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poor jason chaffetz. but looking into this turned up tough stuff about mike flynn but turned up way bigger political problems for chafrts. now this guy, this ambitious committee chairman who used to love being on television. created himself as a hard, tough super tenacious oversight guy, now having built up that reputation, now he's having moments like this in his interviews. >> do you think michael flynn broke the law. >> it doesn't appear as of he complied with the law. >> breaking the law is such harsh language. the law is still there for others to comply with, so it's not broken. in addition to what they have turned up about mike flynn, apparently his income from foreign governments, the chaffetz committee stumbled onto much, much bigger oblem, a particularly big problem if you're a republican congressman doing this oversight. it's about the white house. i will interject for a second to say i believe the white house made a tactical error here in handling this scandal. i don't think they are tactically

congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> so you see jason chaffetz, the republican cummings, the ranking member of that oversight committee, they're both calling the situation extreme lly troubling. what needs to happen next? >> i think, wolf, clearly that while jason chaffetz used the term inappropriate, they both used the term troubling, i'll use a different term and that's criminal. when you have someone who was at that point the national security adviser to be accepting $45,000 from the russian government, not disclosing that information to the white house, that in and of itself is criminal. and then second, the judgment of president trump to appoint this person to head the nsc and now after the fact not cooperating with an investigation, it's yet another layer, a part of this larger trump/russia investigation that needs to continue both on the fbi side as well as here in congress with the house committee and senate committee. >> just got a statement in from senator chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate. let me read it to you and our viewers. the di

i'll give you a couple pieces of context i couldn't give you as jason chaffetz started speaking. jason chaffetz, the chairman, and elijah cummings, the chairman of the oversight committee, came out of a briefing. they couldn't give us the classified part of it. the non-classified part is they continue to -- they worded it backwards. it's not that they've seen evidence that michael flynn has done something wrong. there is no evidence that michael flynn, who was obliged to seek clearance for and report that he was taking money from a foreign government, did so, something that jason chaffetz was asked directly about. do you believe he broke the law? his response is there was no information he complied with the law. the white house declined a request in writing from the committee to provide information, specifically to documents relating to general flynn's contacts wh foreign nationals, including communication between general flynn and foreign representatives and affiliates. the white house said, that's classified. you can't have it. jason and elijah were saying the information shoul

>> reporter: utah congressman jason chaffetz announced he's not seeking re-election. but said the decision was personal, not political. >> i just don't want to spend another 200-plus nights away from my family, it's that simple. >> reporter: the powerful chairman of the house oversight committee has famously championed the ongoing investigations into hillary clinton. they shook hands at the inauguration but when the image played on cable tv, chaffetz posting this picture saying "so pleased she is not the president." >> cecilia with us live tonight from washington. lawmakers getting an eefrl there from constituents during recess. a they're coming back next week. >> david, that's right. tax reform is on the agenda, health care could be back on the agenda. something even bigger on the horizon, avoiding a government shutdown, that could happen next friday if congress doesn't pass a funding bill. >>> next this evening a tornado watch in parts of three states

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republican jason chaffetz and democrat elijah cummings say during his white house vetting flynn did not report money he received from russia nor did he receive permission to receive money from a foreign source. >> as a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from russia, turkey, or anybody else. >> the white house has refused to provide this committee with a single piece of paper in response to our bipartisan request and that's simply unacceptable. >> we have reports and analysis from nbc's kasie hunt, kristen welker and chief legal correspondent ari melbur. kasie, on capitol hill, we need to explain the background here. all this starts well before the election. >> it does, chris. at issue is the -- are these payments that mike flynn received from rt, the russian network with ties to the russian government, and jason chaffetz and elijah cummings wrote to the white house and other government agencies saying hey, we have a lot of concerns about this and we would like to see all of the documents related to the former nsa director's contacts with foreign officials, with any fo

