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flynn or general flynn, it has everything to do with former military officers. they can't go and take money from a foreign government. you can't get a direct payment like that because former military officers can be called up and into duty at any given time. that's why they've got to be a little bit clear her, a little more pure. that's why there are laws on the books that prevent this type of thing from hang yet it does appear it happened in the case of mr. flynn. now, that does beg another question, which is how did he get a security clearance. if he did all those things, we could easily figure out how did he get a security clearance. another bigger, broader question, but certainly i wouldn't fault the trump administration. but i do have some questions for the dia. why was he given a security clearance if he obviously did what i think, at least the even points to, violated this statute. >> mr. chair man, thank you shall, sir. >> thanks, greta. >> moments ago the chairman of the senate intelligence committee spoke to reporters about general michael flynn. he di

committee to testify, that as flynn's lawyer said, flynn has a story to tell but that he's getting resistancee committee's chairman and that that resistance might be coming from the speaker. >> and that's something that will undoubtedly get a lot of questions. stand by, jill. i want to go to kasie hunt who's in that briefing with congressman cummins. c kasie, i believe you were pressing him on who or not he thought flynn's lawyer had been lying to him. take us to what the headlines are. >> i think you heard congressman cummins said -- >> kasie, we're going to come back to you. we have a little bit of audio issues with you now. i'm going with the former fbi double agent and author of "how to catch a russian spy." navid, what are your takeaways and headlines as we track these latest developments related to the revelations that the in specter jexpec inspector general is now investigating mike flynn? ? first of all, i heard the meeting he took faced a lot of eye brawls, certainly before he was involved in trump campaign. what's surprising here, is this events with r.t. -- e i'm shocked that repub

reporter: are you ruling out calling general flynn? are you deferring to the intelligence committee? mr. chaffetz: the lead investigative body is the select committee on intelligence. we have been pursuing this portion of it, the payments that happened prior to the inauguration of president trump, but the lead on this general investigation is the select committee on intelligence, and i'll support what the select committee needs. we can play a role in certain parts, but it's more of a supportive role than anything else. [inaudible] mr. chaffetz: i highly doubt it. i highly doubt it. reporter: will you issue a subpoena? mr. chaffetz: we haven't had to issue a subpoena so far. they've been cooperative at the department of defense and the state department and the white house. but in this particular case, the law requires him to seek permission from the secretary of state and from the department of defense, and those are the entities of which we have been seeking information and have received information. the response we're getting there is

great man. >>> michael flynn, general flynn is a wonderful man. i think it's really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. >> well, now as the white house continues to face serious questions about flynn under the spectre of ongoing russia investigations, explaining everything but its own vetting everything including the obama administration, manu raju has details. >> reporter: president donald trump's former national security advisor now under a new investigation. >> we have no evidence, zilch, that he obtained permission from the secretary of the army and the secretary of state to accept any foreign government payments as required by law. >> reporter: new documents show the pentagon warned retired lieutenant general michael flynn in 2014 about accepting any foreign payments. suggesting he failed to get permission to travel to moscow. >> thank you so much for inviting me and having me here. >> reporter: he was paid tens of thousands of dollars in 2015 by the kremlin-backed news station r.t. where he also dined with vladimir putin. now the defen

flynn later apologized. after trump won the election he named flynn as national security adviser.o one could have predicted flynn would only hold that job for 23 days. that's right. 23 days. flynn resigned after misleading the vice president and others about the substance of phone calls he had had with the russian ambassador. >> i talked to general flynn yesterday and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u.s. sanctions against russia. >> reporter: turns out that was not true. secret transcripts of flynn's intercepted calls showed flynn did discuss sanctions, a potential violation of federal law. after flynn texted russian ambassador kislyak on december 25th to wish him a merry christmas, the ambassador texted him three days later, saying i would like to give you a call. may i? the next day they talked by phone. the very same day that president obama ordered sanctions on russia. >>> the evolving and eroding level of trust is what led the president to ask for general flynn's resignation. >> flynn later wrote this letter of resignation, ex

