david, what is michael flynn doing? >> you know, one of the guests earlier tonight walked out of the studio and said what the f is going on here? and the only logical explanation with the information that we have is that michael flynn is going for a pardon from trump. either he has an assurance that it's coming or he is delusional in thinking that trump is actually going to stick out his neck and help him some point down the road. because as you noted, it was just a few months ago that he appeared before a federal judge, judge emmett sullivan about the case he has plead guilty to and he was to be sentenced and he has kind of backtracked from his guilty plea, saying he was tricked into lying to the fbi. the judge said you know what? you should withdraw your plea then. if you want me to sentence you right now, i'm ready to do it, and it seemed like he would get some jail time. at this point flynn said oh, no, no, no, i'm not really saying that, and i will be cooperating with the feds in this other case. so let's come back

>> true. >> for example, you successfully charged former national security adviser michael flynn of lying to federal agents about his conversations with russian officials, correct? >> correct. >> since it was outside the purview of your investigation, your report did not address how flynn's false statements could pose a national security risk because the russians knew the falsity of those statements, right? >> i cannot get into that, mainly because there are many elements of the fbi that are looking at many aspects of that issue? >> currently? >> currently. >> many elements of the fbi that are looking at different aspects of that issue. that's in response to questions about mike flynn's lying about his voflment with the russian government and whether that could pose a national security risk to the united states because the russians knew about the falsity of his statements, therefore compromised him, therefore in a position to put the united states over a barrel because they had their national security adviser by the you know what. so that's new. mr. mueller telling us that there are many

policy adviser michael flynn gives speeches in russia and thhas numerous contacts the russian ambassadoruding a discussion of softening sanctions foreign policy and national security adviser jeff sessions also meets with the russian ambassador. campaign cguirman paul manafort rly shares internal polling data with a man tied to russian intelligence. and fellow trump aose george papadopoepeatedly meets with a different man connected to russian intelligence, and who tells papadopoulosge papathe russians have dirt on hillary clinton. for all of these connections, mueller gives dates and times, often to the very minute brangham: and another contact point was the infamous new york trump tower meeting on june 9, 2016. that morning, donald trump jr. tells colleagues he has a lead on negative information about hillary clinton. that lead comes from a source you might remember, the pop singer emin agalarov, and his father, who's tied to putin. one of their staffers pitches the meeting to tmp jr., claiming they had dirt on clinton. trump jr. responds, "if it's what you say, i love it." the trump tow

opinion that the government had no evidence whatsoever that the government of turkey paid the michael flynn intel group. remember, this is what this was all about. his partner is now in trial and this is what this is all about. they want flynn to testify against his partner but then they backed away from that this week, saying they are not going to have him testify and try to designate him a coconspirator. all because they want him to compose. i can tell you that according to defense attorneys, sidney powell is leading the case here, he is cooperating fully with the government and he will continue to cooperate. >> sean: all right, sara carter, investigative reporter, thank you. ranking member house intel committee, devin nunes. let me go back, this came up with judge ellis in the first trial of paul manafort paul manafort. what was that? we know why we are really here, you want to put the screws to this guy paul manafort, that is why you are dragging up all tax returns. you don't care about that, let's be honest. so you can get the president. now we have this new filing by sidney powell, th

sidney powell is going to presented the judge what happened to michael flynn. particular, he is charged with lying, and yet here is what the fbi report says. strzok and the interviewer both had the impression that flynn was not lying. he did not give any indication -- >> sean: how ironic way to speak it with the only two people who interviewed flynn said he was not lying in their judgment, then why did mueller charge plan and force him to plea under pressure to lie? it's an injustice, and i think the judge needs to know it. >> sean: let me ask congressman jason chaffetz, you have your sources tonight -- this is interesting to me. the attorney general said we could expect the ig report in mid-may. okay. here we are at this day. now the question is, we are learning from catherine herridge a couple of things. people that were not willing to talk in the beginning, they are now coming over last minute. we know christopher steele talked to the ig's team for 15 hours, but steele could not contradict his sworn testimony under the threat of perjury in great britain beca

american people and delivered his first inaugural address, his soon to be national security adviser michael flynn was reportedly texting a business partner about a multibillion plan to build nuclear reactors in the arab world. according to a whistle-blower who spoke to the house oversight committee in 2017, flynn texts his associate to let them know their nuclear plan was good to go now that donald trump was president. michael flynn was not the only member of the trump campaign who was pushing for the potentially lucrative, though possibly rather dangerous middle east nuclear project. we now know that the chairman of the trump inaugural committee, tom barrack, along-time friend and adviser to the president, was also pushing a plan to help saudi arabia acquire nuclear reactors. we know all this thanks to the aforementioned 50-page house overcommittee report that detailed how barrack used to push for this new power plant deal with the saudis. he was quoted as advocating on behalf of foreign interests seeking to obtain this u.s. nuclear technology. those foreign interests happen to be saudi arabia,