it's just not going to -- the country isn't going to operate based on what jason chaffetz believes. they should actually be a law to do that. and i'm actually working on that and i think they should have to disclose their medical background and i think they should also have to disclose their taxes. but given that it's not in the code, i don't think it's right to just force somebody to have to do that. >> so, what about your future? is politics over? >> well, i'm just saying i'm not going to be a candidate for the senate seat that's up in 2018 nor am i going to run for the house again. i very well may come back into politics at some point. i'm not going to close the door on that. i'd like to be a vocal voice in politics. but i've got to find the right balance in my life, and that balance has gotten a little out of whack. i've got to get a bit more with my family. >> a lot of people are addicted to this. it's hard to walk away from this. i've known you a number of years. i believe you. i believe it's your family and it's time, i got that. but a lot of people, it's hard to walk away fr

democrats demanding jason chaffetz, the republican chairman, do more to get those documents.ey just sent a letter to him asking him to do more to push for possibly even a subpoena. right now, though, not saying that they would go that far. chaffetz saying he's satisfied with the white house's response to that oversight committee on this issue. so you're seeing, even though earlier this week, john, both republican and democrat were saying -- raising concerns about michael flynn saying he may have broken the law. today as this investigation takes a new twist, starting to see some tension along party lines as they try to move forward on this investigation. >> oversight committee breaking along part sisan lines. again, welcome to washington. manu, thanks very much. this is confusing and shocking, there's some partisanship involved. also a lot of questions that will take some time to get through classified documents and general flynn now under investigation by the fbi, by the defense department inspector general, by house committees and by senate committees. he rightfully so has a

yesterday, congressman maxine waters floated this theory that congressman jason chaffetz is retiring he is a russian agent and fears being exposed. watch this. >> there is a lot of speculation about what he is doing. there are those who wore told that he is trying to position himself to run for higher offic. i think it is for governor. there are those who think that he may in some ways has some connection to what is going on in the ukraine and perhaps in russia itself. and know something about all of this. >> tucker: [laughs] for chris hayes at msnbc cut short the interview, i got that crazy. meanwhile, a new poll says that americans are divided into two camps, each with its own beliefs about how espionage may have swayed the last election. 39% believe that russia influenced the election with the knowledge and assistance of donald trump. on the flip side, 32% believes that president obama spied on donald trump is a president. congressman represents new york and he joins us now to sort thi. you serve in the same caucus with maxine waters. does this mean you are responsible for everyth

. >> jason chaffetz is speaking out tonight. he spoke to manu raju. phil, this is for you so pay particular attention to this. >> personally, i see no information or no data to support the notion that general flynn complied with the law. and that is he was supposed to seek permission and receive permission from both the secretary of state and the secretary of the army prior to traveling to russia to not only accept that payment but to engage in that activity. i see no evidence that he actually did that. >> the reason i'm giving it to you is because you have very strong opinions about what chaffetz said today. explain why. >> i think he's dead wrong. look. there's somebody who investigates whether there's a violation of law. that's the fbi. there's somebody in the executive branch who determines whether to take that to a court, whether to ask a judge and a jury whether someone has committed a crime. that's the department of justice. the congress has a role here. their role is significant. that is, can we protect candidates in the next election to ensur

republican congressman jason chaffetz announced on facebook that he will not run for re-election whenerm ends. representitive chaffetz is chairman of the powerful house oversight committee. the utah representative said he has no ulterior motives, but he is ready to return to the private sector. it's xx and we're just getting started. a warm wet weekend on the way, as the temperatures go up and some rain starts falling down. stormwatch 7 meteorologist eileen whelan is breaking down how much rain you can expect, in the days ahead.. coming up. good morning washington. - unseasonably warm today & tomorrow - thunderstorm chances both days (not severe) - cool & unsettled weekend - rain likely sunday today: partly sunny and much warmer. isolated shower or thunderstorm. highs: 81-85 winds: sw 5 mph tonight: partly cloudy. stray shower. mild. lows: 60-65 winds: ssw 5 mph friday: partly sunny and warm. isolated shower or thunderstorm. highs: 81-86 winds: sw to wnw 5-15 mph

