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It's not about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, or about these press aides wanting to talk to these people, explaining these things in oftentimes misleading ways. i think that goes through james mattis' firing. the president said he fired me and mattis resigned. we also saw it around the comey firing, where the white house blows anything out of proportion. >> on this broadcast, any meeting in your family office that you have to have a russian translator present for should maybe set off alarm bells. anyway, shannon and aaron have agreed to stick around a bit longer. com...

Other lawyers, other press aides, other staffers trying to put together a statement. that's just my little window into this level of confusion just that one night that was going on around this flynn firing. there were days of that. as we know from sally yates' testimony about going to don mccann and mcgahn trying to figure out what the situation was. i know people in the white house were trying to figure out, had flynn just remembered, the vice president was brought in and the vice president was giving false statements, bud he had misled the vice president and that was the reason he had been f...

Jr. we learned shortly after that that the president himself had played a guiding role in crafting those explanations, those misleading explanations about the meeting with the russian lawyer in trump tower. in this case we also knew that there was at the very least confusion about this. the morning after michael flynn left the white house we had kellyanne conway come out and say he had resigned voluntarily. it was only that afternoon, a day later after michael flynn had left the white house, that michael -- that sean spicer rather said the things you played in the video, that it was actually s...

The morning after michael flynn left the white house, we had kellyanne conway come out and say that he had resigned voluntarily. it was only that afternoon, a day later after michael flynn had left the white house, that sean spicer said the things you played in the video, that it was actually something that the president requested. i think what we're learning as we learn more about these episodes is that it's not just about chaos in the white house. it's not about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, or about these press aides wanting to talk to these people, explaining thes...

I was standing outside sean spicer's office with a group of other reporters for hours trying to get an answer on what was going on. because that evening we all saw flynn go into the oval office, and we saw flynn come out of the oval office, and we were trying to figure out if that was it, if that was the moment he was fired. when i think back to that moment, i just think a massive amount of confusion going on in the white house in trying to get this simple answer had the national security adviser just been fired. no one seems to know, and i remember people coming in and out of sean's office th...