. >> for example, you successfully charged former national security adviser michael flynn of lying to federal agents about his conversations with russian officials, correct? >> correct. >> since it was outside the purview of your investigation, your report did not address how flynn's false statements could pose a national security risk because the russians knew the falsity of those stawments, right? >> i cannot get into that, mainly because there are many elements of the f.b.i. that are looking at different aspects of that issue. >> currently? >> currently. >> thank you. as you noted in volume 2 of your report, donald trump repeated five times in one press conference, mr. mueller, in 2016, "i have nothing to do with russia. " of course, michael cohen said donald trump was not being truthful, because at this time, trump was attempting to build trump tower moscow. your report does not address whether donald trump was compromised in any way, because of any potential false statements that he made about trump tower moscow, correct? >> that's right. i think that's right. >> director mueller

michael flynn, as you know, was the national security adviser for donald trump. and michael flynn, at the time that he was national security adviser, was trying to basically promote the interest of countries like saudi arabia and not to mention other countries like russia and turkey and others, when he should have been putting america first. supposedly their slogan -- apparently it was way slogan in name only, in words only >> bottom line here, how do you put this into plain english what this means for people who may not be so engaged in this? put a pin on it. >> i think basically the trump administration is putting profits over the public interests. in this case the profits of their donors, of people that are closely connected to them. and this is deeply, deeply concerning. the second issue is they say -- they talk about america first. but oftentimes they are putting foreign interests first, ahead of, again, what's in the best interest of america. and that's why i believe in this congress we have to reject these actions on the part of the trump administration, e

district judge also smacked down the doj's request to designate michael flynn a coconspirator in an ongoing case against his business partner. remember, prosecutors attemptinn to issue this coconspirator designation after flynn refused to compose. in other words, lie about what the federal government wantedbe him to lie about and give testimony he considered to be false, but with an update, fox news reporter sara carter, that is a huge update in this case. >> it's huge, late last night, judge anthony trinka issued what they call an 11th hour hail mary. a 38-page report that was basically scathing to the government. saying you haven't presented enough evidence to show or to prove that michael flynn is anc coconspirator in this case. you've basically been calling him a cooperating witness from the beginning. so unless you show me something, unless you give me some evidence to show that he is a coconspirator, we are not going to do it. he also stated in his brief and in his opinion that the government had no evidence whatsoever that the government of turkey paid the flynn intel group.ev rememb

not a main subject for discussion. >> trump administration national security adviser designate michael flynn all discussed sanctions in a secret conversation with the russian ambassador, did he not? >> correct. >> so, to sum sraoeuz, donald trump, michael cohen, paul manafort, eric prince and others in the trump orbit all tried to use their connections with the trump organization to profit from russia, which was openly seeking relief from sanctions. is that true, sir? >> i'm not certain i can adopt what you're saying. >> i will. i'd further assert that was not on dangerous, it was unamerican. greed corrupts. greed corrupts, and it is a terrible foundation for developing american foreign policy. >> mr. radcliffe? >> director mueller, given your constraint on what you're able or allowed to answer with respect to counter intelligence matters or other matters that are currently open and under investigation, you're not going to be able to answer my remaining questions. so i thank you for your courtesies in the answers that you have given to my prior questions, and i do thank you for your extraord

he loved michael flynn. but day after day of seeing negative segment on michael flynn, he's going to at some point -- and the real question is, is there enough of a firm footing underneath him when that moment happens, if it does? as we reported and others reported, alex acosta is not the favorite son inside the trump administration. people like mick mulvaney, i thought it was very amusing when alex acosta said, mick mulvaney called me and said we've got a great relationship. i mean, give me a break. i mean, mick mulvaney has been very dissatisfied with the slow speed of deregulation going on at labor, conservative movement as a whole in terms of many conservative leaders on the outside are very unhappy with him. so he doesn't have a lot of allies and friends inside this administration. it's actually the president who's probably got the best relationship. trump quite like it's, but that could change. >> i want to get the best reporters on the beat in two bright minds in charlie and juice joyce and i want to

