for a special prime-time edition of "the lead" with jake tapper at 9:00 p.m. eastern later tonight. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >> up next, breaking news, the white house blaming the obama administration for general flynn's security clearance as flynn is under new investigation tonight. plus the white house war room. steve bannon with a white board in his office checking off the big wins. wait till you hear what's getting the big x. and senator elizabeth warren calling out president obama really nastily. let's go "out front." good evening, i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, new documents show trump's former disgraced national security advisor taking money from russia after being warned.

flynn proceeded to take payments from two countries. tonight, the white house is actually blaming president obama. refusing to admit that trump and his team failed to vet flinn. here's the white house press secretary sean spicer. >> he was issued a security kpleerns under the obama administration in the spring of 2016. the trip and transactions that you're referring to occurred in december of 2015. >> this doesn't excuse by why the trump administration didn't vet flynn themselves. let's remind all of ourselves that will flint was hired by trump as his top national security advisor, one of the most important posts in the entire white house. flynn was of course also fired by obama, something that should have raised alarms when trump was hiring him. why is sean spicer passing the buck on flynn? >> reporter: general flynn came in and walked through the door

with just the clearance that was conducted by the obama administration? that doesn't make any sense. >> sure it does. the same way that when you applied for a credential -- >> but -- >> hold on. let me mr. explain the answer to you, jim. calm down. the kids have gone. hold -- and i'm trying to answer it, major. this is the answer. >> i want to -- >> listen when you applied to come here to this breaching room as a member of the press, you applied and filled out certain forms with the secret service to have your background run. nerve the government goes through the same sf-80 process, so why would you rerun a background check on someone that had and did maintain a high-level security clearance? that's it. >> jason carroll's out front tonight at the white house. the white house response today pretty stunning. to make this clear, right, sure you have a white house clearance because you went through that proesz. but you work at cnn because they

made sure you're not a liar and a cheater and a plajerrizer and all that that wouldn't have been picked up in the formal vetting process as all. >> reporter: the critics say what they're trying to do here is at best a real stretch, trying to blame the previous mngsz for a vetting process that should have taken place dpurg this administration. just to remind our viewers what's happened. once again, back in 2014, flynn was the one who was apparently warned, look, don't take anymore foreign money. in 2015, the very next year, he did just that, accepting $45,000 from rttv, an arnold -- a company that was an arm of the russian government. the president was asked to weigh in. here's what he said or in this cases did not say.

>> any regrets about miefrl flynn? >> thank you very much. >> well, the defense department inspector general is investigating this and the top democrat, one of the top democrats, elijah m cummings very critical of the way the house has handled this. he says we're not getting all the paperwork we need in this investigation. the white house said they are. he accused the white house of a coverup. sean spicer weighed in on that as well saying he was taken aback by the accusation. he says it's just not true. flynn's attorney has weighed in on this erin and says that flynn provided both documents and information about this rt event and provided a breaching about it before and after. you can't escape the irony in this. he kept shouting lock her up, lock her up at a lot of rallies involving hillary clinton and

now he's facing serious legal problems of his own. >> thanks very much. there were payments from the turkish government. why did general michael flynn accept payments from foreign governments after he was warned not to do so. especially governments like turkey and russia? >> reporter: tonight new documents show that fired national security advisor michael flynn was warned, prohibited from receiving pamtsz from foreign governments. >> thank you so much for inviting me and having me here. >> reporter: this, one year before he accepted tens of thousands of dollars from russian state television for this speaking engagement. the documents released by the house oversight committee informed him he could not receive "consulting fees, gifts, traveling expenses or salary" from 230r7b governments during his retirement. despite that, they said they can't located any rofrds

referring or relating to him rooepg funds. the dia did not locate records of him seeking permission or approval for the receipt of money. >> and we have no evidence, still ch that he obtained permission to accept any foreign government payments as required by law. >> reporter: the inspector general of the department of defense has launched an investigation. in a statement, the inspector general's office says the probe will cover "if lieutenant general flynn accepted payments in violation of the molments clause implement kg laws or department of defense regulations." >> i'm going to be provocative here. >> reporter: he was paid $33,750 for his appearance in moscow. >> michael flynn. >> reporter: flynn ak nojds accepting payment but denied the

source was the russian government. >> i didn't take any money from russian government if that's what you're asking me. >> reporter: who pays you? >> my speakers bureau. ask them. >> reporter: now -- >> honestly did not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don't get it. after the president fired him. for lying. >> reporter: what's key about this dod investigation is it's examining the possibility not only that will he broke army regulations but that he broke the law. not just administrative penalties possibly here but legal penalties, and one more point about the white house denial. yes, flynn got a security clearance under the obama administration but the fact is the most senior national security officials go through additional vetting when they take positions in the white house. that, the responsibility of the new administration, the trump