jason chaffetz said wednesday he would not seek reelection or any other office in 2018, though he left open the possibility of a future bed, possibly for governor in three years. again, that from the salt lake tribune. end of this month, president trump will mark his 100th day in office. up next, i look at members of president trump's. the british parliament approved a measure to hold general elections on june 8. prime minister may spoke about the elections at the house of commons during prime minister's questions. later, a conversation on congress and the trump administration. ♪ c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact eu. thursday morning, political labor reporter discusses president trump's order revamping the h-1b program. and, discussing the trumps administration -- trump position onon's climate to washington journal, join the discussion. with the first 100 days of the trump administration approaching, c-span takes a

jason chaffetz said that he has seen nothing to suggest in any of the documents that lieutenant general michael flynn ever asked for permission. back in 2014 the pentagon warned flynn against taking such payments. the ranking member of the house oversight government reform committee elijah cummings today said that warning from the pentagon could not have been clearer. here he is. >> this matter 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. >> reporter: now, the reason they need to ask for permission is, even if you are a retired flag officer, you could be called back to active duty. this falls under the heading of what are called involumements. payments from foreign governments. donald trump ran into this problem when people were talking about whether foreign official stayed at his hotel here in washington, d.c. that would constitution that. elijah cummings asked the white

utah congressman jason chaffetz announced won't seek re-election. but said personal not political. >> don't want to spend another 200 plus nights away from my family. >> reporter: famously championed ongoing investigations into hillary clinton, shook hands at inauguration but when shown on tv posted image saying so pleased she's not the president. >>> one more note on his decision not to seek re-election. group called friends of jason chaffetz registered domain games that suggest a presidentcy run. >>> stay with us. truth in a booth. ♪ the sun'll come out tomorrow... ♪ for people with heart failure, tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪ i love ya, tomorrow in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto helped more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. if you've had angioedema wh

and so hopefully -- i give jason chaffetz credit.we submitted a bipartisan request to the white house. they basically refused. and now we have -- 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. and that when they get a request from the congress, they have to give up what we have asked for. and if not, then i'm going to, of course, try to work with chairman chaffetz to issue subpoenas so we can get that information. >> congressman elijah cummings from maryland. top democrat on the house oversight committee. sir, appreciate your time tonight. thank you very much. >>> if that is what it comes to, if we end up having the oversight committee subpoenaing the white house to get their documentation about mike flynn, that's when everybody gets popcorn. we'll be right back. stay with us. no, i'm scheduling time to go to ohthe bank to get a mortgage. ugh, you're using a vacation day to go to the bank? i know, right? just go to lendingtree dot com

. >> some other news, jason chaffetz indicating he might not even finish out his house term. he said my future plans are not yet finalized. i haven't ruled out the possibility of leaving early. what's going on? >> clearly, i think jason chaffetz has decide that had the place he has in the house is not the place he wants to be. it is a little bit difficult for members of congress who announce they're not running for retloeks continue to stay in the place they are. that applies generally. however, i think in this particular case, chaffetz is a person every time president trump does something that makes headlines, he is asked, are you going to investigate this? >> he is chairman of the house oversight. >> and he is someone who wants a long term political future in the state of utah. president trump is not at all popular in the state of utah. so the more types jason chaffetz has to be in this difficult position of commenting on president trump, he is jammed where he needs to be as a national politician and as a state politician. if his goal is to be governor of utah, that's a pot

