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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...

The pentagon and their military documents led them to believe that nothing in this process of michael flynn, renewing his security clearance or getting one or becoming national security adviser provided the necessary documentation that he had actually received these payments and had this activity with russians or even with turkey. the problem is that if there is that documentation and that could exonerate flynn, then the white house, we would think, would provide it. so in their response saying ...

Skeptics. their indifference into the entire russian meddling has worried people all along. thats why republicans like senator marco rubio and senator lindsey graham say we should be concerned. why do republicans look away from this when it should be a bipartisan concern? so if you combine that in difference with the fact that now they look like theyre stonewalling, its more of a headache making the investigation more consequential and bring more heat, drag it out through the months when hes try...

Department of defense had. >> lets get to kristen welker at the white house. so you have accusations of stone walling here, the white house saying hey, dont look at us, we did everything well could. take us through both sides of it here. >> reporter: there are two key arguments that the white house is making. one, they say that the oversight committee requested documents related to the vetting process of michael flynn. they say that that process effectively took place under the obama administrat...

Team, hes stone walling with his own team. >> i think, frankly they have a cooling off period. remember, the investigation is going on -- >> theyre not children in a time out are they? >> committee hearings should not be confused with investigating. investigating is going on on some level a at the fbi. >> we just had the conversation from the committee saying that the -- >> its the oversight of it. >> what investigation are you talking about? because devin nunes seems to want to be investigating...

Could be some other explanation. we dont know and we still need to figure that out. >> so as we try to piece this puzzle together so too do lawmakers. he said he felt that james comey was stone walling so yesterday comey is summoned to capitol hill to meet with -- we have the names of the gang of 8 members what do we think happened? did james comey explain what is really going on with the fbi or would he not do that? >> we dont know yet. lawmakers were not talking about the details of the meetin...

People as possible could have access to it. we heard reports that obama administration officials were planting questions during briefings that would lead to answers about russian intelligence knowing that they would be archived and sending reams of information to members of congress asking questions about this. the obama administration is not necessarily known for its speedy responses to congressional requests when it comes to other investigations that they would rather not have proceed like the...

By stone-walling, what do you think? >> an odd for the minority leader to comment. weve been investigating russia. i said this is the largest intelligence study since 9-11. the democrats last year didnt pay attention. now theyre paying attention, which is a good thing. what im trying to stop, neil, just because three u.s. citizens show up in a "new york times" article where theres no evidence that ive been presented other than a "new york times" article that they were talking to the russians, im...

They need to understand that their voters are the ones to be scared of, not trump voters. >> they are serving the american people. its not like im going to serve my voters and youre going to serve yours, thats what brings congress to a standstill. thats where weve been now for the last eight years, so if congress stays another standstill for four years, who benefits from that? >> probably democrats actually. in the past eight years are any indication. i will say theres an important distinction h...

The same way when he was senate majority leader. this is part of the process. unfortunately its gotten nasty. in the senate democrats didnt pursue a stone walling of the nominees, we wouldnt be here. >> thank you for being with us lonny and ethan. appreciate it. in case you missed this earlier, you can miss the entire interview with kellyanne conway coming up in two hours. it is well worth watching. if you saw it earlier, watch it again. isa. >> thank you, john. around the world many are anxio...