>> so in is clearly a deepening of the russia probe focusing very much ob michael flynn's contacts with turkey in this instance. so what we can obviously glean from that is a broadening of the investigation as it pertains to flynn. now, of course, there is a certain irony here, because president obama at the very first post election meeting with president-elect trump warned him against hiring michael flynn, and the president-elect obviously disregarded that advice and it is michael flynn who has proven the thread that the prosecutors can keep pulling upon to cause the white house considerable difficulties, and i think that we are seeing a new chapter in that book right now. >> and in that book, and in that chapter here, ned, includes the word turkey. it includes the question of payments, and it includes another development for michael flynn that this white house as kelly o'donnell was tell thing us, they want to move on from. >> that is right, richard. we know that michael flynn was acting as unregistered foreign agent in the transition, and the short tenure as national security adviser

michael flynn did have involvement. he did have an untruth on his forms he completed to get his security clearance. once you get in that door, you don't know where it is going to take you. it is better to start off with a given and work your way through that than to start to feel around and see if you can find something indirectly. >> kimberly, could all of this have been avoided if flynn had simply registered as a foreign agent and disclosed his ties to turkey on his security clearance form? >> a lot of it could have been avoided, but you have to look at the actual registration process and the history of that in washington, d.c. it's not very well regulated. a lot of people are advised to wait until the very last moment to register. in this case, flynn's friends tell me that he was in a chaotic campaign and also trying to run his business. and this was the result of inexperience. after he got forced out of the white house and he got really good legal help, it's then that the lawyers said, look, this is a vulnerability,

is now sharing new details about his conversations with michael flynn which ultimately led to flynn's firing. sergey kislyak says they talked about terrorism, not sanctions. >> translator: there are a few topics that are important to u.s./russia cooperation. first of all, it's terrorism. this was one of the topics we discussed. this conversation was proper, calm and absolutely transparent. there were no secrets. at least on our side. >> we have a team of reporters covering all of these angles of these latest developments. i want to start with boris sanchez. what exactly was the fbi looking for? whan d and what did it find? >> from what we understand, federal investigators are now looking into the relationship between michael flynn and the government of turkey. the "new york times" is reporting that they have requested that robert mueller, special counsel, requested documents from the white house pertaining to flynn's relationship with turkey and payments he may have received in exchange for lobbying against a political enemy of the turkish president erdogan. from what we understand, t

from what we understand they have requested documents pertaining to michael flynn and questioned witnesses about flynn's relationship with turkey. this coincides with cnn's own reporting that the special counsel was looking into ties between the former national security adviser who is fired for apparently lying to the former -- or rather to the vice president, and that government. we've reached out to attorneys for michael flynn. they have declined to comment. we've reached out to the outside counsel of the white house. they have said they will not discuss any specifics of their communications between them and the special counsel except to say they are complying with all of their requests. we should point out, fred, back in the spring, the house oversight committee leaders there said that michael flynn may have broken the law when he didn't reveal these payments from foreign governments including turkey on his security clearance forms, another one of those payments very interestingly, fred, we learned was from rttv, the russian state news agency. so taking all of this into account it gives

michael flynn's participation in the trump campaign or broader business dealings? >> there are a few things we can learn from this. this would not be a specific request about the campaign that would go to the campaign. this is stuff about flynn's time at the white house and not stuff -- not personal to flynn. that would go to flynn's lawyer. it is about flynn's time in the white house and about him specifically. what we know is the issues that mike flynn came up with at the white house. one was an fbi interview days after trump was sworn in about flynn's call with the russian ambassador in the weeks before trump was inaugurated and we know the questions about whether flynn was still, you know, taking money from the turkish government and doing work for them when he was the national security adviser at the white house. he was gone within the first month of the administration. >> in that time you had sally yates coming over to warn the white house counsel's office about flynn. in your reporting do you have information that robert mueller's investigators may want to t

