weeks ahead. not next week, even, but in the weeks ahead which will not be a welcome sign to folks in the white house. >> a big thanks to all of you, and thank you for watching and listening. the russia probe, the tax plan and health care. so much to talk to. katy tur picking things up right now from new york. hey, katy. >> hi there, craig. it's the top of the hour here on msnbc where we are following several major developments out of washington, d.c. day 98 of the trump presidency and this white house is still unable to shake allegations that their campaign had ties to russia. the headline from the briefing moments ago, the white house is now trying to blame the lack of vetting of former national security adviser michael flynn on the obama administration. here's press secretary sean spicer moments ago. >> when general flynn came into the white house, he had an active security clearance that wasssued during the obama

administration wi administration with all of the information that's being discussed that occurred in 2015. an investigation launched today on general michael flynn by the department of defense. this as the house oversight committee drops its own bombshell. three new documents revealing the former national security adviser was warned against taking foreign payments back in 2014. >> the pentagon's warning to general flynn was bold, e italicized and couldn't have been clearer. i don't understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don't get it. it does not make sense and it makes the american people think the white house has something to hide. also this hour, trump's tax plan. the proposal right on details, heavy on tax cuts. who are the winners and losers in this deal? >> can you guarantee 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, but i can tell you that's our number one objective in this. >> can't make any guarantees. and republicans revive health care after it flatlined in congress just one month ago. this time it's the freedom caucus that is on board, but moderate republicans, not so much. we begin with nbc's kristen welker who is at the white house and nbc's kasie hunt who joins us from capitol hill. kristen, let's start with you. the white house is now blaming vetting of michael flynn on the obama administration. >> you heard sean spicer say he was vetted under the obama administration. that was not under our purview. any documents related to that are under the obama administration. you heard him making the argument that when they got the request for documents, they effectively told lawmakers to go to the agencies thatouse those

documents, effectively saying, hey, we've turned over everything we possibly can. but a lot of follow-ups there, katy, that needed to be asked. number one, what documents exist that are here at the white house? have they turned over all of the documents that relate to michael flynn? spicer has himself made the argument, made the case that michael flynn had a number of conversations on any given day with foreign officials. that's part of the argument you heard officer cummins make that they want to see all those documents. those are presumably the documents that would be up for subpoena. the question, do those documents exist? who has them? those are questions we didn't get to ask in this briefing. this continues to dog the white house, katy, as you point out, as this investigation goes on. the white house wants to be focused on its 100-day benchmark, but once again

they're bogged down by this headline, katy. >> which makes you wonder if they don't come out with everything they have to put room between them and the investigation so they can concentrate on other things. cummins a democrat, and what have others said about this. >> they have been saying that wasn't the right idea to the public, and chaffetz said they would just get the democrats from elsewhere. they have not been toeing that line, and they essentially said the white house has changed their story about why it is that these documents can't be produced. they said initially the white house came out and said this is too cumbersome.

sean spicer said this is like digging up phone calls for days on end. that's just too hard of a question. then he said, we don't have any documents to produce for you. finally they said, well, we do, but they're classified, we can't give them to you. and they're saying we see classified material in the oval office all the time, that shouldn't be an kbedment to getting these documents. now they're trying to take requests from leader. >> isn't he gone now, general chaffetz? >> he apparently is out for three to four weeks. he put on instagram a photo of his foot that he said he hurt years ago when he fell off a ladder at his house. apparently the screws in that foot are subject to serious

infection, and he won't be here the next three or four weeks. he said he may resign at his term which is another twist in this saga. >> let's listen to the sound from today. >> do you think michael flynn should be charged with a crime? >> that's not my decision. my decision is to look into this, investigate it, present it and let others make those kind of judgments. but i got to tell you, i go back to what i said before. you cannot allow situations where the congress requests documents and basically the white house says, take a hike. that's simply unacceptable. and it sets a very dangerous precedent. >> kristen, the white house is supposed to have logs anywhere else that they might be having

with foreign officials. >> congressman cummings making the argument that it's not reasonable, and katy, again, i think this briefing was fairly short and those were among the follow-up questions, certainly, that i wanted to ask and that i'm sure a number of the other reporters here wanted to ask. can they not go through those documents to try to hand over every communication that mayor may not exist while mike flynn has while he was here. he was here for 29 days. presumably there is some cord of 'tis time here. remember some of the public comments tharm after firing him. he continued to call him a good guy. continued to inspect. does the president stand by some of those comments? those will be questions the white house will have to answer. >> kristen walker, very few