pressed then fbi director james comey to drop the investigation of former national security advisor michael flynn and subsequently fired call me because of the rush investigation. confirmed yesterday by the special counsel's testimony. the president unlawfully demanded that then attorney general jeff onsessions reverse his recusal from the rush investigation and take over the investigation. the berms yesterday by the special counsel's testimony the president engaged in witness tampering and falsification of government records when he directed white house counsel don began to fire robert mueller and later pressure mcgann that that had happened. ... a coverup when he sought to prevent public disclosure of evidence about the infamous june 9, 2016, trump tower meeting, confirmed yesterday by the special counsel's testimony. the president abused his constitutional authority by holding out the prospect of pardons in exchange for witnesses' silence confirmed yesterday by the special counsel's testimony. counsel's testimony. the president abused his authority by holding out the prospects of pardon in exc

they're paul manafort, rick gates, michael flynn, michael cohen, george papadopoulos, correct? >> correct. >> the sixth trump associate will face trial later this year, correct? >> yes. >> that's roger stone, correct? >> correct. >> i'm not certain what you said about stone. he's in another court system as i indicated before. >> exactly. >> i don't want to discuss. >> correct. thank you. there are many other charges as well, correct? >> sir, i want to youo ch your team and the work you did. in less than two years your team was able to uncover an incredible amount of information related to russia's attacks on our election and obstruction of justice. there's still more we have to learn. despite unfair attacks by the president and even here today, your work has been substantive and fair. the work has laid the critical foundation for our investigation and i thank you. i thank you. with that i yield back the balance. >> the gentleman from arizona. >> thank you. director mueller, i'm disappointed that some questioned your motives throughout this process. i want to take a moment to re

the room and says he just wants to talk to comey alone. >> comey recalled that trump brought up michael flynnynn had been fired as the national security adviser after questions were raised about his contacts with the russians during the transition. >> according to comey in volume 2, page 40 of the report, the president said i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. >> comey does not commit to any of the investigation, but when he goes home that day, he writes a contemporaneous memo about his meeting with the president. >> trump was more direct that spring. the report says the president asked comey to publically announce that he was not under investigation by the fbi. comey didn't oblige and trump fired him in may. >> firing an fbi director is politically a very difficult thing to do, especially because the fbi director is supposed to be in his post for ten years. and free of white house influence. so here was trump in the middle of an investigation into his campaign trying to get rid of the person leading that inquiry. >> i don't know whether the president was

what's happening with michael flynn? s been a long time coming, joe and mika, it's been about a year and a half or so since flynn pleaded guilty and that whole time we were wondering would this agreement hold? you had flynn's family members and associates out there walloping special counsel robert mueller and a month ago, you had flynn abruptly change lawyers and bring in sydney powell who is just a critic of the mueller prosecution, and we thought at some point, flynn is going to try to withdraw his plea, back out of the deal. something has to give, and now just in the last week, it turns out what's giving is that prosecutors say flynn is shifting in his testimony about some of his conduct. they now don't trust him enough to put him on the stand, and he may not testify at this trial that is supposed to begin next week, which is the whole reason his sentencing has been post poe po -- postponed for the last several months. >> i have to assume he's in big trouble in terms of doing prison time. the judge before said you need

. >> michael flynn from turkey? >> true. >> donald trump was trying to make millions from moscow. >> the hotel in moscow? >> yes. >> yes. >> numerous trump associates lied to your team, grand jury and congress? >> number of persons we interviewed in our investigation turns out did lie. >> mike flynn lied? >> yes. >> george papadopoulos? >> true. >> paul manafort was convicted of lying? >> true. >> paul manafort went so far as to encourage others to lie? >> that is accurate. >> michael cohen, the president's lawyer was indicted for lying? >> true. >> he lied to stay on message with the president? >> allegedly from him. >> when donald trump called your investigation a witch hunt, that was also false? >> i'd like to think so, yes. >> your investigation is not a witch hunt? >> it is not a witch hunt. >> from your testimony today, i gather knowingly collecting assistance from a foreign governmeduring a campaign is a crime. >> it is a crime. >> rudy giuliani was gleeful in sending text messages with emojis that the presid

