fmy doctor recommended ibgard. abdominal pain and bloating. now i'm in control of my ibs. nonprescription ibgard-calms the angry gut. gamb . welcome to "inside politics". i'm john king. thanks for sharing your day wus. big news in the russian election meddling investigation. the michael flynn is said to have omitted key information about russia ties from the forms he used to get his security clearance. congress wants answers. >> as a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from russia, turkey or anybody else. and it appears as if he did take that money. it was inappropriate. and there are repercussions for the violation of law. >> plus still not a done deal, but the odds of a spending plan

to keep the government open are better after a giant white house retreat. money for the president's border wall no longer a must. >> hopefully we can find a way to increase border security. i'm for a wall where it makes sense, but a 2,200 mile wall doesn't make a whole lot of sense. >> and ivanka trump booed and hissed on the world stage in germany. the daughter is asked about the reprehensible things her father has said about women. >> i've certainly heard the criticism from the media and that's been perpetuated, but i know from personal experience and i think the thousands of women who have worked with and for my father for decades when he was in the private sector are a testament to his belief and solid conviction in the potential of women and their ability to do the job as well as

any man. >> interesting event to say the least. with us to share the reporting and their insights, cnn may, abby phillip, matt vice or of the "boston globe" and jackie kucinich. the president's frustrated tweet about his border wall but first up, russia's meddling in the election drama. two committees are already investigating. and a third raised its hand. demanding answers from michael flynn. they are raising the possibility that general flynn broke the law by failing to disclose required information. chairman jason chaffetz, ranking democrat eliza cummings reviewed the file. they said flynn omitted financial arrangements from the documents he's required to file to get a security clearance.

>> personally i see no information or no data to support the notion that general flynn complied with the law and that is he was supposed to seek permission and receive permission from both the secretary of state and the secretary of the army prior to traveling to russia to not only accept that payment, but to engage in that activity. i see no evidence that he actually did that. >> he was supposed to get permission. he was supposed to report and he didn't. there's no evidence of it. >> there's also new evidence that the trump white house is ready to play hard ball with the investigation. chaffetz and cummings skasked f documents that would help shed light on if the trump transition and now the administration knew about flynn's contacts and payments. in a letter to the committee the white house said it wasn't in a position to help with anything before inauguration day and said any documents covering flynn's time at the white house, quote, are likely to contain classified, sensitive and/or

confidential information. let's go live to manu raju. they didn't say he broke the law but came close. >> no evidence that he actually complied with the law. they can't make the determination. they said that's to be made by the army or the department of justice in whether or not they want to move forward in pursuing any charges. cummings even saying flynn's decision not to disclose information on his security clearance could be a felony and subject up to five years in prison. so we'll see how far they decide to go. that committee is probably not going to call general -- michael flynn to come testify before them. instead hoping to actually let the senate or the house intelligence committee bring him forward as part of any sort of agreement that michael flynn is seeking. michael flynn wants immunity as part of his testimony. unclear whether or not he will get any of that. john, this comes as other bodies

within congress are broadening out their own russia investigation, including the senate judiciary sub committee which announced plans to have a hearing on may 8th. they will actually hear testimony from sally yates and james clapper to discuss a number of issues. i just spoke to lindsey graham, who's the chairman of that senate judiciary subcommittee and he tells me he wants to learn about this fisa warrant that apparently the fbi obtained to listen the trump adviser carter page during the presidential election. also want to hear from sally yates about what she privately said that michael flynn could have been susceptible to russian blackmail if he continued as part of that position of national security adviser before he was dismissed in february. this investigation on capitol hill broadening to a variety of other committees besides the house and senate intelligence committee. seen the house oversight

committee get involved today on the michael flynn matter as well as the senate judiciary committee. hoping to hear more information about those russia ties to any trump associates. >> manu raju for us on capitol hill. this was a cloud and it appears it will continue. let's first get at the idea that you have the -- you see bipartisanship number one. coming out and saying we looked at the files. we looked at the information. we were briefed. in their view general flynn did not disclose requirements that he was supposed to get permission for the trip. supposed to disclose he was paid by russian tweelevision. the question is did he not do that because he understood questions about trump administration russia ties were going to be an issue and was he trying to hide it or was it an oversight by him or an assistant filling out important paperwork? >> i think that's sort of the key in whether this broadens.