jason chaffetz and elijah cummings updated reporters. >> thanks for being here. -- an obligation to seek and to engage withon foreign governments. it does not appear that he ever got that her mission. we will jointly be doing a letter for a final determination on that. that will need to come from the department of army as well as the inspector general at the department of defense. and if that money was received by general flynn, and we believe that it was, that money needs to be recovered. that final determination, again, will have to come from the department of the army as well as the department of defense, but as a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from russia, turkey or anybody else. and it appears as if he did take that money. there are repercussions for the violation of law. mr. cummings: good morning, and i'd just like to read a very short statement. i want to be very careful because we are coming out of a classified briefing. first, we have just come from this briefing with the defense intelligence agency. they brought in documents for us to review relating to

in a very dangerous precedent. >> reporter: now i will say, steve, i put the same question to jason chaffetzlier this week. i asked him, did michael flynn break the law here? chaffetz went further than cummings was willing to go today, and said he clearly was not in compliance with the law, steve? >> kasie hunt on capitol hill. thanks for that. >>> meanwhile, donald trump's closest adviser spending the week leading up to his 100th day in office trying to play up donald trump's accomplishments so far as president. there, of course, have been dozens of executive actions signed by the president, but despite that, many of his chief campaign promises remain unfulfilled. health care reform, overhauling, getting rid of obamacare, that failed the first time republicans tried that. they're trying to resurrect it. there's also donald trump's controversial travel ban, that now stalled in the court. no plan yet, either, so far, to build that wall along the southern border. the question as we approach president 100-day milestone for this administration, how are his supporters responding to this? are they

jason chaffetz house of the oversight committee and republican congressman of utah joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> thank you, greta. >> so, has the white house been cooperative with you on this investigation? >> yes. look, we had sought information wondering and inquiring as to whether or not general flynn had sought the proper clearances. now, remember, this goes back to 2015. and what he was required to do by law is get permission, not only seek, but get permission from the secretary of state as well as the secretary of the army. we don't see any paperwork there. so, if there is a nonresponse, if you will, from those agencies about the lack of paperwork, it goes to our suspicion that general flynn failed to seek and get permission prior to accepting money from foreign entities. that is the violation. but i do think the white house, a, has been cooperative. b, it was the obama white house that this would have fallen under. i don't think what happened here is really the fault of donald trump. >> okay. except it's notable that the letter that you sent over to the white hous

jason chaffetz and elijah cummings updated reporters. >> thanks for being here. -- an obligation to seek and to engage withon foreign governments. it does not appear that he ever got that her mission. we will jointly be

nancy: jason chaffetz is not going to seek re-election when his term is up.e have a decision from a key leader on the hill. amy? he said he won't be a candidate for any o any ulterior motives. he has been against the d.c. statehood and made headlines locally when the people in d.c. work to raise money for people running against him. at time he and the ranking party member elijah cummings had heated exchangings in hearings -- heated exchanges in hearings. don't count him out for good. he is it not ruling out running for office in the future but not next year. nancy: thank you. the democratic candidate to fill tom price's seat got the most votes but he didn't win. he will go up against the republican in a runoff june 20. they will then represent the district in atlanta. so, yesterday but don't worry, it will change. chief meteorologist doug hill has a look at the forecast. a big rebound coming our way. doug: we see it indeed. go back to the early summer weather pattern. looking out on udvar-hazy center, cloudy and damp. a lot of the mitt atlantic with cloud cov

the house and senate out spirit were that utah representative jason chaffetz some of the chair of the house oversight committee, says he will not run for reelection or any other office in 2018. he is in his fifth term and said on facebook earlier that he has long advocated that public service should be for a limited time and not a lifetime or a full career. he says he has no alterity or motives and is healthy and confident he would be reelected. the national republican congressional committee chairman said that republicans have a deep bench of talented candidates in utah who are more than up for this challenge. the nrcc is confident in our ability to keep this seat red in november appeared we will take you back to the discussion on infrastructure at the policy conference, the committee for a good, development. until then, part of the program from earlier today. >> nicely from the last one, i thought i would start by asking each of you -- if we look back on the first 100 days of the trump presidency a couple years from now, what is the one thing you think has happened that we will cons