what is more, the comments say that michael flynn must have seen the warnings about flynn and cash. >> this letter explicitly warned general flynn as he entered retirement that the constitution prohibited him from accepting any foreign government payments without advance permission. the pentagon's warning to general flynn was bold, italicized and could not have been clearer. >> today, the white house responded by blaming the obama administration, the administration that fired flynn nearly a year before donald trump even began to run for president, and by repeatedly deploying the talking point that the current president made all the right decisions. >> general flynn was a career military officer who maintained a high level security clearance throughout his career in the military. his clearance was last reissued by the obama administration in 2016 with full knowledge of his activities that occurred in 2015 as you point out. but all of that clearance was made during the obama administration and apparently with knowledge of the trip that he took. so that is how the process works and i wel

flynn has been warned. when he knows what is at stake and he still goes ahead and does it. >> tim mak, is there now on this issue, on this particular pursuit of the michael flynn speaking fee issue, is there a partisan divide in the investigations? >> well, not on house oversight as far as we can tell. earlier this week there did seem to be bipartisanship in terms of coming together and saying this is important, pay attention to this. but in the other investigations, there is a bit more of a divide. i don't know if it's bipartisanship that is the cause, but there does seem to be a bipartisan effect, which is, you know, folks on the senate intelligence committee talked to senator wyden today. and he said look, this latest flynn revelation means that we should be following the money. the money trail is one of the most important parts of the russia inquiry. we're not doing it. and this shows why he we should should be doing it. >> tim mak gets the last word tonight. mieke ouyang, michael isikoff, thank you. >>

do you believe the white house is covering up for flynn? >> i don't have enough evidence to make that serious of a charge at this point. i believe in being somewhat cautious about making very, very serious charges like that. i do think it would look better for the white house and for all involved if they would simply turn over the vetting documents. >> he makes that accusation because the white house has not handed over all those documents to his committee. that's why he's saying congressman stand by. i want to get your thoughts on this tension that exists right now with north korea and other developments. let's take a quick break. we'll be right back. just like the marines did. at one point, i did change to a different company with car insurance, and i was not happy with the customer service. we have switched back over and we feel like we're back home now. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you're a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children, and that they can be protected. we're the

and michael flynn. can this all be a series of whacky coincidences or do we need to start looking at the white house knowing all of this was going on? >> it can be a receivers whacky coincidences. it sure would be a big coincidence. the thing that i would add to that, joy, everyone that you just named in some way has proven evasive or less than total gal forthcoming about the facts, even jared kushner, let's not forget, failed to disclose his contacts with the russian ambassador on a background check or security clearance form that he filled out during the transition. now, i believe his lawyer said that was an oversight that was quickly corrected but i have not seen verification of that. you know, if nothing untoward is happening here why does everybody suddenly have this faulty memory, inaccurate recollection? you know, carter page's very strange circumstance up low accusings using the passive tense and saying i'm not going to talk about these conversations. it just -- there's -- it just smells really

as you know, general flynn previously led the a.i. and served as national security advisor until he was fired by president trump. right now we cannot discuss the contents of the documents that we just saw because they are indeed classified. but we can say this. they are extremely troubling. we have concerns, and i believe these documents should be classified to the fullest extent possible without compromising sources and methods. i want to thank chairman chaffetz who joined our request for these documents, and i believe that he feels the same, that the american people should be able to see these documents for themselves. second, we've been trying for several months to obtain general flynn's security clearance information to the chairman whether he received payments he received for his trip to russia in 2015 when he dined with the russian president. we've now obtained general flynn's application to renew his security clearance in january, 2016. sf-86. m is called an general flynn filed his fx-86 about a month after he traveled to mosco

immunity to testify, something that flynn's attorney has suggested. burr's response no. no immunity for michael flynn, but he does want to hear answers to the questions that owe merged today. >> this is a major problem. >> reporter: new problems for the white house over russia. tonight a top republican suggesting that the president's former national security adviser may have broken the law. from what you've seen so far, do you believe that michael flynn broke the law from either not disclosing it, these payments on his security clearance or not getting permission for getting these foreign payments? >> personally i see no information or no data to support the notion that general flynn complied with the law. i see no evidence that he actually did that. >> reporter: as a former military officer, michael flynn was supposed to get permission from top defense officials for payments that he received from foreign governments. the law required him to list those payments on his security clearance paperwork last year, including more than half a million dollars i

