'60 corvette. usually these wannabe drivers are carried around like packages. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. thank you so much for joining us. anderson's next. and good evening from washington today, the nation's former top law enforcement official testified before the senate judiciary committee and the president has just weighed in on that testimony. the hearing just took place just a few blocks away. sally yates talking publicly today about how she went to the white house twice to warn them that the president's national security advisor michael flynn was vulnerable to plaque mail. and this wasn't the only hope from today or tonight. >> the national security advisor essentially could be blackmailed by the russians.

>> reporter: in a hearing sharply divided along party lines, former acting attorney general sally yates sharply criticized the white house regarding the firing of national security advisor michael flynn. she says she gave the white house a forceful and detailed warning that flynn lied when he said he didn't discuss u.s. sanctions with the russian ambassador. >> through general flynn's underlying conduct, but we took him through it in a fair amount of detail about the underlying conduct, what general flynn hand done and the various press accounts and how it had been falsely reported. we also told the white house that michael flynn had been interviewed by the fbi. >> reporter: the gday after his

firing-- >> michael flynnflynn -- sall t jatsajat -- >> reporter: but yates said it was much more than a heads up. she spoke with the white house three separate times, warning that the president's closest advisor on national security was in danger of being blackmailed by russia. >> we felt it was critical that we get this information to the white house. in part because the white house was unknowingly making false statements to the public and because we believed that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. >> reporter: the hearing was intended to focus on russian interference on the u.s. election, on the question of whether trump advisors come colluded on that interference, former director of january intelligence james clapper said

he had not seen evidence. >> ms. yates, are you aware of any evidence that would suggest that in the 2016 campaign, anybody in the trump campaign colluded with the russian government or intelligence services in an improper fashion? >> and senator, my answer to that question would require me to reveal classified information and so i can't answer that. >> reporter: overall the hearing was a tale of two hearings, democratic senators focused mostly on flynn, republican senators focused mostly on leaks. >> have you ever been part of anonymous source about the trump associates intention to meddle in the election. >> do we know who unmasked the conversation between the russian ambassador and general flynn? was there unmasking in this situation? >> i don't know. >> do you, ms. yates?

>> i can't speak to this specific situation. >> jim sciuto joins us, despite all these different topics, this was actually learning about russian interference in the u.s. election. >> reporter: general clapper confirmed this before that russian hackers targeted both republican and democratic party officials, but only leaked on the democrats. looking forward, agreement that russians will, they believe attack again and attack both parties, oddly we did not hear much about what to do about that in this hearing. for the most senior level, they are normally subject to a far more invasive clearance process than the clearance that director flynn already had. that coming from director clapper and he's been through

numerous administrations and has seen this process go through before. >> essentially saying that flynn was vetted by the obama administration and they're the ones who messed up? >> reporter: exactly, they're saying that because basically he had a courtesy clearance, as a lot of officials coming out of the military, but when you go to the white house, in these most senior positions, they are subject to a more invasive security clearance process. >> the president has weighed in, firing off a series of tweets just a short time ago, including these two, sally yates made the fake media unhappy today, she said nothing but old news. and as to the collusion with russia, when will this ever end? >> was today's testimony problematic to the trump

administration? >> i think it's troubling because they have been telling a story about sally yates, effectively just giving them a heads up, as they put it, about some issues with general flynn, what sally yates described today, was her telling them there was a category 5 hurricane aim eed directly at them and th better do something about it. imagine someone who's the acting attorney general calling the white house saying i've got to come down there, we have to have this discussion, and then explaining to the white house counsel that your national security adviser could be subject to blackmail by the russians. that's not a heads up. that's something that needed to be dealt with very quickly and from what we now understand, from the timeline that we know of, it took 18 days for that to occur. and only after "the washington post" reported that in fact flynn had lied to the vice

