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We owe a degree of confidentiality about our plans. but we will work it out to our nato allies and our best way forward. war sometimes doesn't give you all good options. it's the nature of war. it's not a good situation. >> understatement there from the defense secretary james mattis. nato secretary general was standing with him. nato is disposed to send more troops to afghanistan. that's part of the equation. this is i think one of the examples and you see this from any new president of how being president is very different than when you're in the private sector. here's a couple things donald...

Comments that may have seemed in conflict with what the -- he had sent the vice president out in particular. the white house counsel informed the president immediately. >> now, the immediately there is important to the question you raised early. the immediately if it's true matters there. again, gave us a heads up. sounds pretty casual. listen to sally yates. >> i had two in-person meetings and one phone call with the white house counsel about mr. flynn. we told them that we were giving them all of this information so that they could take action. the action that they deemed appropriate. i reme...

Official. this could be the test case to make the leap from stripping away clearances from former national security officials to stripping away clearances from sitting justice department officials. watch the president on there today. i think bruce ohr is a disgrace. i suspect i'll be taking it away very quickly. he's a disgrace with his wife nellie. for him to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. that is disqualifying for mueller. >> doesn't work for mueller. he works at the justice department. it's reminiscent of his attacks on former acting fbi director mccabe and his wife who ran for...

He had been warned before. president obama said don't hire this guy. as they try to shift blame to obama, he gave him a security clearance, why should we listen to sally yates, they had grudges. his own transition raised question questions about this. chris christie didn't want him to get the national security adviser job. >> you also had -- i mean, a lot of the information yesterday was not totally breaking news. it was interesting seeing sally yates say those things, but one new detail was that she was called back to the white house a second day after she initially briefed the white house co...

Big deal? did loyalty to flynn blind him to the gravity of the situation? why? 18 days. why? >> those 18 days are going to be, you know, become a sub theme i think of this presidency in terms of inspecting everything that happened on that. it's clear now that this was not -- should not have been a surprise to the president. sean spicer will have to walk back these words among many others he's done because it's clear that everyone knew about this. we don't know though exactly what the president knew. this is one question i have on this. did his white house counsel tell him everything about this...