about how the white house had no idea about mike flynn, both of them are now telling story about flynn that cannot be true. and now angela mitchell at nbc news tonight has the scoop that proves that really they are not telling the truth about this. here it is. nbc news has learned from sources close to the trump russia investigation that both the trump transition and the white house did do a background check on flynn. this is in addition to his already approved security clearance. they did a background check on flynn specifically for him to become national security advisor. nbc news reports that the vetting of flynn was done, but sources close to the investigation tell nbc that it was done very casually. one person involved tells nbc that the trump transition was aware of flynn's business ties to turkey. they became aware of that shortly after he wrote that election day column about the turkish government and its interests. that of course should have raised red flags, but they hired him anyway. they knew. and they hired him anyway and then after they fired him they said oh, no, we had

flynn's problem.thics violations and we're not even in the 100th day of office yet. >> what do you say, richard, when the white house lawyers point out, yes, there's rules for white house officials, government employees, but there's special consideration for one person, namely, the president of the united states. what do you say to that argument? >> i don't know what the so-called special considerations are that would enable president trump to do business different than any other recent president. every president since nixon has disclosed his tax returns. no president has used the united states government to market his commercial properties and, most important, no president has had people working for him who have been taking undisclosed payments from a foreign power, much less the russians. and so we see today a cover-up at the white house where they are refusing to release documents about the undisclosed foreign documents that were illegal under the emolument's clause. and the white house thinks this

flynn was supposed to do as a former officer. i do not know. i am fairly curious as to how widespread this is. no former military officers allowed to accept payments from a foreign government. my guess is that is probably not the first time this is happened. it does concern me. do you believe the white house is obstructing your investigation? >> as i said at the end of my statement we have not gotten , certain information we have asked for. i would not call it obstruction. these things happen. as far as the documents are concerned, hopefully we will get them. as far as emoluments, it is interesting. a lot of people were totally unfamiliar with the emoluments clause of the constitution, but it is something i talked about a long time ago and said we should be able to avoid some of the problems we have had. this was done long before president trump came into office. that is a clause that is very significant. apply to people like general flynn but to the , president and his folks too. >> [inaudible] the scope of documents that were r

mike pence was head of the transition when flynn's own lawyers came and told the transition that flynn was working for a foreign power and he maybe needed to register as a foreign agent. that all happened when pence was running the transition in november and in december, but they hired mike flynn anyway to be national security adviser. and then after he got fired as national security adviser, then the head of the transition, vice president mike pence says you know, i never heard anything about that. >> let me say, hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. >> no, it's not. that is impossible. and that has long been one of the strange things that just doesn't add up about the mike flynn story. mike pence claiming in march that he had no idea. he ran the transition. they had no idea about mike flynn working for a foreign government. so that's -- for a while we've known that that is part of what doesn't add up about the mike flynn story and the idea that mike pence is some sort of, you know, innocent victim of mike flynn's do you listy. it doesn't make sense with the record and

flynn later apologized.won the election, she named flynn as his national security associate's degree visor. no one could have predicted flynn would only hold that job for 23 days. that's right, 23 days. flynn resigned after misleading the vice president and others about the substance of phone calls he'd had with the russian ambassador. >> i talked to general flynn yesterday, and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u.s. sanctions against russia. >> reporter: turns out that wasn't true. secret transcripts of flynn's intercepted calls showed flynn did discuss sanctions, a potential violation of federal law. after flynn texted russian ambassador on december 25th to wish him a merry christmas, the ambassador texted flynn three days later, asking, i'd like to give you a call, may i? the next day, they talked by phone. the very same day, president obama ordered extra sanctions on russia. >> the evolving and eroding of trust in this situation is what led the president to

general flynn. while you were on commercial, i was e-mailing to someone working on one of the investigations about where they are on this, and the reply i got about general flynn was his lawyers appear to be nuts. that is not a great endorsement. >> wow. >> well, let's talk about his lawyers. because general flynn's lawyer, we know, was somewhat anti-trump during the campaign. in fact, we have some tweets that flynn's lawyer, robert kilner said during the campaign, he said, donald trump is the bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being i have ever known, #manchuriancandidate. he also said, i have a fantasy that pence resigns and makes a fiery speech invoking reagan as he condemns trump. humor me. what go you make of that, doug? >> any time someone makes a reference to the frank sinatra movie, it's going to make me happy. but the reality is there are a lot of republicans who didn't support donald trump. i was one of them as ryan and keith know from conversations we have had on air, but those who ha