questions and not so many answers. joining me now is our panel, mark hal principal, executive director of showtime. many. mark, let's start with yo the white house doesn't want to hand anything over. why do you think that is. >> well, i think it's a multi-laird issue. and when is don't like that they'll be any more cooperative. democrats can scream all they want but they're not going to have the same leverage as to when they can get republicans on board. sorry. >> obviously they don't want this in the headlines but it

remains in the headlines. before that did you go why don't they produce everything they do have? >> it's a great connection. it's been a huge. in having this man. damaging his relationships with foreign leaders and advising him on national security. zds i know this came up in the spicer briefing this afternoon, but these questions have not been answered fully and i think it's going to continue to hang over this white house until they are. alan. . michael flynn, they re-upped the

hibz. or is the new administration responsible to do their own vetting of their own officials? >> katy, i think one thing we have to bear in mind is there are two things we're talking about. one is a security clearance. that was done by the department of defense, as far as we know, in january of 2016, so president obama was still in office. then there's vetting, and vetting is what happens with the white house or any agency does, but in particular when you're talking about a white house appointment, they will do any vetting. they will check, first of all, to see if their security clearance is for lack of a better word. they should be looking at an taking position of national, does he have any durks uis, ning

he's publishes. anything that will cause any kind of backlash fosh the white house. the security clearance would have been transferred -- that's my understanding -- from the department of defense to that white house. i had a question whether he was asked to update it because he was clair answer as i think they should be required to update it. the kbe is. that is critical. they have a responsibility to look at breaking the law as a retired general. he could be called back tomorrow to serve as a general in the u.s. military. that actually lasts technically

for the rest of his life, although generally they don't do it if you've been out more than five years and you're over 60. but it means that the government might need to lose them again, so they don't want them to have any conflicts of interest. >> evelyn, thank you. mark, in your conversations with those in the white house, is anybody concerned about rememberstopping the bleeding on this, or are they just trying to stonewall? >> they know it's going to go on. their general stat ji seems to be when somebody leaves and paul ma manafort wasn't in the campaign very long. i suspect with all particularly new administrations, they won't go with the philosophy of gett out eay, get it all out, they'll go with the strategy of

trying to create distractions, try to avoid it as much as possible. this is a legitimate question. even in washington where people say this is going to be done differently, that's going to stretch it and they're resigned to it, as i said. joining me now is connecticut congressman jim hines, development director on intelligence. congressman, thank you for joining us. there is a d and d inspection we're hearing about now in addition to news from the hill. tell us the reaction of what just came out today. >> i think there are three categories that are interesting about whole and many varied reflectio reflections. that's obviously going to be of interest to law enforcement. two. what was the vetting process like at the white house? we obviously want people who are in positions as sensitive as

national security adviser to get a really good vetting and it appears that did not happen. and third and of most interest to me and the intelligence committee, this is just another set of facts that raises questions about the contacts that michael flynn had with foreign governments, with russia that my committee will have to investigate. >> congressman, are you handing over a subpoena to get mike flynn to testify before your committee? >> well, it's too early to say that. needless to say, we're interested in talking to him. he, you'll recall, offered to testify in exchange for immunity. that's a fairly interesting fact in and of itself. but to date the committee has not really seriously, you know, taken up the discussion about how he comes. as you may know, we have agreed on a witness list, and we're not quite to the fact of whether he

was appointed or not. >> is he on the list? >> as a matter of fact, we're waiting to talk to him. >> if he's asking for immunity, and you said that's an interesting point in itself, what would the committee need in order to give him immunity? why would they have any appetite to do that? >> well, i think there's two reasons if you step away from this particular case. there is at least two things you want to know if you're considering, when a processor is granted when they've gotten into a bit of trouble and it's testified, and it's granted because they want to go for a pig ber. you know, in this case we would want there to be a good reason to grant that immunity, and it could be he has information he will not disclose because of the risk of self incrimination. but we'll also want to be sure

that there are in retrospect. there's just a long and complicated discussion that need to be undertaken not. >> congressman, who is the bigger fish in the trump campaign or transition? >> clearly he wasn't the top guy in the trump campaign. we're doing an investigation. the investigation is moving forward, i think, in a constructive fashion after a couple weeks of tumult, shall we say. i don't want to get into speculation, but that would be a key consideration for anybody who was considering giving michael flynn. thank y . >> thank you for rushing over to our program, sir. next the big plan of cutting taxes. could the biggest winner be the