president. >> and matthew, the president tweeted again a short time ago, director clapper reiterated what everybody already knows, there is no collusion with russia and trump. based on what he had seen on january 6 when he left, he saw no evidence. but he also didn't even know about the fbi counter intelligence investigation. >> clapper made it pretty clear that he was staying out of this. and we heard that from the white house too, that they saw the investigation as separate and they couldn't meddle and they shouldn't be talking about it. so what clapper knew and didn't know is a big question at this point. so clapper's statement, he undercuts his own statement on that. and when yates was asked about it, she didn't say yes or no, she said she couldn't talk about it. >> the clapper statement is something that the trump white house has pointed to all along saying there's no there there, if james clapper didn't see

anything by the time he left. >> the white house is concerned about the issue of russia, and they' trying to downplay it of course. when you hear sally yates who's not being partisan in this, she's doing her job, saying that she had information and she went directly to the white house counsel's office, not once but twice, to tell them the category 5 hurricane was happening, about the fact that flynn was trying to overturning the sanctions that obama put in place. and this could be prosecuted if there's something more that is deeper. >> there's plenty of people on that panel, ted cruz among them who believe she is being partisan. >> he brought in some extraneous issues including hillary clinton's emails. it didn't look like a partisan democrat at that table. remember, this is someone who was hired by bob barr, and anyone knows that bob barr was one of the most conservative

owns of the time. before she was thrust into main justice, she had a reputation as a prosecutor who put away a lot of democrats in georgia. eric holder, loretta lynch, maybe those are slightly more partisan people at the white house. sally yates, that was not her reputation. i think it was very interesting what we show there, the different responses to the collusion question. clapper who was the dni and did not have visibility into the fbi investigation said, he didn't know about collusion. yates who was at justice obviously. did have details about the investigation said i can't talk about that. to me, that is incredibly revealing. >> one thing that the white house hasn't really talked about. and the question that sally yates isn't able to speak to, is when she warned about mike flynn

to the time he was actually fired. >> when you go back to the original reporting, what was said at the time, was that there was a bit of a grar area. it would have been insane for the white house to have just gone and immediately fired general flynn on the spot without having done their investigation and review all the facts. i think it was good they took their time and got this right. >> i don't know if isolating is the right word, he was sitting in on some key meetings, he was in on conversations with vladimir putin. if your national security advisor could be subject to blackmail, should he be in on those meetings? >> we're talking about a retired general who had been in the military for 33 years who had been given top clearance by the brief you administration. but the bigger take away all day is we told there was a bigger

bombshell. when i go back an google, there were a bunch of reports saying there was going to be this bombshell testimony. >> a week ago it was leaked out what sally yates was going to say and was specifically saying there's not going to be a bombshell. >> and that wasn't one single piece of evidence saying there was coordination between the campaign and some foreign entity. and now we're into may of 2017 and there still hasn't been one single thing that's been put forward. i think this is getting really ridiculous. >> i would say one, clapper said something that we have heard a lot before is that there remains a risk, this is ongoing, putin is not a registered republican. he's after creating confusion, he's going to get into our system again, we have seen that recently in france, we have seen that italy. we have heard it before, but that was interesting. unfortunately, there wasn't a ton of evidence on this investigation really by either party today, and there's not a lot of questions that should be

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president trump is on something of a tweet storm this evening and we're all talking got it. ms. yates speaking publicly for the first time about her warnings about national security advisor michael flynn. she did it, she said today so that the white house could take action. before she was even sworn in as a witness, another story was swirling around this town that her warning wasn't the first. more on that now from our jim acosta. >> i just had the opportunity to

have an excellent conversation with president-elect donald trump. >> reporter: on the surface it seemed like a cordial meeting between the outgoing president and president trump in the oval office. >> the meeting lasted for almost an hour and a half and it could have, as far as i'm concerned, it could have gone on for a lot longer. >> reporter: but behind closed doors, trump advisors tell cnn that president obama issued president trump a clearing warning, don't hire michael flynn for national security adviser. that caution from one president to another, came one month before flynn spoke to the russian ambassador about moscow and two months before flynn was fired by president trump for not coming clean on the conversation. >> it's true president obama made it known that he wasn't exactly a fan of general flynn. >> reporter: still the white house is putting the blame on