newly unsealed documents show prosecutors are no longer planning to use michael flynn as a star witnessming trial against his former business partner. instead they are listing flynn as an unindicted co-conspirator. lawyers say this reversal, quote, sounds an alarm of possible retaliation. real estate developer felix federer worked with michael cohen on the defunct trump tower moscow tower deal was on capitol hill testifying behind closed doors. afterwards he echoed donald trump junior in characterizing that deal. >> no different than if we were to build trump tower moscow in paris or london. to say that it was paramount importance i wouldn't say that. >> the new york times reporting today that fbi agents tracked down one of christopher steele's forces for that so-called dirty dossier, quote, after questioning him fbi officials came to suspect the man might have added his own interpretations to reports from his own sources that he passed on to mister steele calling into question the reliability of the information. let's bring a republican congressman from california devon nunez is a rank

, political adviser roger stone, deputy campaign manager rick gates, national security adviser michael flynn, donald trump's personal attorney, michael coen, and foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos. these six individuals have each been charged, convicted for lying to your office or other investigators, is that right? >> that's right. i can't answer to mr. stone, because he is in a different case here in d.c. >> the national security adviser flynn lied about discussions with russian ambassador related to sanctions, is that right? >> that's correct. >> michael cohen lied to this committee about trump tower moscow, is that correct? >> yes. >> george papadopoulos, the president's senior foreign policy adviser lied to the fbi about his communications about russia's possession of dirt on hillary clinton, is that right is it. >> yes. >> the president's campaign chairman paul manafort lied about meeting ez he had with someone with ties to russian intelligence, is that correct? >> that's true. >> your investigation was hampered by trump officials use of encryption communications, is that right

in a move that could complicate his efforts to a lenient sentence for lying to federal agents, michael flynnas backed off in a federal case against a former business associate. flynn was set to be the star witness at that trial which deals with lobbying work. however, suggesting in court filings they do not believe flynn would tell the truth on the stand and they now believe he's a co-conspirator rather than a cooperating witness. flynn now flames his former lawyers of filing inaccurate forms without his knowledge, although flynn is not disputing that the filing itself contains some false information. a federal judge delayed sentencing flynn last year regarding lying to the fbi so he could continue cooperating with the government in a separate case in hopes of obtaining a lighter punishment. joining us here on the set, legal analyst danny cevallos. can you make some sense of this? >> isn't it training to think, many months ago when flynn came before the judge and the judge said i should let you cooperate a little more, otherwise, i may give you jail time, that flynn might have been better of

prosecutors are no longer planning to use michael flynn is a star witness in an upcoming trial.hey are now listing him as an unindicted coconspirator. a real estate developer felix sager who worked with michael cohen on the defunct trump tower tail was on capitol hill testifying behind closed doors. >> it's no different than if we were to build trump tower moscow in paris or london, to say that it was paramount importance, i wouldn't say that. >> in light of all of that, "the new york times" reporting that fbi agents tracked down one of christopher steele's sources after questioning him, fbi officials came to suspect that the man might have added his own interpretations to reports from his own sources that he passed on to christopher steele calling into question the reliability of the information. let's bring in devin nunes, ranking member of the house intelligence committee. what do you make of the fact that we are getting this revelation that christopher steele has been grilled for hours by folks putting together the report we are waiting on. how do you think it impacts his lo

michael flynn, president trump's former national security adviser. michael cohen, the president's personal attorney. george papadopoulos, president trump's former campaign foreign policy adviser. correct? >> correct. >> the six top associates will face trial this year and that person would be roger stone. >> correct. >> i'm not sure what you said about stone. he is in another court system as i said before. >> still under investigation. >> i don't want to discuss. >> correct. thank you. there are many other charges as well, correct? >> correct. >> so sir, i just want to with e today, your team and the work you did, dedication. in less than two years your team was able to uncover an incredible amount of information related to russia's attack on our elections and obstruction of justice. there's still more that we have to learn. despite facing unfair attacks by the president, and even here today, your work has been substantive and fair. the work has laid the critical foundation for our investigation, and for that i thank you. i thank you. with that i yiel

