mr. flynn's part, the greatest chance there is that mr.ueller can turn him into a cooperating witness. >> shepard: aaron zitner, thanks. >> absolutely, shep. >> shepard: hillary clinton slamming james comey in his first live television interview since she lost the election. secretary clinton told ""the today show"" that she did not make enough mistakes on her own to lose and she criticized james comey. >> i thought what is he doing? the investigation was closed. he went way beyond his role in doing what he did. >> shepard: though she questioned comey's action, secretary clinton said that president trump fired him for the wrong reasons. ahead, we'll go back to the keys where we'll hear from a man who says he is still waiting to find out if his friends survived hurricane irma. an incredible disaster still unfolding. that is next. tech: when you schedule with safelite autoglass, you get time for more life. this family wanted to keep the game going. son: hey mom, one more game? tech: with safelite, you get a text when we're on our way. you can

and his son, the expert said a anti-clinton research document identified the kwlu younger mr. flynn has someone that would be involved in the effort. mike flynn junior's role to was exposed by the wall street journal in june. today nbc sites four government officials to report that michael flynn junior is the subject of mueller's inquire as of course is michael flynn senior. today things got worse in the reporting about him. back in june, jeff stein who's really well sourced on intelligence issues, he reported for news week back in june that one of the business dealings that mike flynn senior never disclosed was a russian partner he was pitching to build 16, count them 16 nuclear power plants in saudi arabia, which needs a lot of things, but nuclear power probably isn't one of them. stein published this piece in june about mike flynn's involvement in that business plan and about flynn taking a trip to the middle east to meet with people and promote to saudi russian financed nuke deal. because mike flynn never disclosed anything about this on his security clearance operations or his

mr. flynn's son, michael j. flynn who worked as chief of staff in his father's company. in phone conversations peter smith told a computer expert he was in direct contact with that mr. flynn and his son, the expert said an anti-clinton research document prepared by mr. smith's group identified the younger mr. flynn as someone who would be associated with the effort. so mike flynn's son, mike flynn jr., his alleged role in that effort to collude with russian hackers with the campaign that was exposed by "the wall street journal" in june. now, today nbc cites four current and former government officials that he's the subject of robert mueller's inquiry as of course is michael flynn sr. and today things got much worse in the reporting about him. back in june jeff stelg, who is really well sourced on intelligence issues he reported for news week back in june that one of the business dealings that mike flynn sr. never disclosed when he got to washington was a russian partnership he was pitching to build 16, count them, 16 nuclear power plants in saudi arabia, which needs a lo

and mr. flynnimself, general flynn himself, with regard to a grand jury wanting to hear answers as to why that took place and how it took place. >> in fact, congressman, there is some indication that he was still working on these deals for his lobbying firm while he was already not only in the transition but in the white house as national security adviser, as brief as that tenure was. >> now, that is ridiculous. that's exactly right, andrea. i think it was the "wall street journal" that reported that he continued to work with these companies trying to promote their interests, and he did it not only as a transition team member, not only as an adviser to the candidate, but also after he became national security adviser. so we want to know exactly what kind of communications there were between the companies that hired him to travel overseas to promote this nuclear deal. number two, we want to know what kind of communications took place between these companies and not only flynn but perhaps the preside

trump's top advisers, mr. flynn being the other, the other one tom manna fort.rom west virginia -- paul manafort. caller: i was just calling to talk about some of the problems of obama care. i've family members who lost their insurance coverage when obamacare took effect. they have no insurance. at costs are so prohibitive around $1800 a month, so how can anyone afford it? mr. obama had problems, why did they not try to fix it while he was in office? maryland, good morning to greg. can you hear me? host: go ahead. caller: first time calling in to c-span. i am happy you took my call. host: tyler, texas is where bob is. caller: this week is constitution week. if we were following the constitution, we would know that health care is not a responsibility of the federal government. to do it inwas able massachusetts, other states should be able to do it for their states. if we were following the constitution, there would not be need for your show, because we are doing semi-things that are out of nouns of the enumerated bounds-- that are out of of the enumerated powers.

