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Would ever know about this. >> we could talk about this more. were just going to move on to a couple other people. >> im going to be listening to your interview. >> i want to bring in john mclaughlin, former acting director of the cia, and richard painter. richard, lets talk about aris reporting. does this help your case? >> well, well see how this fits in with the case. but the hotel rooms are only the tip of the iceberg here. the really big money is likely to be loans and other investments in ...

Years in a traditional fbi sense. this doesnt happen quickly. so the public is going to get frustrated because its going to move very slow and a lot of it is behind closed doors. >> if you were advising mike flynn right now, what would you tell him to do? >> stay quiet. >> you think pleading the fifth was the right move? >> oh, absolutely. hes going to be boxed in even when hes called before the committee and offered an immunity deal. youve still got to claim the fifth. they can claim theres ind...

The elements of what that constitutes, which is an intent to impede the administration of justice, and the conversation between the president and mr. comey could arise to that if other facts present themselves. the second line that were talking about is, mr. flynn, and whether or not he engaged in criminal or improper conduct with respect to his representation of turkey, his failure to disclose it, his failure to disclose income on his financial disclosure forms, thats another whole investigatio...

In real estate. steve schwarzman from blackstone who is one of the ceo advisors to president trump, i asked him myself two years ago in davos, are you ining in russia and with russia which so many people are and he clearly said i do not do business in places where we dont have a firm understanding of the rule of law. so its not fair to say that everyone was awash with russia and if they were, president trump is welcome to tell us that and he hasnt. >> its never been disclosed if that, in fact, h...

Completely honest when he was applying for that reupping of his security clearance. >> we know he receive issed payments from russia that went to his speakers bureau. thats tr russia. he was paid more than 600,000 from turkey to his consulting firm. he, according to congressmen who have looked at the disclosure forms, he did not disclose that information. when youre applying for a security clearance, the honous is on you to provide that information. so it does -- it is a little bit comparing app...

Believe that that money is indirectly from the russian government, does that -- is that -- would that be considered a reasonable answer in those disclosure forms, or are they filled thought the spirit that this kind of separation letter has for him where it says to him if it might, if it might come from a foreign government, if there is any possibility of that, you must check with us, even if youre not sure that it comes from a foreign government. that the spirit of those disclosure forms? he do...

But this is a really major development today. >> mieke, in your experience in filling out those forms where it asks a question like have you received any payments from a foreign government, if general flynn fills out the form in his mind honestly, checking no, because hes thinking i got a payment from russian television, not from the russian government. and it may be that others believe that that money is indirectly from the russian government, does that -- is that -- would that be considered a ...

You know, jared kushner is the person closest to donald trump who it has been publicly reported has had meetings like this. >> julian epstein, how common are omissions like this in disclosure forms? >> well, theyre relatively common. so long as people voluntarily come forward and clarify in a timely way, then there is no real serious issue. the real question, lawrence, is whether the omission was intentional. and its just hard for me and a lot of people to believe that these meetings in question...

Give all the new contacts that he had since he filled out the form in january. unless he was reporting those regularly to the department of defense. so there are a lot of open questions with regard to what he was reporting. and then of course the financial disclosure forms, those he definitely would have had to give to the white house office of personnel, management, opm for short. and thats the office that the congressmen should be getting their information from. >> okay. >> they may not have v...

If he had renewed it in january of 2016, then its very -- it is likely that the nsc, the white house, the defense department would not have made him do a full sf-86. its a real pain in the ass, excuse my french. you have to mention every country youve been to and all your foreign contacts and american contacts too. people have to give references and make sure, again, that you can be trusted. okay. so once you do that, if youre taking a new job, though, he has been out of the government, in the u...