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It was announced that the inspector general at the defense department was investigating flynn over him being paid by foreign governments. there are inspector general offices in all the agencies and they are all independent and they are real investigative offices and usually staffed by very serious people. and these offices are not always perfect and there are good ones and bad ones. in general, the inspector general offices in the agencies they have a tough record of figuring stuff out, being blunt about what they've figured out and it may just have been a coincidence. that's when jeff session...

Have to keep repeatedly telling him not to contact flynn. this is -- i'm sorry. you're at new york magazine now. this is a remarkable sort of development if you just look at the flynn subpoena in and of itself and signals that there's nowhere to go here but forward on this. >> right. i think donald trump did not like the way that things were proceeding, and he wanted to put a stop to it. this is the most trump thing that has ever happened since he took office basically. and it really does have trump written all over it. it's very difficult to believe their news story that this was not his idea...

The white house. >> to be honest i think it is gobbly goock i think there's certain types of vetting. there's certain back grounds that happen but you would hope the white house would do its own vet from a political perspective. but you have to remember on the issue of background investigation so much depends on the subject themselves of the investigation. if flynn didn't mention, as we know guys like jared kushner also left some stuff out, then that does a lot of harm in terms of the ability to investigation and to get their security clearances at the end of the day and perhaps even more impo...

An individual in the document is not that difficult. the issue is having someone in place that's in your favor. and we've been terrible at that in my lifetime. we can kill leaders, we have. libby is a great example. we can take him out if that's what you want to do, but what comes after him is the issue and normally, we don't have a control over that. it's a risky proposition. >> eric: what does come after kim jong-un? >> you of the chinese military moving south to sort of try to get the nuke. also the archives. the chinese don't want to secede their relationship between beijing and pyongyang....

But right away from the very beginning it was clear the white house spokesman could not manage this. >> respect for prime minister trumble. >> his name is not trumble. it's turnbull. there were these early little signs that maybe even the kind of easy stuff like this was going to be a problem because it turns out it's not even just names, it's when you spell stuff out, too. literally acronyms are even hard. even short acronyms. >> he received an intelligence briefing and the pbd every day. >> the president receives a pdb every day, not a pbd. it's the "president's daily briefing," not the pres...