mike flynn was within the trump administration for a short period of time. so there's one issue of him and what he did, but the way that th broadens significantly is if it involves trump and the trump administration itself, what is mike vflynn offing in exchange for immunity and what is the white house hiding by not disclosing some of that information that congress wants. >> which is one of the reason sally yates testimony is going to be a main event. we've been waiting for it. it was blocked initially and the fact that she's going to be testifying in public and what she has to say about this i think will really -- >> and perhaps twice. lindsey graham senate judiciary sa subcommittee. then they don't have a date. the new chairman has said he's open to her coming back. they're working on the date sometime in early may. >> that's what is so remarkable about this issue is, i mean it's basically been like a an octopus

for the trump administration this entire time. there's -- it seems like there's a new thread every couple of weeks that gets in the way of, you know, them trying to get out the message that they want to get out this week. this week 100 days, that's a little controversial, but it's just amazing that they have found a way to sort of contain it so that they could move on to what they -- the pieces of their agenda that they want to talk about. >> there's also an underlying problem here of the trump circle being very careless with things that are very important, including disclosures and not just, you know, the sort of propriety of it but the legality of it. this dates all the way back to the beginning of the campaign. even while michael flynn was only a part of the administration for a short period of time, he was in the trump inner circle for much, much longer and there was very little attention to detail and attention to the importance of him disclosing his ties even

while there were people raising questions about michael flynn's posture toward russia, raising questions about that -- this very speech that he's -- that is now clear that he didn't disclose. there was no one in the trump inner circle saying hey, let's just make sure that we are crossing all of our ts and dotting our ooiis. >> and trump had such a skeletal staff. some campaigns get made fun of for being too top heavy, having too many lawyers, et cetera. but this is exactly why you need lawyers. to do that kind of vetting and pay attention to those things. i think it also gets to the fact that some of the people around trump are afraid to kind of stand up to him and say hey, we need to look closer at this guy who you really like talking to. >> in this case you're right. the staffing and the lawyers and the vetting was subpar to say the least. but this is a general. this is a man who ran the defense intelligence agency. a man who's supposed to know the

sensitivities of his work in the government and when he leaves the government because of those stars he has. he's the one who admitted. he's responsible for this. he's obviously aware the tough words from capitol hill. a new statement. quote as has previous le been reported general flynn briefed the defense intelligence agency extensively regarding the speaking trip both before and after the trip and he answered any questions that were posed by dia krpiconcerning the trip. they're saying he at least covered part of it. he's supposed to get permission. that statement leads you to believe that general flynn's position is i got the permission. maybe he didn't put it on the forms. maybe he left it off the forms. the other issue is the administration. this letter sent back by the administration essentially says trump campaign records not our best. trump transition records not our business. what michael flynn did as a private citizen, not our business. anything he did in the few weeks he worked for the white house, sorry, he was national security

adviser, that's sensitive and classified. listen to the ranking democrat. he said these things happen and he said it's possible he worked it out. but he got the impression this was going to be hard. >> the white house has refused to provide this committee with a single piece of paper in response to our bipartisan request and that's simply unacceptable. >> on the one hand, it sounds unfair to say we want trump transition records of the trump white house, trump campaign records of the trump white house. this letter back, though, doesn't say contact this person. that's not -- contact this person or contact that person. it says we don't have them, too bad. >> not entirely unusual for a white house to basically invoke a sort of executive privilege type of situation in a circumstance like this. but on the other hand, there are a lot of people around this white house who are really encouraging them to clear the air. put something out there so that it doesn't look suspicious or look like you're hiding things.

they're clearly not going down that path t.. it's interesting what that will yield. >> that's also where i think flynn's taechattempts at immuni could come into play. the white house is not offing up much documentation, but to the extent that flynn feels threatened under the legalities and whether or not this is prosecuted, it might not be the type of case that gets prosecuted, but to the extent he feels like he needs to clear the air himself, he offers up something and becomes a cooperating witness to something that's bigger and will this take us to another part of the octopus. >> a giant question. the part of it, the congressional investigations. there are criminal investigations by the fbi. part of general flynn, i'm not saying he's a target but he's somebody he wants to talk to. part of the complication is dealing with congress. you also have the complications for everybody involved on the fbi investigation side of it.