general flynn is someone who has done this for 30 years.my concern is when did the white house know that there was potentially derogatory information and did they wait on that to act? >> kristen, we also heard what appeared to be another explanation as to why the white house will not produce the documents that the house intelligence committee has asked for. >> craig, there were a lot of follow-up questions. i think that the reporters in this briefing room wanted to ask as it relates to that. you effectively heard sean spicer say, we got the request for documents. we relayed the request to all of the different appropriate agencies that house those documents, and we believe we've turned over all the documents that exist. but left unanswered, craig, did they turn over all of the documents that exist here within this white house? he was in this white house for 23 days, and as spicer has said himself, had a range of discussions on a daily basis with foreign officials where the documents related to those conversations and communications. that was

now about flynn? politically, how, david gregory, does the white house separate itself from michael flynn and any accountability preventing a man that was not just begged to be part of the administration but one of his first guys, shoulder to shoulder with trump. >> that's the point, i don't think they can. there may be very specific areas where flynn was not forthcoming to those who were vetting him in terms of speeches made, contacts made, et cetera. and we know that he was fired from the white house job because he didn't level with them about contacts with the russian ambassador. you had someone very close to the candidate and then the president who was influencing his view of the world and his national security policy with ties to a foreign power, the very foreign power that sought to manipulate our election. that is a big deal, and i don't know what's going to come of these russia investigations, but that is a real bruise against this president and this administration for which they have to be he

general flynn is a wonderful man. i think he has been treated, very, very unfairly by the media. >> asked about the general, the >> any regrets about michael flynn. >> thank you very much. >> now flynn's lawyer is still insisting that he did brief the pentagon before and after that 2015 trip to moscow. but the pentagon says they have looked through their records and they have found no evidence that flynn asked for approval, or disclosed that he received thousand of dollars. mary bruce, abc news, capitol hill. >> china has reportedly given north core car an ultimatum. in an interview with fox news, secretary of state rex tillerson says china told north core car to stop conducting nuclear tests or face chinese sanctions. tillerson said the u.s. is asking a lot of the chinese, but, says their help is critical to address the nuclear threat. he also stressed the u.s. is not seeking a regime change. and would be open to direct talks if north korea is willing to give up nuclear weapons. >> president trump says he too, prefer

both chairman jason chaffetz and elijah cummings talked about flynn with msnbc today. >> as general flynn was required to proactively ask permission prior to eaging with russia and turk. not ly w he supposed to ask for permission, he was supposed to get permission and he didn't. and so this goes back for, you know, a year prior to donald trump ever becoming the president. so it's not as if the white house isn't responding. there just aren't documents and that's the problem. >> do you think michael flynn broke the law? >> it doesn't appear as if he complied with the law. i don't see evidence that he complied with the law. >> this is not some witch hunt. this is about a fight for the soul of our democracy. and i want to be real clear on that. what i'm trying to do is make sure that we pursue this investigation and go where the evidence leads. our next step is to hopefully sit down with the white house and explain to them that they don't determine what we investigate as a congress, we do. >> sean spicer was also pressed on this today during the white house briefing. >> the president feel tha

flynn? >> i will correct you on that. the committee sent a form letter to several agencies including the white house asking to find those documents. the documents in question, the department of defense possessed and sent over to them. the documents that occurred before he worked there would be up to him to turn over. my understanding is the committee has the documents. >> i know it was referred to the dia. they were referred to the dia. apparently they have gained access to that document. but there are other documents that should be in the white house's possession that mark short in a letter to the committee said the white house can't provide because it was a sensitive nature. but there were no documents available prior to the 20th. i also ask the question, does the white house believe that lieutenant general flynn might have broken the law when he filled out sf86? >> that would be a question for him and a law enforcement agency. i don't know what he filled out and what he did or did not do. he filled that form prior to c