that's why we had the issue. >> retaliation. >> yeah. >> eugene, let's stay with michael flynn. the "new york times" reporting the special prosecutor -- special counsel, i should say, bob mueller, is requesting documents from the white house about flynn and trying to get to the idea or the potential of his having received secret payments from the turkish government. evidence of a broadening investigation here. >> yes, indeed. we've seen this past week that the special counsel is moving the investigation into a more financially focused area, which is something the trump administration has expressed some frustration with. the reality is, as lynn was saying, it is not that the first conversation always leads to something that people, investigators, would find problematic. there are conversations leading up to that they want to pay close attention to, to see what could have possibly happened. part of it, flynn had to repeatedly update his disclosure forms. they've shown each time that he has received more money from foreign, perhaps, governments or companies he was not open with in

counsel's probe has expanded to include examination of former national figure advisor general michael flynn'sinancial deals. this is coming from a report late last night in the new york times, investigators working for special counsel started questioning witnesses about whether flynn was paid by the turkish government during the final months of the campaign. in his report coming a day after the wall street journal reported account that special counsel in washington issued subpoenas, a sign the investigation is entering a new phase. all of these reports coming from leaks, within the special counsel's office, maybe even the administration itself, these are the same leaks attorney general jeff sessions railed against yesterday and so did republican senator lindsey graham. >> i will hold mueller accountable for this, running the grand jury process, i will respect it, do your work behind closed doors, professionally. if we get constant leaks out of the grand jury he needs to be held accountable. >> reporter: senator graham said it would be incumbent upon congress to hold donald trump accountable i

alleged secret payments between the turkish government and the former national security adviser michael flynn. from what we understand, flynn allegedly received payments from the turkish government in exchange for lobbying against a political opponent of the turkish president, resip erdogan. "the times" goes on to report that the special counsel has requested specific documents from the white house pertaining to flynn even going as far as to interview witnesses and question them about ties between the former national security adviser and the turkish government. this actualry coincides with some of cnn's own reporting about the focus of the investigation into michael flynn, zeroing in on his ties to that country. we of reached out the flynn's attorney. they have declined to comment. we've also reached out to the white house's outside counsel. they have told us that they do not want to comment on their discussions with the special counsel except to say that they are fully complying with the investigation. very important to point out, fred, in the spring, we heard from leaders on the house overs

>> i think michael flynn has had to serially redo his financial disclosure forms.e of the payments from this firm that might have been a cut out for the turkish government are highly suspect. i think that is the very center of the criminal investigation. but one last point chris and you brought this up with the deputy attorney general. i think that he may have made a really momentous mistake in not being more specific in the initial charge to robert mueller about what exactly, what specific crimes he should be invested getting and let robert mueller come back and be very public about what new friends he might be investigated because there is no way to know now whether it is a fishing expedition on it. and robert mueller could be by the assumption. next we asked you precisely on this issue. got this on twitter from tom h. he writes, how does an investigation of russian hacking and 2016, get to private business deals eight years passed? how do you answer tom and also this question, obviously i discussed this at considerable length with rod rosenstein. what if the spe

of cnn's own reporting that the special council is zooming in, focusing in on payments made to michael flynnreign governments. we reached out to flynn's attorney. that i declined to comment on the story. we also reached out to the white house counsel including ty cobb who gave us a statement essentially saying they didn't want to get into the specifics of the conversation except to say they're fully complying with this investigation. very important to point out, ana, back in the spring, if you recall, the house oversight committee leaders there indicated that michael flynn may have violated the law by not disclosing some of these foreign payments on his security clearance forms, not only from the turkish government but also potentially from rtt, the russian news network. this is one slice of an investigation that continues to broaden. and as you remember, ana, flynn was fired for apparently lying the vice president about conversations that he had had with a russian ambassador. so there's still so many questions to answer in this probe, again, one that continues to broaden seemingly every wee

months later, michael flynn was forced to amend his resignation and acknowledged that this lobbying was on behalf of turkish interests. that seems to be one of the many things about mike flynn's activities that the special counsel is looking at. how does this relate back to the trump/russia inquiry and whether the trump campaign colluded with russia. there are other questions about what meetings mike flynn participated in and what did he know and whether the special counsel is going to seek his cooperation and his testimony, alex? >> all right. so, ken, with regard to the process of an investigation like this, at what point would documents like these be requested? the beginning or a healthy way into this investigation? where do you see that? >> closer to the beginning, actually, alex. because the investigators need to documents to sketch out the picture. then they start talking to witnesses. documents usually come first. there have been document requests, as nbc news has reported, months ago, going on for some time. there was a grand jury in alexandria, virginia, where subpoenas were is

