take him at his word when he makes statements that appear to be factual or that he alleges are factual about how the president is making decisions. >> well, and also on the flynn stuff, the flynn stuff is at the core of this all now and he's unprompted saying this is the first i heard of it. there were press reports, there was a letter written to him, and now you have a reporting that the transition officials informed them. now you've got pushback from a senior aide off the record saying, well, the lawyer never...

That wasn't just pence. >> that's a fair point. >> that said, though, obviously you expect the president and the vice president to be on the same page about these decisions of enormous consequence. yeah, it does raise really serious credibility questions. what does the vice president know about the basic processes that the president goes through when he makes decisions that have significant impact on federal law enforcement? it's a challenge. it's going to be a big challenge for him if he wants reporters to take him at his word when he makes statements that appear to be factual or that he alle...