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year. >> that giant retreat on wall funding came after the white house caved on its request for a house obamacare repeal vote before the 100 day mark. the upside, by backing off there's now an easier path to a white house goal avoiding a government shutdown. is it worth it? so you don't have a shutdown on day 99 or does it show that if you're a republican on the fence about this president or if you're a democrat who wants to fight this president at every stop that the republican leadership wouldn't give him his vote on health care. they told him it would probably fail. but wouldn't put its shoulder down and get more border wall funding. yes, the democrats are objecting. but is this strength that the president is backing off to keep the government open or is it a sign of weakness? >> it's reality. he basically asked for a unicorn to take him to the moon. these things were not going to happen this week. >> that doesn't happen? >> no. we can all dream, john.

>> it's not just democrats. a lot of republicans do not want to fund this wall . it's expensive. they don't believe that it works. none of the congressmen who represent border districts believe it's something they even want in their district. so what is the con tet wstituen this wall? it's a promise but it's not one that you're going to need republicans and maybe a few democrats to get you over the finish line it's just not going to happen. >> you also don't toss a grenade at the last minute when you're facing a government shutdown. >> but why did they do it is the question. thursday and friday of last week we want the health care vote. we demand wall funding. >> it's because trump is the kind of guy that looks around at his staff and says go get it done. and he is frustrated by what happened, the coverage of the health care bill. he wants more achievements.

he probably sees that the gov r -- coverage is not going particularly well for him in terms wh terms of what he's accomplished. he's understanding the realities of washington. >> he was willing to risk utter humiliation for the health care vote. he kept pushing for it to happen and eventually backed down. this time he backed down a little bit sooner. but he seemed like he was willing to risk utter humiliation again to having a government shutdown on the 100th day in office. >> it shows he tried. this health care bill they were talking about putting through this week, nothing had changed. they wanted to talk about it in order to show that they were doing something. that they weren't letting it go. i think it may have been the similar thing with the wall. as a signal to the people that support the president the most that we're trying, but man, that swamp, it's hard to get through. >> that's the key point in the sense that if you look at the polling as we approach the 100

day mark, most of it is not so great for the president. they dislike the republican house leadership. they dislike the republican leadership at large. the question is at what point does it affect him? go back to the campaign. i'm the guy who can bring the politicians together as bipartisan or get the republican party. here's his tweet about the wall. don't let the fake media tell you i've changed my position on the wall. it will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking. nobody in the media that i know is saying he's dropped his support of the wall, but his budget director and others in the white house were on the record saying the other day it needs to be part of this bill, the down payment needs to be part of this bill. >> i think the trickiest thing with trump is on some level he's right. he believes he won't get blamed if something bad like a shutdown happens. he might actually be right about that. not just his supporters, but a lot of sort of people in the middle are giving him a benefit

of the doubt. they're more likely to blame folks like paul ryan and congress. but the problem with trump will be that if congress fall sos far into a ditch that they don't feel like risking anything to get his agenda done t makes it hard for thoim hahim to have accomplishments. he will be judged by if he brought back jobs, repealed or replaced obamacare, what have you. he may be getting a longer leash, but it's not going to be forever. the worse that congress fares, the harder it will be for him to get them on board. >> there are some people in the white house who are advising him who are saying let's look for some more smaller bite size goals, some things that we can do, a package on tax reform that actually can get through congress. i mean, he's now proposing something that might be completely impossible. >> to that point he's going to propose tomorrow an outline. he's not going to give us detail

which will raise questions. but an outline tomorrow for a tax reform plan that calls for a 15% corporate tax. they ran the math and said no, we're not going to blow a hole in the deficit. maybe he's going to lay it down and say i compromised. now he's laying something that will divide never mind the democrats but divide the republicans. most of the republicans in congress won't pass a plan that adds to the deficit listen to the treasurer secretary. >> the tax plan will pay for itself with economic growth. >> maybe. maybe. give them the benefit of the doubt. maybe it will. but the rules don't allow guessing. they're projecting. the rules say if you do a 15% corporate tax plan and the administration is so far against the border adjustment tax the speaker wants that you blow a hole in the federal deficit dead on arrival. >> to be clear, what he was saying was we don't expect to pay for this tax cut.

which is on some level a certain level of honesty and the fact that this is a president who does not care very much about these sort of ideological issues about the fiscal health of the federal government, whether the deficit is large over small. he doesn't really care about that as much as he cares about bringing down the tax code, giving tax cuts to middle class folks. so it's not -- i think it's just this white house is starting from a negotiating position as trump always wants to do. that is pretty far away from where they believe they will end up in the center and they think that they are going to move their way in. they're not necessarily wrong about that. but i think this just reflects a negotiating position. >> but again, they're not learning how washington works. they want to do this through reconciliation in the senate and they need to pass a tax reform package that way and they can't do that if it's increasing the deficit. it needs to be deficit neutral. i think the trump white house, you know, they can call for things, but to actually do

something, they need to figure out how washington works. >> in some ways that's the outsider candidate now. president being trapped by the inside rules here in war and he hasn't found a way to break out. up next team trump says its first 1 00 days are full of historical accomplishments. meta appetite control...