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our number one goal right now is to provide middle income and lower income tax relief to americans. that's what his goal is, and i think frankly that's what most americans' g is. >> press secretary sean spicer touting what the white house is calling the biggest tax cut ever. it's been less than 48 hours since the president released his

one-page tax proposal and he's taking heat from democrats and republicans alike. this morning treasury secretary steve mnuchin made the rounds on the morning shows and had this to say about the effect the plan will have on the middle class. >> 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, but i can tell you that's our number one objective in this. >> but today the "new york times" suggests, quote, middle class families might not benefit much or at all because the plan does away with important deductions like those for state and local taxes. joining me now to break this down is nbc's ali velshi and peter, professor at the university of maryland. ali, let's talk about some reporting that our own stephanie rule did. she said in 2005, the president paid 37.5 million in taxes without the alternative minimum

tax which donald trump wants to get away with, he would have paid 5.3 million, much less. his businesses is taxed 39%. this will drop it down to 15%, and finally the elimination of the state tax would mean that his errors would get a much lower tax bill if he dies [ heirs ] how does this play out? is donald trump the one who benefits most? >> we're not going to get an answer on donald trump's financial information. steve mnuchin said again he's not releasing any information. we've got that 2005 tax return, and there's no question for the type of business donald trump is in, this sort of thing is highly beneficial. he's in exactly the kind of busiss who would benefit from this. america has an unusual situation in which a lot of small business people run their business through their personal income tax, so there will abe lbe a lo people who are contractors. if we were contractors of our

company and not employees, we could deduct a lot of our expenses and then under this plan pay 15% when somebody sitting next to us is paying 35% under this plan, or 35.6. there is a built-in unfairness right on the top of this one. >> ali, you saw that steve mnuchin wouldn't guarantee the middle class wouldn't be affected by this. what do you make of his lack of a guarantee there? >> it depends where you are and who you are. if you deduct, like, student interest or you deduct a student loan interest or you live in a state where you can deduct certain state deductions like we were just talking about, this may actually adversely impact you. you're going from 39.6% on your marginal tax rate to a top marginal tax rate of 15%. in theory that should be a savings but that depends on what deductions you're giving up. the one people use is the main interest deduction. so until we see more than a page, we can't really tell if people's taxes are going up or

down on this. >> peter, let's talk about something you told npr. you said a 12-year-old newt gingrich would have asked for this on their christmas list. what did you mean by that? >> there's a one-page explanation without a lot -- wi lot of white space. they've had five months to work this out and this is the best they could do? we're entitled to a lot more detail of how this works. i don't think most folks on average will be much better off or worse off. they'll have slightly lower rates and fewer deductions. folks at the upper end, they're already losing a lot of their deductions to phaseout and so forth. so i don't think there's going to be the kind of impact he's talking about, but still, we would like to know what this is going to cost us, and we can't figure that out on the basis of what he's published. >> katy, that's actually a very good point. it's one thing if you say you want to lower taxes and you're trying to clean up the tax code and that's fine.

the argument the administration is making and steve mnuchin made is twofold. it's going to create jobs, jobs and jobs, jobs times three, and it's going to increase growth to 16%. i'm not sure how what they're proposing actually gets either of those two goals. if it is just to cut taxes, it does that. if the picture is something bigger, i don't know if they get that. >> if you got rid of all the deductions and you brought the rate in at 23%, just the lack of complexity and the increase in fairness that everybody who makes about the same kind of profits, pays the same kind of taxes, would spur additional growth. however, i don't know any math that gets you down to 15% without losing a lot of revenue. that would give you a little bit of increase in gdp for the next three years. in terms of long-term growth, you cannot be putting america in more and more burdensome debt.

already we owe the world too much. this would put it over the top. >> donald trump said over and over again that he would eliminate debt. he called himself, quote, the king of debt. ali velshi, appreciate your time, peter, you as well. do you think trump's big tax overhaul would help your bottom line? the pulse is alive. you can weigh in at puls pulse.msnbc.com. 90% of you say no. next we'll head to rehema ellis who is in ohio on trump's appeal to replace obamacare. i didn't know where i was from ethnically. so we sent that sample off to ancestry.

