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It would be him because the offenses are certainly stacking up. this latest is just so conspicuous that one wonders what he had in his mind when he was filling those forms out. >> john -- john barrett, also cnn is learning tonight the senate judiciary committee is now going to look at obstruction of justice allegations. do you think thats the right move? >> its within their oversight jurisdiction, obviously, and the sort of watergate precedent, john dean, forgive me, is special prosecutor and th...

If one sense, but can you imagine if the obama administration had done this. and other administrations previously. people would be calling, you know, for the presidents head or for the press secretary -- it doesnt matter that its cnn, if it happened to any other news organization, it would be outrageous that theyre not calling -- if it happened to fox news, happened to msnbc, happened to abc, nbc, whatever, its outrageous. or "the new york times" or whatever. but heres the thing. i dont think th...

Today. at the same sometime, we should point out sean spicer, even though this wasnt on camera today, is limiting the number of questions being asked. for example, today, im not making this up, a russian reporter asked a question at the press briefing today of sean spicer, but he would not call on cnn, yours tru s truly, sittinge press briefing room. that to me is sort of staggering. i talked to a friend of mine who works at fox news last week, whose name i will not mention on the air. he said d...

Arabia and russias nuclear power agency. lets discuss now, john q. barrett is here, who was associate counsel for the iran-contra investigation. matthew whittaker. and cnn contributor, john dean. former nixon white house counsel and author of ""conservatives without conscience." i love having you on together or individually. john barrett, im going to start with you. your reaction to this. flynn may have misled officials on his security clearance form about two middle east trips during the presid...

With, and the purpose of the trip and in addition to that, the fact that on that security clearance form, general flynn did not list any meetings with foreign officials for the seven years prior to his application for the security clearance to enter the trump administration. all these things required by law to report on whats known as your sf-86, your application for security clearance form, theyre asking for details. i contacted flynns lawyer today. he would not comment on the letter, but he di...

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Be leaving the podium. well discuss all of this. lets get straight to cnns jim sciutto with more on our breaking news. jim, good evening to you. we have new reporting tonight on what must be a thorn in the presidents side. former national security adviser michael flynn failing to disclose a middle east trip about a russia deal. what can you tell us? >> reporter: thats exactly right. this is a letter from the ranking members, ranking democrats on the house oversight committee and house foreign af...

And heard different incarnations of sean spicer leaving the scene in various stages of the administration and those things have not come to pass. what we do understand from talking to sources this evening, this discussion is happening, sean spicer may be leaving the podium. no timeline set, though. >> staff shakeup. all right. that happens. >> reporter: yeah. >> jim, this is 2017. the white house is refusing to let you ask questions on camera or audio today. what is going on over there? >> repor...

Going to look at the possibility of interference with the fbi investigation, not just by the trump administration, but by the obama administration. whats interesting about this is that you have the republican chairman of the judiciary committee, at least including in the scope of the investigation the possibility that donald trump interfered in the investigation, meetings with the fbi director james comey, what he asked him to do. it also could mean that its the judiciary committee that ends up ...