michael flynn, the former national security adviser who was forced out of the white house after just ays in office, the associated press reports tonight that flynn is amending a public filing to include income that he never mentioned during his brief time in the trump administration. back in march flynn listed more than $1 million in earnings. the a.p. reported his new filing adds $28,000 in income from the trump transition team. $5,000 for work he did on nuclear power plants in the middle east, and $140,000 for consulting work for an iranian american multimillionaire. it shows that he had planned to do some work for the parent company of cambridge analytica. that's the company tied to bannon. that provided data analysis and targeted communications for the trump campaign and for the brexit campaign. the a.p. reports that trump terminated that deal after donald trump won the presidency. flynn has been out of his government job for six months but still dotting his i's and crossing his t's. which is maybe a smart move for a guy who was not only key -- he's part of four congressional inve

michael flynn has resigned. - flynn's shocking departure comes after just three weeks on the job. - hethe shortest-serving national security advisor now in modern history. - yeah! [cheers and applause] yes! trump! trump! trump! trump! donald trump finally draining the swamp of the people he brought to the swamp. president trump is a genius, people. he hires a cabinet full of terrible people, fires them one by one, looks like he's a man of action. drain the swamp! down to the previous levels! drain the swamp! down to the previous levels! it's not as catchy. it's just not as catchy. how big is this story? the national security advisor, fired after just three weeks. who, like, who could've seen this coming? - a red flag was raised late last month by then-acting attorney general sally yates, yates telling the trump white house she believed flynn was potentially vulnerable to russian blackmail. - remember after obama put sanctions on russia for election meddling, all right, to help trump win, you remember that? well, after that, flynn called the russian ambassador and told them not to sanct

>> i suppose it's possible that kislyak may be trying to help michael flynn given he's under renewed focus again in the inquii inquiri inquiries, was a deal done between the trump team and the russians and he's restating what they have said time and again. there was nothing nefarious, no secret deals, no one said they'd lift sanctions if they were elected. this is what the kremlin has been saying time and again. if he's anything, kislyak is a professional diplomat, he's professional in voicing what the creme line line is. this is what they have been saying all along. >> thank you so much. >>> we are now following more breaking news today. just in the last hour, north korea facing tough new sanctions. just a short time ago, the u.n. security council unanimously approved the new sanctions banning key north korean exports and putting significant limits on foreign investment in north korea. u.s. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, spoke out today in full support of the new sanctions. i want to bring in senior united nations correspondent richard roth there. you were there for

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mueller's investigators bearing down on michael flynn's financial ties abroad. now asking the white house for documents related to flynn, and they've questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid by the turkish government during the final months of the trump presidential campaign. this according to people close to the investigation who spoke with the times tonight. now, the request is reportedly not yet any kind of formal subpoena. but it is to be clear a new step. quote, the document request is the first known instance of mulumul mueller's team asking the white house to hand over records. president trump's lawyers know that any resistance to this would only speed up mueller leaning on the grand jury that everyone's been talking about for subpoenas or testimony. that's the process. here is the actual criminal issue tonight. mueller looking at how flynn worked with a turkish-american businessman. flynn's business was reportedly paid $530,000 -- that's a lot of money -- to run a kind of a political-type campaign that would attack the opponent of the curre

there's the allegation by comey that he specifically asked him to lay off michael flynn. what does that tell you in your investigative mind? >> it sets off red flags for me. donald trump is not particularly local to the people who work for him. so the idea that he's trying to protect him out after a sense of friendship or loyaltity doesn't ring true. it makes me wonder if there isn't some red floag that they'e on to. >> and lastly, a similar question that i asked michael schmitt. if you're talking about that 27-day period when michael flynn was the national security adviser, the warnings about him came from sally yates. they potentially went through the white house counsel's office. for all we know they could have gone to the attorney general of the united states. you know, how wide are we talking about in terms of people who could potentially be subpoenaed and have their records subpoenaed to testify about michael flynn and his t k activities. >> one thing the prosecutor wants to do is gets his around around the codocuments and arou the people that know something about t