general flynn collide with the law.ng right up to the line of accusing general flynn of actually committing a crime, felony. doesn't quite say it. what do you make of it? >> he is being careful. general flynn had two onably gags ga obligations. he needed to report everything on the form. and he needed permission from secretary of the army. chairman chafis has seen the f-86 form and has spoken to the department of defense. if he has seen it and there is no data that flynn collide with the law, there is a good indication that there is a serious problem here. >> what do you think, phil, is he going to testify before these house and senate committees general flynn? i know his lawyers suggested immunity. there is no indication anyone wants to grant him immunity. >> why would he testify? we have jason chaffetz just stepped into it by violating innocent until proven guilty. are we investigating individuals as the fbi does on the congressional side or determining how to protect america from russian hacks in a future election? i

the fallout for flynn coming up. show down on healthcare. republicans' plan picking up steam in the house. does it have any chance in the senate? the proposed changes and how it could affect your coverage. taking care of american veterans. a new push to help wounded vets get better care and to get rid of v.a. staffers that don't cut it. the shakeup that could change the way you use the internet forever. let's get to it. >> good thursday afternoon from the fox news deck. president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn and the hundreds of thousands he received from foreign governments and groups, especially turkey and russia. according to new released documents, pentagon officials warned general flynn years ago when he tired from the military about going through the proper channels before accepting payment. from a defense agency letter to flynn in 2014, if you were ever in a position to receive a fee from a foreign government or from an entity, that might be controlled by a foreign government, be sure to obtain advanced approv

the guy whose shell company paid mike flynn over $600,000. so in addition to -- we're talking about the guy who paid flynn. in addition to his partnerships with the not at all turkish guy who is close to putin, who is running these turkish lobbying efforts, the guy who paid flynn himself also it turns out has his own business ties to russia and to putin. including pretty significant sized aviation deals run through a russian state-run bank. a russian state-run bank that's been implicated in russian intelligence operations in the past, and he has been involved in deals through that bank that have been proven to be signed off on by putin himself personally. according to court documents reviewed by isaac arnsdorf at polito coe. the multiple connections to flynn's lobbying contract raise questions about the agenda of the people who hired flynn and, quote, the source of the funds used to pay him. so this is a remarkable thing, right? as we come up on this benchmark round number of 100 days, at which we are supposed to assess how the president and

flynn blame game.onal security adviser now the subject of a new investigation of his russia ties as a top democratic accuses the white house of a cover-up. tonight the trump team has a stunning defense suggesting it's the obama administration's fault. last minute legislation, house republicans press forward with their new attempt to repeal and replace obamacare but their hopes are colliding with another urgent goal to keep the government running. is a shutdown eminent? >> broad strokes, the president's bullet point plans for sweeping tax cuts leaves americans guessing about the bottom line. new questions about whether the middle class will pay more while the trumps pay less. >>> and palace intrigue. for nearly 100 days the president's top advisors have been wrangling trying to consolidate their power, we're going to tell you whose up and down at this pivotal moment for the white house. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're

, does the president feel that he was misled by general flynn? >> i think the president made a decision a while ago was general flynn was not straight with the vice president at the time and let him go. i think he stands by that decision and it is up to others to review all the information that's coming out. >> does he now feel he also wasn't straight with him? >> a lot of the facts are still coming out, jonathan. i know the president made a decision couple months ago, it was the right decision. we've moved on and we have continued to stay focused. >> at the time you made that decision, he said that flynn was the victim of a media witch hunt and said he was a good man and been a victim of circumstances. >> i think all the facts are still coming out on that. let's see where we go. he stands by the decision he made a couple months ago. >> sean, two questions. last night the president said, and some have reported some pretty sensational charges about the iran treaty. we know he's called it the agreement in history and the he ever saw himself. but he

. >> is legal trouble brewing for michael flynn. top members of congress say the president's former national security adviser may have broken the law by not vaelg a payment from russia president bush. ine just a few hours we'll see the president's plan for tax reform. who stands to gain. who stands to lose. how will this all get paid for? will it get paid for? that's the key question this morning. >> how much will it cost taxpayers. tax reform is never easy and this administration going right into that. >> at all the big story of the day. welcome back to the princess and the frog and his throat what we call "early start". >> i'm christine romans. >> i can be a princess at times. but the frog is in my throat. >> it's wednesday, april 26th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin with the white house reaching for an old playbook slamming a federal judge who has blocked an executive order and vowing to appeal. this time it's judge william orritt halting the president's executive order on sanctuary cities. the president said it would withhol