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donald trump is holding another roundtable right now. he's signing a memorandum on aluminum imports and threats to national security. that's in the oval office right there. let's take a listen. >> protecting our jobs and industri industries, like aluminum, a great industry that was a greater industry in terms of our country and in terms of our workers, and it will be again. believe me, i'd like to get it where it was or beyond, if that's possible. the aluminum industry has been unfairly damaged by foreign trade. cheap imports have flooded into the market destroying thousands of great american jobs, jobs that are no longer. eight u.s.-based smelters have either closed or reduced production since 2015. only two smelters remain fully operational in our country. the united states now produces less aluminum than we did in

1952. can you imagine that? 1952 we're doing less, and that's not going to happen. that's a disaster, and we're going back -- we're going to start that chart going back the other way very soon. today i'm calling on secretary ross to prioritize the investigation he initiated yesterday into whether the foreign aluminum imports are are jeopardizing our security and to issue a report based on his findings. based on those findings, secretary ross will make formal recommendations to the white house as to what to do about the problem and whether or not we do tariffs or taxes or something else to get our aluminum bus going again. aluminum is critical to our manufacturing and defense industry base. its vital components mean everything from military aircraft and armored vehicles to our naval ships at sea. we cannot afford in these dangerous times to become dependent on foreign nations for the aluminum that our military

relies on. you look at our ships. i went to see some of the ships last week and so much is aluminum based and much of that aluminum comes from foreign countries which is absolutely insane. today we're sending another clear signal to the world. we will fight for american workers, for american jobs, and we will fight always to the american dream. we're bringing it back fast. jobs are coming in. we produce almost 600,000 jobs just in the short time that i'm in office. and that number is going very much high over the next few months. you see what's happening in michig michigan. ford and others are building new plants, expanding old plants. they're no longer talking about running away from our country. they're talking about building their cars and other products by other companies right here in the usa. so we're going to have a lot of things happening, and i think the media, when they report it

honestly, some of you do report it honestly, but a lot of great things are happening. people don't want to leave, they want to come back and they want to create jobs in the united states. with that, maybe i'll just have a few of the folks behind me introduce themselves in the name of their company and we can start with alcoa, if we might. go ahead. >> my name is roy harvey. i'm the chief executive officer for alcoa. we've been smelting aluminum around the globe for 55 years and we appreciate the administration trying to make a level playing field. >> it's been unlevel for a long time. >> it's been particularly difficult with the growth of china. >> go ahead. >> michelle from. [ inaudible ] corporation. >> larry from the district of indiana. >> thank you for your support. >> mike from pennsylvania 3. >> donald trump right there in

the oval office signing a memorandum on aluminum imports and threats to national security. he's ordering his council secretary wilbur ross to conduct an investigation into aluminum and how that impacts the american economy. the free dodom caucasus on boar with health care plan. the question is will others sign on? >> i would argue this is a bill that a moderate would more than likely want to support. some people were concerned about ehbs. ehbs were taken out of the bill, essential health benefits, were taken out of the bill. they were now put back in. >> repeeling obseraling obamaca of president trump's central campaign promises, but they're not sure whether this is the answer.

we traveled to kent on, ohio where 70% voted on trump. >> reporter: in kenton, ohio, life is often marred by tough decisions. >> sometimes you have to make the decision, die buy groceries, do i buy medicine or do i go to the doctor? >> a mother of four voted for trump, hoping to get rid of obamacare. >> do we need to get rid of it completely? no, but i think there are lots of improvements that need to be made. >> and even the health care plan failed in the first 100 days, katie still believes in what the president says. >> it's gotten better and better and it's gotten really good. we have a chance of getting it soon. >> reporter: married with three children, robin oates also has mixed feelings of how the president is handling health care reform in the first 100 days. >> the fact he's not been able to replace it or repeal it is

good because at least we're status quo. >> they are proposing an expansion, allowing some to pay on a sliding scale. for many the only time they saw a doctor was in the emergency room. under the new gop plan still being hashed out on capitol hill, facilities like this could lose funding. if that happens, robin hopes her family will be able to afford insurance. let's say the premium is, just for the two of us, $350. that's at least half of one of my husband's paychecks. half. >> what do you want to see the president do as far as health care is concerned? >> i don't think anybody wants to necessarily have a free ride, but make it where it's affordable. >> reporter: for now this farming community that planted its hopes in a trump presidency is still giving him more time to deliver. >> and rehema ellis joins us.