the obama administration for granting flynn a security clearance in 2013. trump tweeted, general flynn was given the highest security clearance. >> if that was truly a concern, more than just a person that didn't have bad blood. >> reporter: former obama administration officials point out that flynn was in fact fired by the obama administration for his contentious management style. >> in 2015, flynn was not working for the obama m, he was fired in 2014. >> reporter: in late march, the president detailed that mike flynn should ask for immunity. that this is a witch hunt. >> i think he's been treated

very, very unfairly by the media, as i call it the fake media, in many cases. and i think it's really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. >> i'm pleased to appear before you this afternoon. >> reporter: the president has also questioned the former acting attorney general sally yates. he tweeted, ask sally yates under oath if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to white house counsel. >> does the president believe that sally yates was the leaker? >> again, the tweet speaks for itself. what he's saying is that the senate should ask those questions. >> reporter: the president isn't saying much about his own efforts to vet the national security advisor. but that the trump administration didn't go into a heavy vetting process. asked how much vetting flynn

received, one former trump transition official told me, anderson, in one word, none. and we should point out tonight, a white house official is telling us, in reaction to the testimony we heard today it the hearing, that their big take away from all this is that no evidence of collusion was presented at that hearing earlier today. >> it is interesting, i mean i had. realized that the vetting for the national security advisor would be higher than what he previously received as the director of the defense intelligence agency. >> that was the big news that came out offense this hearing that was a bit of fog around this issue, that the white house was blaming the obama administration for his security clearance. >> but president trump said that that he was the highest vetting that he had. >> barack obama fired flynn and warned donald trump not to hire him, there's no universe by which you can blame flynn on the obama administration.

one other people of news that came out today, sally yates said something very interesting, not just flynn's lying to the vice president and others, but the underlying conduct. now she was a little unclear what the underlying conduct was, but i know some democrats like adam schiff on the house intelligence committee have seized on this saying that's a bit of news here, there was something else flynn was doing, this underlying conduct and not just that he was lying to his peer. >> do you still blame the obama administration for the firing of flynn, when according to clapper he would have had a higher rating. >> why did the obama administration go to reauthorize his top secret clearance and further, where it really fires me up is the fact that president obama told president trump not to hire general flynn and this

was on a thursday when on monday president obama was telling the world not to hire president trump. here's the thing where i think president obama had a responsibility, if he saw something that was so untoward, so over the line, nthen he had the responsibility to go public. the reason why president obama didn't want general flynn brought into the administration, because flynn had been a sharp critic of president obama. >> so, one, the night that donald trump won, president obama invited him to the white house. he wasn't his choice for the president, but he felt it was important to do that for the continuity of government. he came in, he had a meeting with him and gave him honest advice and he was concerned about the suitability of flynn and the competence of flynn and

that was his experience having fired him the year before and that was a concern of a lot of people in the intelligence committee. there are a lot of security clearances that are reviewed by the career staff, and dia was his home agency. see he is somebody who had been at a high legavel, he came back and asked for an update on his security clearance, and that was long before the campaign was done. >> why did they reauthorize his top secret clearance? >> it's a courtesy done. >> so we're just giving out top secret clearances? >> there's 4 million people, about, that have security clearances, but that doesn't mean they meet the bar to be national security advisor. >> we're not just giving out top secret clearances as a courtesy.

>> we don't know if he expose that when he was getting his security clearance updated. >> do you think it's at all hypocritical that president obama is out there saying do not hire donald trump on monday and then -- >> i think sometimes you can speak as president of the united states to the incoming president, just as sally yates can go to the white house counsel and clearly, you know, she's not going to be their choice for attorney general and she knows it. sometimes you do a job that was above partisan ship. if everything is viewed through that lens, then you're not going to get anything done. >> i have watched the transition of power between several bushes, i have seen clinton go to bush and work with bush. and i have seen bush work with obama and i saw obama take that

favor from bush to a man that he does not necessarily agree with. and i'm going to take you back to that room. i was in that room that day in the oval office when donald trump and barack obama were sitting side by side, they talked for so long, it took a long time for us to go into the oval office. donald trump then called president obama on numerous occasions to get more information. there was an olive branch for the sake of the american people. the continuance of the democracy. for the good of the country, that's what that was about. when he said that about flynn, he did that for the good of the country, the stakes are very high when it comes to issues of national security, it's not about personality, it's about the american people. >> unless when it suits your needs to go leak classified information. >> there's been a lot of leaks, you said yates, but even the fru trump administration, les say