we talked earlier about michael flynn.ussian ambassador was a highly classified nsa intercept. someone in the obama administration leaked that call to washington post. that's a felony. glenn simpson from fusion gps, in talking about the steele dossier, said under that he and bruce ohr did not meet until after the election. bruce ohr said under that they met three months before the let's. one of them -- before the election. one of them is not telling the truth. we need a process to identify that. where it all started, jim comey. he admitted that he leaked his confidential conversations with the president to a reporter. did that include classesfied information? -- classified information? we need a fair processes to find out answers to that. i trust, because bill barr has earned my trust already and the trust of the american people, that there'll be a fair processes with john durham and with michael horowitz to get answers to that and provide accountability where it really belongs. maria: and, obviously, if you've got a team

what about your treatment of your team's treatment ofat lieutenant general michael flynn? well, general flynn served this country. he was a combat veteran. 33 years. apparently he has been cooperating with your office for a period of time. is that correct, sir? he pled guilty to lying but the fbi agent interviewing him, he didn't think they lied. right? but he made a plea agreement anyway. isn't it true that he likely made that plea agreement because he was goingy bankrupt? he had to sell his house? he could no longer afford legal counsel? is it true that the reports that this 33-year-old veteran and his family, his son that waset in business with him, was threatened by law enforcement, are you aware of that? are you aware that your team didn't take the plea to lying to the fbi that he had to even though the fbi agent in his a interview didn't think he lied? do you think he did it may be to save his family? do you find that type of prosecutorial tactic fair, sir? you're proud of the fact that we treated a 33 year veteran this way. we know your friend james comey bright did

that day, october 7th, michael flynn's turkish pay master got on the phone with flynn demanding to know why republican presidential candidate donald trump was not saying nicer things about turkey. why he was not attacking the enemies of the president of turkey. after all, wasn't flynn being paid for just that? was turkey getting its money's worth? out of this guy they secretly had on their payroll who was working on the trump campaign. i mean, that is the kind of call that mike flynn was having to take on "access hollywood" day. right? get on it, mike. yes, sir. right away, sir. we do kind of have a few other things on our plate today, sir, but i will try to get you your money's worth, foreign country paying me secretly while i work on this campaign. i mean, we still don't know how this is all going to shake out for flynn. even now that his business partner, this other guy from the trump transition, bijan kian, has been convicted an all counts today. it is worth pausing to just appreciate, just savor this for a second, that the president of the united states, his top campaign foreign po

would you agree they are paul manafort, president trump's campaign manager, rick gates, michael flynn, former national security adviser, michael cohen p, t p, the person's personal attorney. george papadopoulos, correct. >> correct. >> the sixth trump associate will face trial later this year, correct? that person would be roger stone, correct in. >> correct. >>. >> i'm not certain what you said by stone he is in another court system as i indicated before. >> exactly. thank you. i want to thank you for work that you did. in less than two years, your team was able to uncover an incredible amount of information related to russia's attack on our elections and to obstruction of justice. there is still more that we have to learn. destate facing unfair takes and even here today, your work has been substantive and fair. the work has laid the critical foundation for our investigation and for that i thank you. i thank you. with that i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from arizona. >> thank you. i'm disappointed that some have questioned your motives. i want to remind the ame

it was not a main subject for discussion. >> trump administration national security advisor michael flynn also discussed sanctions in a secret conversation with the russian ambassador, did he not? >> correct. >> to summarize, donald trump, michael cohen, paul manafort, jared kushner, eric prince and others in the trump orbit all tried to use their connections with the trump organization to profit from russia, which was openly seeking relief from sanctions. is that true, sir? >> i'm not certain i can adopt what you -- >> i will. i'd further assert that was not only dangerous, it was un-american. greed corrupts. greed corrupts and it is a terrible foundation for developing american foreign policy. >> mr. radcliff. >> director mueller, given your constraints on what you're able or allowed to answer with respect to counter intelligence matters or other matters that are currently open and under investigation, you're not going to be able to answer my remaining questions, so i thank you for your courtesies in the answers that you have given to my prior questions, and i do thank you for your extr

and michael flynn is hanging out there because he has not been sentenced yet and is he a very key figurest key figure in the trump orbit who actually pled plguilty to a cri in this investigation. >> a key figure we hope to learn a little bit more about tomorrow. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, morgan. >> thanks, morgan. >>> and coming up, an nbc news exclusive report. a young migrant teen talks about what he calls unlivable conditions at a border facility where he was held. >>> plus, turn texas blue. a field of experienced candidates vie to seat john cornyn is stepping put they hope to become the state's first black u.s. senator. he joins me next. state's first black u.s. senator he joins me next moving into our new apartment. why don't we just ask geico for help with renters insurance? i didn't know geico helps with renters insurance. yeah, and we could save a bunch too. antonio! fetch computer! antonio? i'll get it. get to know geico and see how much you could save on renters insurance. >>> president trump is speaking at a turning point usa's teen student action sum knit washington,