introduce your guest there. >> she is with partners of western ohio, and medicaid expansion makes this facility in part possible, but how many other facilities like this in western ohio? >> we have 13 facilities taking care of over 30,000 individual patients. >> if the medicaid expansion were to go away, how would that affect people? >> it affects people by taking them back to before they had coverage. before people didn't even know what they didn't have and now they have coverage. taking that coverage away really impacts their lives dramatically. >> what are we talking about in terms of services that people are able to get now that they couldn't before? >> preventive services, col colonoscopies, mammograms, things they weren't able to afford. >> do people know that what they get now is because of obamacare? >> they don't know. they just know they have access

to care. they can get their teeth cleaned, they can get services that they couldn't with a provider. >> even for substance abuse programs which i understand are in great demand here because of the problems of substance abuse. >> absolutely. we have a huge opioid epidemic here as we have across the nation, and the affordable care act has really helped us be able to take care of patients in a really dramatic way. >> so when you talk to people about -- you may not talk to them, you're busy trying to provide them with services. but the question is, as we talked to people, people said they didn't want those service to go away. what are they saying they want instead? do they tell you that? >> i don't think they know. i think they just know that this care has been able to save lives, save they're 20-year-old who has been dealing whoid addiction for a couple years, two, three years. now they can get them treatment, they can get them care. it's changing generations. moms are getting their kids back. dads are able to be working and be a part of their kids' lives because of this care. >> when people are talking about

this in washington, you say this facility, what is provided here, this is a question of life and death in some instances? >> absolutely a question of life and death. people have come to us because they have care, they have coverage. they're able to get screenings they couldn't get before. we've identified diseases, chronic diseases, that are now managed because they have coverage. >> reporter: beth west, thanks very much. katy, back to you. >> thank you guys very much. speaking of ohio, the state's governor and former presidential candidate john kasich is playing hardball this evening. he'll join chris matthews to identify president trump's first 100 days in office. that's tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. we also have breaking news for you. a new statement in from the counsel of general michael flynn. it says, we respectfully disagree with the characterization of the 2017 letter from the dia to the

committee. dia's letter actually confirms in a section that is partially reenacted that general flynn provided documents on a thumb drive to the department of defense concerning the speaking event in moscow, including documents that he was using a speakers bureau from the event. general flynn provided two briefings to the department, one before and one after the event. the department was fully aware of the trip. we urged dia and the committee to release the full unredacted letter and the documents that general flynn provided to the dia and the briefings and details concerning the in-person briefings provided by general flynn to dia. that's breaking news from general flynn's lawyer. we will be right back. ♪ anyone can dream.

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are you surprised by the ninth circuit ruling? >> i'm never surprised by the ninth circuit. as i said, we'll see them in the supreme court. >> it wasn't really the ninth circuit, but anyway, that was president trump yesterday talking about the ninth circuit court of appeals after a judge, a different one, temporarily blocked trump's efforts to hold funds in sanctuary cities. if appealed, it would go to the ninth circuit. they're considering proposals to split up the ninth circuit where judges have blocked two of his

requests already. justice correspondent pete williams is live in our newsroom. pete, can he? >> no, the president can't do it by himself. it would take congress and there's bills doing this the last 40 years for two reasons. one, the ninth circuit is the largest circuit, and secondly, most in congress don't like the generally liberal practice of ruling from the ninth circuit, and the president has talked about during the campaign it's the most overturned circuit when it gets to the supreme court. he is right about that. but there is a problem here with a couple of things. number one, the president, as you said, said it was the ninth circuit that made this decision. it was a judge in the ninth circuit, a district court judge, not an appeals judge. his appeal would be made to a judge in the ninth circuit. but republicans will see how they see this case as an example of forum shopping which means you go where you think the

judges are most sympathetic. two points about that. that is, that's right out of the republicans' playbook. they went to conservative districts in texas to try to stop some of president obama's executive orders and succeeded in stopping one of his immigration policy changes. but the second thing is, i think it's a little hard to make the forum shopping argument here because this was a lawsuit by san francisco about the federal government's effect on san francisco and both the president and the attorney general have repeatedly pointed to san francisco as a sanctuary city. so in a sense, the government sort of set the scene here by attacking san francisco and that's one of the reasons why san francisco sued. it sued -- it didn't go forum shopping, it just sued at the nearest federal courthouse. >> the appropriate place to hear that case. nbc's pete williams in washington, thank you very much. next we're on the road in arizona talking to voters in the most pro place in the country.

what do they think of the president's first 100 days. here's today's verge update. >> nasa has confirmed the spacecraft survived the first dives getting closer to the planet than ever before, collecting more data than the past 13 years. it's made the biggest discoveries about saturn in its ocean moons. however, this marks the final orbits in saturn. the spacecraft is running out of fuel and in september they will dive into saturn and burn out. for more on the story check out theverge.com.

we've reached the 100-day marker of the trump presidency. what do his most supportive, ardent supporters, excuse me, think about how he's doing so far? to answer that, we visited what we could call the trumpiest counties in the country. in phoenix, arizona, trump won nearly 750,000 votes making it one of the country's biggest counties that did not go for clinton. jac jacob is there.