their american becomes michael flynn. >> that's exactly the question to figure out.manafort a man that happens to be in the middle. is there that connection, that collusion that sets all of these dice falling. >> he made 17 million bucks, that's a lot of money in moscow, i would say he is driven by that just guessing. >> the other thing is manafort, we were talking about the meeting with donald trump, jr., right, we were talking how they had that meeting in 2016. so he definitely keeps coming up. >> why do you think when trump found out about these connection, he'd say i don't want entanglements with the ole guards, i have too much confusion, i don't want a relationship with russia. or, positively, will somebody find out the stuff the russians have on hillary, give it to me? he wanted to deal with the russians? >> i think he wanted to win, dirt on hillary clinton was a path on dirt forward he was fine with that. he dealt with russians in his back businesses. >> exactly right. the prism of a guy who is a real estate developer. you want to talk, let's talk. why not. >>

so if michael flynn has done nothing wrong, then he has nothing to worry about. if he has done something wrong, i certainly hope that law enforcement is going to take a serious look at that and investigate it and find out if there was a crime. if so, indict him for it. >> let's go to the cnn exclusive reporting. the fbi on election night monitoring social media in efforts to tamp down, as best they can, disinformation and fake news. the fbi called this a success. one white house source tells cnn this was a failure of imagination, and what the russians did worked. was this potentially one and done, considering that the current president has really not been committal -- let's call him non-committal at best, or if russia really was involved in meddling with the election? >> let's put it this way, my sense of it, victor, my academic background is in political science. i think that this report and this incident is going to go down in the books, the history books. i think we're at a watershed moment. you'll see in the future national campaigns having their own war room

and new details involving russia, michael flynn and the investigation.urse, north korea fired off three new missiles overnight. we'll talk about all of that. stay close. straight talk wireless lets you keep your phone, number... ...and 4g lte network... ...for a lot less, with the bring your own phone activation kit. find out more at straighttalk.com. >>> we'll continue our coverage of hurricane harvey throughout the morning. but let's now talk about all that came out of the white house overnight. the pardon of sheriff joe arpaio, the resignation or firing, depending upon which white house official you ask of the adviser sebastian gorka. the president's transgender theme, that the transgenders are not allowed to serve in the united states military. and reporting from "the wall street journal" reporting that special counsel robert mueller is examining the possible role former security adviser michael flynn played in looking for hillary clinton's hackers. and joining us now, your reaction from what wall street is saying about all of this, particularly from

really appreciated that jeff flake said the locker up, those cries at the republican convention by michael flynn no less, the call and response was really a nayier of -- what i

but regarding to his relationship with michael flynn, michael flynn was the president's first national security advisor. but there reports are not seeing eye to eye with his current one. more staff shakeups possibly on the horizon? >> i think it is always possible with this administration but it sounds like his current and second national advisor is safe for now. the president put out a statement really show support last night. i want to read this to you. it says quote - general mcmaster and i working very well together. he's a good man and very pro-israel. i am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country. there is also some talk about the job of communications director. obviously it was vacant after the ousting of anthony scaramucci last week. there have been reports that the senior policy advisor stephen miller may be up for the job. several officials have told us that those reports are a bit overblown. they also said the president was very pleased with his performance in the briefing room this week. one more thing before i go julie. president trump just tweeted some

and national security adviser michael flynn just 23 days. presjv÷y+hárump dismissing the?isorder, tweeting, a great day at the white house. top republicans less monday arizona senator jeff flake argues the gop is in denial about donald trump writing, we created him and now we're rationalizing him. when will it stop? the broader more important question how much political capital has this president skaund erred and how much does he still hold to accomplish this agenda. many lawmakers no longer fear president trump's threats and in the wake of last week's failure to repeal and replace obamacare several republicans have indicated they're ready to move on. >>> we're joined now exclusively by senator lindsey graham. always good to see you. >> good morning. >> thanks for coming by. we have so much to talk about. i want to ask you about this "washington post" story that says that president trump may have been the one who drafted that memo released by his son donald trump jr. about that meeting with the russian lawyer