. >> for example, you successfully charged michael flynn of lying to federal agents about his conversations with russian officials, correct? >> correct. >> since it was outside the purview of your investigation, your report did not address how flynn's false statements could pose a national security risk because the russians knew the falsity of those statements, right? >> i cannot get into that mainly because there's many elements of the fbi that are looking at different aspects of that issue. >> currently. >> currently. >> thank you. as you noted in vol 2, donald trump repeated five times in one press conference in 2016, "i have nothing to do with russia." of course, michael cohen said donald trump was not being truthful because at this time trump was attempts to build trump tower moscow. your report does not address whether or not donald trump was compromised in any way because of any potential false statements that he made about trump tower moscow, correct? >> that's right. i think that's right. >> director mueller, i want to turn your attention to a couple other issues. you served as fbi

>> also true. >> in the case of michael flynn, he was secretly doing business with turkey, correct is it. >> yes. >> and that could open him up to compromise, that financial relationship? >> i presume. >> he also lied about his discussions with the russian ambassador and since the russians were on the other side of the conversation, they could have exposed that, could they not? >> yes. >> the presidential candidate was doing business in russia, and saying he wasn't, russians could expose that too, could they not? >> i leave that to you. >> well, let's look at dmitri pescov, someone the trump administration was in contact with to make that deal happen. michael cohen had a long conversation on the 230e7b with someone from his office. presumably the russians could record that conversation, could they not? >> yes. >> if candidate trump was saying, i have no dealing with the russians but the russians had a tape recording, they could reveal that, correct? >> yes. >> that's the stuff of counter intelligence nightmares, is it not? >> it has to do with the strong counter intelligence and count

me that they are paul manafort, the campaign manager, rick gates, the deputy campaign manager, michael flynn, president trump's former national security adviser, michael cohen, the president's personal attorney for george papadopoulos, president trump's former campaign foreign policy adviser >> right. >> into the associate will face trial later this year, correct? and that person is roger stone. >> correct. >> i'm not certain what you said about stone, but he's in another court system as i indicated before. >> exactly. >> i don't want to discuss -- >> correct. and there are many other charges, correct? >> correct. >> i just want to thank you in my limited time today and your team and the work you did and your dedication. dedication. in less than two years for your team was able to uncover an incredible amount of information related to russia's attack on our elections and to obstruction of justice. and there's still more that we have to learn. despite facing unfair attacks by the president, and even here today how your work has been substantive and fair. it's lat laid the critical foundation,

aides that you convicted, paul manafort, campaign manager, rick gates, deputy campaign manager, michael flynn, president trump's former national security adviser, michael cohen, the president's personal attorney, george papadopoulos, former campaign foreign policy adviser. correct? >> right. >> and the sixth trump associate will face trial later this year, correct? and that person would be roger stone. correct? >> right. >> thank you. >> i'm not certain what you said about stone but he is in another court system, as i indicated before. >> exactly. he's still under investigation. >> and i don't want to discuss. >> correct. thank you. and there are many other charges as well, correct? >> right. >> so, sir, i just want to thank you so much in my limited time today for your team, the work that you did, and your dedication. in less than two years, your team was able to uncover an incredible amount of information related to russia's attack on our elections and to obstruction of justice and there is still more that we have to learn despite facing unfair attacks by the president and even here today,

includes jared kushner, former attorney general jeff sessions, and former national security adviser michael flynnthey also authorized subpoenas for executives. it's over hush money paid to women who had affairs with president trump. it's up to committee chairman jerry nadler to decide whether to issue the subpoenas. chronicle" says california lawmakers approved a measure requiring president trump and other candidates to release their tax returns from the last five years to get on the state primary election ballot. the bill is now in the hands of governor gavin newsome. a similar measure was vetoed two years ago by then governor jerry brown. is a spokesman for newsome did not say whether he would sign the bill. >>> and "usa today" report shows that just a few sips of sugary sips of sugar per day increases the risks of cancer. a study in the british journal says drinking about 2.4 ounces of sugary drinks a day was associated with an 18% increased risk of cancer. a typical soda is 12 ounces. it includes fruit juices, and other drinks. obesity is considered a cancer risk. the researchers found no lin