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the big nice from here in washington tonight, fired acting attorney general sally yates testified that she warned the white house that president trump's pick for national security advisor was compromised and that he could potentially be blackmailed by the russians. ja >> you said, ms. yates that we're not going to prosecute our way out of the russian continued attack on this country. but putting americans in prison, if they cooperate, collude, aid and abet, or otherwise assist in that illegality, might send a very strong deterrent message, correct? >> i expect that it would, yes. >> and there are indeed, criminal penalties existing on

the books, we don't need new laws which involve criminality and potential criminal prosecution for those acts, correct? >> yes, that's right. >> reporter: and senator richard blumenthal joins us now. president donald trump tweeted out that nothing new buwas leard today it was all old news, what was learned today? >> it was learned that president trump waited weeks before president trump took action to fire flynn. >> there was clearly a leak in the "washington post" report and it was after that that he was fired. >> and that is a very important point. michael flynn might still be there but for "the washington post" report that in effect shamed them into getting rid of him. and while he was there for 2 1/2 weeks, he presented a real national security threat. the other takeaway, is the need

for a national prosecutor like sally yates herself who was fired for disagreeing with the president. she was acting deputy attorney general under president obama and she was fired when she disagreed with the president. and the president now has tweeted out that the investigation is a hoax, a charade, a waste of taxpayer money. >> what we're seeing in the house and the senate are well intentioned and well organized determined investigations. but even if they're successful, the most they can do is produce recommendations for a report and perhaps a referral for prosecution, they can't themselves take action to hold people accountable. and what i hear, as i go around connecticut and i hear my colleagues saying the same from their town halls s people want to uncover the truth and they want accountability. and a special prosecutor is the only way to have an independent,

impartial objective prosecutor to hold people accountable. >> have you heard any evidence of what the trump white house was doing in those 18 days after being informed? i mean it's pretty damning to have the -- to have sally yates go to the white house and say, look, your national security advisor has a potential to be blackmailed and mike flynn is allowed to sit in on meeting with vladimir putin. >> allowed to sit in on meetings, allowed to lie to the vice president. allowed to sit in on national security meetings, where he is privy to national security conversations, and at the same time, vulnerable to blackmail. >> did the white house say during those 18 days whether they were investigating? >> that will be part of the investigation what they did during that 18 days because sally yates was fired a few days after she warned the white house

about it and so was jake clapper. >> it's really a tale of two hearings, it's democrats like yourself that were asking about any potential collusion in the election, and essentially all the republicans are asking about are leakings and we saw that again today, we saw that in the house and on the senate side. >> that's right, it is a tale of two hearings, except they are importantly for senator graham, some of the republicans and my hope is there will be more of them who will see what jim clapper designed very, very powerfully. if there is another takeaway here, it's jim clapper's reference to the power and seriousness of the threat to our democracy, a foundational threat from the russian hacks, the tiber attack, really an act of cyber war. >> a threat that's still ongoing, that's still out there? >> very much ongoing as we saw in france, and they tried to hack into our election

