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Look, flynn is not being completely forthcoming about his conversations with the russian ambassador, and he therefore could be subject to russian blackmail. mcgahn has not said whether or not he took up yates on her offer for him to view the contents of the conversations between flynn and kislyak. and my repeated requests for comment about whether he ever did have gone unanswered. >> julia, this period that has emerged as a focus is in some respects a little surprising because so much focus was on the campaign and so much of what we're learning now is about the transition and the early days of...

Together what happened inside the white house over the critical 18-day period between january 26th when the white house was first warned of flynn's lie mace be a security risk and when he was forced to resign. the latest on where the investigation is headed julia yafify. natasha, let me start with you. trump officials were warned about flynn at least six separate times before firing him. and when you lay it all out, it really is striking they still went ahead and did it. >> right, absolutely. the white house was warned well in advance that flynn was not a good choice for national security advi...

The most important witnesses, if not the most important witness for mueller as he pursues this line of inquiry about these 18 days in between the time yates warned the white house and the time he was eventually fired will be white house council don mcgahn. he was really the first point of contact for yates when she went to the white house and said look, flynn is not being completely forthcoming about his conversations with the russian ambassador, and he therefore could be subject to russian blackmail. mcgahn has not said whether or not he took up yates on her offer for him to view the contents...

Power plays across the middle east. and that would have required that russian sanctions -- that u.s. sanctions on russia were undone. >> julia, having just done a bunch of reporting in russia, i wonder, we know that the white house is pretty nervous about this. we know they're sort of watching this with dread. do you think the kremlin is watching mueller with dread as well? >> i think so. but, you know, you have to keep in mind that the russians have been having buyers remorse since around april when trump fired 59 tomahawk missiles at an empty syrian air base in retaliation for a chemical wea...

The second explanation is something more nefarious, which proposition flynn was trying to throw mueller off the trail or throw then fbi director james comey off the trail of potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia. and then you also have to look at the business interest that trump brought into the white house with him where he was trying to develop these nuclear power plays across the middle east. and that would have required that russian sanctions -- that u.s. sanctions on russia were undone. >> julia, having just done a bunch of reporting in russia, i wonder, we know that t...