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. on november 8th, americans will be voting for this 100-day plan to bring prosperity to our country. >> just think about what we can accomplish in the first 100 days of a trump administration. just think about what we can accomplish in the first 100 days. >> there are those that say i've done more than many in 100 days. i don't think that there is a presidential period of time in the first 100 days where anyone's done nearly what we've been able to do. >> as you can hear there, candidate trump was upbeat about his first 100 days. trump says it's been 100 days of accomplishments. let's look at the numbers. number of laws passed, 28 for president trump. that's certainly in excess of

the three presidents who came before him. the question is what do these laws do? yes, a lot of house republican proposals to roll back obama initiatives that were cleared by the senate and signed by the president. the big issue, not one signature campaign promise. yes, he has signed 28 laws. the white house point to this. 25 executive orders signed by the president. he's been very busy doing that. more today. that's a number bigger opinion president obama, george w. bush or bill clinton. some of them roll back regulation. some of them month from now and years from new might have an impact on the economy. others defer promises like asking for studies. this is the 100-day agenda he would fight. repeal and replace obamacare, new trade tariffs, label china a

menisc currency manipulator. none of this has been done. at least you would have to say incomplete. or as chris christie, his friend, the new jersey governor says, maybe a "b." >> i'd give him a "b" and i would say the reason i give him a "b" is first and foremost because of neil gorsuch. i think getting that done and getting it done in the way he did with his record is going to be something that will well survive his presidency. i also think some of the things he's done by executive action have been good on the regulatory side. i can see even in new jersey businesses are responding really well. i think some of the implementation and the way his staff served him has not been good and they have got to get their act together in that regard and serve the president better. >> this is a big part of the conversation this week. what is the grade. and president trump like all presidents is kind of in the eye of the beholder . if you're a big supporter, you tend to stand by him.

if you're democrats, you go through the list and say nothing. if you look at the top promises, the things he promised to get done, he's got none of that. what's the verdict? >> i think he's pretty confident that he's done a great job as he is with a lot of things. but there's also some clear signs that he's really frustrated that he has not gotten to a few pet issues specifically tax reform. late last week he was talking to people on the outside who were basically telling him you've got to get something on the table, you've got to put something on the board on tax reform and the next day he declares it's going to happen on wednesday. whether his staff is ready or not, the president wants something on the table for an issue that's really important to him. health care he was really anxious to get it out of the way so he can move on. there's some clear anxiety coming from the top filtering all the way down about some really big issues that he think system sort of con jesting his administration in the very early

stages. >> they would make the other certainly that the executive orders that he had signed are -- prove that he's moving toward the place that he wants to get to. we all know some of those things didn't work out. the travel ban did not go well for the administration. but there are some other executive orders that have to do with the epa and rolling back the regulations that the obama administration put in place. that his supporters do really appreciate. also, you know, on trade. so there is some -- >> he signed -- i don't mean to interrupt. even some of those haven't been implemented yet in part because you've got to write new regulations and they don't have people at the agencies to do the work. you sign a piece of paper that says roll back and some agency has to roll back. i'm not saying it won't happen. but some of these things are just pieces of paper still even though they could some day be important. >> i don't think he's look a good salesman. that's been one of his

strengths. he would sell the taj mahal in atlantic city as state regulators are trying to close it down. we're seeing him try and put the best possible spin on what has happened. but looking at the checklist of things that he hasn't done, there's a significant amount there that he still needs to draw attention to. >> so i really don't think you can diminish the importance of getting neil gorsuch on the supreme court. chris christie said it there and it was a promise that he made to a lot of people who weren't sure about him. a lot of those people liked mike pence and they trusted mike pence to make sure that donald trump stayed on the straight and narrow. so the fact that that got done i think put -- really put a lot of people at ease. that was one of the most important issues. one of the reasons they hit the button for donald trump. >> and really bought him some time. saying where's the border wall funding. maybe he has one very significant accomplishment. he gets a little grace on others.