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in addition to questions about president trump's fired national security advisor, sally yates gave her own testimony. she was fired after she disagreed with trump's travel ban. today senator john cornyn asked her about that ban. >> i have to tell you that i find it enormously disappointing that you somehow vetoed the decision of the office of general counsel and decided instead that you would counter manned the president of the united states because you happened to disagree with it as a policy matter. i just have to say that. >> i appreciate that senator and let me make one thing clear, it was not purely as a policy

matter. in fact i remember my confirmation hearing, in an exchange that i had with you and others of your colleagues where you specifically asked me, in that hearing, that if the president asked me to do something that was unlawful, or unconstitutional, and one of your colleagues said, or even that would reflect poorly on the department of justice, would i say no? and i looked at this, i made a determination that i believed it was unlawful. i also thought that it was inconsistent with the principles of the department of justice and i said no, and that's what i promised you i would do and that's what i did. >> i don't know how you could say that it was your prerogative to say it was unlawful and leave it for the court to decide. >> i did not say it was lawful. i said it was unlawful. >> the trump administration tried to defend it against

accusations that the ban is -- promising to ban muslims during the campaign were at issue. >> has the president ever repudiated the campaign statements that he made on the muslim ban? >> judge king, he has, and in some of the briefs, we walk through this. he said, over time i have made it clear -- >> he changed it from religion to nationality. he explained that he wasn't going to call it religion anymore, he was going to call it nationality. and mayor giuliani advised him to do that. but he's never repudiated what he said about the muslim ban. it's still on his website. the district court here found that it's on his campaign website said. >> they're talking about a press relief touting president trump's plan to ban all muslims from the united states. it was taken down shortly after

sean spicer said he didn't know it was still up there. we heard from 12 differe- >> can we look at his college speeches, how about his speeches to businessmen about 20 years ago, are we going to look at those too? >> no, your honor, we're not giving you any of that sort of evidence in this case. what we're giving here is specifically about the kind of policy that -- >> perhaps he made it to a colleague perhaps, perhaps he made it to a business club in new york. perhaps he ran for office earlier, and made similar statements. are we going to look at all of those too? >> there came times in sally

yates testimony. bottom line her decision did not support that executive order. has that been upheld by the court to far? >> so far it has, that's why this apeople is taking place, there's another appeal on the west coast, because courts in miami and washingtin -- i think this is a very hard case, the fourth circuit has a majority of -- the 4th circuit will rule in challenges against the trump administration. but when this case gets to the supreme court. i think it's very difficult to call. because this is about national security. and national security is an area that the courts have traditionally very much deferred to the judgments of the executive branch and when the executive branch says these

people are dangerous, judges tend to defer to that kind of conclusion. >> ken, i see you nodding your head. do you believe that sally yates was on any firm legal ground when she refused to -- >> no, and also understand while the attorney general is unique in the cabinet, and they need to make independent legal decisions, prosecution decisions, for instance, when the president gives a directive, the question is this legally defensible. and that is the standard that sally yates applied. your option at that point is resignation or implementation, and it doesn't mean you'll succeed in court, but do you have an argument to make against your principal, the president of the united states and she did. >> when people in the department of justice think there -- doesn't that make sally yates position difficult to maintain? >> no, and i think that to

suggest that the court said that there's no deference given to the president, is a little bit eroanous here. what she was saying, is i don't have the basis for me to make a straight faced arguments in court that this actually will pass congressional muster at this point and the court supported that. and if national security was in fact the real motivation, which she argued that it was. then why hasn't the vetting take on place. well, you had a 90-day ban to talk about the vetting and those processes. leading the court to believe that you have prioritized vetting over national security. when i have not been you are jerntly trying to achieve just that. >> let me make one point. i sued over obamacare as an attorney general, and we tried to bring in the statement, this is not a tax. no court, no matter who appointed the judge allowed

those to weigh in to decisions. yet here, the shoe has been put on the other foot. now the justice department is being ordered to defend -- the court's look at those- >> i don't think so, but that's certainly a controversial position, especially since he was so explicit about calling for a muslim ban. it's worth noting that the supreme court of the united states in its entire history has never had a case where they had, oh, well the candidate said x, y and z so we're going to use that as a factor in evaluating the constitutionality of the law. we have never had a president like president trump, we have never had a president talk explicitly against a certain religion. but it has never happened before