you taught republican, and jason chaffetz is returning to the private sector.a facebook post today, the house oversight committee chairman said he will not run for a reelection or any office in 2018. elect to congress in 2008, he said his decision was not based on either health or political concerns, adding he was confident he would have been reelected. mexico says the u.s. congress is delaying the start of talks on the north american free trade agreement, nafta. mexico is waiting for u.s. trade agreement to be in place. plus the senate has held up the confirmation of robert -- democrats say he needs a waiver because he worked with groups connect with china and brazil during his time as an attorney p or two russian bombers have flown within 100 miles of the alaskan coast. it is the first time since president trump took office that russian warplanes have come so close to the u.s. two fighter planes were scrambled to intercept monday night. russian planes broke off and returned and it has been almost two years since a similar incident. powered by more than 2600 j

earlier today the leaders of the house oversight committee, jason chaffetz and elijah cummings, talked to reporters about their investigation into russia in the 2016 elections. chairman chaffetz said he sees no evidence that michael flynn, the former national security advisor to president trump, complied with the law when he received money from meeting with russian organizations in 2015. his is 10 minutes. mr. chaffetz: thank you for being here. this is an obligation to seek and obtain permission to receive money from foreign governments prior to any engagement with them. it does not appear to us that that was ever sought nor did he ever get that permission. we will jointly be doing a letter for a final determination on that. that will need to come from the department of army as well as the inspector general at the department of defense. and if that money was received by general flynn, and we believe that it was, that money needs to be recovered. that final determination, again, will have to come from the department of the army as well as the department of defense, but as a former mili

i'm talking about jason chaffetz. thanks for joining me. what is all of this about? >> look, march 26, i turned 50 years old. i was there sleeping on a cot in my office as i do when i'm in congress. i'm in year nine of being in congress. i've been away from my family for more than 1,500 night, it as simple of the fact that i love my wife and i adore my kids. you have to reevaluate your life when you're sleeping on a cot in your office when you just turned 50. i preach that you want to get in, serve and get out. that's what i'm doing. >> neil: it surprised a lot of folks of the sacrifices that folks in office make. but in your case, you're deemed a rising star whose name has been mentioned for senate. i take it that is out, too? >> look, i enjoy the work. i like the issues that we're tackling and the work that we do. but i happen to love my family more. i'm not going to run for any office in 2018. i said i was going to get in, serve and get out and that's what i'm going to do. my life will be complete if i'm not a united states senator. >> neil: what are you going to

jason chaffetz, please, just grow a pair and tell us what ( cheers and applause ) you gutless charlesulz rough draft. quick aside, quick aside. congratulations to greta on her new, show "for the record." if you remember, for years, her old show on fox news was called "on the record." because "for" the record, she no longer believes anything she said that was "on" the record. i look forward to seeing her future cnn show, "please erase the record." as a political outsider, it's taking donald trump a little while to get a handle on how stuff works in the nation's capital. but there's one piece of white house protocol that trump has mastered, because according to the associated press, with the push of a red button placed on the resolute desk... oh, god! what happens when he pushes the button? a white house butler arrives with a coke for the president. ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheers and applause ) thank god. i was worried there. he's just turning the oval office into an 8-year-old's drawing of a dream treehouse. "there'd be a button where i get coke wherever i want, and a slide into a

