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Team that he was under federal investigation two weeks before the inauguration. let's bring in our panel to discuss that. we have senior political report nia-malika henderson and gloria borger here with me in washington and dana bash. we've got the full team. gloria, i'll start with you. why this continued loyalty from the president to general flynn despite many missteps on his part? >> well, currently of course general flynn is an orphan with no parents. with people from inside the administration. now. but if you look back at the situation during the transition, i was just talking to somebody...

Essentially for turkey. your reaction to that? >> let me say hearing that story -- >> we're going to go right to new york now because the press conference beginning on the this incident in times square. have a listen. >> today here in times square. we're going to provide you with information. i want to emphasize up front this is preliminary information. obviously investigation under way. there's a lot we will learn in the coming hours. but we're going to give you the information we have at this point. i'll start then you'll hear from our police commissioner james o'neal and commissioner dan ni...

>> okay. and the fact that there's now potentially a criminal investigation under way would not prevent him from coming before the senate to give public testimony about this? >> i don't think it would prevent him. i think it might sort of describe the detail or the questions that he would deal with, but he is, again, very knowledgeable lawyer himself. i don't think he would do anything that would either jeopardize an ongoing investigation or in some way complicate the process of justice. >> you know, senator, there's a contrary point of view that to some degree the appointment of a special cou...

Investigating it. preliminary is an accident, one. did he appear to be intoxicated. and isn't it our reporting that he has a history of drunk driving? is that right? >> that's what sources are telling cnn. he did have a history of drunk driving and it's possible he was in fact intoxicated when this crash happened. and again, to give you a quick landscape of the area where this happened, it's really just one street that this car could have gone down as you heard this witness say. the car was definitely speeding in her account. that's when it sort of flipped up on its side and many witnesses tol...

By some public comments, that this might put a damper on that. do you think that's an accurate assessment of how this might go forward? >> that might be impossible, but i think the best news is for the american people. they were increasingly worried about the direction this investigation was taking. would it be partisan. would it be a series of accusations back and forth. now with director mueller in charge i think everyone can have confidence that there's a professional with great integrity who understands the fbi very well, who understands the criminal justice process very well, and who i be...