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The cover story doesn't add up, this whole story and this relationship doesn't. here's the distinction. this is not just a matter of a scandal of somebody having an affair or something like that. this goes fundamentally to the foreign policy of the country. and i think that republicans on capitol hill need to look at this and ask themselves, do they actually want to investigate this, or do they want to appear that, in fact, they are slow walking and covering up something that may have fundamental significant to the country. >> katy, we learned today that vice president mike pence didn't learn ...

And a small group of senior advisers. the white house counsel reviewed and determined that there is not a legal issue but rather a trust issue. >> eli, they're trying to make it sound as if even though they were warned by the then acting attorney general, by intelligence officials week ago about flynn, that somehow a breakdown in trust happened in what, the last 24 hours? it doesn't really make a lot of sense. >> it only makes sense when you figure out what else happened in the last 24 hours and that was extensive reporting laying bare what they knew and that they knew it. if not for the repor...

Turn the story into one of a rogue operator than general flynn who went off on his own. this is sean spicer trying to sort of make the white house account align with reality today at the press briefing. >> immediately after the department of justice notified the white house counsel of situation, the white house counsel briefed the president and a small group of senior advisers. the white house counsel reviewed and determined that there is not a legal issue but rather a trust issue. >> eli, they're trying to make it sound as if even though they were warned by the then acting attorney general, b...

>> that it was a trust issue is what they're trying to make this out to be. i was speaking tonight with a senior white house source, and i asked that person why the world vice president pence wasn't told about this sooner. and the source said it was attorney-client privilege. don mcgann only told the president because that's who he is sworn to, and the president didn't tell vp pence because this was a very close hold, because they were still investigating exactly what happened. there are a lot of questions surrounding that, though, because mike pence went on national television and vouched for...

Change. he was concerned he had misled the vice president and the president and others. the president must have complete and unwavering trust for the person in that position. the evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation in a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for general flynn's resignation. immediately after the department of justice notified the white house counsel of the situation the white house counsel briefed the president in a small group of senior advisors. the white house also reviewed and determined that there is not a leg...