. >> jason chaffetz says he will not seek public office in 2018. jonathan: to the united states show of force against north korea. uss carl vinson and the strike group are expected to arrive in the see of japan next week. the departure is days that president trump said it was headed to the korea peninsula. the white house maintains north korea is a dangerous and an urgent threat. police say yesterday's shooting spree in california was a hate crime but not act of terrorism. ad mitted killer muhammad facing now four murder charges. three for the victims yesterday and one for the death of a motel security guard for last week. michelle: flowers are arriving at the pennsylvania mcdonald's to help capture killer. the note called the workers an example for the community. a drive-through worker recognized steve stephens yesterday and everyone tried to stall him after calling police. he killed the man on camera. jonathan: a search for the district for go armed men who robbed an armored car. witnesses say two men armed with what looked like ak-47 rifles went

jason chaffetz just came from a classified briefing and willing to say that. the clip you played in the beginning, jason chaffetz says there are penalties for breaking the law. i talked to someone in the white house yesterday. they don't dispute the idea that michael flynn is in some deep, deep trouble. >> i just don't get how they say they didn't know about this. the reports about flynn have been out since he entered the fray with trump. people have been saying this. it is implausible to say we didn't know. this wasn't on us. >> the argument they made because i had a quote with them yesterday. the argument they made is the security clearance for michael flynn was approved under the obama administration. not under the trump administration. now, to david's broader point. the issue here is yes, that is an issue. the broader issue is why was this guy who was trump's lead surrogate in the campaign, his first named adviser. why was this guy with all of these questions about russia that close to the president? >> abbey, how do you see this going? >> i think the whit

today in his role as chairman of that committee, jason chaffetz signed onto this letter. it's a letter to president trump's lawyer, and it seeks documents relating to a supposed plan from the trump folks that they said they would pay the u.s. treasury back for any money that his hotels made from foreign government officials staying at his hotels while he's president. it might seem like an obscure financial piece of the puzzle, but in the constitution bluntly the president is prohibited from accepting money from foreign officials. if foreign officials are staying at his hotels, well that's part of the constitutional problem with the president holding onto his businesses and continuing to financially benefit from them while he is still president. this letter from the oversight committee, it cites a "usa today" report from march. the trump folks were going to put off making that donation, the donation of their foreign properties until the end of the calendar year. house oversight committee now doesn't want to wait until the end of the year. they want information on that next

they wanted to know, jason chaffetz and elijah cummings, what general flynn said when he filled out fs 86 for his national security clearance. while that documents resides with the defense intelligence agency who did the background check and the committee went over there and apparently they did get access to that. as to the other requests, they asked for documents, payments that lieutenant general michael flynn had prior to january 20th. in a letter to the committee, the head of the legislative affairs division here said we don't have many of those documents. and then they said with documents post dating january the 20th, a lot of those that would include meetings and phone calls that general flynn had with foreign leaders would likely be classified and sensitive in nature. and they wrote also, it's unclear who the documents would mean, talking about flynn's disclosure to payments in 2015-16, prior to his service at the white house. why would those documents have any relevance on what happened before. so we're not going to provide you with those. i talked to sean spicer about this. her

. >> chairman jason chaffetz and elijah cummings say there's no indication that flynn obeyed the law when he did not disclose payments that he did not receive from russia. >> as a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from russia, turkey or anybody else and it appears as if he did take that money, it was inappropriate and there are repercussions for the violation of law. >> i believe the oversight committee should be holding a hearing with general flynn. i'm seeing the chairman, we talked briefly about this and it seems this is the purview of the intelligence committee. but we need to have the opportunity to ask general flynn directly why he concealed these foreign payments from the defense department. >> we do have a statement from general flynn's lawyer that reads as follows. "as has previously been reported, general flynn briefed the defense intelligence agency, a component agency of dod before and after the trip and he answered any questions that were supposed by dia concerning the trip during those briefings. just to put in perspective for you, how big this inves

host: chairman jason chaffetz yesterday.e will keep an eye on that story is more develops. 10 minutes left in this segment of "washington journal." your thoughts on the federal judge's ruling blocking executive order aimed at stopping runs to sanctuary cities, a temporary halt. vera in lorain, ohio. independent. good morning. i have been a democrat my whole era.until the bill clinton i am 58 years old and have voted since i was 18. i have been independent until this last election. i had to declare republican to vote for mr. trump. i feel he is the best president since john f. kennedy. illegal, the word speaks for itself. i am a first generation american from croatian immigrants. they had to come legally through all of the ropes to get here. i feel it is fair for everyone. it is not fair that some good to break the law. i think judges should uphold the law. i feel i am a fair person, accepting of everyone. if you start picking and choosing which laws to uphold or break, where does that leave a can of worms open? an illegalere

