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The vice president has been asserting he had no about michael flynn's foreign government ties even though the vice president was head of the transition effort and he was notified multiple times including by flynn's own lawyers that flynn was in fact working on behalf of a foreign government. mike pence's explanation for his role in this is that he had no idea. never heard of it, completely in the dark which, again, is utterly impossible and now there's one more piece of this that is either going to fall in place tomorrow or it's going to become a whole new scandal in its own right tomorrow. wh...

Mike pence so that doesn't make sense. now increasingly with each new revelation about him, including today's new revelations about what michael flynn was up to from the time he was fired at the pentagon from the defense intelligence agency and when he came on board with the trump folks, there are increasing questions as to how on earth the trump campaign and the trump transition and white house could ever have hired him. either their vetting was criminally negligent or it wasn't and they knew what they were getting with him and they wanted somebody like him around classified information which...

Inconceivable unless they've got brilliant explanation for it. the vice president has become implicated in a michael flynn story in a way that needs explaining. the vice president has been asserting he had no about michael flynn's foreign government ties even though the vice president was head of the transition effort and he was notified multiple times including by flynn's own lawyers that flynn was in fact working on behalf of a foreign government. mike pence's explanation for his role in this is that he had no idea. never heard of it, completely in the dark which, again, is utterly impossibl...

He was basically just really busy and in his rush he forgot about the details of the phone call when he was talking to the vice president. he's not admit heg lied, right? >> reporter: >> he's not, but he does appear to indicate he did talk about the russian sanctions with the russian ambassador which is something u.s. officials have told cnn. and i think this is why you're seeing so many officials on members of congress on the hill both republicans and democrats say we need more information about what exactly flynn talked about with his russian emissariries and what the interaction was like be...

Told the truth then? he may be cooperating now with the fbi, but do we know about that? >> we were told he was cooperating essentially from the outside. we don't have any indication he didn't cooperate with the fbi. and remember, what he was misleading administration officials, this was before they came into the white house. mike pence being out there saying that flynn didn't discuss the sanctions and the president essentially out there saying he believed flynn, all of that was during the transition effort. now they're in the white house and it was after this "washington post" story came out o...