so far, no one in this investigation, among the principals who are willing looked at by mueller, mr. flynn, mr. manafort, others have so called flipped and talking to mueller and spilling their guts about anything. the one person being looked at perhaps is more favorable to get information from, i'm told, is rick dearborn, who is the white house assistant to the president for legislative affairs. not to say he's don anything wrong but he was witness to some of the discussions that went into the plain, the airplane discussion in which the t president drafted a statement defending his son. what i'm getting here in this round about way is things closing in. when you have a fie sa court enabling this, that makes the pressure on the president and those around him greater. >> john, how do you see this as somebody that's seen in this from -- >> been there. >> yeah. >> i seen unusual aggressiveness by this prosecutor. i must -- one of the things and first reactions i had, i recall when i was cooperating with the prosecutor was they asked me to wear a wire and go meet with my colleagues, i refused

discuss that i'm now joined by lou's fun on fuel and follow all of the language up location delingpole mr flynn as great to talk to you thank you very much for your time and i thank you for having me here a few years ago when i would tell people i'm self-taught and i wish there would be pretty impressed that but unfortunately you know the name or the application you how to develop allows pretty much everybody to learn a foreign language without physical interaction with a human being don't you think that language and structure is a hating you for that because you're. doing the employment no no fortunately where we're not aided by language and structures they're actually love us in the united states for example about fifteen percent of all language classrooms use dual lingo . it is still the case that that a human teacher helps to motivate a lot it's very hard one of the hardest things about learning a language by yourself it is possible to learn a language by yourself with the application but it's very hard to stay motivated but on some level i think you're providing the kind of service that no

we know mr. flynn did not, jared did not on his initial disclosure, he did subsequently.don't know what bannon did. we've been trying to get that document out of the white house. they have refused. people around mr. bannon have refused to give us any indication of what he put down. >> there are a lot of meetings between members of the trump campaign, the trump transition with foreign officials that did not get disclosed until after the fact. interesting reporting this week about the crown prince of the united arab emirates turning up with -- >> same group. >> meeting with kushner, manafort, bannon. in that case, it appears that u.s. intelligence agencies were aware of that meeting in part because they were weirded out that the crown prince from the united arab emirates was in the united states without telling them which would be protocol. is there any chance he took the meeting without telling the united states he was doing so. >> we would like to know that. we have not been able to figure it ou. it's a rather simple question, did you tell our national security appa rat u

we know mr. flynn did not. we know jared did not on his initial disclosure. we don't know what mr.non did. we've been trying hard to get that document out of the white house. they have refused. the people around mr. bannon have refused. >> there are a lot of meetings between members of the trump campaign, trump transition with foreign officials that did not get disclosed until after the fact. interesting reporting this week about the crown prince of the united arab meeting with flynn -- >> same group. >> same group, kushner, bannon, in that case it appears u.s. intelligence agencies were aware in part because they were weirded out that the crown prince from the united arab was in the united states without telling the united states. is there any indication the king of jordan took that meeting? >> we really would like to know that. >> okay. >> we have not been able to figure it out yet and no one will tell us. it's a rather simple question. did you tell our national security apparatus that a foreign head of state was not united states in a bar, in lower manhattan. a fairly simple que

and this is another example of mr. flynn not disclosing these meetings. and, of course, wolf, he is coming under investigation on a number of fronts including his conversations with the russian ambassador last year. >> significant development. manu raju, thanks very much. >>> here with us to assess all of this is our cnn legal analyst laura cotes and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. this potentially, the flynn failure to acknowledge he was involved in another meeting with the russians is potentially legally very significant. >> it was one thing to have the convenient amnesia he was initially saying he had. now you're talking about nuclear reactors and $100 billion deals and somebody with his foot to the fire about being accused of having violated federal law for not putting things on the form for security clearance. he was fired for doing this very thing. this is another example of what we call the mens rea. what was your intent here? it sounds to me you have more of anni intentional act you committed a federal law. forgetting about this

mr. stone: i have not. i don't know michael flynn. anything else? reporter: thank you very much. mr. stone: thank you very much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> ranking member schiff is expected to come out soon. >> earlier today senate majority leader mitch mcconnell announced the senate will not hold a vote on the latest republican health care proposal. senator cassidy was a co-sponsor of the measure. he spoke with reporters saying that republicans, quote, did not have the votes. here's a look. >> to be clear, we don't have the votes. in speaking to the leadership, speaking to the president, i think lindsey and he are on speed dial. we've made the decision, since we don't have the votes, we'll postpone that vote. ms. mccaskill: and my -- ams -- ms. castor: am i disappointed? -- mr. cassidy: am i disappointed? absolutely. just today there was an e-health -- ehealth.com report that an average family of three will be payin

mr. stone i have not. :i don't know general flynn. anybody else? thank you all. member isking expected to come out.

