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Bidens were, in her words, pretty blatant. put that next to what vindman said, there was no ambiguity about the connection being made there. so people who were firsthand witnesses to the call, they read that quid pro quo as pretty clearcut. that's certainly significant in this. >> remind us how hill, though, fits into trump's national security circle. was she considered an insider? >> she was. certainly based on her position. she's the lead russia policy official on the national security council. what we see playing out here, though, is there was a deliberate effort to sideline everyone who ha...

People sounding the alarm who were inside the national security circle. he might've thought to do it. >> i'm just trying to think like a gangster. maybe you do it before your inspector general and your dni vouch for the whistle-blower. >> well, i think those are the people he's upset about, not the whistle-blower. he knows that the calls are coming from inside the house. but i'm going to go out on a limb here. this president does not comply with oversight. he does not respect the separation of powers from co-equal branch of government. he has formed a universal blockade making up forms of univ...

Ambassador. before trump swearing in. which could have under mine existing foreign policy. >> his choice to cooperate. out weighs loyalty to his commander in chief. a difficult decision for a complex military man. >> he ferociously intelligent. very confident guy. very blunt in his manner. >> frankly for my entire life it's been about what's best for the country. >> as a three star lieutenant general, during the war on terror, flynn is considered by many in national security circle to be one of the greatest intelligence officers of his generation. >> he transformed american military intelligen...

To accomplish. the administration is bigger than a president. they're going to work in the national security circle. john mccain is doing a lot of that work to try to make sure the administration of this government is well-positioned in ways there is something big happens in asia. or that we have to continue this fight against isis. we need people of those stature of that interest of that knowledge base continuing to work through that. what you hope happens is the republicans in both the house and the senate start to lead up. they stay out of pettiness and start to lead up to the white house a...

Him or misled the vice president, how can they continue to work together, if there's already some trust issues, there's been some, you know, we know there's a lot of angst with the team he's put together in the national security circle. so if you've lost that confidence with the vice president, how can the president keep sticking by. that's what i think is going to be flynn's biggest problem. >> some reporting in the "new york times" that, when flynn wrote the memo of who should sit at the table at the principals committee meeting, the cabinet secretaries who make key recommendations to the pr...