and none of that happened. >> sreenivasan: all right, sharon lafraniere one of the team of reporters who worked on this thanks so much. >> sreenivasan: this week the process of working out the differences between the house and senate tax bills begins. both the house and senate bill cut the corporate tax rate to 20%, but the president indicated yesterday that it could go up to 22%. this morning white house budget director mick mulvaney said he doesn't expect any "significant change" on that issue. senator susan collins of maine wants to see if amendments she fought for make it to the final version of the bill. >> i mean obviously i want to see what comes out. i believe that the amendments that i added on medical expense deductions, on property tax deductions, on helping retirement security for public employees improve the bill. >> sreenivasan: congress is also facing a government shutdown if a budget or a short term spending bill isn't passed by this friday. democrats have said they would vote against spending bills that don't address the legal status of immigrants under the deferred

. >> a change in narrative from sharon lafraniere. again, some e-mails obtained by "new york times" showing that the white house claims that flynn acted independently on russia dispute that, the information you got. sharon, thank you for your reporting. want to bring in jeff bennett, barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney for michigan. jack rice, and former cia officer. jeff, new information on this saturday afternoon. what more would you add to this? >> new information that backs up what nbc news reported, that's that flynn was consulting with senior trump officials, trump transition officials when he was having these contacts with the then russian ambassador, sergei kislyak. one resolution about israeli settlements, he was ordered by jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser to reach out to the russians and other foreign officials to try to influence the outcome there. then we also know as relates to another conversation that flynn had in december of 2016 that he called a bunch of senior trump campaign officials in