mica: the question was with respect to general flynn's whether it how to had lasting effects. mr. clapper: i had discussion with mike flynn. i was under secretary in the pentagon and first of all, the basic these cyst of that report was kind of the pogo syndrome we weigh the enemy and it's ourselves. what this laid out was the need or great detailed fidelity about individual abilities in afghanistan. understand the dynamics, who the elders were, who the bad guys were in each individual village. that is actually within the domain of the resident intelligence officer who is -- i think it was colonel flynn. but point was, what he was complaining about was under his own control. it's not feasible for the national intelligence community to define what is going on in village x. only if you're there on the ground. and he had a lot of intelligence resources. o you know, certainly cultural -- i guess you would call it cultural intelligence, understanding the broad dynamics of afghanistan, understanding particularly the tribal nature of afghanistan. those are very important things. when you

michael cohen said he left that proposal in the sealed envelope in general flynn's office during a visit to the white house. mr. cohen said he was waiting for a response from flynn when flynn was fired from his post. after giving that whole account to the "new york times" about what happened to that ukrainian plan, that would be so awesome for putin, michael cohen then subsequently spoke to a different newspaper about it. he spoke to the washington post except to them, he told a totally different story. when he spoke to the washington post about this, he denied the part about putting the plan in a sealed envelope and giving it to michael flynn at the white house. quoting from the post michael cohen speaking with the post acknowledged that the new york meeting took place and he had left with the proposal in hand. but he says he did not take the envelope to the white house. and he says he did not discuss it with anyone. he called suggestions to the contrary fake news. quote, i acknowledge that the meeting took place but emphatically denied discussing the topic of delivering any documents to the white house and g

well, within two days of this unmasking, the -- a transcript of the conversation between general flynn then mr. donald trump's national security adviser and vladimir kislack, then the prime minister of the united states sent it to the washington post. . liz: so this is spying on political opponents. >> yes, it is and the lead that we can't bury here is that susan rice and the white house knew that the conversations and trump tower were being surveilled by american and foreign intelligence agencies, and they knew how to get their hands on it, and they did. liz: let's get to this class-action suit that is really getting silicon valley in an uproar. alphabet basically hit -- this is a parent company of google. new class-action suit from several female workers saying what you know? you're discriminating against women when it comes to paying compensation. you know, judge, this came in from the labor department found there is rampant systemic pay discrimination at google's parent. >> i am not a fan of class actions. they often result in huge win falls for the lawyers and minuscule payments of the pe

young girl who they believe is still alive. >>> mueller's team looking at dismissals of flynn and comey. >> clearly mrof relationships with folks in russia. at some point we're going to want to bring him in. >> this is new day with chris cuomo and alyson

. >>> mueller's team looking at dismissals of flynn and comey. >> clearly mr. manafort had a series of relationships with folks in russia. at some point we're going to want to bring him in. >> this is new day with chris cuomo and alyson camerota. >> welcome to your new day. we have breaking news. hurricane maria lashing the dominican republic. the storm knocking out power to the entire island of puerto rico. the island's governor doesn't know how long it will take to replace that country's -- that commonwealth's very fragile infrastructure. the hurricane is blamed for one death in puerto rico. let me tell you, that is an amazing surprise that it didn't take more life. fourteen lost their lives in nearby dominica. >>> we have another top story. that's the frantic search for a young girl buried in the rubble of her school in earthquake-ravaged mexico. emergency crews have been working around the clock in the rain to rescue this 12-year-old is and maybe two other children who were trapped alive in the debris. rescuers are communicating with her. they say she is wi

mr. comey. he first fired the person who told him that flynn had been compromised and could be a problem. sally yates. then he told comey, don't investigate flynn. couldn't you drop it? when he didn't drop it, he got fired. and the list goes on and on. we can keep going into the many possible things. the false statements that he drafted for his son about the june meeting is another possible obstruction. the promise of pardons to all the other people involved is another possible obstruction. the message he swenlt the arpaio pardon, don't worry, you don't have to cooperate. i'll pardon you if you are held in contempt. he is asking sessions to intervene and drop the arpaio. there's a number of things that to go obstruction well beyond this. the letter itself, until we see it, we're only speculating. but it is one more obvious important trail of them trying to find a saleable excuse for having fired him. if the reason had anything to do with what they first claimed, the hillary e-mails, they would have double it when he first was inaugurated. they wouldn't have waited until may. so that's not