in american history. >> sally yates was asked by ted cruz in the investigation about has this ever happened in the justice department where somebody refused to do what you did and she said no. >> her response was particularly important. what she said was there's also never been a case that i know about where the office of legal counsel was instructed not to talk to the president. there's the first travel ban which was essentially indefensible, and the second one that she's being questioned about primarily. at the time of this decision, she was the perfect and the only person to make the calculus that she actually did. it wasn't a policy decision we were talking about the constitution, it was a policy move at this point. it is the constitution of the united states, and whether it will be success if the in the long run, and that was part the

calculus. >> don't you argue cases that you may not think that you can win, but there is technically a legal basis for you to make those arguments? >> absolutely. and that is the burden and the honor of being in the united states -- you may make arguments that you personally agree with, but that the constitution says is not a good argument to make. remember, at the time that first travel ban did include references to arguments that violate the conversation. it's a harder case to not defend. becau because. >> president trump's son-in-law and senior advise oor jared cus cher --

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company. dana bash has details. >> reporter: an american real estate company courting chinese investors in beijing. it would be an unremarkable event except that it was kushner company and nicole kushner myer dropped her brother's name saying my brother jared kushner joined the company as ceo and moved to washington to join the administration. the goal was to raise funds for a real estate project in new jersey, telling wealthy chinese investors if they give half a million dollars, they could secure a green card. it's completely legal if not highly controversial, a visa program known as eb5 used by many real estate developers. at issue here was the context. an ad for the kushner properties event said invest $500,000 and immigrate to the united states, plus during the event there was a warning that the special visa program might soon end.

a photo flashed of president trump. >> this needs to be investigated. we need to find out what was said in that room to the chinese investors and whether it did amount to the solicitation of a bribe. further more, based on what we know thus far, i believe it's clearly inappropriate for the kushner family to participate in this program. they should be disqualified from the eb5 program investments with the kushner company. >> reporter: richard painter has been critical of donald trump for not doing enough to shield himself from potential conflicts of interest as president. when jared kushner became a senior adviser, he complied with the law by resigning from his family's real estate business and selling his assets. the issue is that his sister's presentation a half a world away left the appearance that his family may be trying to profit from his position. a kushner spokesperson said an event organizer put up the

president's image without them knowing and in the wake of the controversy, nicole insisted that in mentioning her brother's name she was trying to make clear he had stepped away as ceo. kushner company apologizes if the mention was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure investors said the company. damage control at the white house, too. >> jared has done everything to comply with the ethics rules to make sure that had nothing to do with him, per se. he wasn't involved. secondly, i think we talked about this before, the president and congress are looking at how to look over the entire visa program, all the various visa programs and whether or not they are serving the purpose that they were intended to. >> dana joins us now. you have been talking to sources. what are you learning? >> according to a source who is familiar with what nicole kushner meyer was trying to do insists what she was trying to explain at the time that she dropped her brother's name is

the history of the kushner family talking about her father and talking about her brother and so forth. she realizes there's a backlash that was regrettable. she shouldn't have done that. one thing we don't know still is whether or not when jared kushner divested himself and moved away from his company, whether he explicitly said to his family, don't use my name, don't say anything about me, because that would in effect be at least the appearance of a conflict of interest. that's what some ethics experts say he should have done. >> it's hard to believe that they're blaming whoever people -- i don't know who she's blaming for having a picture of the president in there. the fact there was a picture of the president in there -- >> we don't have the answer to that yet. >> her point was do the slide show. in part of the show somebody else -- it's hard to believe somebody else inserts a picture of the president. >> it is. we don't know -- there are a lot of unanswered questions. one is who the organizers were, if it was not the kushner company that actually decided to

flash the picture of the president. the answer was not available when i asked. >> thanks. appreciate it. today's testimony by a former acting attorney general and james clapper was highly anticipated. what they said and the tweet storm it sparks from president trump next. at red lobster's seafood trios you don't have to choose just one thing. choose your trio with any 3 of 9 selections for $15.99. like new creamy lobster pasta toasted parmesan shrimp and southern-style crab cakes. come create your trio before it ends.

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