>> i think mike flynn should test. >> i have not asked him but i believe that general flynn should dois counsel advises him to do. >> the president said he wants to start renegotiating nafta as soon as today. >> yes. >> did he notify congress about that yet? >> we've been in communication with congress for a while on this, yes. adam? >> the president talked about puerto rico. [ inaudible ]. there are millions of investors in the united states, senior citizens, who may not be aware that they hold funds within mutual funds that expose that to a default in puerto rico. is there anything the white house should do, one, to safeguard those senior citizens and their investments and, two, to prevent an increase in cost to states and municipalities that may have to pay more to borrow if puerto rico defaults? >> right. i think the issue itself is extremely difficult. it resolves around the continuing resolution to fund our government. there needs to be a continuing resolution effective this friday. the president has done everything possible, worked extremely hard with congress to ensure that we

the best thing is that flynn broke the law and there was extreme negligence on general flynn and the trump administration and the worst-case scenario is we could kebl connect the dots, whether general flynn, carter page, russian interference in the u.s. election. that's the story that's not being told and the more that the white house withholds information and the more that we get these kind of alternative facts and alternative realities, the more the need for the a special prosecutor becomes ever more important. >> it does make you wonder, would we even know this information had he not misled the vice president and therefore been fired and now all of these questions are emerging about everything that we've discussed. congressman and jamie, thank you very much. we'll stay on this closely. appreciate both of you. >>> coming up, why won't the treasury secretary guarantee that the middle class won't benefit from the president's new tax cut plan? the white house has responded to that. we'll debate it. >>> also ahead, was it a trillion dollar bluff? how mexico and canada are reacting to p

general flynn was supposed to do as a former officer. i don't know -- in fact, i'm fairly curious, toes how widespread this is. no former military officer is allowed to accept payments from a foreign government, and my guess is, that's probably not the first time this has happened, and it does concern me. >> question for mr. cummings. second question to you -- >> what was that question? >> do you think the white house is obstructing your investigation? >> well, we haven't gotten -- as i said at the end of my statement, we haven't gotten certain information that we've asked for. i can't call -- i wouldn't call it obstruction. these things happen. and as far as those documents are concerned, hopefully, we'll get them. by the way, emoluments, it's interesting. a lot of people are totally unfamiliar with the emoluments clause of the constitution, but it's something that i talked about a long time ago and said we should be able to avoid some of the problems that we've had. now, it wouldn't have been avoidable here because this is done long be

the congress knows all about michael flynn.mer deputy attorney general sally yates is going to come in a few days and testify in open session in congress. she's the one that went to the trump administration and said we believe that michael flynn, your national security adviser is vulnerable to russian blackmail and you need to know this. this man asked for immunity. so if the white house team didn't know what flynn was up to, they need to make that very clear as soon as possible. >> shepard: a.b. stoddard, thanks very much. the wall must be built. and congress must pay for it at least until mexico pays us back. and it must be funded in this putting, and that's that. remember that? it was a long time ago that that was said. like friday. today there's something all-new. the wall will wait. reality check next from the fox news deck. the dna day sale is here. get your ancestrydna kit. spit. mail it in. learn about you and the people and places that led to you. go explore your roots. take a walk through the past. meet new relatives.

what is trump worried about for michael flynn? what's he got on him? >> from the white house's perspective, their posture is that he doesn't have anything on them. but if you step back -- we don't know. this is somebody mike flynn was with the president almost every day during the campaign. >> he says he has a story to tell. what's the story? >> we don't know what the story is because there is his time spent with donald trump in the trump campaign, the transition in the white house, and then mike flynn has had contacts with russia, not just with the ambassador here in washington, but he has been paid tens of thousands of dollars by entities that are arms of the russian government and he sat at a dinner in december of 2015 with vladimir putin. and so there are a number of stories that he can tell. >> howard, look at this, we've been here before. you see a guy down a -- not far down the tree from the president. he's right there, national security virz. and the morehe's he's afraid, the more he will talk. not saying honestly under oath about whether he ta

