. >> michael isikoff is going to join us tonight. he did an interview with michael flynn last summer, which is now crucial, absolutely crucial to an inspector general's investigation of michael flynn. and the fbi's investigation of general flynn. as i said, we'll also have reaction to what president trump had to say tonight about north korea and much more. >> the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don't get it. >> i think we have complied with every document they have looked for. >> come on, man. >> the pentagon's top watchdog has now launched an investigation into flynn. >> he took money from a foreign government without having permission, having been warned. >> the pentagon's warning to general flynn was bold, it tall sized and could not have been clearer. >> investigators want to know why are you hiding this information? have you been compromised? >> are you satisfied with the vetting that was done with general flynn? >> all of that clearance was made during the obama administration. >> that doesn't make any sense. >>

joining us now, michael isikoff, chief investigative reporter for yahoo news. also ned price, senior director and spokesperson for the national security council. he resigned from the cia because of president trump. taking over. and he is an msnbc contributor. ned price, i just want to get your reaction. this is basically sounds like it's coming from a house intelligence committee staff, possibly members. democrat and republican, they've all now had access to the information that sent devin nunes on his trip to the white house a couple of times we now know. information that he in effect claims shocked him, susan rice looking at intelligence reports involving american persons and wanting to know the names of those american persons. by the way, susan rice has not confirmed any of that. but what we're hearing from staff looking at all of this is they certainly have seen nothing wrong in anything susan rice was described as doing by anyone. >> look, lawrence, the fact of the matter is we knew how this movie would end because we've seen it before. in fact twice. we'v

. >> and joining us now are michael isikoff, chief investigative reporter. he has interviewed devin nunes in the past. david corn and an msnbc political analyst. and tim mak, senior correspondent for the daily beast. tim mak, devin nunes tried to explain away what he did. he did this interview in which he is trying to say that he going to the white house to view those intelligence documents was perfectly normal, despite the fact that he did it in the dead of night. here is devin nunes. >> i held a press conference and said here is what i found. it has nothing to do with russia. and i'm going to go over to the white house now and i'm going to brief the president. so that's not sneaking around. that's not hiding from anyone. that's being very transparent. maybe too transparent in this case. because i could have just snuck over to the white house and went in quietly and told the president and nobody would have known about this. but i thought it was best that the american people know. >> tim, is any of this normal protocol for a member of congress, a chairman of

. >> and joining us now are michael isikoff, chief investigative reporter. he has interviewed devin nunes in the past. david corn and an msn political analyst. and timmak, senior correspondent for the daily beast. tim mak, devin nunes tried to explain away what he did. he did this interview in which he is trying to say that he going to the white house to view those intelligence documents was perfectly normal, despite the fact that he did it in the dead of night. here is devin nunes. >> i held a press conference and said here is what i found. it has nothing to do with russia. and i'm going to go over to the white house now and i'm going to brief the president. so that's not sneaking around. that's not hiding from anyone. that's being very transparent. maybe too transparent in this case. because i could have just snuck over to the white house and went in quietly and told the president and nobody would have known about this. but i thought it was best that the american people know. >> tim, is any of this normal protocol for a member of congress, a chairman of an

news chief investigative correspondent michael isikoff. arter page is one strange individual. his interviews are sort of a meandering kind of morass of words where he doesn't really say a whole lot. have you been able to determine whether or not he had definitive contact with the same russian entities that were hacking the u.s. election? >> well, look, he's given conflicting answers to multiple people now. he reverses himself sometimes in the same interview. he gave an interview to george stephanopoulos on "good morning america" this week in which pressed on whether he had discussions about sanctions during this trip to moscow in july, when he was still a campaign adviser to the trump campaign and was in moscow, he said, well, he couldn't say definitively one way or the other whether the issue had come up or not. so i think that raised, you know, just more eyebrows and questions about carter page. >> yep. >> look, as you point out, this has been on the table since last september when i first reported that there was a u.s. intelligence inves