several lawyers involved in the case, at least some related to former national security advisor michael flynnay of grand jury subpoenas into flynn and paul manafort that began before mueller was appointed. federal prosecutors were using at least one other grand jury located in alexandria, virginia. a senior official has told nbc news that mueller is looking at whether the president may have obstructed justice. a grand jury is routinely used for complex investigations, and is not solely for hearing system but also for obtaining records. >> some of those records, let's say this morning, the president's tax returns, he's going to get them. >> a lawyer for president trump responded. we favor anything that accelerates mr. mueller's work and remain committed to fully cooperating. he added that former fbi director comey told the president at least three times he's not under investigation and that we've heard nothing that would change that. the only concern at the white house is that this be done fast and fairly. >> clint, tell us -- you see the headlines, you've heard the news over the past 18 hours

special council robert mueller is examining what role if any former national security advisor michael flynnave played in a private effort to obtain the 33,000 e-mails that were deleted from hillary clinton's e-mail server. apparently tried to contact or rather he is being portrayed as working with a republican operative to get those e-mails from russian hackers. the thinking is that this is sort of like dirty tricks politics, to basically embarrass hillary clinton if those 33,000 e-mails again deleted by hillary clinton and if any information on say the clinton foundation or benghazi. with more on this is legal curt, you hear the breaking news what do you think? >> well first of all, if it's true it's a big nothing. isn't this what mueller was supposed to be investigating in the first place? for once it seems remotely connected to something having to do with "collusion" between the trump campaign and the russians so wow it's nice to see they're actually doing something within the scope of their endeavors, but here is the thing that gets me. what kind of unprofessional clown car show inch. >

. >> julie: let's talk about the grand jury that has been impaneled regarding michael flynn. because there is an investigation there as well while they are trying to determine whether or not michael flynn had basically not disclose information that he had exchanged money with turkey, where does that stand and how does that fold into all of this? >> that is the grand jury that i believe was initiated in virginia in the northern district of virginia. a separate district if there is another panel, and other panel in d.c., this may very well be rolled into the information that is being sought in the grand jury in washington, d.c., and in that way you can compress all of the information that you are looking at in regard to the general. and also in regard to this particular case, because it may very well be that the activity of the general was in fact part of collusion. one never knows. you don't know where it is going to go. but you have to take the steps to find out where it is going to go and what was done. >> julie: could the grand jury subpoena president trump after the fact t

michael flynn, the allegations include payments from turkey and payments he received from rt and other whether they were allowed, whether they violated any clause or properly disclosed but more broadly whether it shows an intent to work with the russians in ways that are contrary to law. it all, i think, is within the broad scope of what we're looking at. it's particularly significant, i think, in terms of the mueller investigation in as much as if general flynn was shown to have violated the law in other ways, it would be an incentive to cooperate more broadly with the mueller investigation. >> bob mueller has been using a grand jury in washington, d.c. to investigate possible collusion. you heard chris christie, former prosecutor, say that the coverage was too breathless. what does this development tell you about the status of the investigation? >> what it tells me, if you look at the context we know from james comey's testimony before the committee that he opened a counterintelligence investigation last july. one year later rather than turning that investigation off, rather than con

and with michael flynn, an indicator of where things are going. nick akerman, michael nance, thank you. >>> how the fcc got to the brink of creating a pro trump monopoly, next. >>> bottom line is this. general kelly will wring more organization into the white house. he is not there to revamp the trump presidency. >> that was senior adviser boris ep stein, now chief political analyst at a powerful media entity that has flown under the radar. sinclair broadcast is the largest tv broadcast every owning more than 170 local tv stations around the country. if you live in say scranton, pennsylvania or syracuse, new york, three of your local stations are owned by sinclair. and they take a pretty hands-on approach. boris epstein's segments with the pro trump spin are designated adds must-run when they are distributed to the 170 stations. meaning these stations must include them in their local news broadcast, and they are. sinclair also makes its stations run scare mongering terrorist alert desk segments which has questionable news value. during the campaign