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 speech for rt russia today, the network of russian television. it is a part of the russian government. as a flag officer retired, he was not able to receive any kind of compensation from a foreign government. that's what set this off today. so when sean spicer, the white house press secretary, was taken questions, there were plenty about flynn. one of the things he said was that the trump team had not needed to seek security clearance for retired general flynn because he already had it. he had a five-year security clearance that carried with him so he didn't need to put a wh

the committee wants to learn everything it can about what flynn has to say from people other than flynn. so they don't have to give him much, if anything. so they're saying, wait a minute, wait a minute. but if you're the attorney for flynn, you want to get him in there right away so that he gets credit for whatever he says from them. and also you have another reason, which is you want to give yourself what they call in the trade here in washington an immunity bath. you want to cover yourself with as much immunity as the committee is willing to give you. >> not just use. not just what you say but anything. >> anything in order to make it more difficult for the feds, for the fbi and the justice department to try to prosecute you. so those are the twin -- >> first of all, he's fill the out financial disclosure formed. he's had to say under oath what he said to the russians, how much money he got from the russians. what else? what he said to the russian ambassador. >> he also has spoken with the fbi. if you look at his track record, there's two things he's not been totally forthcoming on.

we're going to learn quite a lot more about flynn.: we understand the inspector general of the pentagon is looking into whether he brokered the emoluments clause, which means you are not allowed to take money from a foreign government or agency without prior permission from the. pentagon he was the head of the defense intelligence agency. he goes to moscow and photograph ed next to vladimir putin. since he got fired, he was advising the turkish government and received $500,000 from them to lobby, even though he had previously treated the right tod the west's mistrust islam. tim: his lawyer denies these -- jon: the lawyer says he contacted the relevant people. what we do not know what the form it took. i do not know whether there are forms you have to fill in. he says he contacted him. it may not be that the contact was quite aligning with what was said. it's extraordinary that you have a congressman like jason chaffitz, the chair of the house oversight committee, saying i see no evidence or no data to support the notion that flynn com

we have president trump talking in a tweet about mike flynn saying mike flynn should ask for immunitys say witch hunt. excuse for big loss. donald trump may have got even distracted when a reporter asked a question yesterday. watch what the president did. >> were you trying to tell the justice department to grant immunity to michael flynn? was that your intention? >> the president left the room and not evening signing the orders. asking the vice president to take them. house intel chair devin nunes blaming democrats for the scrutiny he is currently under. >> this is all about the independent commission. they don't want this to be investigated by members of congress or senate. they want an independent commission which is code word for something that lasts a long time and they can make political hay of it. >> we dive deeper into what we got 24 hours ago. the disclosures considering the trump administration were released in a friday document dump. how much are ivanka trump and jared kushner worth? let's check in with kelly o'donnell. kelly, brief us on the figure that they are worth and

for people asking about questions about general flynn and the blame game, he, general flynn, was issued a security clearance under the obama administration in the spring of 2016. the trip and transactions that you're referring to occurred in december 2015. so passing the buck back to the obama administration. >> i think we're conflating a lot of different issues here. the inquiry of whether you should deserve a security clearance or not is basically you have to fill out some forms and you're sort of a judged to be able to receive suitable information. what the reporters are trying to get at is notwithstanding whether he's eligible to receive national security intelligence, did you also do a political vet of general flynn to make a judgment about whether it's a good idea for someone who sat down with president putin, to hold a position such as national security adviser. so it's career professionals, not politicals, who do these type of security clearance checks. so i think we've done a lot of talking past each other. >> steve, you're nodding. >> yeah. the point i was agreeing with very s

flynn or general flynn, it has everything to do with former military officers.'t go and take money from a foreign government. you can't get a direct payment like that because former military officers can be called up and into duty at any given time. that does beg another question which is how did he get a security clearance. if he can all those things, how did he get a security clearance. >> and attorney for flynn responded to that yesterday saying as has previously been reported, general flynn briefed the intelligence defense agency extensively regarding the rt speaking event trip both before and after the trip and he answered any questions that were posed by dia concerning the trip during those briefs. >>> and the house oversight committee leaders also challenging the trump administration to provide information. the white house is denying a request for answers relevant to flynn's payments and his contacts with foreign nagtsdth na nationals. the administration argues that because the screening predated the start of administration, the documents generally would