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Tomorrow? >> i know there were a bunch of republicans that wanted to vote yes and mcconnell and leadership put a lot of pressure on them to vote no, but now that i think they have seen that 11 others have voted this way, yeah, i think we have a real shot. >> the timing on this is remarkable. as you say, in the context of the mueller investigation, we do have a lot of dangling threads when it comes to deripaska and involvement in the manafort case and whether he's part of core question whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and russian government. we had a couple disturbing reve...

Million dollars for this work? >> same answer. >> isn't it true that the trump white house on at least two occasions was asked by mr. flynn's lawyers whether he should report that work, the work that he was doing on behalf of the turkish government, and yet, the administration didn't give him any advice to the contrary? do you know anything about that? >> i have to give you the same answer. >> director comey, i know you cannot discuss whether any investigations are ongoing with u.s. persons, and i respect that. i think it's important, though, that the american people understand the scope and b...

Reportedly spoke on the phone with the russian ambassador again. that day the obama administration expelled 35 russian operatives from the united states and announced new sanctions. we also know from press reportings that sometime in december mr. flynn met in person with the russian ambassador at trump tower and that mr. trump's son-in-law jared k irs hner was also there. the purpose of the meeting was to "establish a line of communication" with the kremlin. i should add that the white house and mr. flynn shouldn't disclose this december face-to-face meeting until this month. on january 20th -...

We don't want to get involved militarily or set up a in fly zone. we have left saudis to arm the rebels in turkey but the result of that is mostly islamists have been getting the weapons in syria. we want this to end quickly and we would like russia to offer an escape package for bashar al-assad but there is little hope for that. >>shepard: you have spoken of the troops which we are said to have in jordan. tell us of their training and what indications we get from it? >>guest: from open source press, there was a u.s. massive special forces exercise in jordan a few months ago named eager lion, ...

White house also denied that mr. flynn and the russian ambassador discussed sanctions, and then on february 13th, 2017, mr. flynn resigned as national security advisor. now, director comey, all of these accounts are open source press reporting. given russian's long-standing desire to cultivate its relations with influential u.s. persons, is in the american public right to be concerned about mr. flynn's conduct, his failure to disclose that contact with the russian ambassador, his attempts to cover it up and what looked like the white house's attempts to sweep this under the rug, don't we as th...