administration. >> all right. jim. thank you. "out front," the top democrat on the intelligence committee senator mark warrener, and thank you foreign being with us. new documents show general flynn was warned against accepting foreign payments. what do you make of them? >> general flynn was basically relieved of his command or in effect fired by the obama administration. and in leaving he was warned, as any other retiring military officer that you can't accept payments from foreign governments without reporting them. unfortunately it appears they received those payments and this was fairly public knowledge that he went to russia. he then became part of the trump campaign, became part of the trump administration, the trump administration had to fire him because he didn't fully disclose these contacts with the russians. yet there seems to be no evidence that the trump administration did appropriate due diligence before bringing him into this very senior

position, albeit shortly. >> first, the big why here, senator. why do you think genera flynn accepted payments from foreign govtsds after being warned not to? >> well, that goes to a lot of the questions around some of these individuals that have been affiliated with mr. trump's campaign and some with the administration. there seems to be a bit of reckless behavior. in the case of general flynn, you have not only reaching payments from russia, sitting next to vladimir putin at a dinner in moscow that you would know -- he would know that was going to be publicly reported. you've also seen that general flynn was taking payments from turkish interests as well, that only after they were exposed did he go back and retroactively register, so this is a pattern of behavior we've now seen twice from general flynn. it's one of the reasons why in terms of the overall

investigation into russian activities and potential conflicts or involvement of people involved with the trump campaign and russia, general flynn is very high on the list of people that will ultimately want to come in and talk to our committee. >> let's talk about this issue of vetting that congressman elij elijah coming ings said the white house is covering up. sean spicer was asked about that. >> his comments are frankry not true. >> a coverup or that's not true? who's right? >> i'm not going to characterize until we get more facts, but i do know with any administration, if you're hiring someone new, even if they've had prior clearance, you do a new review, particularly when you're somebody as senior as a national security advisory. this was an individual that the trump administration finally let go because he did not reveal not

only the money but some of these prior contacts with russians. so this will play out but it's just one more cloud and i would think the administration who denies any wrongdoing would actually want to work with us and the congress to try to clear this and a lot of the other cloutsds. >> so on that front, senator, sean spicer is putting the velting blame for flynn on the obama administration, which i think you're alluding to. he says the obama administration vetted flynn. they're the ones who gave him the top security clearances, so it's their fault. not the trump administration's fault. does that add up to you? >> erin, that doesn't really follow any logical sequence. general flynn was relieved of his duties as head of the defense intelligence agency. he then became a private citizen. he perhaps retained some of those clearances, but one would think, then, when he got involved with the trump campaign and then was hired on into the trump white house as national

security advisor, that -- i can tell you in my office we would do a normal vetting before hiring on somebody in that senior a position. >> before you go, the homeland security administration's secretary said ban on laptops could expand to all flights. here's what he said. >> this thing could expand and i'm looking it it three, four, five, six times a day. it is the thing that keeps me awake at night. >> you've been briefed, senator. do you agree? >> clearly we've seen evidence that terrorists are able to in effect load explosives into something as small as a laptop computer. and we've had this restriction on certain airports coming out of the middle east. i've raised countries what would preclude a terrorist from taking that laptop and driving to a paris or rome or london and climbing on a plane to america.

up understand the -- general kelly's concerns and we've got to take those concerns appropriately. i think we're all going to have to realize that those who want to do us harm come at us in very asymmetrical ways. we've got the world's greatest military but toop often whether it's terrorist threats or russian threats, it's these type threats we have to stand guard against. >> thank you. pretty sobering conclusion. and steve bannon using a giant white board to keep track of trump's accomplishments. what's on it. and how the new daxx plan benefits president trump. jeanne moos with the international over who is the best trump impers nator. >> just the other day i was having dinner with president of

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. new tonight president trump signing yet another executive order, this one to protect whistle blowers at the department of veterans affairs. this is his 29th since taking office, the most orders at this point in a presidency since harry truman. trump talks about all of these orders in the same flowing and grandee oes terms. >> doesn't get much bigger than that. right? it's a big thing. it's a biggy. we're going to do something very, very special, will never have been done to the extent we're going to be able to do it. >> up now, ron brownstein, may have russ tin and david gergen. ron, 29 -- >> yeah. >> executive orders. >> yeah. >> big, great, special. >> yee. >> ok. 129 such descriptions. >> yeah. are they all of those things? >> i think there are three

categories. >> right. >> i think there are some that are much more smoke than fire. when he signed the order on building the border wall, you can't do a lot of work without congress proepg the money. there's a second category where they've been stopped by the courts. that's like the sanctuary cities and the travel ban. there is a third category primarily in areas where they are beginning the process of reversing obama things. authorizing the keystone pipeline, beginning the process of reconsidering president obama's bill. >> those will real. >> the government review all the national monuments approved since 1996? there will be legal fights. yes, that -- in those areas he has some bite and he is reversing policy. >> 29 in 98 days, as i said, harry truman. 72 years, nobody has done this.