>> the question was with respect to general flynn's report about how to improve intelligence in afghanistan, and whether it had lasting effects? mr. clapper: well, i had quite a bit of discussion with mike flynn when he put it out. i was undersecretary in the pentagon. thesisf all, the basic of that report was kind of the pogo syndrome that we waiting in any, and it's ourselves -- we weigh the enemy and it's ourselves. what this laid out was the need for great, detailed fidelity villages indual afghanistan. understand the dynamics, who the elders were, who the bad guys were in each individual village. that is actually within the domain of the resident intelligence officer there, who i think was colonel flynn. i don't know. maybe he was a general. point was what he was , complaining about was under his own control. it is not feasible for the national intelligence committee to define what is going on in village x. only if you're there on the ground. and he had a lot of intelligence resources. cultural,w, certainly i guess you will call it cultural intelligence, in understanding the broad dynamics of afghanistan, understanding parti

mr. trump junior. you've got all of these combinations with general flynn.he fact that the number of people who have had either be fired or recuse themselves because of connections with russia and this administration is, again, unprecedented. i think your job though to skke on us, press us, similarly when we've got these new issues about how we bring transparency to social media. we've got to -- frankly, we've got to work through this. there is no previous playbook on how we get this right, how, as you mentioned earlier, you've got a private company. do you really want that private company doing all of the screening? that's an appropriate question. but on the other hand, if they have access to all of the information, the truth is, facebook and google and some of these social media companies probably know more about you and me than the united states government knows about you and me. they have this trove of data and in many ways we are going to have to work on them, because no one else has the same kind of access to information that they have. >> senator, tha

national security director michael flynn, the firing of fbi director james comey, and this year, the meeting between president trump and top ruian officials, which mr. trump said comey's firing relieved great pressure off him. peter zeidenberg is a former federal prosecutor who worked with him. >> how would you describe him as a prosecutor? >> as a manager, he's very ver doesn't fool around, moves straight ahead. >> reporter: the white house sads that it is cooperating with special counsel mueller's investigation. jeff pegues, cbs, washington. >>> awe head on "cbs this morning" vice president mike pence joins us in studio 57. we'll ask him about the russia investigation and the president's intentions regarding the iran nuclear deal. >>> the senate is expected to vote next week on the latest bill to repeal the affordable care act. yesterday they said the republicans are below two or three votes but they they're close to passing. they would replace it with block care who would then design their own health care programs. >> we woulkeep the tax in place, but we would give it to different people with more flexibility. >> as a result, we'd receive a bill

flynn? >> if you believe mr. stone, and there's a very big if there.ith mr. manafort, who confirmed that he had been told he would be indicted. i don't have this coming from the special counsel. that's not the kind of coordination. although we are coordinating in terms of special counsel telling us their plans on charges. >> congressman adam schiff, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> still ahead on "morning joe," new reporting says head of the epa is sending $25,000 in a shield proof booth to shield his conversations. >> really? >> we can only imagine what the design might look like. >> i know what it looks like. >> just a minute, chief. isn't this top security? >> yeah. >> well, shouldn't we activate the cone of silence? >> the cone of silence? >> yes. >> all right, max. hodgkin's? >> yes, sir? >> activate the cone of silence. >> the cone of silence? ♪ can i get some help. watch his head. ♪ i'm so happy. ♪ whatever they went through, they went through together. welcome guys. life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for y

flynn. the firing of fbi director, james comey. and, this meeting in the oval office, a day later, between president trump and top russian officials in which mrg, relieved great pressure on him. mueller is also worked with a question witnesses, and obtain search warrants. peter zeidenberg, former federal prosecutor who worked with him. >> how would you describe him as a prosecutor? >> as a manager, very no nonsense. very by the book. doesn't fool around. moves straight ahead. >> the white house said today that it is, cooperating with

flynn, the firing of f.vib.i. dseirector james comeyd this meeting in the oval office a day later between presiden trump and top russian officialst in which mrsaid comey's firing relieved great pressure on him. mueller has also worked with a grand jury in washington to question witnesses and obtain search warrants. peter zeidenberg is a former federal prosecutor who worked with him. how would you describe hims a prosecutor? >> as a manager he's very no- nonsense, very by the book, doesn't fool around, moved straight ahead. >> reporter: the white house said tonight that it is cooperating with the special counsel mueller's investigation. anthony. >> mason: jeff pegues, thanks. senate republicans say their new health care plan may be their best chance for getting rid of obamacare. that brought its namesake out of retirement today to defend it. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: republicans bill cassidy and lindsey graham sprinted from meeting to meeting today. >> we're going to take the bill up next week. >> reporter: ...trying to close the sale on the party's last, best shot at replacing obamacare. >> they might get the votes. >> reporter: the

