was previously thought his phone calls that led to flynn s termination for lying prompted the fbi case. 27 year justice department veteran reviewed the passage. it looks clear to me the use of the word previously suggests an independent investigation. reporter: footnotes site fbi interviews, mary mccord helped with the art russia probe and james comey, the president tweeted it seems general flynn was under investigation long before it was common knowledge. why was i not told so i could make a change? flynn s brother says bad stuff to stanley of long-held concerns. because of his vocal criticism of the obama administration and the intelligence community which he came out of my suspicion is they were doing everything they could to trap them up and trap him. reporter: the reference to russian context might be it, flynn sat next to the russian president. show flynn says his brother kept them in the loop. he briefed the dia prior to that and after that.