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Department's ability to function, to keep america safe. >> jamie, what do you make of, i guess in a sense she's been part of this but she had been silenced until now. obviously, her removal happened in may, over her refusal to try to further investigation into joe biden on the d.l. >> we're hearing her testimony was scathing but we just received a letter that comes former high ranking state department defense national security officials, 27 of them signed it. these are people like former deputy secretary of state tony blinking, eric eddelman, nick burns. this is an open letter that we have jus...

Before the white house took any action against michael flynn. it was only after the washington post published a story about the sanctions discussion that they finally did move to get rid of him and to fire him. it does conflict with a lot of what the white house has explained about how this was handled. >> evan, stay with me. i know you have more breaking news. i just want to get reaction to this. tony blinking is with us, the former deputy si secretary of state and our analyst paul. lets me ask you, trump's transition team warned flynn about his kaktsds with the russian ambassador in late nov...

We talked about ukraine. karen, when you look at syria and the impact on children, the catastrophe that is this story, is john mccain right, are future presidents going to have to apologize for our unwillingness to intervene more robustly? >> i don't think so. if you left it to john mccain, i think we would have troops on the ground in 15 different nations. so i don't believe that's the case. >> talking about ukraine and what we've learned, ralph, you tweeted the obama administration has no real answers on the crisis in ukraine. putin is laughing at the u.s. what if he ends up being more isola...

The #is mtp. we talked about ukraine. karen, when you look at syria and the impact on children, the catastrophe that is this story, is john mccain right, are future presidents going to have to apologize for our unwillingness to intervene more robustly? >> i don't think so. if you left it to john mccain, i think we would have troops on the ground in 15 different nations. so i don't believe that's the case. >> talking about ukraine and what we've learned, ralph, you tweeted the obama administration has no real answers on the crisis in ukraine. putin is laughing at the u.s. what if he ends up bei...

Do it robustly and project strength. that's not happening right now. >> andrea, as you were watching tony blinking concluded, he says obama's isolating putin been see tremendous solidarity of the allies but germany is not fully on board. it undercuts the strategy. >> germany's not fully on board. i think american corporations are not fully on board. i'm not sure that isolation strategy can work. back to syria when i was watching dr. nancy's report, think we're relying on russia to be our partner in peace talks on syria? russia is rearming assad and not a partner on foreign policy. >> i was thi...