i think it was ab bby who mentioned the president is pr pretty confident. he said when the iraqi prime minister left from iraq he said trump has more success in eight weeks than obama had in eight years. we have had tremendous success but we don't talk about it. we don't? >> he's very humble. >> classic trump moment. >> it is a classic trump moment. let's look at some of the highlights from the white house. he did nominate and confirm a supreme court justice. that's a big deal. he bombed a syrian air field. that sent a message. he has wrapped up immigration enforcement. no border wall yet but all these raids and enforcement, they have changed things. federal hiring freeze. i think that has expired for the most part. keystone and do koet ta access pipelines. he was going to withdraw from tpp and he did.

that there are some things here. they did not repeal and replace obamacare. he did not give his tax reform proposal before congress. the big things if you go back to gettysburg speech, these are the things i will do and fight for in 100 days. that part of it is bad. but there are other things. >> the other thing to look for, is he growing or learning as a new president. because he did come in with no government experience. so i think you give him a little bit of benefit of the doubt, but you want to see, you know, how he's changing and learning how to deal with washington. it hasn't -- he hasn't changed the swamp yet. i think that's another thing that his supporters -- >> we have a unified republican government. they have the house, the senate, and the presidency. they ought to be able to do some things. i think that's why the expectations are so high. >> i think to your point, does he grow. the issue on which he has not succeeded so far is convincing the ideological folks in his own party, conservatives and the

moderates, i'm the president, we've got to make a deal, i need things, it will good for you. everybody sit tight. fascinating day today in germany for the first daughter ivanka trump on defense for her dad after a tough reception. he's a nascar champion who's she's a world-class swimmer who's stared down the best in her sport.

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reception after the event telling reporters, quote, politics is politics as i've learned. another question from reporter, was that moderator too tough. her answer, quote, i'm used to it. the message from the first daughter, this is now part of her new day job. there are still many questions. here's two. when she speaks, which job is he actually doing? which of her father's men interests is she keeping an eye on? >> are you representing your fau father as the president of the united states, the american people or your business. >> certainly not the latter and i am rather unfamiliar with this role as well as it is quite new to me. it has been a little under 100 days, but it is just been a remarkable and incredible journey. >> tough debut. >> i think that's the question, though, it's interesting that she got it, that a lot of people have about her role in the white

house. she is what people say is the closest that he has to someone who will tell him to back down or back off even if he doesn't take that advice. but i mean, i think she is still figuring out how to define her role. there are mo there are moments when she's been in the oval office. people say her father is much calmer and that the discussion goes better. it's going to be interesting to see that evolve over here. she's going to have to expect to take tough questions if she's got that title in the white house. >> it's also interesting to see her out speaking. you see her a lot. she's -- we know that she's very influential. but usually she's sort of sit g sitting next to her father. she's out there more. she's not on sunday shows yet but she's being more of a spokes woman for the administration which quite frankly is probably a good things for them. she's very articulate. she had a good debut at the republican convention.

>> this is the part about ivanka that always complicates the administration. she is a little bit different from her father whchlt s. when she spoke at the republican national convention, they said it could have come out of any democrat's mouth. it doesn't really reflect the man who was being nominated for the president united states. for people to take her seriously, there has to be some merging of those two things at some point. where her views and her father's actions come into line. so far we just haven't seen that yet. and we saw it again today where she's talking about something that people are looking at and saying well, we don't see that from -- >> do you know that she and her advisers are reaching out to democrats on the childcare issue, that she plans to step up her role on that and get it, you know, get some kind of policy into the budget later this year. we may see a more policy oriented ivanka coming up.

>> but if her dad can't get freedom caucus votes on health care, can the daughter get freedom caucus votes on a government mandate of childcare? her last name also is trump. one of the questions of this administration and this is the 14th week and 12 of the weekends president trump has been to at least one property that bears his name. ivanka trump still has, even though she's divested some stuff, put some stuff aside, her name is still trump. one of the issues as she travels to germany and gets the rough reception is the state department was embarrassed. they had to pull down a blog posting. this is from share america. it was posted on embassy websites overseas. curious about the president's winter white house also known as mar-a-lago? trump is not the first sitting president, and this is a graphic of the web posting f you look at the posting, it has a picture of mar-a-lago. now they pulled it down. the intention of the article was to perform the nupublic about where the president has been hosting world leaders. it sure seemed like an ad.

