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Boast about and talk about their intentions to influence the trump campaign through paul manafort and mike flynn. they talked about manaforts connection to a crane yan oligarch backed by putin and talked about their own connections to flynn. this is russias talking. we dont know if its true. we just know thats what they were saying. and u.s. intelligence picked it up. it was one more piece of evidence. another point about this is its very clear that the u.s. intelligence community knew a lot mor...

Allies and our streak partners and also to deal with russia propaganda. we need to expand our security blanket moving forward and we need to have an understanding as to what every country will contribute. >> senator, on another important topic, the attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions, the department of justice now says sessions did not need to disclose all of his meetings with russian officials because he was a united states senator at the time. senators meet as you well know, i...

On both sides, no? >> yeah. and i should disclose ben jacobs is a friend of mine but the most damming report came from the fox crew that was in the room that he put his hands around his neck, slammed him to the ground and you can hear on the audio he went completely crazy. this is not a stable person. so this is going to carry him around. this is has defined him already. for whatever he does in his congressional career, whatever monuments he votes to unmonument, this is going to be the thing tha...

Trouble for omissions in his security clearance forms. now reports attorney general sessions may have left some meetings with russians out as well. those stories and check on weather when we come back. keep it here. a naturally aspirated 5.0-liter v8 engine. a 10-speed direct-shift transmission. a meticulously crafted interior. all of these are feats of engineering. combining them with near-perfect weight distribution...

We know about general flynns vulnerability to russian blackmail. attorney general sessions misled this committee about his contacts and then had to change his testimony. the president owes son-in-law and senior advisers also reportedly nailed to disclose contacts on their security clearance forms. do you have or did you have any concerns about the attorney general, about mr. kushner or other trump officials and the ability to blackmail? >> all of this information came to light after i was no lon...

Vulnerability to russian blackmail. attorney general sessions misled this committee about his contacts and had to change his testimony. the presidents son-in-law failed to disclose contacts on his security clearance forms. do you have or did you have any concerns about the attorney general, about other trump officials vulnerability to blackmail? >> all of this information came to light after i was no longer with doj. >> do you have you have concerns why you were doj that general flynn might be v...

Flynns vulnerability to russian blackmail. attorney general sessions misled this committee about his contacts and had to change his testimony. the presidents son-in-law and senior adviser also reported he failed to disclose contacts on his security clearance forms. do you have, or did you have, any concerns about the attorney general, about mr. kushner or other trump officials vulnerability to blackmail? thi-- all of this information came to light after i was no longer with doj. >> did you have ...

>> we have no evidence, zilch that he obtained permission from the secretary of the army and the secretary of state to accept any foreign government payments as required by law. >> reporter: new documents show the pentagon warned retired general michael flynn in 2014 about accepting foreign payments, suggesting he failed to get permission to travel to moscow. >> thank you so much for inviting me and having me here. >> reporter: where he was paid tens of thousands of dollars in 2015 by the kremli...

With vladimir putin. now the defense department is announcing its own investigation into whether flynn broke the law this after he allegedly failed to disclose foreign payments on a security clearance forms, a potential felony. >> do you believe that he may have broken the law? >> i dont know whether he did or did not. thats why we have an investigation. >> reporter: but the house oversight committees investigation is now breaking down along party lines with democrats accusing the white house of...

Clearance needs to be other suspended or revoked. >> if that doesnt happen, what will be your next move as a member of congress? >> you know, if we take back the house in a year-and-a-half, we will open investigations to try to force him to do that. in the meantime, i hope some republicans come to their senses and understand the gravity of what happened here. where you have a senior-level white house official lying about his security clearance form on the issue of russia. >> it sounds like you a...