howard finen, michael isikoff. kersten thanks for joining me. >>> msnbc launched this broadcast as extended programming to cover news developments for the first hundred days of the new administration. msnbc has decided to continue our coverage past this weekend's hundred-day work. we are excited to continue bringing you this program on sunday evenings, and we hope you'll keep tuning in for our original reporting and analysis. >>> now, up next on "the point," the russia investigation, a power panel will look at the latest developments and the questions surrounding mike flynn. >>> also, the white house correspondents' dinner roast of donald trump would not have been complete without, of course, russia. >> who is tweeting at 3:00 a.m. sober? donald trump because 10:00 a.m. in russia. those are business hours. [ applause ] this is the new new york. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new university partnershi

. >> 19991, one of the awards was to michael isikoff who was at "newsweek" on a very controversial article regarding president clinton and they knew how the program was going to go. so the white house told us the president would be arrive late that night. but didn't come out and say when michael gets the award, but everybody knew that's what it was. they were not at the head table when dinner was starting to be served. i moved people over so they weren't on an island eating alone and the secret service said we have a departure, and i said from where? he said the president is at the sheraton. and i said i didn't expect him. and i had to go out and came to the room "hail to the chief" and i looked down at the press secretary at the time and i said, how did you do this? he said i told him i would kick his butt if he didn't get here early. it all worked out. we had a v.i.p. reception beforehand and that was scheduled after the dinner. and aretha was the entertainer. >> president clinton is not the only one who was unhappy about having to give an award to reporters because people getting the aw

news chief investigative correspondent michael isikoff. r page is one strange individual. his interviews are sort of a meandering kind of morass of words where he doesn't really say a whole lot. have you been able to determine whether or not he had definitive contact with the same russian entities that were hacking the u.s. election? >> well, look, he's given conflicting answers to multiple people now. he reverses himself sometimes in the same interview. he gave an interview to george stephanopoulos on "good morning america" this week in which pressed on whether he had discussions about sanctions during this trip to moscow in july, when he was still a campaign adviser to the trump campaign and was in moscow, he said, well, he couldn't say definitively one way or the other whether the issue had come up or not. so i think that raised, you know, just more eyebrows and questions about carter page. >> yep. >> look, as you point out, this has been on the table since last september when i first reported that there was a u.s. intelligence investiga

news chief investigative correspondent m e michael isikoff. arter page is one strange individual. his interviews are sort of a meandering kind of morass of words where he doesn't really say a whole lot. have you been able to determine whether or not he had definitive contact with the same russian entities that were hacking the u.s. election? >> well, look, he's given conflicting answers to multiple people now. he reverses himself sometimes in the same interview. he gave an interview to george stephanopoulos on "good morning america" this week in which pressed on whether he had discussions about sanctions during this trip to moscow in july, when he was still a campaign adviser to the trump campaign and was in moscow, he sa, well, he couldn't say definively one way or the other whether the issue had come up or not. so i think that raised, you know, just more eyebrows and questions about carter page. >> yep. >> look, as you point out, this has been on the table since last september when i first reported that there was a u.s. intelligence investiga

meanwhile, investigative juggernaut michael isikoff from yahoo! news says the committee hasn't requested potentially crucial evidence such as the e-mails, memos and phone records of the trump campaign in part because the panel's chairman has so far failed to respond to requests from the panel's democrats to sign laters doing so. they haven't requested any documents, nor have they done any interviews. we're three months in. if you are keeping track of these investigations into the russian attack on our election and the open question as to whether or not the trump campaign colluded with that attack, we have this senate investigation which appears to have done, more or less, nothing. we have the house investigation tying to get started again. they say there will be another public hearing on the house side, but who knows when. there's also one other major probe into russian interference in the election. and whether the trump campaign was part of it. that investigation has plenty of staff. also has plenty of investigative experience. but it has this ot