but what you got to love about donald trump, there's always a record of what he thought about it before he did it himself. here he is talking about squif orders when obama was the one with the big signature. >> nobody ever heard of an executive order that all of a sudden obama, because he couldn't get anyone to agree with him starts signing them like they're butter. he signs all these orders. it's a basic disaster. you're supposed to get together and pass a law. he doesn't want to do that because it's too much work, so he doesn't want to work too hard. he wants to play golf. >> i'm note going around the golf issue. trump trumps obama many times. what changed on the executive orders? >> listen. i think ron hadity right categories. i would add the fourth one that some of these executive orders are instructions, not orders, instructions to study. they go out to the cabinet agencies. they don't really count.

i think the larger point is this, most historians do not judge executive orders to be a mark of or a measure of success by a president. what historians point to is the laegt legislation that was enacted to provide direct help to american workers and change the preliminary landscape. trump himself says that he has believed up until now that executive orders are actually a measure of failure. >> yeah. >> if you really knew how to negotiate with congress, you wouldn't have so many executive orders. i think that's where we are. >> your new article talks about this failure with congress. steve bannon has this giant white board, make america great again, all the promises made and promises kept. you write, in the final hours of

the first 100 days, the promises kept with a red x which the one without a red kpnks. >> steve bannon is the keeper of the torch within that west wing. he has four columns under make america great again and that one column has not a single x in it. hit shows you how there was a lot of naivete on the part of people who had never been in government before, trump himself, about how difficult this was going to be. you hear that over and over again in every interview you do about the first 100 days. we have to remember republicans are in control of every brarchl of government at the moment. >> legislation should have been a shining victory here. >> and perhaps they will have a last-minute health care victory. people say that that's going

better now. but it has been a great disappointment for them. >> i was going to say quickly, it's paradox cal. i feel the reason we're seeing more unilateral action is because unified control of government has been so rare. it's been much more common through the 20th sechlry but here we are in a situation where they do have unified control of government and they're still struggling. he is moving on a kind of administrative -- the sheer fact that he's able to over -- to begin to overturn so many obama thefrts through the executive brarchl shows how transtorey this is. it really is writing in sand to make your legacy through executive action because the next president can undo it. >> the epa, talking to the done orsz, they were happy about some of those epa rollbacks and others. we will see where,000 goes. >> final word, david. >> i think, listen, i do think

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. tonight the white house dodging questions about how much president trump's tax cut plan will benefit the wealthy like himself. >> do you believe it is a fair question for anyone to ask how

that plan personally affect the president and his family? >> i think the president's plan right now is something that every american should worry hopefully about how it's going to help them. >> is it a fair question to ask? >> that's up to every individual to ask. >> ok. so how could the plan affect trump's bottom line? ryan nobody else is "out front." >> reporter: donald trump, the campaigner repeatedly called for taxes to drop. but admitted wealthy americans like himself need to pay more. >> for the wealthy, i think frankly, it's going to go up. >> reporter: now president trump's tax reform proefgs could do the exact opposite. >> he's going to be benefitted greatly. >> reporter: steven rosenthal is at the tax policy center and studied trump's taxes and businesses. the biggest to help him. a reduction in the corporate tax

rate from 35% to 15%. the trump organization, which the president is no longer in charge of but still has a stake in is made up of hundreds of what are called pass through companies, trump wines, suits and tiesened v, golf clubs and resorts fall under that umbrella. >> it's surprised of 500 or more pass-through entities. >> reporter: the category allows business owners to claim corporate profits as personal income thereby only being faxed at one level. it was kaetsded to help small businesses but large businesses like the ones trump owns are taking advantage of the policy. based on trump's 2005 tax return, the only one we have access to, he paid $38 million to uncle sam an effective rate of 25%. dropping it to 15% would give

