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Told that National Security adviser Michael Flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia. That warning was issued by acting Attorney General sally yates, who told White House Counsel Don Mcgahn that flynn was vulnerable because he misled the Vice President and others about the nature of his conversation with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. Despite her warning, President Trump chose to keep flynn on the job as top National Security post for 18 more days, according to the report. Muellers goal in part is to determine whether there was a deliberate effort to cover up the information that yates...

Department know that mike flynn lied to the fbi? >> as i said earlier, i refer you'd back to john dowd's clarification. >> i'm asking future a day. when did he find out? was it made friday or the day prior to that? >> again, i'm not aware of those specifics. but i would refer you to john dowd for that. >> just a statement of fact. what day the president discovered this lie issue. >> and i'm telling you as a statement of fact that you should contact john dowd. it doesn't seem that hard. >> it doesn't seem that hard. that's snarky. reached for comment last week, john dowd told abc news i'm not g...

>> and yet, that's the question, right? because it all seems like he is playing these 40/60 politics. meaning 40% of the public is with him. 60% is against him. >> uh-huh. >> which shouldn't work in a majority democracy and yet it is somehow working. >> think about this, chris. his first goal is to try to control the republicans as much as he can. and so what he is doing with that 40%, which still remains a super majority of republicans is to control the party, control his chance going forward, try to discipline or jettison republicans who don't agree with him by threatening to get them primar...

Trump loyalists in a race so he's trying to maintain that republican core. >> i guess the question sheer -- and i've read your book and enjoyed it quite a bit. it's got a sort of tone that is rare in these kinds of books. it's sort of intimacy to it. >> thank you. >> that there is this sort of push and pull even within your understanding of what happened. >> uh-huh. >> the degree to which this was a fluke or not a fluke. when you say absent comey and the russians. >> right. >> right. >> at one level, there is something he is doing that is really rewriting the rules of american politics. >> i a...