they include trump's attempt to halt the investigation of michael flynn. trump that's pretty obstructive. trump's order to have the special counsel removed for scrutinizing his conduct for possible obstruction. trump's attempt to pressure jeff sessions to reverse his recusal and stop the investigation of his campaign. finally, trump's efforts to stop pall and michael cohen from cooperating with the governor. joyce, anybody should be able to recognize, because going back to nixon, obstruction of justice is killing the case. in nixon's case, getting the fbi off the case by saying it was a cia matter. in this case, trying to fire the prosecutor. >> and there clearly is obstruction here. at least several of the events mueller detailed, all of the elements a prosecutor would need to prosecute are established. and why obstruction matters so much here is that there is obviously a lot of angst in the campaign. and on behalf of this president. they didn't know whether they had committed crimes or not, so they were doing everything that they could to cover up. we st

charge paul manafort and charge michael cohen and michael flynn a three-star general with false statements but the guy who puts the country through the whole saga starts it off for three years we have lived this now. he lies and you guys don't charge him. i'm curious as to why. >> well, i can't get into it and it's obvious i think we can't get into charging decisions. >> when the fbi interviewed him in february, when the special counsel's office interviewed misfeud did he lie to you too? >> i can't get into that. >> did you interview him? >> i can't get into it. >> is he western or russian intelligence? >> i can't get into that. >> a lot of things you can't get into. you can charge 13 russians no one's ever heard of, no one is ever going to see them, you can charge them. you can charge all kinds of people who are around the president with false statements. but the guy who launches everything, the guy who puts this whole story in motion, you can't charge him. i think that's amazing. >> i'm not certain -- i'm not certain i agree with your characterizations. >> well, i'm reading from your rep

he defended michael flynn for a long time.costa so far is doing what he thinks the president wants him to do. we will see if he continues to do that and as peter said, if that will be enough for the president. >> well, he left today with some ballyhoo for the economy. i think he was doing his best to throw a doys the president. anyway, thank you, kimberly. thank you kimberly at tins, berit berger, peter baker. >>> the latest example of the british ambassador to the u.s. who said president trump was insecure and incompetent, but the ambassador learned a hard way not to express an opinion, not even in a private cable. today he resigned. trump won this one. >>> plus, more stonewalling from the justice administration. trying to prevent two of robert mueller's top deputies from even testifying before congress. they got their talons into those guys. what is the attorney general afraid they're going to say? >>> and 20 years after his death, john f. kennedy jr. remains a fascinating american icon. a friend of his will be here with new

director james comey in any way shape or form the closer to back down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you will know. next question battlefield washington on al-jazeera. you're watching alters their arms though rob and all these are all top news stories the south korean government has held an emergency meeting after the north slope to ballistic missiles from surface say the short range weapons tests could be aimed at increasing pressure on the united states for new denuclearization talks bryant has moved from seoul. this latest missile firing is being viewed with deep concern here in south korea it's the 2nd double launching of short range ballistic missiles in less than a week and the 3rd missile launch to take place since may in direct contravention of the landmark military agreement signed between north and south korea last september during the period of improving relations that was meant to have put an end to testings like this one south korea's defense minister has said that if the north continues with threats and provocations like this then it would have to be conside

. >> and then when michael flynn a few days after flynn entered a guilty plea for lying to federal agents and indicated his intent to cooperate with the investigation, trump asked to speak to sessions alone again in the oval office and again asked sessions to unrecuse himself, true? >> i refer you to the report for that. >> page 109, volume 2. thank you, sir. do you know of any point when the president personally expressed anger or frustrations at sessions? >> i would have to pass on that. >> do you recall -- and i think it's at page 78 of volume 2, the president told sessions you were supposed to protect me. you were supposed to protect me or words to that effect? >> correct. >> and is the attorney general supposed to be the attorney general of the united states of america or the consigliere for the president? >> united states of america. >> thank you, sir. in fact, you wrote in your report that the president repeatedly sought to convince sessions to unrecuse himself so sessions could super vice the investigation in a way that would restrict its scope, is that correct? >> i rely on the r

director james comey in any way shape or form the closer the batten down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you will know. next question battlefield washington on al-jazeera. 0. 0 i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes. so new security forces fired live rounds as protesters again fill the streets after the killing of schoolchildren on monday. the personal details of 106000000 people were stolen by a hacker in one of the largest data breaches and banking history.