>> reporter: we're inside this restaurant, a popular restaurant in town. when you talk to folks, you and them to grade president trump in his first 100 days, if they supported him in the first place, they give him an a, an a plus, sometimes a b. they recognize that health care, for example, didn't go through. they blame congress. they recognize the travel ban didn't go as planned. at least not yet. they blame the courts. so everything that trump promised to do, to them, he's done. and during our interviews, we were all around town talking to people and we learned the basics of the tax proposal. and we found people who were very excited about. that you heard for example in the press briefing, a lot of questions for sean spicer. i don't know if you can see the tvs. the people aren't watching sean spicer. when they hear the tax rate will go from 35 to 15 or maybe around

there, at least the proposal, and i will own my own practice as an orthodontist, for example, that's huge news. here are a couple of examples. my husband is a doctor. he owns his practice also. so for the two of us, the taxation has truly been a burden. we don't make millions of dollars. going from 35% to 15% is huge. >> sanctuary cities, i'm a very firm believer in not rewarding bad behavior. >> i'm sure he will find a way for mexico to pay for it. there is a lot of different ways in terms of border taxes, revenue flow, in and out of mexico. >> reporter: so almost in a lot of cases we talked to folks here, that he can do no wrong. but there are some expectations, obviously. i asked almost everyone we interviewed, what would disappoint in the end? what would make it so you would

say, i regret voting for him and i wouldn't vote for him again. for the person who owned their own practice, it would be if the taxes didn't go down the way trump promised, she would be disappointed. for somebody else, if the wall, not the entire wall, perhaps, but at leaf the wall on most of the border didn't get build for four years. then that person would be disappointed. overall, everybody is willing to give him a lot more time than 100 days to get accomplished all of his central campaign promises. >> not surprising. jacob rascon thank you very much. and do you think president trump's big tax overhaul will help your final line? 96% of you say no. 4% say yes. it was 99% earlier so that's an improvement for the president. coming up, the 25th anniversary of the l.a. riots.

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25 years ago saturday, she filmed something pretty important. a video you may have seen. it was during l.a. riots, regged nald denny, a truck driver, happened to stop in the wrong place at the wrong time. the intersection of flornls and normandy. it was the he said center of the rioting. he was pulled from the truck and beaten bloody within an inch of his life. i tell you all this because it is a piece of american history. one that left an indelible mark on our society and on myself. my dad was flying the helicopter, hovering over it, trying to scare the attackers with a bull horn and with officers nowhere in sight. my father declared police had abandoned los angeles. my parents got death threats for testifying against the gang members but they were not in journalism to make friends. my parents were dedicated to keeping americans informed. holding power to account. so when i decided to get into this business, i thought a lot

about that moment. the risk that they took and why it was so important that they took it so on this bring your kids to workday, i want to say thank you to my parents for bringing me to work. that will wrap things up for me on this hour. ali velshi picks things up. >> they're proud of you. the work you did on that campaign got you some threats, too, but your job was to bring the story to the viewers and you have continue in the your parents' legacy. thank you for bringing that to us. katy tur, my friend and colleague. here are our top stories on president trump's 98th day in office. the pentagon is investigating michael flynn for taking money from foreign governments without advance permission. something he was specifically warned against in 2014. why didn't this show up when he was being vetted by the trump administration? the basic gist of the administration, blame the obama

administration. plus, a vote on the legislation looming, we're heading to swing state ohio for what they're looking for in health care. and he is calling it a system failure. the much maligned ceo of united airlines about what went wrong the day after tha passenger w dragged violently off one of its flights. my colleague sat down for an interview. before we get to anything else, there's that big story to get you updated on. the new investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn. kelly o'donnell is at the white house to help us break that down. >> good afternoon. this is a case where the white house thought it was past the chapter of michael flynn but it is not turning out that way. the house oversight committee from the democrat side put out some information indicating that flynn had not been come plinlt in all the rules and requirements for sharing some of the income he earned by doing a