council robert mueller is seeking white house records on the former national security adviser michael flynnthough it's not a formal subpoena, the "times" said it's not the first notification that mueller's team has gone after the white house documents. the "times" also reporting whether flynn was seriously paid by the turkish government by the trump campaign. neither general flynn or his attorneys have responded to the report but there is a statement coming from special counsel ty cobb. the white house will not be discussing any specific communication with the special ounce out of respect for the special count and its process. beyond that, i have stressed repeatedly we will continue to cooperate with the special counsel. and this cnn exclusive, on how russian interference is being tracked on election day. we've learned that the fbi was actively tracking a disinformation campaign that very day, via fake news. as cnn's pamela brown reports. >> reporter: we have learned that some fbi counterintelligence agents spent election hovering in the war room looking for fake news. and what they could s

let me get to the michael flynn and john wood is with us former u.s. attorney and former deputy associate u.s. attorney so the wall street journal comes out with this story this evening that michael flynn the former national security advisor is being examined now by the special council possibly for playing a role in seeking some of hillary clinton's e-mails from russian hackers. it could be a big advancement of what the special council is pushing forward or maybe not. what do you make of it? well there are obviously a lot of questions it raises but i think it is a significant development and keep in mind here that i think what bob mueller and his team really want is to have leverage over general flynn so that he will cut a deal and then possibly cooperate on the larger questions about collusion between the campaign of which he was a part and the russian government so i think that's sort of the biggest play for mueller and his team is to try to determine whether or not they've got charges, whether it's related to this hacking or un^ registered lobbying

very loyal staff, who harangued poor jeff sessions would be so concerned about the prosecution of michael flynn think that flynn knows things. flynn is in the midst of the transition. flynn did begin his very short tenure at nsa. you have to think he's a key player in this, and it may be he's a key player because as the film said, because of his connections to turkey, it may be because those conversations that he didn't reveal. it may be because he was not forthcoming with the fbi when they questioned him. and perhaps michael flynn is sort of the hub in the middle of this and the spokes go out from there. >> asharks we also learned robert mueller is issuing grand jury subpoenas. what do you think is more consequential, the grand jury or the request of these documents from flynn from the white house? >> the grand jury subpoenas that were issued this week were coming out of a grand jury that was convened in washington. and the flynn subpoenas were for the white house were coming out of a grand jury that's in virginia. the new grand jury is an indication that this is expanding. this is probably st

we know the former russian ambassador to the u.s., kislyak, has had connections with michael flynn iney have known each other for years. the part we are interested in is the trump transition. this is where flynn talked to kislyak. this is as flynn himself comes under increased scrutiny from special counsel robert mueller. now, as all this is happening, it's secretary of state rex tillerson who is in the philippines, set to meet his russian counterpart, lavrov. the two of them have said relations between the u.s. and russia are at their worst, the worst they have been in years if not decades. the two seemed to have a good relationship. whether they can do anything to improve relations between the u.s. and russia, that seems at this point doubtful. they have said they will talk about north korea which is where the u.s. and russia see eye-to-eye. they will talk about sanctions and about relations. what is russian president vladimir putin doing in the middle of this? he seems to be taking this in a very nonchalant fashion. he's on a trip to the far east where the state media has put out p

and mueller has put michael flynn in sharp focus. what exactly are they trying to get at here? >> yeah, the new york times is reporting that robert mueller's special counsel is looking into the connections between the former national adviser and the turkish government. he allegedly received payments in exchange for his lobbying against a political opponent of erdogan. the new york times is reporting that the mueller has asked for specific documents from the white house, about michael flynn, even questioning them about his ties to turkey. this coincides with what cnn reported in in the past. that the special counsel is focusing on pages made to him by foreign governments. we have reached out to flynn's attorneys, they have declined to comment on the story. we have reached out to the white house's outside counsel, and we got a reply from ty cobb saying they would not detail communications between the president's lawyers and robert mueller and his investigative team except to say they're fully complying with the investigation. very important to point out though, ana, back in the s