flynn. the firing of fbi director, james comey. and, this meeting in the oval office, a day later, between president trump and top russian officials in which mr. trump said, comey's firing, relieved great pressure on him. mueller is also worked with a question witnesses, and obtain search warrants. peter zeidenberg, former federal prosecutor who worked with him. >> how would you describe him as a prosecutor? >> as a manager, very no nonsense. very by the book. doesn't fool around. moves straight ahead. >> the white house said today that it is, cooperating with special counsel mueller's investigation. anthony. >> jeff >>> this is the cbs "overnight news." >>> senate republicans say their new health care plan may be their best chance for getting rid of obama care. that brought its namesake out of retirement today, to defend it. here is nancy cordes. >> republicans bill cassidy and lindsay graham sprinted from meeting to meeting today. >> we are going to take the bill up next week. >> trying to close the sale on the party's last best shot at replacing obamacare. >> they might get the votes. >> the graham-cassidy bill could be obamacare taxes in

flynn an a united arab emirates crown prince. a former intelligence official disputed rice's characterization emphasizing the gulf delegation did ask for a meeting with mr dropped the ball. rice's explanation appears to back up intelligence committee chairman devin nunes' statement that she was involved. >> i was surprised to see reports from chairman nunes on that account today. >> reporter: ricin sifted any unmask reports were above board. >> the allegation that obama administration officials utilized these tactics is false. reporter: ne nunes wrote to dan coats that it was to achieve political purposes. sources tell fox news they found rice's allegations questionable. and said the democrats might regret looking into the russia connection. lou: we'll take up the battle over daca, the wall and tax reform with charlie hurt here next. this mountain biker taking his grand canyon tour to extremes. we'll have his danny trejo: let me tell you about the toughest guy on earth... he does the work of two jobs, but only gets paid for one. he's tough enough to feed the man that gave him a lifetime of nourishment. he has the crazy strength to lift the man that rais

mr. mueller's office sent a document to the white house that details 13 different areas. on that list, i pulled out the flynn firing, the comey firing, the russians in the oval office but also the white house meeting in which they figured out how to respond to your paper about don jr.'s meeting with russians to get dirt on hillary clinton. what do all of those presidential actions sort of have in common from an investigator's perspective? >> the significance to susthat mueller's investigation has largely operated secret. there's very little we've known about it. certainly indications in the press he was looking at the issue of obstruction but what this does is details the contours of what we know he is looking at and gives us some insight. and some meat on the bone of understanding what this investigation is all about and the fact that it does involve a lot of things the president was directly had a hand in doing in his time in office. >> you know, i was surprised to see the flynn firing on the list only because it's one of the things that from the beginning of that period, i guess we understand sally yates

flynn, for example. again, for all this talk, there's nothing that's saying they're going after president trump. >> in the oval office and the president of the united states, it's only 126 days since mreller was named. and i haven't seen one story yet, one piece of information, one fact that's come out that's exculpatory. usually nobody 100% guilty or innocent. that explains that piece of this innocently. nothing we have learned so far points to innocence. mueller has two jobs. was there russian involvement in the election? did the trump campaign collude? that's what the manafort piece seems to be about. offering briefings to oligarchs. that piece. now the other piece is did the president obstruct justice? did he fire james comey to stop the investigation. he told lester holt he did. >> there's no evidence that he's guilty of anything. you have to go and find yourself innocent when you're not guilty of anything. >> he fired the fbi director and he said, god bless him, he fefd up, and told nbc news i fired him because of this russia thing after he sent his aides out to lie. >> can i please -- >> not if he's obstructing justice. >> all is going to prove what i'm about tocks. this inves

mrs. parker. that's the power of and. >>> we're back. the investigation into possible ties between russia and the trump campaign has expanded as we told you here first, nbc news has exclusive reporting that michael g. flynn of president trump's former national security adviser, is a subject of the federal investigation of the russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. sources tell nbc news that investigators are focused in part on his work with his father's lobbying firm. back with us now, carol lee, one of the reporters who broke that story. carol, your story, your breaking news. tell us in simplest of term also how we got to this place. >> what we know is michael g. flynn was very close, still is very close, but worked very closely wtz father, particularly at his lobbying firm flynn intel group. we already knew that the russia investigation was focused on work that general flynn, the elder flynn, did as part of flynn intel group, particularly he had deals that he had with the government of turkey ordeals that benefitted the -- benefited the government of turkey and things like that. all along the way everything that michael flynn sr. did, michael flynn, the younger, michael flynn was there, an

flynn. anybody else? thank you all. member isking expected to come out. rep. schiff: good afternoon. i wanted to make a quick statement. there was one significant area of importance to the committee that mr. stone was unwilling to answer our questions. we hope that he will cooperate in the future. if not, it will be necessary to subpoena him to answer those important questions. >> what was that one area? >> as congressional investigations continue, the senate judiciary committee held a hearing examining the role of special counsel's and separation of powers. many of the questions centered around robert mueller, who is investigating russian interference in the 2016