i can't figure out why jason chaffetz is making this request in the first place.e congress have the ability to investigate a crime and do they have the ability as the department of justice does to go and say we want to prosecute a crime? >> the no. >> the fbi is asking for the records. they are asking for travel records. i don't know why jason chaffetz is pretending to say he knows or the right to declare that general flynn committed a crime. >> david gregory. beyond the procedure that phil is talking about. remember michael flynn was the first named adviser to then candidate trump. he was with him all the time. >> shoulder to shoulder. >> we interviewed him several times because he was the spokesperson many times on many subjects for the campaign. why didn't they vet him more closely? >> i think this is the real issue. you have somebody who is extremely close to the candidates and the president-elect. then the president who has ties to a foreign power. that foreign power is judged by all of our intelligence agencies in the country to attempted to manipulate our e

. >> that was the chairman of the oversight committee jason chaffetz. he's a republican.et some insights from our experts and david axelrod, what's your reaction to hearing this with a man who used to lead those chants at donald trump rallies involving hillary clinton lock her up, lock her up. >> yes. >> he used to say that. what's your reaction? >> well, i think, wolf, if you looked up the word irony in the dictionary today, you might find general flynn's picture next to t.clearly when you think about those scenes at the republican convention last summer and where he is today, he's -- we've come a long way, but it does help explain one thing, why his lawyers reach out to the intelligence committees and reportedly made an offer to testify in exchange for immunity and hinted that he had a story to tell and he wanted to tell it, so they apparently understand that they have a problem, and -- and they were looking for a way to cut their losses. >> there's no invasion any of the congressional committees are ready to grant him any immunity. nia, let's talk about a little bit mo

jason chaffetz announced he will not be running for another term in congress. he said he made personal decision to return to the private sector but did not rule out being in public office beyond 2018. it looks like he could be eyeing office in 2020. one of the gubernatorial candidates, josh romney. by the way, it was another romney that may have blocked jason chaffetz' ambition. perhaps a u.s. senate seat in 2018. anyway, house speaker paul ryan tweeted, thankful to have served with jason in the house referring to his twitter name. chaffetz, a couple of romneys. it will be interesting. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get med

now, this news about jason chaffetz. i thought the most interesting part is when you apologized for checking your phone for updates. i didn't know it was a phone. >> they're coming in frequently. >> i'll apologize, too. have a great afternoon. >>> right now on msnbc, the georgia runoff, 2 out of 18 candidates will face off in a june election for tom price's vacant house seat. democrat underdog ossoff takes on karen handle. president trump getting in the fray, as well. the race could have implications for the future of both parties. >>> displaced in droves. retail jobs are plummeting. 60,000 jobs lost in the first quarter of this year. what does it mean for the economy? >>> on the brink. vice president mike pence has a message for north korea. quote, the sword stands ready. we'll have the latest on white house strategy overseas, including confusion over where the "u.s.s. carl vinson" is right now. >>> breaking this morning. former nfl player aaron hernandez dead inside his prison cell. what we know right now. >>> good mor

your reaction to jason chaffetz's decision to retire?he earned his way to the chairmanship, but i also know that he sleeps in his office, as so many members of congress do. i'm very fortunate, as you know. i don't have to do that. but it's one of the areas we need to fix. we do need to fix the support systems for members of congress so they're not constantly choong between family and service. d i know that's not popular. but i think it's important for people like jason who made a tremendous sacrifice for a lot of years. >> thank you very much. thanks for being with us. become home with your report. that does it for us. this edition of