>> it's a private club. i know ivanka stepped away from businesses, but it doesn't help for appearance sake when she's sitting in on some of these foreign leaders including president xi and all of a sudden they get patent, approved in china. things like that, whether or not anything wrong, anything happened, the appearance of impropriety. >> is a trademark issue. >> exactly. that's why that question by that moderator was completely valid. is she there to represent her businesses? that's a question. >> i want to read you something from back to the associated press interview with president trump. he says pretty much everything you do in ghost involves heart whereas in business most things don't involve heart. talking talking about the issue of health care coverage. as the ceo of a business, and what he's talking about is access to health care.

as a ceo you're saying i have to cover my employees, what's the best deal i can get. but it's interesting to hear him say in business you're better off without it. >> if you talk to people close to him, the transition from businessman to politician, nobody sort of fully expects him to make that full transition. but he is also making a transition from a privately held company into a publicly held government. and so he hasn't sort of gotten used to that transparency. the differences in being a public figure in charge of a public organization in the united states government. >> and i think the fact that he's gone 12 of the 13 or 14 weekends to a property with his name on it, that is his answer to the watchdogs saying you need to separate yourself more from this. up next, president trump talks tough on north korea, syria, and now canada. yes, the trade dispute with the united states neighbor on the north. but they're different... nice tells you what you want to hear. but kind is honest.

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we can't continue to allow china to rape our country. that's what they're doing. they're taking our jobs, our main, our base, our manufacturing. >> what they've done to us is the greatest single theft in the history of the world. >> ta occurrence scurrency mani >> they break the rules in every way imaginable. >> we have lost all of their respect. >> they think we're run by a bunch of idiots. >> most of you probably remember that. welcome back. china was candidate trump's favorite whipping post. he vowed as you heard them to label them a occurrencurrency manipulator. now he has adopted what you might call this. keep your friends close and your

enemies across the border but not the border you might think. the president started off by slapping tariffs on lumber from the great white north. canada says it will sue. usually a chummy relationship isn't in such a great place. quote it's been a bad week to u.s. sa u.s./cana u.s./canada trade relations. >> the lumber issue, the dairy issues from time to time, back and forth, the issue is the canadian government subsidizes some of these products. it's not a new issue. the president seems to be almost happy to publicly pick a fight with canada. >> he needs a new enemy to put on the table. i mean, he really does need china's help with north korea, so he's kind of put that issue aside and he needs someone else to take his place. this is how he has always worked. you have to have someone who can

be the bad cop to your good cop and show so that -- he can show that he's fighting for the american worker. it's kind of a smart issue for him. this is something that a lot of democrats are supportive. the democrats who represent wisconsin are happy about trump talking tough on this dairy issue. it's not a partisan issue in the clearest sense. as you mentioned, a lot of these tensions began going way far back into the '90s. but even in the obama administration, in the last 18 months, they've started to make some noise about some of these issues. >> the diplomats are aghast like you're not supposed to chastise can dach canada. but you're a dairy farmer, you think there's a president talking about the things i care about. >> and that was the promise. america first. this is an issue that fitz into

that particular framework. so i think that we will see -- there will be a series of things that trump does here, particularly if he's not happy with his 100 days coverage. there may be small fights but that get a lot of attention and make it look as though he is helping the people he promised. >> they had a meeting at the white house obviously. president trump and prime minister trudeau. they promised things are going to try to workout great. he's of a different political bend than president trump. but they did have a nice meeting and talked highly of one another. we were talking about during the break ivanka trump spent some time, i believe she went to the theater with prime minister trudeau. the president tweeted canada has made for our dairy farmers and other border states very difficult. will not stand for this. watch. >> we have not heard as much about nafta, but this does seem like the opening bid. a lot has been focused on mexico. now he's turning his focus to the north to a nicer neighbor typically. >> and i believe tried dudeau

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this is cnn breaking news. hello, i'm wolf blitzer. 1:00 p.m. here in new york. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news. more trouble for the fired national security adviser michael flynn. the chairman and ranking member of the house panel says it appears flynn failed to follow the law and did not properly disclose payments from foreign governments. >> as a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from russia, turkey, or anybody else. and it appears as if he did take that money. it was inappropriate. and there are repercussions for the violation of law. >> we cannot discuss the