own decision rather than the ethic committee determining for him. >> i know you are investigating the russian involvement. i want you to stand by because we have more breaking news in the russian investigation. manu raju is standing by. manu, what are you learning? >> reporter: top democrat house committee says he will make some statements about michael flynn the fired former national security adviser. now, according to the whistleblower account, on the day of president trump inauguration, flynn had texted a business associate about applying to join russia and nuclear reactors in the middle east and said the project was good to go. and one reason why according to the whistleblower account is they were going to rip up sanctions with russia. now this is the strongest indication we have to date that