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obviously michael flynn and paul manafort are in jeopardy. others could be as well. the question is how much tolerance to the president of the united states have for that? i think president trump needs to realize, if he fires robert mueller there is some significant chance that eventually mueller will be the lead witness in his impeachment hearings. >> chris: of course if you get those legislation, either the senator tillis bill or the grandville, he may not be able to fire robert mueller. >> i'm skeptical whether it will pass, on order that it won't pass. you can have the judiciary siding whether the header of the executive branch can fire someone who works for him or not. >> chris: why do you think that they are specifically in trouble? >> flynn has had to serially redo his financial disclosure forms. some of these payments from this firm that might've been a cut out the turkish government are highly suspect, so i think that's the very center of the criminal investigation. but one last point, he brought this up with a deputy attorney general. i think he may have ma

the "times" reporting mueller is looking into fired national security adviser michael flynn and the secretayments he received from turkey during the trump campaign. let's talk more about this with a contributor for cnn opinions and a columnist for "usa today." and cnn legal analyst, danny cevallos, a criminal defense attorney. danny, you first. what does this signal to you about the scope and the progress of mueller's investigation? >> it means it's expanded beyond its original scope and that they're looking at all things flynn. even beyond flynn, obviously, to the white house. now, in theory, grand jury investigations are usually limited, but that's not really true. the reality is, if they find a thread of something else to pull on, they go back and they start investigating whatever new criminality they find. as long as they lawfully get to each step, a grand jury can keep investigating with its unbelievable subpoena power and ability to get not only witnesses to come in and testify but to get documents. it is much harder to assert the fifth amendment privilege when it comes to producing

perhaps he was also paid by russians and you can't overstate how dependent donald trump was on michael flynnone point considering him as a running mate. i remember being stunned back in november when flynn wrote a very sympathetic op ed about how we should be more closely aligned with turkey and this was as he became more dikt torial after that failed coup and now we know subsequently that he was paid and didn't register as such. >> to that point, it's not the fact that he got paid. it was that he didn't register and he didn't disclose it, and as we found out more or investigators -- or members of the media found out more, then we find out more and more, yes, i actually had that client, and you also have to remember in terms of his political ambition and his desire to succeed in this administration, his doing in was when he gave inaccurate information to mike pence about his meetings with foreign leaders and that was his doing in. >> his doing in was actually reporters discovering that reporters were going to go with that story. the white house had sally yates some time before and you know,

federal investigators are now looking into whether fired national security advisor michael flynn wasthe turkish government as special counsel robert mueller broadens his probe to include what financial ties trump family and friends have to russia. joining me now to talk about this and much more, congressman adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. are payments made to michael flynn from turkey or russia part of the house intelligence committee investigation as well? >> we're certainly looking at all of the conduct of michael flynn in the same way i think that the special counsel may be viewing the same evidence in terms of what light it will shed on the broader russia investigation. of course, michael flynn, the allegations not only include payments from potentially turkey but also the payments he received from rt and other russian entities, whether they were allowed, whether they violated the ememolluments clau in a way that's controversial to the law. it is all within the broad scope but it is also significant in ter

times is reporting that the white house has been requested to turn over some documents related to michael flynn, and the president's first national security adviser who was in office just a little bit over three weeks before he was force ed to resign after not being up front and truthful about the contacts with the russian officials, and i had spoken to the special counsel with the president, and the office inside of the white house handling that, and they are saying that they are cooperating and in touch with the robert mooueller investigation, and not going into any specifics about the requests that are made, or how they are responding to individual pieces of what is ha happening with the investigation, and they want to say as little as possible, be tow say at the same time, they are working with the special counsel who is looking at all aspects of the russian interference on the 2016 election. you mentioned the president at bedminste bedminster, and he is spotted out and about on the grounds of the 500-acre golf resort to dda and social media helped us to find that out. and we have not gotte

so michael flynn had some sort of special, special role here. he was protected by the president of the united states. >> it is a little peculiar, nobody accused him of stalwart loyalty and he's showing an amount of solicitude for general flynn. >> just ask jeff sessions about the loyalty thing. >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> pleasure. >> great to see you again. bob bower. coming up, check up on how the uncertainty over health care reform is impacting voters across the country. we'll have live reports from one ohio town where they almost lost obamacare coverage before the state had to step in. that's next right here on "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us. before fibromyalgia, i was a doer. i was active. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. woman: for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel