i yield back. >> thank you, very much, congressman hultgren for leader michael. .- leader michel i know mr. royer. >> the gentleman from peoria. maybe not exactly pure yet, but -- peoria. mr. speaker, we rise to honor one of the most decent, patriotic americans with whom i have ever served in any legislative body. i have a great honor of being bob michel's friend, the great honor of being his colleague, and the great honor of believing that what bob michael represented in this congress was the best of us. the most decent of us, the most considerate of us, and deeply committed to his country. and respectful of those with whom he served. perhaps differing with them, but nevertheless, deeply respectful of his colleagues. he and tip o'neill were good friends, and they could argue their side and their policies vigorously. after the best of friends we adjourned that day. i think my colleague from illinois for leading this rise to join in remembering this great man. a great american leader, bob michel. mr. speaker, bob's entire life was given to service to his country. from his time in the army a

mr. michael. when we think about the traits that he exemplified, integrity, genuineness and disability that everybody talked here tonight, i think it is also important to remember where he came from in illinois. the congressional district that he represented, the 18th congressional district was the same district that congressman abraham lincoln represented. same districte that bob michael represented. you think about those strong, midwestern values they never forgot. another thing unique about all three is a they were all very within one hour of each other. oak ridge cemetery, president lincoln, p come cemetery -- bob michael couldn't been buried in arlington cemetery but he chose to be very next to the love of his life in pr at illinois.- peoria, drive you can's guess the all of their grades. another thing i want to mention enclosing is he served his 14 years as of the republican leader. the longest of anyone in this institution as a leader of the minority party. thatd a number of people he meant

mr. michael served in the house of representatives for nearly four decades and was a republican leader during 1991 until his retirement in 1995 read to give him the longest serving minority leader in u.s. history, this tribute at the capital is just under one hour. leading the republican caucus 1991 to 95 did cheney and paul ryan and other leaders boca a memorial ceremony for bob michael at the capitol. this is one hour. [inaudible conversations] please stand for the presentation of the colors in the national anthem in the retirement of the colors. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> please remain standing for the invocation. >> let us pray god of heaven and earth, the work of your hands the los that formally win in year and release phone negative grace. we remember the life and work of son of the very proud city of peoria. as a longtime missouri leader he was safe, -- modest man whose impact entailed in in of a pass to is a better but it was his characteristic of his ushered through a democratic house much of what the agenda and evidence of the extraordinary ability to legislate within our constitutional str

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mr. michael balance is because of interference, the u.s.ot return to business as usual with the country. in south africa, the prime minister met with his successor to ensure a smooth handover. fired him.acob zuma the other people could lead to a political revolts, against the president, who has been interviewed in a number of scandals. korea, the ousted president's new home is a jail cell, where she sleeps on a mattress on the floor. she has been arrested in a corruption scandal, and prosecutors have to decide whether to indict her. suspectedect just -- of pressuring executive to donate money for exchange for government favors. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm courtney donohoe, this is bloomberg. vonnie: courtney, thanks. ayres associates david harold looks at how bad germany's banks are for the rest of the world. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: in new york, i'm vonnie quinn. this is the european close on "bloomberg markets." nejra: live from london, i'm nejra ceh

mr. michael shanahan was enjoying a swim in aquatic park in san francisco. weather conditions on this date due to recent storms yielded a very strong tide. which attribute to mr. shanahan been swept out into the san francisco day. esther shanahan was able to grab hold onto a be pure piling and begin to yell for help. fortunately, three young adults were fishing nearby. nine-year-old aaron durrant, oliveira, heard the yell for help and quickly notified his brother firemen over and from his girlfriend, jennifer cervantes. the three were together very quickly to locate nearby rope to throw to mr. shanahan. within our rope now securing mr. shannon from and called 911 and provided very descriptive details of the incident. aron and from and: to the rope with mr. shanahan opened onto the other end of the rope, while being pulled out due to the current, jennifer had the wherewithal to make herself visible and direct responding san francisco fire department and san francisco police department units to the exact location of mr. shanahan. i want to stop your for a mome

mr. michael phelps, mr. phelps the most decorated olympian of all time, winning 28 medals, including 23 gold medals over the course of five olympic games. both during and after his olympic career, mr. phelps has been a strong and outspoken advocate for clean sport. next, we want to welcome mr. travis tygart, chief executive officer for the united states anti-doping agency. 15 years of experience working at usada, in various leadership roles, he works closely with the usada board of directors to carry out the organization's mission of preserving the integrity of competition, inspiring to sport and protecting the rights of u.s. athletes. now, we also welcome mr. rob koehler, deputy director general of the world anti-doping agency. he comes to us with almost two decades of experience working in the anti-doping field at wada and the canadian center for ethics and sports. in his role as deputy director general at wada, mr. koehler is responsible for the oversight of all u.s. anti-doping organizations and global a

mr. michael ter ra*lt. >> supervisors, i want to take a moment and advocate on behalf of my three colleagues first, director hill, bert hill, although he couldn't be here, bert, i will -- i've been impressed on how dedicated he has been showing up at committee that is aren't his to try to learn as much as possible the full bred ft of responsibility of the board and ofp the committee and is to learn aof the functioning to have bridge, i've been extremely impressed by his knowledge of the transportation aspects of the district's operations. i will say i have 725 miles on a bicycle, he's certainly been a bicycle advocate longer than i have, [inaudible] guided the district through a challenging time when we were confronted with the essential doubling of the expected bid price for the suicide deterrent system, and he did that very ably and i compliment him for that and director hernandez is as she has noted herself an advocate for the point of work of viewers, the point of view of women, the point of view of san franciscans, those of underprivileged and low backgrounds, i was please today move he

mr. michael ter ra*lt. >> supervisors, i want to take a moment and advocate on behalf of my three colleagues first, director hill, bert hill, although he couldn't be here, bert, i will -- i've been impressed on how dedicated he has been showing up at committee that is aren't his to try to learn as much as possible the full bred ft of responsibility of the board and ofp the committee and is to learn aof the functioning to have bridge, i've been extremely impressed by his knowledge of the transportation aspects of the district's operations. i will say i have 725 miles on a bicycle, he's certainly been a bicycle advocate longer than i have, [inaudible] guided the district through a challenging time when we were confronted with the essential doubling of the expected bid price for the suicide deterrent system, and he did that very ably and i compliment him for that and director hernandez is as she has noted herself an advocate for the point of work of viewers, the point of view of women, the point of view of san franciscans, those of underprivileged and low backgrounds, i was please today move he

mr. -- referring to michael phelps. squl it >> ultimately i hope this hearing hopes to highlight ways which we can strengthen confidence in international sport. within the anti-doping community there are concerns regarding organizational structure and how the current system creates an environment where they are both policing and promoting the sport. wada currently exists, they simultaneously hold policy making decision, they can have real and perceived affects on rigorous possible violations as well as enforcement of anti-doping measures, several have stated that wada lacks support itself, recent proposals suggested removing it from governance structures to improve independence and operation today we want to evaluate those concerns and discuss the proposal forms. further there needs to be an established decisionmaking process. the buck was passed multiple times between the international olympic committee and anti-national doping organizations and sports federations to where and who was in charge of making the decisions

mr. payne didn't make it, so michael decided he was going to continue making these videos. ng to continue dancing in the name of mr. payne. and to talk to us more about his journey, we have michael via skype right this minute. welcome to the show, michael. what does it feel like to have that positive influence on people? >> i'm hoping the video -- i'm not really looking for myself to inspire. >> do you feel like you're getting benefit off it though? people all over the world talk about the restorative benefits of a positive mental attitude. you seem to have that? >> i love dancing. i love talking. i talk a lot. a lot of people on the floor, a lot of patients. >> you say other patients are saying this. do you go down the hallways and give them a show? >> i talked to the nurses to show them the videos but they won't do it. so i post it onto groups -- cancer groups, leukemia groups. everyone just shares it and leaves positive comments and how much it inspires them. >> have any of the doctors or nurses say, hey, we're going to need you to settle down a little bit? >> yeah. i get

mr. michael caputo is doing for trump today?>> i have no idea. >> and i'm not going to talk about a u.s. persons. >> all right. let's move on now to carter paige. carter paige was the founder of global energy, it's an investment fund. he has only one partner and that partner is surgy, who is the former executive of russia state own gas oil company. before that from 2004 to 2007 he worked for merrill lynch in moscow. in march of 2016, then candidate trump referred to carter paige as his foreign policy adviser to the washington post. the next day paige -- he's an adviser on russia and energy. but then subsequently candidate trump says he doesn't know him. on september 26, he takes a leave of absence from the campaign and then paige publicly supports a relationship with russia criticizes u.s. sanctions and nato's approach to russia saying -- and subsequently saying he's invest his stake in august. and criticizing the u.s. sanctions an article in global policy and then rebuke the west for focusing so called annexation of crimea. in

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mr. flynn should get immunity. >> reporter: any comment on michael flynn, mr. president? eporter: president trump facing new questions tonight on michael flynn, his former national security advisers whose shadow still looms large at the white house. flynn is offering to testify in exchange for immunity in the growing probe of russia meddling in the 2016 election. flynn, a retired army general fired after only 26 days in office for misleading congress for contacts with the russian ambassador. the president took the unusual step of inserting himself in an ongoing investigation saying on twitter mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch-hunt, excuse for a big election loss, by media and dems of historic proportion. white house press secretary sean spicer amplified that position today. >>y will believes mike flynn should go up there and testify and do what he has to do to get the story out. >> reporter: immunity offer for flynn was rebuffed by the senate intelligence committee and drew skepticism from congressmen like jason chaffetz who took issue with the cha

michael flynn— the other is head of the department responsible for masticating domestic espionage. the point is that these stories an incredibly damaging so early in mrtrump's stories an incredibly damaging so early in mrncy. absolutely, michael flynn, like sessions, is a close adviser to donald trump during the campaign. jeff sessions was one of the first prominent politicians to endorse donald trump early in the campaign before he became a front runner when he was more of a sideshow in the republican primary process, he helped devise donald trump's immigration strategy, much of his foreign policy. it was clear he would have a key role in the administration and attorney general is the top law enforcement official in the us government. there are ties between these two and the fact they had between these two and the fact they ha d co nta cts between these two and the fact they had contacts with russia oil officials during the campaign and after the election lends a view that there may be more here, that they went direct about it, didn't ask —— hansa questions directly when they could have, it raises suspicions and casts doubt that there could be a bigger story behind us. we're told jeff sessions is immi

mr. manafort. if it were up to you, who else would be on the witness list? >> you know, i think looking at michael flynn, at mr. stone, there are case after case of communications back and forth between so many folks in the trump campaign and various different contacts in russia, guccifer 2.0, julian assange as well as directly with the russian ambassador and others. i think we need to get to the bottom of all of those conversations and i think that today's actions by chairman nunes really call into question why members of the trump campaign were in direct contact with targets of foreign surveillance. that's the real takeaway from his revelations today. they were obviously talking with someone who a judge had decided there should be a fisa warrant to surveil. >> so what remains for you to have answered? >> oh, i think we still need to follow the money here. i think that the question is, i think it would be highly appropriate to subpoena the president's tax returns and any financials which might answer some of these questions. i think that's one of the directions that we really need to get to if we

mr. boyd. >> michael boyd. i been on the advisory committee. i worked in special systems [inaudible] roberts worked for jerry brown for eight years in the largest disability organization in the world. after which he got a macarthur genius fellowship could he was inducted into the california hall of fame and this will be the sixth year that had the state hold a in his honor at roberts state january 23. he was paralyzed by polio and for 45 years he made the joke, he said i think walking is highly overrated i have not walked in 45 years. i took his one-of-a-kind 1970 wheelchair to the smithsonian and spoke at a memorial ceremony at the office building . berkeley honored tom bates and loni hancock this year. fred roberts day because they were his next door neighbors and even very well. but because san francisco is kind of a nursing home city, he was never allowed into san francisco. no one knows who he is. no one in the house storm and or in-home supportive services as celebrated his state holiday. i have some information here. a woman named diana

mr. trump's former national security advisor, michael flynn, spoke to him. and there were conversations between the two of them. and transcripts of those was provided to both the obama and the trump white houses. so mr. flynn was caught up in that surveillance of the russian ambassador. along the lines of what mr. trump has said, we have not reported about any wiretap at trump tower. we have not reported about any wiretap on mr. trump. the only wiretap that we know about that relates to them that's been reported publicly is the one about mr. the russian ambassador. >> michael smith, thanks for the time. >> thanks for having me. >>> okay. breaking news in mississippi here. a deadly bus accident in biloxi. the latest on that, next. grown man now. i don't want to pry... dad. but have you made a decision? i'm going with the $1000 in cash back. my son... ...a cash man. dad, are you crying? nah, just something in my eye. the volkswagen 3 and easy event... ...where you can choose one of three easy ways to get a $1000 offer. hurry in to your volkswagen dealer now and

mr. michael shanahan was enjoying a swim in aquatic park in san francisco. weather conditions on this date due to recent storms yielded a very strong tide. which attribute to mr. shanahan been swept out into the san francisco day. esther shanahan was able to grab hold onto a be pure piling and begin to yell for help. fortunately, three young adults were fishing nearby. nine-year-old aaron durrant, oliveira, heard the yell for help and quickly notified his brother firemen over and from his girlfriend, jennifer cervantes. the three were together very quickly to locate nearby rope to throw to mr. shanahan. within our rope now securing mr. shannon from and called 911 and provided very descriptive details of the incident. aron and from and: to the rope with mr. shanahan opened onto the other end of the rope, while being pulled out due to the current, jennifer had the wherewithal to make herself visible and direct responding san francisco fire department and san francisco police department units to the exact location of mr. shanahan. i want to stop your for a mome

he would drop it, which is a testament to the fact that i come from the michael burlingame school of writing history. [laughter] mr. engle: a shout out to michael, who i have read for many years and many of the scholars here, i have read their works. a tremendous pleasure to be here. >> [indiscernible] thank you. dr. engle: thank you, michael. it's interesting. this project had its origins in germany in 1996. ahad a conversation with professor visiting as a scholar and we became great friends over the couple weeks he was there and he and i talked a lot about civil war and reconstruction. he was there doing a paper on a war.for the road to total he was with a number of scholars. and i would like to talk about what he called "federal history." old-fashioned federal history. no one was doing old-fashioned federal history, and now i know why. i begin this project in 1996 and it has taken me almost 20 years to bring to the light of day what has been a labor of love for more than two decades. one of the things that i thought i needed to do to acquaint myself with federal history was not only visit all of the statehouses

mr. manifort. michael flynn headed to russia within 18 months after his retirement as the head of the defense intelligence agency to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the russian government's media outlet r.t. secretary john kerry called r.t. a propaganda bullhorn for putin. mr. flynn was paid for that trip by r.t., a potential violation of the moluments clause of the constitution, and he appeared regularly on r.t. flynn, of course, had to resign as national security advisor after 24 days in office, but the president knew of flynn's misrepresentations weeks before he was fired and did nothing until it became public. we now know that russia's payments to flynn were generous. in 2015, russian entities paid him $65,000, and we know he worked for pay as a foreign agent for turkey during the campaign and during the transition, but failed to register as an agent at the time as required by law. other trump associates and campaign staff, roger stone, carter paige and mr. gordon, all are reportedly under investiga

we are joined by nobel laureate, michael spence. mr. spence, thank you for joining us this morning.time you spoke last year, the chinese currency was under tremendous amount of pressure. it stabilized somewhat but the cost was about half a trillion in reserves. a currency that is nominally weaker by 7%. and frankly, a market that is still nervous. how do you see this playing out with the prospect of higher rates in the united states? >> i think we will see a continuation of what we got. becauseation stabilized they clamped down on capital controls, which gives them an youity to engage in what might call a gradual depreciation of a currency until he gets into a territory that people think is vaguely like a market equilibrium. then i think they will increase the band. they want to do it gradually because they want the currency to be used in international trade as part of a increase, influence in the global economy agenda. it looks like they can do it. if they had not but the capital controls on, they would've had that loss of control situation. that: i want to pick up on point of your

michael, mr.n, do you fear for the immediate future of this republican party, and second part, would you recognize your republican party if you ran into it in a dark alley? >> i'd start with the second part first. no, i would not. i don't recognize it. it copies to baffle me the capitulation, backing away from core principles for what purpose i have yet to discover. so the party needs to get its act together on that front, particularly the leadership. as to the first part, the advice would be focus the mission. this don't rush. part of the problem here was taking this health care into the rush mode created more problems than it was worth in the end. so settle down. work with the white house. develop a strategy on the key issues and policy you want to hit out of the park first and go there. play to strength, not to weakness. >> charlie sykes, the president full-on blamed the democrats. the truth is they didn't need one democratic vote to pass this. do you fear for your friend and fellow wisconsinit

mrs. trump was sporting a michael kors skirt/suit that cost nearly $10,000.t she definitely looks like a million buck. >> yeah, she did. many people on twitter saying she kind of looked like a scene out of "dynasty," joan collins' alexis. >>> new commerce secretary wilbur ross, a billionaire went for comfort and style in his choice of footwear for the president's speech. >> i could get behind this. ross went with a pair of slippers complete with the commerce department logo, but these are not just any old pair of slip-ons. unless you're a billionaire investor then maybe they are. they were identified as stubbs & wootton slippers and start at $500 a pair. >> where do they end? if that's where they start? >>> this will probably be the most adorable video you'll see all day. two little toddlers in a wrestling match. >> it's going down. >> that really wasn't -- the match between a young boy and girl. they shake hands, the referee blows the whistle and he takes off running. the video has gone viral. 500,000 views and you can see why. ke that. [ all sounds come to

mr. harrison replacing michael ward who announced his decision to retire on february 21st.will become a consultant to csx effective immediately. >> thanks. remember, this was paul halal who spearheaded the canadian-pacific part of the story, leading the charge to get harrison into csx. >> the c suite is part of the story here but the story has really been the underlying story of the pricing. csx went to 22 to 49 or so before this announcement. i'm someone that's been all about reflation and whatnot. if anything, i think this is where the transports have more pressure than they get from the airlines. >> csx is up 40% roughly coming into this. i would think that a hell of a lot is priced in. is it all priced in? you never know. i would think this is a time to take profits. >> 39% to date, i think once this news -- >> it's great news. >> once halal and harrison made it clear, the stock moved. >> this is' headline driven name. now when you see those headlines, that's when you take profits. >>> snap dropping 12% today alone, closing below its debut price. julia boorstin is in lo

. >>> any comment on michael flynn, mr. president. >> reporter: president trump is not answering questions about his former national security advisor but tweeted that michael flynn should ask for immunity, in what he calls , a witch hunt. >>> you want mike flynn to go and be completely open and transparent with the committee and whatever it takes to do that he is supportive of. >> reporter: flynn is looking for legal protection before answering questions, from the fbi and congressional committees investigating russian meddling in the 2016 election, and any ties between the president's associates, and moscow. flynn's lawyer said general flynn certainly has a story to tell and he very much wants to tell it. there must be assurance is a begins unfair prosecution. the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee adam shift released his own statement calling the request for immunity, a grave and momentous step and saying that the matter would be discussed with counterparts in the senate and the justice department. >>> i'm

. >> any comment on michael flynn, mr. president? >> no comment from the president on -- when asked about michael flynn. the white house had refused to comment on the situation until the president actually tweeted about it earlier this morning. here's the question. does this somehow complicate how sean spicer will need to address this in the upcoming briefing this hour? >> well, wolf, i don't think sean spicer is going to be able to do what the president did during that discussion with the national association of manufacturers. he's not going to be able to simply bite his tongue and not make any comments. we should point out the president did put out a tweet earlier this morning about all of this saying that mike flynn should ask for immunity and that this is a witchhunt, excuse for a big election loss by media and d dems of historic proportion. some complicating factors in all of this namely back during the campaign both then candidate donald trump and general michael flynn made some comments about hillary clinton and some of the peo

michael, mr. chairman, do you fear for the immediate future of this republican party, and second part, would you recognize your republican party if you ran into it in a dark alley? >> i'd start with the second part first. no, i would not. i don't recognize it. it copies to baffle me the capitulation, backing away from core principles for what purpose i have yet to discover. so the party needs to get its act together on that front, particularly the leadership. as to the first part, the advice would be focus the mission. this don't rush. part of the problem here was taking this health care into the rush mode created more problems than it was worth in the end. so settle down. work with the white house. develop a strategy on the key issues and policy you want to hit out of the park first and go there. play to strength, not to weakness. >> charlie sykes, the president full-on blamed the democrats. the truth is they didn't need one democratic vote to pass this. do you fear for your friend and fellow wis

what did you know about paul manafort and michael flynn and others in your campaign in terms of their relationship and conversations with the russians and then, mrhat did you know about michael flynn and others in your family and on your staff in their conversations with the russians after the election in terms of what your policies would be as the president. and until we get those answers we're not going to know how successful vladimir putin was in his ability to compromise our elections and then to compromise policies that could influence russia in the years ahead. >> senator, thank you for joining us. >> glad to be here. >> ahead, the top ranking democrat on house intel responding to the white house invitation to review new information on surveillance. >> they're ready tomorrow, i'm ready to go tomorrow. i e the letter i got from white house counsel certainly raises far more questions than any it answers. >> also, did russian president vladimir putin's election meddling run even deeper than we knew? and what we are learning today about whether the presidential campaigns of senators ted cruz and marco rubio were also hacked. >> a sophisticated

mr. michael ter ra*lt. >> supervisors, i want to take a moment and advocate on behalf of my three colleagues first, director hill, bert hill, although he couldn't be here, bert, i will -- i've been impressed on how dedicated he has been showing up at committee that is aren't his to try to learn as much as possible the full bred ft of responsibility of the board and ofp the committee and is to learn aof the functioning to have bridge, i've been extremely impressed by his knowledge of the transportation aspects of the district's operations. i will say i have 725 miles on a bicycle, he's certainly been a bicycle advocate longer than i have, [inaudible] guided the district through a challenging time when we were confronted with the essential doubling of the expected bid price for the suicide deterrent system, and he did that very ably and i compliment him for that and director hernandez is as she has noted herself an advocate for the point of work of viewers, the point of view of women, the point of view of san franciscans, those of underprivileged and low backgrounds, i was please today move he

. >> joining us is michael mcfall. mr.appreciate you being here. >> sure. >> we're focused in this country on the russian attack on our election last year, the investigations into that continuing revelations into unexplained contacts between the trump campaign and russian officials. that's an area of intense focus for us in this country. in that light as we are think about that, what do you think is important to think about these protests in the streets against putin at at home this weekend? >> i have to say i thought i'd never see the day when someone would go into the detail that you just did to talk about the sperbank. that was quite brilliant. >> how did i do on saying sperbank. i was worry about that? >> you did just great, seriously. that was just a fantastic piece. i even learned some things given that i used to deal with both of those banks when i was ambassador. to your point, i think what this underscores is the nature of the russian regime that we've kind of forgotten about. what they've done with americans, for

. >> any comment on michael flynn, mr. president? >> white house press secretary sean spicer was pressed on that tweet today. >> we heard from the president this morning saying mike flynn should ask for immunity. we also know the president has long-standing views on what the immunity means. he said back in september, if you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for. >> i believe he believes mike flynn should testify. he believes he should go up there and do whatever it takes to get the story out. >> with or without immunity? >> that's up to him and his attorney to decide. >> joining me is alan dershowitz. nice to see you, alan. >> nice to see you. thank you. >> when he made the crack last fall about immunity, that people who are asking for immunity, they are guilty. and also every time you ask to recuse yourself, you're guilty. your thought? >> they never should ask for it publicly, though. what is shocking about this case -- and he has a very good lawyer but i cannot for the life of me figure out the strategy. you don

conversation francesca chambers in the briefing room with sean spicer everyday and our michael is back with us. mrcosta, we'll start with you, tonight in putting out what they knew was coming out minutes later by getting ahead of this, the white house press office could be acted as a veteran white house press office among the first time we have seen. >> they acted like a white house at war. we have seen the president calling the press the enemies. what we saw tonight was a white house that was pushing back on rachel maddow's scoop and david johnston's scoop before it was aired. >> approached by the white house that's trickle down on social media. we have seen on many outlets and organs that aligned with the president. >> robert, what do you make now of the take away and the impact of this going into tomorrow? >> everyone wants to have more information about our president's finances and who's funding his projects. 2005 was an intriguing year because he was making a lot of money. it was not from a time where he's struggle ng the business community or making a lot of international deals. we have only

. >> any comment on michael flynn, mr. president? >> reporter: president trump was so tight lipped on twitter. backing former national security adviser mike flynn's request for immunity in exchange for his testimony before the house and senate intelligence committees about possible ties to the kremlin during the 2016 electi election. >> i don't think congress should give him immunity f there's an open investigation by the fbi, that should not happen. i also don't believe actually the president should be weighing in on this. >> reporter: adam shift the ranking member on the house intelligence committee said more work needs to be done before any deal is cut. but described flynn's request as grave and momentous. also, fox news confirmed that two white house staffs aided devin nunes the top republican on the house intelligence committee in his request for evidence supporting claims that members of the trump transition team were surveiled and in some cases had their entities reveal. all of this is raising more questions about the close ti

. >> any comment on michael flynn, mr. president. >> reporter: but president trump wasn't so tight lipd on twitter. in backing mike flynn's exchange for his immunity. >> i don't think congress should give him immunity. if there is an open investigation by the fbi, that should not happen. i don't believe that the president should be wag in on this. >> reporter: adam schiff says more work needs to be done before any deal is cut. but describes flynn's request as grave and moment us. also the whitehouse has confirmed that two staff ers in his request for evidence supporting claim that members of the trump transition team were sur vald and in some cases had -- under surveillance and had their its compromised. -- their eye dent its compromised. >> he was asked to go somewhere, he went there. he was cleared. what he did, what he saw, and who he met with, was 100% proper. >> reporter: representative nunez was criticized by not taking his counterpart with him last weej to review those documents -- week to review those documents. bu

they include michael flynn, adviser, carter page, and mr. today, the white house described the meeting as inconsequential hello. >> investigations are under way on capitol hill where we find nancy cordes. >> i do think he should recuse himself. >> republicans concluded sessions was simply too close to the trump campaign to be in charge of investigating it. >> i would recuse myself. >> democratic leaders in the house and senate went further calling on sessions to resign after 22 days on the job. >> the top cop in our country lied under oath. >> there is something very inappropriate to dramatically mislead congress. >> why isn't it enough for him to recuse himself? why does he have to resign? >> look the attorney general is the -- is the chief law enforcement officer of the land. and already his integrity and independence has been questioned. >> reporter: sessions served in congress for 21 years and has many close friends here. >> he is a man of integrity. >> reporter: they argued today he didn't mean to mislead and had every right as the memb

closed question: mr michael fabricant. question for, sir.onomy are strong. since 2010 from employment in the west midlands has risen by 215000 and private sector employment alone grew by 80,000 over the last year. we have also seen schools and police budgets being protected and more doctors and nurses in his local hospitals. michael fabricant. and of course, we have also witnessed the post brexit vote of confidence from nissan, boeing and dyson, investing in other parts of the country. good my right honourable friend speak a bit more about firms like jaguar land rover in the west midlands? i'm happy to say to my honourable friend that of course in the wider sense, our plans for the midland engine show we want an economy that works for everyone. we have already confirmed over 330 million in the croasdale funding, money going to the west midlands engine investment fund, the birmingham rail hub but it is important to recognise the investment being made in the uk by companies like jaguar land rover who will be building their new range rover mode

>> reporter: any comment on michael flynn, mr. president?: president trump not saying anything. flynn is willing to testify for immunity. flynn, a retired army general fired after only 26 days in office for misleading the president. the president took the snushl step of inserting himself in an ongoing investigation. saying on twitter, mike flynn should ask for immunity, big excuse for democrats. white house secretary sean spicer amplified that message today. >> rebelieves that mike flynn should go up there and do what he has to do to get the story out. >> the offer drew skepticism. >> no, i don't think it's a witch hunt. it's very mysterious to me why all of a sudden general flynn is saying he wants immunity. i don't think congress should get immunity. >> reporter: considering what the president said about immunity last year on the campaign trail. >> if you're not guilty of a crime, what do you mean immunity for, right? >> reporter: it was an attack against his rival hillary clinton. >> did anybody ever see so many people get immunity? roimt

. >> general michael flynn. >> mr. emanuel this isn't your area of expertise but can this kind of thing get in the way of a president trying to get smog as implicated as obamacare or in this case, the replacement of obamacare through congress. >> whole thing is a distraction inside the west wing, and you see mainly a distraction by his people who are trying to -- you know, cover up without contradicting their boss there has never been a shred of evidence, baseless charge spaying on trump tower why devoting attention i can make up something worm creates wassel what did you embezzle. >> would you also say baseless charge collusion. >> we know russian hacking don't know extent until we genetic extent there there is evidence hacking going on, that is the important issue. chris: no, it isn't, my question is because we have no natural -- the continuing mystery is did the trump campaign colluded with russians don't have evidence of that. >> i don't think the only question the question whether usual arance influenced our elect