the president and son-in-law and top advisor jared kushner the possibly to save millions. >> coincidental or not, he's very sympathetic to the argument that past due income should be reduced from 39 to 15%. >> reporter: that's not all. the plan calls for the elimination of the alternative minimum tax, a system designed to make it more difficult for wealthy taxpayers to underpay. without it he would have paid only $7 million in 2005, a saichgs of nearly 31 million bucks. steven ma nush arn said taxpayers won't be able to game the system. >> we will make shurp that rules are in place so wealthy people can't create pass-throughs. >> reporter: rosenthal isn't so optimistic. >> i don't think it will work at all. i think it will be a complete disaster. >> reporter: there's still a lot about this 207ic we still don't

know. the president refuses to release his tax returns and the details behind this tax plan including what ducks and loopholes will be eliminated, erin, have yet to be revealed. >> thanks. that's crucial. mortgage, state and local taxes, the devil is in those many billion dollar details. out front front stephen moore, former economic advisor to donald trump's campaign and senior economicablist for us, austin goolsby and under president obama. steve, this whole issue of whether trump's going to pay more or less or how this is going to work out that sean spicer didn't want to answer. i asked trump about this during testimony campaign. he did answer the question. ok. he said, well, let me play it for you. >> you, will you pay more money? will it be millions and millions, hundreds of millions, how much more will you pay?

>> i will probably end up paying more money, but i think the economy will do better, so i will make it that way. i believe in the end i might do better because i believe the economy is going to work out beautiful. >> you just saw an analysis there, a pass-through benefits, the amt going away, even in that one year he would have paid 10s of millions of dollars less. >> well, first of all, i don't agree with one word of that analysis. the tax policy center is one of the most liberal groups in the country with a very liberal bias. take that quote you just played, what he was saying is let the economies going to do bsh. as the economy does better, businesses are going to do better. they have a lower tax rate but they're going to pay more taxes. when you were playing that analysis of the report i was thinking, gee, 50 years ago if all the people went up to john

f. kennedy and sewed you can't do that, joe your father is going to get massive bempts, the aim is to have more prosperity. one other quick thing. i looked these numbers up last night. >> yeah. >> the congressional budget office, which i think austin would agree is an honest out rider here, they say that the benefits from cutting the business tax rate, 70% of those blefts flow to workers, not people like donald trump. >> let me just ask you, austin, first about the point that steve is making there. do you think it matters what trump pays? is that not relevant? >> look, i do think it -- >> does it matter if he gets a tax break, too? >> i think it matters and i think it matters, the american people in the polls say it matters, because they care whether -- they want to know what the motivations are of their political leaders. if you don't think that it matters for people's personal

benefit, then why are there any conflict of interest laws at all? because who cares if it's a kwliktd of interest as long as they do something that is in the broader spectrum of good. i think in this case donald trump has unfortunately shown too many times that he appears to be acting 1re67 in the interest of his own family and himself. i think what he pays does matter. >> steve, this is where it negotiation dicey, right. if everybody was getting a tax cut maybe you could make more of an argument that he's getting one, too. maybe not. there's problem. the guy who's in charge of the plan, the treasure secretary came out and interviewed and couldn't reveal where americans would get a tax cut. it's a stunning answer. >> can you guarantee that no one in the middle class is going to pay more? >> that's our objective, absolutely. >> is it a guarantee? >> i can't make any guarantees until this thing is done and on the president's desk.

>> steve, come on. >> i think what he was saying there, we don't know what the final bill will look like. i guarantee you this. if up double the standard deduction, erin, that's a big tax cut for nild class people. middle class family is going to save 2500, $3,000 on their taxes from that. that is a big deal. >> can i make -- >> one of the quick things -- >> hold on. no, no. go ahead, austin. >> ok. go ahead. >> the first observation i'd make is under the trump plan, they plan to abolish the head of household filing status so there are a whole bunch of single parents who are going to see their taxes go up. even with that change in the standard deduction. the second thing i would observe is that if you create this pass-through loophole that sets pass-through income to 15%, you will literally make it so that a

hedge fund manager who made $1 billion income in the year will pay a lower tax rate on their income than a single person making $38,000 a year. that's a fact. that's crazy. the middle class tax rates should not be higher than the rates on billionaire hedge fund managers. >> that's -- >> quickly. >> austin, i agree with you. i agree with you on that point, actually. and i think you've got to fix this. i've made this argument to the the treasury. what you have to do is basically say these businesses, these small business past-throughs, they get the tax cut if they reinvest the money into the company. if they take it out, i agree with austin, they shouldn't be paying a lower tax rate than everybody else. what we hope to achieve in the tax bill is to get companies to reinvest in their companies so that they have more money for hiring more workers, raising salaries and things like that. if they take it out, they should not be paying a lower rate than

