with the russian ambassador to the united states, sergey kislayak.comes after president trump is winding down his first foreign trip overseas. first of all, jim, what response have you gotten from the president's aides when it comes to these latest reports on jared kushner? >> reporter: well, wolf, we can tell you the white house is just not commenting on this latest report on kushner. and one of the president's top advisers was briefing reporters earlier this week and he kuwait off t cut off that question and it's been like that all week long, the white house has simply dodged our questions throughout this week, even after they had to clean up after the president when he made some comments to other foreign leaders. >> at the g7 summit in sicily, the italians put on quite an air she, flying almost as fast as the r -- congressional candidate charged with misdemeanor assault after a reporter accused him of body slamming him. with the russian investigation hanging over him, the president spent another day of his foreign trip dodging reporters' questions

kislayak finishes his meeting with a foreign official, he sends it to moscow. so he wanted him to be aware. >> he was so concerned, and according to reporting and was concerned that flynn didn't quite understand the role kislayak plays, that they actually drew up or requested intelligence documents or kind of a profile of kislayak? >> the cia -- when they go and have meetings with those people, the american has an idea of what they're getting into. this is a document that's prepared and it's updated regularly, so what happened in this case is the transition official approached the obama administration officials who were interacting with the transition team in the situation room in the white house. and in one of their meetings about the trump transition, this trump official basically asked for the cia's bio of kislayak, so he could provide that to flynn to let him know in a sense what he was dealing with and warn him about the possibility that if he talks to him on an open line, it's going to get picked up. >> do you know whether that request was made by flynn o

he meet with kislayak twice and he did not note those interact. he had with a foreign government, over the past seven years, sessions initial fame your to disclose these meetings to the senate judicial committee actually led to him recusing himself from all matters relating to the russian investigation. he has said during his testimony, after his testimony that he did not recall discussing any campaign matters with kislayak, anderson. >> in terms of not disclosing these meetings, was it just the russians he left out, or did he not disclose any meetings thinking he didn't mean to. >> reporter: my colleague emma perez was told by a justice department spokesperson that initially sessions listed a year's worth of meetings with foreign officials, but then he was told by a staff fbi employee who assisted in filling out these forms that he didn't need to list these meetings with foreign ambassadors in his capacity as senator. a legal expert who regularly assists officials with filling out these forms, and this attorney said that senators would still have

sure bay kislayak, his comments made him potentially vulnerable to being compromised by russia. flynn was fired 18 days later, only after news reports that flynn had lied to vice president mike pence. this week will start a week's worth of appearances starting with the senate judiciary committee on wednesday. the committee will press comey on how the fbi worked with christopher steele, that included allegations there was an ongoing exchange between the trump administration and the russian government. the >> more than anything, i want to hear that the fbi isn't being blocked or impeded in their investigation and i want to know that we're going to get to the bottom of this in a balanced and bipartisan way. >> reporter: the committee will also speak answers about why comey spoke publicly about it's probe into hillary clinton's email server, and not with the trump team's ties with russia. he insists that the dossier was worthy enough to be shared with intelligence officials. in the new legal filing obtained by cnn, lawyers for the british spy argue that his investigation into possib

that flynn hadn't been forthcoming with about conversations he had with russian ambassador sergey kislayakup a situation where the national security advisor could be blackmailed by the russian. >> reporter: on january 27, the day after her warning, yates testified she returned to the white house for a second meeting with mcgahn. during that meeting, yates said mcgahn asked her if he could look at the evidence that had her cso concerned about general flynn. the date of january 27 is key, and here's why, donald trump has now admitted that he had dinner with fbi director james comey that very evening, january 27 at the white house. a private dinner soon after the president learned that his nsa director was being investigated for ties to russia. in his interview with nbc, the president said he can't remember who called the dinner. but new cnn reporting says comey says it was at the president's request. so was the timing of this dinner just a coincidence? what exactly had the president been told that the department of justice and fbi had learned? and would it have been enough to trigg trigger a

ambassador, what is your reaction to this latest news between jared kushner and russian ambassador sergey kislayak according to "the washington post"? >> the first thing i would say, and i'm just hearing this for the first time, i have just read the washington journal post. obviously jared kushner deserves a chance too respond to these allegations, they are allegations but they're not proven facts at this point. we don't indict in the court of public opinion, before all the facts are known, and he has a chance, and this is a fair minded american way to look at and respond to these. secondly, i think that tony blinken's comments are very important here. russia is a dark cloud hanging over the trump administration. so many different allegations, so many different individuals in the trump administration, some of them have now had to recuse themselves, including the attorney general, that i think the donald trump administration needs to make a basic decision. they have to understand that this administration is under siege and will be, in terms of public opinion. and in terms of the law, and to all of

it can't be lost that sergey kislayak knew about the firing of comey even before the president did. and was privy to classified information according to earlier reporting this week. when you see this from your intelligence background, what goes through your mind? >> i like your comment early, anderson, i think you would be a good case officer. this is something that usually the fbi has to recruit agents for, to find out who dislikes who and who the president is mad at. >> this is what cia operatives try to recruit agents for to find out the inside workings of putin's officers, this is what cia overs and intelligence officers do? this is the kind of intelligence they want? >> every single country in the world has on its list to find out about, find out the plans and intentions of x leader in whatever country you're targeting. in the united states, it's going to be for russia, everybody wants to have a recruited spy who's sitting at the table and saying, oh, my god, can you believe that president trump is so mad at comey? in this case the russians didn't need it because the president