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Who works out of washington, d.c. and in our nation's history or he's being less than candid with the american public. >> next up don jr. who has a date with the house intelligence committee happening on wednesday. joining us right now frank figlussy and kendall coffee, former federal prosecutor. kendall, let's start with this on the tweet that came out as we've been covering this hour here from president trump. now saying that one of the reasons as to why flynn was fired was because he lied to the fbi. by our understanding, by our scouring the white house unit looking very closely at the reco...

He interested in flynn. he didn't say to let the entire russia investigation to go but flynn specifically and he said he fired flynn because he lied to the vice president. so it raises more questions than answers and on the best of days and worst of days, instead of talking about tax reform we're talking about russia and the twitter account distracting from the message he would like to be focusing on. >> betsy, one of the questions asked now is does this put the president in more legal jeopardy because of this very tweet. >> potentially. and one thing that we could say with a high degree of co...

It's trump's core instincts in his gut. >> all right. willy. >> what about the idea that bann bannon, so how does that sound to donald trump? >> i don't know. as we says a couple months ago, oh, did would, it's always i, i, i. >> you remember at the president trump press conference, president trump was pretty icy when asked about steve bannon, he called him "mr. bannon" and he said, quote, we'll see what happens. >> you're fired. >> jonathan ax -- john doud

His firm. they're taking a backseat roll. at this point in the clinton investigation, they had a war room and dozens of associates. the president's legal team doesn't feel they need to do that. they feel it's still a campaign issue, a manafort issue. and they're not really laying that ground work like we've seen other people do in their past investigations. >> your reporting yesterday, fascinating that john doud and others trying to turn down the temperature, the rhetoric from the president himself on twitter but others in the white house to not much effect. unfortunately for them. shannon, th...

Assistants. it's going to become a big west wing investigation at some point, and i don't get the sense the white house is prepared for that. >> shannon, you mentioned previous investigations. where does the legal team, obviously the president trump has made changes to this over time. how do they stack up to the way the previous presidents, maybe the clintons or you mentioned dick cheney and scooter lib by, how does it compare to what other presidents have done under the scrutiny. >> the president's team is thin relative to clinton or past investigations. and very thin compared to what we've s...