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. tonight, president obama under fire from a top democrat. senator elizabeth warren calling out obama for being paid $400,000 for giving a single speech to wall street. >> i was troubled by that. one of the things i talk about in the book is the influence of money. i describe it as a -- you know,

a snake that slithers through washington. >> "out front" the former senior advisor to obama david axlerod. david, you heard her words. was president obama bitten by what warren calls the wall street money snake? >> i'm here as a senior commentator for cnn but i can't divorce myself from the fact that i worked for the president. i've known him for years. i have a high regard for him. and i think he has to be judged on the basis of the job he did as president. he's never going to serve in public office again. and you know, because you covered these precincts. he passed a financial reform that was reviled by many on wall street as too tough. that law created the consumer financial protection bureau and the chairman that he sought out to help create that agency was elizabeth warren. so i don't think his willingness to take on wall street is in

question. >> so obviously, you mentioned covering. and i remember those times. i guess some of the things that are causing people to do a double take here is because of what he said during the financial crisis. he slammed the banks relentlessly and mercy leslie. comments like these. >> i did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on wall street. i will not go back to the days when wall street is allowed to play by their own set of rules. the rest of us are not bailing you out ever again. >> do you hear any hypocrisy or not? >> my ear may be a little different than others. what i hear was a president that nold through and sought out allies like elizabeth warren and installed her in government to help her fight for consumers and fight for the broader economy. so i think people will judge on if basis of that record.

>> now, before you go, david, obama care is on the table again tonight. >> yes, it is. >> yes, it is. ok. so president trump might go for another vote to try to repeal i89 in the house before his 100-day mark. who do you think has more to lose, democrats or republicans? >> i think who has most to loose are american people. they're the ones who stand to lose the most. as a political matter, i think the president is not in a good place here because he has -- it looks as if he's just trying to get a deal to put a win on the board. and that's not the way you should deal with it. >> this is just the house, right? this isn't even a real repeal, just so people understand. >> right. he made a deal with the most

conservative members of the house in ordered to try to move this bill forward. moderate republicans in the house are incensed by that and we've already heard from moderate republicans in the senate is that they don't accept this. i think his chances of success are small here and you have to wonder why he wants to take that risk again. >> all right. david axlerod, thank you so much. >> erin, good to see you. >> and next, they said never trump and they still mean it now more than ever. >> do you think the president has any insight into your life? >> absolutely not. and i don't think that he cares to. >> and for some people, they want a whole lot more of donald trump. here's jeanne moos. >> i do have a favorite part about tlaump i love to do and that's when he -- you know who likes to be

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can there ever be too many donald trumps? no way. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: gentlemen and lady, start your impersonations. 11 trump imitatetors competed at los angeles comedy club, the laugh factory. >> i want to assure everyone here i have no russian ties, they're all made in china. >> reporter: riffing on the president's words. >> the media has been so unfair, believe me. >> reporter: in aing his gestures, clapping, pointing, pouting, even breathing like him. >> but, i mean, you know. >> reporter: among the judges. >> look at this. >> reporter: former "snl" star darrell hammond. >> love my neighbor, ask myself and like a good neighbor, state farm is there. >> reporter: hammond noted instead of laughing, trump does -- >> like a reverse meow. >> reporter: most of the jokes

were in the growner category. >> i was very reluctant to drop the bomb on syria, after all, she's been such a tremendous help on my iphone. >> reporter: it's the delivery that counts. >> i love signing, tweeting and saluting. no one salutes better than me, nobody. >> reporter: the impersonators tend to break trump down into body parts. >> the squint. >> he does a good side eye. >> the good thing is everything is within the same lexicon, tremendous, fantastic, incredible for a total disaster, >> reporter: john's no loser. he won with his jokes about replacing obamacare. >> it is going to be trump first-aid kits. >> reporter: one impersonator not in this contest was anthony. >> then bring in the arms. this is the key. >> reporter: his fake trump now hosts an entire show on comedy central for impersonators, it's

not the wig, it's what's under it. >> i like the way he stops and digs, like he's going to come out with something, you know, and all of a sudden he says, terrific. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. >> terrific terrific. >> reporter: new york. >> what would they all do without him? thanks for joining us, anderson is next. >> good evening, thanks for joining us. the battle to repeal and replace obamacare is firing up again with a new amendment that could leave people with preexisting conditions without. i will begin that this hour. we begin with the latest and new trouble for president trump's fired national security advisor this one from the top watchdog at the pentagon over failing to disclose payments he received at a teach at a russian television event. newly revealed documents show flynn was warned explicitly about taking foreign money years ago. this comes days after the